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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scandal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s not gay to suck someone’s dick. It is only gay if you let a man suck your dick”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scandal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …

  Eothas. Fucking. Wept. This is amazing.

  Was just chatting with a friend about how it seems there is widespread illness and injury going around and at least some of that is probably related to depression over the Democrats fucking up last week.

  This… we gonna be running god damned marathons.

  ---

  To be clear: there is absolutely nothing wrong with consenting adults sucking each other off. But this is just so god damned juicy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in my LinkedIn feed right now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? You do realize that would predominantly hurt asylum seekers, right? Because if the (christo)fascist hellscape doesn’t have a tax treaty with anyone, nobody can leave

  The way that many (most?) countries handle this is that you are still on the hook for your taxes. If you never come back? Whatever, not their problem. If you DO come back (for example, because your visa expired and you have to renew it) you are in for a world of hurt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Reveals New Hardware Lineup: A Controller, Compact Gaming PC, and VR-Ready Headset⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also like a fanny pack form factor (great for spare batteries too) but it’s “just” a snapdragon. The actual chip is likely nothing compared to the displays and battery

  It definitely doesn’t look glasses friendly but that is also a solved problem these days. Many of the online glasses companies directly sell them and they just push on rather than needing to buy the lenses and print a mount and then remove the old lenses and blah. My ex and I both wear glasses and we never had a problem swapping out on the facebook quest or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Reveals New Hardware Lineup: A Controller, Compact Gaming PC, and VR-Ready Headset⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is both. Standalone device but also designed to communicate with a PC via a USB dongle. Which is as close to the “norm” as it gets in VR these days (although the facebooks connect over WLAN)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “We are responsible for what we say and what we do, not the interpretation others do out of them.”

  Yeah, fuck off with that Steven Universe bullshit. It is fun to tell kids to do what is true to them and to not care about what anyone else says. Until they are an adult who thinks dressing up like a school shooter is fun.

  Intent is excuses and apologies. Actions are… actions. And if someone’s take is that they totally get why sucker punch bent over backwards to protect chuds (at the expense of labor) and that they clearly don’t give a shit about the massive waves of abuse thrown at a voice actress? I’mma gonna assume they are a chud. And, because I believe in judging people by their actions, I 'mma gonna call them a chud.

  Does that mean they are a chud? Of course not. There is a LOT of room to apologize and make it clear they are actually an ally. A half-assed “no, I didn’t do that” ain’t it.

  And… if you aren’t an ally, you are an enemy. And a large part of allyship is doing what you can, no matter how small, to make people feel Seen and welcome. And when you have moderators siding with the people who don’t really give a shit what kinds of abuse a genderfluid actress received for daring to exist while making DAMNED sure we understand why the company that left them out to dry is gonna protect the chuds?

  So, on that note: Decide where you stand. But, by all indications, you might as well ban me now because I’m going to continue to call out chuds. And I’d hate for that to get in the way of the hype train and posting daily blog posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real talk, which would you rather have: Megaman 12, or Megaman X9?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, we didn’t create enough art for Joseph Gordon Levett to sell so Volnutt is forever stuck on the moon and we will never get an aged up Tron Bonne outside of the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome To Armored Core - A Chronological Breakdown Of FromSoftware's Legendary Mecha Series⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget a lot of 3. But 1 and 2 didn’t really do mission rankings along those lines and were generally built around having to push through multiple rooms and hallways. Whereas 4(a) heavily emphasized wide open spaces and rushing to get those objectives.

  6 was a MUCH better balance where the S rank actually often required a certain number of kills and many missions had ways to justify the ammo expenditure so that it wasn’t just “get a karasawa and then human plus”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome To Armored Core - A Chronological Breakdown Of FromSoftware's Legendary Mecha Series⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always preferred the chonky bois of AC1/2, but 4/4a did indeed feel REAL damned good.

  My main issue is that everything about the mission structure encouraged just rushing the objective and DPSing it down. Which is fun sometimes but not when it is EVERY mission.

  Its also a big reason I genuinely loved Daemon Ex Machina (the first one, at least). You had the blitzes and the arena missions but you also had some truly amazing slogs where you are just fighting nigh endless waves of MTs and are grabbing whatever gun you can off the ground to down a few more enemies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t minimize what happened

  No, you 100% did. All while also justifying chudlike behavior because the company that released the game about a Native American (who was Troy Baker in brownface but we try to ignore that) fighting against the cops in Seattle can’t afford to have any policality to their games. Also that ignores the actual Ghost games themselves.

  Maybe you didn’t intend to. But your actions sure as hell did. So… either get pissy and insist you didn’t and the problem is everyone else or engage in some self-reflection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was literally a joke about wondering if the killer would be named “mario”. It was far tamer than what many of the chuds have said.

  It was sheer and utter cowardice and abandoning the people who actually make the games that got them there. And when even god damned paramount reversed course with kimmel, the head of Sucker Punch doubled down on standing by their actions.

  As for Ishii: “Social media was being social media” sums up how much you care on that front.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of me thinks that this is going to be the one where no one fucking gives a shit because of all the BS that R* have been doing since GTA5,

  Zero chance.

  Sucker Punch fired one of their senior devs for a mario and luigi joke when kirk got got. EVERYONE was angry, the studio heads came out to say they stand by their decision, and plenty of people were keyed in to the hell that Erika Ishii has had to put up with on social media for daring to portray a female character in a video game.

  Ghost of Yotei comes out. Metacritic of 86 and just about every outlet had to cover it and talk about how much they love it. A few of the more independent outlets stood true but… there are just so few video games that come out in a given year that you can’t possibly dare to deprive yourself of something over things like workers rights or politics. I mean, what else could you possibly play in September of 2025!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Contraceptive sponges are/were basically the precursors to IUDs. Basically a (simplifying) female controlled form of birth control for people who don’t respond well to The Pill.

  As it provides zero protection against STIs, it is theoretically a form of birth control you use in addition to a condom (in case of tears/improper sizing) or with a partner you are fluid bonded to and are comfortable having The Talk in the event of a missed period.

  Mostly it just raised a LOT of questions about what Ms Benes was getting up to with these randos

  … was this when she wanted to bang a Kennedy? Oh god, now I need to look up which one… To The Plex Server!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protests erupt at Rockstar Games offices accusing GTA 6 developers of “Union Busting”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More or less all companies (that are legally allowed to (and some that aren’t)) send anti-union propaganda. Whether it is outright villification or just “We are your friends. Talk to us. If you form a union it is you saying we failed”. That is kind of just the nature of the game.

  What matters is what happens when the workforce decides to unionize anyway. You can either respect it or do everything you can to slaughter your workforce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protests erupt at Rockstar Games offices accusing GTA 6 developers of “Union Busting”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sleeping Dogs (aka “Sleepy Dogs”) is basically GTA in Hong Kong but inspired by HK crime dramas rather than tarantino stealing his ideas from them. And it was REALLY good and shockingly holds up (did another run late last year). Arkham Batman style combat on foot but you also have guns and cars (with Total Overdose style shenanigans to leap from car to car). Technically a sequel to True Crime LA but nobody cares about that.

  Also… Emma Stone is in it for reasons nobody understands. And it is still unclear if she actually knows she was in it either.

  But it also highlights the issue. Taking GTA and moving it to another country would, by and large, lose the purpose of the game. Modern day Rockstar is very much an American company and all of their points of reference are American cinema (or what few foreign films take off here). That was very noticeable any time Nico began referring to “the old country”. To transplant that to Russia or Thailand would just be an American movie set in Russia or Thailand.

  Whereas… if you enjoy HK crime dramas than you will LOVE Sleepy Dogs because it 100% understood the assignment. United Front clearly worshipped the movies and it very much showed… while also making sure Wei Shen had spent most of his life in the US to account for any weirdness there.

  And if you’ve ever spent time in Hong Kong? Okay, it isn’t quite as good as RGG and Kabukicho. But you very much get all the right vibes in a way that the GTAs often fail at with LA and NYC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really doesn’t. Because now that is lost revenue for a month/quarter for no reason at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, fuck it. I have no need for more “douche and a turd sandwich” “both sides suck” humor in the 2020s and I have zero desire to give rockstar any money after their blatant union busting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… that is the other aspect where… labor is already getting fucked over massively so it becomes a question of how many jobs are even going away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, as I don’t expect QA done by something that can’t think or feel to know what actually needs to be fixed

  That is a very small part of QA’s responsibility. Mostly it is about testing and identifying bugs that get triaged by management. The person running the tests is NOT responsible for deciding what can and can’t ship.

  And, in that regard… this is actually a REALLY good use of “AI” (not so much generative). Imagine something like the old “A star algorithm plays mario” where it is about finding different paths to accomplish the same goal (e.g. a quest) and immediately having a lot of exactly what steps led to the anomaly for the purposes of building a reproducer.

  Which actually DOES feel like a really good use case… at the cost of massive computational costs (so… “AI”).

  That said: it also has all of the usual labor implications. But from a purely technical “make the best games” standpoint? Managers overseeing a rack that is running through the games 24/7 for bugs that they can then review and prioritize seems like a REALLY good move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I’ve never worked anywhere that the staff didn’t have side channels for socializing out of work that inevitably ended up getting kinda borderline with some discussions. It’s against company policy and it is a problem but it is mostly ignored because good employees know where to draw the line and the orgs that own those third party chats tend to not be competitors.

  And it leaves people open to stuff like this. “Well, you probably talked about your work schedule or compensation which we consider Office Use Only so you violated corporate policy and are eligible to be fired”

  As for “Well, they should have used matrix or signal!”: Maybe. But if you’ve ever tried to convince a friend group to install another client then you know that is a much bigger struggle than convincing people to engage in collective bargaining.

  But also? While it is possible rockstar/take2 just guessed, the more likely outcome is that someone narced. At which point it doesn’t actually matter if everyone was on Discord or Matrix or Signal or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I never fucked with EU but I am a huge CK sicko and… I have a LOT of problems with Paradox as a publisher but they’ve really been pushing their internal/flagship studios to focus on onboarding and approachability for these games.

  Was really surprised to see that the new East Asia DLC for CK3 actually added a new tutorial sequence/character. Haven’t sat down yet to see if it is focused on the Mandate of Heaven or if it is just for people who want to get back in and are sick and freaking tired of Petty King Murchad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big enough that I lose interest or notice the padding.

  A lot of it boils down to execution. The more urban areas of a Sleeping Dogs or the TW3 map with the Bloody Baron (not the viking map) feel geuinely massive enough though both are on the smaller end. Whereas something like GTA5’s San Andreas actively pissed me off because so much of the game was just driving to and from set pieces on the interstate.

  That said: I actively don’t care about completion unless I really love the game. So if something was 40000km^2… I might never leave the two square kilomters the actual game takes place in and not care about the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free content for LoTRO with a coupon for 3rd of November (redeemable in-game with code EXPLOREOURWORLD)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you actually look at the MMO/MMO-adjacent landscape… most of the ones that are still alive are over a decade old with some legally allowed to drink.

  • Runescape: 2001
  • WoW: 2004
  • LOTRO: 2007
  • Star Wars TOR: 2011
  • Guild Wars 2: 2012
  • Old School Runescape: 2013
  • Elder Scrolls Online (about that…): 2014

  And a lot of that has to do with people increasingly using MMOs as “comfort games” which… work best for the oldies. And most of the money going into game dev focused more on annual games and then live service games where you still spend about the same amount of money per year but feel better because it isn’t a monthly subscription.

  So most of the newer MMO-ass MMOs are either doomed from the start for being overly niche or take a more Korean/Gacha oriented balance and monetization scheme where… they are competing against the juggernauts that are also closer to a decade old than not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaotic Evil⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For all USB 1.0 (assuming color is being used correctly) that is of more questionable use.

  But, generally, stuff like this is actually ridiculously useful. If you are just dealing with a tower on the table next to you? Yeah, that is stupid.

  If you are dealing with supporting an office (or facility) full of computers that are all mounted under desks or smushed between the desk and wall and waiting for someone to sit down too aggressively? Stuff like this is ridiculously useful because you can feel out what port you plug what device into AND have the orientation to make sure you do put the thumb drive full of offline updates into the blue or red port and don’t waste 3.0 on a mouse and so forth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t used bazzite, but there is an App Store you can get all of the apps anyone would need.

  Its one of the quirks of a lot of the atomic distros. Because they are specifically built around the idea of having a specific set of packages at a specific range of versions for every rev of the distro itself… adding more packages is kind of a clusterfuck.

  For flatpaks (and I think appimages too?), it is seamless. For anything else you are googling the commands to add packages as “layers” and so forth

  And, to be fair to Bazzite (which I use for my HTPC and love it on there), I have had zero issues with actual gaming. Steam out of the box and Heroic is one flatpak away. But holy shit was adding iperf3 to test some network infrastructure tweaks a Thing.

  Its why I personally recommend to friends to just raw dog Fedora rather than use one of the atomic distros. Atomic distros make a lot of sense for deployed machines but for anything someone is going to use as “their” computer? Just learn to not type sudo before every command you run… and maybe get a jetkvm so your tech savvy friend can fix your computer after an nvidia driver update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bazzite is great, but it still has the failure(maybe it’s not failure to you and me, but the average gamer) is that most stuff isn’t just, download .exe, run that .exe there are loops and frameworks that need to be installed through command line

  Strong disagree on “most”

  For the vast majority of users? Everything they need is in Steam and MAYBE Heroic, which is the same as on Windows.

  In terms of non-gaming? I… have very strong Thoughts on atomic distros and the hoops Bazzite et al make you jump through with regard to layering and the like, but they are in Discover and the like. So “app store” experience.

  I personally don’t think Bazzite is a good desktop OS (but I love it for my HTPC). But any of the user friendly distros (e.g. Fedora, Mint, and Ubuntu) should be almost zero command line usage unless you have a reason to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UnReal World] has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Up until the big UI/UX update a few years back, the vast majority of people had never heard about Dwarf Fortress outside of the sickos and the people who remember when LPs were forum/blog posts.

  Unreal World has been in that same category where the people who play it love it and the rest vaguely recall their favorite youtubers maybe trying it out once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behind Escape from Duckov's unlikely rise to the top of the Steam charts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… that is a pretty shit article?

  Describing Bilibili as “a social media company” is like describing Google as “a search engine” or Microsoft as “the people what make the calculator app”.

  Duckov seems solid from what I have seen. It also has the full might of Chinese Youtube behind it and has been doing sponsorships with basically any influencer who will take the money. Its as simple as that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong that I want one?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I very much align with the WKUK gag of “comedy is tragedy remembered”

  But the key is: it is YOUR tragedy. Not someone else’s. Hence, know your audience.