eldebryn
@eldebryn@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'Mask of the Betrayer: the last of the boomer cRPG classics' - Warlockracy 21 hours ago:
It always felt obvious to me that it was a metaphor, I didn’t think I’ve met someone who legit believed boomer shooters were boomer games.
Most boomers, I think, were too old by the time video games were exciting and commonplace to start drawing numerous people so it’s fairly rare for a baby boomer to be a gamer.
- Comment on 'Mask of the Betrayer: the last of the boomer cRPG classics' - Warlockracy 1 day ago:
Maybe the explosions played a role in the term being used like that but I’m fairly confident age is the primary dimension here.
Heck I’ve seen people use “boomer X” to refer to older-meta versions of decks in magic the gathering. Decks which had zombies not explosives.
- Comment on 'Mask of the Betrayer: the last of the boomer cRPG classics' - Warlockracy 1 day ago:
People in comments are talking the “boomer cRPG” alias way too literally when it’s just a metaphor for “old school” much like we had for years with unreal and older Dooms being dubbed “boomer shooters”.
Yes boomer is used metaphorically to just mean “old” instead of “made in the 50s-60s or made by someone of that generation”.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 1 week ago:
Allowed to live sure but I’d argue they shouldn’t be allowed to exist as billionaires.
that kind of wealth is just immoral, unreasonable by the scale of human’s lifetime, and exploitative by nature.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 weeks ago:
The majority of the world considered slavery and women being subservient normal, that didn’t make it right.
You think it’s brain dead to reject a digital ID.
I think it’s braindead to sacrifice privacy for the sake of safety, especially when it’s so transparent that the goal is control and suppression and not “protecting the children”.
To each his own.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 weeks ago:
The problem is not the ID cards that other countries have. That would be reasonable, even if one could argue NINO is sufficient.
The problem is the online/app nature if them which, in conjunction with OSA, makes it dystopian control scenario.
I’m not ignoring those upsides that you mentioned, I just didn’t mention them or wasn’t aware. I like most of them for what it matters.
But I do still consider OSA and digital IDs an authoritarian measures and I do find this to be of high enough importance to potentially overshadow all of the above.
What’s the point of living in a, arguably, more socialist state if your privacy doesn’t exist? I’m not a bloody tanky and I don’t like that angle, like many others.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 4 weeks ago:
His supposedly labour government has also doubled down on censoring wikipedia, calling people pedo-sympathizers for resisting absurd internet control laws that literally affect every digital facing international company, and is now promoting a digital ID straight out every digital era authoritatians or fascist’s wet dreams.
Is he better than sunak? Probably? Kinda? That’s a very low bar though and the fact that we even talk about it is sad. Their actions have been so much unlike what people think about when voting labour parties that it’s surreal.
People reasonably feel cheated on given the party’s supposed focus.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine' 5 weeks ago:
They have AA off because they recommend upscaling on literally everything. Upscaling sorta acts like AA and they are not used together.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 month ago:
You have (cyberpunk 2077), you just failed to comprehend it.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
I see, that’s fair.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
I mean this respectfully, but that wasn’t an actual answer.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
Out of legit curiosity, how many models do you know trained exclusively on public domain data, which are actually useful?
- Comment on Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking? 2 months ago:
Because it’s not about the kids.
The UK, or any government, could instead use the money for OSA to create a protocol/mandate that phone and net providers need to adhere to, which enables parents to restrict to adult content. Heck, phone-only sims and adult traffic control administered via “parent accounts” would deal with almost the entire problem seeing how most young people use phones for internet access anyways instead of laptops and desktops.
But it’s not about the kids. It’s about control and having an excuse to abolish privacy.
- Comment on Prince William and Kate to move into new eight-bedroom home worth £16m - This will be their 6th 'Forever home' 2 months ago:
really puts me off the idea of incest
… wha-?
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 x HALO: ODST Legendary Warbond 2 months ago:
I will be starting MCC Halo 3 soon, BUT I’m getting impression I will have to put a stop at some point.
- Comment on Three people charged with supporting Palestine Action 2 months ago:
Isn’t that what’s called Astroturfing? Been happening for years sadly, I’m sure of it.