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lanolinoil, 9 days ago

maybe he had a Keith Richards family member who wanted to get drunk on their remains.

www.theguardian.com/…/drugsandalcohol.musicnews#:….

lanolinoil, 16 days ago

isn’t that the point? The corruption has tricked us to believing they can regulate themselves or are even not amoral about social issues. Companies make profit – that is their singular goal. The laws and regulations control their behavior, not ‘good will’ or whatever we pretend motivates individuals

lanolinoil, 16 days ago

end citizens united – corporations aren’t people

end lobbying so shell oil doesn’t have 10000000X time and money to affect the government as a person does.

Quit assigning good/bad labels to companies that operate within the law and furious pursue laws that make us more equal, richer and safer overall

???

profit

lanolinoil, 16 days ago

I don’t know – It feels like we should be able to use the internet to make grass roots new and hard to corrupt political movements but I don’t see that happening at all.

There’s also the 250 year empire rule which we’re at now against stability with the current system.

I honestly have no answer other than a “vote or die” but we all know that doesn’t work.

lanolinoil, 16 days ago

yeah but that just kicks the can down the road, not that I disagree or anything. I don’t know of any real solution.

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

• Julius Nyerere

lanolinoil, 1 month ago

Will pour out some dogecoin for my boy – RIP Kabosu

lanolinoil, 1 month ago

Is that why Fernando has to race at Aston?

lanolinoil, 1 month ago

I will say I can feel the hype train with Manor Lords, which I usually am not a part of. I like that kind of game and already had furthest frontier so I picked it up.

I was pretty… shocked with how much was unfinished and how little soul and love the game felt like it had.

I figured I got duped and someone paid every youtuber on a slow week to hype it up since they missed some publisher deadline or whatever

lanolinoil, 1 month ago

Why ban bombs if you can just make them with cleaning supplies?

lanolinoil, 1 month ago

Why can’t anyone detect obvious sarcasm anymore?

lanolinoil, 2 months ago

surely this is satire no?

lanolinoil, 2 months ago

Amazing – slightly OT but anyone watch delicious in dungeon? I love they made a whole show just to show anime cooking segments

lanolinoil, 2 months ago

no I think it’s a main focus but I did notice a bit of a drop off when they got to the dragon – Hopefully they correct course because I’d quit watching if it was just anime – I don’t really watch anime

lanolinoil, 2 months ago

That’s how they always do it though and it didn’t stop them in the past (to be fair, from invasion though which is a lot different)

lanolinoil, 2 months ago

… In Scotland?

The only military-like police I’ve ever interacted with are all the ones in the USA.

lanolinoil, 2 months ago

There’s a great fake commercial in the new Reno 911 where Reineisha is selling a Kyle Rittenhouse costume for black people because ‘you’ll be safer dressed like this than with black skin’

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

sometimes

always

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

Yeah I don’t think so – Sequels are the thing you’re supposed to have I think. Everyone drooling over having subscriptions since MMOs sucks and it really looks like the whole culture of the industry is pretty shitty in a lot of ways

E: I guess expansions can be good so you don’t have to be an EA sports franchise if you’re not changing the engine a bunch. Other than EUIV though, whose expansions are a money grab way to make the game cost 150 bucks, I haven’t ever played DLC I can think of.

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

I didn’t even buy the Rimworld DLCs and I have 500+ hours! I did look at them but didn’t buy. Now that DF is graphical I mostly just play that now tbh.

DF is a great example – 15+ years updates no DLCs unless you count the steam release.

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

The non cosmetic Paradox DLCs fundamentally change the games so if you want to actually play the latest version of the game with all the mechanics you have to get them all. You can get them on steam sale usually for like 50 bucks a couple times a year.

I’m not defending it – It is what colors me most against DLCs.

I still just don’t like the idea of it – Why not do a DLC for movies and paintings and books? It feels wrong to fork a work of art or say “Oh sorry I didn’t actually make it all here’s the other 20%”

Come to think of it – Movie sequels are kind of like that these days where it’s just one story broken up instead of multiple separate stories. I wish we just did 4 hour movies with intermission but I’m sure I’m alone there.

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

I do agree video games are the best bang for buck entertainment by a mile

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

There are lots of new indie games that feel old but have modern QoL improvements and stuff. Go find a category in steam and only look at overwhelmingly positive and take a look.

JRPGs and the like are tough for me now because of how slow the gameplay is – You might try an emulator with a fast-forward mode or something.

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

Divinity 2 mechanics > BG3 even though BG3 is obviously the ultimate masterpiece. Pumped to see what they do

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

100% the future. Like has anyone put all the billion pages of lore from TES into a GPT finetune? Surely that would make better dialogue than HALT! for the 900000000 time right?

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

You only get one BG3 every lifetime though – It was how I thought games would be when I was a kid almost perfectly, but it is the only one…

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

I think the way video game devs/people are (from what I can see from outside) they are well poised to realize someone making an LLM or a finetune or whatever you want to call it – that produces master level dialogue/stories/whatever is (will be) a skill just like storytelling/writing is.

If I were a JRR Tolkien or Herbert with a universe in my mind, it would be so much more pleasing to make an engine that generates anything from that world that to just write out a few stories from it.

Sounds cool to me

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

They do ~6B a year and clear about a billion, so that’s actually like 10% of their profit which is a lot for a company that big – wow!

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

Larian Dating Sim 2025

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

Yeah – I just mean their ability to make a system for video games is better than paper adaptation

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

None of those hit for me like BG3 – It’s the perfect CRPG game.

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

yes

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

I agree – that’s why I never saw the games I dreamed of – Greed. Not some lack of skill, ideas or ability to execute

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

Maybe now, but everyone was afraid to fund 100MM BG3 because they thought no one wanted CRPG and they want Fortnite or whatever. Hopefully Larian spawns more people who actually care about their users instead of just greed

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

But not me – None of them have ever reached my bar except for BG3 – I care less about video game stories and more about mechanics/freedom of choice to be fair

lanolinoil, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Perhaps but I can’t see anyone who is interested in creating and communicating fake worlds eschewing the idea too much. If you make a fake world, there’s no way you could ever ‘get it all out’ since you’re just one guy. This would open up that possibility to make a world bigger than yourself and what you can get out of your brain

E: Here’s a long worldbuilding thread about it – reddit.com/…/your_thoughts_on_the_use_of_ai_for_w…

Seems mixed.

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

Also know you can play 2 player local natively built into the story in both games so if you have a roommate or SO it’s a really fun time!

lanolinoil, 3 months ago

I literally looked up Nehru jackets the other day for the first time – Thanks Modi

lanolinoil, 4 months ago

“There ain’t no gettin’ offa this train!”

lanolinoil, 4 months ago

Get me my brown pants

lanolinoil, 4 months ago

The waiter isn’t patronizing the establishment in either sense of the word…

lanolinoil, 4 months ago

It’s worse than you think – In most US States, you can pay people way under the minimum wage as long as their tips make up for it. So an average waiter might make 2 bucks and hour on paper. If they didn’t get enough tips to reach minimum wage, the restaurant would have to pay them out on top of that, but it’s just this fucked up cultural thing to give restaurant owners free labor that the customers pay for.

lanolinoil, 4 months ago

Show me those italics

lanolinoil, 4 months ago

The “Fuck your server” At the end implies the preceding statement is about the server and it’s a bit jarring to read if it’s not.

Fuck your server, “Fuck your server”, or Fuck your server /s would have been more clear.

While the sarcasm is clear in your head when you write it, it’s often lost if you don’t denote it in some way. That’s why /s became a thing.

lanolinoil, 4 months ago

is this kelvin or BTUs?

lanolinoil, 5 months ago

We don’t have any other examples though. Maybe alien life all gets to physical dimension 5 by year 200 or something. Time being relative and all makes that somewhat feasible.

lanolinoil, 5 months ago

Nissan drivers are the real threat

lanolinoil, 4 months ago

only 2 positions for the accelerator pedal

lanolinoil, 5 months ago

Someone give me a good jungle playlist