BolexForSoup

BolexForSoup, 30 days ago

I’m willing to bet $100 this ain’t happening.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

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BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Say the damn name in the title gamerant

It’s persona 5

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

I’ve literally never seen a defense of denuvo by anyone other than those implementing it lol

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Appreciate that! Mad at gamerant for not doing it but appreciate you nonetheless lol it's not even in the damn byline under it!

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Xbox 360 was a fun time. Gears of War is still striking today. Also, the best designed controller ever made

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

I understand AI evangelists - which you may or may not be idk - look down on us Luddites who have the gall to ask questions, but you seriously can’t see any potential issue with this technology without some sort of restrictions in place?

You can’t see why people are a little hesitant in an era where massive international corporations are endlessly scraping anything and everything on the Internet to dump into LLM’s et al to use against us to make an extra dollar?

You can’t see why people are worried about governments and otherwise bad actors having access to this technology at scale?

I don’t think these people should be locked up or all AI usage banned. But there is definitely a middle ground between absolute prohibition and no restrictions at all.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

And your comment was unnecessarily patronizing IMO. Do you think they needed that today?

If you don’t want people to respond to your takes then don’t post them in public forums. I am critiquing your stance. If it’s overly aggressive than I apologize for the tone.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

I can't control that you saw my comments seconds after they were posted but before the 20-30s it takes for me to edit them. There is nothing i changed that drastically for you to imply I was being deceptive.

Have a good one.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Now that is interesting, I've never heard this consideration before.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I said:

I don’t think these people should be locked up or all AI usage banned. But there is definitely a middle ground between absolute prohibition and no restrictions at all.

I have used AI tools as a shooter/editor for years so I don’t need a lecture on this, and I did not say any of the concerns are new. Obviously, the implication is AI greatly enables all of these actions to a degree we’ve never seen before. Just like cell phones didn’t invent distracted driving but made it exponentially worse and necessitated more specific direction/intervention.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Unnecessary and unhelpful. Plenty of Linux users dual boot with MacOS/Windows. It’s a stretch sure but come on.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Like I said, it's a stretch. But this isn't some rampant issue or particularly time consuming. They should just ignore the question if they don't want to answer it. People online just have such a hard time ignoring things.

And before someone else feels clever: Yes you could theoretically levy the same critique at me (though I'd disagree), but I would rather skip that part of the conversation as it is equally unproductive.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Yes actually. It’s what you should have done in the first place.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

One thing that really soured my taste with Andromeda was the very clunky, but for some odd reason still necessary platforming. It always ground things to a halt for me and reminded me I was playing a video game, which is not a fun feeling. Like recognizing that actors are on a set in the middle of the movie.

They also did not really explore what different species could look like. It just felt like any group I could’ve seen in the Milky Way when they had given themselves an excuse to do literally whatever they wanted. Like halo 4 choosing to have me fight the not-covenant again after 3 rounded the story out and gave them a mechanism for dropping the chief literally anywhere at any time.

I also found most of the squadmates to not be very memorable. It felt like they were going out of their way to make sure they didn’t resemble any of the previous ensembles.

That being said, I think the game did an incredible job of not falling into the usual paradigm of “this is the good option, this is the bad option.” There was a lot more nuance to some of the decisions and it really had me stopping and thinking about how I wanted to proceed.

Still, I never finished the game. Got several dozen hours and it was enjoyable enough, but a lot of dropped balls.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Explosive ammo on a pistol is so broken. It’s ridiculous lol

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I get this project is a big deal for some folks but having a hard time accepting the argument that I shouldn’t get a better visual/overall game experience because of a mod I’ll never play and their apparent lack of communication with Bethesda. They just expected to be that high of priority? Am I reading this wrong?

Edit: reading through comments I’m a little more sympathetic to modders writ large than I am this team specifically but I get the frustration. Bethesda could’ve done everyone a solid and given a little heads up. Still, it sounds like this project has been massive in scope and basically any changes were going to cause them issues so that’s worth considering here too.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

They’re saying this will take more than 2 months. They’re upset because it effectively undoes a lot of their work, which sucks, but that was always going to be the case unless bethesda went out of their way like a year ago to tell them what was coming. And remember, these guys aren’t even in the creator club or in any way communicating with Bethesda. I just think it’s a little unreasonable to be so independent while expecting Bethesda to anticipate their very specific needs.

I wish Bethesda did and maybe I’m being too generous but idk. Just not really sure I am 100% sympathetic to their plight here.

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

It would’ve shaved one month off their currently undefined new release date

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

I agree FSET got done dirty

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

Like I said in my edit, I’m not entirely defending Bethesda here. I’m just trying to look at this case specifically and not let their entire history color it, as difficult as that may be. FOLON is somewhat turning this into a blame game, where I don’t think anyone’s really at fault except arguably Bethesda in that specific case.

Even with all of that in mind, Bethesda should have been in better communication with modders. There’s no doubt here. They are critical part of the overall success and staying power of their games.

From a business/PR standpoint, Bethesda missed a great opportunity to regain some rapport with the community post-Starfield

BolexForSoup, 1 month ago

A smartphone is not a PC I’d wager. People can treat them like ones but then we’d have to be annoying and broaden it beyond what anyone could possibly mean.

Most people mean a non-apple laptop or desktop when they say a PC. It’s widely enough accepted that it shouldn’t be too ambiguous when used.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

They basically can’t see/display any of the contents of your emails/calendars/etc. is the super short answer.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

We can debate all we want but clearly it’s enough of a hurdle that the Indian government tried to block Proton’s services entirely. Legal standards and what we consider “logical conclusions” aren’t always the same thing either so I imagine that’s where a lot of the nuance lies here. Without knowing exactly what happened I don’t think either of us can really parse this beyond what we now know about the Indian government’s efforts to block Proton’s services.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

I hope you’re not so scared of the commie boogie man that you refuse to read Marx. It’s not even that long and it’s an important historical work, regardless of whether or not you agree with any of it.

I’ve read the Bible and i can assure you it bothered me more than the manifesto did. And it took a lot longer to read lol

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

We’ve had trouble over at true gaming getting things cooking as well. Maybe I can reach out to the mods and see if there’s some cooperation to be had here as we’re likely too fragmented at present. I’ll talk to our mod team today and see if we can think of something.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

I know that works for Kbin users, but I’m not always 100% clear on what works for other instances, so I just go with my old habit of linking the URL. Sounds like that’s a bad habit though! Appreciate the tip

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Alright I’m probably being a dummy. Nothing happens when I do !truegaming - would love some assistance because clearly, I have less of a grasp on this platform than I thought I did. I used to know this lol

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Perfect thank you! I bounce between Memmy app and mobile version of kbin so I get turned around a lot.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Microsoft has been telegraphing these moves for years now tbh.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

No enterprise is going to want to deal with that and realistically they’re the only ones with the pockets to fight that battle.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Never said it was right, why would you think that?

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Much as I am loath to admit it, Diablo IV did amazing beyond its niche. Anecdotally I saw soooo many people who’d never played Diablo or any game like it get onboard.

Staying power remains to be seen of course.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Do yourself a favor and never get curious about halo 5.

Gears on the other hand has still been rocking along and staying interesting IMO.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Some hardware just have the gift of gab!

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

I think you’ve got some valid points but you’re completely ignoring how countless corporations have invested collectively probably trillions of dollars over decades into how to best reach and sink their talons into us.

Minecraft may be an “accidentally addicting” product (though I’d somewhat dispute it), but iPads sure aren’t just addictive by accident. No tablet is. They’re designed to be from the ground up, like every major social media app and then some.

Parents need to parent, but to act like any of us are on an equal footing with the Facebooks of the world is to completely misunderstand the imbalance of power here.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Fine tuning a gameplay loop so people keep playing (and maybe spending money) isn’t as far from designing something to be addicting as most people would like to think. Hence why gaming and gambling addiction dovetail so well.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

I know people tend to joke about having a Civ addiction, but the number of people who have in fact binged an entire night or more playing civilization and have experience addiction like relationships with it should tell you that the line is thinner than I think most people are comfortable with.

Few games are “just good old fashioned fun.” Every game is designed to draw our attention. The distinctions between intent/accident, “it’s just fun”/designed to be addicting, etc. is not that thick.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’ve never understood the appeal of Spotify

1. Tap search
2. Select artist/album/song
3. Play anywhere instantly
4. Low monthly cost, no need to buy songs/albums

I also like having physical copies/my own files organized for my home server. But to not even understand why people use Spotify...?

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Youtube doesn't let you listen to videos if you navigate away from the app or lock your screen, making it functionally useless as a mobile music player. You have to pay for YT music to be able to do that.

And I agree with you about not using spotify, but again, there are certainly advantages to it. The pros just don't outweigh the cons/match our values.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Sure but they are not as effortless/not as feature rich as spotify and can be tricky to run on iOS. Google et al are also actively trying to break those projects these days. I say this as a daily freetube user.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

I like proton mail a lot. Proton drive not bad either but can be finicky when uploading dozens of larger files at once.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Thanks!

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

It concerns me that more people weren’t aware he did this

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

I wonder why they aren’t allowed to just rant a bit

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

Name a company that gives security updates to 15 year old tablets.

I wish they did, but this is hardly just an Apple problem. The only reason I bring this up is because people very quickly dunk on Apple without thinking about the fact that we need more access to all of our hardware in order to increase the longevity for those who want to.

Frankly I find iPads work longer on average than most other tablets. Purely anecdotal though.

The other elephant in the room is that most people don’t want to use 15 yr old tablets. I know I don’t want to edit video on 15 yr old desktops, even though they were perfectly capable of editing 15 years ago. But not current videos. Just like 15 year old tablets will not be able to readily stream or display a lot of modern content correctly.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

An unacceptable option is not an option. This is like saying somebody has access to multiple Internet providers when one ISP is so slow as to be nearly unusable, but it technically exists and you can technically pay for it. That’s not really what we mean by “choice.”

Your response is so typical and frustrating to be honest. It’s flippant nonsense where you know what we are talking about but you don’t want to agree so you hide behind lazy responses like the one you wrote.

BolexForSoup, 2 months ago

It’s a frustrated tweet not a hard hitting piece of journalism. Why is everyone here scrutinizing this so much? Do people hate VLC now or something?