JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Most of the shenanigans are with ink printers, no?
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 4 days ago:
Send him a pigeon, duh!
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 6 days ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering? 3 weeks ago:
I.e. If they don’t care about themselves, why would they care about anyone else or the environment around them?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, if you had that on your screen at work and someone saw it, you’d likely get talked to by HR. It’s not a grey area. I’m not saying it’s raunchy or pornographic, it’s just not appropriate for a workplace, hence not safe for work.
- Comment on Violent Acts of Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Are Shown in Videos 4 weeks ago:
That’s a whole lotta love!
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 1 month ago:
To be fair, I don’t think all of the blame can be laid on execs. Game directors and Art directors are often the source of the issue.
I’ve seen execs come to a studio and say: “Make something AAA, a single player game with unique gameplay and a great 10 hour story, and get it done in a couple of years. Don’t worry about the bottom line, we want a showcase experience.”
Then the directors come back with: “Okay, showcase you say? How about a AAAA 20v20 open world multiplayer shooter (nobody is doing that!), SaaS (to keep’em coming back), with ultra realistic graphics (it’ll be epically fun that way), a $100million budget (we’ll outsource to save money), MTX so we can make tons of money (we get profit sharing right?), and we do it in 3 years (for work-life balance)?”
Devs are just sitting there shaking their heads and thinking… “Here we go again…”
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 1 month ago:
I’ve always disliked how washed out BotW looks. It’s like they could only process limited colours so they reduced the contrast and everything is light grey with a hint of colour.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 3 months ago:
Agreed, just making a joke because of the context.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 3 months ago:
Real men sit to pee so they don’t have to clean their own piss up later.
Whenever I talk about this, some asshat will come along and make a comment about sitting on a tree. No, dumbass, I don’t sit to pee on a tree. Or a urinal. I sit to pee on my toilet at home so I can tell you what an idiot you are while I’m pissing just to prove how manly I am.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 4 months ago:
Yes, but it’s essentially incremental engineering, made possible by ginormous funding, including NASA money, and a private company doing things that NASA can-t politically afford.
NASA spent about 50 Billion today-dollars developing (not launching) the shuttle program and that went to private contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, United Space, etc.) Starship has a long way to go to hit those numbers.
I really don’t find anything SpaceX is doing revolutionary
Really? Nothing? Many people said what Falcon 9 now does on a regular basis could not be done. No one was even trying. The closest plans were still going to land horizontally and went nowhere. Now, you have to explain why you’re not landing your booster, and what your plans are to fix that going forward: bnnbloomberg.ca/…/china-wants-to-replace-jeff-bez…
They quite literally revolutionized the space industry in terms of the cost to launch to orbit.
Imagine NASA crashing 4 Shuttles before getting landing right. There’d be no NASA by now.
Yet another way they’ve revolutionized the industry. Almost everyone is doing expendable tests now so that they can move forward quickly. Columbia started construction in 1975, launched for the first time in 1981. When they launched it, it was a fully decked out space shuttle and they put the whole thing on the line - including two astronauts. Imagine NASA trying to do that now. They’d be grounded so hard they’d be jealous of Mankind having a table to land on.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 4 months ago:
The router might have a page for fixed IP addresses.
- Comment on Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station? 5 months ago:
Starfield has Chunks, a full on fast food chain with multiple locations. Some are on space stations, some are on planets.
You can also find their vacuum-sealed food everywhere.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 5 months ago:
I said the developers removed the labels to be more inclusive and OP (and now you) added them back.
There are technical reasons (pointed out in many comments) for why they might not have full sliders to make any body type you want.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 5 months ago:
As you can see from OP’s response to you, my primary issue is that OP is still calling the option the “female” or “feminine” one. The developers specifically removed those labels to be inclusive and OP is adding them back. The complaint about the order was the secondary issue.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 5 months ago:
As a woman, I look at “Body Type A or Body Type B” and think “Well, I’m a woman, not a Body Type B, and isn’t it kinda misogynistic that the secondary option is the female one? Like A+ for Men, B- for Women?”
This really pissed me off, I have to say. Why are you calling the “secondary” option “the female one”? To me that seems a bit presumptuous.
If I have body type B with he/him pronouns, are you saying something about my body? Is it too “feminine” for you?
Honestly, you seem to be looking for something to complain about. The developers have taken an extra step to try to be accommodating and inclusive and your complaining about the order the choices are listed in… Smh
- Comment on How do you search Lemmy? 6 months ago:
Oh, interesting. I’ll have to keep an eye on that. Normally I use search to find things I’ve already read and I’m trying to find again.
- Comment on How do you search Lemmy? 6 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I don’t know, but it seems like the kind of thing that you should talk to them about. I mean, you’d be going to AA and/or NA due to trying to overcome addiction. If you’re coping with your addiction using weed, maybe they’d have an opinion about it.
That said, my guess is that they’d be against it, partly because of the religious roots. www.reddit.com/r/atheism/s/glPy8tGvjw
- Comment on Epic Adds Ugly Tesla Cybertruck To Fortnite 6 months ago:
Usually, when it’s a one-off like this, the video game gets “paid” to put the stuff in their game. That payment may be in-kind advertising campaigns, etc.
For something like Need for Speed, Forza, etc, the game will be licensing the likeness of the vehicles and the company logos in the game. I don’t know the costs, but the fact that it’s also advertising will factor in.
In this case, there are a few likely scenarios:
- The game director or art director or someone high up at Epic has a hard-on for the Cybertruck and really wanted it in the game. So they pursued Tesla and made a deal.
- Epic wanted to add vehicles to the game and decided to go with licensed vehicles. Their merchandising people reached out to merchandising people at all the auto companies and then figured out some deals.
- Someone high up at Tesla (maybe even Musk) loves, or has a kid who loves, Fortnite and decided they want the Cybertruck in the game. So they pursued Epic to make a deal.
Number 2 is most likely, but I don’t know the game well enough to know the vehicle situation in it.
For all of them, you have to factor in a bunch of details to figure out who is paying who:
- who wants it more (/ power imbalance)
- how much money is it going to cost to make the models, animations, etc
- how much is it going to cost players to get the item
- are there aspects that either company finds undesirable (E.g. sometimes car companies don’t like their cars shown with damage)
- who will be doing the bulk of the marketing, and who has the marketing budget to spend on the venture
- probably a lot more
So, it’s hard to say without more inside info. Games I’ve worked on have had 1 and 2, but not 3 as far as I know. I think it was pretty much an in-kind deal for the 1 situation though (like we got the likenesses, they got advertising through the game, ostensibly we sold more games with the likenesses, but I think it just stroked someone’s ego…) All of the 2 situations were done to bring in money for the game’s marketing budget / or were in-kind marketing deals, possibly bringing money directly to the bottom line, but I don’t know.
- Comment on Should You Hug a Sloth? Spurred by social media, attractions where visitors interact with animals have surged. Advocates are sounding alarms. 7 months ago:
No link?
- Comment on Is there a name for apartments that have flat sides, but are protruding like a clover? 7 months ago:
That doesn’t sound like a design that would work in an apartment building. How do neighbouring apartments connect?
Maybe you can draw it out? My guess is that it’s actually just a big rectangle when you figure out where the bathrooms and closets are.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 8 months ago:
The cone of silence obvi
- Comment on IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more 8 months ago:
I want multiple streaming services that can stream almost everything so there’s competition, but still a valid reason not to just drop and switch constantly.
- Comment on How come there aren't any moral geniuses? 9 months ago:
“So, you’re a philosopher?”
“Yes. I think very deeply^deeply^^^deeply^^”
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 9 months ago:
What do you type? All I see is *******
- Comment on When will the floss stop hurting 10 months ago:
This one took me a sec (because I’m old) but then I chuckled heartily (because I’m old)
- Comment on Trademark Tussle: Remedy Entertainment And Take Two Clash Over Logo 1 year ago:
Other than both being the letter R, I don’t see any similarities that would confuse anyone into thinking they’re related.
This article has a better side-by-side: theverge.com/…/take-two-rockstar-games-remedy-ent…
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th 1 year ago:
You can show the log and see dice rolls.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th 1 year ago:
Neverwinter Nights on my phone. Third or fourth playthrough (first ones were on PC). Absolutely cooks the battery, but entertains for hours while travelling as long as I can plug in. I really wish BeamDog would have spent a little more time optimizing it.
Next will be Icewind Dale and will be my first playthrough I think. Then I might go back to NWN for some of the community quests.
