leftzero
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- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 6 days ago:
Jupiter is quite more flattened than Earth due to how fast it spins and it being made mostly of gas.
If you want spherical, look at Venus… or, even better, the Sun (not directly, though, of course; use some kind of filter or reflector).
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 1 week ago:
The only heptapod killed in the film was killed by Americans…
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 1 week ago:
The original short story is called Story of your life, as from the point of view of Banks narrating it to her daughter.
No love story, no daughter, no Story of your life.
I suppose you could still have a story about aliens, and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and bootstrap paradoxes, but you wouldn’t have this story, and probably wouldn’t have the same emotional impact.
It’d be like taking the war out of Slaughterhouse-Five, if we’re staying with the aliens and alien-related psychic time travel theme. Or the air out of a balloon.
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 1 week ago:
genuinely one of my favourite original sci-fi movies I’ve watched in the last decade
🙄
- Comment on imagine 1 week ago:
the totally not evil company Bayer
Ah, yes, the totally not evil company that (together with BASF and Hoechst, forming the cartel IG Farben) developed chlorine gas for use in world war I.
The same IG Farben which was the single largest donor to Hitler’s election campaign, and main contributor to the construction of Auschwitz, where they produced synthetic petrol and rubber for use in the war and performed all manner of human experiments, including testing their own Zyklon B gas.
The same company that decades after the war was still chaired by well known nazis, and profiting from chemicals developed at Auschwitz.
Yeah, I’m sure Monsanto is in good hands, and feels right at home there.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Revenge. 🤷♂️
- Comment on 🎵 🎶 🎵 2 weeks ago:
Col Do Ma Ma Daqua!
- Comment on spidey senses 2 weeks ago:
No spiders yet.
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of donkeys in Aesop’s fables, too, if those count.
- Comment on YouTube not loading half the time. 3 weeks ago:
Because Google intentionally breaks their sites when loaded on Firefox, so Mozilla have to keep reverse engineering their bullshit and implementing countermeasures, in an arms race somewhat reminiscent of duck genitals.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 5 weeks ago:
Well, Star Citizen is playable right now (and has been for years), and they recently showed over an hour of supposedly live Squadron 42 gameplay (obviously somewhat spoilery for the start of the game), so there’s some hope at least…
Of course, it remains to be seen how much more of the story is finished to the same extent, and at what point will it be consistently playable on contemporary hardware (I haven’t played Star Citizen in a long while, so I’m not sure what state it’s in, and I don’t know if Squadron 42, being a single player game, will be as susceptible to server issues, or if it’ll even need servers), but it gives a good idea of the state of the main game features and how it’s intended to feel.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 5 weeks ago:
Well, they recently showed over an hour of supposedly live gameplay (obviously somewhat spoilery for the start of the game), so there’s some hope at least…
Of course, it remains to be seen how much more of the story is finished to the same extent, and at what point will it be consistently playable on contemporary hardware (I haven’t played Star Citizen in a long while, so I’m not sure what state it’s in, and I don’t know if Squadron 42, being a single player game, will be as susceptible to server issues, or if it’ll even need servers), but it gives a good idea of the state of the main game features and how it’s intended to feel.
- Comment on This crossword editor's view of the political spectrum 1 month ago:
Fascism.
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 1 month ago:
Huh; the one you linked is way too Japanese for my taste (it’s the voice, way too high, like nails on a chalkboard), but I checked a couple videos at random from their YouTube channel and got the Dandadan ending and an extended version of Chainsaw Man’s second ending (both with different visuals), which sound great (for anime endings) but aren’t something I’d listen to on their own. Definitely not jazz or anywhere close, though. Thanks anyway.
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 1 month ago:
Good ad; didn’t get me into Japanese stuff because I’m already into anime and manga and underage looking girls and excessively gross porn and whatnot (could do without the pixelated junk, though), but it got me to listen to some Mint Jams.
Not exactly my thing (too much like elevator muzak for my taste, heard Japanese jazz, expected something more like the Seatbelts 🤷♂️), but not bad, very eighties, could put it in the background while doing something else.
- Comment on Anon tries to help 1 month ago:
- Comment on master manipulators 1 month ago:
(Source: SMBC)
- Comment on Captain Disillusion: SNL VFX Mystery 1 month ago:
That’s what Captain Disillusion’s face looks like. 🤷♂️
The guy playing Captain Disillusion, however, appears without face paint (well, maybe flesh coloured face paint, I’ve never been good at recognising makeup and he seems like the kind of guy that’d make sure not to have weird shines and whatnot in video, though to be fair he’s perfectly capable of fixing that in post, so who knows really) in this very video (for a short but maybe slightly too long sketch), as well as, if I recall correctly (Captain Disillusion’s videos are sadly rather infrequent, so it’s been a while), in at least one other of his videos…
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 2 months ago:
we are so tolerant and super chill
No we’re not, fuck off.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Having a child is morally equivalent to aggravated murder (you’re intentionally directly causing that person’s death, as well as decades of pain and suffering), so no, breeders shouldn’t be treated differently than any other murderer (though they probably aren’t more likely to murder an already conceived person than the average citizen, which isn’t saying much).
Of course some people might adopt, and therefore are merely enabling murderers, but they’re statistically insignificant, so I’d say it’s safe to assume that anyone who has children is either a murderer or a child trafficker.
In any case, no, fuck them, they might deserve to be treated differently, but definitely not in a positive way.
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 2 months ago:
WizTree scans my entire drive
It doesn’t, really. It’s already indexed. It’s a feature of the NTFS file system. It’s the same way Everything Search can find files almost instantly, and what Windows Search used back when it worked properly in the Windows XP days.
Why Microsoft stopped using that and switched to whatever the current useless search function uses escapes comprehension, though it probably has something to do with them wanting to shove Bing results and other spam in there.
- Comment on My post was removed because it was not political? 2 months ago:
its @lemmy.world
So, same thing, basically.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 2 months ago:
Only online “games” this maybe wouldn’t apply to would have to be peer to peer, serverless, and probably open source to be safe… and, even then, you’d have to provide a sufficient amount of players to replay them a decade on, as, lacking any actual game, they’re useless without other players.
As for offline games, sure, publishers might attempt to use them in the same way, but it’s much more expensive since a minimum amount of game must actually exist in order for players to fall for it, and they can’t fake it using other players. Asset flips are obviously a thing, but easily detected and avoided. And, most importantly, even those will remain equally playable or unplayable in a few decades, while an online “game” will be unplayable the instant it doesn’t have enough players.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what you mean by
get your customers to make the content for you for free
I mean that (besides always-online DRM, and scamming your victims with subscriptions and microtransactions) the main reason for perpetrating an online multiplayer computer game is that you can get away with not writing a story, or lore, or quests, or puzzles, or NPCs, or AI, or any actual gameplay, or anything even remotely resembling a proper game through the magic of scamming your customers (or rather victims) into paying you for the privilege of filling in the gaps and acting as NPCs, and gameplay, and whatnot.
You get away with selling the rotting carcass of what could have been a game, and scamming your customers into believing it’s still alive just because it’s (temporarily) crawling with maggots.
I can get any old single player game and, provided I can replicate its environment, play it and enjoy it just as much as I could have when it came out, or even more.
Even if it was possible to enjoy an online game, on the other hand, it will have been stillborn to start with, a mere shell of a game, an insult to real games, a sad parody only resembling a game as long as there’s enough victims trapped in the scam; the second they start leaving (supposing the scammers don’t turn the servers off before that, to drive their victims to their latest shiny defecation) it’ll go back to being the empty unplayable shell it’s always been, utterly devoid of enjoyability or replayability.
The very concept is insulting, revolting, and a clear intentional predatory attack on computer game players and the very concept of computer games.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 2 months ago:
Why the hate for multiplayer?
Lazy way to get the players to make the content for you for free (and as a result the content is absolute garbage).
Just an excuse to implement always-online DRM.
Extremely hostile and unenjoyable experience.
Nothing wrong with being a masochist, but I ain’t one.
I play games to get away from people, not to get an overdose of the damn fuckers. If I for some self destructive reason wanted that I could just go outside.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2: First Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
Well, at least it’ll probably be better than Starfield.
- Comment on alpha 2 months ago:
I think I might be a vertical slice…
- Comment on alpha 2 months ago:
I’d get some good hammers and make a (possibly literal) killing as a retrophrenologist…
- Comment on explosions 2 months ago:
Popcorn.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 months ago:
Morrowind.
I mean, it's a 22 year old game, but since you asked nicely... 🤷♂️
Seeing that silt strider just outside Seyda Neen after the intro to what looked like your run of the mill D&D style fantasy RPG was a surprise, to say the least…
… and it was just the beginning.
It’s a real shame later Elder Scrolls games mostly lost that otherworldly feel.
