SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman, 1 day ago

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SnotFlickerman, 1 day ago

Next Sunday Saturday, AD

I have a soft spot for The Day the Earth Froze. Kids come running for the great taste of Sampo!

SnotFlickerman, 14 hours ago

That’s a deep cut.

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

Wait, I’m supposed to choose my favourite of the three shells?

Is that how they work??

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

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SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

Yes.

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Devil’s Advocate:

FOSS is basically an endless development cycle. Anyone who wants to pick up and keep developing can. This has benefits and drawbacks.

I would say the main drawback is that you might be expected to work longer on this code than you plan to. The gaming community can be pretty demanding while also not stepping up to contribute themselves.

Further, it means some games can end up in unintentional “development hell” because there really isn’t an end-state for the game. The nature of the game keeps changing because the person in charge can’t decide what they want to go with long-term. The Duke Nukem Forever problem.

Now, indie titles like Terraria and Stardew Valley stand as examples that show an eternal development can be a good thing, but they’re truly in the minority and they’re really both driven by auteurs, which is why the themes are so crisp and well placed throughout the games. It’s kind of hard to have a single brilliant auteur in charge of a giant game involving lots of people and have it work out. Look at the shitshow of an aftermath of what happened to the auteurs behind Disco Elysium. When you’re part of a big team, some things always become a shadow of their original intent. Things become anodyne not on purpose, but simply because not everyone is on the same page. Designing a horse by committee results in a camel, etc.

It could work for small indie games, I don’t think it would work for anything AAA-level.

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

When did Gail the Snail become a redshirt?

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

Marital rape wasn’t even considered a real thing until 1993 in the US. It was an “expectation” of the marriage that the wife always be “available” for the husband. It didn’t make it not rape, and it took us until as recently as 31 years ago to figure that out.

In other words, marital rape was mostly still legal when I was born. In some areas, it’s still treated differently than non-married rape.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Marital_rape_in_the_United_Sta…

Prior to the 1970s, marital rape was legal in every US state. It was partially outlawed in Michigan and Delaware in 1974, then wholly outlawed in South Dakota and Nebraska in 1975. The court case Oregon v. Rideout in 1978 was the first in which someone stood trial for raping his spouse while they lived together. By 1993, marital rape was a crime nationwide. Still, in the 1990s, most states continued to differentiate between the way marital rape and non-marital rape were viewed and treated. The laws have continued to change and evolve, with most states reforming their laws in the 21st century. However, there are still states where marital rape and non-marital rape are treated quite differently under the law.

Anyway, just agreeing with your point and showing an even more glaring and recent example.

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

Too late. In the bottom panel its the only thing I can see.

Cut to Kirk:

“She’s just mashing it.”

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

Back then nearly all telephone operators were women.

Clerical work was considered womens work.

The first computers at NASA were programmed by women because typing was clerical and that was for women.

A female comms officer was expected, because in real life they were already accepted in that work.

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

That might be because it originated in the black community and was only becoming widespread in the white community when it was highjacked by the right wing and tried to turn it into a slur.

It isn’t and continues to not be a slur. Especially for anyone who understands what it means.

Conservatives use a shorthand like “woke” because they can’t outright say “being kind and respectful to others while reflecting on the mistakes of the past is a bad thing.”

SnotFlickerman, 2 days ago

Oh hell yeah. I have a soft spot for these goofy Metroidvania titles.

My partner always ribs me about it “Oh are you playing the Titty Island games again?”

SnotFlickerman, 3 days ago

You can just assume it is every US company because it is.

This stuff doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

CEOs talk to each other about this kind of shit and plan together.

Just like how “AI” has been shoved into fucking everything by everyone even though it is useless and makes a lot of people upset.

Expect all of them to do it so you don’t have a choice and they all did it to “stay competitive with each other.”

Making sure there isn’t another option is one hundred percent part of industry plans.

Just like how trying to replace fast food workers with automation and touch screens has been in the works since the 80’s at least. The tech is just finally cheap enough is all.

SnotFlickerman, 4 days ago

Tonight at 11, Japanese company centers japanese media in its media showcase.

SnotFlickerman, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Wait… Holy shit it’s real!

EDIT: lmao nearly every comment on YouTube is literally about Butters.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/94dab51d-77ae-4ba6-826c-39e2966a6d0f.jpeg

SnotFlickerman, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I don’t know how many times we have to keep saying this:

BECAUSE LLMS HAVE NO INTENTION OR ABILITY TO TELL TRUTH FROM FICTION SO WHEN THEY APPEAR CONFIDENT, THEY ARE BULLSHITTING EVEN WHEN THEY ARE CORRECT.

Even a bullshitter can be correct sometimes, it doesn’t make it suddenly not bullshit. Even when LLMs get it right, they’re still bullshitting.

This isn’t complicated. They don’t think. They have no concept of truth. They just fabricate sentences from previously copied sentences, there is no intention, no thought, no planning, no reflection.

The groups producing these LLMs are just sourcing the entire internet, they don’t care how much of it is lies. There seems to be very little curation going on.

Anyone who expected anything other than this outcome is an idiot who isn’t paying attention.

SnotFlickerman, 8 days ago

Probably the people who paid attention to jackholes like Tom Morello walk around shitting on local businesses because “don’t you know who I am.”

concreteplayground.com/…/rage-against-the-machine…

Tom and folks like him are way more concerned with the trappings of being famous than they are with actual workers gaining actual rights as evidenced by shitting on a local business because the business was already at capacity and didn’t make room for his “fame.”

He didn’t even do any research on the business before labelling them anti-worker when what they really were were anti-special-treatment-for-famous-people.

You would think Tom Morello of RATM would be on board.

So yeah, soft.

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago

There’s a reason Lemmy strongly suggests using Matrix for secure direct messaging and has a place for it on your profile. 🤷

Just feels like a slightly disingenuous take on Lemmy since it’s made clear in a lot of places that its suggested to use Matrix if you want safe user-to-user communication.

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago

Shocker, the suits who helped force out the original creative team just said “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on” to what was left of the creative team after the departure of Kurvitz, Rostov, and Hindpere.

I know Tuulik wanted the rest of the team to have a chance to do a follow-up, but this aligns with why some promoted the idea that they were happy with the game being pirated: the people holding the purse strings don’t actually care about it.

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago

Death of encryption?

They are rolling out forced turned-on-by-default BitLocker hard drive encryption for everyone using Windows 11. Including all those people who dont understand how it works and won’t save their backup keys.

Microsoft is dumb but pretending they are trying to kill encryption is also dumb.

SnotFlickerman, 11 days ago

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/f54bc1b4-5235-4d42-bf24-3d3d65ba4f22.jpeg

“Ramirez has caught the parking lot frog” sums it up so succinctly.

SnotFlickerman, 12 days ago

Musk is only second to Trump in never having learned to shut his stupid fucking mouth.

SnotFlickerman, 14 days ago

I said it when Fallout 3 came out:

Only Bethesda could make post apocalyptic hookers boring.

The stories of sex work in Fallout 1 & 2 were dark and complex and Fallout 3’s were just fucking corny.

SnotFlickerman, 14 days ago

After how expertly Fallout nailed its landing by using literal assets from the game for set design…

Yeah this is gonna flop hard.

SnotFlickerman, 15 days ago

https://64.media.tumblr.com/9fedaa98d848dff08f50e773f33f0cfe/6673f0282308d1d7-bb/s400x600/ae5fab12f33eabd851f9f51d6e49a73ccc0a0f72.gif

Danny Bear approved.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

Groups like this need to understand that their PR would do better if they said nothing at all rather than just being an asshole.

See also: CEO of Kagi search who thinks he can browbeat people into agreeing with him. It makes me never want to use Kagi.

Just shut up and let your fucking products speak for themselves. The more you rant about your philosophy to others, the less they actually want to use your products.

SnotFlickerman, 18 days ago

It was always bullshit, though.

As far back as 2010, there were more women playing games like Peggle or Bejeweled than there were men playing games on Steam.

Women didn’t play “real games” or some such fucking bullshit, so they regularly were ignored in the numbers.

Games have always been more popular than people have acted like. It’s just one more thing Boomers spent way too much time chiding and acting like was childish. They did it for so long people are only now to starting to feel lack of judgment for gaming.

Remember when Hillary Clinton wanted to ban GTA over the Hot Coffee mod? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

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Also, it’s wild how much of gaming has become nothing but gambling culture, using the same tools and tricks.

Boomers are A-OK with spending all day sitting at a slot machine while shitting themselves and they think that’s a “game.” They hated our games until our games became like their bullshit ass fucking wank game of chance. Now they’re the fucking Whales that mobile publishers want because they’ll just hit the button endlessly… just like they did with the slots. Losers.

SnotFlickerman, 18 days ago

Now they’ve moved to review-bombing other Valve games since Valve isn’t listening.

Not a great look for the community.

SnotFlickerman, 20 days ago

I would still prefer a remake like this in a modern infinity engine style engine (like Pillars of Eternity or Divinity Original Sin).

But hot damn 100 devs working on this makes me think I might at least give it a shot for old times’ sake, when it’s ready.

Fallout is tops between the two, but Fallout 2 always held a special place in my heart (and had a slightly better interface).

SnotFlickerman, 21 days ago

For a company that exists to block ads, they sure do spend a fuckton on ads.

SnotFlickerman, 21 days ago

I wish I could contribute more, but that’s really all I know about them. I hope people with more useful information turn up!

While true, it doesn’t say much one way or another about whether they’re trustworthy or not.

SnotFlickerman, 23 days ago

There’s no turning back…

SnotFlickerman, 22 days ago

Yeah, people who can’t a joke are so fucking insufferable.

SnotFlickerman, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

This is one of those things where Valve actually actively sucks and is actively ignoring a growing problem because the old game just isn’t profitable anymore.

Expect this to get zero interest or time spent on it from Valve because they’re knee-deep in trying to release a Hero Shooter (rolls eyes).

I have a lot of respect for Valve, but situations like this really need to make people step back and question how much Valve care about the community that uses the Steam service, or do they really care more about how much money they make?

The fact that they keep creating micro-transactions for a game that’s been completely taken over by bots says “They don’t give a shit, they just want the money.”

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Let’s not let Valve get away with shit just because they’re “good guys” compared to other businesses.

Anti-consumer is anti-consumer is anti-consumer. Valve doesn’t get a pass for being Valve.

EDIT: To be clear, I understand that they aren’t required to keep supporting a nearly-two-decade-old game, but letting it become a place where outright abuse happens is a different story. If you can’t control the abuse and you don’t want to do anything about it: do the thing nobody will like but will solve the problem: kill the damn game already if you don’t want to support it. That’s what I expect to happen before they face this issue, they’ll shut down official servers and make the game unavailable before they try to solve the bot problem for a game so old. Valve has made it clear for years that they don’t listen to or give a flying fuck about the TF2 community.

SnotFlickerman, 29 days ago

Risky click of the day because I thought this said “Inflation Training” and I was suddenly thrust back 20 years reading my friends comedic gay Star Trek erotica.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

Does Unraid count as paid Linux itself, not just a Linux utility?

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

KDEndlive is pretty solid, imho

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

While this is a great attitude to have, it has to be tempered, because on the other end of the spectrum of waiting too long to release and having a both delayed and bad game like Duke Nukem Forever.

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Also, with an indie game like this, you’re less likely to run into the same issues they had with DNF such as trying to keep up with industry trends in first person shooters.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Finding sources about Bush and Cheney fuckery from 2000-2008 is getting increasingly difficult. Their crimes are getting memory-holed.

EDIT: Specifically, does anyone else remember the specific act that Bush wanted to hit Quakers with terrorism charges over? I remember it being a bunch of Quakers in kayaks doing a blockade of a naval ship, preventing it from leaving port to go to Iraq. I can’t find a fucking word on it anymore, and I can barely even find sources on Bush wanting to hit Quakers with terrorism charges other than some broken links at the ACLU. Quakers, as a reminder, are the only religious group in the USA that are default conscientious objectors because violence is 100% antithetical to their religion. These are the kind of people they wanted to use “terrorism” charges against.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

Probably a good bit. I have a backup from my personal website from 2006 to about 2013. Along with a lot of media going back to my teen years. I’m really lucky I’ve been a good digital steward of my own data and haven’t lost almost any of my personal digital history.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

Because bombing the future into burning rubble is preferable to burning it into rubble or something I guess.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

Thanks for the well considered reply. I agree that the US’s political system is part of what has held it back from going rogue, but the problems I referenced were all growing cancers that may very well lead to an autocratic Trump empire.

Just the Trump cases alone are absolutely destroying any credibility the legal system had left, and when people in a nation start to lose trust in their “justice” system… well, things tend to get pretty bad when people stop trusting authority and turn to Mob Justice.

Even without Trump as President, that’s where we’re headed because he has firmly shafted regular people’s trust that the legal system is in any way fair or just. We all know for fucksure now that the only thing that matters in the US is having money and connections.

When Trump was elected, it was because he was seen as the outsider to shake things up. People are still waiting on things to be shaken up in favor of regular ass people instead of corporations. That includes conservatives even if they’re too stupid to understand that’s what they are actually mad about. Don’t expect Trump’s wiping his ass with the legal system to not have long-term impacts.

That’s not going to end well, Trump as President or not.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

Too right.

🤝

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

Yeah, the EU is where I hold out my hopes, too.

Good luck out there, it is indeed scary.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

No shit they need to stop it. Do you or I have a choice in making that happen?

Short of a nationwide labor strike in every industry in both nations, no one citizen exactly has the power to make this stop, and all the legal avenues to make it stop are denied by both governments.

I love it when people complain shit needs to get done when there is no legal avenue to getting it done. Cool, what’s your plan chucklefuck? We’re supposed to just magic this better world into being by willing it so like The Secret or some other dumb shit?

They both suck because they fucking do. Part of the reason they do is that there is no recourse for regular citizens to stop this kind of thing from happening except boycotts and labor strikes. Boycotts do fuck-all because they’re busy selling the fruits of their forced labor to the rest of the planet, meaning they won’t lose enough money from the boycott to impact them. Meaning only labor strikes have meaningful impact.

Let me know when you’ve got all the laborers from both countries ready to go on strike. I’ll wait.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

Brilliant rebuttal.

SnotFlickerman, 1 month ago

Because the best way to handle stupidity is to coddle it like Trump, right? That’s been working out just gangbusters, right?

Sometimes people say something fucking stupid and need to be told why it’s stupid.

Even if it’s just so other people don’t have to suffer these fools.