MentalEdge
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 11 hours ago:
I…
Do not know how I feel about bringing back a charachters who does SO MUCH because of her absence.
Too bad I won’t be finding out if it works, as Sony wont be porting this to PC.
- Comment on Human-readable forwarding addresses for ports on Synology NAS? 3 days ago:
What the other guy said.
What you do is set up a reverse proxy, which you can then configure forward to either certain subdomains or subpaths to the relevant ports.
Subdomains look like
jellyfin.domain.comwhile subpaths look likedomain.com/jellyfin. Generally the former is preferred, because the latter often requires that the service you are running allow you to configure the subpath you’re using.Subdomains in turn require separate SSL certificates for each one.
- Comment on Realistically speaking, how do you think the year 2063 will look like? 6 days ago:
It’s bleak, but I’m pretty sure we’re headed towards some form of collapse in terms of food production.
Right now we’re fighting over fossil fuels and rare earth metals. Those are solvable problems, you can have civilization with none or just a small amount of theses things, and renewable production will mean that you can have energy without needing fossil reserves or fissiles in your soil.
But I think the next several decades are going to be defined by the international dealings that will occur over arable land, the elements to keep it fertile, and the infrastructure and water sources to irrigate it. Up to and including wars.
The simple fact is, farming is getting harder. For now, the technology is keeping up. Corporations in the relevant industries prioritizing profits and intellectual property over national food security also isn’t helping.
And even though there’s theoretically more than enough land on earth to feed all currently living humans, there are already individual countries with more people than what their land area can feed.
Worse, there a countries who share the same sources of water, who are increasing their water use in ways that will cause droughts for their neighbours.
- Comment on And full of carbs 1 week ago:
Nice !dungeonmeshi@ani.social art.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Uh… What does the “off” button do? As opposed to mute+leave?
- Comment on Tech support for mum 2 weeks ago:
My moms password manager, is just my password manager. (That’s not entirely true, she did figure it out eventually, but for a while there I was simply saving all her account passwords in my manager.)
- Comment on Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Sales Surpass 3.8 Million Copies | Nintendo Insider 3 weeks ago:
AFAIK there is no Switch 2 version? It’s just running it as a switch 1 game.
- Comment on Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Sales Surpass 3.8 Million Copies | Nintendo Insider 3 weeks ago:
Guessing it helped that it’s not a Switch 2 exclusive.
- Comment on ... new political compass just dropped? 4 weeks ago:
Where does cringe go?
- Comment on this is wrong 1 month ago:
2014
You mean 2004, right?
Right?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
In the rest of his talk, titled “What Makes an Indie Game Successful?,” Yoshida walked through twelve standout indie games that resonated with him and the reasons why. They included:
One of them is Marvel Snap.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
How is Marvel Snap indie?
It’s clear he has a love for games that not enough decision makers do, but is he using the terms to refer to games and publishers that are “small”?
The article includes the term “indie publisher” which is an oxymoron.
- Comment on Public service 1 month ago:
Until the guards spot you and put you in there with them.
- Comment on Distro for upgrading a 15 year old Mac? 1 month ago:
I usually go with Kubuntu.
Set up up flatpak, share internet from phone via usb to install broadcom wifi drivers, and modify the desktop to work more like MacOS.
Hand it back to the post-MacOS-user. No complaints so far. In fact one came back with another Mac and asked me to do it again.
- Comment on Do I need to say anything else? anyway my waifu is calling 1 month ago:
her: “autisitic yapping about military history”
me: falls in love
- Comment on Former Nippon Ichi Software president says the “salaryman-ification” of Japan’s game industry is why there are fewer “individual creators” like Hideo Kojima and Suda51 - AUTOMATON WEST 2 months ago:
It’s either “the antithesis” or "is antithetical’.
- Comment on Sony Has Apparently Shut Down Dark Outlaw Games 2 months ago:
Like I said, WipEout and Gravity Rush weren’t played by everyone. But almost every gamer I know, has a niche genre they’re into or nostalgic about.
Few individual indies are gonna hit it big, but as a group, their chunk of the industry is growing, and fast. Because together they cover all the types of games the giants won’t make anymore.
Even Requiem is technically niche. Horror is usually not for everyone, but RE since 7 has been doing actual innovation. Even with the remakes they’ve been developing their in-house engine and gameplay mechanics. Tweaking. Adjusting. Improving.
And players can tell. Add to that that while they did take a few shots at live-service partner titles, they didn’t ruin the main titles to do so. And once each game was done, they moved on to making the next one even better.
The RE franchise isn’t part of the problem. It’s one of the few AAA IPs still being developed the way single player titles should be developed: listen to player feedback, and just make a good game.
- Comment on Sony Has Apparently Shut Down Dark Outlaw Games 2 months ago:
I like Sonys current crop of IPs (GoW and Horizon) but I really hate how they’ve completely abandoned niches and innovation.
It’s like they don’t care about their first part titles having any variety anymore.
Studio Japan and Studio Liverpool hurt me personally. Neither made games played by everyone, but everyone who did play WipEout or Gravity Rush, loved them.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 months ago:
He is.
Doesn’t mean we can’t take him out of context and use his words to advocate for more than just the things he thinks they advocate.
He has it right here. That he doesn’t fully know that is his problem.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 months ago:
And I wasnt replying to you.
Why you replying to the corrected to someone else after I deleted the accidental one?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 months ago:
Did I say it did?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 months ago:
Corporation, you mean.
The word business covers honest people making an honest living running their own thing, too.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
The first is to defend the status quo.
I want change. I thought I made that clear.
What I don’t agree with, is laws being pointless. Their ideal is to use violence to reduce and prevent violence.
Human society needs that. Done well they are a net good.
And you’re just doing that with ideas you misunderstand so badly i can’t even bring myself to correct you on.
“You’re so wrong I can’t even describe it”, and you’re saying I’m the one trying to be edgy?
Really convenient excuse to not actually engage.
Things are sometimes simple though. Violence indeed bad. Best avoided. Not a good thing.
Yes.
And yet, it can be used to do good.
Youve clearly lived a very sheltered life and violence to you is just an abstraction. Youve never experienced the world so its really easy to imagine its all as flat and consequence free as your abstractions.
Ok? Figuring someone out, even if you pull it off, doesn’t invalidate their logic.
And you’re picking and choosing among the things I’ve said. I’m not gonna repeat myself by pointing out the contradictions in these conclusions with what you should know about me.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
So to start off with, youre using one example of game theory, the prisoners dilemma, as a stand in for right/wrong.
I’m not. People can also co-operate to do bad things. The principle still applies.
You either screw over others for individual benefit, or co-operate for collective benefit. That collective benefit can still be bad and come at the cost of ypur group defecting against another. Like a nation going to war.
Or a small group in an advantaged position co-operating to enforce laws against a far larger group.
Your oversimplification is stuff like “laws bad” or “violence bad”. Far more egregious imo.
At least I apply logic that can be adapted to describe multiple scenarios, instead of boiling things down to flat statements.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
Poetic.
Violence is to defect.
Some will always choose to defect.
To wish for a system where such defectors are not dealt with the only way which is effective, is naive.
That you think I need to be told that that’s still violence, even more so.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
No, you’re right. Murder being illegal hasn’t saved a single life.
Whatever “justice” system you’ve been witness to, must have you seriously confused if it has you thinking it is the only one that can exist.
Bad systems should be removed. But their existence does not mean good systems are not possible.
And you will never see the real picture until you ditch simplifications like “laws bad”.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
Instinctively? No.
Due to learned experience and principles of game theory? Yes.
Don’t you try to find out which people will defect and which will co-operate, and act accordingly, instead of just screwing over everyone around you all the time?
Stop putting words in my mouth.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
A better world.
And I happen to believe that humans will co-operate more than defect. And game-theory supports my view. Not yours.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
I think you’re confused about what it is I’m rejecting.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 2 months ago:
At the moment, in a lot cases, yes.
I reject the idea that that is the only possible state of things.