InvertedParallax
@InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
He’s more ginger now than man; twisted and evil.
- Comment on Ubisoft Call of Duty Rival xDefiant 'Absolutely Not Dying,' Dev Insists - IGN 2 months ago:
Went back to BF4, felt like coming home.
We lost so much in the last decade, maybe a few new shooters can help bring things back.
- Comment on is this true? 2 months ago:
How you doin’?
- Comment on How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History 3 months ago:
The exact number of executions carried out in China is not publicly disclosed, as the country treats execution data as a state secret. However, human rights organizations estimate that China executes more people annually than the rest of the world combined.
According to estimates by organizations like Amnesty International, the number of executions in China is believed to be in the thousands each year, but precise figures are difficult to verify.
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Capital_punishment_in_China
At least our statistics are available…
- Comment on How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History 3 months ago:
Yes! So much fewer!
Because they shoot them instead.
The CCP killed more Chinese than Genghis Khan, they’re an occupying force, we pushed the Japanese out only to leave them to be conquered by someone almost as bad.
- Comment on How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History 3 months ago:
Please.
Have you lived in China for any amount of time?
It’s an open-air prison administered by the CCP.
The Chinese people deserve so much better.
- Comment on How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History 3 months ago:
Wow, that’s incredible!
Banning foreign games and protecting your domestic game market so your people will desperately buy anything you give them works, what a shock!
- Comment on the secret recipe 3 months ago:
Riddle me this:
I never look online for game hints, I played ER for a while, got frustrated.
Looked at hints, they explained how you get tempest like it was the most obvious thing in the game to sleep in the church after level 5.
Wtf?!?!?!
I hate from soft games because they seem to expect you to look online.
- Comment on Concord is going offline beginning September 6th 3 months ago:
It’s a great mmo because it doesn’t have the grind and time Commitments.
It’s not a 2nd job, it’s just something to do for fun with a good story and atmosphere. It’s what an mmo should be.
- Comment on Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like. 3 months ago:
Not just CCP, Russians too.
I’m sure our conservatives would join in if their grandkids would help them get their facesbook working on the TV again.
- Comment on Game Dependency Graph of The Curse of Monkey Island (LucasArts, 1997) 3 months ago:
- Comment on Stained Glass 3 months ago:
I mean, most humans don’t really ‘know’ trigonometry, we can still play catch.
- Comment on Veggitale facts 3 months ago:
Do you have any idea how many rich and powerful people would dream of such power vacuums to take advantage of?
This comment reads like it was written by the Koch foundation.
- Comment on Veggitale facts 3 months ago:
No, but you don’t understand, this time it will be justice because of we’re killing the bad ones, well, and anyone who disagrees, that’s different!
- Comment on Veggitale facts 3 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t think the state governments in the deep south represent any of the interests of the citizens of the south, anymore than Vladimir Putin and his oligarchs represent the interests of the citizens of Russia.
The deep south are just failed states we’ve let limp on since we lost the stomach for reconstruction and left them in the 19th century.
- Comment on Michael Caine Announces Retirement From Acting 1 year ago:
Underrated, and it goes everywhere.
- Comment on Doctor Who: Here's Why David Tennant is The Face of The Modern Era 1 year ago:
I’m so torn between desperately hoping for him to do more voice work like in Rebels, and praying he dies before unfortunate scandals from the 70s come out.
He was so precious to my childhood, but, when the Princess showed up, he replaced Romana 1 like it was nothing.
- Comment on Doctor Who: Here's Why David Tennant is The Face of The Modern Era 1 year ago:
Going back through the old episodes, that’s a really close call that I could never make either way.
- Comment on MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOR THE 2023 WGA THEATRICAL AND TELEVISION BASIC AGREEMENT 1 year ago:
The summary is meaningless, the language is critical, attend:
The Companies agree that because neither traditional AI nor GAI is a person, neither is a ‘writer’ or ‘professional writer’ as defined in Articles 1.B.1.a., 1.B.1.b., 1.C.1.a. and 1.C.1.b. of this MBA, and, therefore, written material produced by traditional AI or GAI shall not be considered literary material under this or any prior MBA.
It means gai material is not covered by this agreement unless a writer is asked to rewrite or adapt it as specified in later clauses.
Gai does not get writing credit, but there is no bar from having a gai written script other than the obvious fact that it would be effectively unwatchable without human editing.
- Comment on MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOR THE 2023 WGA THEATRICAL AND TELEVISION BASIC AGREEMENT 1 year ago:
Oh, they got their writing rooms, they broke the Chinese wall of streaming numbers.
The small raises hurt the rank and file, and the streaming residuals are barely noticeable for the rank and file.
The wga management made out like bandits, tons of money for the health care and pension funds, some cash for training, and they know the numbers now.
I don’t think the average member will see much here.
For ai it’s not a ban, it’s that writers cannot be compelled to work on ai drafts, which is good, but basically it’s an admission that ai sucks now, 5 years down when things have changed there’s room for maneuver.
But the studios did admit ai isn’t that big of a threat today, which is a useful negotiating point.
- Comment on MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOR THE 2023 WGA THEATRICAL AND TELEVISION BASIC AGREEMENT 1 year ago:
Oh God, that’s far beyond my ability to address, that’s like asking how to reverse entropy or end world hunger.
They’ll find a way to distract and cover it up, but it’s a fundamental problem, people love the classics universally and the long tail can swallow new content.
Eventually those classics will be priced in as more valuable than now, and God forbid we’ll see them try to leverage them more as rebooted franchises :(
We love them because they make us feel like we felt when we were younger and enjoyed them, and brockmire was right about the power of nostalgia being second only to heroin.
- Comment on MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOR THE 2023 WGA THEATRICAL AND TELEVISION BASIC AGREEMENT 1 year ago:
People watch the old shows too much, way too much, they leave them on as background noise.
New shows get far less play unless they really catch on, so a lot of the money they’re spending on new shows is just wasted.
Surprised a group of investors don’t fund a streaming version of nick at nite, and buy exclusive access to all the 90s and 2000s shows. Everybody would almost need a subscription, but it probably wouldn’t be profitable, rights to those are stupid expensive.
- Comment on MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOR THE 2023 WGA THEATRICAL AND TELEVISION BASIC AGREEMENT 1 year ago:
They got their writers room but not much else, the raises are small, haven’t seen anything about ai yet but still reading.
- Comment on Is "True Detective" season 2 bad, or just bad compared to season 1? 1 year ago:
It would have been fine if they’d either removed Vince Vaughn or made him the main story.
He was acting like he just saw Jeremy irons in dungeons and dragons and thought he was being too subtle. He had 0 awareness that there were other actors in the show, he made every scene a Shakespeare’s soliloquy about how intense he was.
That was the problem, everyone was acting it 15/10 intense, and you can’t have every character be s1 rusty, woody actually did a great job as the straight man keeping it from devolving into a huge mess.
- Comment on Apple Suspends Deals With Producers, Including Natalie Portman & Adam McKay 1 year ago:
Sorry, I said this and I wasn’t very fair to them.
Their plan is to start by taking other media, particularly comics and Manga, and generating near shot for shot reproductions starting in animation then moving to “augmented live action”, basically some guys and cgi fills in the rest.
I’m not sure they can’t do it, it’ll just take longer than they expect .
- Comment on My Review of Deepstar Six 1 year ago:
I saw very little of it.
The early 90s had a massive dearth of sci-fi TV, we just got star trek back but the recession killed effects budgets for years till t2 kick started the genre again.
It wasn’t good, it had a lot of moments that were clearly broken.
I wouldn’t call it unwatchable though, there was a small charm, and maybe it’s just small farm town me desperate for anything more complex than hee-haw and the 700 club.
Basically, of all the sci-fi TV series of the early 90s, TekWar was by far, one of them.
- Comment on Apple Suspends Deals With Producers, Including Natalie Portman & Adam McKay 1 year ago:
You’re right, but I also think they’re more realistic, it’s about having the alternative source of content as a genre and expanding out from there.
- Comment on Apple Suspends Deals With Producers, Including Natalie Portman & Adam McKay 1 year ago:
Netflix’s plan is foreign content, coupled with reality, but their long term goal is ai generated content.
Theyre… special. They think their farts smell nice and they’re smarter than everyone else, they just want to get likeness rights locked down now or they’ll do without.
Apparently their execs saw promising demos, they believe the engineers will have the whole problem solved in 3 years, the engineers know they’re smoking crack.
Ai is such a massive con game to cover for the fact that we’re hitting market saturation in multiple sectors and roi will drop.
- Comment on Brian Roberts Says Comcast “More Likely Than Not” To Sell Hulu Stake To Disney; Calls Mike Cavanagh, Who Stepped In For Fired Jeff Shell, “Calming Influence” 1 year ago:
When Walt wished upon a star…
- Comment on The more I think about it, the more the 5 minute car commercial in Barbie bugs me. 1 year ago:
Please hand me my jacket.