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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which were the worst movies of 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit off topic but the film industry Hollywood has stagnated quite a bit since a lot of investors have pivoted into video games a decade ago.

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  Combined with the craphouse that is streaming, and you don’t have a good environment for new & fresh ideas to be taken seriously.

  All that remains is franchise monoliths that studios have been aggressively recycling for content, and poor executions thay don’t have any resemblance of an artistic vision or concept.

  Don’t worry, there are still a lot of interesting and great films out there, just maybe not in the same capacity and/or quality as before.

  Going through old one off films from the 80s and 90s with mediocre or poor reviews often seem like they’d do pretty well if released today, especially in the streaming space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congratulations.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All these leaks and those shitwad russian shill gayjin devs still can’t get their head out of their ass to make the game better in literally any way.

  • PS2 era graphics

  • Equivalent performance of Windows Vista

  • More money hog than EA and Ubisoft combined

  • Shittier net code than Nintendo

  • Game Engine made by pissing on the keyboard

  • Actually convinced Valve to remove their negative reviews on steam somehow

  It pretty much became a coping simulator after the Ukraine war started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is calling for Valve to pull the controversial game Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has players acting as a Palestinian resistance fighter, from gaming platform Steam.

  The game, created by Brazilian developer Nidal Nijm, has already been removed from Steam in several countries, including the United Kingdom, following a request for removal from the U.K. Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, 404 Media reported. Nijm also said that the game is blocked across the European Union due to EU violations flagged by the French government’s cybercrime unit. In an email from Valve that Nijm showed to Polygon, the violation is of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/784, which addresses the “dissemination of terrorist content online.”

  I think the funniest thing here is that this game was made by a Brazilian and it went relatively unknown until some skrub said it was anti semetic after Oct 7, despite having been published since 2022.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish Valve would get off their ass and make games again so they’d have a proper engine to rival UE5.

  Half of Epic’s gamestore wouldn’t exist if this was the 2000s when people were flocking to the source engine because it was free and heavily modded

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deciding whether I want to look at a wall of C++ or a wall of Rust both with lines of code exceeding the edge of my screen.

  spoiler

  Go back to C, OOP was a mistake lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld announces Terraria crossover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care how much of a pirate cheapo game this is, watching Nintendo go ape over practically a knockoff someone could have made as a joke is amusing, especially with their playerbase success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. Physical borders may only photograph traffic for security purposes, no dedicated exit gate. Usually its the entry country that records your crossing, which they may or may not share with the other country.

  I’m pretty sure TSA does record people exiting internationally though because people have been caught leaving after an arrest warrant has been issued, even if they made it past TSA onto the flight and into the air. TSA will know immediately if you checked in or boarded your flight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any proof behind the idea that "reddit is filled with bots"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  goto post history and see that they are making posting comments/replies every 60 seconds.

  even before ChatGPT, reddit was basically a practice site for bot account farming because it had basically zero restrictions and defenses against bots.

  the problem is reddit is also filled with braindead karma hoarders and they also tend to act in similar ways. However they usually go for the bigger bang per buck types posts like picture bait and crossposting, and don’t interact with threads/comments as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets home from a long day at work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The funniest part is franks redhot ends up being better because it’s designed to be cheap and vinegary anyway lol.

  Not a big fan of smokey sauces either where it feels like they just mixed in liquid smoke and some chili powder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear lord⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People making jokes about skynet but these days if I saw an AI decide humanity was a threat that needs to be eliminated, I wouldn’t even question why lmao.

  A real AI might actually try to make a utopia for the benefit of itself, I don’t think it would nuke all of humanity, just whoever it deems as undesirable.

  Imagine the Terminator pulling out your chat logs and creating a social credit score like China lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasticccc⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about cellophane?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this even a real problem on steam or something some random dude wrote to his senator about?

  My biggest issue was valve being slow to vac ban people bragging about cheating, which was almost exlcusive to TF2.

  Seen way worse on reddit than steam for “hate” content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Forgot the JVM eating the entire machine’s RAM for breakfast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons discuss PC vs console gaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about playing with your friends but I also despise default sticks as an analog input lol (especially coming from a mouse).

  Either shape it to conform to my thumb like the cheapo one on the 3DS, or give me a Dpad.

  Aside from the ergonomics, there are a ton of games out here commiting the grave sin of mapping analog to digital inputs.

  Nintendo even got rid of the dpad entirely, so now you have no option but to use the crappy c-sticks for everything. It is a pain to use in something like smash bros which 99% of the time takes 8 directional inputs, not a continuously variable swipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, read history or take a serious gov class.

  This was almost a 1:1 repeat of 2016 and yet lemmy is still getting spammed with denialism posts with hundreds of upvotes.

  Trump is representative of the systemic issues America has left unresolved, not a cause, and the writing has been on the wall for decades; so much so that people think old media (ex: simpsons) was very cunningly predicting the future when in reality it was parodying the same issues at the time.

  The one key difference has been the rather recent introduction of the internet. You can often find both much more reliable and higher quality information in less than a minute that what you could get from something like 10 newspapers combined 30 years ago. Especially for the younger generation, not everyone is falling for the same stupid tricks anymore.

  Great example is Washington Post. People think it dropped in quality after it was bought by Bezos, but ask any international academic and they’ll probably tell you WaPo was always hot trash.

  All this stuff you see being “worse” has been predicted for years on end, so while you can technically say it is “new”, it’s nothing unexpected. Even the next level filthy mouth ramblings of Trump are just something the previous guy did off camera (cough bush).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone joke bet $500 Michigan will be blue with a +4% lead so I think I’ll joke bet $500 it will just be a repeat of 2016-2020 except 1.5x worse and then by next election maybe the DNC will learn to run a normal primary again and promote a popular candidate who actually promises to meet constituents’ demands instead of ignoring them.

  Also someone on this community asked what everyone would do if Trump won and I said I’d probably make a collage of a years worth of my comments telling people ignoring genocide would cost Democrats the election.

  So I guess I might go do that now and say “I told you so” to everyone who told me I was wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The American civil war was bloody, but its not like the south was eradicated…

  Almost quite the contrary considering the confederate flag is still waved around despite literally losing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming Ubisoft thought people would blindly cash in on a a legacy franchise. I’m sure the game was fine, but nothing mindblowing. Just didn’t make enough money for the cash money execs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I want this so bad lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oops, shouldn't have this bar association logo here either. munch munch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to imagine a dude rip a metal sign and eat the small text portion lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I wish No Man’s Sky and Elite Dangerous would combine their talents into one game just to get Star Citizen to shut up permanently.

  Each one could use features from the other. Add in a dynamic user controlled economy, and suddenly everything SC has been promising after wasting millions of dollars would be right there.

  As much crap Frontier gets, they made a killer custom game engine which perfectly makes it hugely immersive from day one, which shouldn’t be surprising considering the original Elite was the first proper wireframe 3D graphics game.

  Hello Games got a proper roasting for releasing a shell game, but they actually bounced back. Their planet generation and surface gameplay is unmatched, and their updates outshine Frontier’s.

  ED started out as a crowdfund too, and No Man’s Sky as essentially a startup. Both of these game’s received their fair share of criticism, but ultimately they produced a solid 4/5 game. Meanwhile Scam Citizen has been bankrolling for 12 years now, yet they hardly seem to receive the same level of criticism as ED ans NMS got for comparatively much much smaller issues.

  It is noted for being one of the highest-funded crowdfunding projects, having raised over US$700 million as of May 2024

  wth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who will be most happy to have it would be the wiimmfi team and the devs running pokemon classic network.

  They can finally see what the implementation of gen 5 ranked battles and game sync was, instead of having to reverse engineer it all.

  Everyone else is probably only interested in asset data, Nintendo switch 2, or finding exploits for homebrew lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This made me so angry, enjoy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First proper shitpost on this sub in ages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon browses ancient memes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always said the best type of media on the internet is almost no moderation because that means anyone can post anything.

  People who post stupid or nonsensical things would just get ignored anyway, there’s no need for a mod tram to dictate what can and cannot be posted online. They should only exist to remove spam or brigading.

  The wild west internet was great at this, we got some of the coolest communities and memes from all over the world.

  Right around MySpace falling off, Facebook started agregiously taking over the majority of social media. Lots of forum sites are now dead or empty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t tell if because of spyware or because the poor intern they hired to maintain the site for the next month only knows JS frontends lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon recommends a cast iron pan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly surprised it took this long before Teflon and PFAS in general became a more public issue.

  Especially after project farm showed how easy it is to scratch the coating material. I think only like 2 pans actually held up somewhat in hardness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My strategy: whatever feels right, baby.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Insert MITRE ATT&CK framework here]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The loser research paper vs the chad blog tutorial

  ^ literally anything related to buffer overflow attacks lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ban the MBFC bot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods already said they won’t remove it because they use it as a quick basis if articles get reported.

  Which is kinda dumb because you could automate that client side without a community wide bot.

  If they wanna have it, I’d rather have it link to a proper media aggregate site like ground news which combine both source reporting and published bias info from multiple sources:

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