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- Comment on Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out. 10 minutes ago:
The victim’s insurance would gladly say that she is at fault for making the police do this, and the police would back her up. On paper to them, it would be no different than if she had gone on a high speed chase and the cops had to ram her to get her to stop. They will not be paying a dime.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 day ago:
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 day ago:
I haven’t followed the development communication much, but yes, screen sharing works now. It wasn’t working on wayland like 8mo ago, but I tried again a month ago and it’s now working.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 day ago:
I haven’t tried mumble yet.
You pay for the hosting resources yes, but you can host it anywhere. I’ve been playing around with it using a docker instance in my homelab.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 days ago:
Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 5 days ago:
Because HBO has a good track record for fantasy shows?
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 1 week ago:
Yeah, I am interested in understanding your world view, and am trying to ask direct questions about it so I can understand it better (such as how you arrived at your definition of escapism), but if that’s not something that interests you, and you’d rather stoop to ad hominem jabs (like telling me to touch grass/look at trees), then we can call it here. Your call.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 1 week ago:
Escapism: Using any method to interpret reality instead of directly facing said reality.
Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone attempt to define escapism like that. Where are you getting this definition?
Or from the other side, what word would you use to mean,
habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine
Hopefully you agree that “purely imaginative activity or entertainment” is distinct from “any method to interpret reality”.
If you’re looking at a picture of a tree and using your imagination to marry it to the real thing, that is escapism.
What if I told you that looking at a real tree is an act of using your imagination to marry it to reality? Consider that humans looked at the moon and stars every day for centuries before we understood what they were in reality. Some people still do to this today.
Regardless of whether you’re considering something in front of you or a concept in abstract, if you’re attempting to grapple with the nature of reality, you are most certainly not engaging in escapism.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 1 week ago:
Yes, almost certainly. A gaming device is a gaming device, what matters is how many users you have.
If we’re concerned about distinguishing between platform, then steam is statistically insignificant on the vast majority of platforms people game on.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 1 week ago:
This feels like you’re doing the “qualityslop” troll lol.
I think you could make art that is escapist in theme, but by definition escapism is any effort you make to “escape” your reality, or the reality of the human condition. In contrast, the value of art is that it gives us a way to communicate about our reality and/or the human condition using a language that lives past literal interpretation.
Art doesn’t help us to escape our reality, it specifically embraces it and helps us understand and communicate about it. Art is the opposite of escapism.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 1 week ago:
What if I told you that the MAU count for Fortnite alone is more than half of the total MAU count for all of steam?
Even if the only game on epic was Fortnite, that doesn’t qualify as “statistically insignificant” no matter how you look at it.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 1 week ago:
Due to its nature, I’m not going to be able to explain art to you. Cheers.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 1 week ago:
escapism requirent that is so essential to enjoying a video game.
Again, this is simply not true. It may be true for you, but does not universally apply to the entire art form.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 1 week ago:
First off, not all video games are escapism, just like not all film is camp. The genre of science fiction is only as good as the philosophical thought problems and potential ethical dilemmas it poses.
Once you get past thinking of Christianity as a uniquely negative force in society, and instead see it as another fiction on the pile of stories humans have invented, it’s intellectually interesting to think about the political and psychological impact that all our various religions have had on the trajectory of our species, and could have as our technology advances.
Fantasy often depicts Inquisitors brutally persecuting sorcerers, which is historically accurate for Christianity 300-700 years ago. Why shouldn’t SciFi attempt to explore the evil we see in Christianity today, but set in the distant future?
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 2 weeks ago:
“Oh-blige him”
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, and that they have official modding support, but neither has stopped modding communities in the past.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 3 weeks ago:
Technically you could do this with any two games, it’s just a matter of how you map the representation of one game within the other. And afaik, every important mechanic in mc was done elsewhere first, mc just put it all together in one sandbox.
The only grounds msft has to sue on would be assets and likenesses, which hytale doesn’t (shouldn’t) use any of.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
That’s an insane claim to me. HL2 set the bar for worldbuilding. From the guy muttering “don’t drink the water” in the train station, to the people and vortigaunts building homes in the sewers, to the stick legged stalkers waddling around the citadel, HL2 took “show don’t tell” to heart. It was the most immersive experience anyone had played in video game up to that point, or for years after.
I’ll grant you that other games have learned a lot from it, but I would say the vast majority haven’t. Games still come out today where everything needs to be spoonfed to the player literally, for them to stop and process what they’re looking at, rather than just running and gunning.
When you say HL2 can be boring and nonsensical if played today, the first thing that comes to mind are all the people who turn subtitles on, and then for 75% of the runtime their eyes are in the bottom 1/3 of the screen, not taking in any of the visual information the filmmaker is putting in front of you. Like, yeah, HL2 is quite boring when you’re not looking at it.
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 4 weeks ago:
What does “laid off” mean if you interpret it literally? Have you ever even thought about it? At least you understand how the the term “redundancy” came about. But what if the words we use to convey concepts are just the words we use to convey concepts, and not an act of malice or compliance?
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 4 weeks ago:
Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 5 weeks ago:
Where are you getting the term “visual capitalist”? And why did you learn about this phenomenon today? Misinformation has been rampant for over a decade now.
- Comment on I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here's what I've learned. 1 month ago:
It’s an appeal to non fediverse netizens to use the fediverse. He lists the usual pros: the services are designed to interact with each other, there’s no algorithm, it feels more old internet.
- Comment on The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less 1 month ago:
That just means it’ll be an officially supported conversion.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Welcome to the internet. No one knows each other, no one considers context, no one reads past the headline, everyone makes snap judgements based on half understood heuristics, and then rushes to the comments to grandstand. A job that could be trivially done by AI, and almost certainly is, but instead we’ll all pretend like we’re the last bastion of human sanity.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 1 month ago:
The ability to fork is core to the FOSS movement, and I certainly don’t trust any govt to decide how all browsers should be made. I don’t consider FOSS or competition to be a workaround, I consider that to be the best possible solution to this problem.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 month ago:
No one 👏👏 is 👏👏 excusing 👏👏 being 👏👏 shitty.
The “cat” does not refer to unethical training of models. Tell me, if we somehow managed to delete every single unethically trained model in existence AND miraculously prevent another one from being ever made (ignoring the part where the AI bubble pops) what would happen? Do you think everyone would go “welp, no more AI I guess.” NO! People would immediately get to work making an “ethically trained” model (according to some regulatory definition of “ethical”), and by “people” I don’t mean just anyone, I mean the people who can afford to gather or license the most exclusive training data: the wealthy.
“Cat’s out of the bag” means the knowledge of what’s possible is out there and everyone knows it. The only thing you could gain by trying to put it “back in the bag” is to help the ultra wealthy capitalize on it.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 1 month ago:
Maybe check out:
- Dorf Romantik
- Tiny Glade
- one of the house flipper or power wash sim games
- if I were sick, I’d probably play some RimWorld, or whatever open world RPG I have going, but those are probably more involved than it sounds like you’re in the mood for.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 2 months ago:
Assuming the content is merely controversial and not objectionable (i.e. exploitative), it seems there may be room for an art-centric game store front.
Ironically, I’m betting it’s nowhere near as exploitative as the monetization practices of virtually every AAA release these days.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 months ago:
I’m generally not interested in playing a game in any way other than how the dev(s) intended. Ex. for a souls like, I don’t get any enjoyment using mods to access content I’m otherwise unable to on my own. Using cheats to unlock all guns in GTA, or to get infinite rare candies in pokemon, or to time travel in Animal Crossing is fun for all of about 5 minutes, at which point I feel like I’ve deconstructed the fun out of the game.
My unique experience with a game is defined both by what I do and what I don’t experience. If I use cheats to ensure I experience everything, then IMO I’ve effectively dashed anything unique about my experience with the game.
That said, there are games that I feel I’ve experienced all there is that the dev intended, and now I can use it as a platform for my own creation through mods or custom game modes. Those are generally few and far between though. Something like Minecraft, primarily because it works great as a platform for multiplayer interaction.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 months ago:
I think those were mind blowing when I first played hl2, just because real time physics and destruction was novel, but now I think they grind the pacing to a halt. I think they just don’t work in an action shooter IMO.