supersquirrel
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- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 days ago:
Yeah, it is a bit more fatiguing on your ears but not dangerously so, what is important is to listen to your body and don’t push it too long for too loud. Your ears need breaks! It is weird but true.
What I would say is if you are turning up music on headphones to drown out something loud, that is when you are much more likely to hurt your ears without realizing. Try to get noise cancelling headphones if you find yourself doing that.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 days ago:
Just play an indie game, these games will only enshittify more and more.
- Comment on 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting 3 days ago:
Me too!
- Comment on What is the most profitable industry in the world? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's scientific publishing. 4 days ago:
Elsevier is just a mafia model applied to academia, it is hardly a business in any meaningful sense of the word “business” where paid employees do actual work.
- Comment on Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity? 6 days ago:
What are the ideologies of
- Comment on Fourier 1 week ago:
This is derivative af
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- Comment on Pass 1 week ago:
You ever play “Rock, Lettuce, Liz Truss”?
- Comment on mercy merci 3 weeks ago:
*People of Earth, your attention, please. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.-
The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.
- Comment on Hybrid Air Vehicles lands first military deal for Airlander 10 - AGN 3 weeks ago:
These are actually not very suceptible to small arms fire, they don’t need a perfect seal to stay aloft, there are cases of observation blimps being used in the US war in Afghanistan that would be taken down and they would find them full of holes from gunfire (I mean, I get it, especially in that region your roof is your private space…).
The other thing is that they can fly quite high, they would occupy spaces that traditional aircraft wouldn’t be ideal for, definitely but that is why you shouldn’t compare this ridiculous monstrosity directly to other aircraft, it is a different thing.
It really is unlike any other aircraft ever built, it is continually strange to me that this wasn’t just a vaporwave idea that never made it past planning.
- Comment on If you want to be classy and impress people 3 weeks ago:
You mean wicketh?
- Comment on If you want to be classy and impress people 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t a dicketh the name for a ten point run in Cricket?
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
Bigger changes like vehicles and destruction would turn the game into something else entirely and even if they were only available in a side mode, I reckon Valve has numbers showing that not enough people would care enough to actually play it (like the Battle Royal mode, which I’m still salty they removed).
This all falls prey to the self fulfilling prophecy of only listening to your toxic competitive though.
Call Of Duty has a DIZZYING number of fun modes but it still has competitive Search & Destroy lobbies too, the only conflict here is in an actively hostile competitive scene treating any change even if it doesn’t effect the competitive modes as a threat to be dogpiled on.
Ignoring all the monetisation, which is basically a pipeline into gambling addiction for kids.
Also, I refuse to ignore this in any conversation about Counter Strike, it is fucked up.
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 weeks ago:
Me a failed intellectual
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- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
CS 2 is a free game, it is nearly a carbon copy of one of the first major popular competitive shooters and it has an intense amount of marketing around it for esports.
I think the game would have had to actively been sabotaged to not have a playerbase at this point.
Global Offensive was a paid game, Counter Strike 2 is a free game, I would obviously expect more people to play a free game than a paid one.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
shrugs this is the self-fulfilling prophecy of this kind of game design, there are WAY more players that would have been interested in that kind of thing but they left a long time ago because they were ignored in favor of the toxic competitive playerbase.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
Eeew they got rid of surfing/made it way slower?
I would be way more pissed about this if Xonotic didn’t exist, that was one of the few spontaneous aspects of CS that I found fun to explore.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
No, CS needs to evolve, the core competitive mode can stay the same but the game will continue to lose players if it doesn’t add other content, if it refuses to actually grow in anyway other than its predatory monetization schemes…
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
CS core is so solid that we could even play the same unchaged maps for another 20 years and would gradually play them differently year over year. i know this, because we did.
Yeah, good for you and the narrow things you want out of the game! That sounds soul-crushingly boring to me given all of the fun new FPS games that have come out over that period that have been way more rewarding, dynamic and interesting to experience.
I am not saying your experience is invalid, I am saying it is boring in most people’s opinion. Competitive focused players who enjoy playing the same thing over and over and over again don’t understand they aren’t the entire playerbase or that they also aren’t enough to really sustain a game either.
A good counterpoint to this is Team Fortress 2, Team Fortress 2 has competitive elements but it is also just a fun game, it has lots of fun different modes and lots of different content. There isn’t just the core competitive game and some casino crap strapped on, TF2 is so much more than that and frankly CS2 isn’t.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
You aren’t understanding my point, I specifically said I understand there being a competitive core that remains essentially unchanged.
What I am saying that is not nearly enough, it is lazy, you don’t have to change the core game to add more aspects to it, more modes and more content that compliments the competitive core.
cs itself evolved for a long time without any input by valve at all, the same way chess or modern soccer evolved without drastic changes.
Yeah and I played a bunch of chess when I was younger and got bored because it was the only good board game anyone would play with me. I stopped playing board games period for a decade or so and it took modern board games including modern abstracts to get me into board games again. Does that mean I saw absolutely everything there was to chess and that it needs to be updated now? No, but I am very much in the majority of people in feeling that chess is kind of boring after awhile, and if it was the only option to play with chess pieces and a chess board I just wouldn’t own a chess set which is why I don’t own a chess set…
I own Agricola, Concordia, Dominion, Spirit Island, Bonfire, 51st State and other complex modern strategy board games and enjoy them 1000x more than I ever would chess unless I was matched with someone precisely at my skill level.
Also… people do use soccer balls for all kinds of silly stuff? Soccer is surrounded by a vibrant culture of games, interaction and play, just because the core sport is a rigid form doesn’t mean the entirety of the scene is rigid like that…
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
I am not saying I don’t understand there being a core competitive game that is meant to stay relatively unchanged like a sport… but CS2 doesn’t have destructible environments, it doesn’t have vehicles, it doesn’t have any innovation at all other than being more like a slot machine than the last Counter Strike which was basically the same as the Counter Strike before it.
A game this big I expect to have a core competitive very minimal core that stays relatively unchanged yes, but I also expect a bunch of more fun and more varied and changing stuff surrounding it that most players actually engage in. No not skins and shit, it makes me want to vomit even looking up that stuff and how many results you get for how to “invest” in CS skins (eeeeewww wtf?) I mean actual different gameplay with novel experiences to sustain and compliment the competitive unchanging core….
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
Is Counter Strike ever going to innovate or just keep monetizing with empty fluff?
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
I wake up to the screaming of tiny dinosaurs
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 3 weeks ago:
Wrong question.
The right question is “What is the societal and economic value of a community space where the human element has been rendered functionally invisible?” to which the answer is of course “There is none”.
The problem isn’t with social media, the problem is with letting billionaires and corporations completely ruin social media and push rightwing beliefs while we pretend this isn’t an existential issue.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Inspirational 4 weeks ago:
If you need your arrows to land all at the same time so you can fool the enemy into thinking you are many archers fire like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
OP like just askin a question here
- Comment on Damaging report shows how Starmer chose Israel over British democratic rights 4 weeks ago:
ah yes, this week on “Who Can Be Shittier, The US Or UK?” we cover the Palestinian Genocide, as the show does seemingly every week.
