MolochAlter
@MolochAlter@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 2 hours ago:
I see no mention of Starsector, there should be mention of Starsector.
Try Starsector.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
The only thing possibly holding them off is that there’s 2 or 3 factions all wanting to long knife™ eachother at the first chance, which means they have to be ready to go as soon as the power vacuum happens, and one of the factions controls the VP seat.
That might delay the chaos a bit, but not for long.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 weeks ago:
Yep. I played an earlier version but it’s the same game.
The key thing that made me notice was the scarecrow cards that allowed you to pick up your units, those make sense in Condottiere as it’s divided in rounds where you fight multiple battles, so it made sense to pick up your units if you had excess power and were winning anyway, save your strength for the next battle in the round, whereas it made a lot less sense in Gwent given its 1v1 nature and fixed amount of rounds.
Mind you Gwent evolved a lot afterwards, I don’t know much beyond the witcher 3 version, which I still enjoyed plenty.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 weeks ago:
Gwent is actually a slight hack of an existing board game called Condottiere, which is IMO the better game.
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 5 weeks ago:
Truly a fate worse than death.
- Comment on What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”? 1 month ago:
Technofeudalist
- Comment on i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad?? 1 month ago:
- programming doesn’t mean you have a high IQ, I should know, I’m a pro and I’ve worked with some absolute dullards
- high IQ doesn’t mean you’re not a dumbass, I should know, i have 123 iq and am a dumbass.
- free online tests are always bullshit, the only reputable ones are paid
- how old are you that you’re worrying about this and who put this moronic worry into you?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
you’ll get to see the difference between a bad and discriminatory democracy and a pure dictatorship soon enough.
The former elected to enfranchise the aforementioned blacks, the latter is deporting people on a hunch, for instance.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 2 months ago:
Man, the hidden upside of Europe being largely deforested: not enough wood to build houses with.
Only the inner frames are wood here and still covered in plaster wall and such. Most parts of my house are not flammable, let alone a fire hazard.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 2 months ago:
Depends on where you live, I literally never met a person whose house burned down, but our houses are not mostly wood.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sounds like he’s done a lot of research and has kept an open mind. He’s also wise in suggesting to go into therapy and see if there may be other causes/co-causes.
Anecdotal, but a friend of mine has ADHD and once she started treatment for that she also lost like 95% of her feelings of dysphoria and decided to postpone transitioning until she could figure her shit out a bit more.
Years later she’s decided she’s fine as she is and saved herself shittons of money and physical suffering with no real drawback.
It’s important not to be emotionally attached to a diagnosis.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 2 months ago:
You can easily buy 3 10TB HDDs with that money, plenty of redundancy, no need to have someone else do it.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 months ago:
Nice try, FBI
- Comment on Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled 2 months ago:
Not OP but yeah.
Still am, to a point, because thanks to WoW we never got Warcraft 4.
And arguably chasing the WoW demographic also made DND 4th edition suck balls but that may be just the old grognard in me.
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 2 months ago:
Why wouldn’t they? They have it on hand and it would obviously yield “better” results for their intended use case.
If you’re going as far as trying to generate AI csam you’re probably quite deep in that hole already, why settle for less?
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 2 months ago:
In the Netherlands it’s, no joke, 15 minutes and ~60 bucks.
Did it before, as a foreigner too, easiest shit in the world.
They even have dual language forms.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 4 months ago:
Not only that, even the ADL try as they might can’t really make that claim with their chests. They qualify that pepe edits exist that have antisemitic connotations, which is true of literally any of the 4chan template meme characters.
There’s nazi trollfaces, nazi wojacks, nazi chads, you can’t use that as a reason to call pepe an antisemitic dogwhistle.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 5 months ago:
Worth mentioning that the main US senator supporting this, Mark Warner, received substantial donations from Disney, which also poured 1.5 billion (with a B) dollars into Epic Games.
Wouldn’t be surprised if some bigwig at Disney pushed for this investigation, too, especially given how fucking flimsy the results were (55% of all hate symbols were fucking pepe the frog).
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 5 months ago:
If you look back at her primary in 2020, she was.
Hard to wash that off with some last minute recanting, like with fracking and other such campaign claims.
Her hand was tipped as to her ideal term in office 4 years ago, I’m surprised Trump didn’t use that shit in attack ads given how much more stereotypically progressive she was then.
Personally I called it in when a clip of hers saying “we’ve got to get woke” (not sure about the wording but the word woke was used positively) from some talk show aimed at black people from this year came out.
You need to live in a parallel dimension to think that word is not absolutely fucking nuclear waste in the political discourse rn.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 5 months ago:
It’s huge in wrestling at the moment because it’s been a faction for like 3-4 years involving the actual bloodline descendents of chief Peter Maivia, which includes The Rock, Roman Reigns, the Wild Samoans, and pretty much any samoan in wrestling excluding Samoa Joe.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 5 months ago:
We’re doing ok in Europe.
Even with lower salaries than the US, most people in their 30s I know have a mortgage.
I myself bought at 31 with my wife.
It’s not affordable for everyone but it’s doable for people with actual salaries, you just might have to compromise a bit on position or size.
- Comment on ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews 5 months ago:
Fuck I hope not, Indiana Jones absolutely should booty be a shooter.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 6 months ago:
Neither of those people were ordinary in any way tho.
- Comment on Phonebooks 6 months ago:
Very small font on very thin paper.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
That would be quite smart of them tbh.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
Yeah I mean, it’s got upsides and downsides, like everything. Unparalleled access means anyone can make something, which means a lot of things that have niche appeal can find their audience, etc.
It also means a lot of things without any appeal will be out there.
It’s not good or bad in itself but it can be impractical on the consumer side of the equation, and it makes even the remarkable stuff very likely to just disappear in the shuffle.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
Sure, but the stock is tanking now, and the regulations are not on the books.
Like, I agree there needs to be an overhaul of a bunch of regulations regarding monopolies and such, but this doesn’t help analysing the current situation where they’re not in place.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
That’s just generally all of media right now. We are at perhaps the highest level of accessibility for media creation we’ve ever been, but that means that any schmuck with a pair of thumbs and time to waste can make something.
High accessibility means abysmal signal/noise ratio, turns out.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
You realise this isn’t make believe at all, right? Stocks are ownership.
If a stock dips low enough it’s possible to do what microsoft did with Activision Blizzard and buy out another company wholesale, for instance.
Speculation on the stock market isn’t the reason the market exists, it’s a side effect of its pricing mechanisms, the actual point of it is to gather money for companies and gather stake for buyers.
If a major company like Ubisoft keeps tanking, odds are you can look forward to another major buyout and merger which will make the already horribly oligopolistic game industry even smaller, which is not good for anyone involved.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 6 months ago:
They did not say “do I enjoy it?” they said “Is it worth the effort?” and if having food made exactly to your taste is not worth the effort you either have no standards and would be fine with microwave slop and fast food, or you lack the skill to make something that satisfies you.
Either way, skill issue.
The one exception would be if you’re disabled or something, and I don’t mean “I have adhd” disabled, I mean “I physically can’t stand at the stove for 20-30 minites” disabled.