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- Comment on 55 minutes ago:
GTA online was awful. You can never do anything because you would always get blown up because they kept putting in stupid overpowered vehicles.
- Comment on 56 minutes ago:
For some reason, everyone wants to just drive around and shoot people, instead of experiencing interesting stories?
What a weird take. Every single GTA game has had a story and it’s pretty obvious that this one’s going to have a story too. You can complain about all sorts of things to do with rockstar but that’s just a weird thing to say.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 19 hours ago:
You do get no ones actually killing them.
We’re giving them a good kicking but they walk away with no broken bones, no concussion, and certainly with all their organs still functioning. For the most part these guys are cowards, you don’t need to kill them to stop them, you just need to make them experience mild discomfort.
It’s the right that love to kill each other.
Although I have to ask, do you seriously think that these people have anything to contribute to society. For the most part they think the way they do because they are ill-educated woth the world horizon been about 50 miles away from their own house. They’ve never met the people they hate, they’ve never been to their country, these people have never experienced the suffering of war or famine, and because of that they can’t imagine it. I don’t think society is being denied the next Nobel laureate just because it is intolerant of racists.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 19 hours ago:
I don’t think anybody is actually suggesting that the Iraq war for example was moral so I’m not quite sure what your point is.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 19 hours ago:
Are you seriously suggesting that mainly pointing to someone and going this guy’s a Nazi would immediately result in a beating? Come on that’s an intellectually dishonest arguement and you know it, that is absolutely not happening no one is doing that.
What’s happening is the Nazis are ousting themselves. They provide their own evidence. They film themselves doing this stuff, rioting, setting fire to buildings, weaving misspelt banners around. They are pointing the finger at themselves.
No one attacks people without evidence. Look at Trump, every time Mr tiny hands doesn’t like somebody he accuses them of being a fascist, without knowing what the word means. But it’s utterly irrelevant because no one believes him.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 19 hours ago:
You see the problem here is you’ve decided what I’m arguing and suggesting people do, rather than actually reading my comment. I don’t think I’ve ever stated anywhere that you can’t apply any of what I’ve said to politicians rich CEOs and anybody else who’s at it.
But there is a very important distinction to be made between the people who are actually hurting people and the people who are using because the people who are using them won’t do anything on their own they need their foot soldiers as you call them. Diminish their footstep holders and you diminish their power too it’s all one thing.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 day ago:
Sorry but that’s irrelevant. Who personally views themselves as good and bad isn’t relevant to how I apply your logic from my perspective.
The danger comes in thinking that everything you do is good simply because you do it.
You shouldn’t hurt people if you don’t have to but that’s not the same as saying that violence should be avoided at all costs and that it’s never useful, or even ultimately the lesser evil.
I have a problem with these absolutists the tried to suggest that the situation should never be taken into account and that violence is always bad. It’s intellectually dishonest and it’s naive.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 day ago:
Absolutely I am merely responding with the same level of intellectualism as the original comment.
If we can’t even get as far as sometimes violence is necessary bey absolutism is a useless philosophy, then there’s no point getting into nuance.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 day ago:
The right have it so easy. They are all united together as one group of racist assholes.
The left after deal with a bunch of fence sitters that never want to do anything, who generally just hope that the situation magically results itself on its own. Any suggestion by anyone that maybe it would be a good idea to perhaps do something, is always meant with pushback.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 day ago:
It doesn’t have to, but things have been allowed to get too far out of control, the political left have not pushed back enough and now we’ve got people doing nazi salutes out in the open. We are past the point of being able to deal with this to the legal system because the legal system has been co-opted.
I don’t know what people like you want. How do you want this situation resolving because all you ever say is what you don’t want, you don’t want violence, okay fine so how do you want to proceed?
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 day ago:
Context is critical though. Often times I see people say things like “we shouldn’t stoop to their levels” which, like yeah, we shouldn’t have to.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 day ago:
Nazis do have human rights. Including the right to be punished for their actions. Just like everyone else.
But if the governments don’t punish them for their actions then don’t be surprised if people take matters into their own hands. Which again, what happened to any group of people that were perceived as having too much power and being given too much leeway by the government, regardless of political beliefs.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 1 day ago:
Quite a severe lack of intellectual rigour is going on there. If nothing happens to bad people then they’ll keep being bad people. The difference between the bad people and the good people is that the bad people do bad things because they like it. Good people do bad things to stop bad people from being bad people and doing bad things.
If you like the bad people do bad things because you’re a good person and as a good person you don’t do bad things then the bad things may as well be done by the good people. It’s all the same.
- Comment on Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of child sexual offences including rape 1 day ago:
It’s always the ones you think it’s going to be.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 1 day ago:
Yeah game development is very weird like that. Want to render a vast photorealistic city at the multiple kilometre scale, yeah that’s easy we’ve known how to do that for decades. Want to have a character to pick something up, nah, obfuscate that shit, it’s too hard.
The other really difficult thing to model is liquids flowing into cups. You never see that done.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 1 day ago:
I can see why game developers stay out of it though. Regardless of what their personal opinions on matter may be is it really worth dealing with a bunch of angry incels, especially if it’s a big studio they don’t want that kind of nonsense so they don’t do it.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 1 day ago:
I think a lot of game developers just don’t want to deal with the drama that will inevitably happen if they give more than two options.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 1 day ago:
In quite a lot of games if you look down you can only see your own legs, which of course is totally unrealistic.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 1 day ago:
Modelling clothing onto underlying body geometry is such an enormous pain, I’m not really surprised they take some liberties. Most games don’t do it they just have the closing be part of the mesh and not have any actual body underneath, even in games with character customisation.
In GTA you can’t take clothing items off, you can swap models but you can’t actually take off clothing. It’s the same reason why characters never get into bed and just lie on top of it, it’s easy not to try and model the cloth dynamics.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 day ago:
I remember being very difficult to get hold of the original steam deck. I don’t think they initially had any kind of limiting place, I feel like it was the second run where that was implemented.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
I’m showing the fullness of time we could set something like that up. Currently they’re limiting it to one device per household so unless you aren’t really interested in getting one yourself that’s not really an option yet.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
What I wanted out of this was a product that a complete unit that I can just point people to and say get that. I’m not sure if I’m alone in this but personally I find specking out PCs to be really boring, I spent forever trying to make sure all the components work together. And then inevitably someone else in my family will end up with a different spec.
This way everyone has the same system and there’s a big corporation to do tech support rather than little old me doing it. It’s just a shame it’s kind of expensive.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
I actually wish they did concert tickets like this. I might actually occasionally be able to go to one.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
Yeah Valve only really believes in about three of the earth’s continents. Personally I think it’s payback for Asia keeping all the cool phones to themselves.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
Yeah 10:00 a.m. is perfectly reasonable but it converts to 6:00 p.m. UK time 7:00 p.m. for a lot of Europe, that’s kind of late in the day to be trying to order something and I think it’s the middle of the night in Australia. This does seem better.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
It’s not a raffle anyone who joins the list will get a device it’s just when you get it. It’s a countermeasure to stop bots from being used to scalp the machines. I’m sure if you’re not that bothered about getting it in the first week or so you can just hold off and then it’ll go to normal purchasing after that.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
It is especially when you fract her in that consoles are usually manufactured at cost or with very little profit. If I were making $100 profit per unit I’d be amazed, The controller probably is more profitable at the moment.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
My current PC has one terabyte drive that’s essentially full, and all it has on there is media and games, the OS loads of different drive, I sort of feel like in this day and age one terabyte is the minimum reasonable size.
Especially considering that this only has one M.2 slot so if you want to upgrade in the future you have to throw away the current drive which is a bit annoying. Might as well just get a higher capacity drive now, not that 2 terabytes really is high capacity.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
Actually that’s a good point I hadn’t thought about. My phone’s way more expensive than this and way less powerful, although in fairness my phone does have a screen, speakers, and a bunch of gyro sensors that this doesn’t have.