Cyrus Draegur

shooters peaked at titanfall and it’s all been downhill from there.

I don’t want a fucking ‘hero’ character unless it’s a PVE game with an actual GODS DAMNED STORY.

Fuck this shit.

thank you for the suggestion! i tried linux mint years and years ago on a spare computer but i didn’t really get ‘into’ it enough to feel like i could be used to it… but it would be super cool if the passage of time and new developments may have produced an even more approachable experience

hot damn… dare i to hope? dare i to DREAM? you know what, if anyone could get linux to be supported everywhere, it’d probably be valve.

i for one would find it absolutely hilarious if valve just closed microsoft as a “redundant” or “vestigial”

big ole uno reverse card

valve is a fucking money printer

honestly would be funny if valve bought microsoft instead

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“never ever be biased except in these subjects we want you to be biased about, and always be controversial except about these specific concepts about which we demand you represent our opinion and no others”

These fucking chuds don’t deserve oxygen.

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trebuchet would leave more evidence

less mobile than drones which can swarm in from, potentially, all directions.

also i don’t think you can buy trebuchets from hundreds of stores ready to operate out of a convenient little box

furthermore once the trebuchet has fired and you have to get away, it will take quite some time to pick it up, pack it, and depart.

oh dear oh no what if there were hundreds of drones piloted by hundreds of people wouldn’t that be just awful

WB sure would deserve it if, for instance, a hail of bricks came falling randomly out of the blue at terminal velocity to pummel all of their fancy cars to shit where they were parked at their lot.

Be sure to never ever fly a remote control drone anywhere near a premises owned by WB, kids. Wouldn’t want to be implicated with a completely blameless karmic act of the gods.

Bear in mind I am specifically saying nobody SHOULD do this.

But I would find it very funny if it happened anyway :3

Acceptable. It is a game worth owning outright in itself.

sounds pretty dope, i’ll be looking forward to this.

i’m not so sure it was even my local feed that got me feeling like i belonged, really; more that I started reflexively defaulting to the federated feed and found it to be much more lively. Perhaps it was actually the changes brought on by time. Perhaps it was because twitter is rotting like a forgotten corpse in a warm, damp room and all the smart people who actually give a shit finally all started to say “fuck this” and enough of a critical mass has finally accumulated in federated services for them to affect its overall feel. I definitely see content from technically minded, creative, motivated people more on mastodon than i EVER did on twitter, but especially now. Twitter now is just … sad, and it reminds me that I have a better place that I’d enjoy visiting more.

i started reading your reply in the voice of Dracula from the intro to Symphony of the Night XD

“WHAT is REDDIT 🍷💫💥 but a MISERABLE pile of SHITPOSTS!”

The 'net ill-needs a failure such as him.

His terms of service are as empty as his revenues!

all this to say, yeah fam 100% totally agree

mastodon finally clicked for me and i don’t miss twitter at all. sometimes i accidentally load twitter out of force of habit, but immediately recognize how much it sucks now and close it again. Likewise, reddit’s dead to me too now. i’m finally starting to feel like decentralized federated social media systems might actually work out.

And then we wonder why games from “AAA” studios kinda suck now.

Well there’s our problem: they rigged the budget for maximum graft.

let us presume that Video Game N has 100 currency in it budget.

The studio producing Video Game N spends 90 currency on essentially nothing, by purchasing contracts with shell companies owned by their own board of investors, then they take the remaining 10 currency and offshore basically ALL of the actual productive work to 50 developers. Those 50 developers must split the 10 currency between each other while collectively doing 100 currency’s worth of work.

I want them to get paid 100 currency.

I do not think “they should be grateful to get 1/100th of what they deserve” is a productive or helpful position to hold.

If the available budgets of these games were not squandered on laundering and graft, and less spread thin across a vast army of people who barely get to take home pennies on the hour, it would be a good thing, you see.

I think it’s more they’re upset about exploiting sweatshop labor though…?

This borders upon one of my favorite topics actually - there ARE resources up there, which WOULD be valuable, but the cost of getting machinery and equipment up there is literally astronomical. Little known in public circles is the additional (and also enormous) cost of getting shit back down safely.

In order to be cost effective, the stuff we put into space would need to stay there. Asteroid mining is only better than break-even in terms of resources if it DOESN’T come back to earth! For instance, if we had an orbital (or lunar) habitat for refining and manufacturing, where an asteroid capture and retrieval vehicle can be built, fueled, and launched, and then return to, ONLY THEN would it bring back more useful minerals, chemical compounds, and other materials than it would take to launch…

… because the simple fact is that it takes a shit ton of energy to leave Earth’s gravity well and destroys a lot of resources in terms of making (and surviving) that journey.

And then instead of building stuff on earth that consume an order of magnitude more than their construction in just transit, we can build it ALREADY UP THERE. That brings us to the last problem, though:

It’s no use to any person except someone who is already up there, too.

I’m not even talking about money cost here. Money has no point here until there are humans who want things and need a means by which to measure those wants against the context of what productive capacity is available, represent the magnitude of their want, and represent the transfer of material goods to satisfy those wants. AKA respectively a store of value, unit of account, and medium exchange–the definition of currency.

Space will only be profitable in space.

To be fair, most of the cosmos in real life is literally empty. However, realism is overrated. The whole reason we play video games is because real life sucks.