mrmaplebar
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- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
Iran is probably going to make Iraq look like child's play.
America is now at a crossroads of bad choices: we either surrender and retreat (further entrenching anti-American power in the region for decades to come), or we commit harder to winning by putting boots on the ground (beginning what will be a long and bloody war for no reason).
Trump may think there's an easy out on Iran, but when our best option is surrender it's already a shit show.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
I thought George W Bush and his admin was the worst Republican America could come up with... that was, until 2016...
I'd take W over Trump any day. Before the Iran War maybe there was an argument in Trump's favor. But today? No contest.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
Not really sure why anyone would hate any other president more...
I guess there's like Andrew Jackson, but even then we're so far removed from that time it'd be weird to say you "hate" him.
- Comment on Box3D | A revolutionary new physics engine developed by Erin Catto in collaboration with a Valve dev 3 days ago:
Cross platform determinism
This sounds like a big selling point to me.
From what I understand, many of the existing physics engines are non-deterministic, which can make networking physics interactions in certain types of games pretty difficult.
- Comment on The perfect day alone starter pack 1 week ago:
This but gimmie sunny, [diet] soda, and Age of Empires 2.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
I get what you're saying, but it's worth mentioning that even a Mini ITX board has a larger foot print (6.7" squared) than the Steam Machine's absolutely tiny 6" cubic form factor. It's really a very small device!
FWIW, I've always found that small form factor parts are a little more expensive too.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
To be fair, i'd say the Steam Machine is relatively cost competitive with other PC pre-builds. DIY will save you money but you'll never end up with a system that's as small or quiet, and you have to really know what you're doing.
The Steam Machine is not such a bad deal really, aside from the fact that every PC is a bad deal in 2026.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
"Told you Sheela had no friends."
- Comment on Sonic Game Recomendation? 2 weeks ago:
- Sonic 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles on the Sega Genesis.
- Sonic Generations
- Sonic Mania
- Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (Fan Game)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Crazy how by simply rebranding "gambling" to "prediction markets", it went from being something illegal to something where people can now bet on anything at any time.
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 2 weeks ago:
Yep, that's slop alright.
One big tell to me is how highlights always get slightly brighter just before hitting the outline. It's kind of a similar effect to when you turn the sharpness filter up on a TV, and it looks terrible. And yeah, there are a ton of strange noisy messy shape salad parts that are a defining characteristic of "AI" "art".
- Comment on Girls is it just me that gets really emotional when singing and I cry so hard that I have to change my blankets? 😭 2 weeks ago:
Some people really want to believe that there's an elusive magical mystery female sex organ that holds a large amount of liquid, I guess. Anything but accept a little pee in their love life I guess... 🫠
- Comment on Girls is it just me that gets really emotional when singing and I cry so hard that I have to change my blankets? 😭 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, "squirting" is known to be mostly just urine.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says "YouTube monetizes Xbox better than we do", ahead of expected layoffs | Satya Nadella bemoans performance of Xbox 3 weeks ago:
That's an insane thing to say, especially considering most people streaming and making videos about games are probably not using an Xbox to do it, let alone making any money doing it.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Although I'd say it generally skews to the political left, it's a mistake to think of the fediverse as a monoculture. Lemmy as an open source technology is politically neutral, as is ActivityPub as a federation protocol.
At the same time, there are a few hard left communist "tankie" servers, and the creators of Lemmy identify as Leninists, and these types of people tend to be blindly pro-China and pro-Russia.
Personally I do not view either China or Russia in a favorable light... Having said that, I'm not sure I view any country in a favorable light right now, aside from I guess Canada and I guess New Zealand.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 4 weeks ago:
"We noticed it was some nazi shit but we did it anyway, except in Germany where it's illegal." Pretty wild defense.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough! I'm genuinely not trying to be a hater.
However, there is a line between mythology (a set of tales and myths spawning from a specific historical culture) and fantasy (a fictitious construct from the start). This particular game seems to be going pretty far into the realm of fantasy with the jello cube and the cinematic universe style storytelling, but maybe all of the God of War games have been like that, I don't know.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
Yikes... Imagine pulling this pathetic culture war shit while PC parts are up 400% and gas is >$5 per gallon......
Anyway, I think the reason you dislike the game and the reason I'm disliking it are very different. I can get behind calling it slop, because it looks like something a corpo AI hallucinated, however.
Gotta say, it's pretty wild that the mere sight of a woman is the new line for "woke" though.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
I didn't mean to hit a sure spot, and good for people if they like it, but it just seems so all over the place...
Originally GoW was Greek mythology, and then the last couple of games were all Norse mythology, but now it looks like a jumble of random mishmash ideas and aesthetics. You'd be forgiven for trying this was a Mortal Kombat cutscene...
I guess it's like a mythology cinematic universe, or something? Like, what culture/mythos is the jelly cube from?
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
Wasn't this game about mythology?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
a lot of people i know irl including me like ai,
Yeah, no offense but you certainly write like someone who likes AI. I'll give you that.
however when i use reddit or youtube or whatever i see a dozen ai bad content. why is that?
Because AI sucks, both in terms of the quality of what is produced as well as the effort by which people use it to produce "content".
It's primary real use is for fraudulence and con artistry. Furthermore, it's a direct affront to humanity and culture. It is the for-profit technological strip mining of all of human knowledge, art and creativity for the benefit of the ultra wealthy investor class, in spite of the rules regarding intellectual property that they themselves created. It's also intellectually lazy, often wrong, and making us all stupider. Finally, it is an exploitative technology that is being used to replace and subvert human workers.
In other words, generative AI is practically indefensible. There's almost nothing good to say about it, so what do you expect people to say?
surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage
Are you familiar with the concept of an investment bubble?
The basic idea is that investors at large end up putting waaaaay too much money into a speculative asset, to the point where its market value greatly exceeds its practical/intrinsic value to the economy itself. We've seen this happen countless times in modern human history, from real estate bubbles, to the ".com bubble", to Dutch tulips.
In capitalism, value is subjective. You might value something a lot more than I do, or vice versa. But it's also possible for things to be generally overvalued or undervalued by society as a whole.
Regardless how any of us feel about AI (for or against), it is objectively overvalued by investors. Anthropic was recently valued at nearly a $1,000,000,000,000, roughly the same market value as massive giants like Samsung or Walmart, despite being a company that has only ever lost money.
- Comment on Working on my politics-free lemmy experience, what words should I add next? 1 month ago:
OP made a post trying to figure out how to make his town less lame but also wants to avoid all "politics"... 😮💨
What if I told you that everything is "politics", be it buying groceries, entertainment, wearing clothes, healthcare, getting around town, having sex, owning a home or getting paid?
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 2 months ago:
"When I don't get the result I want I call the election rigged."
Who do you sound like?
Americans will point the blame at anyone other than themselves.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 2 months ago:
Vote in the primaries.
- Comment on Ireland is a Catholic majority country. Yet all the Americans I know who identify as Irish are Protestant. Why is that? 2 months ago:
While the Irish were certainly looked down upon by other Europeans, they were still European Christians and therefore white.
That's a strange definition of "white", to be honest. People put way too much emphasis on skin color, and "white" vs "non-white" is a ridiculously simplistic and narrow way to view anthropology.
The Irish and Scottish are ethnically and culturally Gaels, a Celtic people, and (as far back as history is recorded) the native people of their respective lands. Viking and Roman Catholic influences were imposed on Ireland through conquest and religious missions. Christianity was made to emulate and adapt elements of Gaelic mythology (for example: Brigid -> Saint Bridget) which made it easier for the Irish people to adopt. The Roman expansion wiped out and assimilated many of Northwestern Europe's Celtic peoples, other than those in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
That is to say, ethnically Irish people are not Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians, Romantic, Germanic, Russians, or anything else.
Discrimination against Irish people in Europe and North America was a documented fact of life going well into the 20th century.
Today's Ireland is a somewhat diverse place, with a mix of racial and religious backgrounds and is, thankfully, much more secular than it was just a few decades ago.
As for why Irish-Americans around you might identify as protestant, it's probably either because they come from a Northern Irish (Anglican) background or because they they are really just Americans evangelicals searching for a distant familial cultural heritage to attach to. They best way to find out is to ask them.
- Comment on Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated 2 months ago:
Yeah, we can tell...
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 months ago:
It probably will, for some people, at least until Valve releases an ARM-powered Deck running full SteamOS.
I think Android is the weak link here. Who wants to use an increasingly locked down operating system?
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 2 months ago:
I'm not mad because they go above and beyond to support Linux, which I prefer to use.
None of the other stores do even the bare minimum for Linux users, while Valve has helped make it easier to play almost every game.
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 2 months ago:
Tasted like it came out of the wrong hole.
- Comment on Interesting shirt 2 months ago:
Plot twist: he's a gynecologist