Vodulas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case my original advice might be the best. Try doing some of you other hobbies, and then re-evaluate after a couple weeks. I’m guessing you are not in the US, but the weather is getting better in the northern hemisphere. Try finding something to do that gets you out of the house. If you still want to play games later, you’ll find the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I go through waves. Sometimes I don’t want to play games at all, and during those times I do some of my other hobbies/activities. Summer especially I spend a lot of time outside. I would advise against spending money to try and fix what just might be a temporary thing. Not to say you shouldn’t buy a SteamDeck if you want one outside of the fatigue, just don’t let that be the only reason.

  How long have you been working a day job? It might just be a period of adjustment. School life vs work life is a lot different, so it takes time to adjust for most people. Also, if you work from home, that may also be a factor. If so, try not working where you game if possible. That was a huge thing for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you should be polite to AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apologies if I come off as upset, I am not. I don’t feel I was even a target of those comments. I was just pointing out that some of those folks might have come out swinging due to the perceived tone of the original comment, and calling other people names does not help that situation. My real hope was that they would be a little more careful with their words since tone hard to convey in text, and using words associated with people that more often then not are not acting in good faith can convey either aggressiveness or just outright trolling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you should be polite to AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Use of the word “trigger” is the key part here. It is most often used by right wingers just trying to piss people off (“triggering the libs”). Starting off with that and then commenting on how people are “sanctimonious” for expressing valid opinions are what tell me you were less than open to an actual conversation. It has nothing to do do with the post itself (though I tend to agree she really doesn’t say anything of value) and more to do with how you are going about interacting with people like a right wing troll. Hell even in this comment you end with a common right wing dismissive phrase (virtue signalling) that, again, tells other people you don’t want a conversation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you should be polite to AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now look at the comments in here, a bunch of sanctimonious people with too much appreciation for their own thoughts and a lack of any semblance of basic behaviour.

  Is there a word for a sentence that does the same thing it describes?

  There is no reason to denigrate people because they don’t agree with you or don’t like the nature of LLMs/generative algorithms. It really feels like you came looking for a fight (“I know the title will trigger people”) and trying to dismiss folks that point out this does not fix the fundamental problems with LLMs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How is From going downhill?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Sceptre if you want a non-smart TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be anti intellectualism in me Ah, ok, well I see we are done here.

  Have a good one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Anarchy is not the precursor to feudalism (and even feudalism as a concept is hotly debated among historians). That statement is also incredibly Eurocentric. The reality is there was a large variety of political and social structures around the world. Hell, just look at pre-colonial Native Americans and the huge variety in culture there

  2. You are defining anarchy differently than a majority of people. And fine, whatever, but you are going to get in a lot of pointless arguments because you are coming at it with the incoreect notion that anarchy means chaos. Especially on a heavily leftist platform that has a lot of anarchists.

  I recommend doing some reading and getting caught up on modern anarchist ideas instead of spouting that kind of nonsense. Hell, look into some anarchist societies and see what they are/were about. Also note that most of the non-extant ones are so because of state violence against them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When did we try anarchy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean Boeing’s screw up. They were the designer/manufacturer of the capsule that had issues. Plus Musk has very little if anything to do with SpaceX engineering or operations (Gwynn Shotwell is in charge of operations). Mostly he just does “Funny” shit like telling engineers to make Starship more pointy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was well worth the long read. I especially appreciate the rules of engagement including not going after identities, but techniques. So many “scam busters” tend to target individuals under the guise of getting to the larger organization. That has always weirded me out since it ignores the fact that a lot of those front line scammers are probably just desperate for work and are not the main beneficiaries of these scams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 9th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep Driving has had a lot of my free time. Semi emergent narrative, with rogue lite elements and semi Oregon Trail elements. Amazing soundtrack, great art. Just all around fun game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After two hours, open world shooter Atomfall is far more Far Cry than S.T.A.L.K.E.R.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Atomfall is compared to STALKER in the article refernced in the first paragraph. This article is just stating the author disagrees with his coworkers original assessment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most influential video game of all time - BAFTA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I don’t think Doom isn’t a good answer, mind you. There is a reason “Can you run Doom on that” is a thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most influential video game of all time - BAFTA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cool, did not even know about Monster Maze or Catacomb 3d. I’ll have to check them out. Monster Maze looks more survival than shooter, bit still in that vein for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most influential video game of all time - BAFTA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wolfenstein 3d can out the year before and I believe was the first. Still id Software, just slightly predates Doom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3,700 hrs in Rimworld - my current colony⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your colony looks a lot like how I do mine. Only difference is I really don’t do animals, and only do barracks in the beginning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acclaim Entertainment returns to 'support indie developers and reignite classic franchises'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. All they have is nostalgia to sell. That is all most of these big corpos have anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good they rolled it back. Feels a bit like go for what you want and see how folks react, then have a plan for rolling it back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not too concerned with that. If I don’t like the best in the series, then I probably won’t like any of them, but I am OK with that. A lot of folks are saying HeartGold/SoulSilver as better starting points, so I went with that. Got it emulated, so no real loss for me if I don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the Beastieball demo, and it is a ton of fun. The combat is tactical volleyball, and is pretty satisfying to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent. Sounds like a great place to start. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never played a pokemon game (except Go). I don’t have nostalgia for pokemon, but I would like to play. I am down to start at any point (I can probably emulate for any platform I don’t own). Where would folks recommend I start?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fires 20 employees for leaking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only into bottles, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have the original commenter confused. millie just said if you were spamming patch notes, you’d get a block

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a much more reasonable take, for sure. I would do the same, and probably go one step further and ask mods to step in.

  In this case I don’t think OP is spamming patch notes, they just found this on interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lol, what? This is a general gaming community. Also, that implies people can only post about games you are playing, which is such a wild take

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might just be that Taash isn’t the companion for you. I did not find them unlikable, just incredibly direct.

  Dunno where you saw that, steamdb (steamdb.info/app/1845910/) has it listed on 38.99€ at a 35% discount, which is horrendous for a not even 2 month old release.

  I found an article from about 3 or 4 weeks after release, so clearly the price dripped a couple times. And agreed, it is a bad sign for sales

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so. The writing of Taash was so bad and uncomfortable for the most part that I genuinely didn’t know if they were trying to mock trans-people with this representation

  I disagree. The writing of Taash, while basic, has a lot in common with folks early in discovering their trans identity. Yeah, it is awkward and uncomfortable. Guess what, self introspection often is. I would say with Taash we see a lot of what would be internal struggles being vocalized. The good news is that Taash isn’t the only character you can interact with.

  Breaking with an established formula can be a big detriment to a franchise.

  Of course it can, but it doesn’t solely make it a bad game.

  Veilguard, on the other hand, doesn’t get better. It just stays bad and even confusing at times.

  I disagree. I really like the gameplay. It gets better almost immediately after the tutorial, though the tutorial is a little long for my taste.

  All time peak on steam is 90k - that’s horrendous. Obviously, that’s not the total sales and it’s also sold on other platforms, so we do not know the real number. However,the game went on discount not even 2 months after release, and a pretty hefty one at that, 35% I think.

  Yeah, again, I don’t think the numbers are great, but 90k on 1 of 4 or 5 big platforms isn’t dismal. And the discount could be telling, but (I just looked it up) it was around 29%, which is still $50. Part of that could be backlash to the $70 AAA price tag. All that being said, all of this is speculation without numbers being released from EA