Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anon remembers the $49 GameCube 17 hours ago:
Got mine for about 80 quid. Barely used it, but couldn’t really say no at that price. Worth it just for Wind Waker.
- Comment on That's the worst possible view for a hotel 1 day ago:
Last hotel I stayed in there wasn’t even a view. The window just looked onto another corridor, and had some paper over it.
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 6 days ago:
The comic sans really lends an air of solemnity to the whole thing.
- Comment on Video games 1 week ago:
As bad as that last movie was, I’m still glad Colin Trevorrow want allowed anywhere near it. There are few directors who are that out of their depth when given a big budget…
- Comment on Video games 1 week ago:
Foxy Brown looks on from the back of the bus.
- Comment on We don't have Squid Game at home, we have Poor People Game. And it is a game of waiting. 1 week ago:
I’m happy enough with a Legion Go for little games and my PS5 for big games.
I think the consoles having weak RT has meant the 10x0 series having a longer than usual lifespan, since they still have to write games for traditional lighting models.
- Comment on We don't have Squid Game at home, we have Poor People Game. And it is a game of waiting. 1 week ago:
Still on a 1060. Refusing to upgrade until GPU prices return to reality.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 week ago:
“Good news, you’re about to have a disease named after you!”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A lot of them do seem to do that. The credits for most games are ludicrously long and thank dozens of subcontracted companies.
I honestly don’t think your average AAA studio could even tell you how much AI slop is in their final product. It’s not none, and hasn’t been for years.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I think we’re approaching a point where games are going to be made like movies.
Teams assembled for one project, everyone does their bit, and are then discarded when they’re no longer needed.
Big publishers will probably have a pool of people they can push between projects depending on what’s needed. Ubisoft appear to do that, when you look at the credits in their games, there’s like 10 subsidiary studios involved. For smaller studios, you’ll probably be let go between games until you’re needed again. Maybe they’ll keep your information and rehire you because you did a good job of hard surface rigging or whatever last time. Maybe they hire an excited school-leaver to sloperate a clanker. Who knows.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
The list of most valuable companies is highly concerning. It’s nearly all AI or AI-adjacent now.
The only ones that aren’t are oil and magic obesity pills.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
I think it was Cory Doctorow that described it as a feedback loop, so the people who aren’t “all in” on AI get pushed out of the C-suite, in favour of those that are until the whole show is being run by people who want AI to do everything but absolutely no idea how to achieve that. It’s bluster all the way up, driven by a psychotic devotion to shareholders. Sack everyone, raise prices, the line must go up.
And because it’s all fuelled by picosecond trading algorithms, a company who’s line goes up 2% more than another company’s line ends up valued to a hundred times as much.
It’s no longer about being a healthy trading company, you have to show you’re doing everything possible to make everyone’s lives a fucking misery…
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
If that don’t wanna make you die for your country, nothing will.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
We’ll I hope you at least reminded him of his obligations to the Epstein Island class.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
Me at 46: I want to dismantle the machinery that makes trillionaires.
- Comment on Plug-in solar panels to go on sale in UK for the first time 2 weeks ago:
So if it was restricted and now isn’t, what changed?
Did the grid get safeguards? Did they just tell their workers to watch out? Did they upgrade something? Did they make sure the ones sold in the UK do something different (in which case the dodgy Temu ones probably aren’t going to do that and cause fires)? They certainly didn’t upgrade every home…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anybody does detail quite like Rockstar. When I finished Read Dead 2 I just sat through the credits in awe at the sheer amount of effort that had gone into it. Animals skinned while you watch, lines recorded twice for close and far away dialogue, whole hunting and animal systems. Subtle changes in dialogue depending on how you play.
Compare to “AAAA” games like Far Cry Avatar, with an equal number of systems, but none are really fleshed out, and the whole thing feels very half arsed in comparison.
I think the only game to really come close to them is Baldur’s Gate 3.
Yeah, the online stuff is pure fucking greed, but I don’t care for that. I don’t play it. I never loaded GTAO or Red Dead Online. I don’t demand I be allowed to pay extra for more DLC. It’s all in the base game I already bought. I play it, I finish it, it goes on the shelf. Or it went on the shelf. RIP discs, I guess. :(
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
24:25 she leaves a blood splat on the wall.
Five seconds later it’s gone.
Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder!
- Comment on Elons not a gamer. 2 weeks ago:
I just can’t shoot pretend cops.
Btw, what night is the wildest party on your kiddy rape island?
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 2 weeks ago:
I’m waiting for Firestarter to be used to sell me a cremation in 12 easy installments.
- Comment on The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Remastered - Reveal Trailer | gamescom 2026 2 weeks ago:
I do think it’s unfortunate that CDPR have hit their biggest successes with their open world games, because I don’t think their world design is up to much. Both this and Cyberpunk suffer from a main quest that screams “this is urgent” followed by opening up a map filled with icons.
And most of those icons are boring bullshit, but there’s enough good stuff out there that you’ll want to explore them anyway, only to be disappointed by a single troll fight or something 90% of the time rather than some interesting story.
- Comment on The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Remastered - Reveal Trailer | gamescom 2026 2 weeks ago:
Hate how the armour sets have a bonus but you’ll probably never upgrade them far enough to activate it…
- Comment on Date artsy girl 3 weeks ago:
I’m not convinced even David himself understands his films. Feels like a 40 year project of trolling cinemagoers and watching them pretend they understand it.
- Comment on MeIRL 3 weeks ago:
I just put a Hue switch on the headboard and stuck a lightstrip behind it. No harsh lighting, can turn it off without moving. Win win.
- Comment on They really hate artists 3 weeks ago:
I suspect the ones who are, were already programmers.
I’ve had some success taking our main windows app and converting it to a server with a Flutter front end.
Mostly stuff that I already knew how to do but couldn’t be arsed because it’s a lot of work to keep it all in sync. Break it down into actual tasks and Santa Claude stands half a chance. I’ve never written a line of Dart.
I’m also absolutely certain there’s a limit to how far this approach will get me. The old the first half of the work takes 90% of the time. The second half also takes 90% of the time.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 3 weeks ago:
I got one on launch day. The only console I ever did that for.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how many people crashed their cars trying to figure out if they were about to be obliterated in a nuclear inferno.
This was supposed to be for emergencies, not PSAs.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 4 weeks ago:
Ah, the Paperboy delivery experience.
- Comment on Challenge everything 4 weeks ago:
Aw, it cut off the list of antagonists.
One of them was “child molester”.
Not even making that up.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 4 weeks ago:
Happy to write “change” and “hope” on posters.
Not so happy to actually provide it.