MrOtingocni
@MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
- Comment on It was a simpler time 1 week ago:
That’s wild
- Comment on It was a simpler time 1 week ago:
That’s great, I have a transference kink. You want to chat with me wearing nothing but house slippers and a clown nose? C’mon, I can sense that you want to.
- Comment on Anon is a victim 1 week ago:
Sometimes I buy myself a fancy dinner first but ultimately it still feels hollow and transactional.
- Comment on Anon is a victim 1 week ago:
sigh I haven’t been sexually harassed in so long I have to grab my own ass.
- Comment on Satan Was The Good Guy This Whole Time? 1 week ago:
Maybe. Probably. No refunds though.
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- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 2 weeks ago:
Yup, and there’s a little quid pro quo, too: You have to stay but they make you president in the corporate structure over the acquisition and probably get stock offerings. Kind of expected, but I’m sure it’s nice to be able to say you’re a senior VP or whatever in a much bigger company.
They were just counting down the days for when their contracts were up.
Kind of a shame but also understandable. You put your life, blood sweat and tears, all the overtime, every waking moment, to build something and if the opportunity to cash out arrives they almost always take it. Otherwise they’re just riding the wolf by the ears until they crash from burnout.
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 2 weeks ago:
Pretty interesting that both Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka (the two remaining co-founders by the time of the EA acquisition) both bailed at the same time in 2012. After quite a number of lead developers and writers jumped ship.
So, it took 5 years of trying to tough it out under corporate ownership before they were like ‘this is bullshit, let’s go’.
And BioWare, who made so many great titles, didn’t produce anything particularly noteworthy after that.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 4 weeks ago:
It’s almost as if 5 days is the most sustainable amount of work you can consistently squeeze out of someone and the prices will always rise to ensure it will take that amount or more to survive. 🤔
Sounds like a rigged game on a treadmill to me.
- Comment on I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake? 4 weeks ago:
If I recall correctly, it takes about 100 lbs of force to pull the head off of a chicken. So while a strong person with a really good grip could do it, it’s hard to do with just arm strength alone. As soon as you employ back and leg muscle into it, with a way to pin it down though, it would be fairly easy.
So, applying that to a snake, and I’m not sure how the skin and ligament structure compares to a chick, by hand, is probably really difficult if not very unlikely. However if you step on the snake (which, btw, is now an evil demon-snake from dimension-x out to kill because real snakes are cute and did nothing wrong) and wrap the other half around the wrist, it might be possible to leverage your whole body strength.
- Comment on I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the size of the snake but in general the exodermis, or the scaled equivalent, is extremely tough.
Pick up a snake, see if you pull it apart. If you’re really strong you might be able to pop the head off it, but you’re not tearing a snake in half. Maybe a little tiny garder snake you could work apart if you twisted it back and forth enough but not in any shirt amount of time.
Conversely, you can strangle someone to death with a twisted up plastic grocery bag. You can tear one of those apart with your hands.
I don’t have hard numbers because I would never do that with a poor little snake but I have worked in a kitchen and can testify on the resiliency of biological tissues.
- Comment on I am a solo dev creating a Mexican folklore horror game inspired by Silent Hill and a real life location in Mexico called Island of Dolls. What do you think of the new trailer? 4 weeks ago:
Neato
Gave the video a like
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Me, dead inside at my boring ass job, watching people living out their best lives.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Honkai Star Rail has taken over my life, so I get where you’re coming from.
What makes it so addictive for me was stumbling upon the fact that under the surface layer of the game/plot Hoyo is making very deep meta commentary about philosophical stances. And I’m not talking about those kinds of cheap plot enhancing surface concepts that games like to toss in to make it seem deep. I mean that the entire thing is built around the exploration of these concepts. It’s philosophical inquiry first, game second. It’s a ludicrous attempt that shouldn’t make any money at all, but the bulk of what they are saying is hidden and the flashy game stuff is promoted so it works.
Because it’s couched in allegory and the playerbase is like 15, nobody believes me, lol. But there are videos from a guy who’s obviously a phd in philosophy who breaks down each chapter and explains it.
There is a niche segment of
- Comment on Bisexuality released in 1995 and the devs still haven't dropped an update 1 month ago:
I hate that I was compelled to count the syllables in this.
“Sir, it’s an older poetry form but it checks out.”
- Comment on You shall not drink! 1 month ago:
Yo, dawg, we heard you like tabs…
- Comment on Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse 1 month ago:
I don’t understand why any company would agree to be bought out by Microsoft. MS’s modus operandi since its inception has been to stifle competition by buying everything up and gutting it. It’s a death sentence.
Is it for a big personal pay out by the team and they can all go elsewhere with a fat check once the axe drops?
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Hands-On Preview: What a Wonderful Night to Have a Curse 1 month ago:
Do you have dyslexia, perchance?
- Comment on Foul. 1 month ago:
What in gods name am I reading
- Comment on I say both. 1 month ago:
In the mouth, obviously, the most important part of wrangling the monsters in the darkness of existentialism is to do it with panache, and the first option is cooler.
The second option is like tucking a cig behind your ear. A viable backup.
- Comment on Day 793 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
One of the few flaws of New Vegas, none of the companions have an evil karma requirement.
- Comment on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion 1 month ago:
And the crowd goes mild!
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 2 months ago:
Somebody should do a remake of Hudson Island. It’ll be exactly the same but it’ll be called Epstein Island and at the end of each stage you rescue a child from a cage.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Unions. Not just for blue collars anymore.
- Comment on NOOOOOOOyeah that feels goodNOOOOOOOO 2 months ago:
I’ll take two
- Comment on I'm high on life 2 months ago:
The great thing about being weird is that nobody knows when you’re on drugs.
- Comment on killer instinct 2013 sequel cancelled 2 months ago:
C-C-C-C-COMBO-BREAKER!!!
- Comment on culture 2 months ago:
Hyperphantasia. I had to look that up. While it is pretty descriptive of my inner world, I don’t think I would ever self-identify as that. Feels… a little much.
I find the whole concept of cognitive styles fascinating and I think there is a trade off. While the advent of reading is certainly a great thing, I think for many it has shrunk a part of the brain that processes speech. Prior to books, if you needed to know something you had better listen close, comprehend it quickly, and be damned sure you remembered it because there may not be a second chance.
- Comment on culture 2 months ago:
That’s wild, I am the complete opposite.
When I read my mind takes what I am reading and provides a rich imaginatory backdrop replete with emotional undertones that unfolds and plays out as the words become concepts and the concepts link together in context to the plot/scenario/etc.
Except with math heavy subjects, I can usually get the gist of any topic by reading about it.
Conversely, I can barely follow audio instructions or explanations at all. Having something explained by a friend is fine, lots of back and forth until it clicks. Casual listening, like a fiction book, is fine.
Anything else and I get a little lost halfway through, usually trying to remember the first thing that was said.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
She was extremely entertainment savvy. She had a 6th sense in knowing how and when to grab the spotlight, how to cause an uproar, and ride it until it died down. Then it was on to the next transformation.
Even if you didn’t like her, she made sure you were paying attention to her.
- Comment on I am the arm and I sound like this 2 months ago:
I was curious so I just looked it up. Very surprised to find out Nana Visitor is 5’8. Just goes to show how tall the cast was on average.