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- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 3 days ago:
What if it was as the name of a large dump next to Ireland tho
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 3 days ago:
You missed England 2.0
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 1 week ago:
Agreed, I guess I meant it potentially had a great interface that was progressively enshittified… but if it hadn’t… it would have been nice.
That was a different timeline, if such a one where microsoft doesn’t enshittify xbox exists.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 1 week ago:
It particularly enrages me since the xbox 360 had a wonderful interface in my opinion.
- Comment on Black Holes 1 week ago:
Idk, I don’t think most scifi pushes the envelope of what we can imagine, rather it provides a convenient escape to galaxies less incomprehensible than the bewilderment of earth where the author can make a point about spacewar and unstoppable mindless empires.
shrugs
Scifi (like any other genre) needs to continually reaffirm its association with creativity, not assume because paper thin character types are fighting spacewars that it counts as pushing the envelope of our imaginations.
/end side rant
- Comment on Expert here. 1 week ago:
as in Nibbles Woodaway?
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 1 week ago:
The avalanche will only grow
- Comment on Expert here. 1 week ago:
Just another example of entomologists withholding crucial information about the bug kingdom from us, who do they work for anyways? The humans or the bugs?
What if there are EVEN bigger bugs out there entomologists just conveniently haven’t told us about yet…?
Think TREEbug not Stickbug.
The end is near and it is segmented into three main body sections!!
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 week ago:
During the Mexican-American War the US secretly bribed Alaska to sneak up behind Mexico and eat Mexico in one big gulp.
Then the US put Alaska in a box to quarantine it because it started to get sick. This is what you see illustrated on many maps because it was historically a very important moment to US geography.
Eventually Alaska got too nauseous, threw Mexico back up and crawled back on top of Canada.
What a lot of people don’t realize though is what made Alaska so sick wasn’t Mexico, it was that Alaska mistook Texas for part of Mexico and took both Mexico and Texas in one bite, and it was only the extreme toxicity of Texas that made Alaska so queasy. Mexico was fine chilling inside Alaska. Alaskans and Mexicans had even taken to calling it “Mexicalaska”.
- Comment on Microsoft yanks the plug on Windows 11 SE, giving school and college IT techs a little over a year to find a suitable replacement 1 week ago:
You cannot trust Microsoft to consistently provide your organization a foundation to get things done on anymore.
- Comment on Blue-collar revenge: The things AI can't do are making a comeback 1 week ago:
Virtually all actually useful things are making a comeback?
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 1 week ago:
I will stop freaking out when naive techbro men stop the ecological mass murder and ecological discussion that they supposedly NEED to do to sustain their shitty knockoff of a religion/cult.
- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 1 week ago:
Not here
- Comment on Big tech sees AI investments begin to pay off 1 week ago:
How? This article claims Meta has proved you can make your stock price go up by talking about AI and offering large salaries, that only indicates something to me I already know, the stock market is willingly delusional about this. What is Meta actually
- Comment on Skip 1 week ago:
No, you are now renting “you” from the teleporter company that automatically copyrighted your body and genetics when you used it.
- Comment on At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race 1 week ago:
gotta sustain that bubble!
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- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 weeks ago:
There might be some truth to aspects of this, but overall yes I think this is leaning precisely into the kind of worship of the aesthetics of violence/guns that leads to things like the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the film set for the movie “Rust”.
www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/23/…/amp/
If you want to learn how to safely handle a firearm or other weapon and integrate that knowledge into the games you make, cool… and I mean I guess this is news? but it turns out integrating genuine outside knowledge of video game context into video games can be interesting. However you could have chosen literally any other hobby or niche body of knowledge to obsess about and bring into your video games and gotten a similar if not larger return in your investment of effort spent not directly practicing getting better at making video games.
By the logic being argued here about weapons, would be game developers should prioritize becoming experts at fishing wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy before guns because fishing mechanics are in an absurd amount of video games and no matter what type of game you make you can probably integrate a fishing minigame into it. Further, it is very rare that game developers actually try to create realistic fishing games even though there is evidently a lot of interest in fishing in a video game.
Also… Euro Truck Simulator 2 has sold 13 million copies… do we need to consider the fact that game developers should maybe get a commercial truck drivers license before developing games because of the indication of how clearly players desire realistic truck driving games?
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 2 weeks ago:
I think the difference between cats and dogs is mainly tens of thousands of additional years of co-operative evolution. Cats are amazing but dogs you can almost assume can understand your emotions and care, that comes from the absurd length of time dogs and humans have been friends, it is a relationship that far predates other domestication.
- Comment on Seriously cool car combat game FUMES has entered Early Access 2 weeks ago:
For a similar vibe but as roguelike zombie roadtrip survival game check out Endgame: Road To Salvation.
…steampowered.com/…/Endgame_Road_To_Salvation/
Also check out Chaos On Wheels, it has a mixed rating but I think it shows promise and the core gameplay is fun.
- Comment on i like this website 2 weeks ago:
The radar was described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (former director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km) away.[4][5] The radar will guide land-based missiles from Alaska and California, as well as in-theater assets, depending on the mission.
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also that center massive dome is according to canon technically floppy!
The vessel has many small radomes for various communications tasks and a large central dome that encloses a phased-array, 1,800 tonne (4,000,000 pound) X-band radar antenna. The small radomes are rigid, but the central dome is not - the flexible cover is supported by positive air pressure amounting to a few inches of water. The amount of air pressure is variable depending on weather conditions.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 2 weeks ago:
Overload is VERY good I highly recommend, not even for nostalgia it is just a great game period.
- Comment on Xonotic Vanilla Duel Cup | #xonotic.pickup Cups | MxCrab 2 weeks ago:
Yeah one of the reasons I like to post and comment about Xonotic is that I think it is a genuinely really underrated game.
Not only is it fascinating from the perspective of Quake/darkplaces engine development and community FPS game development history in general it is just a genuinely good game that addresses what I as a player who tried out Quake Live without any background in Quake found lacking about Quake… i.e. the weapons just aren’t that fun.
I love Quake 3 Arena style gameplay, and the weapons are obviously a deep part of the whole game coming together so beautifully in multiplayer but Xonotic just has so much more fun with its weapons. The rocketlauncher with its aimed shot ability, the crylink with its weird shotgun/reverse shotgun spread mechanic… Xonotic combines the fun of Unreal Tournament weapons with the almost spiritually locked in flow to Quake style movement shooters.
Also yes… watching the best players in the world at Xonotic are very intimidating to watch. Players like Kyle, Rainbow Shadow, Dodger etc. are so ruthlessly fast it is hard to comprehend but it is a blast to watch.
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- Comment on Resources 2 weeks ago:
The catastrophic aspect to cats is the absolutely incomprehensible amounts of birds stray and outdoor cats kill every year (outdoor cats don’t even eat most of their kills often).
I love cats, but cat owners must begin to find ways to let their beloved furry friends experience the outdoors that doesn’t lead to ecocide. Cat leashes, large screened enclosures on a porch, whatever works.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 weeks ago:
This is a local observance and an expression of your privilege. That trashed environment didn’t disappear or get rectified, the pollution and heavily polluting industries nec4ssary to support our lifestyles were offshored and exported to poor countries.
- Comment on Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, please prove that an AI didn’t write your insulting, vacuous blog about why you're laying off thousands during a time of huge profits 3 weeks ago:
I am done with Microsoft and Windows, I will spend the rest of my life advocating for undermining their business model and the adoption of their tools.
I don’t think Microsoft realizes how many people there are out there like me they assume are just going to forget and go back to Windows… we will not.
- Comment on Can you believe it? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but what if you are an off duty cop then it is ok I think.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Hey, it benefits me when more people play these awesome indie multiplayer games!
It pains me when people put up with insane amounts of nonsense when they just want a battlefield like experience, they don’t want lootcrates, popups that distract you when you open the game… skins… casinos… battlepasses…
If that is your jam, great, but it is alarming how little indie big map multiplayer vehicle shooters there are for the health of the genre as a whole, I have made long rants about how EA fucked over the genre by dropping mod support after Battlefield 2 ughhh.
Because of that I get a lot of joy sharing these games because I know most people like me until fairly recently hadn’t heard of some of these gems and they are the perfect anodyne to all the AAA enshittification nonsense happening in multiplayer competitive shooters.
Go play!
- Comment on Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer 3 weeks ago:
yawn
Play Operation Harsh Doorstop - free and moddable tactical shooter with big maps and vehicles, vanilla gameplay is fairly realistic but there are mods that totally change up the gameplay like Casualfield. This game has a dedicated group of youtube content creators who hate on this game… I don’t get it… because the gunplay is fantastic and the mechanics are an elegant evolution of Project Reality type squad spawns and player built basic infrastructure. Sniping is also a BLAST.
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Easy Red 2 - Really fantastic WW2 tactical shooter with big maps and LOTS of different period accurate vehicles. The general interest this game has in portraying WW2 beyond the tired and boring moments that are usually portrayed is very cool and the gameplay is ROCK solid.
store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Angels Fall First A superb Battlefront-like/Battlefield 2048 that is first person. This game is in early access and has a small playerbase but the core gameplay is polished, locked in and very very fun. Weapons feel great, vehicles are easy to jump in and start using but clearly have a lot of skill depth to them… Overall the menu and UI is FANTASTIC, at the deploy screen the game will prompt you if a vehicle is available to take and let you spawn directly into it, you can also see a cue of vehicles that are going to spawn for your team soon… Check it out! Even with the low playerbase it is a great bot bashing game, the AI is fun to play against and uses vehicles.
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Angels_Fall_First/
Also, for kicks and giggles I am gonna recommend Empires Mod an old source engine multiplayer RTS/FPS team based hybrid that is actually still in development which is super cool. By now the UI has lots and lots of quality of life additions and tooltips and the whole thing is very impressive even if the age of the source engine and various components going into the experience are obviously very dated, Empires Mod is legitimately still an awesome game and it deserves way more players! There is a discord you can check out to find out when games are happening.
