EldritchFeminity
@EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 days ago:
Yep, and that’s one advantage Lemmy has over other social media. Don’t like the way an instance is handled? Make an account somewhere else and you most likely won’t even lose the content from that instance.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 days ago:
Exactly. If it bothered me enough to care, I could easily just set up on another instance, or even have multiple accounts on different instances. That’s one advantage Lemmy has over other social media platforms.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 days ago:
There’s a post explaining it somewhere, but IIRC, the reasoning is that due to the population and purpose of creating the instance in the first place, it’s to help protect people from brigading and the like.
Personally, it’s the only thing I don’t like about having an account here. The idea behind the choice is solid, but it does make it difficult to actually know what people think of a comment or post.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.
Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
One of the original goals for KSP2 was the use of a new engine to get rid of the technical debt from the first game that caused issues like the Kraken…but then the publisher forced them to use the KSP engine because “it would speed up development.”
It was doomed from the beginning.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 weeks ago:
And I and the other guy just said that you misunderstood the original comment. You’re the one who doubled down after the first guy.
Me making a sarcastic comment because you doubled down on the first guy by just posting a quote of the original comment isn’t white knighting. It’s just a conversation. If that’s white knighting, then 95% of all internet communication is some form of white knighting. And I can think of much better words to describe the YouTube comments section (and I bet you can, too).
Anyways, hope your Monday wasn’t as hot, humid, and disappointing as mine and I think everybody in this thread can agree that Larian isn’t Ubisoft or Activision, the world is a better place because of that, and the “live service industry” can go suck a big one and keep shaking in their boots.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 weeks ago:
Totally agree but the person they’re responding to implied they were some scrappy indie production. Ex33 (there are caveats/asterisks here but still) is a much better example. I think at its peak the whole team was like 40 people with hired hands.
Jesus you white knights need to calm down and let them respond for themselves.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 weeks ago:
Show me on the doll where that comment said Larian is an indie developer. Saying that they lack corporate interference does not equal claiming that they’re an indie team.
There’s this neat thing between indie devs and AAA corporate studios called AA. Big enough to fund larger projects than indie devs while being small enough to usually still be private companies that aren’t beholden to investors and therefore can take larger risks than the AAA devs are allowed, letting them make the games that they would want to play. CD Projekt RED and FromSoft both fit into this category as well, though all 3 companies are getting big enough to potentially start being considered AAA studios.
- Comment on PSA for those in America 3 weeks ago:
I live in a vacation town where fireworks are illegal and I can hear them basically every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
- Comment on School legend 3 weeks ago:
Yep, and I’d add family to the list. A lot of this stuff comes from how parents act around their friends as well, both in public and private.
It’s the original definition of memes: information passed on outside of genetics.
- Comment on School legend 3 weeks ago:
While this is an old saying, misogyny and disrespect like this are learned behaviors, not naturally occurring.
This kid is, what, 12? And he’s publicly talking on social media about how he thinks he’s got the charm to get in his teacher’s pants. Call it what it is: this kid has been groomed by “influencers.”
- Comment on School legend 3 weeks ago:
This is what happens when you try to sanitize the internet for
advertiserschildren. - Comment on RIP America 3 weeks ago:
First past the post is also forever broken as it inevitably leads to a two-party system.
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 4 weeks ago:
The US used to be a lot like this too. Food service workers smoking cigarettes while they carve meat and then throwing the butts in the drain. Smoking sections in restaurants being most of the restaurant while the non-smoking section was a corner of the restaurant where they just sat you between all the smokers like the smoke was gonna hit an invisible barrier. Everybody was smoking all the time. My grandma once served my grandfather his breakfast in an ash tray because she was so sick of him putting out his ciagrettes on the plates.
It wasn’t until around the 2000s that things really shifted in the US, and now the thought of a smoking vs non-smoking section of anything other than a little room at the airport where the smokers all squash into to smoke is unheard of.
- Comment on :-) 5 weeks ago:
I believe it’s a hormone thing because otherwise nobody would have a second kid. Apparently the hormones kick in and make you forget the pain while also giving you a big hit of dopamine so that you connect having a kid to being happy.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 5 weeks ago:
I would disagree with this sentiment on a basic game design level. I don’t know about the Zelda games, I didn’t care enough about BotW to play more than a few hours, but designing a large map that incorporates multiple biomes in a believable way is much more difficult than creating a bunch of smaller levels that don’t have to have any relation to each other in the slightest. You can get away with a lot more in terms of map geometry and set pieces when you load into each level individually.
This is obviously different when you’re talking about Bethesda-style load into every building style environments vs Elden Ring “You see that castle in the distance? You’ll be going in there eventually” design, but the fact that Bethesda makes their interiors separate from the rest of the world is how they cheap out on their games. It’s less hardware intensive and you can cheat a lot more in your design. And on a gameplay level that goes for Ubisoft-style collectathon map objects (and Zelda shrines in this case), but that’s not unique to open-world games - it’s a lazy cop-out that game devs have used forever to pad out their games. Collecting all the secret skulls in Halo is the same thing, but because it’s implemented well and doesn’t drag on forever with no reward like most open-world collectibles, it feels totally different.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
It can in the sense that many forms of generating power are just some form of water or steam turbine, but that’s neither here nor there.
IMO, the graph is misleading anyway because the criticism of AI from that perspective was the data centers and companies using water for cooling and energy, not individuals using water on an individual prompt. I mean, Microsoft has entered a deal with a power company to restart one of the nuclear reactors on Three Mile Island in order to compensate for the expected cost in energy of their AI. Using their service is bad because it incentivizes their use of so much energy/resources.
It’s like how during COVID the world massively reduced the individual usage of cars for a year and emissions barely budged. Because a single one of the largest freight ships puts out more emissions than every personal car combined annually.
- Comment on Unconditional support 2 months ago:
Got you pushing too many pencils, Dillon!
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
Also, resistance to air pollution isn’t as crucial as it once was due to better emissions technologies.
Tell that to the recently defunded EPA…
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
They have very long necks. The rest of it is still standing in the lobby, where a nice old lady with poor eyesight is telling one of its legs about her grandson.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 months ago:
This is like the defining case of “just because it’s legal doesn’t make it okay.” An 18 year old and a 16 year old is one thing. It’s very different when it’s a 30-something year old and a 16 year old. That’s like a high school senior trying to get with a 12 year old.
There’s a massive power imbalance in a relationship like that where the 30-something has basically total control. Even a 30-something with a college kid has issues imo, let alone a kid who’s a sophomore or junior in high school. That’s some Quamire from Family Guy shit. “I love high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age.”
Half your age plus seven is the rule of thumb that I’ve heard. At 18, that means the lowest you should be dating is 16. At 32, it’s 23. Etc.
Also, echo chambers are good, actually, and you can’t change my mind. Life isn’t supposed to be a constant argument, and the criticism of surrounding yourself with people who generally agree with you is a tactic that’s been used to prevent people from simply cutting toxicity out on social media platforms.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 2 months ago:
“Mr. President, why do you hate Cahtolics?”
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 months ago:
Not quite accurate. If you leave an instance, you do lose any posts or comments you had. Not a big loss, but there is that sense of investment in an account and reputation.
- Comment on i get most of my news something like that 3 months ago:
Same as it ever was.
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 months ago:
Tear out the lawn and re-wild the yard? Wild flowers, clover, etc. Less watering and mowing, and not just bees will love it - all kinds of insects and wildlife from birds to deer.
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 months ago:
All those darn African killer bees! Stealing all the jobs!
- Comment on the virus will spread 3 months ago:
That doesn’t look like Texas…
- Comment on Which game is it? 4 months ago:
There’s been enough that “Do you play War Thunder” is a security risk question that the US military asks during job interviews.
And they just keep happening…
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 4 months ago:
I mean, have you seen what we wear in the US? American flags are on basically every house and half of the shirts, hats, and pants.
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 4 months ago:
I’ve been going through the pictures on my phone recently and found the perfect one from COVID:
The cars make it more realistic, anyway.
