Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on All Work and No Play (how video games imitate labor) 5 days ago:
No, that’s not a short read for what amounts to “work conditions bad, art imitates life.” What they said could have been said with a lot less.
Perhaps I just don’t like their writing style, but it reads more like a high school book report to me than a succinct article.
- Comment on All Work and No Play (how video games imitate labor) 5 days ago:
What the heck is that article? It’s a glorified book report, and it just rambles on and on, presenting points from a book the article author presumably read. Why would I read the article author’s (very lengthy) opinions about a book, when I can just read the original source?
No wonder it’s so long, since he’s just summarizing the points from the book. This article needed an editor.
- Comment on I Spent 1 YEAR Remaking Super Mario World In 3D! by Bobby Ivar (YouTube: 18:25 min) [Jan 30, 2025] 6 days ago:
Honestly if he tried to publish it as is with Nintendo assets, he’d get sued into oblivion. Hopefully, he either puts up the basic framework sans the assets or perhaps it gets “stolen by hackers and put up as a torrent.”
- Comment on CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software. 1 week ago:
Malicious cyber actors
That’s a weird way to spell DOGE employees, but whatever.
(It’s just a blurb about a report they release annually, not some new threat as the article title implies.)
- Comment on Tuttle Capital files for ‘alien tech’ ETF 1 week ago:
How to lose a lot of money, a case study.
- Comment on Help me remember this game [big mechs, small perspective] 2 weeks ago:
And the Game Grumps did a playthrough of it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This. Name your kid something normal, where they don’t have to sigh in exasperation every time a teacher can’t pronounce it or feel victimized every time a kid uses it as bullying fodder. It’s their name they have to live with for at least 18 years, not a name for a cool sword.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd 2 weeks ago:
Still going as of last night, but I’m waiting until after the current season ends in four days to see where things are.
I wouldn’t mind spending a little to support a game I like, especially since the rework seems like a pretty good direction to go, but not if the company that bought them is just gonna shut everything down and possibly pocket any recent sales.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd 2 weeks ago:
I picked Dauntless back up, though that might be short lived.
Still, it’s been fun and familiar, though they completely reworked the weapon and armor system back in December, so I’m having to relearn good builds.
- Comment on Dell is making everyone return to office, too 3 weeks ago:
I hate how much this resembles current US business culture.
- Comment on Dell is making everyone return to office, too 3 weeks ago:
Or hire people who are willing to work for less in the office, under the thumb of a micromanager
- Comment on Dell is making everyone return to office, too 3 weeks ago:
I hadn’t considered that. My company, though large, is private and doesn’t have to appease shareholders, so they still see value in keeping skilled employees.
- Comment on Dell is making everyone return to office, too 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get this at all. I understand that some people like working in the office, but remote work improves the mental health of a lot of people, and it seems like you’d want to keep workers rather than exercise dominion over them.
But what do I know? I only watched dozens of people with decades of experience leave for remote work after my own company tried to force everyone back (only to walk it back and go to hybrid work).
- Comment on (They're not allowed to legally anymore) 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, and like I said, it’s not impossible.
At the cynical end, there’s still business owners that recognize that having a slew of sick employees is bad for their bottom line, so even if the federal government does nothing, various businesses alongside the humanitarian groups will flex whatever influence they have to ensure governors, etc. do what needs to be done.
- Comment on (They're not allowed to legally anymore) 3 weeks ago:
This is true, but it’s worth recognizing that a lot of the states, nonprofits, and local agencies rely on government studies and reports to make their own assessments.
With the government staying silent, it’s going to be more difficult to get a sense of what’s happening and what to do as a result. Not impossible, but the infrastructure isn’t necessarily in place, because nobody prepared for the federal government to be this adversarial to public health and safety.
- Comment on Some k pop singer is singing a song at the end of my local news broadcast. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on New Metroidvania Ender Magnolia is currently rated 89 on Metacritic 4 weeks ago:
Looks pretty cool. I hadn’t heard of this series before, but I’ll have to take a look!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I have never smelled it, and now I want to experience it for myself! Thanks for the history lesson
- Comment on Marvel game, developed with the Chinese firm NetEase, ‘bans’ the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ 5 weeks ago:
Oh sure. I’m still gonna make fun of them for it.
- Comment on Marvel game, developed with the Chinese firm NetEase, ‘bans’ the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ 5 weeks ago:
The game is one of the most popular on the market and is No 5 in the charts on Steam, the gaming platform.
Ah, yes. Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking Steam, the third state of water, and I was confused how people were playing videogames on that. /s
- Comment on No shitpost, just posting the best soda in America 5 weeks ago:
Late to the party, but yes. In fact, you can buy brewing kits with yeast and sugar to create the carbonation, which are the same components you’d use to brew and ferment beer.
No idea what the alcohol content would be, but it would be more than typical soda.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th 5 weeks ago:
I just started Deathloop over the weekend.
The VA work is amazing, and it controls a lot like Dishonored, but there’s less emphasis on stealth and more on playing how you want. I’ve been able to blend stealth and regular gunplay, and it still feels nice and balanced. The AI seems to have much more awareness and combat ability, so picking how and where to pick people off or start a gunfight is fun!
And since the game is based around time travel, choosing not to kill some people might open up future paths. It’s great!
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 1 month ago:
It would only be more obvious if they used sock puppets, controlled by the CEO as he tries to use different voices for each one.
One of the bots even copy-pasted the CEO’s words as if they were their own.
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 1 month ago:
Big “you can’t quit, because you’re fired” energy.
I’m sure people will be lining up to work for you, now!
- Comment on The Extreme Disconnect between Game Journalists, Developers, and their Audience 1 month ago:
My instance doesn’t show any of that, and neither does my app. So if anyone has that info automatically, it’s because their instance admin or app dev did that for their specific case.
- Comment on Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda 1 month ago:
I have the first two games, but I’ve never played them. I’ve done 3 and 76 (the latter of which I hear borrows heavily from 4).
Are the first two better narrative-wise?
- Comment on Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda 1 month ago:
Yeah, and it’s not that I think Fallout is bad, it’s just…I think it feels too cartoonish? Like, people are supposed to be struggling, but despite the post-apocalyptic setting, each faction has their own little kingdom and seems to be doing alright. Medicine and stim packs abound, and nobody is really living on the knife’s edge.
And while that’s at least partly by design (supposed to be satirical sometimes), it doesn’t feel completely satirical, like Saints Row, or completely serious, like the Metro series. It’s caught somewhere in the middle, and I think that’s what doesn’t appeal to me; I want it to be silly or not silly, and it rides that line in a way I don’t like.
- Comment on Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda 2 months ago:
I don’t hate it, I just got bored. I felt similarly after Fallout 3. I think that universe just isn’t for me (also, the weight limits are ass for free players). I played the Metro series before Fallout, and I think it kinda set the bar too high.
I’m not surprised people still play, though. It’s pretty fun, and people are generally nice. There’s lots to do, and the quests are decent.
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 2 months ago:
Ours tried full RTO, and then they compromised with hybrid WFH when they lost many skilled people who had been there for 10+ years to remote positions at other companies. Sometimes with little to no warning.
Some execs gotta learn the hard way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
When I worked at the state University, we had lists to check that stuff. Sometimes it’s obvious, other times, not so much. Good catch!
