theangriestbird
@theangriestbird@beehaw.org
Baby Billy’s Banana Hammock
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- Comment on Don't sleep on Retroachievements, big competition coming to beehaw & RA soon 11 hours ago:
RA sent me into a fever dream with Pokémon Pinball on the GBA, trying to get all of the achievements that counted for the “beaten” tick on my profile. Why did I do that? Why?
- Comment on The Two Genders 4 days ago:
I wish people would just laugh at them, and tell them how fucking ridiculous they look and then promptly leave their asses behind and move on. Instead, we get news articles about a minority of people who have shit opinions about things they have no understanding of.
We tried that with GamerGate, and it didn’t work. Keeping bad people away from levers of power requires constant diligence; we cannot simply dismiss and move on, because then while we are looking away, the trolls continue to build their base. I’m a strong believer in the power of memes in our modern digital age. Try to write a bunch of articles about a problem like this, and most folks will only absorb the pithy headline. Some will read the article, but mostly only college-educated folks. Instead, make a meme about it that distills the logic of your opponent down to its ridiculous conclusion, and suddenly everyone gets it. (this isn’t to say we should never write an article to explore the nuance of a point, just arguing for the value of leftist memes)
We have the discussion out in the open so that the kids and other uneducated folks can read a variety of opinions. If we don’t, the trolls swoop up and try to turn them into incels.
- Comment on The Two Genders 5 days ago:
as someone who read the books (like 10 years ago so i could be wrong), I’m pretty certain it is not psychic powers, but spellcasting. Ciri trained under Yennefer and went to sorceress school for while. Geralt has the Witcher signs, which are like an elementary form of spellcasting, but Ciri learned a bit more than Geralt. Separately, she also has her warping power that is completely unique to her and very important in the lore, but I won’t say more for sake of spoilers. I don’t remember how much of this they cover in the games.
- Submitted 5 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 70 comments
- Comment on it's big with all the kids, they're calling it "Karting" 5 days ago:
it’s the new “soup for my family”
- Comment on it's big with all the kids, they're calling it "Karting" 5 days ago:
- Comment on Unpacking developer calls out Nintendo after reporting "cheap fakes" on its eShop [Eurogamer] 5 days ago:
if others do it with Nintendo’s property, it’s copyright theft. If Nintendo profits from people doing with other properties, it’s business as usual.
- Unpacking developer calls out Nintendo after reporting "cheap fakes" on its eShop [Eurogamer]www.eurogamer.net ↗Submitted 5 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on it's big with all the kids, they're calling it "Karting" 5 days ago:
yeah, that’s why we counter with the memes now so the uneducated public gets better at recognizing the pattern.
- Comment on time to Finish the Fight 5 days ago:
mad respect
- Comment on time to Finish the Fight 6 days ago:
I already have 😎
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- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 1 week ago:
super cool! glad to hear Black Twitter gets to be a more formal thing now for black users, with moderation by the community for the community.
- Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 1 week ago:
Another perspective I’ve been hearing: www.instagram.com/reel/DDX0EU9I3CQ/?igsh=MjA0bWxw…
- Comment on Who is Covering Indie Games? Lots of People 1 week ago:
This is a great list and you should click the link to read through it. I’ma take this opportunity to shout out Remap Radio. They don’t cover EXCLUSIVELY indie games, but I hear about most of the more popular indie releases via their podcast.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 1 week ago:
Lol I hate how right you are
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 1 week ago:
Ironic how often funko goes out of their way to piss off gamers, given how much they seem to view gamers as a target demographic.
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 shenanigans 2 weeks ago:
yeah i got no way to watch this vid on my current computer. That might be because i’m on my work computer which has some web restrictions, but still. if this was on YT i’d be watchin right now.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC] 2 weeks ago:
the hard part is that they are partial investors in so many things. I believe they own the PUBG studio, which is the same studio that published Callisto Protocol, and that game had one of the largest budgets of all time. That’s the most obvious link I could find, but also that game came out a couple years ago so who knows, maybe they are steering the ship away from big budgets as we speak.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC] 2 weeks ago:
Shawn Layden, the titular “Ex-Playstation boss”, is currently strategic advisor for Tencent. Would we say that Tencent is currently adhering to this strategic advice?
- Comment on Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of AI Datasets Now [404 Media] 2 weeks ago:
great context! thanks for pointing that out
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 18 comments
- Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC]www.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 weeks ago:
what’s stopping leftists in your country from using an alternate platform? i mean, i’m not going to tell you what the left in your country should do, but twitter is now an explicitly pro-Donald Trump platform and likely contributed to him winning the US election. I think leftists elsewhere in the world care about whether the US descends into full-blown fascism, because that would be generally bad for the entire world? But I could be wrong about that, I could also see people feeling like that could be a good thing for them because it would mean the US meddles less in other nations’ affairs.
If you do think Trump winning the US election is bad thing for your personal political aims, you should probably be looking for a way to get off twitter, because twitter is now a part of his machine.
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s kind of where my mind is changing. I think the conversation is different depending on whether it’s an unsigned indie artist vs. Billie Eilish. Billie is gonna sell her records and tickets whether she’s on X or not, and besides, she’s probably made enough by now to never need to work again.
- Comment on Modern Vintage Gamer: The BEST Emulators of 2024 2 weeks ago:
hell yeah, MVG is the MVP of the retro game scene on YT. Glad to see him here, and glad to see him shouting out ShadPS4, which y’all know i am excited about. Mostly because i want to play bloodborne enhanced on PC, but preservation of other games like Last Guardian is also so important.
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 weeks ago:
It was not super clear at the outset that X was becoming a platform for fascists. We knew Musk was a shit heel capitalist, but this alone is not a reason to leave a platform. Most social media is run by selfish capitalists, it is simply the way of the world. It was becoming more apparent over the course of this year that Musk was playing with the algorithm to boost himself and people that paid him money, and we knew Musk was reinstating banned accounts in the name of “free speech”. But it wasn’t until election day (week?) when the platform explicitly endorsed Donald Trump that we knew the platform had been completely transformed into a pro-fascism platform. Remember that to most people, conservative and fascist don’t mean the same thing. My personal opinion is that the modern conservative movement has completely shifted into fascism, and anyone who says they are conservative is endorsing fascism. But this is not how the majority sees things.
