thedirtyknapkin

@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam has the best UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, i guess you’re right. they’re just a privately owned corporation. regardless of specific terminology the point stands. they aren’t publicly traded and certainly aren’t a megacorp. and i also don’t agree with evening they do. i generally like gog better.

  people are just always painting things like this with way too broad of a stroke. there’s a serious problem with conglomeration. Sony is a megacorp in the gaming space. a true megacorp that makes and has a gigantic hand in almost everything. from tvs to music to books to weapons of war. they exist solely to absorb wealth from any and all spaces they can. I’m real bummed about them acquiring kadokawa recently… it will not be good for games, anime, manga, or light novels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam has the best UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  like… company or business. they’re not actually very big compared to true megacorporations. like Amazon and ge are megacorps. they make many many things across thousands of facilities with millions of employees. you cannot live in modern society without encountering them. be it amazon Web services or the light bulbs in the street lights outside. valve is just a company. they do one thing and do it well. there are alternatives that you can easily use. it is not hard to avoid them as a company and most people don’t actually use steam. sure, most Western pc gamers do, but that’s a small percentage of the global population.

  valve is just a company. not even an especially large one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam has the best UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s probably because it’s not a megacorp, but a private company owned by a single person. not a corporation at all.

  there’s a big difference. a corporation is owned by a board of investors. those companies are legally obligated to provide maximum return for their investors. corporations have been sued for being “too charitable to their customers” rather than maximize profits. a private company can do whatever it wants at the whims of it’s owner. in this case Gabe Newell actually kind of wants to create a decent experience because that’s what he believes has created their market dominance. he’s right.

  corporations like Ubisoft and ea are legally obligated to squeeze you for every penny in their platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  this is why left vs. right isn’t nuanced enough for real political discussion outside of a two party system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wouldn't stand for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  fate was originally a vn. which part do you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning a new language is easy!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  oh Christ, please. it really is just the lack of spaces that make them a nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sure, but that’s not his fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, there’s a disappointingly small number of effects, and that generally aren’t that crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And I will have my vengeance, in this file host or the next.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  hmm, feels less significant when the title is just the name of a place or character. or just a common noun. of course they say gladiator at least once in “gladiator” a movie about gladiators.

  do they really say “saving private Ryan” in that movie though? it’s been a minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, different games for different folk. i find this headline promising. it makes me more interested in the game.

  for some small context my favorite games include baldur’s gate and other games like it, red dead redemption, path of exile, and civilization. games with either infinite variety in playstyle, or incredibly rich worlds to explore. ideally both.

  what are some of yours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  damn, i just have a totally different midset about games. i don’t give a shit about achievements, i want to take time to explore and be rewarded for doing so with interesting extra content that you have to look for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup help needed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  shit, the number’s right there. could ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2k Launcher has been fully removed from all games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, plus there’s only one launcher, and possibly thousands of games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks for the warning I guess??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah lol, I’m often plugging in slightly high impedance headphones that it just can’t drive very well. it’s never seemed worth it run run a dac or get a special pair of phone headphones. i rarely use it that way anyway.

  but yeah, pretty much every time i plug them in i have to confirm i want to hurt myself before it will allow them to be set to a useable volume.

  and yes, i do still have a headphone jack, they are still out there if you’re willing to not get a super expensive phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From moms pov⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah this is a mfw format. mfw my mom is watching something Lowkey interesting and i have to pretend I’m not watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to go to the Soup Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpreted this as implying that the bits of food hiding in the water are small or pulverized.

  I understand stew to just be less watery. barely enough liquid to cover the chunks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you could repurpose this headline to literally any creative or journalistic industry these days. “x industry is being propped up by underpaid freelancers” is just a fact of life now. it’s just so much cheaper when you don’t owe them any benefits or dignity or anything at all in fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jewel Beetles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it would be more like if someone intentionally painted that bottle to attract them then irritated that design using an the money in the world to perfect it. it’s almost electric horror shit if it wasn’t just another person trying to make money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potoo Potions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  always more complicated than the headlines would have you believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potoo Potions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  because that’s actually not in the books lol.

  i honestly hate the show because it’s not at all accurate to the books either in spite of that being the bulk of their marketing. that said, the two swords things comes entirely from the games. in the books he makes comments a few times about the fancy metals in his swords helping kill monsters, but he only has one at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monkey business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, that was a very different thing. in fact, i think it’s a shame that public reaction to that situation killed dolphin research.

  there’s a really really good episode of radiolab on this. the experiment was actually extremely promising and groundbreaking. they had a dolphin spending its own free time practicing making human words with his blowhole, using the water to try and make a sort of lip. rotating the blowhole in and out of the water to shape the sounds. this dolphin was able to understand spoken language and was observably getting frustrated at his inability to say what he clearly wanted to.

  the dolphin jerking thing happened because this was a dolphin actively in the throws of puberty. dolphins are intelligent, willful, occasionally evil animals. in nature they will masturbate themselves on shellfish and so other heinous sexually deviant things by human standards. the dolphin in the study was showing tremendous progress, but started showing string sexual urges. it got to the point that he was completely uncooperative. they jerked him off because he was cooperative after. there is no reason to believe the dolphin was explicitly attracted to the researcher and the researcher was said that she wasn’t attracted to the dolphin.

  this story was highly sensationalized. so much so that it completely overshadowed the fact that THE DOLPHIN COULD TALK. he wasn’t very good at it, but that’s only because he lacked the hardware. to this day no one can get funding for dolphin research because of this. it left that much of a stink on the entire field. we have made almost no meaningful progress in this field since. THE DOLPHIN COULD FUCKING TALK AND ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS HOW GROSS IT IS THAT THEY JERKED IT OFF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relationship goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the horny brain will actively chemically supresses our “ick” reaction. we’re literally less capable of being grossed out when having sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relationship goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  mine just attached under my toilet seat. the water line connects to the existing toilet water line. it came with the fitting i needed and was easier than Legos to set up.

  think i payed like $25 on Amazon like 5 years ago. i try not to buy from Amazon anymore, but I’m sure there are many reasonable options out there elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relationship goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  eh, is got a little valve and i just turn it all the way. i like the cleanness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relationship goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not to be too stereotypically reddit butt…

  a bidet makes it a lot easier 😅. it shoots a little water up in there like a mini douche every time. helps get those last little stubborn bits too if there are any.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monkey business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh fuck, now we’re getting back into those chimps that were raised as humans by private citizens. there’s examples of them masturbating to human porn and being sexually disinterested in their own species. it’s honestly uncomfortable to think about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Studios’ ‘Blade’ Removed From 2025 Release Schedule, Disney Dates ‘Predator: Badlands’ Instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh shit, my bad. yeah IDK then. that’s weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Studios’ ‘Blade’ Removed From 2025 Release Schedule, Disney Dates ‘Predator: Badlands’ Instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  because a blade movie had been announced, but a blade actor had not. that was more or less the official announcement that snipes would reprise the role.

  at least that’s how i took it at the time. maybe it was an oddly tongue in cheek way of implying he was killing the film?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  maaan, one time i pulled in awkward to the corner of a parking lot at a trail head to wait for my friend. i was pulled forward and at an angle so i could see past the other cars and know if my friend had driven past the lot. the was no cell service so i had to go flag him down when i saw him since the rail head wasn’t very well marked. I made sure i wasn’t in anyone’s way, but it was an ugly ass park job if it had actually been a park job.

  as I was sat there with my windows cracked two dudes walk past and spent like 5 minutes shifting on Subaru drivers because of my park job. they didn’t see me in the car i guess. like, they were just making incorrect assumptions, but it still kinda hurt…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah no, this is just fixing the wording to better represent the truth that has always been.

  this is because a California law recently passed requiring these kinds of purchases to inform consumers that they don’t actually own it. valve decided it would be easier just to do this for everyone.

  this has always been true for all digital games you purchased. the fact that you didn’t realize this is why the law was need.

  thanks California for being the only force fighting for consumers rights in the United States. i can see why conservatives give you so much shit. you do things that matter.