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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • I don’t give the slightest fuck who provided the middleware for the cloth physics, stop impeding me from playing the game to show me this shit every fucking time I launch it.
  • Continue and New Game are often the wrong way around in the main menu. Why would you have New Game at the top/default selection position? How often would someone be clicking that as opposed to Continue?
  • Unskippable dialogue and cut-scenes. I’ve read devs describe cut-scenes as a reward for the player achieving a certain milestone. I see them as punishment. Especially so if I want to replay the game. It’s a game, not a movie. Leave me the fuck alone already.
  • It should be forbidden to sell a game on Steam that requires an account and launcher from Ubisoft or whoever. If you sell it on Steam, you use Steam, and if you wanna use your own shit then you don’t get to use the Steam storefront and must forgo all the advertising and exposure you enjoy there.
  • Walk-and-talks, especially when my normal walk speed is like a sprint compared to that of the NPC in question.
  • Narratively, my character is a saviour to a group of people who provide me with weapons and ammo to help me save them, but the cunts charge me for it?? “Hey thanks for single-handedly saving us and fighting the tyrannical evil empire, while you’re out there risking life and limb for us please use our cool weapons and bullets! That’ll be 500 credits, cheers!” Motherfucker? What are you even spending it on? WHERE are you even spending it?
  • Fake endings. I was playing RDR2, and thought I was coming to the end of the game, all signs pointed to an imminent ending. So I was mentally in a place where I was ready to pack up and uninstall it, just had to finish the last few quests, already wondering what I’d play next. Then there’s an entire 500-hour chapter that comes after. So I keep going, and am constantly thinking “surely it’s just another quest or two…” but it just never fucking ends. Had I known or expected all this extra shit, it would be different. But I was already halfway out they door before you called me back in for another week’s worth of the same malarkey.
  • Time-wasting as a core mechanic. I love No Man’s Sky, but so many of the quests in that game involve literally waiting 24 real-world hours for the next phase of the quest. Which, when completed, leads to another 24-hour wait. Who exactly does this serve?
• The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescriptionlemmy.world ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What it means for you

  What does it mean for Red Candle Games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “do your own research” people need to have it explained to them that even experts in their respective fields aren’t automatically capable of parsing scientific literature. A family doctor with 50 years experience who prescribes antidepressants every day will have no deep understanding of what any particular scientific peer reviewed study on SSRIs is telling them. They need a grounding in statistics more than anything else, which most people just don’t have. So the idea that a non-educated, non-scientist can read peer reviewed studies and come away from them with some sort of understanding of the issue is the thing that needs to be highlighted, preferably in high school science class (earlier, frankly). A willingness to slog through scientific papers in pursuit of deeper knowledge is admirable, but is dangerously misguided without proper training. I don’t even mean training in the specific science, but just in how to speak the language of peer reviewed studies more generally. It’s very much its own discipline.

  I want someone to ask Joe Rogan what ‘regression to the mean’ means. I want someone to ask him what a ‘standard deviation’ is and how to apply the concept. I don’t want to know what papers he’s read, because you could read 50 true scientific papers a day on one topic and still have no idea what the current scientific consensus is on said topic, absent the requisite training. You’ll almost certainly come away from it with a very wrong but very confident belief. Dunning-Kruger on steroids.

• Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?
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• Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is audiophile bullshit cheating?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sommeliers of the technology world. The perfect storm of electric hypochondria and placebo-gooning.

  As with most things, there’s a kernel of truth in amongst the dross. You will have a nicer time with a set of £70 headphones than with a £3.99 set. You will have a nicer time with a FLAC file than a 64kbps MP3 of the same song. But there’s a very low ceiling of improvement that both physics and physiology will prevent you from surpassing. Maybe in the future with brain implants and shit like that we can start ramping up the fidelity of our listening abilities, but until then, you’re just trickling an ocean through a literal bottleneck and insisting you’re drowning in it.

  Just listen to the damn music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Food is so weird. Bread becomes toxic waste after 8 minutes of being opened, but there’s probably some cheese species that gets fermented up the asshole of a mountain llama for 6 months, being stuffed back in after every bowel movement, and is still edible (if you’re into that sort of thing) after 400 years of being left in a dank cave amongst the frothing remains of a rotting gerbil cemetery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACTS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most closeted person I’ve ever seen, and I once held the world record for longest hide ‘n’ seek session in an IKEA warehouse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahead of her time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Has anyone ever seen Liz Holmes and Mark Zuckerburg in the same room together? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a consensus view on whether or not Gwyneth is a genuine numbnut or is just cynically exploiting people who are?

• Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?lemmy.world ↗
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• The titles of celebrity subreddit photo posts be like:lemmy.world ↗
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• Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Steam forums are the most repugnant and racist-filled psychotic right-wing shitholes I’ve ever encountered (and I once went to the Stormfront forums). Genuinely, Steam forums exhibit the most pure and concentrated anti-woke, “every single thought in my head was placed there by Ben Shapiro”, “blacks are the real racists”, x-phobic bigoted brain cancer on earth. I block them where I find them, report the ones that seem actionable, but it’s like trying to hold off a tidal wave with a tennis racket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QUACK QUACK QUACK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck clipping health insurance CEOs and college-touring bigots, these are the ones…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a 100% correlation between a child coming into direct physical contact with their family doctor and that same child later being diagnosed with autism. Show me an example where this was not the case. Family doctors are sporing autismomes like a tickled mushroom and no one is talking about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all (as political blocs) guilty of taking away people’s livelihoods for unacceptable speech. I don’t even mean dangerous speech, like vaccine disinfo, but people just being cunts and bigots. Pretending that we’re free speech paragons in the face of the Kirk nonsense is silly and just gives those cretins all the impetus they need to carry on with it.

  Also, burn in hell Charlie Kirk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure who came up with it first or why humans are wired this way, but the magic combination of anger, outrage, and the vicarious bullying satisfaction of seeing someone dunked on and made to look stupid/humiliated, is all grist for the mill that is the attention economy. The longer you watch, the better it is for the YouTubes and Twitters of the world. And nothing glues people to their screens quite like their own masochism. It’s like when you have a sore tooth and can’t help but prod it with your tongue. Makes no sense, but it’s what we do. The fact that this stuff is so effective is why the algorithms force it down our throats and why cunts like Ben Shapiro have made careers off of it. Society is being torn apart at the seams by this shit. That pent-up hateful energy gets co-opted by state actors and bot farms, and then we get Brexit and two terms of Donald fucking Trump.

  I’ve been making a conscious effort to avoid any videos that have titles like that (and by extension, the creators of those videos), and my life and mental health has improved immeasurably as a result. I have literally no idea how to convince anyone else to do the same. It would probably be easier to get people to exercise and eat healthily (something I don’t fucking do either). People get as much of this content as they can consume for free and at any time and any place, thanks to the inherent portability of cellphones. If you’re into this shit, there is no time of day or room in your house where you won’t have it calling to you like a pocket version of the wee devil that sits on a cartoon character’s shoulder whispering evil commands into its ear. And in this scenario, there is no angel on the other shoulder, because that would cause people to maybe spend a bit less time on these platforms, which is no bueno to Silicon Valley sociopaths.

  Debates are almost entirely pointless. Very few people in the audience are actually open to being swayed. It’s just verbal UFC, and the winner isn’t the one with the best ideas, but the one with the best tongue jiu-jitsu.

  As for Plato et al., I think having something to fill one’s attention in those days was probably a good way to stop people from fucking their livestock. So debates were necessary to prevent sheepman monstrosities from polluting the gene pool with their woolly nutsacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is he like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can't make this shit up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking hell… 🤢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The actors, along with people like artists and musicians, tend to be exempted from gamer rage when a game sucks or launches in a sucky state. Was that not the case with MindsEye?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He should not have been shot. The shooter was, like virtually all such people, a narcissistic main character sociopath who only cared about his own fame and notoriety, and was likely spending too much time in the damp and mushroomy corners of the internet instead of developing an actual personality in the real world. He’s less an anti-fascist soldier and more a Travis Bickle wannabe wanker.

  But Charlie Kirk was a humongous piece of shit and I am glad he’s dead. One fewer humongous pieces of shit to have to listen to. I would never advocate the murder of a man like him, and like I said, I think the shooter was a colossal cunt who unleashed way more danger and harm to marginalised groups than Kirk was capable of provoking on his own. But thank fuck he’s gone. Silver linings n’all that 🤷‍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good evening.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me when my keys tumbled out of my breast pocket into a fire I was poking and I instinctively snatched them back out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel bad that his children had to witness that, and even if they hadn’t been there (which they were) they’d undoubtedly have the video clip shoved in their faces eventually. That’s a hell of a way to lose a parent.

  The fact that he died while in the middle of talking about trans mass shooters being a huge problem certainly makes it feel like cosmic karma at work. I struggle to give a shit about the man himself being shot dead. But I do worry about political violence… it’s a very rare occasion when murdering someone sitting in a chair talking is a good idea. Not a single person in his right-wing sphere of repugnance is going to do any self-reflection and change their ways, they’ll just become even more rabidly anti-everything left of Hitler. Shit like this doesn’t go unanswered too often. Violence is a contagion with no cure except time, and the clock gets set back another decade every time someone retaliates. I’m sure we could chain all of these assassinations together into a causal sequence. But even if they’re all independent events, the narrative-makers will be hard at work making it sound like a grand battle of the ages, so the result is the same either way.

  Source: History, memory…

  P.S. Any bets that the shooter was a MAGA nut? Seems to be the trend 👀

• How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just ate a little bag of popcorn without getting any bits stuck in my teeth/throat. ask me anything⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you forget to microwave it first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idk if that's what's really happening in that image 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an ancient astronaut working the levers on his Stormtrooper speeder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother’s pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. “Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!” she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bmw⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so terminally carless and unautomobile pilled that I have literally no clue what this is about.