VindictiveJudge

@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “That’s mah purse! Ah don’t know you!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays an RPG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s something of a tradition in Final Fantasy of having one undead boss that can be killed instantly with a phoenix down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The top flag is the ‘thin blue line’ flag, which promotes the idea that police are the only thing standing between civilization and a murder-happy anarchist dystopia. You’ll generally see this flag and ideology attached to right wing authoritarians.

  The lower flag is the Gadsden flag, which features a defensively positioned rattlesnake and the words, “Don’t tread on me.” It was originally a symbol of the colonial independence movement, but the Confederacy used it extensively during the civil war, causing association with the South. It eventually became associated with small government libertarian and anti-authoritarian types in later years, but never lost its association with the Confederacy. More recently, the Republican party started associating themselves with the Gadsden flag both due to their pro-deregulation stance, which they have tried to advertise as them being the party of small government, and as part of The Southern Strategy, an attempt to lure disenfranchised racist voters in the South. As the Republican party as moved further and further to the right, the Gadsden flag has sometimes been used as a neo-fascist symbol. There have been attempts to reappropriate it by anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist groups, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bruh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they read like light novel titles. Lately, light novels have been getting adapted into anime about as much as manga. Manga-first and anime-first works will have much shorter titles. This is due to there being absurd levels of competition in the light novel space for the last seven or eight (I think) years, so authors need to use titles that double as a short blurb; there are so many books coming out each month that potential readers don’t have time to read the full blurbs for even a fraction of the books, so you need a very descriptive title to hook potential readers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Asha Sharma seems to be set up as an example of the glass cliff. She’s clearly trying to bail out a sinking ship rather than revitalize a stale brand. Giving Halo to Activision shows a misunderstanding of what Halo players want, but the other things she’s doing are things that probably could have helped five or more years ago, but are just too late now. We’re probably heading toward a repeat of the 1983 crash. Xbox and PlayStation might still be around after, but they’ll be in the position that Atari and Sega were after the crash, with their remaining market share evaporating the instant a new competitor arrives.

  Meanwhile, so long as Nintendo just keeps doing what they’ve been doing they should be fine. I could see them phasing out game key cards as an option for devs if the digital only backlash on the next generation is bad enough, but they might not have to given that the publishers that have been using them are the ones most likely to implode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the plan is to have them do publishing and IP management, like what happened with LucasArts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a dungeon master⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they were giving in-universe reminders about the growing undead threat and the arrival of said threat isn’t an immediate campaign ender, then yeah. Gotta roll with what the players do without making their efforts pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For an example, I picked up Duke Nukem Forever for $5 knowing the reviews weren’t great and still felt ripped off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wolverine is Canadian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.🤨.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Oh, just one more thing… you can’t get married. No, He didn’t say that, but we’re inspired by the Magic Bird, so mote it be.”

  Didn’t that one come later because certain members of the clergy were having kids and functionally turning their positions into hereditary fiefdoms?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9/11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t include that Hitler was such an incompetent moron that the Allies stopped trying to assassinate him on the basis that whoever replaced him would almost certainly be much more competent and dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the materials rendering part were integrated into the rendering pipeline as a standard thing that could be called with an API, that could be pretty good. Just pass along some info about the material and let it render like any other basic shader. But because it’s a post-processing shader that needs to analyze the entire image and work out materials on the fly to objects that have already been rendered, it murders the frame rate and can make mistakes on its guesses. There’s something legiyimately interesting burried in there, but this is the worst possible way to implement it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pygmy hippo calls out your bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before Moo Deng we had Fiona chomping legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has seen it all before⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NASA calls our star the Sun. NASA calls our moon the Moon or Earth’s Moon. They use solar and lunar anyway, except for a few instances where they use Greek, like ‘heliosphere.’ It’s inconsistent with everything else and it bugs me, but that’s what they do.

  New species the last couple years have been named after David Attenborough, Mothra, a teacher, a cartoon character, and one that uses ChiShona in the same way that Latin is more commonly used. Latin is still used, of course, but with decreasing frequency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has seen it all before⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Using Latin to name things has been falling out of fashion over the last few decades. But a bit more to the point, you will not find a scientific paper that names the star we orbit ‘Sol.’ That is strictly sci-fi. It’s always ‘Sun,’ ‘the Sun,’ or ‘The Sun.’ We should start calling it Sol in official capacities because it’s consistent and less confusing, but we haven’t. We do the same thing with our moon - it’s always ‘Moon,’ ‘the Moon,’ or ‘The Moon’ rather than Luna. If you want the standard changed, you could try petitioning the International Astronomical Union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has seen it all before⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, our star’s name is The Sun. We do call the system the Solar System, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Ford’s attitude is similar to Guinness’ attitude - it’s not that he hates Star Wars, it’s that he hates that it’s completely overshadowed his other work and nobody ever talks to him about any other part of his career.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one spells "lose" anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, everyday is an adjective. Every day is when something happens daily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent rant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And a surprisingly large number of species can do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whew, I better take a break⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless Steven Seagal has been doing a bit since his career tanked thirty years ago, it’s serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR controls are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steven Seagal, the guy in the gif.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Norse were in the only area you can really island hop. The Pacific has tons of island chains, but the Atlantic is relatively empty. It has some islands near Africa and the Americas, but nothing like the chains connecting Japan, Hawaii, and Indonesia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your PS1 was indestructible? The optical drive on every one I’ve ever seen had some sort of significant issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need an adult⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, the red fox is clearly orange, but English speakers were exposed to that species of fox before developing a word for that specific color. For bonus linguistical oddities, ‘orange’ was used for the fruit before it was used for the color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, there are these things called candy cigarettes. They are candy shaped like cigarettes. Despite simply being things like bubble gum or chocolate, it turns out that people who ate them as kids are about twice as likely to smoke real cigarettes as adults. This has resulted in them being banned as advertising tobacco products to children in a good number of countries. This add for nonalcoholic beer specifically saying that minors can buy it can easily be argued to be the same kind of thing, with the same kind of legal response. If consuming non-alcoholic beer as a minor results in significantly higher rates of alcohol consumption as an adult, then ads for non-alcoholic beer that target children, like the one shown, might be worth a ban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Deathloop is set in Tyvia…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Death of the Outsider is the game after 2. It’s technically a stand-alone expansion rather than a game, though; it’s more like Dishonored 1’s Knife of Dunwall and Brigmore Witches expansions than it is a proper Dishonored 3, it just runs on its own executable rather than from a menu within Dishonored 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, Deathloop is Dishonored 3. Death of the Outsider kind of killed the base gameplay premise that Dishonored 1 and 2 were built on, though, so I wouldn’t expect a true Dishonored 3… ever, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Is Happening To The Video Game Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  teams of hundreds of devs are working 996: 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week

  And probably being about as productive as if they were working 9 to 5 four days a week. Exhaustion is really bad for productivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be on both startrek.website and world, then Stamets revealed what a shitshow st.ws was and I abandoned that account. And what do you know, one of their moderators was suddenly very publicly an asshole.