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- Comment on Trump suggests Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was a cover-up 5 days ago:
They’re not doing a very good job…
- Comment on Trump suggests Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was a cover-up 5 days ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 week ago:
To be fair style over substance is one of cyberpunk’s (the style, not specifically the game) main design philosophies…
But yeah, sure, the game could stand some more fleshing up. Most games could.
That said, there’s a lot of stories going on in Night City that you won’t get through quests, but are told bit by bit through messages, notes, minor encounters, and world design… more than in most similar games I’ve played.
Would it be nice to be able to enter every building, take a job at any random hot dog stand, ignore the quests and, I don’t know, infiltrate Biotechnica and leak all their ugly business to the world…? Sure, but that’s not something V would do (without getting paid), especially once they’re on a timer, the engine probably wouldn’t be able to support, and, most importantly, we’d still be waiting for the game to come out.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 week ago:
He was a professional detective. You know, before he erased his brain with massive quantities of alcohol and drugs.
It’s up to you to decide who he is now.
Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau, reincarnation of Kras Mazov and art cop, is one of the many possibilities where gathering and putting information together would be… secondary, to say the least.
Just put your points in Drama or Inland Empire, and dull concepts like “reality” will be quite irrelevant for our good detective (much to Kim’s stoic chagrin). 🤷♂️
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 week ago:
You’re playing a middle aged detective (though he looks older, or at least more worn down) who just woke up from an alcoholic coma after taking all the drugs, unable to remember anything about himself or the world he lives in, except for the fact that there might have been a woman, which was somehow both the best and the worst, and possibly some trivia about disco.
I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to remember or understand everything the game throws at you, at least on a first playthrough. That’s what Kim is for.
Just go with the flow, and remember that in this game failure often leads to more enjoyable outcomes than success.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 week ago:
Why am i spending so much time wandering at the street level where everywhere just looks and feels the same.
What game are you fucking playing?
“Looks and feels he same”!?
What are you even going on about? Every neighborhood, every nook and cranny, feels different and has a story to tell!Night City is the real protagonist of the game! I could spend hours upon hours just walking those streets, experiencing the city (and have), and I’m far from the only one…
And the voice acting of V (I played female) is so overreacted, it’s one of the cringiest performances in gaming
I’m sorry, what? Cherami Leigh got a well deserved BAFTA nomination for that performance!
(Lost to Laura Bailey for her work as Abby on The Last of Us Part II.)What, were you playing with your eyes closed while listening to something else…?
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 weeks ago:
Also a certain obsession with containers, if I recall correctly.
- Comment on Is that a fucking threat 3 weeks ago:
Correlation doesn’t imply causation… but in this case it probably does, let’s be frank.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 3 weeks ago:
Turn it into a pigsty.
Use the pigs to feed the hungry.
Also, breed the pigs to look like Trump.
(I mean, if the Danes could get a pig breed to look like their flag, I’m sure Americans can get a pig breed to look like Trump. I mean, they’re already almost there!)
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 4 weeks ago:
Actually, it’s about the teeth.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 weeks ago:
The lack of perspective from leftist that say that.
Those ain’t leftists. They’re enlightened centrists. I.e., poorly disguised fascists trolling and sowing dissent.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 weeks ago:
Sure, they would do that, if good moderators were a thing that could exist. Which they most evidently aren’t, as demonstrated by every single example to have ever cursed the world with their existence.
What we get instead are the same old powermods from reddit, arbitrarily ruling as unelected tyrants over dozens of unrelated communities, often across multiple instances, banning users across all of them for misinterpreted comments (can’t seemingly be a moderator without having skin as thin as rice paper, and without lacking any semblance of reading comprehension) or for not agreeing with their own personal lunacies. And the worst of them are admins to boot, or even the developers themselves.
Anyone who wants to be a moderator will inevitably lack any ability to be one, and will almost certainly be acting in bad faith, if not at first then the second they’ve had a taste of their power over their petty little kingdom, and should immediately be permabanned from all instances for the safety of the users.
But obviously we can’t force anyone who doesn’t want to be one to take the position, lest they end up becoming even worse out of spite.
The point of being able to upvote and downvote, and block if necessary, is to make moderators unnecessary (not that they don’t do a good job of that themselves, of course, but this removes any possible excuse that they might be a necessary evil). That’s the lesson we should have learned from reddit: moderators are unnecessary, obsolete, and extremely harmful; they will ruin any social network they infest, and if they’re admins on top of that they’ll be several orders of magnitude worse, and enshittify the platform as much as possible.
At least here we can block their communities and instances infested by the worst of them, I suppose, cut away the worst of the cancer, but that just makes this a least worst situation, not a good or even tolerable one.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 weeks ago:
good moderator
When it comes to social media, that’s an oxymoron.
- Comment on Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed 1 month ago:
Same reason fax is still a thing you need if you want to do anything official or business related, why PC-98 was a thing, why their smartphones are weird, why they invented the term Galapagos syndrome, or why they use laptops that still have compact disk drives and look like this:
No, really, this is a 2025 model.
Japan innovates early. They innovate fast. And then they sort of… stop.
Technology in Japan looks futuristic for a while, then the rest of the world catches up, but, since Japan has already been there for a decade and made different decisions their technology looks… odd, and then the world carries on, while Japan seems stuck in some kind of retrofuturistic limbo.
Of course this is happening with different innovations at different times and paces, so from an outside perspective Japan is always a weird combination of futuristic, weird old alternate future, and just plain weird.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Monstrous is what it is.
The very concept of earning one’s living, as if we didn’t deserve to be alive without sacrificing said life for the privilege.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
Steaming seems a bit too extreme… it might damage or peel off the labels, or even damage the discs themselves, depending on the temperature (and I don’t want to see what it’d do to tape!).
Personally I’ve always found a microfiber cloth to be sufficient.
- Comment on Mermaid Diaries 1 month ago:
They aren’t as cool, sure, but they’re still covered in chromatophores (and cuttlefish also have ink, so the point still stands anyway).
I just couldn’t find a gif of one using them, so I got one of a cuttlefish. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Mermaid Diaries 1 month ago:
Who cares about pens and ink?
Damn things got an HD screen all over their bodies, they don’t need ink to write whatever they want all over themselves…
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 1 month ago:
I have limited time, watching certain gaming channels lets me know about games I might be interested in.
Then I can wishlist them, purchase them when they’re on sale, and never find the time to play them.
I also have limited skills. Watching certain gaming channels lets me experience games I wouldn’t be able to progress in if I played them myself.
Also, some are entertaining because of the way the person plays. Watching Jon forget about his damn blunderbuss cavalry until they are again slaughtered to the last man amuses me.
I don’t play for an audience, so I can constantly pause and micromanage the game, and therefore don’t tend to make these amusing mistakes. I’m also not as good as most professionals. Therefore watching certain professionals play certain games can be more entertaining than playing them myself.
Finally, there’s also the reaction factor, same as with film or TV or music reactions. Watching someone experience that surprise or shock for the first time triggers the mirror neuron, and is the closest I can get to experiencing it myself for the first time again.
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 1 month ago:
OK, the teflon one is monstrous and should get its perpetrators perpetually banned from any position of responsibility, and the drunk bat one depends on whether they force fed the poor critters alcohol or they just ate fermented fruit by themselves, but the rest look like perfectly cromulent science, especially the pasta sauce one… that’s important research, and should get government funding.
- Comment on AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities 1 month ago:
Garbage in, garbage out.
Especially when you shove it into a garbage maker.
- Comment on Kinky 1 month ago:
There’s always that one.
Same with close family.
- Comment on tall tails 2 months ago:
Smaller dinosaurs might have had fluff, bigger ones probably didn’t, like most big mammals.
Giraffes have hair, though, and woolly mammoths were a thing, so big fluffy dinosaurs might have been a thing, especially in colder climates.
Also, looking at bird behaviour, I wouldn’t be surprised if even mostly bald dinos had some colorful feathers on their arms, tail, or head for displaying…
- Comment on You are stardust. 2 months ago:
Most of the atoms you’re made of were born in stars long dead; the rest were born in the big bang.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 months ago:
There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.
Eh, watch some French protests, especially ones involving French farmers. Spraying manure into government buildings is one of the classics.
As long as you don’t kill anybody (or any pets or livestock), it’s still just a protest.
(And Medialab AI doesn’t seem to have any human employees left, only executives and marketing drones, so no one would get hurt if it got burned down, on the contrary, it’d be a net benefit for humanity).
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Thing is, back in those days computers were deterministic.
A certain action caused a certain reaction, and always the same reaction (given the same context).
Anyone could learn that, as long as they bothered to read the screen (a surprisingly rare talent, to be fair).
Now, at least on windows, it’s anyone’s guess what random mayhem a certain action might cause, or where the interface to perform that action has gone after the last update, supposing it still exists and the system survived the update.
No one can learn that. And anyone foolish enough to try will certainly be driven insane.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
I’m an IT person and I like computers, as long as they’ve never been turned on and they stay that way.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
Batman is a lunatic occasionally playing rich playboy to finance his crusade against crime, born from untreated trauma.
And most of his villains are just as insane as him.
Gotham is basically a vicious circle of maniacs driving each other further insane.
- Comment on Stop! 2 months ago:
Nice. The good old times…
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 2 months ago:
That’s a cyberman, from Star Trek.
