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- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 1 week ago:
On a sidenote: I fucking LOVE !degenerate@lemmynsfw.com 🤩
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 1 week ago:
Asking for a friend?
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- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 week ago:
Yeah, I mostly agree with that. What about friendjank?
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 week ago:
Any time I see someone say this, they always fail to actually provide any examples of games that fit this description
Lethal Company is actually pretty fun if you’re playing it alone. That’s a positive example.
Another one is Don’t Starve Together. Great together, but Don’t Starve itself is also fun.
Among us on the other hand has no bots and you won’t have any fun without other players. However, you’d also not have fun without other players in Uno, Chess or Checkers.
Were these enough examples or did I misunderstand your point?
I don’t agree that you have to make games be good beyond the multiplayer experience. I’d love it to get my money’s worth, if I can play the game alone AND share the fun with friends I’ll gladly pay extra.
As it stands, many friendjank games only cost a few euros so I can live with them not being fun after a while or without friends. After all I used to buy cinema cards for my friends and I and didn’t have more than a few hours of fun, and cinema cards are often way more expensive than friendslop.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 week ago:
Yeah, elsewhere I suggested we could call it friendjank. I love janky games.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 week ago:
Quite on point. I’d add that it’s not only games but also other media like movies you can enjoy better with friends, even if they’re not particularly cinematographic masterpieces.
Hell, it technically started even earlier than that, with physical card games and board games and such. Just play them with friends and it’s fun.
Here I was, thinking people liked Uno for the deep game mechanics and story 🙃
People in this thread try to pull compliments for friendslop out of thin air because they can’t admit they like simple or bad games. If it’s fun, it must be genius, because obviously I won’t ever play a game which is bad, would I now? 🙃😅
I’d say people should enjoy what they enjoy. We should stop judging other people’s fun. And I think this is kind of also the point of the article: if people have fun in AAA games with micro transactions and battle passes, I let them and I’m happy they can have fun. I won’t touch that shit myself though, rather play a “friendslop” title 😅
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 week ago:
I very much disagree, it’s like judging that samba is not good cos it’s not blues. They’re two different genres with different goals.
Funny, that was actually my point I tried to make. I repeat myself:
That’s not to say friendslop don’t have a right to exist. There’s a time and a place for friendslop, it’s not when you want to play a good game.
I often compare it to mediocre or bad movies which only work on cinema screens or home theater. If you watch “popcorn movies” without popcorn, you won’t enjoy the movie.
But that’s where I’d disagree:
If it’s fun then it is well designed.
You can have fun with badly designed or badly polished games. It needs an engaging game loop, sure, it can’t be complete crap. But I’d argue that you don’t need to create a good game to create a fun(ny) game.
Example: EYE Divine Cybermancy. One of my favourite games but I often laugh at the jank and incoherent story, and the bugs, and I’m still having fun.
Maybe we shouldn’t call it friendslop, but friendjank?
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 week ago:
I didn’t compare CS2 to Peak specifically. I compared good games to friendslop.
Can you tell me why you’re upset that I call “friendslop” bad games? I didn’t say you can’t enjoy bad games, I’d say in many instances I had more fun in objectively bad games and movies with friends than I had in good games. Sometimes the good games are boring and the jank makes “bad” games great or funny.
I also didn’t say I dislike friendslop. I enjoyed Lethal Company and Among Us with friends, for example. I also really like watching “bad” movies with friends, we even watched The Room once 😅
I even watch objectively bad films by myself. One of my favourites is Fortress (1992). This has an 38% rotten and a 40% popcorn meter rating on Rottentomatoes. Which is basically my point – media doesn’t have to be good to be enjoyable or funny.
I’m not always after a laugh though. There’s a place and a time for friendslop, and it’s specifically called friendslop because of that. Don’t see it as an insult.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 week ago:
Well it’s basically gaming fastfood: they’re bad games in themselves, and you can only enjoy them with friends. You wouldn’t enjoy them with people you don’t have chemistry with. Whereas there’s some competitive games like CS2 you can enjoy with random strangers because it’s a mechanically well made game.
That’s not to say friendslop don’t have a right to exist. There’s a time and a place for friendslop, it’s not when you want to play a good game.
I often compare it to mediocre or bad movies which only work on cinema screens or home theater. If you watch “popcorn movies” without popcorn, you won’t enjoy the movie.
- Comment on What the actual science says about “brain rot” 1 week ago:
Attention span is ability, this was lack of desire to even try.
Why comment then, instead of downvoting and moving on? You’re wasting your precious time.
- Comment on What the actual science says about “brain rot” 2 weeks ago:
The irony that you didn’t even have the attention span to find out that the video is specifically about short form content…
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- Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 2 weeks ago:
Nah didn’t you see Marvel? They have some schedule and a multiverse and make all the money. They wouldn’t make money if they delivered ugly CGI slop would they now? 🙃
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 3 weeks ago:
Nice, have any material you can share?
- Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ 4 weeks ago:
The kinds of people who put flue on their pizza
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I mean some people are better off using AI since their work output would be shit otherwise, then again, those people should get universal basic income instead of pretending to work.
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 4 weeks ago:
I call BS. They almost definitely did not collapse solely because they insisted on not using AI in the way you proposed.
If you want to argue, be my guest, but you have to be more specific than “they didn’t use AI as I told them, now they’re bankrupt”. Sounds like correlation to me.
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 5 weeks ago:
Did you try Krita?
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 1 month ago:
pretty sure this is the Apollo Lake platform and it’s very annoying to get proper Linux to run there: issei.space/blog/linux-on-apollo-lake/
I would only recommend you do this when you have a good idea how GNU/Linux works and have a second device to use once you need to tinker with your Chromebook to fix the inevitable issues.
If this is your only system: don’t do it.
- Comment on 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 [404 Media] 1 month ago:
Wish there was a similar extension or ublock blocklist which simply blocks AI slop domains.
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 1 month ago:
Hahahaha have fun trying to push the genie back into the bottle with the same people who rubbed it
- Comment on AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads 1 month ago:
Dead spotify theory
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th 2 months ago:
Chess. Online, offline, against the computer, against myself, against my friends…
They’re starting to become annoyed. Gf putting up with watching Queen’s Gambit with me now though.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 2 months ago:
Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist.
The lengths men go to instead of going to acrual therapy 🤣
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 2 months ago:
XIII. only that people talk about it, but the awful remake. I think they remade it again, but a bit less worse?
The multiplayer was so awesome.
- Comment on Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions 3 months ago:
Please go outside and touch grass. The internet has rotten your brain.
- Comment on Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions 3 months ago:
Tell me you only read the headline without telling me you only read the headline.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 4 months ago:
Once upon a time, I saw some professor answer a 500€ question in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, German edition. The question was “what kind of gelato is stracciatella?” and the answers made it possible to deduce it even if you didn’t know what stracciatella is.
He needed a 50/50 and the audience joker, IIRC.
- Comment on Splitgate 2 is ‘unlaunching’ as developer 1047 Games cuts staff | VGC 5 months ago:
oh come on. I even paid money for that game. How on earth can they not afford to develop it?!