Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 1 day ago:
The thing i am hyped here for is Arcane possibly going independent. This was never a studio for being confined to the hard structure of a company like Microsoft or Bethesda, who put monetization first.
I really hope we get a revival of a studio thats comparable to “Through the looking Glass” out of this.
- Comment on Reservoir Dogs [1992] - I don't tip 1 day ago:
Mr. Pink sees through the emotional extortion.
- Comment on They both have similar abilities, but only one can win 4 days ago:
Max Payne all the way - someone who can shrug off shotgun blasts by downing some painkillers will always win, at least when he has an ample supply of oxy.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
They only need subsidies because the costs of fossil fuels get externalized. If every fossil fuel company had to sequester all the CO2 they just dump into the atmosphere, they would probably go bankrupt.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
“I’m thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will take the future of our grandchildren out into the backyard and shoot it into the head until it dies on the altar of fossil fuel profits.”
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
Cool, lets remove all subsidies from fossil fuel and nuclear power generation, including making them clean up their pollution instead of externalizing those costs, and lets see how well that goes.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
Physical media on PC is as dead as it can get. I haven’t touched an optical medium in the last 15 years, and i don’t have a drive going on 10 years now. I also know of noone around me that is still using CDs/DVDs, the last time i messed with DVDs was when ripping every last one of them, and even my grandma has opted for converting her music to FLAC and freeing up the largish space her music Cds were using, making her collection both save from bitrot and a lot more readily available. I could get behind distribution per USB-Stick, but sticks that are fast enough to handle 100GB+ installations comfortably aren’t cheap in comparison to optical media, and in most cases it would only mean they are used for a single time when copying them to a network storage, in the end just creating tech waste.
DRM-Free installers - that’s where it’s at, and that is what i store; alternatively, for PS1/2 games, compressed CD images are the way to go.
Collectors Editions are the exception, but even here I would prefer the USB stick format if it had redundancy built in - nowadays that is the truly universal storage that any computer can use without needing extra hardware.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
The consumers contract for the content is with sony, not with someone else. The underlying structure doesn’t interest anyone except lawyers. Sony should be mandated to refund content that they pull from libraries, or they have to ensure that they don’t lose access to the content they are “selling”. Also, it should be enshrined in law that if you only get a licence that can be pulled anytime that this information is very, very clear when paying for content, and not to hide this information on page 23 or so in their licence agreement, where they redefine the meaning of buy, own, purchase… and so on to something that very much has NOT the meaning of those words.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
no gooning in this one. it’s a bit janky, but the right kind of jank - feels like the type of game that was released in the later PS1, early PS2 era.
- Comment on Blocking 1 week ago:
Lemmy can’t, but Piefed can block by keywords.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Ed-0: Zombie Uprising - A japanese 3rd Person Zombie Action Roguelike. It’s silly, it’s fun, it’s pretty hard sometimes!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I mainly give positive reviews to games where you see and feel that it is a labor of love by someone who has a coherent vision of what their game should become. This fits for example Star Valor , Tiny Rogues , Core Keeper , (and of course Terraria), Repetendium , Utopia must Fall and so on. Bonus points if the Devs actually have an eye on the Steam Forums - for communication with their players and to accept Bug Reports - they can have a discord if they want to, but don’t make it mandatory.
Workshop support is a big plus from my side! It’s very much the same reason i like things i can repair myself - it simply increases the lifespan of the game for potentially decades. That is good value!
Language support is dead last for me. English isn’t my birth language, but nearly every media i consumed in the last 30 years has been in English, and most german voice actors are absolutely awful in my opinion compared to the original - the only exceptions are games that were actually developed in german-speaking areas, like the Gothic - series.
Promoting my local culture is also not important to me. I have my own culture at my doorstep - i’m more interested in what other cultures do. Nationalism is a pretty hard no from my side. I also don’t care about quick price swings since i am a patient gamer; my last preorder was Cyberpunk 2077, and then i had to wait years until it was finally ready to be played the way it was supposed to. That taught me that it’s for the best to just wait anyways; It’s cheaper, and it’s more stable.
- Comment on Norwegians supporters in New York City 2 weeks ago:
The combination of the corrupt Fifa and the corrupt US government makes both wordings pretty much identical.
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 2 weeks ago:
We need to burn down the corporate HQs of OpenAI and Anthropic for that.
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 2 weeks ago:
wanted to say this. If they were that concerned about gaming becoming unaffordable, they should have tried to keep the cost of hardware lower, not going with the insane market prices.
- Comment on Good bye sweet troubles 2 weeks ago:
That’s a waste of other peoples time, not yours.
- Comment on Norwegians supporters in New York City 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Norwegians supporters in New York City 2 weeks ago:
Fuck the World Cup. It’s like a remake of the Nazi Olympics, only with more corruption.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No, that should really not be your experience. I can only echo what others say: talk to your doctor. If you think about that your vagina should be capable of giving birth as a absolute maximum, an inch of a single finger should not hurt if you are turned on at all. Don’t be ashamed - i’ve met multiple women who had issues like that and were able to overcome them with medical help, and if your partner is worth the trouble, he will be supporting you because he wants you to enjoy sex too.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Just wanted to make sure you know that this isn’t my blog.
I agree. Machine learning is something very useful! It’s sad that the moment a computer was able to spit out coherent sentences, humanity lost their minds. I specifically have a grudge against Altman and Amodei - the intentionally misleading statements suggestive of this being the way of getting an AGI really did a number on society.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
I mainly find their CEO problematic, and their focus on AI does not bode well for the future.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
I pay for Metager and i do really recommend it. You pay a pittance per search while being free of the crap that infests the net. Kagi comes with it’s own set of issues.
- Comment on Welcome to New York City 2 weeks ago:
There was a spot close to where i lived close to a kindergarten - it was a driveway for emergency vehicles, crossing over the sidewalk and closed off. Every fucking day for 2 hours in the morning and intermittent during the afternoon you had to dodge illegally parked cars there, most of the time not even leaving enough space for a wheelchair or a baby stroller while they dropped their own kids off.
There were perfectly fine legal parking spaces a few meters down the road.
It was more than “mildly infuriating”, because it speaks of either a lack of self-awareness or a “fuck you, got mine"-mentality.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 3 weeks ago:
There are also people who have limited mobility. If it’s 2 street corners away, whats keeping the driver which gets paid from making the delivery instead of fucking off to the other end of town?
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
At least they are large enough to be a target for an AR-15
- Comment on Into the rabbit hole we go! 3 weeks ago:
Organic chemistry in a nutshell.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 weeks ago:
Wanted to say exactly that. The EU Commission is seemingly actively pushing against everything common sense EU citizens are for, while the EU parliament is busy rejecting the BS coming from the Commission.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 weeks ago:
Fuck the Eu Commission. They are traitors to everything the EU stands for.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Play safe yall 4 weeks ago:
I’d prefer the emperor not to wrap around my dick if engaging with sexy eldar, they have for sure other ways to prevent heretical offspring that don’t involve thousand year old near-corpses lol