Semjaza
@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm 1 day ago:
What other “mistakes” did they make?
A U in “colour”? An S in “realise”?
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If you’re trolling: well done, wanker.
- Comment on Paradox delay Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 yet again because technical quality is "more important" than sticking to a date 2 days ago:
It’s Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
If it’s not barely stable and without at least one game breaking path that’s not even that rare they’re not living up to the name.
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 3 days ago:
The cracks were there in the second.
The goal to string things out with more series just makes things worse. And characters archetypes don’t mesh well with the development as the writers want it all to be archetypal.
Groff-Eric was the best thing about second series. It made main guy even harder to stand.
But then I always root for the second girl, so how else could I feel?
- Comment on the duality of beetle 3 days ago:
What does this even mean? I’ve been stumped for the whole day… You’ve brained wormed me with this indescipherable string of words.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 week ago:
Didn’t he only treat one of each set of twins, and used a faulty method that has been supplanted?
In addition to all the lying and manipulating the parents to get them to agree and not ask many questions.
- Comment on history rhymes, or something 1 week ago:
For the record Hitler wasn’t vegetarian, he just consumed less mammal flesh than contemporaries of his station.
He loved devilled pigeon hearts, for instance.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb. 2 weeks ago:
While Steam isn’t publically traded it’s better than Epic, Microsoft, or whichever other distributor you go through as it isn’t beholden to line goes up.
- Comment on Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" 2 weeks ago:
I’ll respect the pokémon card game for demolishing reprint equity and making sure the meta cards are easily and cheaply available to players.
The card game gameplay, and high level competitive battling, while not M:tG good, are still both solid though. Closer to Magic than they are Yu-Gi-Oh.
- Comment on Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" 2 weeks ago:
Been clean since Sun/Moon.
I was disappointed with X/Y and gave them one last chance to change course.
The disappointing dungeons of X/Y had been replaced by nothing by straight lines with occasional fancy camera angles. The utter disgrace that was Z Cave as a super (only) dungeon was more than anything Sun/Moon offered.
For a game series meant to be about exploring and discovering monsters to collect, they’ve really let the exploration/discovery side down. Holding my console upside down is cool and all that, but gimmicks to sell strategy guides are no subsidy for actual explorable environments to lead to dynamic, emergent gameplay experiences.
Really want to make my take on a monster capture world explorer. I think there’s a lot of space for a spiritual successor to Pokémon.
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 2 weeks ago:
Neither her best film with Ghost in the title, nor the best version of Ghost in the Shell.
Not that I disagree with your point. She has acting chops wasted in MCU.
- Comment on 5 Reasons Why Mickey 17 Flopped At The Box Office - SlashFilm 2 weeks ago:
Especially since it’s not original, but adapted from a book.
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 2 weeks ago:
Why not start with classic films in your wife’s first or second languages?
Almost every language has a few films that stand out, and she’d be more engaged this way too.
And works very well as a good springboard for exploring the world’s cinematic greats.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 4 weeks ago:
That’s not generative, since it’s just copying player input. Feasible without AI, just storing strings for later recall.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
On the one hand… First World War would’ve ended very differently.
On the other… Maybe eugenics would already be discredited by the 20s with how it went in Dixie.
- Comment on Kevin sounds nice! 5 weeks ago:
Call me a poser, but I prefer him in The Skin I Live in.
- Comment on pew pew 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on pew pew 5 weeks ago:
Why now?
The US military already has satellites than can drop artificial asteroids onto Earth, causing large localised, hard to detect and prevent damage.
Space has sadly already been weaponised.
- Comment on Erasure 5 weeks ago:
It does mean that not much more than 28% of the adult population support him though.
So he’s enacting all these democracy eroding changes for techno-authoitirians/fuedalists off of less than 1/3rd of the US’s population’s support.
Elections don’t care, nor does policy. But it is closer to 1/4 than 1/2 of people who can even begin to be said as his supporters. Despite what the media cycle might imply.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 month ago:
The Death of Stalin seeing Iannuci’s name attached in the opening credits told me everything that I was in for, really.
Not sure quite how historically accurate it is, but nothing overly glaring on a casual watch.
Dark fun, although perhaps a little too glib in one or two places. Be interested to know how it meshes with the lived experiences of people under Stalin.
- Comment on Is there a word for items that require both hands to use (e.g. game controller, steering wheel, handlebars)? 1 month ago:
I always go for a bimanual axe build as a barbarian in APRGs. You?
- Comment on pumping elephant 1 month ago:
Yes, machine translation is 100% why this occurred.
- Comment on Megaladon't 2 months ago:
Disregarding fictionality, it also includes moths, at least one plant, and maybe arachnids (and controversially perhaps, an ape).
- Comment on Megaladon't 2 months ago:
Is there a good reason why dinosaur is only terrestrial extinct reptiles (and a subset at that)?
Do we have a handy term that includes plesiasaur, pteradons and dactyls, as well as dinosaurs?
- Comment on pumping elephant 2 months ago:
抽 - can also mean “pulled” , as well as “suck” or “pump” .
象 - in 抽象 is “appearance, form, shape” , rather than elephant. (Don’t know why they’re the same character, I usually blame imperial name taboo because: why not?)
So 抽象, as abstract is the art sense rather than summary one. But since they’re the same in English, taken across to be the same in Chinese (I guess, I don’t know if papers in Chinese start with a 抽象), so “pulled-distorted form/appearance”.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 months ago:
The new ones are either flat open spaces or lines.
The 2D games at least had spaces to explore rather than just run forwards.
- Comment on The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies 2 months ago:
Thanks for correcting me.
- Comment on The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies 2 months ago:
That’s a lot of stuff, but we don’t call Alphabet/Google a US Military company do we?
Though I’m down to call them both military companies.
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 2 months ago:
That’s good, and I’m glad to have been informed of it.
Thank you.
My copyright change is the 17 years from first publication. Feels maybe still a little long, but much better than what we have now.
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 2 months ago:
OK, if you ignore the hyperbole of my pre-christmas stress aggressive start, how much of the rest do you disagree with?
Less combatitively, I’m of the stance that just make AI generated materials exempt from copyright and you’ll at least limit mass adoption in public facing things by big money. Doesn’t address all the issues, though.
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 2 months ago:
If you take that image, copy it and then try to resell it for profit you’ll find you’re quickly in breach of copyright.
The LLM is, in most cases, being licensed out to users for a profit off of the input data without which it could not exist in its current form.
You could see it akin to plagiarism if you think ctrl+c, ctrl+v is too extreme.