Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed this where you work?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you store enough vital information in your head, you never need to really work hard except when you become the fire extinguisher for other people’s fuck-ups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broomsticks? What is this? The Dark Ages?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The saddle on my last bike was not far off that. Riding a dildo to work may be somebody’s cup of tea, but it wasn’t mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ok, we speak jive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andy Burnham announces new homes scheme for first-time buyers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it is specifically for new builds, apparently.

  Not really clear why. The scheme involves the government lending some of the money, so I guess they’ve got some comeback if the house collapses before it’s paid off or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Need to have a little something left over for the lot lizards.

  I was curious and looked up what you can drive in the UK/EU. It’s 9 hours. Twice a week you can push it to 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the only games I have on my phone are Walkscape and Luck Be A Landlord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major crackdown on flag lamp-post activists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re all over my town. Nothing says proud Englishman like a floppy wet bit of plastic wrapped around a lamp-post next to a motorway junction.

  All put up courtesy of a few EDL jailbirds with their arses hanging out their trousers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I figure it’s always a meme because half the people here were like six years old when they played it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the spaghetti portion measurer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it does.

  • Gainsborough Trust
  • British Friends of Ezrat Yisrael Kiryat Sefer
  • Friends of Kupat Hakahal Kirhat Sefer
  • Matan Beseiser Kiryat-Sefer Beis Aron
  • The Friends of the Yeshivat Har Etzion Trust
  • British Friends of Ariel University

  Got to be honest, if you donate to any of those “charities”, I suspect you already know what your money is going to do…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Football.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As you leave the home countries, letters and even whole words will be omitted as part of the local dialect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨great to know!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Upgrading every two years because the old one broke, rather than because of a crippling addiction to consumerism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon remembers the $49 GameCube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The comic sans really lends an air of solemnity to the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still on a 1060. Refusing to upgrade until GPU prices return to reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Tf???”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Good news, you’re about to have a disease named after you!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that don’t wanna make you die for your country, nothing will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Park benches don't "open" until 10am⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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. :(