Sunsofold
@Sunsofold@lemmings.world
- Comment on Anon has a bad dream 11 hours ago:
A mean dream… That’s kind of an interesting phrase.
- Comment on 13 hours ago:
Are you trying to say earth life is a cheap knock off of alien life?
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 1 day ago:
Why ask strangers on the internet with no context why your friends like something? Wouldn’t your friends be both far more able to explain, because it’s their thing and we don’t know them, and far more interested in explaining, because it’s their thing and people love talking about their passions?
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 1 day ago:
It feels like so much of the games industry is a weird circle jerk. Big game companies feel this weird pressure to make giant games that have 3TB of textures because they’re building everything to be cut into a trailer that looks as flashy as a big blockbuster film, requiring hardware no one can afford. Meanwhile, they add 13 layers of organizational overhead, so no one can do anything on their own because the writing team have to have a meeting with the texture art team and the modelling team and the voice acting and SFX team just so they can even ask the question of ‘How much time will it take to add this NPC in this area and will it justify that much extra artist time/pay by selling another X units?’ much less actually make a good estimate as to the answer. Then you have players, a bunch of whom somehow still get suckered in by those trailers but then spend the next year complaining how much the AAA game sucks but unable to play anything else because of network effect lock in, only to do it all again the next time they see another flashy trailer. Nobody learns the lesson. Everything just repeats until it breaks down as is replaced with the next generation of misery.
- Comment on Precognition proven! Parapsychology vindicated! 3 days ago:
Why did you draw dickbutt on the back of your business card?
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 4 days ago:
Still using 4chan so there’s definite room for improvement.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 5 days ago:
One of the interesting things to consider is the timing. He’s been bleeding popularity the whole time but death has a way of buffing up your reputation. If enough people turn against him before he dies, he becomes broadly a villain. If he dies tomorrow, there’s still a huge number of people who will think of him as a martyred saint.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 5 days ago:
That response is in itself an example of the issue at hand. Are you actually asking or just being sarcasticly snide in a way that doesn’t fully come across in text?
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 5 days ago:
The whole point of Poe’s Law is that you can’t get away from it even if you ham it to eleven, or even 38.7 gigahams/second. Unless you explicitly state ‘This is satire. That stuff is bad,’ there is little to no way to tell if it’s satire or extremism, and even if you do make it explicit, there are always the idiots who won’t notice that part and assume it’s sincere, (see naive interpretations of Starship Troopers) and those who willfully block out that part because they sincerely hold an opposing view. (See white nationalists opinions on American History X)
No one is saying it’s ‘not allowed’ for people to make those things. They’re saying it’s literally impossible because of how the media work. The kind of people who are saying ‘you can’t’ would love it to be possible. If we could movie our way to a utopia, it’d be awesome, but it seems we can’t.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 5 days ago:
The idea of there being no anti-war films is older than Lemmy. The problem is Poe’s Law related. You can make a movie or a game that shows the horror of war or the tyranny of distopian totalitarian regimes, but regardless of the intended message, your creation is filtered through your audience’s lenses of perception, and some of that audience has been raised to be white supremacists, some have been through schooling that acts more as indoctrination than education, and some of that audience are just seriously fucking stupid.
- Comment on Anon notices some fan service 1 week ago:
Can you really call it exhibitionism if it’s a constructed storyline?
- Comment on Anon has a hobby 1 week ago:
I’m guessing from a generator?
Also, from what I’ve seen, there’s also a significant risk of a shipping container collapsing because they are built to handle lots of pressure from above but pressure from the side can disrupt the structural integrity and let the weight crush it like a can.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 week ago:
Magic the Fappering?
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Anon blows his dad's mind 2 weeks ago:
a dick move
Heheh
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a wild spread on both pay and the requirements to work as a teacher. Some places require barely more than a pulse. Some places require years of schooling. Some places pay teachers no better than shelf-stockers. Some pay a decent wage and/or have a decent pension/benefits system. It’s definitely not a monoculture.
- Comment on Subtitling a video, what is that noise at the end before they scribble on his face? This time, no tools to cut it out because it sounded distorted 2 weeks ago:
Overlap of snoring and door sounds. If you want to choose, snoring is more relevant for subtitling as it shows character state.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
As long as the sample size is large enough outliers can be absorbed.
- Comment on Anon remembers Baby Dovahkiin 2 weeks ago:
Of course. All parents regret having children to some degree. Oh, wait, regret the name…
- Comment on Passing Notes 2 weeks ago:
Oh, hey, it’s the kid from that episode of the Psi Effect
- Comment on NextFest Thoughts 3 weeks ago:
Only one I got to try was Approximately Up. I’ll probably get it if they keep going with it. I might over-simplify it as Archean I can run without a raytracing GPU.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Got the first one purely because it had soundtrack by Sidewalks & Skeletons. Turned out to be a pretty good game. Hopefully this one won’t go the way of Wizard of Legend 2 and turn into a big disappointment.
- Comment on What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government? 3 weeks ago:
When the first guy who called himself a king’s swordsmen fell asleep. Should have peasant mobbed his oversized hovel and never let anyone do it again.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 3 weeks ago:
Best answer I’ve ever had for this was ‘find something to support.’ It can be anything. Just find a space where you have people trying to do something for the benefit of others with some bare minimum cost of entry. The group coming from people trying to help others will bias it toward nicer people. The cost of entry, even something small like $5/mo or physically present volunteering, deters anonymous trolling.
The other good option is classes. Doing things to improve your skills in something is generally worthwhile anyway, but it also puts you in contact with other people who share an interest.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 3 weeks ago:
This is kind of the best-case fantasy of what happened to introduce that DNA so let’s just hope it’s true for now.
- Comment on Downvoting your ass 4 weeks ago:
Strange. Pictures of large round butts rarely get downvoted on the internet.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 4 weeks ago:
I dunno. Maybe. They get up to some… shenanigans.
- Comment on Day 6 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Species: Unknown 4 weeks ago:
3 seems fine. The balancing was tied into the number of deaths so more players will have more power to do things but fewer retries and, while 1 would be brutal or impossible, 2 would make it harder to complete certain actions but you’d have the revives to make a few mistakes and still come back as long as you have good teamwork.
If only flamethrowers could be used to defeat the monster that is ‘scheduling difficulties…’
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 4 weeks ago:
Ha! Tricks on you. There was only ever one electron in the universe anyway. Now they can split the work and get twice as much universe done.
- Comment on Day 6 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Species: Unknown 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely better than Phasmophobia. Phasmo is terribly designed. S:U is nicely paced, doesn’t have a system of in-game information with gaping holes and outright lies, does have nice pacing, legible design, and has the potential to become even better. It’s definitely a good group game if you have the right number of players.