Excrubulent
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- Comment on Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year 2 days ago:
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 5 days ago:
Wait, open world, specific upgrades needed to access new areas and progress the story… I think Subnautica is a secret metroidvania. It’s just most of the upgrades are “you can go deeper now”.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 1 week ago:
Yup, and honestly even according to that anti-art logic it was a strategic failure. Funny meme gifs were part of how the game gained notoriety, but you don’t maintain a game long term on meme status alone.
Even if “haha funni physics glitches” were still the in thing - I think people got over them fast, like with any comedy style - the longevity of the game came from the deep mechanics and impressive missions people could do, and the community support.
I actually think that “sequels” to breakout sandbox games are always doomed to fail. Like what if they tried to release Minecraft 2? It would be awful, and I think we all instinctively know it would be, which is kind of a self fullfulling prophecy.
Minecraft doesn’t have a monopoly on the special sauce that makes their game good. It has a decade and a half of support and cultural recognition from a dedicated following. You can’t make that happen a second time. I don’t like what’s been done with the franchise commercially, but they figured out how to milk it without doing a direct sequel, which I think is part of why it’s still relevant.
- Comment on To whom it may concern 1 week ago:
Also weirdly accepts the premise of the story then calls it a lie. Like at least have some narrative cohesion in your snark, people, it’s not hard.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 2 weeks ago:
If you like factory designing games, I can recommend anything by Zachtronics.
They’re all esoteric programming/automation type puzzle games, and they all have their own unique solitaire games built-in for whenever you get tired of the main game.
My personal favourites are SpaceChem - scifi molecule factories - and Opus Magnum - steampunk alchemical molecule factories. Something about the molecules just works for me, don’t know why. Plus the Opus Magnum solitaire game is really unique and fun, and it has a user-made level feature, so you can keep playing.
Last Call BBS is a collection of minigames they made as their final release before shutting up shop, so it’s a lot more casual than the others, but a lot of fun.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 2 weeks ago:
The full list of her titles is a short book.
Even the “full honorifics” are usually a long and boring paragraph.
People usually don’t use them because a) it’s annoying, b) it takes too long, and/or c) we don’t particularly want to honour her and the extremely long list of genocides that those titles are formed from.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t make her not the queen of England, though, so the other person isn’t wrong.
The thing that makes her not the queen of England is being dead as shit.
- Comment on lion 2 weeks ago:
It’s like a UNION but you don’t STOP at couple of PAY RAISE HANDOUTS you just KEEP GOING till YOU OWN IT ALL.
HELL YEAH BROTHER (INCLUSIVE)
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 3 weeks ago:
As written this guy only has one monkey.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 3 weeks ago:
892 trillion years sounds like a minuscule amount of time to wait for a string that long.
- Comment on Interesting fact about humans in zero gravity 3 weeks ago:
I think the real answer is that the only people who actually know are the select few astronauts, and their governments are too prudish to ever be open about it, so the people don’t want to admit to such “unprofessional” behaviour. I think until space tourism becomes common enough, we’ll never know.
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think tankies are keen on recognising Taiwan. They think it should still be part of China.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 4 weeks ago:
“this crazy lesbian feminist said all sex is rape!”
Not all sex, just all the sex in their world. So by saying it was “all sex” they were kind of telling on themselves by agreeing.
I should probably read that book, thanks for that.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 4 weeks ago:
This definitely plays into something I’ve been thinking about lately - in a conservative worldview, all sex is rape, of a woman by a man. Whether it’s acceptable to them is all about ownership. Does that man have the right kind of ownership over that that woman? If so, they’re fine with it. If not, it’s bad.
This is also related to the idea that no woman ever actually wants sex, and no man ever doesn’t want it. It’s all about when it’s allowable for him to overpower her.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 4 weeks ago:
Yes, agreed, but “thousand year prohibition” is so specific. Like that must refer to something, and I’m really curious about what.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 4 weeks ago:
I assume they have a reference yeah, which is why it’s so wild that they just throw it out as if it’s common knowledge.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 4 weeks ago:
Can anyone explain the phrase “hence thousand year prohibition against it”?
Like, I see the Musk-y tweet style, where apparently particles like “a” and “the” aren’t worth your big boy genius brained time, but what is the prohibition? Dude just drops that like everybody knows what he’s talking about, but what the actual fuck is he talking about?
God, it’s such an arrogant, lazy way of talking, I fucking hate these incel shitheels.
- Comment on Genius 4 weeks ago:
They should call it by its proper English name: “corn chip sandwich.”
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 1 month ago:
Iggity-iggit-ig-ig-ig-uhhh, don’t mind the flag.
That’s actually a real strategy that stutterers use to get around hard phrases, to just rephrase what they mean.
- Comment on frenly warnin 1 month ago:
“Secure” doesn’t just mean “defend” or “safeguard”. “Secure” also means “capture”, so it implies you need to go put and get it, like with invasions or something maybe, idk. It’s a lot less passive.
“Existence” means both “survival” and “prosperity”. It implies that both their existence is under threat, while creating the idea that they might be able to make it better. Maybe they could, idk, make america great again, trying to return to some mythical prelapsarian era by beating back the eternal threat.
“A future” does this too, implying they may not have a future at all.
And talking about the “children” brings up the concept of making new people, evoking the idea that non-white races are out-breeding them. It also includes the common “think of the children” idea.
And finally the fact that it’s short and boring comes from the fact that nazis are uninspiring and uninspired, and they need a simple, to the point slogan to repeat without thinking about it too hard. They certainly know how to make a message concise, even at the cost of saying almost nothing of meaning when you think too hard about it.
All of this is classic fascism.
- Comment on I'll give 100% when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 1 month ago:
Gotcha, so when the boss tells me to “give 110%” I can go ahead and translate that to 55%.
And then not do that either.
- Comment on Council housing when? 1 month ago:
“It’s the market” is another way of saying “because I can”.
They don’t have to raise the rent to match the market, the market is simply a signal to them that if they lost you by raising the rent, they could potentially replace you for the same or higher rent.
They could ignore that and leave your rent alone. They don’t. It’s a choice.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 2 months ago:
This cimes from the assumption that right wing views have equal validity and exist on am equal footing, but they just don’t.
Right wing autoritarian attitudes are just whatever is propped up by the propaganda of the prevailing hierarchy. They’re blasted out of mainstream news outlets everyday. They don’t survive on merit, but on funding.
Like honestly, if you want to hear what conservatives have to say, go watch their news, listen to their pundits, join their social media apps, but if you’ve got half a brain then you shouldn’t be surprised that it’s just a pile of callow, self-serving bullshit. You will be disappointed.
Like this is an open system. Anyone can make an instance. You know why right wing instances just… aren’t? Because they can’t stop themselves from being bigots, which most people hate, actually, and gets them yeeted, so they don’t thrive here. It’s ot some conspiracy or bias, it’s just what happens when assholes aren’t shielded by some big daddy corporation. They can’t hack it.
- Comment on New fediverse chick just dropped 2 months ago:
I mean in the vast scope of objects that exist in our universe you basically are.
If you have DNA at all you are in a very small and closely related club in the context of the universe.
- Comment on No one can know my shame 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 2 months ago:
In future you can just say that rather than talking in circles and making no sense. Goodbye.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 2 months ago:
Your point is that the issues don’t affect the core experience, and I’ve explained how that’s wrong, and you’ve ignored it.
You’re also now blatantly mischaracterising what I’ve said.
If you want me to keep talking to you, I need you to tell me that you are actually curious to understand what I have to say.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 2 months ago:
Yes, you ignored the worst parts of it in favour of things you could dismiss for yourself, and then you ignored me pointing that out. I’m not going to keep explaining this to you any further.
- Comment on The science is divided 2 months ago:
Horse blindness is a made up illness designed to gaslight us into believing that horses exist.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 2 months ago:
Okay, I don’t understand how and you haven’t explained it, you’ve just said that you don’t personally care about it, which isn’t an argument I can respond to. You’re free to have your opinion, but I don’t see how it’s relevant here.
