"People think it's feral because these are country kids in utes making noise, but people going to a doof doof festival and eating pills is socially acceptable. Everyone wants to be woke."
I don't get squeamish over rowdy victimless behavior, but to me the folks photographed are almost indistinguishable from obnoxious urbanite festival addicts. But, let them have their fun, without the machine having to nudge it's way in.
After Crysis pushed the graphics envelope forward in 2007, other aspects of artistic/design progress have plateaued. Or, at least those that excited enthusiasts, such as more sophisticated AI (non machine learning variety), more creative procedural generation, mechanical depth, emergent potential. Only control responsiveness and feedback has improved, and that ties to presentation and first impression. Because of Spolsky's Iceberg Principle, all the modern audience (excl. phones) want is presentation along with MBA spearheaded busy work.
A random YouTube positive AC: Mirage retrospective review's found the lack of mocap in cutscenes worse than janky parkour or other shortcomings! (I didn't play Mirage). I hate that the summer movie audience have eternal septembered the 80s/90s geeks. This is the audience partaking in the keeping up with the Jones/zeitgeist shit you described.
This is the continuation of Halo 2 (Xbox) ditching the community servers of Halo: CE (PC), and the last decade of PC games going the centralized matchmaking route. The mix of server policies and enforcement was so much more preferable to robots and low-paid third-world contractors enforcing who can't play an entire game, not to mention cohesive communities.
Mario and Zelda were fine on the switch. I'd rather the casual play that than call of FIFA madden crush saga. Ideally people would boycott Nintendo for their rabid enforcement of copyright, Sony/MS for corporate faggotry, and so on, but the normie battle has been lost for decades.
Disney always was largely junk-food edits of traditional myths and folklore. 5 generations of parents accustomed to mistaking instant gratification for good parenting. Not that the company never made anything worthwhile in its 100 years, but it's cumulative negative effect on American culture, direct and indirect[1], is unrecoverable without societal collapse. Bankruptcy is not enough for this demonic corporation.
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- The postmodern shite on Cartoon Network/Nickelodean over the past 17 years being part of the blowback from 1950s-1980s artificial pop culture.
Knowing corporate censors, such exposure would jeopardize availability of verboten materials.
The most reoccurring issue reported in news here is retroactive censorship through patches. Both suck in this regard. GOG has offline installers, which facilitates data hoarding and piracy; still very inconvenient. Steam has per-game "beta" where a dev can offer rollbacks. Steam's DRM is at least easily cracked by warez groups, and notifies third party DRM. GOG is less bad because the same games won't have third-party DRM.
Sometimes a game is behind on patches with GOG. 95% of the time you want patches.
CDPR/GOG went woke/corporate over the past decade. Valve funds proton and open source/linux development. For now it is beholden to private investors. I only wish Valve had the disposable resources to overtake Linux desktop development from Red Hat/IBM. For this reason I buy games off Steam unless a select title warrants GOG.
I did not state or imply that, nor do I think that. Do you want me to think that to justify your disagreement?
What are you pigeon holing me for? I'm just stating that the adversary has infiltrated much of the hacker subculture as it has many others. The suggestion is to not underestimate the tenacity of bad forces, the risk of 1000 cuts.
Linux Foundation succumbed to the activist parasites years ago.
If you can't find something readily on pirate sites, go for it. Oft the most easily found ones opportunistically regurgitate current popular slop without any thought of acting as archival institutions.
Boycotting these predatory businesses (and lobbied-for copyright law) should be the norm for any healthy society and self-respecting subculture. This video is the strongest presentation of the topic I'm aware of.
The ending with singing Zulus is hokey, but the only problem is the stereotype warnings themselves. Also, cancel any and all legally sanctioned streaming services. It's not 2010 anymore, when Netflix was disrupting the dysfunctional state of Hollywood and cable TV.
Video was nowhere to be found on public youtube when I looked a year ago. Maybe Internet Archive or somewhere else has a better TV backlog.
All I remember of this guy is Xplay's Crysis review, where staff purposely glitched a drivable tank (tank level) for entertainment, and imposed that the whole game was that janky. I wonder where Anita's hitman footage got.inspiration from. How many of these legacy washouts aren't self-important lolcows?
Supposed to be independent. Native American nations don't have sovereignty, and have suffered under imposed socialistic policies over the past century.
McKinsey, always putting a rubber stamp on whatever corporate slop needs officiating. Intricately expensive means of procuring a circle-jerk.
Having met this guy's boss, Mayor Johnson, the pandering hypocrisy doesn't surprise me. The Democrat establishment is robotically Orwellian.
It is underappreciated in the mainstream how irregulated wall st is, just like health care, travel, banking, and any other despised industry of modern society. Capitalism would be letting stock markets decide if insider trading is permissible, not federal congress. Quarterly obsession is a combination of a forced framework and a century of abysmal financial policy.
On Windows, Librewolf doesn't auto-update, which is unacceptable for core internet facing software. Linux with package management is different, however I'm using Brave so I'm uninformed about librewolf versus Firefox.
Have an minimum viable product of whatever game(s) you've been working on. Not shippable, but just enough to have all-around experience of the dev and design process
As for strategy, RPG, and other sandboxes, I think what's needed is aesthetically sophisticated procedural generation. Flavor text, faction banners, entity behavior and motivations, so on. Take Rome 2: TW and think what it would take for a computer to generate meaningful start positions and cultures for fresh experiences (Civ games, but not necessarily dynamic landmasses). Furthermore, how are CA/Paradox Games arbitrarily free-form and inconsequential where the map ends up either one color or jigsaw vomit unrecognizable to how nations form in the real world. Imperator Augustus should be something that can happen over the course of a 272 BC campaign.
r/all was already largely shit when I joined in 2011. Such is the way of any platform that doesn't undertake exclusionary measures to curtail groupthink and other human maladies.
Serious investors make the point that strong stock market performance of the past 70ish years isn't guaranteed in the future. Diversification goes beyond 3/6 etf strategies, ideally including a rural estate, food rations, ammunition. Seems less fantastical than society taking the risk of a depression surpassing 1930s virtuously.
This is the point I made to imp when 'we covered the story late and sparsely’; that SBI is not itself in control of triple-a and that he missed our first post. Conspiracy narrative minded people and normies alike (oft enough overlap) won't wrap their head around the concept of prospiracy that is the decline of entrenched civilizations. Reality is mundane, self-interested, and spontaneously organized, which is noise to gossipers.
Whatever triple-a trends palworld copied from triple-a. On rails open world prefab survival craft unlive-service ephemeral arbitrary RPG. Cater to normies that think Samwise Tarly can be obese post wall expedition because dragons exist and "it's fantasy".
I'm an American, I have very little intuitive knowledge of Australia. But, my suspicion is that a substantial portion attending this B&S are literally the same suburbanite and urbanite ravers or bluegrass (insert comparable festival genre) attendees dressing up and driving 100 km to make the specific, subtlety pretentious tongue out photo pose that no one made 70 years ago.
People doing redneck vehicle shenanigans, wet T-shirt contests (when they don't have kids!), etc seems fun, despite my apprehensions of extroverted, ritualistic npc noise. I'm bashing the mass, generic festival aspect of what I see. In my imagination, a proper rural party is a private gathering of 100 adults engaging in no phones allowed revelry.
Edit: Woo girls. A bunch of woo girls and guys.