grrgyle
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- Comment on Let's discuss: Half-Life 3 hours ago:
I remember my brother secretly installed a graphics card on the family PC and I first noticed because when I started playing Half-Life it looked all smooth and “milky.”
I think they did it because they could? Like more pixels = more hi def. But of course the textures weren’t actually high res, so everything is interpolated
- Comment on Let's discuss: Half-Life 3 hours ago:
Segments as in levels. So in segmented, you can try for example level 3 “Unforseen Conséquences” as many times as you like, and then pick your best time. In this way you can stitch together all your best times to make one segmented run.
Unsegmented I suppose just means a standard speed run: all in one session. If you get a bad time on level 12 you have to start all over at level 1.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 13 hours ago:
Depends how much you’re willing to spend
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 16 hours ago:
Yeah these are old school definitions, like how a “liberal education” means you get a broad education in differing perspectives (ironically, this term is now associated with a Eurocentric take on topics). In the same sense, “liberal policies” would mean freedom of religion, sexuality, etc.
All good things that progressives agree with, but it also entails more pernicious property rights, and the protection of the state/establishment against those who threaten those rights.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be this way, but this is what I believe it’s come to mean in practice. It also has very little to do with how one votes, especially in a democracy like the U.S. where you’ve just got your “monkey loves you” and “monkey needs a hug” choices.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 16 hours ago:
Just throw workers owning the means of production on there and we’ve got a
stewreal progressive. - Comment on Wish for your greatest desire 16 hours ago:
but what’s your third wish
- Comment on Wish for your greatest desire 16 hours ago:
Physically, I didn’t find this the case, and one of my friends who’s in their 70s still doesn’t get them.
But I started getting… Sad? Like really bummed out. Anyway, I stopped because it wasn’t fun anymore. In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have started lol. Ah well
- Comment on i hate this meme 1 day ago:
The expressions are also subtly hilarious
- Comment on i hate this meme 1 day ago:
Yeah it’s like “reacting” to live content (a human conversation) while it’s ongoing. The joke is bro is acting like an anonymous member of the chat (chorus or peanut gallery, for my fellow olds) in a face to face convo, which is not appropriate.
I have actually noticed this trend of people of youth making little chirps or ironic barks (to use vg nomenclature) under their breath while a conversation is ongoing. This isn’t totally new ofc, it’s just my generation would be more like “uh huh” “yeah” “oh totally” as non-interrupting encouragement, but not so much with the ironic riffing.
I think it’s kind of funny, but like anything there’s a time and as place
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 1 day ago:
Yummm it gives the feeling of rebelling without actually doing anything or stopping working for even a moment 😋
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 1 day ago:
Ahhh to be 30 again
- Comment on Pancakes 3 days ago:
I found it. The best post of the weekend. Finally. I can rest
- Comment on Amazing 6 days ago:
Brotherrr
- Comment on Womens fashion guide 6 days ago:
It smells like the fun slightly problematic aunt
- Comment on pick your side 6 days ago:
Blue and green are the same colour CMV
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
Too soon
- Comment on Soup 6 days ago:
This article looks really juicy! I didn’t even really ever think about the difference between cryonics and cryogenics.
- Comment on Never look rule 1 week ago:
What is?
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 1 week ago:
The writing in Disco Elysium is so good that it wouldn’t matter if the gameplay between dialogue was just some match 4 bejewelled ripoff, it’d be worth it.
Anyway, I agree we’ve got so much better in the last decade+ at fitting fiction and gameplay together in a satisfying and complimentary manner.
I remember finding games like Chrono Trigger being as stumbling upon an overflowing oasis, compared to the paltry and usually badly translated heroes journeys that we typically got.
But now I can think of dozens of games, many of them indie, that have stories on par (and if I set aside my nostalgia goggles, even surpassing) that of old classics like CT.
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 1 week ago:
Mid dark.
Actually has a kind of ring to it…
- Comment on Peer review can be fun 1 week ago:
Bun: it’s poorly written
Middle: you are bad at this
Bun: it’s poorly written and poorly motivated and wrong
- Comment on So which is it? 1 week ago:
I think it means salad wraps, salad bowls, salad mores …
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Good article, thanks. I had no idea
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
TIL beans are expensive and privileged.
Pardon my flippant remark. I couldn’t help myself. I appreciate you weighing in on this thread.
I can appreciate how avoiding animal products can seem challenging if you have no direct examples to refer to, but it’s really not. There are literally entire ethnic groups that live cradle to grave without eating meat.
Like for me growing up poor, a defacto vegetarian diet was the norm for us, so it’s just how I eat 90% of the time. Likewise, if you grew up around people who know about nutrition, you get used to planning your meals without relying on meat/dairy/etc to fill in the gaps.
I do believe it’s more ethical to avoid meat entirely, even though I myself don’t. I just try my best to keep it lower impact.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Also if the vegan is being preachy and judgemental that this somehow totally undermines their point, which can now be ignored because some vegans somewhere were hypothetically rude.
We can have a conversation about effective and respectful rhetoric, but the material and ethical facts of the argument are not going to change.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I actually know a vegan engineer and vegetarian rock climber, too! Had several great dinners and lunches with them both!
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Big if true!!! Can we get a link?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 1 week ago:
My gut / experience tells me this is mostly about the PSN account numbers, and some execs getting a gazillion dollar bonus if they can push it above certain target by the next report, even if they damage the revenues in the process.
I’m inclined to suspect the same. A move like this does not happen without a project “champion” pushing through internal resistance.
I have seen exactly this kind of shortsighted min-maxing, where an exec will fixate on some metric or goal, and just wreck everything in their path.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 1 week ago:
I remember being excited when people on the television or “irl” would mention anything to do with computers or even the internet.
Like wow mainstream culture is talking about the niche nerd thing that I love!
Now the internet is the mainstream culture.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 1 week ago:
Man I thought that was a joke when I first started seeing it. Nope.
Though many of us remember the early internet pre-ponies; pre 4chan, even