Unidan? In MY lemmy?

The year is 2064. The world outside is fire and riots.

A new life is brought into the world, the hospital lights flicker. The doctor, dirty and worn out, pushes the new parents a form on a battered clipboard.

“Congratulations to you both, now please sign this release to bring your baby home, but not before you designate which formats of Skyrim your child will inherit, please understand this is not optional, and we no longer take Bitcoin to pay the mandatory $60 Skyrim Fee, so please use cash, credit or ration cards to pay.”

We are a country of corporations and shareholders

FTFY

Go buy Vein on Steam.

Yah it’s nothing like CoD Zombies, but it IS a zombie game, and it’s made by just two people trying to make a quality survival game and it’s obviously a work of passion worth supporting.

I haven’t bought a big company release in years at this point. There are so, so many good indie games being made right now, this will be a nostalgia point for kids someday, back when there were was a flood of games and half were huge, bloated AAA wastes of money that nobody liked, and the other half were amazing, weird, experimental concept ideas produced in low fidelity and released for $5 - $20.

They want to broach it now “half seriously” so that in 4 months when someone makes another mean meme with Vance as a baby or Trump in a messy diaper, they can bring it up again and half the population will roll their eyes and tune out the actual bill they try to pass to control “memes.”

Mr Vance, as your public relations manager, I fully support the idea of pushing to ban “memes.” This will only serve you positive results and will absolutely bolster your already soaring popularity among literally everyone. Good show. Slow clap.

They were largely incompetent but they were ideological.

None of these fascist-wannabes have a shred of conviction in them, they have no actual beliefs. When was the last time you heard any of them deliver an impassioned speech that wasn’t utterly awkward and stilted and oozing with corporate callouts and pandering nonsense.

Yes, it deliver the same rotten outcomes, people still eat it up, it just feels weird losing so much social ground to a group who managed to con a third of the country’s population with the same level of enthusiasm and fervor as AOL roleplay teens trying to be edgy.

TPUSA is floundering right now. They had a huge boost from Kirk’s murder but now the right is kind of digesting itself over conspiracy theories, divided agendas and the rising fear of what’s going to happen when Trump keels over or has to be removed before all the glorious plans can be fulfilled, and there are a lot of people leaving TPUSA. TPUSA was almost entirely a cult-of-personality around Charlie Kirk.

I’m sure they would loooove to work out a deal with Texas, but I’d be surprised if it saves them.

I don’t even know where they spread his ashes so that’s a real accomplishment.

these games

If you’re talking about the skyrim/oblivion franchise in particular, it has a wide open feel that many players connect with the first times games gave them real freedom to explore a world and not just throw them on rails to go from place to place. I do think a lot of it is nostalgia. I don’t think the games have aged too well from a standpoint of what we expect games to offer nowadays.

Elden Ring was a much more recent attempt at a sprawling game, and had a style of action/adventure game closer to “adult zelda” but also had that feeling of freedom that players liked, and Witcher 3 was just all of that but with a different style and different focus. Witcher 3 was a product of these kinds of games and evolved from them, so it’s expected that they would have figured out a few extra tricks to get you to connect, I do agree there was a lot more work that went into Witcher 3 in terms of making a world that felt convincing and solid. Not everyone wants that all the time though.

Also, Witcher was about a dude in a grittier world. Skyrim was about your view of sparkling mushroom caves and dragons from behind a bow. They both try different ways to engage you and they both appeal to different types of players.

Butt stuff I assume.

Now that we know the genocide isn’t actually real, we can all pokemon-go to the nearest AIPAC funded democrat candidate and make sure the oldest, richest, set-in establishment dems remain in power through the midterms! yaaay!

Those look like they’re far more likely to destroy your rims when they tangle up a branch or bundle of fencing wire on the road than ever do you an ounce of good.

Yah the more I use AI the more I can detect the absolute bullshit people on both sides spew.

It’s the most amazingly complicated averaging machine we’ve ever invented. It will take the most interesting source materials, the most unique ideas of other people, the most creative materials, and it will find a way to find the safest, most average common qualities between those things. This isn’t a model problem or input problem, it’s fundamental to how generative AI works.

It helps with searching for things online, it helps create guide plans for taking on new tasks like learning some new skill. It’s far better at teaching how to do something like coding than it is left to just code on its own and you copy and paste. It can certainly do that, but you spend so much time correcting it and fixing it that you do far better learning the code yourself and how it works.

Same with art, the people who are using it to best effect are themselves already artists and they use AI to thumbnail compositions or rough layouts, color tests and such, and then just do the work themselves but faster because they already know roughly what direction they’re going.

But using it to write your scripts, to copy/paste code, to generate works of art… it’s literally just giving you other people’s ideas mashed together and unseasoned.

A thousand dollars seems fantastically reasonable for a well-engineered home-gaming machine that can play current gen PC games at high quality. I spend that much every several years on upgrading or building a new PC.

My complaint is not the price, I think the price is fair. Let’s talk wages.

It’s depressing how true that is.

“That mural rendering absolutely moved me, you didn’t just capture the subtle cosmic horrors, you took the twisted abominations to an entirely new level, and really, only someone like you could possibly pull something like this off – Would you like to take a deeper dive and make some individual pictures of chickendogs or people with backwards faces?”

People have absolutely no eye for details.

FTFY.

I was a pro artist for 10 years, I can promise you, the average person has zero perception of anything past “vibe.” The people online who contribute to forums like this are generally going to be people with slightly more focus and understanding.

Whole thing is just media hyping up an obvious prank so that the stupidest people start freaking the fuck out, which gets more media attention, which makes us click on links way out here in backwater Lemmy.

This is the uroboros of media that has wrecked our whole society, where all of our impressions about just about anything are being dictated by the smallest, most ridiculous outlier reactions. Remember the kitty litter boxes in schools?

This is what launched flat-eartherism and trumpism and the whole massive “incel movement” that has become a tidal-wave of depressing idiocy, which get more attention for being so disgusting and stupid, which makes people on the other extreme end of the bell-curve over-react, which gets more attention, which leaves normal, passive readers thinking this is how people are really interacting and treating each other, which leads to them also taking up radical or stupid ideas about the world.

It’s not that The Onion can’t compete with reality, its that The Onion can’t compete the vast media empire built on deliberately turning every possible unusual reaction or hot take from random nobodies into headline news. Before panic was monetized, most outlets ignored pranks.

Between this and the Subnautica news, it hasn’t been a good year for highly anticipated indi-games going mainstream.