I find it’s even worse with music than movies, especially if you include not knowing the thing in question at all. The movie guy reaction to not having watched the #8 top grossing movie the year is “dude how have you not seen it??? You’ve gotta see it!”, the music guy reaction to not hearing any of the #8 top musician/band this year is “are you a shutin or a dumbass? everyone I know listens to them!”. I’ve even seen both of these reactions from the same person lol.

I swear, a lot of gay dudes just don’t have “bisexual” in their vocabulary. Like they don’t stop to think that maybe “hey, any straight guys around here like the thought of making another man cum?” reads like “hey bachelors, hows the wife doin?” to anyone who knows what words mean?

Like, I can get there being some fetishization/roleplay around “converting” a straight guy gay. But that’s never the angle. They just use the word straight like they know everyone on earth wants to suck their dick.

It’s got an N shape in my experience. Stuff someone recorded just because the’re horny sucks. When they know how to operate a camera then it’ll be the most genuine fulfllment of whatever specific thing you’re into. When they’re being payed to do it you can tell everything’s kinda stilted and it sucks. When they have enough budget and acting skills to make it theater quality then it’s good again (though I’ve rarely seen that for whatever reason).

The reaction to “I’m not your fucking therapist” being “Do you believe there is truly not a single valid reason to use windows whatsoever” is just as absurd IMO (though some of these threads show that, yeah, some people think that).

The scenario described by OP is they’re just complaining about something about Windows/iOS/whatever just to vent and these people come in thinking they’re being helpful by mentioning an alternative. I’ve come to find that there’s 2 (relevant) personality types; people who complain because it’s cathartic, and people who complain because they want their problem solved. Linux users are overwhelmingly the latter. So, from their perspective, they see someone who is complaining yet expects people to just sit there and listen, hence the “I’m not your therapist” comment.

I don’t think any of that is new, except for maybe the OS part. As a kid I remember seeing a bunch of interactions like this and it’s always been much more a personality than a culture thing.

Here in the US I’ve gotten a lot of pickled herring over the years, and “mild” is NOT how I’d describe it. It’s super sour and sweet (and creamy if you get ones with sour cream, which I usually do) One of my favorite foods, but now I’m worried that I’ve been eating something else lol.

incidentally had some in my fridge for reference

I posted a negative review of kithack model club over this exact issue and got 50/50 clown to other awards on it. When I also talked a bit about it on the steam forums, I noticed there’s a guy who clearly isn’t working for the dev and goes to every post to tell them to go to the discord. I’d be fine with that if he didn’t also argue with anyone who doesn’t think that’s good. Some people man.

My body forces me to wake up at 6am and I hate it. The only classes I could take to fill out my degree mean I get home at 9, barely enough time to make dinner / clean the house / have free time AND get 8 hours of sleep. Doesn’t matter if I go to sleep at 2am, I’ll still wake up at 6 and feel like crap. Everyone I know acts like I’m a weirdo for hopping off a group chat to wind down at 9. The times I’ve been lucky enough to have a schedule that works for me it becomes clear that I’m the only alert person in the room at noon.

Y’all complain that you can’t do anything in the morning without sacrificing your health. I wish I could take that instead of losing my evenings. Grass is always greener.

Honestly to me it seems like nothing has actually changed, except the names of the teams behind critically acclaimed games.

Like, your point about being an indie developer being hard is, well, just ask anyone who was making indie games 1, 2, or even 3 decades ago. It’s always been a lottery where 1-3 games a year hit it big and the rest can only barely fund themselves.

Though I do think you have a good point about asking what PP considers AAA. Something I’ve noticed is that there’s a bunch of people who, for whatever reason, see some big AAA release and act like it’s not AAA because it’s the first time they’ve heard of the studio / publisher. BG3 is the most obvious example of this (~400 people from my search). Expedition 33 also outsourced a ton of it’s work so it also gets paraded around as “only 30 devs!”. It’s especially frustrating that people will call these games a “wake up call” for AAA studios as if it’s not a huge risk.

Though I don’t think EA (and from what I’ve seen Ubisoft) dying this slow death is a herald of the industry at large dying. We’re seeng a lot more publishers that try to carve out their own little corner of the industry, such as NewBlood, Iron Gate, Hooded Horse, and as you mention Kepler. They’re funding and releasing plenty of successful titles. I think there’s space for, and already space taken, for various publishers to fill the same position as EA did in it’s prime.

You also seem to take this argument that these megapublishers are a prerequisite to having people with proper gamedev skills? As I see it, that’s either not changing, is effecting nearly every industry in NA & EU, or just not a thing. Valve, for example, when making Half Life, realized their game sucked when they were most of the way through development because they were learning as they went. So they scrapped most of what they built and what they remade is what we know as HL1, and that’s well over 2 decades ago. To my understanding Sandfall did a similar thing with E33 but what I saw on the subject might have been embellished and/or I’m misremembering.

Sea Salt & Caramel Ice Creamius

Expedition 33 is a game I finished a couple weeks ago and have continued to be obsessed with since. Not really patientgamers material seeing as it’s pretty recent, but I’m so glad I made an exception for it.

Funnily enough the lyrics for that menu music is basically a plot synopsis that spoils the whole story in poetry, but it’s fine because it’s in a mutated medieval french. A lot of the game’s music is like that, actually.

I don’t play hollow knight, but a friend who does told me there’s a line in the game that strongly implies she’s a lesbian. Methinks that implanted horny bug smut into many a gamer.

To me it looks very strongly like what they used is one of the models that is specifically for iterpolating frames to splice takes together, and (maybe) the one of the ones that “cleans up” speech.

What this reminds me of though is when kamala did an interview with 60 minutes, and for whatever reason a ton of conservatives kept shitting on them for not releasing an unedited version… as if she said something scandalous or extremist in the cut out portions. This strikes me the same way because if you actually consider what you’d do with full proof this was mostly or fully AI generated, there’s not much?

• it would reveal he’s too sick to be in office
  • I don’t think this would be the tipping point for anybody. You’re either already aware / care or in denial / don’t care
• it shows trump doesn’t actually care
  • I don’t think he ever really did with any of the previous times. the trump statement with or without AI would look exactly the same in this regard
• it shows they’re willing to sacrifice [issue with AI] just for a press statement
  • they’ll say this themselves happily

Damn my prank where I switched out your jpeg for mpeg failed

If 2 millenia is still in the “too soon” range I think we best never make any jokes about the cross ever again.

I used to do it with a pair of headphones as a teenager. There was (and still is, thinking about it) enough of a gap between my first and second premolars to fit a cord. It’s like the same appeal as a fidget cube, only not healthy.

edit: premolars not molars

Oh I definitely notice. When I try to suck up the buccatini like it’s spaghetti it’ll make some disguting mouth noises and I’m left with full lungs and half a mouthful of pasta dangling out of my mouth.

I’m curious what games you’re playing. Back when I started using linux regularly (~2017) this was absolutely the case, and even for a few years after proton first released it still was. But my experience now is games fall on either two extremes of working out of the box or being completly unplayable.

I’m curious what games you’re playing. Back when I started using linux regularly (~2017) this was absolutely the case, and even for a few years after proton first released it still was. But my experience now is games fall on either two extremes of working out of the box or being completly unplayable.

I believe AI is going to be a net negative to society for the forseeable future. AI art is a blight on artistry as a concept, and LLMs are shunting us further into search-engine-overfit post-truth world.

But also:

Reading the OOP has made me a little angry. You can see the echo chamber forming right before your eyes. Either you see things the way OOP does with no nuance, or you stop following them and are left following AI hype-bros who’ll accept you instead. It’s disgustingly twitter-brained. It’s a bullshit purity test that only serves your comfort over actually trying to convince anyone of anything.

Consider someone who has had some small but valued usage of AI (as a reverse dictionary, for example), but generally considers things like energy usage and intellectual property rights to be serious issues we have to face for AI to truly be a net good. What does that person hear when they read this post? “That time you used ChatGPT to recall the word ‘verisimilar’ makes you an evil person.” is what they hear. And at that moment you’ve cut that person off from ever actually considering your opinion ever again. Even if you’re right that’s not healthy.