He likens Arkane's approach to studios like Larian and FromSoftware: "Those are people that have been doing, over and over, the thing they know exactly how to do, until it hits super hard. So to me, that's what Arkane had to do."
Damn, what a concept: doing the same kind of game multiple times, iterating on the design to perfect it. Obviously Bethesda gets releasing the same game over and over again, but this idea of "improving" the design is so alien to them. Wouldn't adding thousands of microtransactions be an improvement?
I visited Ecuador several years ago and got to chew on coca leaves, but they also had coca leaf candies! Both were excellent for helping with altitude sickness, and I really enjoyed the flavor. Had a gentle mood lifting effect too, like a nice cup of tea, but in the form of chewed cud, haha.
I'm making fun of the common practice, exemplified by Bethesda, of leaving bugs in their games for the modders to fix. The joke, in this case is that Rocket Werkz is leaving an "unfinished feature" in that is a Hard Problem in physics. There isn't a general, easy solution to the N-body problem.
I also got randomly sent this image from a matrix on the technics.de server. Aside from all the antisemitism and nazi stuff, I admit I was a little charmed by it. Reminded me of timecube and the good old days of how the Internet used to be a place for nerds, outcasts, and complete fucking psychopaths.
Edit: Link to proof ཚྒྷཚྒྷ
I didn't get Hexcodle #448 :( Score: 57%
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https://hexcodle.com
Ugh, this one was annoying, couldn't quite hone in on those second digits.
One reachier goal is to add an n-body physics system. [...] RocketWerkz say there's a "small chance" of RocketWerkz developing such a simulation internally - they're currently trying to hire somebody with a PhD to apply the requisite high-density brain-magic - but it's likely this will be left for modders to figure out.
The next Bethesda game is just going to have a bug dependent on solving the Reimann conjecture, smh, always waiting on the modders to solve the company's intractable math mysteries.
I've expressed a similar sentiment as "it's easy to be enlightened up on a mountain." As in, big whoop to all the wise hermits who fled society to find peace: that's not being above the problems of the world (except literally), it's hiding from them and pretending that ignorance can be bliss again. The real work is maintaining peace and wisdom in the face of monstrous injustice.
I'm not posting a Snopes link or whatever, but it was Mussolini who allegedly got the trains running on time, and he didn't anyway. Improvements to the Italian rail system were begun under the previous government, and actually the trains weren't particularly punctual under his regime anyway.
1000% chance it's Distributed Autonomous Organization (cryptoshit) and not the one and true Way.
I figured you might have read it, as your comment had evoked it for me.
I really like the reading of Waluigi as a kind of perfect symbol for our post-modern times. I don't think the article goes quite far enough. Mario is already a simulacra: a stereotype that doesn't really exist, certainly not anymore and never really did. So Waluigi is the reflection of an inverse of a simulation without a base reality.
It's very relatable, as you say, an apt metaphor for how our cultures treat the common person. Maybe the right Waluigi game isn't one that fleshes him out and brings him closer to the audience. Maybe something like Krusty's Fun House or Lemmings: burning through legions of Waluigis (1up mushroom clones? robots? one person somehow split into a multitude?) to accomplish trivial goals for Wario, the stand-in for the corporate overlords?
Ah, the open-mouth reverse blow! But will it be enough to save your palette and tongue from the burn?
The idea that a country needs (to exist) to be ruled by a single individual is completely unfounded, and perpetuated by people who are either fools or foolish enough to think they have a shot at the throne. Early on, there were proposals for the USA to have a king, a president, and many other ideas including no executive branch or having a tribunal. I could see a good case for splitting the executive across 3 persons with equal and asymmetrical powers.
Assuming you do a ranked choice vote for all 3 at once (or 1 at a time in rotation, like Senators) it should be extremely difficult to compromise the office by, say, buying one deeply indebted former TV host and running them for president.
I was wondering why HW3 was "controversial" and apparently I didn't realize:
- It's been released.
- It's worse than the first 2
- Because Gearbox is publishing it!
Thanks Randy! Fucking grease weasel ruins another great franchise.
https://theemptypage.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/critical-perspectives-on-waluigi/
I, We, Waluigi: a Post-Modern analysis of Waluigi by Franck Ribery
Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi – the same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others. Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing. He is not his own man. In a world where our identities are shaped by our warped relationships to brands and commerce we are all Waluigi.
There is apparently a sequel post now as well.
Because it got 7/10 average review scores and didn't sell as well as GTA. Then GTA3 (and its immediate spin-offs and eventual sequels) came out and started breaking all time sales records. So retroactively, GTA 2 was "a mistake" for not being GTA 3 two years early.
But like the guy says, the point of the article even, is that you don't create run away successes without experimenting on the formula to find what's good, without "failures" like GTA 2 to learn from.
As a person who occasionally makes confessional asides "to the camera" I find it amusing to rhetorically ask "Chat" about things. "Ugh, I don't wanna cook tonight. How about it Chat, we ordering pizza?"
Sadly, the Hilbert Hotel is slated for demolition which is why it's on Sisyphus' path. After that whole "everyone moves to double their room number" debacle, Hilbert had to process a fraction of the infinite guests' refunds because they didn't feel like changing rooms to one several million hallways down. And a percentage of infinite guests refunds is still infinite, so Hilbert is in infinite debt now.
Theseus, meanwhile, has been trying to justify buying a new ship for ages but his crew is adamant about right to repair, so he's looking for an easy exit.
Wayoun, Tuvix, and Jellico?! Who made this call and what's their @startrek.website user handle?
Ah, a classic! For today's lucky 10,000: http://www.longestjokeintheworld.com/
I wanted to take a moment to thank @jet@hackertalks.com for the multiplayer server they set up! Tomorrow is the last day for it, and I thought I'd share some screenshots!
@badcodecat@lemux.minnix.dev and myself managed to meet up online a few times and had a blast building up the factory! We got half-way into Tier 4, unlocked a lot of goodies in the MAM and the ticket booth! A few more days and we'd get to phase 3!
Sorry I never ran into you Jet, but if you decided to keep the server up for a little longer, I wouldn't complain. I'd pitch in some monetary support as well.
Anyway, here's some of the fun we had!
! BadCodeCat glides over the moon.
! The parking lot at night (yes, we unlocked the cybertruck, even parked it correctly!)
! Close up of the skate park (for doing sick flips in the cart!) Back-to-the-Future-style hoverboards when, Coffee Stain?!
! I rode the freighter up to get a high overhead view of things!
! A final shot of the factory at night.
This was my first Satisfactory multiplayer experience (and kind of my first factory game MP at all!) and it was a great time! Thanks again for setting it up Jet, hope to catch you online some other time! And thanks to BadCodeCat for being an awesome Pioneer to work with (and taking many of these lovely picture!)
Someone posted an Evangelion joke elsewhere that reminded me of the incredible Propane Genesis Evengelion.
I was rewatching that when I ran across this brilliant parody in the same vein. There's a sequel for the closing theme as well.
I was scouting a high place to set up a radar when I noticed this great view! Couldn't quite get everything in (there's another factory off to the left, and my main/initial layout is directly under me, as evidenced by the space elevator) but I liked how my little empire looks, pockets of industry in a wild world.
I like also the evolution of my factory building as I unlocked parts and started to care more. From naked buildings on platforms at the far right (and below) to a roofless but walled factory in the distance, and then my most recent building in the mid-right distance. The only one so far with walls, floors, AND a frickin' ROOF! It's even got lights and windows! Yeah, we get a little fancy sometimes, haha.
How's your factory/empire looking?
From their 2003 debut album, Fire, which it pretty much is all the way through. I remember this song exists about once a year and binge it for a day.
The Fresh Prince was apparently anything but that day
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/36965
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20367057
> Ah, I knew it..
Finally, nothing but US politics and jean memes all the time!
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25352537
> Anon tells the tale of the Garfield phones
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18827666
Paradise State of Mind is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People, released on August 16, 2024, through Atlantic Records, their first under the label. It is the band's first studio album since the release of Sacred Hearts Club in 2017, although they released an EP and a ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18722992
> Foster the People has a new album out, pretty good! Torches, their debut, is one of my favs, and I've enjoyed some of their later work too. This one definitely sounds like FtP, though I think there's a little more brass and other jazzy sounds being pulled in. I haven't listened enough to have any album picks yet. > > Have you listened yet? What tracks did you like best? What's your favorite FtP song?
Paradise State of Mind is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People, released on August 16, 2024, through Atlantic Records, their first under the label. It is the band's first studio album since the release of Sacred Hearts Club in 2017, although they released an EP and a ...
Foster the People has a new album out, pretty good! Torches, their debut, is one of my favs, and I've enjoyed some of their later work too. This one definitely sounds like FtP, though I think there's a little more brass and other jazzy sounds being pulled in. I haven't listened enough to have any album picks yet.
Have you listened yet? What tracks did you like best? What's your favorite FtP song?
TIL: "Doom + Doom II" defines a new standardized compatability level for mods, ID24
ID24 is a specification and standard specifically aimed at mod authors and mods in general. It builds on top of the possibilities shown in the MBF21 standard, acting as a super-set of it, and was first implemented in the KEX Engine source port of Doom + Doom II. It was first used there for the Legac...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18580092
> I had wondered about how some things were done with the new episodes. I'm glad they released some documention and kept the standardization so that the rest of the broader Doom community can build off the new release.
Famous photographer Pete Souza has seemingly deleted his X account after a post doubting whether Trump was shot in the ear.
Updates:
Might be best for mods to lock this post at this point (is that a thing on Lemmy?) because this story is basically wrapped. The FBI says a bullet caused some ear damage. Maybe it was bullet shrapnel from a ricochet or something like that, but later photos show the teleprompters in-tact so it wasn't shards of glass from those. Trump's usage of the bandage (and the assassination attempt) as symbols and political tools has been discussed at length and I don't think conspiratorial thinking beyond that is very productive. Pete Souza took his own account down after getting a lot of harassment, so no further conspiracies are needed regarding X-formerly-known-as-Twitter at this time.
> A photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taken on Saturday without his ear bandage has sparked a wave of speculation.
> The image, taken by Alex Brandon of the Associated Press on July 27 and shared by photojournalist Pete Souza on X, formerly Twitter, shows Trump walking up an airplane staircase with an apparently fully healed ear wound just weeks after he was shot with a high-powered rifle.
> Souza, known for his tenure as the chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, posted Brandon's photo on his now-deactivated X account on Saturday, writing, "AP photo this morning. Look closely at his ear that was 'hit' by a bullet from an AR-15 assault rifle."
> Souza's profile, @PeteSouza, which had over 200,000 followers, now reads, "This account doesn't exist, try searching for another," implying that he has deleted or deactivated it. If he had been banned, it would read, "Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X rules."
“But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest… we must never settle for anything less.” —George Grant, The Changing of the Guard: Biblical Bluepri...
I really enjoyed this high level review of how we got to where we are, and where they're trying to take us. From my favorite local left wing rag.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35692489
> A callback to the PS3 early days.
I saw over the weekend that the soundtrack had been released ahead of the upcoming (!) prequel (‼️) to the amazing series of Doom mods. The Ashes series rules, play them if you haven't. The soundtracks also rule and I had the Afterglow OST in heavy rotation all last year.
This one is pretty good. Very heavy with callbacks to the previous OSTs and to the original Doom's music. "Romero Waiting for the Train" is particularly fun for it's mix-in of my favorite OG track. I can't wait to wander more post-apocalyptic subways to this groovy tune!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17079090
> Dad
Back around 2007 or 2008 I think, I watched a very cool animation on Youtube. I cannot for the life of me remember the name, and i doubt it's still up since it used a well-known song as the audio track.
It was a pretty standard (for the time) anime-style fight video, set to The Prodigy's "Smack my Bitch Up". It's cel-shaded CGI/3D, and starred a yellow-and-black Sentai-style character. I think he was like a robot superhero? The whole animation was basically a demoreel/pilot for an animator who wanted to launch a show based on the characters.
If anyone remembers this or can find a link, I'd be very grateful! It was a cool fight scene (for the time), and it always bothers me when I vaguely remember a neat thing and can find no trace of it.
Seriously! Thanks to all the meme makers out there for supporting Lemmy/Kbin/etc and keeping the alternatives to the corporate internet alive and fun!