SnotFlickerman
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- Comment on If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term? 47 minutes ago:
This is the answer. Pretty sure, for example, MetaFilter is running bespoke code for their forum (which means no development at all), and it’s been online since 1999.
- Comment on Only a few years left 9 hours ago:
Cancer at 42 over here.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 1 day ago:
12345
That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!
- Comment on Good job! 2 days ago:
I am glad I kept around my old pirated copies of Rosetta stone in various languages.
- Comment on Good job! 2 days ago:
Good job!
No, Anna.
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*Night owl munches on a mouse while looking at meme in confusion
- Comment on GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess 5 days ago:
The number of memestock bros who still hype Gamestop despite all the massive missteps they’ve made in the last few years is fucking unreal. They desperately meme “diamond hands” when they’re fucking bagholders.
- Comment on What ever you do, don't think of the number 37. 5 days ago:
My President sucked 37 dicks!
- Comment on Blue Man Coup 5 days ago:
He’s focusing so hard on his themes being timeless that he’s no longer challenging the audience. Which is why they’re only winning visual art Oscars.
I mean he’s been using visual shortcuts to human emotional states instead of, you know, character development since fucking Titanic, if not before.
The obvious example to contrast the Avatar films with is District 9, which came of the same year as the first Avatar film. The “prawns” of District 9 are absolutely ugly to behold, but they are “humanized” through character development instead of shortcuts like giving them giant, dewy, innocent looking eyes and making them look like innocent animals like cats or dogs. Cameron make the Na’vi aesthetically pleasing to humans because it’s easier to make them the “good guys” this way than it is if they looked like District 9’s “prawns.”
I mean, no shade, Cameron is good at using the techniques he has chosen as a way to short circuit his audience into feeling the things he wants them to feel… but that doesn’t make them not cheap, easy, and overall weak compared to serious character development since it’s a complete reliance on visual shortcuts to emotional depth without the actual emotional depth.
- Comment on 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them 5 days ago:
One of the few game developers trying to write for the medium of gaming instead of trying to write a book/movie and slap it into a game. One of the few who eschews the three-act arc so prevalent in plays and films.
He really understands that as a different medium you should play to the mediums strengths and how the medium functions for storytelling to synthesize meaning between gameplay and story. Writing for games shouldn’t be like writing for books or films because while analogous they are nowhere near the same kind of mediums.
The medium is the message.
-Marshall McLuhan
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 1 week ago:
I’m not saying it was a majority issue, I’m saying the beginnings of the social turn against LGBTQ openness and inclusion has been brewing under the surface for a long time and this is potentially evidence of it.
- Comment on Don't forget to wipe 1 week ago:
I never wipe because I only eat cake.
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 1 week ago:
Not just that, but this is free home-made ice cream.
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 1 week ago:
so I think we could say that this trend of being a disgusting bigot is one which is being ‘allowed’ more recently than it once was in social media.
I always try to bring this up because honestly, if we go pretty far back in internet terms, we can see that this has actually been brewing for over a decade.
In 2013, EA won the Consumerist poll for “Worst Company in America.” While mostly people pointed to arguably rational reasons for these votes (DRM, microtransactions, badly made and released games), the COO of EA had some other thoughts as to why they got hammered so hard as the worst company:
In the past year, we have received thousands of emails and postcards protesting against EA for allowing players to create LGBT characters in our games. This week, we’re seeing posts on conservative web sites urging people to protest our LGBT policy by voting EA the Worst Company in America. That last one is particularly telling. If that’s what makes us the worst company, bring it on. Because we’re not caving on that.
When this happened in 2013, most of us thought this was absolute bunkum and just EA doing damage control. Now, I’m genuinely not so sure anymore. I think perhaps some suit at EA had noticed something happening, some change in the waters that had not yet become “mainstream” but was bubbling beneath the surface, slowly growing. People made fun of this response from EA, because we thought at the time “this is the modern era, those are just backwards fools stuck in the past that are complaining about LGBT inclusion, if they even exist at all, I bet EA is making it up to cover for how shitty they are.” But… were they?? At the time it was roundly dismissed because popular culture widely accepted LGBTQ inclusion, but now we’re on a backswing and people feel emboldened to be disgusting bigots and be loud and proud about being a exclusive asshat who hates people different than themselves. Has it just been brewing under the surface for over a decade?
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 1 week ago:
Peace Through Strength
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
The new translation layer they’ve been working on for their new VR headset, the Steam Frame. Steam Frame runs on an ARM64 processor so Fex is a translation layer for x86/x64 games to play directly on the Steam Frame hardware. Honestly, in my personal opinion, it feels like a bigger and more impactful project than even Proton because it’s the first step to opening up PC gaming to other chip architectures other than the traditional x86/x64 Intel/AMD chips. What if you could buy an ARM64 Linux PC and still run your entire Valve library on it? That’s the potential future here.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
Not even speculation, just shitposting.
Valve has done a ton of work on expanding their level of access in the gaming sphere, from Proton to the new Fex, but they are a PC gaming company, period.
SteamDeck doesn’t run Android, it runs full Linux.
Other Linux phone variants are in such infancy I doubt Valve would want to take on such a project in it’s current state. Maybe 10 years down the line, if their hardware gambits pay off.
Even then, mobile devices is a whole different ball game of working with cellular service vendors to get support for you device. Currently Valve doesn’t have to work with any vendors other than traditional PC and game peripheral parts providers, they don’t have to cut deals with xFinity or other ISPs to get their products to connect to them. They are not having to make deals with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Getting into the phone sphere is such a huge undertaking, and while it’s a fun thought, it’s such a far-off and unlikely move for Valve.
- Comment on Hilary can't catch a break 1 week ago:
“Bubba was just asserting his dominance” will probably be the next excuse. “When you’re President, they let you do it.”
- Comment on There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business 1 week ago:
I have so many reasons to not use Kagi.
- Comment on There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business 1 week ago:
RSS support is absolutely my favorite old-web thing that’s still around. It truly is fantastic to have your own curated RSS feeds.
The Fediverse specifically lets you create them really granularly as well!
- Comment on There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business 1 week ago:
Misleading title.
There are indeed “weird blogs” they just have to be devoid of capitalist funding.
Corey Doctorow’s Pluralistic seems in many ways to be a natural extension of his BoingBoing days albeit a bit more serious than the lighthearted BoingBoing.
MetaFilter fully became a non-profit and still retains a more a blog-esque format than it’s contemporaries.
Mother Jones has a strong online presence and has avoided the capitalist machine for it’s entire existence.
The thing is (and the more important part of this story is) that submitting to the capitalist machine is to submit to its machinations and unwillingness to adhere to the age-old social contract of a business producing profit to be sufficient enough for a business to exist. Modern capitalism is indeed a shell-game of extracting maximum value, essentially truly squeezing blood from a stone until the stone no longer even exists. Anyone who willingly plays this game will be bitten by this game, unless they themselves become ruthless capitalists and focus all their energy on shell-game chicanery over producing actual products, services, or content. There is no end-game here where the plucky capitalist-minded business-owner can overcome all and become the master of their own domain. The few who have (Valve, for example) had a solid financial footing to begin their more unique forays into profit-driving and they have stayed independent companies instead of publicly owned companies. That alone has saved them, and most of them (again, like Valve) started in an era before the behemoth of VC (Vulture/Vampire Capitalism) took hold, and made their early profits soon enough to not need such outside funding. Starting such a company today? Without outside funding? Get real. You’d have to be someone like Gabe Newell, who exited Microsoft with enough money to take a risk to make a profit of his own without needing outside stake, and the number of Gabe Newell’s exiting industry to make their own goes at new business are exceedingly rare. The ones that actually succeed in making a profitable company are even rarer.
In capitalist America, the “free market” binds you and dictates your future.
- Comment on Best club ever 1 week ago:
I’m adding this one to my dad joke repertoire.
- Comment on It takes time 1 week ago:
New series is pretty good.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 weeks ago:
I hear pocket pool is a lot of fun.
- Comment on Honk 2 weeks ago:
Honk.
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 2 weeks ago:
It’s not as though that power structure is leveraged to dismantle and destroy competing economic systems or labor rights or anything. Yeah, totally and completely separate and never the twain shall meet. The CIA definitely didn’t use economic terrorism to force countries to submit to US
cartelsbusiness demands.Nothing has ever happened, like say, the US corporations using their wealth to dominate the court systems and laws of other counties to do something like put media pirates calling themselves “The Pirate Bay” in prison for things that were legal in their own country.
What an absolute crock of shit dude get a grip.
- Comment on Is your job boring? This 1960s auto worker says his job was killing him 3 weeks ago:
Great video and what’s really fucked is that this past is the past half the USA wants us to return to. Where everyone is dreading their dreary repetitive factory job and hoping for a better future for their children so they children don’t have to suffer the same drudgery.
Maybe some fucking MAGA twerps need to watch this.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 weeks ago:
Underrated because the game itself was often kind of lacking in terms of solid foundational TPG systems…
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Pretty good attempt at putting a Middle Earth type world ahead a few hundred years in the midst of an Industrial Revolution.
Really thoughtful stuff like the labor exploitation of certain races like orcs, with quests like a half-orc you can help start a labor union or help the shop boss shut down the nascent union.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 weeks ago:
Underrated because the game itself was often kind of lacking in terms of solid foundational TPG systems…
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Pretty good attempt at putting a Middle Earth type world ahead a few hundred years in the midst of an Industrial Revolution.
Really thoughtful stuff like the labor exploitation of certain races like orcs, with quests like a half-orc you can help start a labor union or help the shop boss shut down the nascent union.
