Kyrgizion
@Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 day ago:
Oh absolutely. I’m not conceited enough to imagine Valve is developing games for me or that I’m entitled to anything. Just venting my personal disappointment with their choice. I still consider them the cream of the crop in game and hardware development.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 day ago:
Whatever it ends up being, I’m not interested. Never cared for competitive gaming. Sad that Valve has decided to use part of their enormous talent pool for, well, this while almost any genre would’ve been better.
Also, this is already a highly saturated niche. I don’t doubt Valve’s technical prowess and knowhow to develop a game that can surpass all the other ones in quality, but a gilded turd is still a turd under that gold leaf, even if it’s technically the best turd in the world.
- Comment on Duality of life 2 days ago:
I used to as well, but the environment changes so fast that I’ve given up trying to keep up with it.
- Comment on Duality of life 3 days ago:
Work = left. Hobbies = right.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 transitioning game to a different studio 4 days ago:
That’s not usually a sign of a healthy development cycle.
- Comment on Story-driven RPG 'The Thaumaturge' is now Steam Deck Verified 1 week ago:
Is it any good?
- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 1 week ago:
They also said there wouldn’t be a refresh of the original deck just weeks before announcing the OLED version…
- Comment on :((( 1 week ago:
Most flightless birds compensate by being badass at fighting on ground level. If you’ve ever seen a rooster fuck up a jackdaw you’ll know what I mean.
- Comment on CWD 1 week ago:
Fuck prions and the horse theyr rode in on. They’re not even alive, so you can’t kill them. No vaccine, no cure, and thoroughly cooking your food is still no guaranteed way to get rid of them.
Nature’s silent assassins, and they take their sweet time doing it too. By the time you first notice it’s already far too late.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the links, very interesting indeed!
- Comment on Was it hunter2 or hunter3 2 weeks ago:
This T&J episode traumatized me as a kid.
- Comment on Todd Howard says Starfield's Shattered Space DLC arrives "in the fall", update fixing stupid map "really soon" 2 weeks ago:
Too late, already played through the game (not paid luckily) after the summer, what a waste of ~80 hours. Not really excited about adding more to the pile.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
I posit that the human mind is made up of dozens, or perhaps even hundreds/thousands “smaller agents” that work together to create consciousness as an emergent property of the whole, which makes it impossible to isolate and say “this, THIS right here IS concsciousness”. That does not mean each of those has their own personality, per sé.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
Pluto will always be a planet to me, and you’ll pry that definition from my cold, dead hands!
- Comment on Fossil prep 3 weeks ago:
Well, I do still have the pieces, and you can clearly see the silver has crystallized inside (which is both a sign of authenticity and an explanation for its brittleness) so I’m keeping it as a metallurgical curiosity rather than a piece of history.
- Comment on Fossil prep 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I hated myself for that. Still do. It kinda stopped my interest in ancient coin collecting altogether because now I feel like an unworthy loser who shouldn’t be near any such artificats in the first place.
If I was my own boss I’d have fired me.
- Comment on Fossil prep 3 weeks ago:
Not a fossil but I managed to drop and shatter a denarius of Tiberius (tribute penny) and I’m pretty sure I went through all the same facial expressions. Fuck.
- Comment on Will Mountain of Evidence Be Enough to Convict Trump? Monday will see opening statements in the People of the State of NY v. Trump. The state’s case seems strong, but a conviction is far from assured 3 weeks ago:
I’m betting no. He’ll get a slap on the wrist as he usually does.
I do hope all the jurors get out of USA before he assumes presidency. He will absolutely retaliate.
- Comment on Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns 4 weeks ago:
Things aren’t much better on the other side of the small pond. It’s arbitrary whether I get my script or not, or what brand (which doesn’t matter really).
- Comment on Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph 4 weeks ago:
I hope he’s right but my gut keeps saying otherwise…
- Comment on Netease announce Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play 6v6 shooter that desperately wants to be superhero Team Fortress 1 month ago:
Holy shit??? Really???
I couldn’t possibly care less if my life depended on it. Ho hum.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. My son is 13 and we share a Steam library. It’s not usually an issue but sometimes he does want to play something that requires online connection at the same time as me. Now that problem should be permanently in the past.
Even if he moves out in who knows how many years he can still take all his games with him. This is why I never feel guilty about spending money on Steam/Valve; I know that as long as GabeN lives, I won’t get stabbed in the back.
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 1 month ago:
This is the 16th century equivalent of choosing xXxSHitl3rxXx as character name for a game. Respect to the dedication though.
- Comment on Temperature 2 months ago:
Allegedly the only way to get rid of imposter syndrome is to just… do your work/stuff until it goes away.
I’ve been at the same job for 9 years, but I don’t feel any more capable than at the start. I still have no idea what I’m doing while being sure others are constantly judging me. Any day my manager will take me apart to put me on a PIP or outright fire me. I’ve “known” this for years, and I’m as convinced as ever that it will happen eventually, soon even.
- Comment on Temperature 2 months ago:
Not disagreeing, but what does that help the thousands who will still lose their jobs regardless?
- Comment on Temperature 2 months ago:
I would, but now there’s free LLM’s that can do what I do literally for free and 1000x faster.
Past that, I have no marketable skills that a modern LLM doesn’t also have, and better. I very much doubt I’m alone in this. Between now and say, two to five years tops, my employers will know it too.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 2 months ago:
No, brcause I’m a total doormat who always caters to everyone else’s needs before my own. Which is the opposite of a narcissist. I wish I could be. It seems more liberating than what I’m doing now.
Then again, what little self esteem I have is predicated on being able to cater to other people’s needs - even my job is customer support.
I’d flip to being a user in a heartbeat if only I could.
- Comment on What does getting "delisted" off Steam means for games I already own? 2 months ago:
I have plenty of since delisted games. Nothing changes, unless they require some sort of always-online component that has also since gone offline.
- Comment on Quebec police don't want residents to post videos of people stealing packages because the porch pirates might be innocent 4 months ago:
No idea if it’s similar to our situation, but here in Flanders it’s illegal to post images of people in the act of committing a crime, since they get the same identity protections as anyone else (innocent until officially convicted etc). So that means we’ve had several situations where store owners who were robbed still posted the images, hoping to recoup some losses or find the perpetrators, only to have to pay fines on top of their losses because they “broke the law” by outing thieves.
Don’t even think about trying to defend yourself or your possessions, though; any force used MUST be in proportion to the threat. That means you HAVE to let people who’ve robbed you, and are no longer actively threatening you, go. Several people (mostly jewellers) are in prison because they unloaded a hunting rifle into the backs of fleeing thieves.
Personally, I think there should be some kind of golden middle road between the EU/Canada and USA situations…
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
As an aside, there is a theory called the “bicameral mind” which posits that this internal dialogue is the source of religion. In ancient or rather even prehistoric times, it’s theorized that people started separating themselves from the voices in their heads in a spiritual way and this gave rise to the concept of a “God”.
Far from proven but interesting nonetheless.