Glide

@Glide@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ones and zeros and tens⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fuck the throwback meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is having sex with squirrels bad for environment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Nintendo games were affordable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You heard it here first, ladies: the left knows how to eat pussy. You’re welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, this just isn’t true, though. You’re not wrong in pointing out that the scope of sales has changed, but so has the scope of development, as well as consumer expectation. I suspect if you compare the number of man hours spent on a title today vs an NES game, it’s not even a comparable discussion. And then there’s the matter of post-release support.

  To be clear, I don’t think a $30 price hike for physical copies is at all sensible, but the arguments being presented both for and against it are incredibly poorly thought out. Everyone presents a single facet of videogame development today compared to years ago and then acts like it’s a “gotcha” that proves their point. The entire ecosystem of game development and consumption has changed so drastically, that any discussion comparing the adjusted for inflation price of games then vs now is just pointless. Art and entertainment are art and entertainment, and it’s impossible to create a de-facto value statement for them, because consumer subjectivity, bias, and valuation is too wide to make objective statements about.

  Imo, the real criticism of the matter is that +50% cost during a time of economic upheaval, when the buying power of the middle class is approaching the weakest it’s been in a long time, is going to be received poorly, and probably result in a loss of Western sales. It’s a massive leap, in a single generation, at the worst possible time, regardless of what inflation adjustments tell us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I am not okay with the game price hike, you’re comparing genuine dog shit to actual good games. It’s like asking why anyone would ever order a steak when they can just go to McDonald’s. Sure they’re both food, but they’re not really comprable.

  That said, I am not trying to justify Nintendo’s pricing. They’re asking for too much of a leap (+50%!!!) in too short of a time frame. But this meme is a bad argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds: First Impressions After the Long-Awaited Release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuinely couldn’t stand how on-rails it is. Why advertise this wide open world and then constantly restrict and limit my options to interact with it?

  There’s lots of positive things to say about it. The combat is, yes, perhaps more satisfying than ever. They really nailed the Monster/weapons/armor designs this time around. I feel like there’s value in gathering again, something that recent titles have lost.

  But it’s all stained by the low-rank experience. Spending 10-12 hours behind hand-held through a series of walk and talks where I am constantly prompted to stare at the beautiful landscape piece, or the way small monsters interact, as though the game is afraid I’ll miss it if I am left to my own devices, was both boring and insulting. There was a lot of decisions made to put cinematography ahead of gameplay experience here, and these decisions have genuinely made Wilds my least favorite release Monster Hunter title to date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Convinience. I’m a gamer first and foremost, and more of a hardware person than a software person at that. I have a friend who games on Linux and I’ve seen the fights he sometimes goes through to make things run. Sometimes it’s great, and it’s awesome, and others… Well, we’ll lose a night or two before finally getting in, or deciding it ultimately won’t work.

  I know there are distros to ease these problems, improve capatibility, etc., but when compared to Win10, which I am comfortable on and understand, it’s just easier to stick.

  That said, I have my limits, and a forced Microsoft account is a hard no-go for me.

  As an aside, if you have any distros that you think would allieviate/solve my issues, feel free to link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We might be on the last version of Windows that I am willing to run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You finally figure that mysterious voice commanding you is not the devil⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “No, you don’t understand, if you just don’t think about the consequences of the things you say or do, this is really funny!”

  You should genuinely be embarrassed to post this kind of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You finally figure that mysterious voice commanding you is not the devil⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, nothing like a little chauvinism to start my day. Women should be seen, not heard, amirite guys?

  /s just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Based list. Outer Wilds in particular chef’s kiss.