SpiceDealer
@SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
The Universe’s greatest distributor of Spice. Cult of the Shrike member.
Old .world account: lemmy.world/u/SpiceDealer. Do not interact with that account. Leaving it up only for archival/backup purposes.
- Comment on Ace Attorney became a hit IP only because Capcom pushed past the “failure” of first game, according to former dev 1 week ago:
I don’t want to came off as simping for Capcom because they’re are a corporation and thus are only profit-driven. But I do want to give credit where credit is due. Greenlighting a sequel despite the first attempt being a flop is not something that many publishers would do. This wouldn’t be the last of Capcom’s unorthodox decisions. When the industry was laying off workers left and right, Capcom actually increased their employees pay. If that increase was actually a substantial increase or not I don’t know but other companies won’t even consider increasing employee pay by a cent.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 1 week ago:
Boob politics. We truly live in a society.
- Comment on first post, nyaa~ 1 week ago:
Is that Asahi I see there? Nice setup, btw.
- Comment on Star Wars Celebration: ‘Star Wars: Visions’ Reveals Season 3 Release Date, ‘The Ninth Jedi’ Standalone Series (October 29th) 2 weeks ago:
Give the franchise a fucking break! No more shows based on some obscure lore! No more blatant monetization of an already dried up IP!
Wait, what’s that? It’s too profitable? Well then, how about that’s both profitable and worthwhile like a decent mainline trilogy and investing in good expansion material? KOTOR is dire need of continuation and a remaster.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Libre Office.
- Comment on women are the devil 2 weeks ago:
These Mark Dice types are always behind the times. Baphomet was so 2010. DEI and Great Replacement are the cool thing now.
- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 3 weeks ago:
Because AI is going to fuck us in the ass with no protection.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 3 weeks ago:
I immediately thought of this tune for some reason.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 3 weeks ago:
Yes, Nintendo! Please paywall my nostalgia of the very first game console I ever played! Charge me an exorbitant price during a economic crisis to satisfy my childlike need to regress to a time before I understood what money was!
- Comment on At this point I think I would 4 weeks ago:
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Big ol’ Yurt. 2 or 3 if you have or want to start a family
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Solar-powered electric generator
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Vegetable garden
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Located near Lake Superior
I can definitely see myself living that kind of life.
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- Comment on At this point I think I would 4 weeks ago:
I think that buying and living in a yurt would be a better option than trying to buy a house.
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 4 weeks ago:
I feel that the whole “Woke/DEI” era will be remembered as a poorly timed inflection point. On one hand, you had the media conglomerates, who, instead of investing in original content decided to put stock in continuations of established franchises which often had poor writing and were poorly executed. These works also just happened to have a “diversity” angel to them. At the same time, we saw the increase in right wing voices online that started to infiltrate the fandoms of those already established franchises.
Social media algorithms also began to push this kind of content to a wider audience. How many times have you seen a random Youtube video with titles like " X is WOKE PROPAGANDA TRASH! Hollywoke is in DECLINE! " appear in your feed or homepage? If the work in question was a critical flop (i.e. terrible), it was not a flop because of creative deficiencies. No, it was a flop because it had a non-binary black character!
You never heard legitimate criticisms like “Hollywood is putting profits before good entertainment” or “[Show or movie] had poor writing, bad acting, terrible direction and didn’t contribute anything to already established canon.”
Take Deep Space 9 as an example. A great show with a very diverse cast but that diversity would be useless if the characters weren’t as fleshed out as they were. Now imagine what the discourse around DS9 would look like if it were made today:
“A New BLACK Protagonist? Star Trek Has Gone WOKE!”
“Jadzia Dax and Odo: Trans Ideology PROPAGANDA?!”
When a new piece of media comes out and there is a massive stir attached to it, ask yourself this: is the criticism warranted or is it ideology driven?
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- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 4 weeks ago:
Some those did get their start in the 80s but all of them hit their peak in the 90s.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 4 weeks ago:
Title: 90s bands
My brain: Morbid Angel, Obituary, Sepultura, Corrosion of Conformity, Eyehategod, Dissection, among others.
- Comment on ONE OF US 5 weeks ago:
They arrested this century’s Oppenheimer but they won’t arrest the CEOs of oil companies? The hypocrisy on display!
- Comment on the duality of beetle 5 weeks ago:
Look at you, in-in-insect!
- Comment on Enshittification 5 weeks ago:
Enshittification is the end result of putting profits above everything. There’s a reason why XJ Cherokees are still running today despite being over 40 years old. Their internals were so simple that even the most mechanically illiterate could work on it with basic tools from the hardware store. Something like that wouldn’t be make it past the pitch meeting today.
- Comment on Late 1900s 1 month ago:
If this was a CS major, 1994 might as well be Antiquity
- Comment on Which game is it? 1 month ago:
Outer Worlds. Not exactly a bad game but fell just a tad short of being F:NV spiritual successor.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
Apple: The Gucci of the tech world.