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- Comment on Just sayin’ 4 days ago:
So Helldivers primes idiots to accept fascism and xenophobia? Maybe we should stop romanticizing authoritarianism in our entertainment.
- Comment on Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs 6 days ago:
Well that’s less neat.
We have a place like that locally that’s pretty terrible to its employees.
- Comment on Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs 1 week ago:
Well that’s neat.
- Comment on Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs 1 week ago:
The lesson here is that there’s literally no reason to care at all about theft from a corporation, because they do not care about you.
- Comment on Curious 🤔 1 week ago:
Because “say” is less repetitive and we’re more inclined to decide that arbitrary combinations of consonants and vowels that babies babble are one of the many variations on names for parents. Babies are pretty likely to stumble across vocalizations like “mama” or “dada” just by babbling. It doesn’t make it any less of a useful way to start learning language, given how much they tend to be positively reinforced for those vocalizations, but it’s not like they really know that’s what they’re doing at first.
“Say” requires a lot more intention or luck.
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208 2 weeks ago:
Hilarious that OP and the author are dismissing this as a conspiracy when the article even explicitly says that the author was able to join the discord in question and found exactly what it was described as, an astroturfing platform. Totally impossible that an announcement could have been deleted after it was leaked.
- Comment on Centrist Eye Exam 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mean there are definitely some useful idiots who are completely detached from reality involved, but I don’t buy for a second that it’s organic in its inception.
- Comment on Centrist Eye Exam 5 weeks ago:
Also applies to a lot of lemmites that claim to be leftists.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 month ago:
I’m just going to stop looking at articles with remotely sensational headlines.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 1 month ago:
Updates suck. Gaming was better when they didn’t exist.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 1 month ago:
The idea of buying characters is itself wild. Games as a service has really screwed up player expectations.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 1 month ago:
This is legit. I remember playing Soul Calibur 3 I think on PS2 pretty regularly with a couple of friends. One of them owned the game and would stomp us until I asked to borrow it for a while so the other two of us could get good. A few weeks later I was doing bomb and air grab loops with Takin and we were pretty evenly matched, while other friends who would play occasionally were pretty easy to beat. There was no big competitive online play, we got better by figuring out how to counter each other because we had similar amounts of experience with the game.
I’m not sure how you replicate that experience with randos.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 month ago:
It’s much easier to build momentum around a franchise when you release 7 games in 10 years than 2 games in 7 years.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Same. It’s a bit silly.
- Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis 2 months ago:
So is the ISP you’re using a scam? Your electric company? Your own job? The place where you get your food? Your doctor is a scammer? The people who maintain the roads?
- Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis 2 months ago:
How am I meant to take an article that opens by claiming the entire economy is based on scams and gambling seriously?
- Comment on YouTube sponsorship starter pack 2 months ago:
Also Rocket Money.
- Comment on Video games, random friend requests, and scammers! 2 months ago:
Aren’t those attempts to jack your steam account? I remember hearing something a few years back about people being able to “recover” an account by having a certain number of friends put in a ticket saying it was stolen.
Or maybe that was discord. Either way, as a result I don’t add randos.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works 2 months ago:
It honestly turned out great, it just took a while. The clients and servers both run pretty smoothly these days and the modding potential is crazy. Hands down the best game for voice RP just because of how expressive the body language is.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works 2 months ago:
Early access can be great. DayZ spent years in early access and was at the time an incredibly fun janky experience that myself and a lot of other players have fond, chaotic memories of. It’s neat to see how far it came, and the game that exists today wouldn’t be here without that process. Those memories of exploding legs and invisible zombies are worth something.
If you absolutely must have a finished game when you spend money, don’t pay for early access. Nobody’s forcing it on you. But for those who like the look of a project and want to help get it off the ground while also getting to participate in its early stages, it can be rewarding.
And yeah, there are going to be games that flop in early access, but there are also plenty of games that flop on official release. I’d take some unique and interesting jank over something polished but boring and uninspired any day.
- Comment on Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together? 2 months ago:
Presumably if they’re just skeletons they were animated this way anyway. Otherwise they’d just be a pile of bones with no way to move or hold themselves together.
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 2 months ago:
How many devs actually take advantage of it though?
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 2 months ago:
Unfortunately that doesn’t help with multiplayer games that rely on steam
- Comment on Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis 2 months ago:
The difference is that Europe and Canada don’t have ICE shooting people in the streets. Obviously they should get away from Twitter too, and some of them have. The US, however, is in the middle of a struggle to maintain some semblance of democracy in the face of a government in which all three branches are at the moment dominated by an administration that cares about nothing at all but ego and power. Official policy is at this point open malice with no meaningful pretense of civility or justification. We have gestapo on the street harassing and disappearing American citizens on the basis of their skin color and accents, and people are being killed by these same people for non-violent resistance.
This is not a situation in which our official mouthpieces for those parts of the government that haven’t yet been dominated to post official communications to a Nazi bar that’s directly connected to that same administration. Even a shift to something as simple as posting this kind of stuff on official government websites would be an improvement, and would be an actual form of meaningful praxis in breaking away from the big platforms that led us down this road in the first place.
Even if they cross-posted their announcements to social media, it would reclaim some small degree of autonomy for legitimate representation. It isn’t the most dire requirement for the times we’re in, but it shows that these institutions and the people leading them are more than happy to sit on their hands and accept the status quo until they’re physically forced to stop doing so. It’s just one more bit of practice maintaining the extremely dangerous habit of helpless complacency even in the approach to matters that are at the end of the day not difficult to enact.
It’s a dead canary with a note pinned to it about how some day we might have to worry about carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Comment on Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis 2 months ago:
How is the momentum to reverse authoritarianism going to coalesce in a country where even something as organized as a city can’t get it together to stop using the literal Nazi pedophile social media site to make official statements?
- Comment on Drag 2 months ago:
For a second I thought this said “Subaru people” and my first thought was “But we’re all lesbians.”
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 months ago:
This sounds stupid, but I’ll probably watch it
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 2 months ago:
Yeah, but I’m not sure “debate” in the sense the internet uses it has any relevance anyway. Debates in the formal sense are basically an academic sport, but what people on the internet do is basically just aggressively dribbling at people who have no interest in playing basketball.
Like, generally people on the internet just start trying to debate bystanders making casual comments or sharing their opinions who aren’t in it to prove anything. It’s kind of weird.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 2 months ago:
The entire spirit of bickering about everything on the internet as if making some point or dunking on someone actually has some meaningful social value is exhausting regardless of the particular viewpoint being espoused. Like, yeah, if it’s dirt stupid and inherently destructive it’s worse, but I see the same sort of behavior from all sorts of different perspectives and none of it is good.