brucethemoose
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world
- Comment on is that real? 3 days ago:
Imagine if it found its way into musk’s feed!
I would not be against this. I absolutely know how.
We can rebuilt him. We have the technology…
- Comment on wrappers 4 days ago:
I’m so glad I’m not a tiny bug.
- Comment on 2024 Administration is Shaping Up Like a Comic Book Villain Squad! 1 week ago:
…No. No one is saying that.
Her alignment depends on her depiction though. In the Harley Quinn series, for instance, she’s obviously not the bad guy because she’s a main character and depicted as a sane, regular person.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 1 week ago:
as opposed to trying desperately to find your article as you scroll and having pop ups and other things interrupt you as you read
Joke’s on the websites, as I run Cromite, so no pop ups or anything.
…But also, most of the written web is trash now.
:(
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 1 week ago:
the YouTube experience is far less annoying on average.
Are you sure about that?
I opened YT links without premium on a new browsers and holy moly! I got 1-3 minute unskippable ads every time.
I immediately clicked them off, of course.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 1 week ago:
GN is indeed a rare outlier. They’re like an oldschool tech site that rose at the exact right time to grow up on YouTube.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 1 week ago:
And our site was like the opposite. Uh… let’s just say many Lemmy users wouldn’t like its editor, but he did not hold back gut punches, and refused to watch his site turn into a content farm.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 1 week ago:
As someone who briefly wrote articles for an oldschool PC Hardware outlet… I’m surprised any such sites are still alive. Mine shut down, and not because they wanted to.
Why?
Who TF reads written text over their favorite YouTube personality, or the SEO garbage that pops up first on their search, or first party articles/recs on steam, and so on? No one, except me apparently, as their journalistic integrity aside, I’m way too impatient for youtube videos.
And that was before Discord, Tiktok, and ChatGPT really started eating everything.
They cited Eurogamer as an offender here, and thats an upstanding site. I’m surprised they can even afford to pay that much as a business.
And I’m not sure what anyone is supposed to do about it.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
Strong disagree, I thought Book 1 was incredible. The animation, the art, the noir, fights, Korra’s whole “human husky” attitude, Amon, everything! Even the intro. The first two episodes of ATLA are so much slower.
Season 2 was very mixed, with some great episodes though. And not just Wan, I loved the alice-in-wonderland-esque Spirit World.
And to be even more oppositional, I loved 3, but it was too short. And Book 4 has some mixed bits too, lol.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Neither have I, except for Infinity more recently.
I’m somewhat into the lore, but not a ton, and it does look like the show is such a tonal break. It looks like space opera, while Halo 1-3 had this feel of touring a quiet, grim war with Cortana as your sassy narrator.
Now, I am all in for shameless space opera, so maybe I should try it with an open mind.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Season 2 has a lot of slow episodes. 2-5 are not great, IMO.
But there’s more fundamental “it’s not totally the show’s fault” criticism too, like the really awful video quality (even on the blu-rays), and the general maturity level and jokes. And TBH Zuko/Iroh kinda carried the show for me until Toph shows up.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
I asked because I can see why fans would be displeased, given the tone/style of the MC in those games. TBH it kept me from giving the Halo series a shot.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Historically, this was The Thing.
Critically panned when it came out, and my favorite horror movie of all time. Of course critics feel differently now, but far after its following grew.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
The biggest injustice to me is that no one dares criticize the original ATLA.
I’ve seen a few good critical essays and videos, honestly less contrived than a lot of Korra/NATLA criticism, and they get snuffed into oblivion.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
In hindsight its kind of understatement.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Watch the netflix version!
And Korra!
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, did you play Halo 1-3?
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Stop, you had me at the first paragraph.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Netflix’s Avatar the Last Airbender.
Not a movie, but it’s moving. Zuko/Iroh stole the show just like Book 1 of the animation, Lu Ten’s funeral legit made me cry. Yet it gets tons of hate!
I’m a huge Avatar fan, but few fandoms put the original on the pedestal as much as ours, and it’s only gotten worse with time. I feel like Korra got the same treatment, as I’m a massive Korra fan yet so much of the fandom treats it like garbage.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
The original trilogy is over-rated.
There, I said it.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Being so on the nose, to me, is part of the joke.
So obvious its blinding, and unrealistic. Just like reality lol.
- Comment on Choices 2 weeks ago:
There’s another trolley coming, and she’s trying to stop it from running over people again by destroying it.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, they should fight fire with fire? Another vision model (like Qwen VL) would catch this
You can ask it “does this image seem fake?” and it would look at it, reason something out and probably conclude it isn’t, instead of… I dunno, looking for smaller patters or whatever their internal model does?
- Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 3 weeks ago:
I agree.
But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable, and I like that there’s a community mechanism to bury them.
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 3 weeks ago:
Also imagine being in the water with all those jellyfish the turtle didn’t eat.
- Comment on Wake up babe - new conspiracy just dropped. 3 weeks ago:
I swear, I want a extension that blocks videos with pointing arrows in the thumbnails.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 weeks ago:
This is an actual term apparently in common circulation, though homophobia wasn’t even its original intent: glaad.org/globohomo-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-…
Emerging in 2016, this multi-purpose, right-wing troll invention combines homophobia and anti-Semitism. Researcher David Futrelle’s well-known misogyny tracking site We Hunted The Mammoth offers this summary: “Ostensibly, ‘globohomo’ is short for ‘global homogenization,’ an alleged vast conspiracy to destroy ‘traditional’ culture and values and replace them with a sort of global (naturally) corporate uniculture. But it’s rarely used in this way, at least not exactly. For those who’ve seized upon the term, ‘globo’ means ‘globalist’ and therefore Jews; while ‘homo’ (the suffix) means, well, ‘homo’ (the slur). (Some, evidently worried that ‘globohomo’ isn’t gay-sounding enough, add ‘gayplex’ to it — ‘globohomogayplex.’).” According to the Online Hate Research and Education Project, white nationalists and other hate movements use “globohomo” to allege the existence of a global plot to promote the so-called ‘‘LGBTQ+ agenda,” a similarly minded conspiracy theory (promoted by certain sectors of the Christian religious right) alleging that LGBTQ people aim to surpass the rights of other groups and “groom youth into identifying as part of the community.”
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
It’s still around?
I remember when Star Citizen first popped up, and it makes me feel old.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape 4 weeks ago:
I feel like you’re attacking the wrong thing.
The subscription hike is something, but U.S./U.K. inflation from 2008 to 2022 is about 40%, and that’s not accounting for any changes in corporate taxes. Its… well, it’s kinda mad that WoW hasn’t increased the subscription price that whole time, if that’s true, but that’s partially because they sell expansions, right? And those probably creep up with inflation.
The problem is the choices they’ve made with that money, aka shoving more aggressive monetization into the game instead of keeping it simple, which was so central to its appeal long ago. Of taking short term profits instead of investing in R&D, new game development, and deeper development for Runescape. This is the real corporate greed. Making money is fine, but just taking it as pure profit at the expense of long-term health is destructive and wrong.
Also, I played Runescape ages ago, and well… I just got tired of the game. I feel like thats why many people left.
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 1 month ago:
They’ll probably mix it up, and randomize the results of different categories… I guess?
But the last thing AI search needs is spam.