skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 4 days ago:
Yes, but, how does one actually develop “a good bullshit detector”? We all think we have one of those. Especially people who don’t. And thinking that when it’s not true is the hook, line and sinker that gets people deeply into dangerous conspiracies.
- Comment on Cardinals most likely to be the pope 4 days ago:
Hey, I resemble that remark.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 4 days ago:
This was me lmao. On my first playthrough of Morrowind as a teenager I dicked around and did everything except the main quest for ages. Around level 18 I decided to actually progress the main quest. Hasphat, check. Arkngthand, no sweat. Talk to Sharn Gra-Muzgob, she says to fetch the Skull of Llevule Andrano. Cool, go to Andrano’s tomb, looks kind of familiar. Where is the Skull of Llevule Andrano? Cause it sure ain’t here in his tomb. Whoopsie.
Never found the skull, never progressed the quest, had to start a new character to actually experience the main story. I wonder how many potential Nerevarines failed to ascend due to missing minor quest items. Wish I could ask em that inside the Cavern of the Incarnate.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 4 days ago:
There are more than one occasion where NPCs just straight up lie to you in quest directions though. I can’t think of it off the top of my head but I remember it existing because I complained about it on a forum.
On one hand - great worldbuilding! “Local dumbass gives you bad directions” is a funny and memorable point on top of what might otherwise be a forgettable side quest. On the other hand, I spent the better part of four hours looking for whatever egg mine or ancestral tomb or whatever it was he asked me to find before getting fed up and having UESP tell me “lol no actually it’s off in this complete other direction”, and I’m pretty sure I assassinated that NPC after I turned in his quest.
- Comment on What TV show always shows up on ‘best ever’ lists but just doesn’t belong? 5 days ago:
The dub is better, IMO. FMA is also a slow burn. There are 64 episodes instead of a standard 50 and they do take their time ramping it up. Once it did get properly cooking it held my attention in a vise grip and became one of my very favorite animes.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 2 weeks ago:
This still doesn’t explain why Cena’s victory is being reported to much hype in the sports sections.
- Comment on OG Guild Wars sees an all-new Steam concurrency high during its anniversary celebration | Massively Overpowered 2 weeks ago:
I was under the impression that WoW classic came about because nu-WoW was hemorrhaging players to other, better MMO’s, such as FFXIV and Guild Wars 2.
Not much need for a GW Classic if GW2 is still going strong.
- Comment on Think they talked about this in the group chat? 2 weeks ago:
You could always shop the verified checkmark. Now you can just buy one that marks you as “verified” at the source. That’s the real problem.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 3 weeks 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bubble Wrap! 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
😭
American, I bought a 2005 Honda Civic in 2020 for $7,500
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 5 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 5 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month ago:
Lex Luthor is downright benevolent compared to what we have in the real world
- Comment on Idioms 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
If it had lidar then it would
- Comment on Anti-Extinct Creature Language 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
