ZombiFrancis

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ZombiFrancis,

Patrice O’Neal has a good bit on this:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yUYYX13uB4E

Your favorite video game doesn't need a remake | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)

Curious about y’alls opinions on this. I like the idea of getting new people to experience an older game by aligning it to modern graphics and accessibility standards. But capitalizing on nostalgia with quick updates to that make it look modern rather than making new games seems like just more of studios trying to squeeze...

ZombiFrancis,

It is very game specific. Some were innovators for how they pushed the limits of technology of their time, others were held back by that same tech. That alone is a huge marker as to whether a remake will improve or hurt the games legacy.

ZombiFrancis,

Reading the word as ‘um’ or ‘uh’ in a sentence makes it easier to read. I think a proper editor of the commentary would have truncated excessive ‘like’ use as they would a stammer.

ZombiFrancis,

I’m sorry, Jon.

ZombiFrancis,

Is a tree connected to its leaves?

ZombiFrancis,

I’ve been doing it on NG5 and been watching a blind playthrough being streamed on NG7.

The complaints of difficulty are pure salt tears.

I admit I do not enjoy some of the boss designs as much, but being forced to change or use specific tactics is nothing new. People mad about their ‘builds’ need to get over themselves.

New content dropped and the old stuff doesn’t work the same. This isn’t the first FromSoft DLC either.

ZombiFrancis,

Elden Ring is importantly not the Dark Souls series.

It is a FromSoftware game, which notably includes Bloodborne and Sekiro.

Elden Ring is closer to Dark Souls but it is hardcore influenced by Sekiro’s resounding success and the developer’s unrelenting love of Bloodborne.

Every annoyance I have with Elden Ring is me applying Dark Souls logic instead of going something like: ‘oh. Sekiro.’

ZombiFrancis,

Guy, it isn’t really pedantry to note that Elden Ring is not the fourth entry in an existing series to be considered breaking a perceived tradition or rule with its gameplay.

ZombiFrancis,

Friend, I think the feeling is mutual because damn that right there’s the pedantry. That’s a hole you dug and jumped in yourself. So yeah, be quiet down there.

All Knights Were Rule (lemmy.world)

Chivalry was about being loyal to some rich asshole. Samurai were the same. The main advancement of capitalism was the rich handing their knights to the state. The knights no longer fight each other, mostly suppressing peasant rebellions and protecting property. The wealthy fight each other through the law, which is less costly...

ZombiFrancis,

But they had to supply their own arms, armor, and supplies. So also like modern day schoolteachers.

ZombiFrancis,

The level designs are pretty top notch and feel much closer to the dangerous mazelike web of shortcuts and ambushes that worked for the Dark Souls series.

The base game spread content across dozens of small short dungeons. The DLC appears to feature fewer but longer dungeons, which I am inclined to agree with as ‘a good thing’.

ZombiFrancis,

Chris Taylor talking about Fallout Tactics illustrates the clusterfuck Interplay was on Fallout years before that.

ZombiFrancis,

They found the entrance on their own? I had a session never leave the introductory setting. I ended up dead and just chilled for the back half because my reroll was gonna be at the actual start.

ZombiFrancis,

Nuclear disasters vs not producing consistently due to nighttime.

I do find it interesting the method of resource extraction matters for solar components, but rarely any other minerals mined inhumanely for energy.

Like human rights policies are inherent to a solar panel.

ZombiFrancis,

While I am inclined to agree: those upfront costs translate directly into time. Time that we don’t necessarily have. Solar and wind are deployable and much less complex of a facility to run overall. For me it isn’t about the best energy producer as it is whichever method gets us of fossil fuels the fastest.

Nuclear has long term capabilities and should be used, don’t get me wrong, but solar and wind are bridges, if you will, to when it can have all the time and money it needs.

ZombiFrancis,

Well no one in this chain of comments was saying nuclear is bad and shouldn’t be supported.

There is commentary on the kind of profit motives that result in things like: failed nuclear energy facilities and cobalt slave mining, though.

ZombiFrancis,

Deep blue states can be this way as well. The primaries effectively decide the winner if there is a Republican or else it is a Democrat v Democrat election where its a referendum on the incumbent.

ZombiFrancis,

Lula’s Brazil had Bolsonaro handled within six months. Banned him from running until 2030 over his January 8th coup attempt in 2023.

The failure to respond in 2021 doomed us all.

ZombiFrancis,

My guess is: pursuing bipartisanship with the right wing, relentlessly.

ZombiFrancis,

How much for just the box?

Dev of cancelled Life By You game shares some information, including just two weeks notice of cancellation after being given the thumbs-up a few weeks prior (www.linkedin.com)

I cannot share specific numbers, but I can say that we had an internal metric we were aiming for that had been approved, and that we exceeded that number by a significant portion. We also got a thumbs up a few weeks before launch.

ZombiFrancis,

They seemed great up until around that time in 2016 they went public.

Before that you had all the Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron games, Cities Skylines they helped make, not to mention Pillars of Eternity eoth Obsidian. Up through 2015 they were great.

ZombiFrancis,

You could defend her?

ZombiFrancis,

Ah maybe it is. It does have that kind of meter to it.

ZombiFrancis,

Building infrastructure porn.

ZombiFrancis,

They learned they love ad revenue more than anything.

Which was nothing new to learn.

ZombiFrancis,

During and after college I worked out of a marina mostly wearing waders. My feet and socks were permanently damp for a solid five years.

To this day I value dry, warm socks on my feet.

Hamas Wants Guarantees Ceasefire Will Actually Happen, While US Says Hamas Is Rejecting the Proposal (truthout.org)

Following the UN Security Council vote to approve a three-phase ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials and other international allies of Israel are cynically placing blame on Hamas for a stall in current ceasefire negotiations — even as Israel has insisted on indefinitely continuing its massacre in Gaza and Hamas has said its main...

ZombiFrancis,

It’s going to take years, if not decades, to clear the rubble and the human remains still inside.

The millions of reconstruction for billions worth of damage will ensure there is maximum amount of ‘unpopulated’ Gazan area for Israel to remain occupying.

Which also means there is a baked in flashpoint of conflict where Israel will have to leave areas that are rebuilt. The entire history and existence of Israel indicates this will not happen: settlers will occupy anywhere the IDF is: which brings us back to the status quo.

ZombiFrancis,

Day in and day out, yes. It is a Kafkaesque political strategy. It is about injecting discord and confusion.

It is a pretty common tactic for accepting or supporting a genocide, or priming people to shame others for not accepting or supporting a genocide.

Corollary: there’s a somewhat relevant quote by Sartre on the ‘anti semite’ from the immediate aftermath of WW2: goodreads.com/…/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-s…

ZombiFrancis,

For anyone reading the above: Hamas is the one in negotiations with Israel. The words that came out after ‘but’ was a factual statement, not a justifying qualifier.

Hamas is negotiating with Israel on behalf of Gaza. Textbook case of prejudice hijacking reading comprehension.

ZombiFrancis,

You’ll be hard pressed to have your average person online casually use the Engelian type use of authority in authoritarian. The authority of work or authority of capital isn’t what they’re thinking. What is being imagined is almost always despotic tyranny.

Same thing with dictatorship. Most people will see that word and not associate it with a philosophical concept that includes a kind of rule by a class of citizens. They’ll use it synonymous to despotic tyranny.

Outside .ml at least, and especially on .world.

ZombiFrancis,

It seems odd to me how the author compares Ukraine to an alternative reality of 1938 imagined by their favorite historian.

Flat comparing 2020s to 1930s is already tenuous enough.

ZombiFrancis,

Far from it: history is an account of things that happened. Learning from it requires a solid adherence to what is known about what happened.

The value of speculating on alternate timelines is not to learn from the theorized history but to illustrate how interwoven it is with the events of the time.

You can still call that learning from history, but it is a very different avenue of inquiry. I love alternate timelines, and I also respect the limits of their value.

Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031. (www.nytimes.com)

The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per...

ZombiFrancis,

This is mpg across a product line. Not per vehicle and apparently without regard to production level or pricing. And since it’s an average across a product line an automaker could add a hybrid deluxe version at 300% markup that no one buys and still achieve compliance. Theoretically an automaker could actually worsen fuel economy if they added EV or hybrid versions to the product line.

I can’t even sarcastically joke these standards were written by industry.

ZombiFrancis,

I did look into it and yes, it does look like the averaging is done harmonically and not arithmetically. That’s how it cuts the outlier strategy.

So I guess the theory of gaming the system that hard is not as possible or at least mitigated to an effective degree.

Still though, even that they’re using harmonic mean doesn’t deviate to far from the reality this regulation was written by industry.

ZombiFrancis,

I have no problem with this.

ZombiFrancis,

Pirated Windows 95. Pirated Windows 98. Pirated Windows XP. A usb stick with Red Hat I never installed. Pirated Windows 7. A usb stick with Fedora I never installed. Pirated Windows 10. Raspbian for a retropie unit. Legit copy of Windows 10. A usb stick with ChimeraOS and a rig on the dining room table that maybe, just maybe, I will install.

I’ll get there.

ZombiFrancis,

Debate perverts, they’re called.

ZombiFrancis,

Palestinian civilians would also be allowed to return to their homes across the enclave

Oof.

They’ll be welcome to pick up the rubble and extract the remains of their family on their own time and labor.

ZombiFrancis,

Hundreds of thousands of temporary shelters would also be delivered.

Reconstruction will not be overnight and theres a lot of things like schools and hospitals to rebuild too.

The plan is to work with partners towards reconstruction. I know that terminology well: If I am to compare this to how this kind of stuff is handled domestically after say, a natural disaster: a lot of people are going to be left waiting a long time in rubble.

ZombiFrancis,

Pretty much the only time I am throwing down full price for a game is when the dev team is a handful of people, if not a single person.

These days my purchases are a support of the demonstrated development effort, not a valuation of a franchise or series.

ZombiFrancis,

…Did they just figure this out now?

ZombiFrancis,

They’ll never get to proper crushing depths with that though. I say we provide them with exact replicas down to the Logitech F1350s.

ZombiFrancis,

Seriously. The original Washington Post article went to lengths not to identify anyone. FFS.

ZombiFrancis,

“The peasants will be a bother and bring up that genocide business.”

ZombiFrancis,

Those strokes were unfortunate.

ZombiFrancis,

I dunno Manchin was always pretty upfront a conservative beholden to the coal industry.

ZombiFrancis,

Not just that: people who campaigned for him were wary of the risk he might turn right once elected. So he went out early to really convince the leftist coalitions backing him he was legit and definitely not going to do exactly what he did.

ZombiFrancis,

MAH BOI.

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