I could take sterilized roaches. Their power in that their population grows like hell. But 1000 you can kill off and that’s settled? Okay, deal. Guess, the first hunt would take a half of them for good.

A person? You obviously can’t kill them in most jurisdictions unless you are a LEO. But I’d look forward to reach out and cooperate with them in some way. Idk them and maybe they have cool things to talk about or learn from them. Imagine them blasting an ukulele and being open to teach you. Or just being a good friend material.

I’d probably take both and do bonding with a cellar person over killing bugs.

And would even require Windows Eleven soon, banning older CPUs!

I agree with you. One factor I still have hope for in that angle are new handhelds. We had Switch, we had Steam Deck and its newer competitors. And they all judged by their battery life and also has small screen where gfx don’t matter as much. Players on a long roadtrip or shift intuitively chose less consumptive games over those eating the battery in a hour. I wonder if Steam can make a special category for energy-light games, just for that obvious reason. And it, in reverse, inspiring devs to make games to cater to that usercase. I can dream.

Honestly, I agree to an extent. I like watching at a well-designed scenery but I think it hurts games if it takes the priority. I’m not playing games for that, but for cool gamedesign ideas and my own experiences with mechanics. That’s tl;dr, next is my rant, for I had a long bus ride.

Graphics are very marketable and ad-friendly, easier to implement\control rather than changes to engine or scripts (you need to understand first) and they may cover up the lack in other departments. Effective managers love that. CGI guys at Disney are on strike because this sentiment held as true in movie industry too, and they are overloaded, filming the whole movie over chromakey. Computer graphics almost replaced everything else.

In my perspective, this trend in AAA lowers the quality of the end product, makes it safer to develop (formulaic reiteration) but just ok to play, mostly unremarkable. Indie and small gamestudios can’t compete with them in visuals, so they risk and try to experiment, bring novelty, and sometimes win a jackpot.

Like, obviously, Minecraft, that was initially coded by Notch alone. It invented indie scene as we know it now. It put tech and mechanics over looks, and the whole world was playing it. No one cared for how abstract it is being addicted to the gameplay.

Playing older games, I see, that they were in this race too, like how (recently remastered) Quake 2 was a great visual upgrade over Quake 1. People sold an arm and a leg to play them on HIGH at that time. And how they nodded like yeah, now it’s just like a real life watching at a 640x320 screenshot, or how marketologists sold it. But somehow they were made completely different in many ways, not gfx alone, and that’s for a braindead shooter. I feel it with my fingers. I see it in how the game logic works. This sensation was greater for me than anything I see on the screen.

Not being able to recall what happened in what CoD game, I become more amused with how gamedesign, presented via code, affects the feeling of a game. How in Disco Elysium all these mental features made it stand out. How Hotline: Miami did extreme violence so stylish. How Dwarf Fortress taught me to care about ASCII symbols on my screen but accepting the fun of loosing them. How the first MGS’s Psycho Mantis read my savefiles from other games and vibrated my controller on the floor with his psychic power.

These moments and feelings can’t be planned and managed like creation of visual assets. And they are why I like games, as outdated as NES ones or as ugly as competitive Quake config looks. They, like making love with a loving partner, hits different than a polished act of a fit and thin sex-worker. They bring unique experience instead of selling you a horse-painted donkey.

And that’s why I don’t really care about graphics and dislike their unending progress.

Women gated off their league because every their move is commented on as a female one. They can’t fail for it’s deepens the stereotype of women=stupid and they can’t win for it’s just man wasn’t paying attention or played easy for her. The lack of women chess clubs and championships, the stereotype of it being not a sport for women is why there aren’t many high ELO players in this isolated and weird situation.

One of the last strongholds of a fragile male nerd supremacy, that’s all.

Honey, I’m waiting you tonight.

Sorry, I’m busy.

I made something special…

No, I can’t.

Please, just say you cheat on me. I beg.

Sorry, sug. It’s just work. Again.

What a moodbreaker. Fifth time in a row. Fuck your boss.

Actually, he promoted me and said you can move in with me there.

Where?

Our quarters within the facility. We can have our time on my breaks. They can even hire you too! They’ve even built a kindergarten there, so we are full served as a young family.

Divorce. Now.

Do you really want to lose your time reading a blob of data with no coherency?

We are both on the internet, lol. And I mean it. LLMs are slightly worse than the CEO-optimized clickbaity word salad you get in most articles. Before you’ve found out how\where to search for direct and correct answers, it would be just the same or maybe worse. <– I found this skill a bit fascinating, that we learn to read patterns and red flags without even opening a page. I doubt it’s possible to make a reliable model with that bullshit detector.

I’m glad password is 8 letters.

That description is something.

It’s arguable, but that’s what federation is about. No default instance, you pick those you want to participate in and agree with, and their admins have their choices too. It’s neat.

Schedule had some nostalgic value. I remember waiting for a new show or an episode, or having regular news broadcasts or programs at fixed hours. The world was slower, and it takes will not to binge these now.

In the same timeframe, most wages not significantly changed, a big cup of fast noodles went from 20 to 100 roubles, bread 10-15 to 50+, simple 0,5L of bottled water gone 50 from 15. Hoping it would bounce back from 100 to 90-something is kinda ridiculous, especially as these drops were all self-inflicted and it was easy not to cause them in the first place. I don’t understand how you as a brief visitor could observe these dramatic changes in time, but locals around me can’t or don’t have a problem with it.

Looks cool. I loved one of the previous ones for how fun coop gameplay was. Now I need to dowload some friends.

It’s fucked up that these mines won’t become dud after some time. It means that even after the war comes to it’s end, some undiscovered mines would continue to kill and maim civilians. What a stupid, dull weapon, but there are plenty of them to throw around.

Judas: Why does it feel like it’s the last time we meet?

Jesus: Ha, had the same feeling and didn’t know how to spell it, but you’ve nailed it!

Hotline: Miami devs supported people in The Pirate Bay threads and said aussies to get their game anyway since it was banned here, iirc.

https://gamerant.com/hotline-miami-pirates/

You know you are doing the right thing when your enemy is, checks notes, a teenage girl. Iranian junta do everything to embarass itself and the religion of Islam. I want people of Iran to take the power back and show what’s it to be an iranian.

After 2014 they took some notes that ex-soviet army is garbage. One needs a lot of changes to make it reliable and efficient. Lots of ukrainian fighters would tell you that as well (like хрюнчик from reddit), it’s just so happens that they took it a little more serious this time and also trained with NATO troops. But the whole beaurocracy, man, it needs to be flushed like a turd. I have a distant knowledge of how it is in Ukraine, but I’m pretty sure that up to 2014 or even further they had everything on paper, no central digital database of draftees, this eased the bribing and fixing papers. Zee’s office would have a fun time cleaning this shit.

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Why old men are so obsessed with kids? Are they pedo or something?

Yes, and I avoid it unless I can’t. It’s very invasive and the last good bits of it are now hardly usable due to a striking amount of ads, tracking and enshittification. I think like I had less than 20 search queues in the last two years from their services.

I can write more about each service I liked before and why I call it AIDS if you care to read.

I wonder if you yourself use them, and why?