jwiggler
@jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 1 week ago:
It’s fantasy, part of the fun is the mystery of this strange looking technology and how old, used, and dirty it is. Makes you wonder, what kind of history did this object see?
Relevant aside: I just learned Lucas renamed Star Wars to Star Wars: Episode IV in 1981, before knowing he’d help make the three prequel films. It was just a stylistic choice, to make Star Wars feel like just a small piece of a larger epic.
Once you explain the mystery of the technology away, or the mystery of the rest of the saga, some of that magic disappears.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 weeks ago:
Can you recommend me a starting point? For someone who has no experience with these games, or any Japanese games besides Soulsgames and RE4 remake.
Feel free to roast me in the process.
- Comment on [DeliberatelyBuried] Ratatouille 3 weeks ago:
I found this fact particularly fun. thanks for sending me down a lil rabbit hole.
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 3 weeks ago:
I think totally. 100%. If Wikipedia is to be believed
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people that perceives themselves to be different from other groups based on shared attributes. These attributes include having a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.[1][2] The term ethnicity is sometimes used interchangeably with the term nation, particularly in cases of ethnic nationalism. It is also used interchangeably with race.
Then I think that your ethnicity could be based on the internet communities you exist in.
Its directly related to things like the slow dissolution of regional accents we see due to the internet and the general melting, appropriation, and reappropriation we of cultural aspects we see facilitated by the internet.
- Comment on "You Will Own Nothing" - _jared 4 weeks ago:
I enjoy Jared Henderson. Frustrated there’s nothing about free software movement anywhere in this video
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
When i was a kid, my grandma lived with us. She’d listen to this piece of garbage non-stop. She had me parroting the drivel he spouted. Nothing could make me forgive this dude for poisoning her mind, and nothing will make me forget how she helped make me into a hateful little kid. Glad they’re both dead, only hoping my own mother doesn’t take up the mantle with my nieces and nephews. She does not understand the harm and the trauma she perpetuates.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 4 weeks ago:
Spoken like a true 12 year old. Lmao
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 4 weeks ago:
Wow, I gave you a lot of benefit of the doubt in my comments, but you’re really out here to just denigrate other people’s tastes, aren’t you? How refined, how cultured your game library must be. How sweet your shit must smell. How does it feel up there, where you’ll never touch a game frequented by us Dorito-eaters and us Mountain-Dew-drinkers? Feels good, huh? Feels better.
What a fucking joke.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 weeks ago:
For sure for sure. I definitely read it that way, in part, because I have to consciously remind myself that my taste is my own and I should try not to dismiss people who like their art to be more…palatable, i guess? Because I have the capacity to be that guy, unfortunately. So I try to watch a blockbuster every once in a while, so to speak.
I think it was probably the comparison between GTA and Madden and CoD that threw me, because they have almost no similarities besides being AAA.
Their comment kinda reminded me of how the Kingdom Come: Deliverance fandom can be. I mean, I fucking love KCD and KCD2, they’re two of the best games I’ve ever played. They can slow AF though, and frustrating at times. But whenever someone mentions that, or that they didn’t like it, someone else invariably comes along and completely dismisses their opinion, like “You just don’t understand it,” or “Maybe you just don’t have the attention span to really immerse yourself.” It’s like dude, you don’t need to make someone feel bad for not liking a game.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 weeks ago:
I think GTA online could be compared to Madden and CoD in that they all have aggressive(-ly lame) monetization tactics. But the way jordanlund frames it (sorry jordan, I don’t mean to rag on you – like I said, I can also be like this) sounds more to me like a “i only listen to artists with less than 1000 monthly listeners” type of statement
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 weeks ago:
I get it’s a massive franchise, like Madden or Call of Duty… don’t buy those either.
whew, I’m trying to understand your comment, but this is kinda coming off pretty…holier-than-thou? Which, I do get that because I can find myself like that with movies/tv, but still…we gotta let people like what they like.
In this case though, I honestly think this is a pretty terrible comparison. Madden and CoD don’t have massive single player appeal that GTA or RDR have. They are total schlock in that regard (though, I hear CoD’s recent campaigns are actually good).
GTA and RDR on the other hand very skillfully mix elements of RPG, immersive sim, and adventure game. They’re huge sandboxes for the player to explore and discover new things, within which are nestled very well written stories that critique modern life and touch upon themes that, yes, you could find them in various indie games if you look a bit, but are somewhat unique in the blockbuster gamescape. It’s difficult to find other single player games with the scope of Rockstar games, though I think it is getting easier.
But comparing GTA to Madden or CoD is kinda whack unless you’re looking at GTA Online in isolation.
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 1 month ago:
I think installing linux on another hard drive is best. It can be frustrating to jump straight into linux and realize a particular thing doesnt work, not knowing why, and realizing you can’t play games at all before doing work to fix things. Saying this as a linux sysadmin.
For a long time I had a dual boot setup for this reason. I wasn’t sure why Ubuntu always felt so sluggish gaming (especially Rocket League, which requires a very low amount of input lag)
Eventually I found two things that massively MASSIVELY improved my perception of the performance. First, the kernel I was running. Switching to the liquorix kernel with my NVIDIA card made a huge difference in my perceived input latency (please, if someone could correct my verbiage here. Input latency may not be technically correct.) Secondly but almost as important – my desktop compositor. I switched to KDE Plasma so I could manually turn it off and make sure that it was off. I never was certain with Gnome, even though I am more comfortable in that environment. Smooth sailing since then. But it was important for me to be able to reboot into Windows if I wanted to play with friends without running into technical difficulties.
Now, I’m fully off of Windows for gaming and, well, everything. It’s sick.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
Ooo shit yeah I actually like this take, I didn’t think about the dating app implications. Like in the sense of highly ironic dating app pics, doing this and hamming it up to the max could actually be hilarious
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
I think you might be misunderstanding me. I don’t mean to say women aren’t attracted by silliness. I mean to say that a person who tries to be a certain way (can be silly, serious, whatever) because they think it will attract a mate is less attractive, especially compared with than a person who is just a certain way because that’s how they are.
Being your true self is more attractive than trying to be act in a way that you think will attract someone, yknow?
But I agree with you (although I’m a man), silly is attractive. But being silly with the express intent of impressing potential romantic partners? Way less attractive
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
oop my bad, I wrote out my comment and then deleted my main point. I think you hit the nail on the head, my only differing opinion is that I think at this point, it’s really difficult to change the underlying reason that he’s doing it. At least for me, I wouldnt be able to just “turn off” the original intent of attracting women.
If I went ahead with the plan trying to tell myself, “Well originally it was about getting dates and impressing women, but now its just about having fun,” I feel like I’d still be subconsciously doing it for the female gaze. That’s why I say the jig is up – if I were him, I’d bag the idea and wait for next purely silly fun idea
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
I think this is the reason he shouldn’t do it. If the whole reason to do it is to attract women, that is pretty unattractive. It would be funny if they just did it for the “fuck it, why not be silly?” aspect of it, but I feel like if the original reason is to attract women, then the jig is up and it is forced and weird.
“Let’s be silly” is cool and attractive. “Let’s be silly so we can attract women” is cringe and off-putting.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 2 months ago:
Sure dude but in this case your comment comes off as if you were a huge elitist asshole. I mean, maybe you’re not. It’s just that your comment sounds as if it could be written by one. As if you’re just better than the OP because you can understand the complicated, intricate, dynamic mechanics of a game and OP is just not… whatever… enough to “get it”, and that they should just go play this simpler, one-dimensional, easy game, that they don’t even have to pay attention to.
It’s like you went to see an indie art-house film with your friend, and upon hearing that they didn’t like it as much as you did, you say “that’s okay, you’re probably just not smart enough to get it. Maybe you should just watch Marvel movies from now on.”
Just major, major asshole vibes. And I’m saying this as a KCD stan.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I hear you, I don’t think it was very standard for him and wasn’t really rigorous in terms of research. Personally, I do buy what he’s saying for the most part, but yeah like he said, I dont think there are any concrete studies on this. But, to me, research (or, I guess I should call it knowledge acquisition) is a little like training a muscle – the longer you avoid it, the harder it is to get started. And if you never do it, the first time is painful. I mean, that first time, you have to find out how to find out, rather than just finding out (lol)
It reminds me of this book I read called The Internet of Us by Michael P Lynch. He talks about how dependent we are on the Internet to know things, and it’s made us, ironically, less connected. We’ve forgotten how to find out information by other means. He sets up a couple little exercises for himself: to find out, without the Internet – What is the capital of Bulgaria? Is a four-stroke engine more efficient than a two-stroke? What’s the phone number of my representative? What is the best reviewed restaurant in Austin, TX? – and it turns out pretty difficult for him. All throughout the book he talks about the philosophical implication of having knowledge at our fingertips, at the cost of, perhaps, losing the ability to acquire knowledge through other means.
You should check it out! archive.org/…/internetofusknow0000lync_w8o8
I found out about it from this philosotuber on YT, he kinda gives a better run down of the book than me around 20 seconds in www.youtube.com/watch?v=uctUh0Z2YTc
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Idk, I mean the mass amount of options we have now are different from the TV days. It’s easier than ever nowadays the find the online community that believes in lizard people. At least back then, there was some sense of shared reality through TV, even if it was subservient to corporate or government powers. Now, we don’t live in the same reality as our neighbors.
And I kinda think you’re misconstruing what he’s saying about allowing your thoughts to be guided by the algorithm vs being active in choosing what media you consume. The radio is just an example of how you could find a lot of valuable information by guiding your own consumption. Algorithm wouldnt allow you to find info about that radio. It rewards you for being passive. I mean its meant to be addictive and capture your attention. I think his point is that the more people conflate their social media algorithms with the internet, the less able they become to do some basic research.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s weird she’s talking to you as if she were your mom.
- Comment on DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America 3 months ago:
The video isn’t really about how each facet of a ‘network state’ would work though, it’s about how these billionaires – who proclaim out in the open the US is a failing state and needs to essentially be brought out back and killed so they can build it back how they want – have their voices in the Presidents ear and their money in his pocket. Seemingly he and JD Vance are repeating their (Thiel, Balaji, and ultimately Curtis Yarvin’s) philosophies and advancing their own goals, as stated by they themselves in podcasts and books.
But to answer your first point, you dont buy an army, you buy the US presidency, which just so happens to be the most powerful it has ever been in US history.
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- Comment on What do you create? 6 months ago:
35mm film with picture negatives on it
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 7 months ago:
Looks like Skill Up on YouTube did not recommend – I typically trust his takes over review outlets
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 7 months ago:
I actually was fortunate enough to visit the Sistine Chapel this summer, and although when you take a close look at images online of the paintings, it’s clear they aren’t “realism”, when you see the paintings in person they look very real. I was especially struck by how real Jonah looked, as if he was just hanging out, sitting on a ledge near the ceiling. Very cool experience.
- Comment on Academic writing 8 months ago:
I like the part where one guy goes, “Justice is paying your debts” and Socrates goes, “oh yeah? so it would be just for me to return the gun my friend loaned me, when he comes back requesting it in a murderous frenzy? Yeah, that’s what I thought.”
And the guy just leaves lol
- Comment on Anon is anti drugs 10 months ago:
lmaoo thank you for the laugh
- Comment on Anon is anti drugs 10 months ago:
That’s totally cool with me, I am absolutely a dumb idiot.
Difference is I don’t go around correcting people’s spelling to make them feel stupid.
- Comment on Anon is anti drugs 10 months ago:
oops for you, because in your comment you come off haughty and dumb. Happens to all of us though, no big deal.
- Comment on Anon is anti drugs 10 months ago:
insults someone for their spelling mistake
fails at simple reading comprehension