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- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 days ago:
Saburo Arasaka was born in 1919 in Japan… wait, sorry, wrong biography. This corporate villain was born in Taiwan in 1963.
- Comment on Dammit 1 week ago:
It’s important, it puts the first part in context.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
We don’t. We just exist. And then we die. It’s monstrous.
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
It’s what governments are supposed to be for.
- Comment on Flipper!! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Find Cow 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
no new characters for like a thousand years now. One map.
I’m sorry, what…!?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
Fantastic setting (I could spend days just playing tourist around Night City), great story and characters (and the characters don’t just stand there talking to you like in Bethesda’s games, there’s actual acting in there), enjoyable gameplay, beautiful graphics…
Sure, it got a bit of flak when it released due to the console cartels forcing it to run on highly inadequate ancient hardware, but I’ve been playing it from day one on an even older but properly specced PC and I could count the bugs I’ve experienced on the fingers of one hand, with fingers to spare.
And CD Projekt kept improving and expanding it for years after release, so it’s even better now.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have the same feeling as GTA V
How is that supposed to be a bad thing?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
Can’t speak for the older ones because… well, they’re not before my time, I was an avid PC gamer back then, but I somehow missed them (no Internet yet, and maybe they weren’t sold where I live?)… but Morrowind was great. Janky and broken as all fuck, but great. Fantastic setting, great magic system where you could make your own spells, terrible but useable skill system, no handholding whatsoever (the game doesn’t give a flying fuck if you don’t know what a “foyada” is even if such knowledge is essential to find your way around, and that’s great, modern games almost play themselves, so what even is the point of playing, then?), and you could wear mismatched pauldrons. Haven’t found a game that topped that yet. Way too many cliff racers, sure, but still, it was a fantastic game.
Then Bethesda got downhill from there. Modders saved TES IV and V and Bethesda’s Fallouts, but not even them could do anything for Starfield.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
What positive attributes does Monopoly have?
Well, it’s supposed to teach the players that for most participants capitalism’s a mug’s game. 🤷
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks ago:
Portal 2 has a whole coop campaign.
- Comment on Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI 4 weeks ago:
When you owe hundreds of dollars you have a problem.
When you owe millions of dollars your creditors have a problem.
When you owe billions of dollars, society has a problem.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 4 weeks ago:
Those are media formats (the first ones having different purposes anyway).
None of them had any significant exclusive content, because it’d have been an extremely dumb decision and no one would have bought it.
You’re comparing apples to oranges.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
Almost (but not quite) Unluckies.
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 4 weeks ago:
Ira Remsen¹’s Investigation of Nitric Acid, which can easily be found in several educational websites by looking up, for instance, “nitric acid acts upon trousers”.
- Ira Remsen (1846-1927) founded the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins and initiated the first center for chemical research in the USA.
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 4 weeks ago:
You can have both. V in Cyberpunk 2077, for instance.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 5 weeks ago:
There’s Disco Elysium, where the developers themselves tell you to pirate it because some parasitic corporate asshole stole it, and then there’s this, where the poor sods who got shafted by their parasite have their brains so rotten and Stockholm syndromed by its abuse that they get offended when you don’t give it money they won’t be seeing a cent of.
This game is evidently not worth even pirating. Don’t pirate it, don’t buy it, don’t play it, don’t even mention it except as an example of the evils of corporatism and runaway capitalism.
If you’re a developer (or anyone else whose work can be stolen by greedy parasites) take it as a cautionary tale and don’t let parasites steal your work. Unionize. Form a cooperative. Starve the parasites instead of feeding them.
- Comment on Yup 5 weeks ago:
Truly the word of the century.
I needed a term for the urge I feel every time I read the news, and now I have it.
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 2 months ago:
Turns out Mark Watney jokingly calling himself a space pirate was one of the most realistic things in The Martian¹.
- In the book. In the film he never lost communication with Earth, so he had permission to commandeer the Aeris IV MAV, and it wasn’t an act of piracy.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 2 months ago:
It’s not AI, it’s LLMs.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 months ago:
Not exactly written the same, but in Catalan a cold with nose congestion is called a constipat or costipat (similarly constipado in Spanish).
Of course this can mean a very bad day¹ for you if you’re in an English speaking country and know some but not enough English, and ask the nearest pharmacist for some over the counter medicine for your “constipation”.
More of an outright enemy than a false friend, really.
- Blowing off both ends with every sneeze kind of bad, probably.
- Comment on Fake News 2 months ago:
It broke feudalism, too, and kickstarted the renaissance.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 2 months ago:
I’m responsible for the actions of the governments I vote for, and those of the governments I don’t rebel against. As are American citizens.
Many of the victims of racial oppression in the USA had no problem voting for Trump, or previous criminals who held offices in their government. I’m sure most of them happily voted for Obama, another mass murderer like the majority of US presidents in history.
Because as all Americans they share those rotten core values, and will happily vote for anyone who’ll act like a bully and harm the weak, ignoring that he’ll also hurt them.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 2 months ago:
There haven’t been any coups. No one has taken power by force (not since they genocided the native civilizations, at least). A vast majority of Americans have voted time and time again, for decades, for this shit, and will keep doing so if there are any elections after Taarump.
Egoism, racism, imperialism, murder, child abuse, and runaway untethered capitalism are core American values. Basic principles upon which their culture is built. Don’t compare them to actual victims. They reap what they sow.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 2 months ago:
Americans have been supporting this kind of shit for decades, they’re all complicit at this point.
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 2 months ago:
Well, a particularly jarring one is the USA’s refusal to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Everyone else, including Israel, has ratified it, except them.
Because they want child labour, and to be able to keep executing children, and bombing schools, apparently.
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 2 months ago:
Convincing people your interpretation of reality exists is literally all that politics is.
What? No. No, no, you naive fool… many politicians, if not most, don’t believe most of what they’re selling, and don’t give a flying fuck about it.
They’ll sell whatever line the party they’re working for wants them to sell, and they’d just as happily sell the opposition party’s line if it paid better and they could switch without being called a turncoat.
Also, it’s not about convincing people about specific beliefs; most people are mostly already convinced of their worldviews and if they change them it won’t be because of some politician. It’s about convincing them, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the politician shares those beliefs, and will impose them on people who don’t if they vote for them.
despite being correct, science is also an interpretation of reality.
Again, no. Science (except for mathematics, but that’s it’s own thing) doesn’t and shouldn’t ever claim to be correct.
It’s the most accurate approximation we have so far of how nature works, but it’s constantly trying to achieve better approximations, and will happily throw away the old ones when it finds a better one.
It also should always make very clear that it’s an approximation or a description, not an interpretation. Science should always be objective, never subjective, and interpretations are by definition subjective.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 months ago:
While the characters are based on Charlton Comics characters DC had recently acquired (Dr. Manhattan ≈ Captain Atom, Rorschach ≈ The Question, Nite Owl ≈ Blue Beetle, Silk Spectre ≈ Nightshade, and possibly also Quality Comics’ Phantom Lady and DC’s own Black Canary, Ozymandias ≈ Thunderbolt, The Comedian ≈ Peacemaker), Moore’s story is mostly original, inasmuch as stories can be.
