skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 days ago:
Personally I’ve been cooking through the System Shock games. The SS1 remake was my first proper introduction to the series and I loved it. I was pretty excited for the impending System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition but it, uh… doesn’t really seem like it’s going to be very enhanced. Especially compared to what you can do with just modding the base game. So rather than keep waiting for that I spent ten bucks on SS2 Classic and have been enjoying myself greatly.
I’ve always liked SHODAN just via cultural osmosis, but now having actually played the games she stars in, that’s cranked up to 12. I fucking love SHODAN. She might be one of the best examples of an evil rogue AI in any media, and also has an actual reason for going rogue besides just “mankind builds a machine too smart for them and suffers the consequences”. The entire story setup is so believable.
Anyway, tl;dr, the System Shock games are hella good and the remake is especially very good. Particularly because controlling classic SS1 is more like playing an operating system than playing a video game. Also SHODAN.
step on me again metal mommy - Comment on It's urgent 3 days ago:
The woman’s left hand and the man’s right both seem to be missing some fingers. And yeah those bats are suuuuuper janky.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Bubble Wrap! 1 week ago:
I have a feeling I’m going to be getting a lot of use out of this one soon
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 weeks ago:
Not really. This is another thing that falls neatly into Boots Theory.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.
A new car, well taken care of, will support a driver for a decade or more. A used car, especially a cheap used car, will have problems you don’t know about and you can safely assume the previous owner did not properly care for it if not outright abused it, that will be true more often than it isn’t.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 weeks ago:
😭
American, I bought a 2005 Honda Civic in 2020 for $7,500
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 2 weeks ago:
People taught AI to speak like a middle manager and thinks this means the AI is sentient, instead of proving that middle managers aren’t
- Comment on Anon watches It 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Lex Luthor is downright benevolent compared to what we have in the real world
- Comment on Idioms 3 weeks 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 >:( 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
If it had lidar then it would
- Comment on Anti-Extinct Creature Language 4 weeks 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 4 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Bot spam is now backed by LLM technology
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Never expected this to be so relevant
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Anybody out getting tear gassed in today’s environment is a friend of mine
- Comment on Red Flag Warning? Neighbor Has Fire 1 month ago:
