PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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- Comment on Anon's gf has unfinished business 3 days ago:
There are a lot of confusing conclusions here.
- Hacktivism is back – but don't be fooled, it's often state-backed goons in masksgo.theregister.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on Anon is surprisingly allowed within 50ft of a minor 4 days ago:
I miss old 4chan. They used to take down Scientology and do shit like this. Now it’s just a big honeypot + racism machine.
- Comment on Anon has a female friend 4 days ago:
You guys are SO FRICKIN’ WEIRD.
I am extremely weird, man, I’m not trying to judge someone in any sense for being weird or asocial or whatever. But what sort of porn logic is this where someone’s opposite-sex friend is lightly flirting with him and the widely upvoted reactions range from “SHE’S AN EMOTIONAL TRAINWRECK RUN AWAY SHE DESERVES TO SUFFER” all the way to “FUCK HER, FUCK HER BRAINS OUT, SHE WANTS IT!”
It’s not even clear that she likes him for real. Sometimes friends interact with each other. Jesus Christ man. This is a fairly normal type of human interaction, not anything advanced or sophisticated, and the majority Lemmy opinion is apparently just a big sperglord house of horrors.
- Comment on Anon has a female friend 4 days ago:
Have you guys ever spent time with a real person in real life interactions lmao
- Comment on Anon has a female friend 4 days ago:
Anon isn’t smart lol
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- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 6 days ago:
I can’t stop laughing.
No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone’s feedback gets incorporated, that’s what often emerges.
- 1990s-2000s: 3D and Glossy - Remember when every logo needed a drop shadow and a glassy shine? Apple’s aqua interface set the standard.
- 2010-2013: Skeuomorphism - Digital designs mimicking physical objects, with stitched leather textures and realistic dials.
- 2013-2018: Flat Design - Reaction to skeuomorphism brought minimal, clean interfaces with bright colors and no shadows.
- 2018-2022: Neomorphism - Soft shadows and semi-flat design creating subtle, “touchable” interfaces.
- 2022-Present: The Butthole Era
- Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after bans in the UK, Canada, and Australiawww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 14 comments
- Comment on Cheers lads 1 week ago:
“It’s kind of getting communist when a feller can’t even put in a hard days’ work, put in 11, 12 hours a day, and then get in your truck and at least drink 1 or 2 beers.”
-People in the 1980s upset that they were trying to make it illegal to drive with a .15 BAC (which was the previous limit).
- Comment on WotC DMCAs ‘Stardew Valley’ BG3 Mod, Despite Larian’s Endorsement 1 week ago:
Yeah, I didn’t know about the retraction and it looks like Techdirt didn’t either. Oops.
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- Comment on Neom - The Line - Saudi Arabia’s Linear City 1 week ago:
It turns out when there are other people who do 100% of the planning and work, everything seems like it happens really easily.
- Comment on NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K 1 week ago:
Yeah. The whole experience might fail and would probably turn out to be punishing for her and her family in a variety of ways. I’m just saying how I would hope it to happen. I pictured one of the school administrators on the stand under oath, having to explain themselves to people with more authority than them, and it was too compelling to let go of.
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- Comment on NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K 1 week ago:
School administrators not caring about the well-being of their students, because they’re just kids and so who gives a shit what happens to them?
Color me shocked. I think the underlying reason is that the kids don’t have the societal standing to fight back. She should move on to suing the school for conspiracy to distribute child pornography, violating their role as mandatory reporters, IDK about the legalisms but she should pick whatever the best option is and try her best to fuck them up. Maybe they’d handle it differently in the future if it involves some consequences for them.
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- Comment on I love you 1 week ago:
It is the difference between aspiration and victory
- Comment on I love you 2 weeks ago:
There are three types of pet owners:
- Those who respect their pets’ boundaries
- Those who squeeze their pets who are clearly hating it and fighting back
- Those who squeeze their pets who clearly hate it until the pets’ will is broken and they resign themselves that they’re going to get hugged sometimes and it’s okay
The first and third groupings I can get down with.
- Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flawswww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on The most influential video game of all time - Bafta 2 weeks ago:
HL2 was the first major game that based its core gameplay to its physics engine, the first to have HDR rendering and the game that Source engine was developed for. Without HL2, a lot of video games in the decade that followed it, would have looked a lot different.
Yeah, maybe so. Source is just Valve’s internal engine, it was continuously developed and used during pretty much all of their FPS-type game development which includes HL2 along with everything else. It was forked from the not-“Source” source tree at the time of release of the original Half-Life and moved forward continuously from there. But yeah HL2 did do a bunch of ground-breaking stuff, I do see your point and I think it belongs on the list.
The article claims that Shenmue was the first to have a “living world” where characters follow their daily routines and so on.
It’s not. Ultima 6 was doing that.
Actually, The Last Express had already done whatever Shenmue was attempting to do with its “living world” absolutely ten times better. But the same tragic story that led The Last Express to be a commercial flop also means that all the wonderful stuff it did didn’t really make any impact. 😢 TL;DR it was an actual successful implementation of powerful narrative inside of a world that the player could meaningfully impact, in a perfectly meshed and groundbreaking form. But for some reason the studio either refused to or couldn’t do basically any promotion for it, and so after being completed it sold barely any copies and simply fell into the abyss, unknown. It was a masterpiece. Shenmue probably had more lasting impact on gaming.
- Comment on The most influential video game of all time - Bafta 2 weeks ago:
Zero Punctuation as usual gets to the heart of the matter very effectively: youtu.be/g4Dw0Z2Dsts
That’s for Shenmue 3. He actually made a separate video reviewing the original, but that one covers more of the history and context. TL;DR It has a devoted cult following of people who basically want a very specific type of gaming experience, but the specific game that was the first to give it to them just objectively is not very good at all as an interactive video game, which is why it has never been all that popular outside that little following. Some people trace to Shenmue the lineage of huge cinematic games that emphasize narrative, which I guess could be valid, but even a super-charitable reading shouldn’t put it anywhere near the coveted number 1 spot.
Oh, you know what happened? I just realized, I hadn’t even read the introductory material and realized it was from a public survey. It’s a “first past the post” problem. Plenty of people had various lists of games they felt passionate about (and you can tell where the boundary is where “I played this game recently and I love it now so it is my favorite” started to distort the placement of some recent games), but anyone who had Shenmue anywhere on their list put it as the number 1 spot. And so, it won by bad voting algorithm. I can almost guarantee that each respondent was only allowed a single choice for most influential game.
I actually think the list, with some exceptions, is remarkably accurate. It definitely isn’t perfect. There are also some big omissions, notably in old PC games that had a big influence or fleshed out new genres that have mutated since then, or gone extinct or something. I think they’re just outside of too many people’s memory at this point.
Off the top of my head:
- Ultima or Dungeon Master
- King’s Quest or Monkey Island
- Civilization
- Battlefield 1942
- Halo or Goldeneye
- Counterstrike
- Warcraft 2
- Zelda 1
- Comment on The most influential video game of all time - Bafta 2 weeks ago:
- GRAND THEFT AUTO
- THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM
- GRAND THEFT AUTO III
Wow… okay, this is good. It is really rare to see one of these lists that is actually populated with extremely influential games. That’s a good choice of metric, too. Not which ones are “great” but which ones had a lasting impact on the landscape.
- WORLD OF WARCRAFT
- PONG
I wonder if it might be good to separate by decades or generations or something. These are both obviously ground-breakingly influential and belong on the list but it seems kind of senseless to try to “compare” them.
- HALF-LIFE 2
Okay that’s a little weird. We’re getting up into the real high-water heights here and I mean HL2 is good but…
- KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE 2
Guys? You okay? I haven’t played it but it seems unlikely that it needs to be above WoW and Dark Souls.
- MINECRAFT
- THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME
- HALF-LIFE
Okay, here we go. You guys found your stride again. These are legit choices yes.
- SHENMUE
THE FUCK WHY WHAT