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- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
Take me with you.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 weeks ago:
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
I think it’s perfectly sized. No need for change. And the OLED model is noticeably more lightweight than the original LCD model, so the newer one isn’t too heavy.
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a distressing trend of people (self-identifying “progressives”, for the most part) abandoning family because of ideological differences, so most here will probably tell you to cut contact.
I don’t know you or your father, but as a dad myself, I can tell you that if he has the slightest decency as a parent, he’ll be willing to listen if you come from a place of love and respect. Tell him how you’re personally affected by his actions. Appeal to his paternal instinct. At best, you could convince him to rethink his ideology. If that fails, you can hopefully get him to agree to avoid discussing politics with you.
It’s especially important now, with a nationwide financial collapse looming, for family to stick together.
- Comment on To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you. 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s normally a good rule to follow, since “whom” is for a sentence’s object, but this is a special case. The clause in question is either a salutation that has no subject or object, and so either “whoever” or “whomever” is correct, or it’s a subject clause (a noun phrase, really) with an unnecessary, stylized “to” for the sake of comedic impact, in which case “whoever” would be correct.
- Comment on To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you. 1 month ago:
FYI, your post title should use “whoever”, not “whomever”.
A good trick to tell whether to use “who” or “whom” is to replace “whom” with “him” or “who” with “he”. It’ll be immediately obvious (to a native English speaker) which is correct.
Whomever invented LED bus advertisements becomes Him invented LED bus advertisements
Vs
Whoever invented some stupid shit becomes He invented some stupid shit
- Comment on General thread 2 months ago:
Buffalo buffalo general buffalo buffalo buffalo General Buffalo.
- Comment on PlatinumGames Reveals Bayonetta 15th Anniversary Celebration 2 months ago:
Sounds like you didn’t play the game at all. Or you were just really bad at it.
It’s like Devil May Cry; you absolutely cannot button mash if you want to do well in the game.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Hits Over 2 Billion Mod Downloads 2 months ago:
It’s a Wabbajack modlist. So it’s actually hundreds of mods.
- Comment on Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems 2 months ago:
I love the Steam Deck; I think it’s the best thing to happen to PC gaming since Steam itself, but the Verified system is so unreliable that I mostly ignore it. I’ve played “Unsupported” games that work perfectly out of the box and I’ve refunded “Verified” games that wouldn’t even launch.
ProtonDB is a much more reliable metric for how well any game will run on the Deck.
- Comment on If I threaten a politician to kill them like Trump did to Liz Cheney could I be arrested? If so how come Trump hasn't been arrested for it? 4 months ago:
What a simplistic, destructive take.
Nuance exists in this world. In a free society, a distinction needs to be made between real, credible threats and simple hyperbole.
Also, “hate speech” is a real term, and it doesn’t mean ‘saying you hate someone.’
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The wrong candidate.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You use that as a means to discredit the site, but if you actually read the article, you’d see that it’s very explicit about the speculative nature of its subject. It makes no false claims; it only describes an interesting (if improbable) theory and attempts to explain the rationale behind its inception. Seems above board to me.
- Comment on Is duck tape magnetic? 5 months ago:
FYI, it’s duct tape. For taping ducts.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx gets shut down 5 months ago:
Well, I guess this cinches it - I’m never buying another Nintendo product.
I was already on the fence, as I still wanted to support innocent developers who happen to be part of a shitty company. I even bought a Switch and every game I pirated so I could have a clean conscience when playing them on my Steam Deck.
Not anymore! I’m putting Nintendo squarely in my list of publishers to ignore. It’s a small gesture, meaningless to a megacorp like them, but it’s enough for me.
Fuck you, Nintendo. You used to be cool.
- Comment on Apple to pay €13bn in tax, Google a €2.4bn fine for market dominance abuse, the European Court of Justice rules 6 months ago:
$14 billion. That’s actually pretty hefty. Go, EU regulators! Do what my regulatory-captured country won’t!
- Comment on Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer 6 months ago:
Oh, did GTA IV have multiplayer? That’s the one I’m least familiar with. Must not have been nearly as robust as GTA V’s.
GTA V made online the core component of it’s game. So much so, that they innitially considered GTA Online to be a seperate game included with GTA V.
You contradicted yourself there. GTA Online can’t be both a core component of GTA V and a standalone game.
So Rockstar, who already had the most financially successful game of all time in GTA V from game sales alone, put its resources into the online component in order to fund the development of its sequel. It’s not like they needed to attract new players to the single player game, being, again, that it was the most successful game of all time. Technically it was the most successful media venture of all time (it made more money than any movie, music, or game ever).
If they hadn’t done that, GTA VI and RDR 2 would’ve had smaller budgets and likely wouldn’t have been as good.
I see nothing wrong with this.
- Comment on Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer 6 months ago:
Only one GTA game has had an online component. Every GTA game since 3 has been a best-in-class, genre/generation-defining singleplayer experience.
You pay for the singleplayer. The online bit is just gravy. Some people like said gravy enough to fund the development of Rockstar’s next game. I see nothing wrong with this.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 7 months ago:
Man, I thought I’d found my people in this community, but my perfectly civil comment discussing scientific definitions of ‘sex’ was removed. That shows that this is likely just another echo chamber that can’t abide civil conversation around scientific facts when said facts make people feel icky.
The worst part is I’m on your side. I’m all in on inclusivity and representation. I’m trans. I’m bisexual. I’m just open-minded, seemingly unlike whichever mod removed my comment.
You, apotheotic, seem civil enough. I was looking forward to discussing biological sex with you, maybe expanding my understanding in the process, but it’s not worth trying to have a conversation if I have to worry about my responses being unceremoniously removed. For what it’s worth, your reply has inspired me to do some more reading on the subject.
Reddit mod practices seem to have bled into every corner of Lemmy. Community: blocked. Good riddance.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 7 months ago:
Eek, this reads like a white person getting upset about someone using “black” instead of “African American”
Who’s being excluded here? My suggestion was to change ‘sex’ in video game character creation to ‘apparent sex.’
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 7 months ago:
How so? Biological sex is a quantifiable fact. Every sexually reproducing species on the planet has two sexes, easily identified by gamete size - males have smaller gametes and females have larger gametes.
I don’t wanna start a flame war, but the science om this is sound. Sure, in science, nothing is absolute, but there’s never been any evidence of more than two sexes.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 7 months ago:
Technically there is an extremely small amount of people born as both sexes (intersex), but they tend to have appearances that favor one sex over the other, so from a game development perspective, they’re covered by having two sex options.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 7 months ago:
To me, the obvious answer is to do away with the concept of “gender” altogether. It’s a societal construct that doesn’t really need to exist in video game character creation, anyway.
Everybody is born one of two biological sexes: male or female. There. Those are your choices. Call it “apparent sex” and include a pronoun option to allow for players who want to roleplay gender nonconforming characters.
- Comment on Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC] 7 months ago:
Cold, actually.
- Comment on Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC] 7 months ago:
I don’t know the game well - never played its original release and I likely won’t play this remake - but from what I understand, the women in question are zombies, so consent isn’t really a factor.
If anything, removing this feature slightly reduces immersion and significantly changes the main character’s personality. I can understand why someone who was a fan of the original would be hesitant to get the remake, since the main character is a different person, morally speaking.
It’s like Star Wars - Han shot first, and changing that doesn’t change the story in any real way, but it significantly changes Han’s character.
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 7 months ago:
This is the most succinct, unbiased explanation I’ve seen for this change. Thank you for this! It’s good to know there’s an unintended security improvement in their otherwise brazen attempt to kill ad blockers on Chrome.
Fuck Google.
- Comment on Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC] 7 months ago:
Such a dumb move. This won’t help sales, but it certainly will hurt them (though, to be fair, probably not much). Sex sells. And the people who are offended by this wouldn’t have bought the game in the first.
I’m just so annoyed by this recent resurgence of Puritan-esque prudishness. Humans are sexual beings! We shouldn’t be ashamed of or offended by sexuality; we should embrace it! And if people are worried about unequal representation, the solution is simple: put sexy men in the game, too, and maybe an option for players to toggle either. Everybody wins.
- Comment on Watch Yamcha Get Blown Up Again In New Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Trailer 8 months ago:
Oh no! Yamcha got Yamcha’d!
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Will Premiere with Two Episodes on October 24 8 months ago:
Sounds like something someone who hasn’t actually watched the show would say.
Most modern Trek is not worth watching, IMO, but Lower Decks is so much more than just another modern Trek show. It’s a perfect blend of old Trek nostalgia and modern comedy. Its writers are clearly huge Trek fans, as the show is very respectful of Trek tropes and often references fairly obscure lore.
In short: your opinion is wrong. /s
Try watching it with an open mind (as any person who truly appreciates the core of Star Trek philosophy would) and you’ll probably find that you really like it.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
People are complex, and sure, some are just racist, but I don’t think it’s that simple.
Hatred isn’t nearly as powerful an emotion as fear. White people complaining about non-white main characters aren’t necessarily racist; it’s more likely, I think, that they’re afraid of losing the only consistent part of the white identity: being the “default” race.
- Comment on Getting the Skyrim itch again... Any mod recommendations to freshen it up? 8 months ago:
If you really want a fresh experience and don’t wanna spend more time modding than actually playing, I cannot recommend more strongly Wabbajack. It’s a fully automated modlist installer with a huge gallery of available lists.
Some of the available modlists are foundational, giving you just the essentials (Engine tweaks, HD assets, community bug fixes, etc.), and some are total conversions, turning the game into a fully-realized modern third-person action game, with controls, animations, and graphics as good as any modern game.
It does everything for you, from installing Mod Organizer 2 to creating game launch shortcuts, and everything in between. All you have to do is log into Nexus (and whatever other mod sites your modlist of choice might use). It’s worth getting Nexus Premium at least temporarily to speed up the process.
Here is the Skyrim Special Edition modlist gallery.