TheFeatureCreature
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
Hello!
I’m a nonbinary Canadian Blender artist! You can find my work here: Galleries, commissions, prints, and more!
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- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 4 days ago:
The TES series in general for its massive, expansive lore.
But Morrowind in particular has absolutely incredible world-building with incredible creativity and originality. There is a reason why so many people keep going back to the n’wah simulator and it’s because the world is so rich and incredible. So much of the following games was built off Morrowind’s incredible work.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer Trailer 1 week ago:
Good point.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer Trailer 1 week ago:
How many times is this game going to get remade…
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 1 week ago:
It all makes sense now.
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 1 week ago:
Subnautica 2 is so screwed.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 2 weeks ago:
The USA. I’ve never actually been there but you couldn’t even pay me to cross the border. I’d rather not risk being disappeared to a ICE torture site because they searched my phone and found out I called Trump a poopoo head.
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 2 weeks ago:
I have an airtag on my car keys and another hidden on my ebike. The latter is shared with immediate family so they can easily locate me if something goes wrong and I’m unable to contact them.
- Comment on AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now 3 weeks ago:
That’s a good idea.
- Comment on AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now 3 weeks ago:
It’s at the point now where the majority of the results of my web searches are clearly written by AI. You can look up the most obscure, difficult thing you can think of and you’ll miraculously find a 12-paragraph article about that exact topic that was “written” only just last month.
And as with most AI “content”, those 12 paragraphs say absolutely nothing. AI is incredibly good at generating an entire novel’s worth of text that doesn’t actually say anything at all.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 3 weeks ago:
Honestly? Aloy from the Horizon games. She’s maybe not the most rounded character, but she is a very strong, determined, stubborn, and intelligent person. She knows what she wants and will stop at nothing to get it. I think it also helps that the games don’t really have many choices or multiple endings, which I think was a good design choice. The story belongs to Aloy, not the player.
Also she’s not a protag (sorta, you can play as her) but I would like to give a shoutout to Lae’zel from BG3. I suspect a lot of players haven’t explored her character questline much because of how prickly she is at the beginning, but her character development is extensive and, at times, heart-wrenching. A story of someone getting the entire fabric of their life and soul torn out from under them.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 5 weeks ago:
I think there is only one store left near me that has them and it’s more of a boutique grocery store rather than a large chain.
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 1 month ago:
The K980 ditches them in favor of making you install Logi Options Plus to find out. Boo.
Instant e-waste.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 month ago:
There are so many options for fridges that don’t have any tech in them at all. This is so easy to avoid.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 2 months ago:
The bizarre hostility of Reddit users is baffling. It’s like they’ve never interacted with a human being in real life and have no idea how to process an opinion that isn’t a 1:1 match of their own.
You could say something like “I love waffles! :D” and get a response that is like “Oh, so you hate pancakes then? Wow, you didn’t need to shit on every person that loves pancakes.”
- Comment on Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit 2 months ago:
I stopped playing when I learned the DLC I paid for would be removed and no longer accessible. I already had some growing negative sentiment towards the game at that point but being outright ripped off was the last straw.
- Comment on Why did our friends stop posting on social media? 3 months ago:
I’m a frequent Craigslist user for both sales and purchases. Selling stuff has become extremely difficult since Marketplace took over as the the “standard” for the area I live in. I’m in the same boat as I refuse to make an account on that shit heap of a website so getting my sales to move takes a lot more work.
It also does not help that the second-hand landscape has changed a lot in the past 5ish years. People expect a lot more money for their used items now and buyers expect steep discounts for like-new condition items.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
It’s getting really bad. You can look up the most mundane, everyday search term and there will be a distracting amount of fake images in the results.
I look up a lot of reference images for art projects and so I have to skim over a lot of AI slop.
- Comment on Ubisoft Confirms a New First-Person Ghost Recon Game is in Development 3 months ago:
And I can confirm that I Won’t Be Playing It because Ubisoft blows chunks.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 3 months ago:
There is a waning interest, but it wasn’t the singular reason the game flopped. It’s because it was a painfully mediocre game at an extremely inflated price.
Mass-produced corporate sludge like Outlaws is exactly why interest is waning. It sucks the soul out of the franchise and makes people lose interest.
- Comment on Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy 3 months ago:
One of the many reasons I will never integrate smart home stuff into my house.
My light switches still work because they’re powered by my finger instead of the “cloud”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The modern internet is very sterile, sanitised, and boring. It is a hollow and empty shell of what it once was.
- Comment on Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout 3 months ago:
This game is screwed, calling it now.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
When you’re new to driving and not totally comfortable with it yet - most of your brainpower will be focused on controlling and handling the vehicle and taking your attention away from that to check signage is terrifying.
This goes away with practice and experience. Eventually controlling the car will become muscle memory and you can devote your brainpower to broader observation of your surroundings and signage. Start with calm back roads, quiet residential streets, and gentle intersections. Preferably an area with a mix of things like stop signs, uncontrolled intersections, hill sops, school/play zones, crosswalks, and so on.
It can be kinda fun too as you can explore neighbourhoods you’ve never been to before.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 4 months ago:
Firstly: Designing an appealing sports/luxury car is expensive and many companies hire skilled professionals from known design firms to help accomplish this. The design often comes first and much of the car is constructed to fit the aesthetic and theme. Cheaper vehicles are more utilitarian with a more “that’ll do” attitude instead of being designed with artistic intention.
Secondly: Almost ever car maker has their own luxury brand or subsidiary. Selling cheap luxury/sports cars would undermine their own brand’s prestige and market segregation. There is a reason why dedicated luxury brands will not make budget-friendly vehicles unless legally forced to.
- Comment on Anon makes a modern game 5 months ago:
This. Every time I see a complaint about how reddish/orange the Remaster looks - the screenshot was taken at extreme sunset or sunrise. Literally some of the most reddish times of the day even in real life.
- Comment on Steamdeck or.... 5 months ago:
They were much too big for my thumbs (going off the theme of the Deck in general being made for hands clearly bigger than mine). Too tall, too wide on top, and while I never had to deal with any drift - the deadzones suck to play games with. I keep a gamepad at my desk for racing and flying games and I switched it to a hall-effect gamepad about a year ago and I’ve never looked back. Potentiometer-based joysticks just feel like garbage in comparison and I think are inexcusable to use in a highend gaming product these days. I ended up using the touchpads instead for many things.
- Comment on Steamdeck or.... 5 months ago:
Poor ergonomics is actually a large reason why I sold my Deck. It is quite heavy and clearly made for hands bigger than mine, which made holding it for more than 20 minutes quite uncomfortable. Also the joysticks are just awful, awful, awful awful awful. Id say a hall-effect stick mod is basically mandatory.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 5 months ago:
“Load up and play” is a very loaded statement. When I tried it, about a year ago, it was a buggy, glitchy, crash-prone mess that ran like deepfried garbage.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 months ago:
Buying a game post-launch:
- Better prices; often on sale.
- Fixed and patched up.
- Extra content often included.
- DRM often removed.
No brainer, imo.
- Comment on Sony considers further price rises, as it braces for £500m tariffs impact 5 months ago:
This is what got me about the RTX 50 series cards from Nvidia. People with 4090’s getting upset at the prices and lack of supply as if they must purchase one.