Glide

@Glide@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In any other setting, when we take specific, tiny stones and carve patterns into them until they can perform tasks for us, we call it magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The BMI was created by a social scientist to place people into rough categories for a study on how obesity impacts social interactions, in a study on how the “average man” represented a social ideal. The fact that we now use it to define who is obese and overweight I’d a little insane. While it’s been adopted by major health organizations (and hopefully adjusted by genuine health professionals), it is a horrible singular indicator of physical health. People in the extremes are statistically more likely to face health issues. This is not the same thing as “being in the obese category makes you unhealthy because you are fat.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs. male delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He. The fact that you assumed I’m a woman explains a lot about why you’d defend this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs. male delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that is the target audience, but not the explicit message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs. male delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come off it. You and I both know that the man in this image is not the butt of the “joke.” Fucking sad that it’s 2025 and we’re still defending pathetic positions like “the only thing that really impresses women is wealth” under the guise of shit like “no, no, see, he’s old, so it’s actually a deep and nuanced boomer humor Facebook post from Grandpa.”

  Sling insults and argue ad hominem to try and deflect all you want, this meme is base level, early 2000s sexism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs. male delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, classic boomer misogyny disguised as a meme.

  I mean, the post sure is shit, I’ll give it that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you get the letter of the rule, but completely miss the spirit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s not the point, but this toeing if the age line is just as gross as going after minors imo. We need to respect the nuances of human relationships rather than reducing it to a number.

  Mind you I get that this guy identifies as having aspergers, so nuance is not his fortee, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What in the late-stage capitalist brainrot.

  It’s “simple economics” to attack people trying to make art and entertainment for having the gall to ever consider increasing their prices, knowing full well that the cost of living has increased drastically? You’re going with “that’s just the market telling them they’re charging too much” while ignoring the reality that rent has doubled - and in some cases tripled - food costs have gone up 50%, and wages have barely improved? It’s the fault of video game developers that you have relatively less money and cannot afford to purchase their product around the other products you need or are expected to purchase?

  If your wage increased with the cost of living, you would not see this price as “too high.” But because some price increases are on necessary purchases, we attack the unnessecary ones, like good little capitalists. Adam Smith would be proud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that you get downvoted for pointing out the reality of the situation.

  Relative to the price of every else, $80 for a AAA videogame is actually reasonable. The problem is that rent has gone up drastically, food has gone up drastically, and our wages have stagnated. Getting pissed off at Gearbox for charging $80 for Borderlands 4, and then paying $15 for a burger and fries without an equal reaction just doesn’t seem sensible to me.

  Everything is awful, and videogame devs aren’t the ones stealing all our buying power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ones and zeros and tens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you gave me the benefit of the doubt and I appreciate it, but I want to say clearly that Hitler was anything but a genius. He had a penchant for sticking his nose into professions that he had no business involving himself in, and making decisions that he had no background in, education on, or understanding of. Like Trump, he was a narcissist who thought he knew best just because he is who he is, and was not self-aware to let the professionals work.

  Perhaps eloquent was the wrong word, as I wrongly assume Mein Kampf was his words, when in reality it was likely the words of his editor, followed by a translator. Instead, I would say that when you hear him speak, Hitler’s voice is powerful. I cannot the same for Trump. One feels like a commanding leader, and the other feels like a toddler throwing a tantrum, though they were both, ultimately, the latter.

  Also, just so it’s on the record, I read Mein Kampf as part of a minor in history. This was not personal interest, though it is an incredibly interesting text. It was fascinating to discover he devoted ~2.5 chapters to the importance of the same kind of simple, yet powerful finger-pointing rhetoric used by right-wing ideologists to this day. I joking say it’s one of the earliest texts on meme theory, and it’s only half a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ones and zeros and tens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It literally took until the “signed America over to Canada” line before I was confident it was fake.

  Fuck, this is a weird timeline. At least Hitler was eloquent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon blames millennials⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The executives, investors and accountants making the decisions that are ruining games are not millenials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hardly call $50 games “budget titles.” Is paying $30 for a meal at a steakhouse a budget meal just because that high-class $50 a plate reservation-only place exists?

  I agree that price doesn’t equal quality, but I don’t feel so good about trying to normalize AAA $50 games as “budget titles.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, this is a cute way to push Linux and all, but Windows 10 reaching end of service really doesn’t mean we have to give up using it. We could easily have years before the end of support causes compatibility issues for the average home user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a photo of irony.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …the gag is that this isn’t ironic, right? Like people dropped their /s?

  You expect people who are bad at driving to need to attend a driving school, and it is therefore a place where you are more likely to see accidents. This image meets what one would reasonable expect. It is not ironic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting take. I found them to be very different people. Two different flavours of cliche’d anime protagonist, sure, but very different people none the less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner and I make a point to occasionally play through a couch co-op game as well here are some of the things we enjoyed.

  Phogs - Currently playing this. It’s a cute, dog-themed puzzle game thing, where you play as two heads of a single long dog-thing. We’re enjoying it, but we’re not particularly deep in, and I do wonder if it’ll get Ibb and Obb samey, but it’s worth checking out imo. Cassette Beasts - Couch co-op, Pokemon inspired, adventure RPG with great storytelling, fantastic music and a retro aesthetic. The world is very Zelda-like in exploration and puzzle solving, while combat is Pokemon double battles. Highly recommended, just be aware that one player gets to be the player-made protagonist, while the other is one of an interchangeable series of partner characters. Sea of Stars - The co-op update did a lot of good for this game. A Chrono Trigger inspired, faux-SNES era, indie RPG. There’s a lot of unvoiced dialogue, which I could see as being a barrier to enjoyment as a multiplayer game, but the game is paced quite well, so I don’t think it’s a huge problem. Also, players do take turns inputting commands, but everyone is responsible for the timed hits/blocks, and you each control a character of equal agency in the overworld, so it avoids the largest co-op turn based RPG folly of having one player and one half-watching “follower.” There are a ton of accessibility options/features (difficulty is VERY malleable), and as an added bonus, there’s a free story DLC coming on the 20th. Children of Morta - This is perhaps the most “hardcore” of my list, but the girlfriend, despite explicitly not enjoying “hard” games, really really enjoyed this one. An action-RPG with some very light roguelike elements, Children of Morta has you play as a family of hunter-gatherer-warrior types in a fantasy world, working together to stop a malevolent power from corrupting the physical world. Each family member has a different playstyle, their own skill tree, and a lot of personality. The game is very story driven, with a few moments being taken between each run for the fantastic narration to drip feed the narrative, slowly teaching you more about the world, the characters, and their family dynamic.

  These are the ones that came to the top of my mind, either because they were particularly good or, in the case of Phogs, is ongoing. If I see anything else worth mentioning when I look at my Steam list next, I’ll add.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religions have some of the wackiest rules⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of the Bible was simply guidelines to keep people healthy and happy. All this “the skin of the pig is unclean” stuff? They hadn’t figured out germs yet. No sex until marriage? No contraceptives, so don’t create in cared for children. I won’t waste my time on it but, when examined in context, this is the vast majority, if not the entirety of the bible: lessons on how to be safe and happy relative the time, made digestable and relevant to the common person.

  Sucks they had to get there via fear of imaginary, post-life pain, and it sucks twice as hard that they’ve neglected to rationalize that part as the rest of the belief structure has modernized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel guilty or very depressed after accomplishing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a multiple friends who, whenever they find success, almost immediately feel guilty and apologize to anyone else involved. In every case, those friends come from backgrounds where they were surrounded by narcissists. The guilt and apologies are a programmed response because said narcissists would always frame their success as someone else’s, usually their own, loss. This is now the lens they see every success through.

  Win at a game? Apologize to the people you beat. Interview well and be offered a new job? Feel guilty about the other applicants. Hell, go out for a meal with friends and your food comes first? “I’m so sorry, guys.”

  Narcissists have programmed these friends to believe that they are undeserving of success, or even good luck, and that they should apologize for existing. I do my best to reassure them when I can, “you earned this,” or “you had nothing to do with this happening,” but ultimately it’s something they have to grapple with until they can figure out for themselves how to grow past that programming.

  I have no idea if this applies to your situation, but it is a lens to consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This thread is actually huge, so apologies if this has already been recommended, but take a look at Against the Storm. It’s an indie city-builder with a bit of a rogue-like spin. You can usually get it on fairly deep sales, and the rogue-like elements combined with some meta-progression gives it a real play length, even though a single city-building session is a ~45-60 minute experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is so strange! Usually, they wait 15 days to elect a new Pope. We could be seeing history in the making.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fuck the throwback meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is having sex with squirrels bad for environment?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “No Stupid Questions” isn’t meant to be a challenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Nintendo games were affordable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mhmm. Everyone is shitting on Nintendo, but the reality is their games are literally keeping up with inflation. The problem is that our wages haven’t kept up with inflation, and the cost of living has, at least, kept up. In some cases (rent), it’s grown faster than the inflation of everything else.

  Don’t get me wrong, Nintendo is tone deaf for making this decision now, and I suspect they’d still make billions with a $15 price increase rather than a $30 one. I’m not defending them. But the picture is a lot larger than them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no “sanity” system in Look Outside. The closest thing is a hidden “stress” stat which, last I checked, is literally just combat problems when it gets low.

  That said, Look Outside is a fantastic game, and the Dev is super down to earth and active with his players. Highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bless.

  “No stupid questions” should only apply to questions, not thinly veiled attempts at polarizing conversations.

  I fucking hate the rise of the alt-right more than most, but one of the reasons for that hate is the bad faith bullshit they get up to in pushing their agenda. I have no interest in combating them with bad faith bullshit of our own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you really have to let everyone know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  See, comments like this…

  Yes, because having a visible sexual fetish deviating from normalcy makes them a child predator. Fuck off with these chud talking points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you really have to let everyone know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that sexual expression is insanely repressed, and that celebrating it openly is more in line with the LGBTQ+ movement than you realize.

  I mean, look at this thread. We have a majority upvoted comment calling this person mentally ill for being willing to express a non-normative opinion on sexuality. That’s not that different from the right-wing chuds calling trans people mentally ill as the modern stand-in for the r-slur, which in turn is a modern stand-in for “doing a socially unacceptable thing that I don’t like and should be ashamed.”

  Personally, I think this person’s choices are in poor taste. But I get it. I get why someone would want to do this in a world where they’re constantly told they’re strange and wrong for the way they’re wired, so long as that wiring doesn’t cause harm to others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨History never repeats itself but it rhymes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t inherit the sins of my father solely because of my skin color.

  Correct. We inherit the responsibility to do what we can to make those wrongs right because of the advantages we are afforded by our historical background.

  Because of the family I was born into, I was afforded easy access to food, shelter, and education, and easily able to find success and prosperity. This allows my children the same, and that’s, in large part, a result of history. Those coming from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds do so because, again at least in part, my distant relatives stole from them to my benefit.

  When these issues are divided by skin color, then yes, it is racist to ignore them in their entirety over the argument that we had no direct control over the actions of our forefathers, as we continue to benefit from them today. It’s really some trolley problem stuff: we are advantaged by being the ones hanging out around the lever, not tied to the tracks. When we are asked to switch the tracks, or heaven forbid stop the trolley, we should not respond, “it’s racist to tell me I should be doing something about this! I didn’t build the tracks! I don’t own the trolley!” Okay, cool. But they’re down there, on the tracks, and we’re up here, next to the lever. Call it luck, but by the nature of our birth, we have an advantage that minorities do not. It is not racist to identify that.

  You want genuine people, friend, taking the time to try and discuss these perspectives to someone is about as genuine as it gets. It’s not easy to accept that, despite massive personal struggles and relative low wealth and prosperity in a world owned by billionaires, I’ve been at an advantage just because I was born European descendant Caucasian. Don’t mistake disagreement for a lack of authenticity, or being poor of character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨History never repeats itself but it rhymes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet we benefit from it every single day all the same, while throwing out hands up and screaming “that isn’t on me!”

  We’re not responsible for what happened to them then, but we are responsible in what we do about it now. Turning away that responsibility while continuing to reap the benefits is racism.