Kichae

Kichae, 17 dni temu

It’s just absolutely bonkers that they’re using a gun game to campaign while disallowing gun use. You may as well partner with the NFL and then ban tackling, or host a Monopoly game while banning money.

Kichae, miesiąc temu

Same for almost every book you’ve ever read, every CD you’ve ever listened to, and every movie you’ve ever watched. You owned the leaves of paper the book was printed on, or the plastic disc the music or movie was stamped into, but never the words, the songs, or the movie itself.

We’ve only ever had licenses to consume.

Kichae, miesiąc temu

What’s that? I’m not spending any more money on ZeniMax games? And I’m getting a Margaret Thatcher Doom mod?

What a marvelous day it is!

Kichae, 2 miesiące temu

The canon is anything that appears in the games. There are clear timelines between many of the games, asserted within the game text or game subtext.

Producers have gone on record echoing what’s states in the HH, both before and after it was published.

Do not mistake the canon for something the producers and designers feel in any way bound by. That’s not what the term means when discussing media.

Kichae, 3 miesiące temu

If it’s still 9 months away, there’s no real reason to announce it publicly before the Christmas season. The fact that the original Switch’s sales are flagging is not a reason to announce, since it’s not launching in time for the holidays. Its announcement isn’t going to spurr Switch 1 sales.

When it’s announces will be entirely deoendent on when retailers need to know launch details. Once it’s outside of Nintendo, they’ll have to announce things publicly or risk losing control over the narrative.

Kichae, 4 miesiące temu

Ah, the dichotomy of Linux users:

“wHy DoEsN’t EvErYbOdY uSe LiNuX???”

and

“gEt On My LeVeL nOoB”

Kichae, 4 miesiące temu

No, what they want is to be able to coax more money out of their sales numbers. Retention is correlated with future purchases, both of paid DLC (if the game has it) and of future studio titles.

And it’a an easy metric to point to when talking to a publisher and negotiating funding.

Kichae, 4 miesiące temu

They didn’t. What they did was take 81,000 images and then filter through, them taking the best images of each region of the Moon and then averaging and compositing those.

It isn’t 81k images stitched together. It’s 81k images taken in the hopes of getting enough with perfect clarity to create the composite.

Kichae, 5 miesięcy temu

Look at the positions of d and k on the keyboard. _ema_es.

Kichae, 6 miesięcy temu

They don’t fulfill the fantasy of being a rent-seeking social parasite.

Kichae, 6 miesięcy temu

No? I said the opposite of that.

The question I was answering was “why aren’t there more employee owned companies?” And the answer is it’s a lot harder to get seed money for those, because the rent seeking parasites don’t want them to exist.

Kichae, 6 miesięcy temu

There’s a reason the rings around Saturn were discovered over 400 years ago, and the rings around Uranus were discovered in 1977.

Kichae, 6 miesięcy temu

Money

Kichae, 6 miesięcy temu

All I wanted from the Switch was a console-only version. I know why it didn’t happen, but I picked mine up on launch day, I’ve played on it every week since, and I’ve used the screen like, a handful of times on one trip the first year I had it.

I haven’t disconnected it from the TV since then. I really didn’t need the handheld form factor.

Kichae, 6 miesięcy temu

Hey now, Venus has plenty of features! There’s that cloud, and that other cloud, and some clouds over there, and…

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

I didn’t plan to view the eclipse over Potato World, but arriving at the hotel and discovering that it was next door did seem like a sign from the universe.

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

Yeah, my photography issues were similar, re: unfamiliar context. I’m still puzzled as to why the quicksetting menu works totally differently when using it in mirrorless mode. But oh well. There’s always… 2044??? Oh, crap.

I admit, other than a better lens with a tighter view, the bits of equipment I really wished I’d invested in were a tracking motor and a shutter remote. I paid zero attention to my camera during totality, but I still had this nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that I should check my centering, and I didn’t need that.

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

I’ve heard that it’s still a surreal experience even when overcast. Though, that’s what I had to believe to actually book the hotel room and days off work as somene living on the north-atlantic coast.

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

You’ve had Potato World all this time, and you didn’t share it with your neighbours??!?

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

Right??!?

And it’s a pretty big place, all things considered. But it’s seemingly only open from September to mid-October.

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

You don’t need glasses during totality, if you happen to be in its path. If you’re not, actully looking at the sun is the least interesting part of a pretty eh event, anyway.

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

So, apparently Potato World is actually open today, unannounced. So, just this once, everybody lives I really can have it all

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

False alarm. They just have an inflatable planetarium set up inside. No potato displays at all :(

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

He is! Though I’m not sure how anyone has anything left in the tank after the eclipse for a talk, even from him

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

That’s how I viewed 2017! Went outside on my lunch break to watch the bananas on the sidewalk while everyone around me went about seemingly totally unaware of what was going on right above and below them

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

Pictures turned out ok! I should have done a dry run for my totality setup, as I wanted to do some bracketed exposures and assumed my DSLR would let me do that the same way in live display mode as it does in optical viewfinder mode, and it… didn’t. But the pictures I did get are a reasonable, if insufficient facsimile of the experience.

As for the real deal… I’ll have to update everyone once I’ve processed it. It was clear as crystal, and a perfect day. I was totally unprepared in every way that mattered. I don’t yet have words.

Kichae, 7 miesięcy temu

Ot depends on which colours you mean.

Kichae, 8 miesięcy temu

They were actually mostly programmed by Gen Xers.

Kichae, 8 miesięcy temu

Doom II remains my favorite in the series, and I still play the original pair regularly. I never really ever quit playing them. They remain comfort games from my childhood.

The mod scene has become absolutely crazy. The things modders put out these days blow my mind.

I never really got into the new games. 2016 was fun, but it didn’t really stick for me. Once I played it for a few days, I had my fill and returned to the originals.

Kichae, 8 miesięcy temu

But at the same time, most of the people who played Fallout 3 never played 1 or 2. By the standards of the time, and for what the game presented itself as, it was pretty cool.

Kichae, 9 miesięcy temu

I work for an educational tech company that boomed during lockdowns. Parents, teachers, schools, and entire districts started using our product to help manage assignments during at-home learning.

It was during this time that they got a bunch of VC funding, rapidly expanded management and the executive, and then began the process of tripling the head count of individual contributors while simultaneously laying off their entire school outreach and liason department.

Oh, and of course, they set new growth targets.

Then schools reopened, and business, understandably, rapidly declined.

Except no one in management seemed to understand why it was declining? And no one wanted to listen to any explanations that lay outside of the end product or the tech stack underpinning it.

And the best part was, if anyone ever raised the point that it seemed like management expected the company to perform the same after lockdowns as during, every single person would parrot the line “yeah, but all of the tech companies did, it wasn’t just us”.

They’re all just jumping off cliffs because their friends are doing it, too.

Kichae, 9 miesięcy temu

The VCs were in the same industry both times, though: Making money by selling property.

They’re not interested in selling do-dads, or softwhizzles. They want to sell the company, and that’s making the same play in the same game every time.

Kichae, 10 miesięcy temu

Well, you know, holders of virtual monopolies are well known for being benficient paragons of prosocial goodness. At least, whenever their owners are known by their screen names and they produced a beloved product once, a quarter century ago.

Kichae, 10 miesięcy temu

A lot of video games are steeped in hegemonic masculinity, and I find that portrayal of men somewhere between mildly and extremely uncomfortable. Women are sometimes characterized a little differently in those games, because the generic woman’s power fantasy is not coming off like a massive bag of dicks with insecurity around the size of their pecker.

The other reason is that Toadette just doesn’t get enough love.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

“Good analysis, just one nitpick: I blanket disagree with everything you’ve said in your editorial section because raisins.”

Kichae, rok temu

Yup. I’ve worked with some really great software engineers in the gaming industry, and they don’t have a fucking clue how to optimize a game, and it’s because optimizing the game doesn’t take a clue. It takes legwork, and diagnostics, and digging, and digging, and digging.

It’s never what you think, because if it was, it would have been fixed already.

We shipped well optimized games, and we did so because the games were (relatively) small, and our engineers were absolute pro sleuths.

Kichae, rok temu

Wow, they’re still releasing new versions of Discovery? That’s crazy! I can’t believe it’s been 20 years of Freelancer modding now.

Kichae, rok temu

On the one hand, yes, this is both stupid and really dickish behaviour from Ubisoft. On the other hand…

This should be illegal.

No. Full stop. no. No one should be compelled to continue selling something they don’t want to sell anymore. If it has social value, it should be reproduced and superseded by something owned by society as a whole. The seller shouldn’t, under any circumstances, have the right to disable the things you bought outright from them, but that’s about it.

We have channels we can use to access things that are no longer supported or sold by the developer (and selling something implies – and should imply – support from the developers). It’s absolutely messed up that those channels are themselves illegal, but believing that you should be able to compel someone else to do what you want, against their will, just because you want them to do it is just an authoritarian hissy fit.

Kichae, rok temu

PeerTube makes way, way more sense as a self-hosting platform for small and medium sized creators. That means the creators shoulder the burden of hosting their own content, and recoup those costs from their viewers via such vectors as Patreon. Having Patreon integration, direct one-time donation options, and user access levels for channels and/or videos so that subscriber-only content can be easily managed would go a long way towards this.

The Fediverse’s current model of “donate to your serve admin using a completely disconnected 3rd party payment processor” isn’t going to fly if you want actual popular anndprofrsional video content. Especially when the server admin is not the content creator.

Kichae, rok temu

Sony set the markt rules with their 3rd-party exclusives

This is Nintendo erasure.

Kichae, rok temu

Which 3rd party exclusives are they sitting on except Bayonetta 2/3?

Few today, but who set the market rules? They were set in the late 80s.

Kichae, rok temu

On one hand, we have a supervisor having to take a diversity course, and an employee getting a written warning about their performance. On the other hand, a person is losing their income and health insurance. If the evidence equally supported both sides and we had to guess, the detrimental effect of incorrectly supporting one side is vastly more significant than incorrectly supporting the other.

Yes, but don’t you get it? Someone might be getting called racist when they’re not, and that’s obviously the worst thing in the whole big wide world! And on top of that case, a black person will get to under perform in the workplace! Oh the humanity! Will no one think of the children?!?!?!

Kichae, rok temu

And without the investment angle, there’s no bubble.

A bubble isn’t “they’re really popular right now, and there’s a whole bunch of them popping up”. That’s a fad. A trend.

A bubble is always in reference to investments. It’s a pump-and-dump scheme at the level of the whole economy. The housing bubble isn’t because there’s a glut of houses on the market, it’s because people are trying to market houses as an investment opportunity for market squatters and landlords.