hzl

@hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Rocket Money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately that doesn’t help with multiplayer games that rely on steam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds stupid, but I’ll probably watch it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK officials may be barred from US over X ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I implore you to stop using the drake meme template⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are definitely way too many Drake memes on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't believe them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know that for most systems where the bot asks you to describe your issue, if you start swearing it’ll connect you directly to a human?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Consoles are normally sold at a loss if I remember correctly. Companies tend to bet on people buying enough games to make up the difference, because generally people do. Most people aren’t sitting on a console with only 3 or 4 games for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil (Gameboy Color) final build now recovered!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Barry! We’re Barry, Barry!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How South Korea wants to prevent gaming’s worst behavior⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fines in general for large companies need to be adjusted to their profits rather than just being unrelated big looking numbers. A $1 million fine looks like a lot, but if the company made even $3 million from the behavior that landed them the fine, they’re still incentivized to play dirty. If the fine if is a tiny fraction of the profits, as they so often seem to be, it’s even less effective.

  Want an effective fine? Figure out how much being crooked made them and charge them double. Create an actual incentive for businesses to be fair in their practices. They’re definitely not going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If SAG hadn’t gone on strike, Netflix would also have been making agreements with actors to use their voice and likeness without actually offering future work too. Was SAG wrong to push against this?

  Just because someone makes a deal doesn’t mean it isn’t a toxic business practice that’s bad for the industry or the people involved in it. People also agree to work for subpar wages, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push for higher minimum wages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warhammer 40K: 'Dark Heresy's Upcoming Alpha Launches Next Week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what we need in a world of increasing authoritarianism? Franchises that initially satirized fascism before being a reason for their fanbase to fetishize it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK issues £1 million fine to adult platform for failing to comply with age verification rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you mean by that. UK’s online identification laws create a data security liability and try to fine people for not contributing to the problem. It seems way easier to just block the ip and then if people want to get around it they can use a vpn or push to repeal the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that it has nudity. It’s that it had a child riding around on a fully naked adult in a horse mask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK issues £1 million fine to adult platform for failing to comply with age verification rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a good argument for blocking UK ip addresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone's got a fetish, I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even know sweat bees could sting. When I drove a cab I used to sit in a field with my feet sticking out the window and they’d inevitably come land on me and suck on my toes. I suppose it wouldn’t make much sense to sting your food source if you don’t have to, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meaningless hair splitting. I still have my entire collection of SNES cartridges. They’re still playable, and no one can take them short of robbing me. If my ownership of those games was limited to a license that could be revoked, that might not be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is absolutely untrue. Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files. No serial numbers to redeem, no servers, no downloads or updates. Sometimes you’d get a booklet with the game that had some codes in it that the game would ask for on startup to make making copies a little more difficult, but that was it.

  You’d literally have everything you need just on the CD, disk, or cartridge. We 100% owned the game and the system it was played on, and the only way to revoke that would have been to physically break into your house and steal it.

  This whole games as services thing is about 20 years old tops, and it wasn’t even remotely approaching the standard for quite a while after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not Commenting Is Commenting [Aftermath]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that a term that just means “paying enough attention to be aware of the world around you” is used derisively is incredibly indicative of how much of a braindead mess a lot of the population has become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t give them a dime until it’s for Elder Scrolls 6 or Fallout 5.