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- Comment on Who needs it? 3 hours ago:
Or sell you ads AND not have to pay for it, while also influencing us algorithmically directly. If that’s even the case, that is, which, who even fucking knows anymore. And I’m not even sure we needed tiktok to be pissed at wrongdoings everywhere, including Chinese government wrongdoings. Honestly, tiktok’s algorithm is better than basically any other algorithmic app right now, save for the fact that it obviously is getting very up to date information through my phone somehow.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 16 hours ago:
Oh god don’t make the anxiety worse 😅
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 16 hours ago:
I’m an outgoing introvert.
My partner is a shy extrovert.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 17 hours ago:
Are people getting paid to hype games
Are you kidding? This has been a growing issue since the 00s. Even back when Total Biscuit was still alive (rip), he was fighting it with tooth and nail. Microsoft and some other companies have AGGRESSIVELY attacked consumers and now, it’s entirely broken in almost every industry.
Finding real reviews on things is INSANELY difficult to find, not only because influencers are all heavily biased and censored or even blacklisted when they aren’t positive, but most normal people couldn’t give a decent review if they tried. Hype is everywhere, and colors everything.
TB called it years ago: the trick is to find a journalist that you know what they like, dislike, and are honest and with integrity, able to be brutal and fair, but have ethics and a strong sense of responsibility to the future of gaming. This requires a uniquely difficult and rare combination of intelligence, novel ideas, and sound judgement, along with consistency. And production, a refreshing articulation, and some brevity doesn’t hurt.
Find that source and support them, and help them grow. Get to know their tastes, and they should serve us all well.
But, until that person who can unite gamers appears again, and holds those important and knowledgeable discussions… Influencers will be just that: influencers - not journalists. And be unreliable shills.
Honestly I’ve thought about doing it more than once, but fear and risk of the wrath of sensitive gamers and corporate hr entities angry for me shitting on their games and decisions and suing me is a real thing. I could be a gaming journalist, one that gives my all and tries to serve the good of gamers and the future of society to the best of my ability. But I also seriously doubt anybody would want to listen to me.
- Comment on Outstanding work 17 hours ago:
Wild. Thanks for the explanation.
The pope-arms follow the people-orientation in the original comic. I’m imagining the evolution of this meta meme and how twisted it just be. It’s like The Game but darker.
- Comment on Outstanding work 17 hours ago:
I see it now, but… Maybe there’s a specific meme subculture that I just missed somehow. I think if there were a meta here that I was familiar with, I’d see it as funny. But, this is all new to me so it’s just /shrug.
For the content that got me to understand it, it was the one with the original, but then the lines right next to it.
What an age we live in.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 19 hours ago:
Honestly, Gordon has a huuuge fan following now, and it’s sad to see how he was VERY close to like gaben levels of influence, and one shitty suit threw that all away. Gordon is still awesome, but Doom and him were a match made in heaven that’s sad to see go away. I’d venture to argue that everything that made the doom reboot special was from him: the sound design, the music, the vibe. Most people do not appreciate audio in the way I do, but almost everybody hears it and experiences it, even if they don’t consciously know. Meaning, everybody knew it was special, but most people don’t realize the depths of which it is the audio doing it. We were all robbed the day this all went down with Mick Gordon, and I will never forgive Bethesda for it, and until they fix it, will never, ever spend a cent or say a good thing about them. It is that big of a deal. Doom and Bethesda are dead to me. My condolences to the other talent that work there.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 20 hours ago:
Id used to be like the realest of the real hardcore pc gaming companies. It’s where John carmack claims his fame and id made doom and quake in the 90s, and where half life got its engine from and why games like counter strike and valorant exist, and why insane movement games like Titanfall exist.
I’m not talking about who they are now, mostly because I don’t really know, but, historically, they have a FUCK TON of positive karma built up, but since the 2000s, have generally been an engine studio, with their games all generally being tech demos for said engine, id-tech.
Fun fact: “id” (pronounced like the last part of “kid”) is a psychology term, referring to one of three parts of your psyche (the other two are ego and super-ego) that wants to gorge, fuck, steal, and eat, right now. Which is, I suspect, why they make games that are pretty violent, and satisfying to that part of our minds, generally… Probably.
- Comment on Outstanding work 20 hours ago:
I… Still don’t get it. Who are the guys waving and how does that relate to the comic?
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 day ago:
And the entire launcher and store’s ui has been, and still is, hot, moldy, shit-smeared garbage ass.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 day ago:
The most practical answer for nighttime comfort, sanitation, and thermal management.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 day ago:
Definitely supposed to be like: pants, shorts, leggy undies, non-leggy undies, nothing.
So an armed onesie would be #1. Or if you’re like me and figured out that the secret to supreme cozies in winter is fleece overalls, #6. Would never sleep in em, but that would be the number if I did.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 day ago:
I think so yeah. It’s been about ten years since then though. I remember it being wildly short, and a set length with all letters and two numbers with no symbols. I also remember having to change it every quarter or something, so I just started at a number and every four months just upping it by 1. I was only there for about two years though and that job was crap, so it didn’t matter very much.
- Comment on Everyone loves some good food; 1 day ago:
This is upsetting.
I am upset.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 2 days ago:
One time I worked a job where you had to make EXACTLY a 12 character password using only ten letters and two numbers.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 3 days ago:
Freezer that ish
- Comment on Anon gets a call from his past 5 days ago:
Nice.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Merriam-Webster: politics
Definition 1:
a : the art or science of government b : the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy c : the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government
And here we are on social media.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Nope, head in sand and complain through anis.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Apology not accepted. You don’t owe anybody apologies for that, ever. They should be apologizing to you.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“I want rights”
“I want to not be an open air slave to the billionaires”
“I recognize some deep systemic flaws of our systems”
I guess that’s overly political.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke’.
Is broke’.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because shit’s really fucked up right now and needs to be fixed.
You’re like one of those people in a world war, “why is everyone so political?”
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 1 week ago:
Fuck. I would have to seriously consider that if they did. But imagine valve running kernel design and security support. There’s no way they would do that as a competitive alternative to Windows. None. No way. It would ruin them and so much of what makes them special and a positive influence to everything.
- Comment on Coincidence? 1 week ago:
First? Or last? 😏
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
Very true. Cinema rooms and living rooms can be the same, but I absolutely agree that most cinema rooms absolutely compromise on social entertaining. It can be done, but it’s difficult and has to be done consciously.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
Just play at 1080p on your 1440p monitor. Also take solace knowing that everybody is in the same boat and complaining that studios are putting too much time into making things look real rather than good or be fun. So we’re in a sort of pre-renaissance with socioeconomics and tech business. Something’s got to give, and it ain’t Valve, hopefully. That would be a disaster, as they’re a lot more important than any of us know. They lead the gaming sector and business in the gaming sector, which leads the tech and entertainment sectors, which ultimately translate to the rest of society. And they lead with… Integrity and consumer friendly practices.
Also, tell AAA to fuck off until they get their acts together. Stop playing live service games, and just play other, better games high-endedly. They don’t have to be brand new, either. Look for independent studios, smaller studios, and/or non-American studios. It’s okay to play big titles when they’re good, but the actual good games haven’t been in AAA or big American published studios now for like ten years. Every once in a while in that space, an anomaly appears, but those are the exceptions to the rule.
If you want, you can focus on peripherals like nice headphones or steering wheel or a good controller for your pc. Those, combined with playing more genres and exploring different things (keep an eye on humble bundle, too! And epic store free games!) can really keep your libraries full and feeling fresh.
The lucrative and naive kids stay the same age for studios, but we all grow up eventually, and if we still love gaming, we need to demand better from studios by speaking up and not buying garbage. The older, experienced demographic that has realized the bullshit is just going to grow bigger, we aren’t going away, and we WANT to buy games. It’s only a matter of time before more studios realize this and cater to us rather than make the same garbage that only the inexperienced can play, just slightly shinier each year.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
Woah 3 meters is really far for a 60 inch. I have a 60 inch at about 1-1.4 meters and it’s great. Perfect for two people on a couch with some nice bookshelf speakers heavily toe’d in. It’s not great for entertaining, but for watching things it’s honestly better than some theaters.
It’s all about how much it fills up your field of vision and how closely your retina’s resolution matches the display’s resolution. I don’t want to have to turn my head at all to see things, and still be able to use my peripheral vision to have good awareness of the entire scene, and not see individual pixels if I can help it. But, still have it fill as much of my vision as possible while within those constraints.
Been wanting to upgrade to a 70-80 inch screen, too, at the same distance.
Another big variable is height placement of the tv in relation to one’s head height and angle while comfortably sitting where you’ll sit. Sit, close your eyes, sit comfortably, play with tilting your head forwards and back until you find a comfortable and sustainable pitch angle, with your eyes still closed look directly out from your skull, open your eyes, and that location is where the middle of your tv should be (it’s usually about 10-20degrees down from directly ahead, but is different for everybody and your seating position and body). So if your tv is 3meters away, your optimum tv height might be on the literal floor. (And also speaker woofer and cabinet size for the volume of the room (bigger speakers for bigger rooms), and placement, depending on viewership location and count, go for an equilateral triangle between your seating position and the two speakers and default to having the tweeters at ear height with no obstructions and pointing at your ears for the most accurate imaging and least amount of comb filtering, and keep the woofers and tweeters vertically aligned to minimize time variance, which is good for stereo image, and try not to have you or speakers too close to walls or especially corners).
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
Yar har har
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
There’s a time and place for 4k. It is not all the time. But some things are treats with high resolution and pixels-per-fov of your vision. Also oled looks so, so good.
That being said, 1080p for older stuff looks perfectly fine, and I’d argue audio quality, audio stereo image, and accurate frequency spectrum resolution is game changing, and arguably more important.
RE: gog for movies: that is a fascinating idea. What would that look like, to you? I’m very curious.