umbraroze

@umbraroze@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Grumpy fans: “Halo has nowhere to go but up.”

  Microsoft: “Guys guys guys, I have an idea. We need to go sideways.”

  Grumpy fans: “Let me say this one more time, Microsoft: What the hell are you guys doing?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DSP is a bit of a one joke YouTuber. Yeah, we get it, he’s terrible at games, any sensible person can just continue on with their lives. I have no idea why people watch him, let alone donate to him.

  I only hear about him randomly when an odd compilation pops up in the recommendations. I think he recently played Dark Souls 2 and it was a total shitshow from the looks of it? People kept invading him and he just alt+F4d every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who among us can truly know what numbers lie in the hearts of AAA publisher executives? Mark my words, mere consumers can’t even begin to guess the immense scale of these numbers. They are numbers of cosmic magnitude we do not comprehend. Verily, even the executives in question have even vaguest idea of what they are actually asking for, unaware of the true import of their demands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe they posted a Tetris clone to begin with.

  Tetris is a game where the perfection is taken away from you. You will only be left with your mistakes, mistakes that haunt you and which keep piling up when pressure increases and it just keeps happening until you lose. You are left with an imperfect wall.

  Also it’s a game from Russia.

  So, definitely a metaphor for the Trump administration and the border wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Things have changed significantly since Super Mario Bros. was released. For example, vast majority of video games released these days feature no senseless violence toward turtles. Many even portray turtles in factual, chilly way! 🐢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the DVD I have, there’s this hilarious behind the scenes clip where the T-Rex animatronic starts twitching and jerking when exposed to the artificial rain, Steven Spielberg watches stuff unfold with his jaw on the ground, and the folks try to dry the animatronic up with towels (as seen here).

  Can’t get this shit on streaming services, tell ya what!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elons not a gamer.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Game that was literally named after a crime involves doing crimes? I’m sure this came as a surprise to Elon, but I must say that I’m a seasoned video game enthusiast, so this wasn’t surprising to me at all.

  (Also I never got too far into GTA5. Decided to instead go back to Saints Row. GTAs pretend to be super serious games while still being satirical at the core. Saints Row was basically ramping up wackiness constantly and being unapologetic about it.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use #.

  It was just an obscure character, toiling in the sidelines. Then Twitter happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim.

  Oh yeah, the world is going to fear my stealth archery powers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never Gonna Give You Up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my 40s, and last time when I was at McD I saw some 20-somethings sitting at their table, looking at the liner notes of an AC/DC CD they had no doubt grabbed from the second hand store one block over.

  I almost went over to say “oh wow, am I ever happy to see you kids enjoy classical music, eh?” but I didn’t, because this is Finland and talking to random people at McD is considered weird, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen a PS2, never had one. I’ve also seen an IBM PS/2.

  (I have a PS1 somewhere, too. And the first computer I ran Linux on was an IBM PS/1.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going Back ↪️🏨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  During the Plague, I had plenty of experience with both meal delivery apps (finding weird new ways how befuddled immigrants get scammed) and app scoots (it’s like public transport, but more unreliable and more expensive).

  Don’t do app shit under normal circumstances, being the main lesson here. It’s going to be full of weird fucking shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stereotypes.

  Americans are incredibly obsessed about which European countries their distant ancestors came from, even if they basically know nothing about these countries or how they are today.

  Meanwhile, in Europe, friendly neighbour ribbing is alive and well. Everyone slings mud over the border, and it’s fine, usually, they’ll do the same to us, you see.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s the neat part, they do, so I rarely need to test them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a legit use for Edge: if I have to test out how a website looks on Chromium, I don’t need to install Chrome, yay.

  For everything else, there’s Firefox though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The War

  Yes, The War is making us all very anxious and we hear nothing but horrible news about it all day long. Please stop The War. That’s the only way we can ever be happy again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitch McConnel's Wikipedia page has been heavily edited the last few days, with the last ones being 4 hours ago. So around 1PM EST. What could that mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He never was. He’s a bad turtle. A disgrace to turtles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (Insert that thing from The Simpsons)

  No, the most hated US president so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spot on⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the locations of the buildings are a simple result of this having been made with genAI.

  That, or the fact that it’s a political cartoon, and nobody expects political cartoonists to do meticulous, impeccable research what comes to the appearance of people or buildings or geography or whatnot.

  If they were required to do that, Ben Garrison would have been smoked out out of job decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨look⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Starts the umpteenth playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins]

  …It’s called Sword Therapy, you dumbasses, you wouldn’t get it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know examples of mistranslations of in-game dialog from cutscenes via subtitles whilst playing in another language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My memory is hazy, but I think the original PC release of FF7 fixed a bunch of translation bungles. I played that version first and was surprised how many errors were found in the PlayStation version.

  I can’t remember if they fixed that particular mistake though. Or if the newer PC releases incorporate any of those fixes, haven’t played much of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an Xbox fangirl (a resentingly disappointed one, of course), and the recent industry shenanigans made me get apprehensive about whatever is going to come out next from Microsoft’s direction. They could turn the direction around. Not sure if they can.

  I liked Nintendo Switch, but Switch 2 was pretty much “yeah, I’ll probably get a Steam Deck at some point, sorry”.

  This PlayStation stuff basically switched my opinion of them from “Nnno” to “Oh hell no”.

  I will be back to PC gaming! And will be building a new PC once the industry quits being stupid for a moment. Until then, my 2020 laptop will have to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Library Apps are GOATed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I visit the library often.

  Not that I check out many books, but I love the fact that the local main library is a giant big concrete building with air conditioning and nice quiet desks with power strips for laptops. Immense productivity.

  The library was closed for renovations last summer and the heat waves really put a huge dent on my work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play mostly shooters online.

  Somehow, living next to a country which is invading one of its neighbours, and seeing a bunch of actual real war footage from real wars on the daily basis, made me reconsider if shooters actually qualify as “fun” these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where does your bus line bring you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finnair used to have flight AY666 from Amsterdam straight to Helsinki (HEL) but only every Friday the 13th.

  They do still have flights from Singapore (SIN) to HEL. But that’s just normal. Don’t worry about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨humans in space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Witches and mysticists say “as above, so below”.

  So, according to this pic, in practical reality, it’s actually “as in tiny, so in big”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Artemis II astronauts going around the Moon: “I have two Outlooks, neither of which works”

  Astronauts during the first Mars mission: “I previously had two Teams versions, neither of which worked, and now there’s apparently a third one, and it doesn’t work either”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yay, sponsored emojis!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dammmmn, that’s an ugly ball. Let’s call it the Curseball Games insted.

  (Fun thing: The football you usually see in emojis is also based on an official World Cup ball, but at least that one’s a classic for a reason. Looks distinctive. Looks cool. Can’t say the same for most of the recent ones, it’s all a blur to me!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve had to say “Microsoft, guys, you’re sitting on a giant pile of amazing IPs and you have so many glorious studios. You’re sitting on a goldmine, folks. So why are you all so bad at this?”