chiliedogg

@chiliedogg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved Mass Effect 3’s multi-player despite expecting it to be horrible, but it was also the first game I really enjoyed that had such horrid lootbox mechanics.

  ME3’s single-player was a masterpiece until the last hour. I didn’t even necessarily hate the endings. I just hated that in the end no matter what had happened, it came down to “pick the ending”. I would have been much more satisfied if your actions throughout the trilogy had determined the ending you got - especially since they had done so much tying together loose ends from the previous games.

  I loved that you could actually save both the Geth and the Quarians, but only if you’d made the correct decisions in Mass Effect 2 AND 3. That same kind of logic could have been used to pick the ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satan Was The Good Guy This Whole Time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Real answer: It’s not that knowledge is itself evil. It’s that by obtaining the knowledge of good and evil, mankind was responsible for its actions.

  The idea is that animals aren’t capable of being good or evil because they have no knowledge of the concept. Whereas humanity’s knowledge and understanding means we’re aware of the morality of our actions.

  To put it in a more contemporary, non-religous context - you can’t blame or judge invasive Kudzu or Bark Beeltes for the environmental damage they cause because they aren’t aware of their impact. Humans are aware, and should be held to account for their actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love pineapple on pizza!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So I used to be opposed to pineapple on pizza, because I was a prick purist.

  Then a friend who got me to try pineapple jalapeño pizza. That sweet and spicy mix changed me, and I’ve become much more adventurous with food in general.

  My new outlook on weird food is that if it seems like a weird pairing but is somewhat popular, it’s probably amazing.

  Unless it has cilantro. Keep that soapy weed out of my food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surely they yearn for the mines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Real answer?

  People who have access to the tools use it to do tasks they want to avoid. Sally from the civil team doesn’t work in mines or under the ocean, but she does spend way too much time on PowerPoint slides and emails she doesn’t actually care about. So she has Claude handle it so she can focus on her other work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Biggest Fan, This Is Stan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know lots of people who are undernourished with a big TV.

  You can buy a 60" 4K TV for like 200 bucks now. That’s less than a grocery store trip for many people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨name too hard? brain go ouch! Vote red.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump sure seems to like assholes a lot these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correct⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dream about being at work. It’s extremely frustrating to wake up and realize I have to do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How dare they⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I unfortunately need to take calls from 7nonown numbers fairly often. My goto for scammed is to pretend tonhave trouble hearing them for a few seconds, then just mute the phone and leave the call going instead of hanging up. I figure the extra minute they spend trying to get me to talk back is a minute they’re not targeting someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmm, roasted apples.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the difference between having an air of mystery and a sense of je ne sais quoi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmm, roasted apples.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how seasons work, ideally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These gas station pills are getting sketchier⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Skooma comes in pill form?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a wild life out there!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a similar per capita rate of participation in No Kings as France has had in its recent demonstrations. But the US has a much lower population density over a much larger land area, so the protests appeared smaller despite having millions more people in the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My back’s been at leat some level of thrown out for the last 15 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget if he was a love interest or an antagonist but he was in it.

  Several men were both iirc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to my first podcast episode!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a wbite dude with a big beard and love guns, but am also super duper liberal. It’s a weird place to be.

  But they also assume I’m one of them and get to hear their unfiltered takes. They’re more racist than you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He saved the world.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It upsets me so much that the marketing of the film ruined what would have been one of the greatest twists in film history. Until the scene in the hallway when the Terminator and John meet, there’s no indication that Arnie is the good guy. The audience would have expected him to be the villain like in the previous film, and we all would have been blown away.

  But the studio chose to push the “Arnie is the good guy now” stuff in the marketing and robbed us of that surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WAR! What is it good for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work at Cabela’s back in the day, and I got pretty good discounts on store-brand products, which is why for years I drove a trick with Cabela’s tactical floormats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WAR! What is it good for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re gett9ng pretty common. It’s a steel barrel sleeved in a cf wrap. They’re lightweight and strong and the cf insulates the barrel. It’s more common for hunting rifles where the barrel itself is exposed and more likely to burn the shooter through handling than an AR which will have a handguard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA: Ruin Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The budget and timeline absolutely killed it. Reusing like 4 maps for everything in the whole game got old super fast. And I also didn’t care for the change from the tactical combat of the first game at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA: Ruin Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Casey Hudson left in May 2014.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ketamine addict Elon Musk believes puppets are attacking him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he could do a SQL query or make an HTML header.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA: Ruin Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  EA installed managers of the company who had backgrounds in Major League Gaming and EA’s mobile gaming division. THEN they pitched a live service game. Most of the remaining members of the old guard left within months of Anthem’s announcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA: Ruin Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  EA forced them to make a live service game that failed. Then they tried to make them make a live service Dragon Age game. They decided to change Veilguard back to single-player, but late enough in the development cycle that it impacted the final product.

  Andromeda was a technical mess at launch, but the game itself was fine. It was the weakest in the series, but they tried new stuff with the spinoff and I appreciated the attempt.

  The only game they made before that I truly disliked was Dragon Age II.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boy Dinner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oven? Why be such an overachiever? If it requires more than 1 button press on the microwave I’m just gonna eat it cold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodborne is now on PC natively with online features like massages, bloodstains and co-op⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason I was thinking it was PS3, not PS4, which would have had it stuck on the older console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon delivers a prophecy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Nonprofit” and “Valve” don’t belong in the same universe. Valve is and has been 100/ about making money, and it’s been very, very good at it. They behave like they do because they aren’t publicly traded, so there aren’t short-term investors wanting to pump the stock and bail out, so they look at actual long-term investment and profit strategies.

  People love Steam around here, but it was the beginning of modern enshittification of gaming. It was literally launched as a way to create an online activation requirement for a single-player game (Half Life 2), and they’ve fully-embraced lootbox mechanics for years.

  Gabe is a billionaire yacht collector, not your buddy. Public companies exist to drive up share value at all times. Valve exists to make Gabe more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodborne is now on PC natively with online features like massages, bloodstains and co-op⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would make a little more sense if it wasn’t still locked to a console they replaced 13 year ago and discontinued entirely 10 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disgusting dumps are the aftermath of Chili’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meal choice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where can you get 3 bullets for a dollar. Maybe you can find 50 9mm rounds for $15, but you’d need to split the cost with 16 other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because most eomployees get to choose their operating systems.