CrabAndBroom

@CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As an FYI, I’ve been having a blast with Tempest Rising, it’s not exactly like Red Alert but it’s definitely got that old school C&C vibe to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I come from originally is kind of a remote place, that relies on tourism. We already have a huge problem with everyone buying their second holiday homes there and pricing the locals out of buying homes (which is a big part of why I moved.) Anyway, during COVID, because it’s remote and sparsely populated, it had one of the lowest COVID rates in the country. As soon as the travel restrictions lifted, everyone descended on the place. There were mayors of towns on TV begging people not to come. But they came anyway, wrecked the place and left garbage everywhere, caused a huge COVID spike (in an area that has one hospital and a lot of elderly people), and when people complained about it we were told we should be grateful that the tourists are there spending money.

  Luckily my family that still lives there were okay (you get good at not being where the tourists are after a while) but still. It’s an area that’s perpetually underfunded and neglected, and when it was at it’s most vulnerable and just needed people to be just a tiny bit considerate for a moment, they trashed the place, used us as their disposable COVID bunker and then made fun of us for being unhappy about it, not to mention putting my family directly in harm’s way.

  The world seems to have largely moved on from that whole time now, but I will not forget this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boy Dinner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, I grew up around a farm so I’m not like a great chef, but I know how to put a meal together. One time I saw someone attempt to make onion soup by just boiling an onion in a pot.

  I have a theory that they only see cooking in video games, where you throw the ingredients into a cauldron or whatever and the meal comes out so they think that’s how it works lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also because people come together during major crises.

  Since COVID I no longer believe this. Where I live, people immediately started hoarding essentials, threw low-paid retail workers under the bus, refused to follow even the most basic precautions to keep others safe (and had full-blow childish meltdowns and screamed in the faces of anyone who tried to ask them to comply), overwhelmed the healthcare system unnecessarily, burned down cell phone towers etc. Just a complete orgy of idiotic fuckery right from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone I very tangentially knew (my friend’s wife’s friend) won something like $5 million on a lottery. They made a Facebook post that just said “I know you all know” and then deleted all their socials and was never heard from again lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a ps3 and a ps4 and was fully up for getting a ps5. Then it came out right around COVID time and I couldn’t get one anywhere because of scalpers. So I thought, “No worries, I’ll just wait a year or two and pick one up for cheap.” Then it just never got cheaper. Now it’s like a 5-6 year old machine that costs over $900 CAD so I just never bothered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Congress Earn Average American Wage.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, I suspect it’s just a law enforcement issue. By which I mean, what would happen to a nurse or a doctor who ignored triage and took personal bribes to ensure certain people receive help first, while leaving other people who need more urgent help to die? That’s what should be happening to politicians too IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- IBM, 1985⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure this is what you’re referring to, but in case anyone doesn’t know, what IMB was up to during World War 2 is an interesting read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fears The Hand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose if it’s the former it would be even safer, as you could somewhat plan to stay out of it’s way. Or like, if it’s over Europe and you’re in Africa, you know you’re 100% safe for the next little while.

  For the latter, maybe it exists in a dimension above our own. By which I mean… imagine if you were a 2D circle on a piece of paper, with a 3D hand pressing it’s finger on the piece of paper. When the hand lifts it’s finger off the paper, it effectively vanishes from your field of reference, then when it presses down somewhere else on the paper it looks like it magically came from nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fears The Hand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably the odds of getting squished by the hand is 1 in 8 billion-ish, if it’s properly random. The odds of winning the Powerball lottery is apparently 1 in 292 million, so it’s probably not something to really worry about lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I assume - like if your studio is going under anyway and MS is the only one to make an offer, you might be able to keep the place running for another year of so, give everyone a buffer and maybe finish whatever you were working on. I would figure it’s not a long-term strategy though, more just slowing the collapse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Take control of the media.

  People don’t like to admit it and they hate it when you say it usually, but TBH if you put something on blast on the news, most people will go along with it even if it’s fairly crazy. Or at least, enough people to get what you want done.

  There’s a reason why oligarchs almost always buy some sort of media network once they get to a certain point of wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accurate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Adam Sandler is really interesting because it seems like he mostly takes low-effort roles that are basically just paid vacations for him and his friends, then once every 10 years or so he drops an absolute banger just to remind everyone he can, then goes back to having fun again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pie in the face.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone chucked a milkshake at Nigel Farage a coupe of years ago and got a 13-week suspended jail sentence for assault. Along with endless pearl-clutching from the right and Farage talking about how distressed he was.

  Which is funny when you compared it to back in the 90s when someone threw an egg at John Prescott and he immediately punched them in the face lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seems like a bad long-term strategy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming soon: layoff devs, pay monthly fee for an AI suite and hire an AI “expert” to run it that collectively cost more than it would have to just keep paying the original dev. And gives worse results, but FASTER

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they could just get the base systems down and do a big push on bug fixing instead of adding flashy events and more ships it would make such a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s got the kernel of something amazing in there, but it’s insanely buggy (and essentially unplayable when it’s busy, like the Free Fly events or right after a patch) and the pace of development is absolutely glacial. And you really can’t trust anything the devs assure you is happening/on the way. It’s unclear whether they’re just bullshitting everyone or they somehow genuinely believe their own hype about deadlines, even after consistently missing all of them for over a decade, by a lot.

  That probably makes it sound worse than it is TBH. There’s a really cool game in there somewhere, but you have to be extremely patient with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first computer was a VIC-20 lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha I actually used a similar one recently. I was talking about how much of a piece of shit Mitch McConnell is back when he was in hospital and someone called me out for being mean so I said “I hope he receives the same amount of respect and care that he showed to others throughout his life.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely think he just doesn’t have that part of his brain. He has people that he temporarily stops fucking over and tries to charm-bomb while they’re useful to him (who he then throws under the bus again once he doesn’t need them anymore) but that seems to be about as close as he can get.

  I think that’s the same reason why he’s never had a pet - if you take things like companionship and love out of the equation, a pet is just something that consumes resources without giving anything material back. I wouldn’t be surprised if he just sees them as pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And when we do, all the conservatives will suddenly start their pearl-clutching bullshit about being ‘respectful’ once again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if you maxxed out your credit cards and line of credit then moved to some village in the phillipines?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanted to long-game it, maybe you could emigrate to another country, work for a few years and get established/build up a credit score, then max out your credit and just go home?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if you maxxed out your credit cards and line of credit then moved to some village in the phillipines?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with citizenship in another country I have to admit I have daydreamed about this lol. Which probably means I’m in their model somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Not be all “told-you-so” but I saw people on reddit talking about how Rockstar have screwed themselves by not doing physical disks and how pricing it so high is going to ruin them and I was thinking “Oh shut up, you’re all going to buy it.” I guarantee when it does eventually release all you’ll see on reddit for weeks is people talking about how awesome it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an achievement for shooting Hitler in the balls IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a Curly Wurly in a shop the other day, and they’re now a pale imitation of what they were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a weird thing to think about, but in a ship-of-Theseus sort of way a lot of the products we grew up with don’t really exist anymore. By that I mean, if it’s half the size and made of different ingredients then the Mars Bar as it was introduced has effectively been discontinued. There’s just some other, crappier knock-off being sold under the same name now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banksy works cost public almost £150,000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or alternatively, not pay £85,000 to wash some paint off a brick wall?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supergirl 2026 storyline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also kind of made the villains seem a bit daft. The rule seemed to be red sun = no powers, green sun = kills her, yellow sun = super powers and the main villain seemed to be pretty powerful no matter where he was, and they establish early on that there are lots of red sun planets where people live, so literally just hide out anywhere without a yellow sun and you’re 100% safe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supergirl 2026 storyline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s kind of the main issue with any character that has Superman-level powers, they’re so OP that it sort of limits what you can do to keep the story interesting. You basically have:

  • Try to make the powers irrelevant and embroil them in a complicated psychological/moral issue (great if it works but difficult to pull off and not especially visually interesting for a superhero movie.)

  • Create an enemy with the same power level as them (then you just basically have two invincible characters bouncing off each other and smashing everything around them (visually interesting but essentially no stakes.)

  • Have them lose their powers in some convoluted way and then get them back at the climax of the movie to do an ass-kicking scene (which seems to be the default.)

  I think it’s the same problem that The Boys TV show had - at first there was kind of a tension about them just being normal people and Homelander being so powerful that he could hear their heartbeats from half a mile away and level the entire city they were hiding in if he knew they were there, but the longer it went on the more preposterous it got that he hadn’t just squished them yet. Especially when the show has them meet face-to-face multiple times and he either lets them go because reasons or they escape somehow.