CurlyWurlies4All
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- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 weeks ago:
I discovered Prey (2017) a few years back. It is so my shit.
It’s probably the worst named game of all time. It’s essentially a sequel to System Shock 2 and Bioshock. Should have been called Xenoshock or something because it’s generic name is nothing like the really original game underneath.
You are fully in the driver’s seat, with a crazy amount of freedom in how you want to get from one section of the space station to the next.
The opening scene, once I discovered the reality behind the scenes, I was hooked.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 4 weeks ago:
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
- Comment on I want these walls back 4 weeks ago:
Trying pivoting, you might see a solution.
- Comment on I want these walls back 4 weeks ago:
I lived in a flat in London where the only window was filled with these glass bricks. I think I would have preferred a window.
- Comment on Sen. Paul warns Trump 'can't bomb anyone without permission' as Iran debate heats up 5 weeks ago:
“Some argue the constitution gives only Congress the sole authority to declare war.” Might the most damning indictment of the US’s current political situation yet.
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 1 month ago:
I’ve been refurbishing my PS3. It’s running like a dream.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 2 months ago:
Advance Australia has been committing millions to whipping up a frothing frenzy against wind, solar and batteries in rural communities.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/…/105062600
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-20/…/105309810
- Comment on A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset - "It's just collecting dust" 2 months ago:
Called it
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project 2 months ago:
The city was lined with Giga Factories, and since air quality couldn’t be controlled with an app of some kind, no laws stopped them from sending a cascad-ing cloud of industrial refuse down onto the city. It was all part of the Techno King’s philosophy of hardcore work thought…
You recently left two different one-star reviews on Peace Keepr regarding badge num-bers 9966 and 7654. Have you consid-ered that you were wrong in this situation and should apologize to the brave men and women who serve your community?
Two buttons were under the message.
Yes or no. I clicked no.
Your social score has been reduced by fifty points for holding radical political views. Your information has been forwarded to the extremist monitoring app, Prevent.
I cursed to myself. This is why I didn’t leave the apartment if I could help it. As soon as those thoughts crossed my mind, a Flux Taxi plummeted out of the sky and crashed into a supermarket.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 months ago:
Except the Liberals are now tacking even further to the right:
- Comment on Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ trademark refused for being too generic 2 months ago:
From an article from 2 days ago: ‘Limited lidar use for training edge-cases.’
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 3 months ago:
Probably worth doing if you can afford it
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 3 months ago:
I remember when I first started working full time. The exhaustion is real. It doesn’t ever really go away but you will eventually learn to live with it.
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 3 months ago:
6 to 10 years? What kind of risk were they taking on? I’ve lost about 3 months worth.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 3 months ago:
Nobody born after 1985 has ever experienced ‘average temperatures’.
theconversation.com/lets-call-it-30-years-of-abov…
This was a news article from 2015. Since then nearly every year has set a record for being the warmest ever recorded.
We’ve had a decade of pumping more money into the money machine while our ecology falls apart around us.
- Comment on Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been the hottest on record [Day 105] 3 months ago:
“We’ll talk about it later, I told you, I’m very busy”
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 4 months ago:
sfist.com/…/testimony-reveals-doors-would-not-ope…
the deaths appear to be more the result of the vehicle fire, as opposed to drugs, or injuries the victims sustained in the crash. And troublingly, that testimony also showed the Cybertruck’s doors could not be opened in the aftermath of the crash, preventing Riordan from pulling the other three victims from the flaming wreckage.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 4 months ago:
A place near me does this. It’s the worst. The spaghetti is chewy because it’s dehydrated from being grilled.
- Comment on Am I the only one? 4 months ago:
It really looks that crazy
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- Comment on Is this green or blue? 4 months ago:
To me it looks more teal blue than teal green.
- Comment on A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to? 5 months ago:
I don’t find it odd. Even with Vatican II in 1962-65 transforming the role of the pope to a more ecumenical approach, the role is still one of a world leader. It’s similar to how those same politicians consult with the Dalai Lama. There’s realpolitik reasons for political world leaders to be seen consulting them as ‘world leaders’ that have nothing to do with the actual religions.
- Comment on A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to? 5 months ago:
Nah man sorry. You’re just wrong in this case. You’re missing the forest for the trees.
- Comment on A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to? 5 months ago:
You’re not going to like this answer but he didn’t say Soviet Union because he didn’t need to. Everybody understood that ‘communism’ was ‘THE Global Conspiracy’ ever since McCarthyism took of.
Check out A conspiracy so immense : the world of Joe McCarthy by David Oshinsky to learn a little of what the attitude of the time was like.
- Comment on A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to? 5 months ago:
He was talking about the Soviet Union. Don’t they teach this very basic shit in school?
- Comment on [TerakJK] Avowed vs The Outer Worlds - Obsidian's previous game - Attention to detail. 5 months ago:
It’s interesting to me how divisive reactions seem to be on Avowed, some people loving the hell out of it and some being very lukewarm. It’s not even falling along the usual IGN reviewer love vs indie reviewer scepticism divide like Starfield or Veilguard. I wonder what’s driving the difference?
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 5 months ago:
It sounds like your life will be immeasurably improved by cutting him off. But it’s such an intense, personal decision that I’m not sure any internet stranger could honestly say one way or the other.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 5 months ago:
Seems like smartphones are generally used more often than PCs among younger cohorts compared to older. In Britain at least.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
Going from decline to fall. To be fair it took Rome 200 years or so I’m sure the US will limp on for a while yet. But it won’t ever be what it was again.
- Comment on The IT Crowd: Jen has been transported 5 months ago:
“In a Sea Parks??”
