Sunsofold
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- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 4 days ago:
Hmm. Insane is probably the best bet, rather than good or bad. The AI bubble is set to pop, but no one knows when it will because most thought it was going to repeatedly over the last year but it didn’t. The big tech IPOs are going to be devastating to anyone with a 401k. The possibility of a ‘super el nino’ year could be very damaging for North Americans. The shipping crisis has only begun to really hit so energy crises are going to be likely to hit important industries like food, possibly at the same time they are dealing with the input shortages.
Of course, the tech bros insist AI is going to make everything super easy and cheap to make at some point super-super-soon, so there’s always hope they aren’t full of shit, right?
- Comment on What's your opinions on film critics and film snobs?? 5 days ago:
Critics are cool. Snobs are pricks.
- Comment on If AI is so smart, how come it doesn't track the time and date? 6 days ago:
LLMs are not smart. LLMs do not know anything. They are token predictors. They are autocomplete with extra steps. Nothing about what comes from them is tied to the real world, just what text has appeared with what other text most often within a context window.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 1 week ago:
While I am in favor of removal of cheaters from pretty much every online space, I’m not in favor of any company having that kind of power. Only I should be able to brick my devices.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t give satisfaction as itself. It gives satisfaction after the fact in the same way a man who was abused for years as a child can say ‘I’m glad my dad beat the shit out of me because it built character.’ He’s not lying. He really believes it. But if you measured his happiness at any point in the abuse, and even after he reaches the stage where he can say that, it’s not going to be positive. If souls players are masochists, they are at least enjoying themselves. If they aren’t enjoying themselves, they’re just… what? Manipulated? Victims of social pressure? Delusional? Masochism is actually the least awful interpretation of why someone would do something they don’t enjoy. Take masochism as a win.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I can understand basically any game’s audience because I can understand three things: masochism, operand conditioning, and social pressure. Souls games are just an absurd level of self flagellation. Grind games are just a process of rewarding a behaviour over longer and longer times to trick you into thinking you are doing something fun when you get to the release point. Social pressure takes individual tastes and grinds them away because if you want to have friends they will naturally congregate in cheap friendslop games because shit’s expensive and tastes vary, but any gamer crew can afford $7 a piece to have something mediocre to complain about together.
- Comment on Guys, I am in need of niche media to larp, any suggestions? 1 week ago:
An indication of available settings might help.
Gone With the Blastwave - a series of comics about soldiers trapped in the ruins of a former city. If you have some local areas with old abandoned buildings, it’d be a setting.
Wizard of Legend or Ziggurat - games in which you are a mage trying to complete a challenge to prove yourself worthy as a mage. Set up puzzles and challenges in some out of the way areas, maybe an NPC proctor to guide them through the tests, etc.
Receiver - A setting where you are a survivor of the Mindkill, an event that destroyed reality and left only those who trained themselves to be ‘Receivers,’ capable of retaining their identity in the face of obliteration enough to be reborn again and again to face the robots with guns sent to eliminate them, collect tapes that remind them of who they are and their training as Receivers.
Korgoth of Barbaria - Conan the barbarian but as a comedy
Stalker/Roadside Picnic - Books by the Strugatsky brothers. An event has created areas where the rules that govern reality no longer can be trusted. The stranger you meet might be your oldest friend, your father from before you were born, or yourself in a different hat. The path that runs East then turns left 30 degrees and now leads you Northwest.
Not exactly niche but there’s also ‘True Detective’ Something about a Lovecraftian detective LARP sounds cool if you could have some fun with it.
- Comment on Gymnast stanning JoJo 1 week ago:
‘Human’ poses… that require a trained gymnast and a freezeframe capture to imitate.
- Comment on Why don't people complain about Gary Stus? 2 weeks ago:
I have a hypothesis people seek out in fiction what is missing in their life. If everything is going well, people seek out cathartic drama. If everything is going poorly, they seek out cathartic resolution. Part of why people are so into things like comic book stories is how they usually have a clearly defined villain, problem, and solution, while much of our world right now doesn’t feel like there are any solutions to the problems, or the solutions are so complex people can’t understand them, or even the solutions seem like problems in themselves.
- Comment on Experience with Drauger OS? 3 weeks ago:
I tried installing Drauger before Bazzite but never got it to the point of stability before breaking it and moving on to try other things. (I know he put out a new version recently so I might pull something together to try it again to see if it improved.) Really, though, I’d say just go with Debian itself. Between Steam, Lutris, and Heroic, you don’t need to install gaming tools yourself much anymore, and if you are a fan of the Ubuntu toolkit, that’s mostly Debian. I’ve done a bit of gaming on Debian and never had any issue.
What are you having trouble with on Bazzite that you expect to be different on anything else, though?
- Comment on Electricity explained 5 weeks ago:
What about dommenetting?
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 5 weeks ago:
Un-normalized data presented as a graph is just encouraging bad interpretations. I know it’s just a look at stupid game sales data but bad data visualization is bad data visualization, regardless of the data it is made from.
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- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the part where he has stated openly (last chapter) that the ‘source’ for the things he says is not anything he has read or learned, but ‘the universe communicating with him,’ or ‘a voice from on high.’
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 5 weeks ago:
No way this is a remotely sane comparison.
Any Tetris game released after 1988 is essentially a sequel while most of these games have no sequels to include, and even if you just dismissively wave that away, it has had almost 40 years to sell those copies.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 1 month ago:
There’s someone out there for everyone, even if they want two someones.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 1 month ago:
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I’ll tell you what I’d do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
[Peter laughs and then notices Lawrence’s dead serious expression]
Peter Gibbons: That’s it? If you had a million dollars, you’d do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that’d double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 1 month ago:
What you’re talking about is the movement toward live service games, loot box sales, and ‘friendslop’ in just the last several years, but you forgot about the cynically made sequals created purely to milk nostalgia for established IP. This is the result of the investor class trying to colonize the games space. Start taxing the fuck out of the unproductive rent seekers and I expect things would improve.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts [24:10] 1 month ago:
Saw this yesterday and immediately thought of it when my phone dropped the volume of the music I was enjoying to not play my notification sound.
- Comment on The 900 million dollar suit against Valve 1 month ago:
There is a grain of truth in their motivated framing. Steam has a clause saying developers cannot sell at a cheaper price on other platforms, though if I remember correctly, that’s specifically the ‘normal’ as in ‘not based on a discount’ price. There is an argument to be made that this prevents competitive pricing on other platforms. (same kind of thing Amazon does to mess with the merchants on there) Most other parts of the steam system are pretty good though. If they settle and get Valve to remove that clause, it’d be great, but I fully expect Steam to remain the dominant force due to their other practices.
- Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 1 month ago:
(Aside: I also prefer Satisfactory to Factorio but it’s because it’s 1st person. I hate top-down view because alignment and legibility are almost always awful on top-down.)
I won’t give examples because you are asking for examples that are contrary to the limitations of reality. You asked for an open world example when the only way to get something of that scale is to have big teams to crank out all those assets. You asked essentially for an example of a non-AAA AAA game. It’s self negation.
But, at this point, I’m walking away from this. If you are still simultaneously demanding examples of a thing that cannot exist, to peg a scale that cannot exist, in pursuit of objectivity that cannot exist, you are clearly too deeply buried to reach without lots of shovel time. I don’t know you enough to care enough to fight past your hypocritical ideology.
Happy gaming.
- Comment on Lady Parts is Bugs. 1 month ago:
Sorry, it seems your grant request fell through. You’ll have to fund the research out of your own pocket if you want to continue.
- Comment on What's in a name? 1 month ago:
He just want give hugs and kiss to mouse frend.
- Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 1 month ago:
That… Yeah, it does seem you are having trouble understanding.
That line you quoted is not to say your opinion is invalid. It is to say that it is hypocritical to complain that I do not approach it from a disinterested perspective when you don’t either. If we were disinterested, we wouldn’t be here. We’d be into something other than games and wouldn’t think about these things, so it’s a bit absurd to expect disinterest.
…tell me which open world…
This also shows you aren’t understanding the point. The one thing these games have to offer is scale, bigness, lumpen sum size, so either you’re just trolling me at this point or you’re not getting that size isn’t the goal. There aren’t other games with that big open world because there can’t be. It’s the defining trait of AAA games because they are the only ones with $100000000 to burn hiring giant teams, so nothing else has it. The whole point, though, is big does not mean good. It doesn’t matter if your dinner is 3 ears of corn or 300. It’s still just corn. Not poison. Not shit. Might taste a bit better with some mods like salt and butter on it, but it’s still just bulk. There are far better options available, customized to your palate, what you find to define quality. Whatever you think of as ‘good’ in games is probably better served by something outside the AAA space by something specializing in that thing (Unless you really just like big more than anything. I suppose you could just be the ‘size queen’ of gamers.) and might even be elevated by the investement of some of the money that is currently being sucked in by the gravity well of the big companies, but because those big companies suck up so much of the light, air, and resources, lots of indie projects just wither.
- Comment on Lady Parts is Bugs. 1 month ago:
Something something butterfly wings?
- Comment on Lady Parts is Bugs. 1 month ago:
Oh there’s no more need for any more experimental data. All further sex is canceled.
- Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 1 month ago:
Don’t misrepresent me and then pretend to have defeated my positions by defeating your own misrepresentations.
I didn’t say they suck. I said they are designed by committee, mass market, crowd pleaser, middle of the road, and mechanically stagnant. They are the corn of gaming. They aren’t poison, or shit, but they are decidedly mediocre in their makeup, and there are so many options that are better on one metric or another, basically any metric other than scale, if the players weren’t locked in or tricked in, the AAAs aren’t going to get the kind of support they have. Saying ‘some of my happiest memories are eating my way through a big trough of corn,’ isn’t a demonstration that corn is better, or even good, but that you, specifically, anecdotally, really like your corn.
And yes, there is something about them that bugs me on a deeper level, specifically their manipulative place in the industry/culture, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong to call them mediocre. Are all opinions invalidated by emotional entanglement? Then why should we trust your word as an avowed supporter of AAA game companies? You have an emotional reason to support them. Why should anyone listen to you about them if your views are emotionally tainted and your own standard requires detached judgement?
- Comment on Microsoft BANNED WireGuard, VeraCrypt & Windscribe With Zero Warning 1 month ago:
Here’s an article for those who want to know a bit more but don’t want to click on that idiotic thumbnail.
- Comment on UwU🥺👉👈 1 month ago:
I recognise this image from a ways back. Do guys still do the unsolicited dick pic thing? It’s practically a meme how stupid it is and how it doesn’t work.
