brucethemoose
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- Comment on Conservative values 19 hours ago:
It’s crazy we’re so far apart that this is a good meme for both.
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 1 day ago:
It’s probably just warped by social media, giving everyone their own little idealized version of One Nation while every little thing in Labor’s budget is peeled apart.
I hate to sound so cynical, but I’ve seen this movie before.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It got so shallow, though.
A long time ago, homesteading was the American dream. “Buy your own property, buy stuff for it, build your own life,” and that ethos extended to industrialization, post WWII (with the suburban boom), and even the 80s/90s.
I feel like that slowly broke with the rise of social media.
The “American urge” went from home/lifebuilding to encouraging short term, FOMO thinking. “Who cares about the future, look at this beatuful person, they’re using this thing and you need it NOW!” is what basically all modern ads say. Though there are some oldschool holdouts like Berkshire Hathaway, most big buisnesses seem to have adopted that mindset, too.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 3 days ago:
Meta comment, but I like that Lemmy can have these threads, and it’s probably mostly real.
It’s some human 4chan anon, whether they’re making it up or not.
Maybe the majority of comments here are legit.
Meanwhile, when I stumble into a Reddit thread like this (mostly when I miss old.reddit.com and get bombarded with weird engagement bait), it’s… mostly bots?
It’s either obvious, or very suspicious and likely engagement bait. What a dystopia.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
A “minimum RAM usage, minimum UI screen real estate” browser?
I’ve used many browser forks. But I needed one for that specific task, and my search landed me on Zen Browser.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I posit it’s a consumer culture issue.
Look at Temo, Tiktok, Amazon, YouTube; people are bombarded with “buy this on impulse!” every day, 24/7, through notifications. They’re urged to buy high by dozens of influencers.
So they do.
And now that’s the culture. Competition isn’t going to fix that, and doesn’t naturally arise in that kind of environment anyway.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 5 days ago:
I hope people here give Valve the same flack they gave Nintendo and Sony for raising prices.
Narrator: they did not.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 5 days ago:
The other half is that, at these prices, the manufacturing doesn’t have to be competitive.
They can use a less advanced fab process and still sell it for less than what Micron/SK/Samsung are charging.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 5 days ago:
That’s not going to decrease the cost, as Strix Halo is expensive. See: the Framework desktop.
And it needs LPDDR5X, though they could use SOCAMM modules. Framework tried, but I think they ran out of R&D time to work out the electrical gremlins.
- Comment on On the seventh day, god created uranium 5 days ago:
A lot of religious people love that way, with the philosophy/morality being the point.
…A whole lot don’t, though.
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 6 days ago:
I would not bet against it, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia 6 days ago:
That’s true.
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 6 days ago:
I don’t think it was a sales failure, was it? Not a short term one.
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 6 days ago:
At risk of going Fallout 4…
How about medieval homebuilding?
Build a little hut? Store stuff. Have chickens. Fish in a pond out back, kiddo running around.
I personally know people that would play the hell out of content like that.
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 6 days ago:
Yeah.
Can you imagine a “Starfield: Special Edition” re-release in a few years? Who TF would play that? I’d say that’s satire, but their leadership’s ego is so titanic it might not be.
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 6 days ago:
I dunno. I saw a dev video where the project leads, Henry’s VA, and other team members all seemed excited about the development expansion.
…Maybe they’ve just done the hard part already?
KCDI had teething issues, but they knocked KCDII out of the park. CryEngine is utterly amazing for that niche. Maybe they’ve really got all the tooling and workflow perfected for their “Very medieval RPG” template, and hence can make another banger without so much R&D and fuss.
- Comment on Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia 6 days ago:
I wonder what the ostensible excuse for the firings were? The article didn’t mention it, but I suppose that’s not public information.
…It should be, though. I feel like there’s not a lot of reason for Wikipedia to keep decisions secret.
- Comment on If AI is so smart, how come it doesn't track the time and date? 1 week ago:
There are many good answers here, but have you heard of the Chinese Room thought experiment?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
That’s basically what LLM interfaces are, albiet with a calculator + “fuzzy” dictionary inside. The current chat is an LLM’s entire view of the world; otherwise it’s like a clone taken out of a vat into a black box, frozen in time forever.
Better LLM interfaces will inject relevant context (like the date) into the context, but ChatGPT is especially poorly made, and no one should be using it over alternatives unless your work makes you do it.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
It was just about perfect. Andromeda’s MP wasn’t even bad, but somehow not in that sweet spot.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Nostalgia is huge with them.
I loved Oblivion. I used to appreciate players being into the lore, the little corners of the game. But then Starfield came out with so many defenders. It made me realize the sheer number of players that are just… I dunno. “Shills” doesn’t feel like the right word, but I do not understand why they go to such lengths to defend BGS.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
They’re all lonely and, yes, a little grindy to me without multiplayer to “show it to someone.”
That being said, I may have been burnt out by modded Minecraft when I was younger.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Right?
I played the hell out of ME3MP. I played some Warframe. I get the “PVE shooter zen”
But WTF. Everything I see and read about Destiny 2 sounds infuriating, and I can’t comprehend why people put up with it.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I disagree here. The side quests and atmosphere are great. FemV nailed the voice acting. It has a lot of fun, bitingly memorable characters I still think of, sometumes.
The gameplay is satisfying… if, and only if, you mod it to not be bullet spongey and so grindy.
I’m not a 2077 apologist. Does it run well? Nope. Was it absolutely unacceptable at launch? An understatement.
But (in 2025/2026), it finally deserves the praise it gets, IMO. There’s a very good game in there.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
As opposed to what?
I don’t think a game like this is supposed to last, and be developed, forever.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
Interesting.
I’d bet it’s an example of coincidental convergence. Take the median/average of the tropes for that premise, and I can see writers coming up with a similar story.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
That’s overcomplicating it.
Maybe that’s the issue.
The characters just… weren’t charismatic/engaging. I can’t name a single one. The world was intricate, and exotic, and… kind of superficial?
I think the other Avatar is a perfect contrast.
Iroh. Zuko. Toph. Azula. Korra, Tenzin, Zaheer. To me, these character are instantly memorable because they were so distinct in purpose and culture, even extending to minor characters.
And take bending. It’s a concept as simple as a rock, but they embed it in everything, from mundane chores to personalities and cycles to martial arts scenes.
Hence it’s be cool if the James Cameron Avatar characters where sharp, so distinct you could cut yourself on them. If their nature synergy, dependence on unobtanium or whatever was really woven into mundane life and such. There’s nothing wrong with a “natives fighting back” story, but I didn’t feel anything pull me into the struggle.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
I mean, 1 didn’t make me crave sequels, even if they were immediately available.
It was a fun action movie, but nothing that made me feel invested.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
The other Avatar, on the other hand…
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I’m scared to remind people now. Lest Paramount “revises” TOS and TNG.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 2 weeks ago:
That makes sense.
…On the other hand, Sony could make a pretty sick PC gaming tower, if they wanted. They could still have first party titles and such through some proprietary store with a hardware check, but just give it the ability to play generic PC games too.