Katana314
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- Comment on Terrorists 3 days ago:
You could also make this point with illegal immigrants.
With ICE simply looking for “Anyone they can excuse grabbing”, all violent/gang-affiliated immigrants have to do is exercise basic caution, and ICE will miss them completely. If they have enemies, or witnesses in immigrant communities that could testify against them, all they have to do is leave ICE a tip against that person.
- Comment on Road crews carry the world on their shoulders. They just aren't given enough to do what needs doing. 6 days ago:
The increasing size of American cars has done a lot of damage to our roads. They’re less safe for the roads, for pedestrians, and even sometimes for the occupants.
Tangentially, thanks to red light structure in the city, I often make just as much forward progress as the cars around me on my bike.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 6 days ago:
Especially since far-right groups have been falling for Musk’s same bullshit in Europe.
There’s been reports that Germany’s AFD party fell out of favor after their news got to see how Trump played out. I seriously hope that ends up being true in their next election.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 6 days ago:
50501 refers to “Fifty States, Fifty Protests, One Movement” (originally “One Day”). While some states have more presence than others, it has 50 chapters for the 50 states.
I don’t think there’s as much presence on Lemmy, but lots of media gets posted to Reddit at www.reddit.com/r/50501/.
Their website also links to social media accounts covering more of it: www.fiftyfifty.one
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread 1 week ago:
This might be a dumb idea, but I may buy this game just to make up for all the baseless hate it’s been hit by. Maybe just to avoid shareholder claims of “See, people prefer historical accuracy. Hence black people are banned in all future games.”
I haven’t really even tracked much of Ubisoft games for a while, and I recognize usually they’re pretty mindless open world fun - personally I’m often fine with that.
- Comment on Split Fiction Developer Already Started Working On Its Next Title, Calls It An "Exciting Thing" 1 week ago:
Wow, you mean they didn’t make a successful game and then immediately triple their staff and try to start pumping out formulaic games at double pace?
But what about company growth??
- Comment on If we let republicans set the bar, we will be buried in no time. 2 weeks ago:
I had a guy in my Discord following some insane moon logic about how ranked choice voting has some concerns because people could “tactically put their preferred option second to game the system”. He tried about five times and still could not convince us that water is dry.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve even wanted to bring up Valve in some recent political discussions on corporate governance. With the blatant exception of CSGO child-focused gambling, it is otherwise the “shining ideal” of a good company: They invented a product that people like and enjoy, maintain it well to please their customers, and pay their employees well without growing excessively or finding ways to cheat customers out of their money.
- Comment on Next Xbox Rumors Surface; No Devkits Available to Developers Yet (aiming for 2027) 2 weeks ago:
If we got a Gyroscope on Xbox, then all major controllers would have it - allowing for the possibility of cross platform games where people can use gyro ironsights to aim. That would be awesome.
- Comment on Council housing when? 2 weeks ago:
They could also tie it to occupancy. If a functional residence goes more than half the year without someone living in it, property tax is quintupled.
There’s danger to writing such a law correctly, unfortunately. I recall something in Ecuador where people were leaving extensions to their home just barely unfinished so that they could avoid certain residence laws until they had a buyer.
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 3 weeks ago:
Common misconception. None of them want war. They want to show up, intimidate people into surrender, and fight no one. They’re dogs barking through a fence that blindly ignore the open gate.
Hence why all the mass firings were by email. Hence why Trump has twice caved to Canada and Mexico on tariffs. Hence why ICE has failed to force either Illinois or Boston to cooperate with their raids.
I understand the reasons people feel they have to be afraid, but miss that all of the fear is on the other foot.
There was a great video where someone dismantled an ultra-aggressive “we’re gonna destroy you liberals” claim video. He basically said “No, I know you’re not going to do that. Because you said it into a camera.”
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 3 weeks ago:
Those couple weeks were in fighting for their lives against Nazis. In heat of battle, anyone can form a brand new relationship sooner than that.
- Comment on They're gonna have to be really cool about a lot of stuff real quick. 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t this basically the plot of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley?
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 3 weeks ago:
Genuine question: How would this apply to private companies like Valve? Do they still follow principles of share distribution even if they’re not on the public stock market?
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is the priority for many other users, but Epic Games is 40% owned by Tencent, a Chinese corporation. That in itself is an inappropriate level of CCP influence to me - sadly, Chinese companies don’t really get to divest themselves of government influence the way American corps do.
(That said, with Google changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name, I feel less sure of that last claim)
- Comment on ‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new look 4 weeks ago:
The world has gone too long without game developers returning criticism to fans. Some game devs don’t serve their fans well and deserve a blasting, but that’s generally a minority. Most of the time, gamers in online spaces are the same sort of Karen at the register saying “The customer is always right” every single day, and they‘ve needed to take a step back for a long time.
Corollary: I play an online game that’s full of glitches. I’m upset at the dev about it, but also patient because I know programming is hard, and I’m sure they get frustrated at those bugs too.
- Comment on ‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new look 4 weeks ago:
New Animaniacs lyrics (no really):
“The trolls will say we’re so passé but we were meta first!”
- Comment on 4 Months After Launch, Dragon Age: The Veilguard Headlines PlayStation Plus March 2025 Lineup 4 weeks ago:
Every time some incel wants to start a conversation about DA:V, I just point them to Baldur’s Gate 3.
That game is inclusive and diverse, and also fucks - both in the “adult content” sense, disproving their myths about diversity somehow siding together with censorship, and in the quality sense.
The dramatic fall in writing has happened across the industry and should be no surprise to anyone.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
Everyone here was alive when the invasion started. Russia invaded Ukraine. THEN Ukraine considered entering NATO. They were happy to stay out of it as long as Russia stayed away. They didn’t. Some saw it coming, as Russia has violated just about every treaty they’ve entered.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a few points I maybe want to bring up on this, though.
Through Trump’s installation, many learned what USAID was for the first time. For all it does in the world, it was never tooting its own horn. Sure, its existence is a tradeoff we made to allow for the fact of having one of the strongest military presence. But I still don’t think its existence and actions up until now should’ve been taken for granted.
Plus: Other nations in Europe cannot currently claim to be beyond manipulation via far-right rhetoric and misinformation. Germany is currently dealing with those issues in its own elections, and the very identity of that country is rooted in acknowledging the evils of 1940. Vladimir Putin targeted the United States because it was their biggest singular obstacle to expansion, acknowledging that there’s no single presidency to easily “corrupt” the European Union.
I agree that much blame lies on the USA’s population for so gullibly accepting such terrible campaign lies. I just don’t think that kind of evil ignorance is uniquely American, and the rest of the world needs to stay vigilant, rather than assuming all threat will come externally.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
It’s erroneous to claim the judge orders blocking the executive orders have done anything.
As judge of Lemmy, I order you to stop posting. /s
^ There, that statement alone had just as much effect as the judicial orders. Fact is, DOGE still has extensive access to most of the systems that they breached, and judges have largely been ignored, or have given rulings complicit with Trump’s actions.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 5 weeks ago:
Check out “Aquaria”. Not quite the same thing, but a Metroidvania playing as a mermaid with song powers. Lots of boss fights! And you can even breech the surface when you get there!
- Comment on Stellar Blade is on Steam 1 month ago:
Man, I think my playthrough of N:A was absolutely ruined by the RPG mechanics. I was lategame trying to get to this rumored “amazing story”, and something about my numbers wasn’t adding up because even switching to easy mode it was taking AGES to beat the bosses.
So yeah, I’m not even generally a fan of soulslikes, but S:B’s action-based difficulty was definitely more to my tastes.
- Comment on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Announce Trailer 1 month ago:
They have a much better design than the blue shell.
In Mario, the guy in 8th place sends a bomb into the ether, and sends the guy in 1st place to 5th…while the guy in 8th stays there.
In Sonic, the guy in 8th sends a swarm of hornets, essentially a minefield. The guy in first CAN evade them skillfully, but has the most to deal with. As more people hit some, others will have fewer. The whole crowd gets slowed just a bit (and the person who threw it is unaffected when they reach them)
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 month ago:
There’s an alternative, to make it popular with the American people. Republicans look bad to their constituents each time they vote against policies that would relieve the American people as a whole, such as net neutrality and healthcare for all.
Make some noise about it! Make it known that Democrats fight for everyone, and that a certain sect is very vocally rejecting that fight.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 month ago:
There’s a very good bill for achieving this result by a senator from my state, which requires companies to elect their board members through employees.
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 1 month ago:
Yeah…and they’re being threatened too.
I wonder if they’d ever consider the White House to be a foreign government to topple.
- Comment on James Bond Game by IO-Interactive 1 month ago:
I’ve known about this for a while, but assumed it was still deep in development.
- Comment on Former Sony Exec Believes PlayStation 6 Will Retain Optical Disc Support 1 month ago:
I’m curious if this is partly influenced by demographics on how many people have used their PlayStation as their only Bluray/DVD movie player.
For me it’s rare now, but I’d also rather not brick my old movie collection by discarding my only TV disc drive.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is very much a fair take - and ties back to the realities of the French Revolution. It wasn’t actually the poorest people on revolt, but a slightly more wealthy class that had just enough comfort in their lives to make decisions like organizing for change.
I know it’s not possible for every person to join. I can only ask for those capable to think about it. For what it’s worth, the original post has suggested other ways of contributing aside from attending.