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Just in time to make sure Hawk Tuah girl legally gets away with the pump-and-dump rugpull.
Everyone saying she needs to go to jail?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Yeah, that’s never going to happen with these kind of people in charge. Expect the shitshow that is the casino of crypto to get a whole fuckload worse.
Nintendo is a proper shout out.
A Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom aren’t the prettiest games but they have two very big deals about them.
Stylization. Games with a specific art style tend to age better than ones with ultra realistic art styles. Team Fortress 2 aged better than a lot of things because it leaned into the Pixar-cartoony style. ABotW and TotK both have their own unique style that will age incredibly well.
Instead of the focus being graphics, the gameplay is the core loop. Tears of the Kingdom especially deserves accolades for how well the entire system of combining weapons and items just works. Who cares about the graphics, the crazy shit you do in the game isn’t causing the game to crash or fall to pieces. The game expected this, it was built to handle this, and this is proof that it was way more important to the developers than the graphics.
To be faaaaaaaaaaaiiiiir, a lot of that was tied up in the switch from overhead isometric view to first-person view.
Fallout 1/2 didn’t focus on graphics, they were in many ways point-and-click adventures. A lot of things you had to hover over for “flavor text” and every once in a while something only four pixels wide exists that you need to notice.
So the gameplay actually actively eschewed graphics in favor of things like flavor text and reading.
Further, the switch to first person broke the SPECIAL system, because how to you even manage a gun skill in a first person shooter without it feeling absurd? It made sense in isometric, even if it was often frustrating to miss an enemy when you had a 79% chance to shoot them in the balls. Putting that in a first person when you mag dump into someone standing right in front of you and half your shots feels a lot less realistic, and can quickly become frustrating in a more fast-paced first-person-shooter environment. The SPECIAL system feels absolutely slapped on as an afterthought in Fallout 3.
Also, the writing in Fallout 3 was that shitty Bethesda writing. The writing was just subpar compared to the prior two installments. Especially the fucking stupid ass end of the game.
I’d say a lot of those complaints were driven more by the perspective switch than anything else.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, old games were just as fucking janky on release, and most of them took years of modders fixing all those issues for them to get better.
Fallout 1 & 2 - janky on release
Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 - janky on release
Morrowind - janky on release
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Chernobyl - janky on release
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - janky on release
All of these were capable of being installed and “just playing” them on release. There were countless bugs and janky behavior and that’s normal and we’re now spoiled by day 1 patches. STALKER 2 has been out a month and has had three major patches for bug fixes. STALKER Call of Chernobyl probably could have used the same but in 2007 the infrastructure to push quick updates just wasn’t there yet. Steam had only released by Valve in late 2003, roughly three and a half years earlier.
I’ve never had Balatro crash or do anything weird on me, either.
Don’t you miss the days when you just installed the game and just played it?
I don’t miss them because they’re still here!
The Democrats aren’t just averse to class war, they’re also averse to learning anything useful.
Roger Ailes created the FOX News alternate news ecosystem to try to prevent a situation like Nixon being impeached ever happening again. It worked, like gangbusters.
The Democrats are still living in the 90s, trying to do everything through an old, dying media format.
They tried to build their own alternate ecosystem with stuff like MSNBC, but the world has moved on, the digital social media landscape is where it’s at now, and the right-wing media ecosystem moved in quickly.
If Democrats want to create a media ecosystem of their own, they’re making a losing proposition by moving to the corporate owned Bluesky instead of turning to Mastodon to truly create their own media ecosystem free from corporate control.
Otherwise Democrats will always be beholden to what makes money, and helping people doesn’t make money. They have to escape a media ecosystem driven by money and build something outside of the corporate sphere. The tools are there, and the Democratic party could be using its war chest on helping develop Mastodon instead of pissing it away on cable TV commercials only half dead people see.
The Democrats have a lot of catchup to do in terms of media literacy and using modern media to their advantage, and they’re always going to have to cede corporate control if they keep choosing the corporate options. Didn’t Musk prove that without a shadow of a doubt, that you can’t trust a corporate-owned entity to not eventually try to fuck you over, or that if their goals don’t align with yours they will silence you. They need their own servers that they can control, and that can only be done with Mastodon (or something similarly open source), because Bluesky isn’t actually decentralized or federated.
I don’t see the Democrats seeing the writing on the wall with this. Even the smart Democrats are moving to Bluesky (AOC first to a million followers) instead of charging down the path that Roger Ailes showed them fucking works.
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Owlboy!
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Hahaha! Finally! I’ve been trying to catch you boys all day!
I want to buy all your Star Trek movies.
I know what you are but what am I?
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Exactly, they’re in the “growth” part of the business stage, where they get investors giving them money because of the explosion of user growth. In other words, the explosion of available eyes to put ads in front of. They’re literally investing based on the growth of the user base, which is tied to how much ad-buy can be involved.
They literally owe money to *checks notes… Blockchain Capital. A bunch of fucking cryptobros venture capital firm.
Enshittification is coming, people are stupid for falling for this again. I’m sick of fucking hearing about how all-volunteer created & funded Mastodon isn’t as slick as the fucking venture capital funded Bluesky. “It’s too hard to use!” Wah, go cry about it into a corporate teat some more, sucker.
The fact that they couldn’t figure it the fuck out and delete their accounts on the day that Musk bought Twitter is their own stupid fuck fault.
It’s been painfully obvious which way the wind was blowing with Musk well before he bought it.
The fact that they stayed there as it was painfully fucking clear that Musk was twisting the algorithms to his ends, banning people for saying “cis”, while allowing the most egregious racist bile to stand is all evidence that they cared way more about their social standing and followers than they did about human fucking decency.
I have no sympathy. Y’all helped him elect Trump by sticking around there you fucking nitwits. (“You” as in the prominent Democratic politicians only leaving Twitter now, not “you” as in fellow Lemmy users.) It’s pussy shit, they can’t actually flee the country, so instead they’re fleeing to another fucking corporate service based in the US. They don’t even have the strength to say no the corporate options. AOC ain’t on fuckin Mastodon.
EDIT: Working now! Article is up!
Every other page on Tom’s Hardware is loading for me just fine but this article is just pulling up a completely blank document?
Oh yeah.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2008/04/16/quotable-netanyahu-says-israel-benefitted-from-911/
The Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel.
“We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events “swung American public opinion in our favor.”
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