skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon watches It 1 day ago:
Your second example is Wrench from Watch_Dogs 2 to a T
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 5 days ago:
Depends on the game I think. Guilty Gear is doing better than ever with Strive and actually has a decent population base for the first time. I do take some issue with the DLC character seasons but it’s hard to fault them too much for following what has become standard practice, and they’ve been continually releasing high quality content in every update. Their netcode needs some work but the game part of the game is pristine, it’s my favorite fighting game by a mile and as they continue to add in the rest of the old roster there’s becoming less and less reason to try and play the older Guilty Gear games.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 5 days ago:
Perfect Dark, on the other hand, totally still holds up today in my opinion, and there’s a decompilation project that works great on PC and Steam Deck.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 6 days ago:
You’re not a bad person just because you like dark humor or shitposting.
This is absolutely true.
Why do I need to be better? I don’t give 2 shits about virtue signalling. I don’t have to convince the world that I’m a good person, I know my own virtues and I know that I am; so I’m allowed to joke about horrific shit all the fuck I want.
This is the part that makes you a bad person no one wants to be around.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 6 days ago:
I had a pen like that when I was very young, had to be maybe in the 5th grade. It exploded on me because I chewed on the end of it while thinking. Parts of my homework desk remained blue until I graduated high school, I’m lucky my teeth didn’t also.
- Comment on Enshittification 1 week ago:
Lex Luthor is downright benevolent compared to what we have in the real world
- Comment on Idioms 1 week ago:
My favorite variation on this I ever heard came from one of my coworkers a few jobs ago. I forget the exact context, but:
“Hey [Name], can you get this done?”
“Can the Pope’s dick fit through a donut?”
“…I don’t know?”
“Exactly 😎👉”
- Comment on >:( 1 week ago:
A cooperative, wide scale Erebus manhunt could bring peace to the 41st millennium
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 1 week ago:
Yeah. Their proper remake of SS1 was excellent and I was looking forward to something similar for SS2. Especially a balancing pass on the skills to make some of them not completely useless.
Even remaking SS2 on the engine they used for 1 would have been welcome news, but it’s not clear that they’re doing that either.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 1 week ago:
In case you weren’t aware (it sounds like you’re not) :
- Comment on Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous 1 week ago:
If it had lidar then it would
- Comment on Anti-Extinct Creature Language 1 week ago:
You should try having nothing else better to distract you for 12-15 years. With no books, no TV, and no internet, if you need to figure out how to build a forge, you’d figure it out eventually. Through sheer boredom if nothing else.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 weeks ago:
Correct on both counts. To make it even better, there exist some creatures that primarily mate and reproduce sexually, but can also reproduce asexually if the situation requires it - I think ants, and some reptiles, if I remember right.
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t some symbol of the end times or anything, they’re just a symptom of the sort of attention based economy we’ve built up here in America. They exist precisely because you can get paid to shill products while playing Minecraft.
If we reign in the marketing and advertising industries then influencers will fall alongside them.
Or, if we regulate “proper” ads and fail to do the same to influencers, whether on purpose or not, then they will become a primary source of advertising. Depending how this is handled could be a good or bad thing.
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 2 weeks ago:
Bot spam is now backed by LLM technology
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 3 weeks ago:
I’d be interested to hear what those problems are. Not saying you’re wrong by any means, but the legacy of the iPhone has been, from the very beginning, a simple, non customizable, piss easy to use, smart phone for dumb people that basically can’t be broken (at least on a software level) because it won’t let you play with any of the fiddly bits. It does exactly what it does and if you don’t like that, shoulda bought an Android instead, because this iPhone isn’t about to let you change it.
That’s not to say that they can’t have bugs or issues, because they certainly can, but the ability of the phone owner to brick themselves is like a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what you’d see with Androids in my experience. Android will let you do what you want up to and including breaking your boot loader if you mess around with developer settings, Apple doesn’t even give you dev settings last I knew.
I’m an Android fan myself but I do see that Apple has a use case, and that use case is giving non technically minded people a device that “just works” mostly without having to fiddle with it.
- Comment on Let's gooooo 3 weeks ago:
Based still has the innate connotation of doing your own thing without caring how others perceive you, which can still be a crackhead kind of trait.
- Comment on gigachad 3 weeks ago:
The world of Morrowind, in aggregate, is beautiful and sometimes genuinely breathtaking.
Individual models may look like deep fried asshole, but they come together to form an aesthetic that I personally like quite a lot.
- Comment on horse 4 weeks ago:
Never expected this to be so relevant
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 4 weeks ago:
Good news! America is about to rejoin the rest of the world in having multigenerational households, because we can’t afford to all have our own places for much longer. This has been coming for a while. If you have a home large enough to support that, this is probably a good thing. In fact if that becomes the norm (again) it would probably support future development of the country in good ways, having a higher population within a given area and having a significant percentage of that population be both children and grandparents incentivises walkable communities with accessible shops. It could go a long way towards decreasing car dependence.
But that’s all long term. In the meantime we’re all broke as hell so get ready to possibly live in the same house with your grandkids too.
- Comment on Somebody stabbed this repeatedly 4 weeks ago:
Anybody out getting tear gassed in today’s environment is a friend of mine
- Comment on Red Flag Warning? Neighbor Has Fire 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never once had to wait more than 5 seconds to start loading in to a match no matter what time of day or night it is. Literally no other game has ever done this. They’re prioritizing their time-to-game over having actual players in your match, and this definitely means filling slots with bots. How egregious it is will depend on the time and day and current online player count. But when I’m instantly loading a full game of 10 people at 3am on a Tuesday I know something’s fucky.
Other people have done actual research into the matter but I had my suspicions, just from playing the game, by the third day or so after release.
- Comment on Goblin care 4 weeks ago:
Goblins ride dogs into war.
- Comment on Goblin care 4 weeks ago:
You might need to grind this quest a few times until you get the appropriate result
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 4 weeks ago:
As of January 2025:
While Pornhub is not blocked in Louisiana, it is blocked in these 17 states, a Pornhub representative confirmed to Mashable:
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Idaho
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
In Louisiana, where users must submit ID to view Pornhub, the site has seen traffic decline by around 80 per cent, Aylo (Pornhub’s parent company) told Mashable.
This is not just “Oh Florida is just being quirky again” this is systematic.
- Comment on DOGE deletes its 'wall of receipts' after massive errors pointed out 4 weeks ago:
No, you’re missing the point.
This was a conservative space. It is now unmoderated. So the rest of Lemmy came in here to spread some truth around now that you won’t get banned for pointing out the obvious.
It’s mostly just “trolling” by filling this community with anti-conservative news.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 4 weeks ago:
All the best games of the last 10 years have been built and published by teams smaller than 20 people.
- Comment on Favourite Metroid game? 5 weeks ago:
Fusion has always been my favorite. I “want” to not like how linear it is compared to the rest of the series, but when I get started playing it again that never seems to matter to me anymore. And because of that game structure, the game is very well broken up into chunks of 20-30 minutes of gameplay at a time which makes it excellent for playing on a portable console. I played it on a borrowed GBA-SP for the first time back in the day, a few more times after that emulated, and most recently I’ve been playing it again on my Steam Deck within the past week, I’m like 2/3 of the way back through it again, just took down Yakuza for the Space Jump last night before bed.
Fusion is also a huge story point for the series as a whole. It introduces the X and by doing so gives context to the existence of the metroids. And seeing that referenced again later in Dread was maybe one of the coolest moments I’ve experienced in the Metroid series.
Speaking of Dread, that one is a very close follow up though. I was super hype for Dread when it released and it is one of few games in recent memory that completely lived up to that hype. I was a big fan.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 weeks ago:
Gold will not hold value if the market crashes like that. Food, water, and land will be what holds value.
