MasterBlaster

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I remember when just 'browsing' the internet (google) was a pass time. Like you could just search random things into google and find something interesting or novel. The earliest iterations of google basically functioned exactly how you'd want a search engine to and needed zero improvement. we really do live in a fucked world where a technology or service can be perfected but inevitably made worse over time to the benefit of no one but the top

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 12 hours ago

there are some construction projects that instill awe, make you reflect on the hard work it takes to build and the defiance to the natural world it represents. like it really makes you reflect on how the pyramids must have been built versus how we can build things now, and the inherent majesty with our collective talents

anyway those sorts of construction projects are just on every other corner of china lol they really do not give a fuck, if they want a road there by god the road is going there

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago

nah, if you're weird enough to be you, someone else is weird enough to be for you.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I find myself on Quora more than I would think based off its layout. I think the website is very messy and sometimes makes the information hard to parse. But I do agree in general that I think it has a bad reputation for what it is.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I love BE, I'm in that sweet spot of having never engaged with his online presence but occasionally watched his scripted videos. It makes everyone seem absolutely unhinged when they auto-nope out of any conversation involving him, when the takes usually in question is something like 'genocide bad'

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think this view only slides if you do actually already have inherent misogynistic or misanthropic tendencies, and those tendencies mix with the natural jealousy feeling that cheating invokes. I think of asexual people who also don't love being cheated on.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

yes but unironically

re-releaseing bethesda games is tricky because for at least a few months the original + mods is a far far better experience, at least when it happens with skyrim it only takes the modding community a few months to catch up

remaking bethesda games with a graphical layer on an entirely different engine is a recipe for disaster. from what i'm hearing the game is still moddable with the original modkit but several elements don't work as they should. it's going to take years to port over oblivion modded content to the new version, and you better hope those original modders are still even around.

essentially fracturing an ancient modding community for a smeary UE5 re-release of a beloved game. not the worst thing you can do but just mod the original release christ. do you know how well modded oblivion runs on anything?

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Just imagining that clap some teachers do in the morning to get their class doing the morning salutations.

"Good morning honorable judge presiding...'

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hypersexuality can be destructive for the self and online spaces see high rates of hypersexuality that are seen as sex-positivity instead. This leaks out into the real world eventually.

I think it's direly important to understand where sexuality ends and the real world begins. lots of functional adults cannot do this and it leads to things like bioessessentialist thinking (women just want to get RAILED by HARD STRONG ALPHA MEN ~~WHO ARE BLACK~~) or obsessive shipping (x and y would be so good together! imagine how they would have sex?!). It makes conversations uncomfortable and makes whatever space they are inhabiting inherently adult-only.

There is so much to this world other than sex. There's so much to just human relations other than sex. Really, sex takes up such a small part of our lives but disproportionately motivates much of it for most people. It's a sad state of affairs and I can definitely see where you're coming from, OP.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Downsizing the roo was a mistake. Now instead of chilling at home they're diving in front of my car at night.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think my dog is reactiveary. he barks too much.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 2 weeks ago

did you post on lemmygrad and get upset over tankies replying to you

 
 

We got a Wolverine: Origins situation over here.

 
 

Developer ZA/UM says it’s actually for TikTok users.

“We intend to captivate the TikTok user with quick hits of compelling story, art, and audio, ultimately creating an all new, deeply engaging form of entertainment,” ZA/UM head Denis Havel said in a news release (via IGN).

let's gooooo I can't wait for the subway surfer in-app purchase DLC. no i'm not kidding, the store page marks it as having in-app purchases. something something capital subsuming something.

 

I love Telltale and Telltale-adjacent games. Those narrative games where you sit back and choose dialogue options and action choices instead of actively playing.

I think a lot of those types of games miss that you have to tell a really good story for any of that to work.

Star Trek: Resurgence looks pretty good, but did anyone here play it? Is it actually good? Or is it Star Trek-flavored slop?

 
 

I just finished the Jakarta Method and it left me genuinely dismayed. Not like, astounded with how horrible it all was (I knew it was going to be horrible), but more, it made me put the book down and sit with my feelings of dismay. A little bit nauseous, unsettled, feeling a loss of hope for a lot of ideals I hold.

What a horrible period of history, in a century absolutely full of horrible periods.

 
 

That's all. Played Civ since IV and the boardgame-like nature of it meant that I've gotten a lot of friends and family into it as a means to experience video games in general.

Civ VII looks really bad, even if I haven't played it myself. Systems upon systems that aren't properly explained, that somehow feel both cluttered and less in-depth than previous entries. Three truncated games making up the segments of one larger game is lame, too. A bad solution to the problem of people burning out in the later eras.

Most of all, though, is the business model of it all. Civ already leaned into 4X DLC conventions which meant getting the whole package was an expensive endeavor, but at least, for example, Civ VI had just two major expansion packs. Civ VII is already drowning into microtransaction leader purchases.

And then there's, just, the price. It's obscene. Denuvo is devastating to see as it creates a lot of barriers to giving the thing a try. I don't get excited for games any more, but Civ VII would have been one of them.

Anyone try it themselves? Anyone in love? Anyone feel like me?

 

Anyone watch the game awards? That one show where they play a bunch of trailers for new games in between awkward awards and musical performances?

watching it is a tradition of mine. brings me back to being a kid watching E3 and occasionally being happy.

i want balatro sweep and death stranding 2 trailer

 

Luigi about to get scrapped

 

Remember when Dong Nguyen delisted the game because he was astounded by the immediate wealth and cultural relevance of his game as well as how addictive it was to kids, and wanted nothing to do with it?

Well the trademark is considered abandoned now and so was swooped up by Gametech Holdings. My man didn't even get his bag at the end of it all.

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