Duamerthrax
@Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers 14 hours ago:
nah. There’s some footage out there of people going maskless and when pressured to put masks on for their safety, they proudly proclaimed that they currently have it, so they can’t get infected again. This ignores the fact that you can catch different strains and you probably aren’t going to double the severity of your symptoms from having two infections. Infection duration on the other hand might be doubled. Turns out selfish people are very, very often stupid people.
- Comment on Ahahah, it's too late Batman, I've already released an uncountable amount of PFAS into Gotham's water supply! 22 hours ago:
I’m beginning to think that Gotham isn’t a good place to live.
- Comment on If media corporations worked together to convince you that a half decent politician is evil incarnate but the politician that helps corporations extort the people is good, what would it look like? 1 day ago:
Joined a year ago, but only have two posts and two comments made in the day…
- Comment on Currently happening 3 days ago:
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You know something that often gets overlooked about bigoted “humor”, is how predicable and tiring it it. Even if it wasn’t inherently offense, it’s not funny.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 days ago:
I think that’s the thing that annoys me the most. Sometimes, a game doesn’t get a sequel because sales were bad or the studio was bought out or even went bankrupt. Here, it’s just because the guy running the company doesn’t feel like it. They have a constant stream of free money from Steam sales to fall back on, so why not just let your game devs do something? I haven’t kept up to date, but wasn’t there this huge gap of time where none of the TF2 devs had logged and played any TF2?
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 days ago:
You know, I knew the next HL game to come out after Ep2 would be a VR title. It was the most obvious direction Valve could go considering Gabe treats the HL series as a tech demo. Seriously, I think out of anyone at Valve, he has the least respect for the franchise. What I didn’t predict that it would a a VR exclusive title and that it would recon the ending of Ep2 so a character that died(and who’s VA had died), would be alive again. Hell, they didn’t even ask one of the MC’s original VA to reprise her role(or cast into a different character if the age was an issue).
I have way more trust in the fan community to continue the story. Entropy: Zero took some cues from Epistle 3, so I hope the breadman and the Project Borealis are sharing notes, so the can have a shared continuity. I really, really liked the voiced MC of Entropy: Zero and the combat loop, with more enemy types and weapons was superb.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 days ago:
antlion army,
Hey, here’s this cool thing. You can summon Antlions to fight with you, but only in two areas and never again. Oh, that boss fight in Ep2 where you could have gotten it again? Nope, but here’s a Defend Against Waves set piece instead.
What I’m saying is that the combat loop got ignored for the gravity gun. Where’s the Gluon Gun? Why is the Tau Cannon only mounted to the buggy? Why are both the SMG and AR2 full auto, spread weapons? If we’re doing wide open areas, the AR2 should really have a tighter spread for long range engagements.
Halo did wide open environments, did vehicles with mouse or analog stick steering was a joy to drive and actually used them in more then one area before HL2. Keyboard steering sucks.
What HL2 excels at is presentation of the story. It’s really not that deep of a story.
Also, never liked CS or military shooters, so that’s not exactly a going to sell me. And don’t get me started on the hat shit.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 days ago:
There are so many landmark games. I’d say HL1 was more influential then HL2 anyway. Hell, I’d say Portal did more for first person puzzle games then HL2 did for FPS games.
It just handicapped itself by making the gravity gun such busy work and ignoring other aspects.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 days ago:
Half-Life 2 doesn’t even have a good combat loop. Half-Life 1 has more variety in the weapons and the map team in HL1 actually talked to the AI team. Notice how the combine just stand in doorways or out in the open? It’s lost, but I once saw a video showing that the combine can flank the player and do other complex maneuvers if the maps are properly designed, but Gabe was too obsessed with the Gravity Gun and everything else suffered. The “puzzles” are all either busy work or another seesaw task. I remember being hyped when Gabe said that Ep2 would have the biggest physics puzzle in it, but it ended up just being a huge seesaw “puzzle” that was solved just by clearing the cars off of it.
Every time I do a Half Life replay, I always end up getting bored in HL2 and skip to the community made stuff. Half-life Echoes and Entropy: Zero are musts.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 days ago:
I. Do. Not. Care. About. The. Tech.
Gabe, you created an obligation when you ended Episode 2 on a cliff hanger. You should have just let Marc Laidlaw and the game devs just make more games.
As long as it had kept the core writers, I’m sure everyone would be happy. Hell, any “innovation” is being handled by the modding continuity. Breadman of Entropy: Zero created a more fun combat loop then any of the HL2 games have. Singularity has a better physics weapons just by being able to use it independent of the selected weapon and making the object transparent.
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 5 days ago:
You need to start considering the motivation of the villains of the mainstream media that the ultra-rich are rubber stamping. The whole “Hero’s journey” lends itself to Libertarianism. Kingsman is a good example of a Libertarian morality tale, but compare how often an environmentalist is the villain vs how often they’re the hero in other media.
I had to stop watching the Flash tv series because of the causal disregard of the rights of the villains in the first season. Why did the writers mean by having Team Flash run a private, secret prison where the inmates are in perpetual, solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer and no expectation of a trial? The writers really didn’t need to create that scenario.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 5 days ago:
There’s some slop on youtube that’s either pure AI or really close to it. You need to delved deep into baby youtube to find it though. Five Finger Family would probably be a good starting point.
- Comment on Marine Scientists 5 days ago:
I’m sure navy seal teams are trained for aquatic fire fights. But the chances of any of them interacting with aquatic guard units are probably slim and if any have happened, are going to be classified.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 1 week ago:
Zero. Because they don’t need a fake substitute.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 1 week ago:
Considering the Catholic Church banned chess and excommunicated several priests who were caught playing it, I’d believe it. But of course, kiddy diddling is just fine.
Rebellious priests invented the folding chess set because of the ban actually.
- Comment on ‘Urge residents not to taste it’ but WHY NOT??? WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?? 1 week ago:
The artist is also the guy who bought the exclusive rights to Vantablack and hates that people call it “The Bean”, se lets all call it what it is.
- Comment on OldUnreal team publishes installers for downloading Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament from archive.org, with Epic Games's approval! 1 week ago:
Old Bungie also opened up the Marathon engine and released the assets before the Microsoft takeover. You can play that game on any modern platform while Oni is lingering in abandonedware land, unplayable and unprofitable.
- Comment on Can't sleep, he's watching 1 week ago:
That actually already exists. It’s good tech, but more for out of reach areas or where moving parts would be an issue. For a regular home, curtains work better.
- Comment on That’s wild. Which Wendy’s though? 1 week ago:
man, reddit pfp are ugly. Maybe it’s just being corporate approved “individuality”.
- Comment on Sony boss admits forcing PC gamers into PlayStation accounts can "invite pushback," but insists they have to keep games safe – which doesn't really track in single-player 1 week ago:
If Sony games aren’t safe to play without a PSN account, I better not play them at all.
- Comment on sad 1 week ago:
Reverse time travel isn’t possible, so stop quoting a specific model used in fiction. The rules can be whatever you want because it’s just a joke.
- Comment on Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you 1 week ago:
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Who owns the air?
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Post-election blues 2 weeks ago:
They’ve collected too much data and trust their algos too much. The data from lemmy isn’t nearly as easy or plentiful as the data from twitter or facebook. Bitching and moaning here isn’t nearly as compromising or attention grabbing as the shit that goes on on the sites run by open fascists.
Seriously, the next time I meet some of the friends irl, I’m explaining that I wont be talking to them online without encryption involved. I ended up quitting a discord I made because they were copy/pasting their posts that was getting them banned on facebook there. Absolutely no sense of infosec. Those posts had the real names attached and now that mat be associated with a discord I set up. Luckily, I was using a foreign email to register it.
- Comment on Post-election blues 2 weeks ago:
Who’s not openly atheist…
Lucky I’m not and would be willing to hide people if necessary.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Economics of scale already proves that to be a fantasy.
Also, private charities and local governments can’t do anything about multi national corporations creating pollution or price fixing.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
We’ve already had four years of Trump to know that’s not what will happen. The only power he’ll relinquish is power over corporations. Individuals will not be getting more rights, unless it’s to hurt other individuals.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Just because you say the sky is yellow, doesn’t mean you’re better for it.
If you shrink the government, corporations will just fill the power vacuum. It’s that simple.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine basing your personality on a satire character and thinking your an independent thinker.
