The comment I'm replying to is an example of why .ml needs to be defederated. Leaving it up to us to block it isn't enough because their tankie users can still spread their shit.
Please forward this topic to your instance admins as an example of why lemmy.ml needs to be defederated. Yes, they're a big instance and, no, not every user is like this. But enough of them are that it's a constant problem that the .ml admins have no interest in stopping because they adamantly support it.
Leaving it up to us to block .ml ourselves is insufficient as the comments on this post perfectly demonstrate. You can't even point out their Chinese/Russian propaganda and censorship on other instances without being brigaded by .ml users.
They need to be cut off from the rest of the fediverse. The sane users and communities can migrate to better instances. Not wanting to move because it's inconvenient is no excuse. At a certain point you have to acknowledge you're hanging out at a nazi bar, and if you stay there when every other sane person is urging you to get out, that's on you.
Meet Sherlock. He's about 1½ years old and weighs 70 pounds. This guy spent two hours bouncing all over the four-acre dog park, and still wanted to play once we got home....
I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast,...
I never figured out parrying in Dark Souls or Bloodborne, so I spent the first few hours of Sekiro cheesing enemies by sprinting around them and taking pot shots. This worked up until the Blazing Bull before I got stuck.
I restarted the game, making a point of trying to parry the easier enemies. When I actually tried, I found the timing to be a lot more forgiving than the other games and you can even spam it a bit because the animation is so fast. Once I figured that out, I finally started playing the game correctly and ended up defeating every boss and mini boss.
An astronaut crash lands on an elongated asteroid with extremely strong gravity. He manages to crawl away from his ship and finds that the gravity in the middle is normal and the gravity at the far end is reversed. Time is also affected by gravity and goes backward at the far end of the asteroid. His dog was injured and he...
Not what you're looking for, but there's an episode of Doctor Who from the Peter Capaldi era with a very similar plot that might interest you. The episode is called World Enough and Time.
I never thought the music in nu-Doom was all that great anyway. Not compared to classic Doom at least. E1M1 is forever stuck in my head and if you hum a couple bars to anyone who has played it, they'll immediately know the tune.
The music in nu-Doom is fine while you're playing, but I can't remember a single track.
I keep hearing about layoffs, studios being closed and how the industry is troubled. Are companies losing money and sales are poor, or is it the same as Google and other companies laying off people just to pump their stock price and make money despite profitability?
It's less about profit and more about sustained growth. During the COVID lockdowns publishers saw a big bump in cash flow due to increased sales and subsidies. That caused them to hire new employees en masse among other investments because in the corporate world there is no such thing as leaving money unspent. Money needs to earn more money because capitalism and shareholders.
After the lockdowns, that extra cash flow receded quickly. The response from publishers to keep their growth rate from also falling is to lay off employees and reduce risks.
The news media learned nothing from all the free press they gave Trump in 2016. Even when he isn't doing anything they still have to make it into a headline.
Save the ink for when there's actually a development in one of his criminal cases. These kinds of articles should be ignored and downvoted to stop people from spreading them.
I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can't get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time....
Origins is better, in my opinion. It's the black sheep but it's my favourite in the series.
Arkham Knight is my least favourite but I still like it. If you really hate the tank sections, though, you might not like it no matter how long you play. That's a pretty big part of the game, and it's not great.
The story is also dumb.
major story spoilers
It would have been way better if Barbara was the arkham knight, having faked her death and the suit could have had mechanical legs to help her walk and her voice digitally altered to sound like a man. Instead we got another Jason Todd as the Red Hood with a different name.
ETA: I'm curious whether the downvotes are because I think Origins is better or because you don't like my idea for how the story could have been improved.
Or, more rationally, you all invested so much of yourselves into your gamer outrage campaign and built yourselves up as the underdogs fighting the big, mean corporation. And when, to your own surprise, you actually won and got all of your demands met without compromise, you still can't let it go because you managed to incorporate all that upset over a video game into your personal identities over just a few days time.
So now, instead of celebrating your win, you'll limply cling to your hatred of Sony for a few more days or weeks until everyone finds something else to get upset about.
I talk like I have seen this exact same thing happen over and over and I'm sick of capital-G Gamers throwing tantrums over every inconvenience. You aren't Union Men fighting for your rights. You're gamers upset by a TOS change to your new toy even though Steam was going beyond their own policy to honor refunds.
Aw, the gamer is upset I forced some introspection into their life.
But no, I'm sorry. You're totally a noble warrior who fought back the evil Sony and now must remain ever vigilant lest Kazuo Hirai leap from the shadows and scream "Riiiiidge Racer" at you and take away your toys while Gabe Newell gives you your money back and sheepishly shrugs like "I know, right? This guy, man."
The "random upset people" on the former side were perfectly happy to give their money to the "corp" on the latter side before the TOS change. This has nothing to do with how untrustworthy Sony has been in the past and everything to do with upset Gamers wanting to keep their outrage party going even after they got what they wanted.
The Lumia Windows phones were actually pretty nice. App support was lacking but I have never been an app user. I would have kept using mine if the BlackBerry KeyOne hadn't come out shortly after.
I think it's common for former BlackBerry stans to go for unconventional phones to replace them. iPhone and typical Android phones are boring to me. I'm currently using a Surface Duo 2 and looking into a foldable as my next phone.
The picture of Elbow Mush in the thumbnail looks like he's going for the "Justin Timberlake if he aged badly after a diet of whiskey, hamburgers and pocket-fulls of drugs" look.
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What's not to love about this legendary system?...
I still love the aesthetic a lot of PS2 games have, with smooth, bright textures instead of a lot of detail that gets stretched and blurry at low resolutions. The way metal surfaces look in MGS2 and Zone of the Enders is really nice.
But then there are games like Silent Hill 2 & 3 that use a lot of detail in the low resolution textures to create a grimy or rusted look. Those games really benefited from working within the limitations of the system, like the fog to reduce draw distance.
Dreamcast was killed off so early and didn't run alongside the others for most of the generation, so a lot of people consider it as more of an in-between system. Maybe not to someone who actually owned one, but given how poorly it sold the majority probably didn't.
I could never get into the Ratchet and Clank games, except for Deadlocked which I know is generally disliked by fans. I was really into arena shooters at the time.
I've tried a bunch of the others and they are definitely good, but not my kind of game.
Same here. I find it isn't powerful enough for a lot of modern PC games unless you drop the settings, but it's amazing for retro and emulation. I'm living in 2004 again.
Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, which sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries....
This guy is yet another tankie on Lemmy. Every comment is defending Russia and China. Of course they'd defend Modi now that India is more interested in cozying up to Russia.
This is why, as a software developer, I'm against designing any system that assumes what the user wants and tries to do it for them automatically. On the occasions where the assumption is right, it's a mild convenience at best. When it's wrong, it is always infuriating if not dangerous.
Mexico's Taam Ja' Blue Hole is the deepest known underwater sinkhole in the world, researchers have discovered — and they haven't even reached the bottom yet....
If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.
Marco Rubio says he would not accept 2024 election results ‘if it’s unfair’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Republican senator’s comments come as he is considered among Trump’s top candidates for vice-president...
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Here's my dude. I have no idea what he is. ( lemmy.world )
Meet Sherlock. He's about 1½ years old and weighs 70 pounds. This guy spent two hours bouncing all over the four-acre dog park, and still wanted to play once we got home....
Is this golden dragon obese? Or is that a round boulder? ( ttrpg.network )
I'm finally getting the hang of Sekiro
I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast,...
Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictions ( apnews.com )
[request] Help finding a space movie
An astronaut crash lands on an elongated asteroid with extremely strong gravity. He manages to crawl away from his ship and finds that the gravity in the middle is normal and the gravity at the far end is reversed. Time is also affected by gravity and goes backward at the far end of the asteroid. His dog was injured and he...
New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June ( www.gamespot.com )
Vehicular Man's Laughter ( lemmy.world )
From Awkward Zombie.
Never Forget ( mander.xyz )
EA boss thinks ads in triple-A games would be 'meaningful' growth driver ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
What could help triple-A games get even bigger right now? According to EA CEO Andrew Wilson, the answer lies in ads....
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Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue ( insider-gaming.com )
Why is the video game industry in crisis?
I keep hearing about layoffs, studios being closed and how the industry is troubled. Are companies losing money and sales are poor, or is it the same as Google and other companies laying off people just to pump their stock price and make money despite profitability?
Dawkins ( mander.xyz )
We must domesticate them. ( mander.xyz )
Trump spends day off from court hosting NFT customers at Mar-a-Lago ( www.nbcnews.com )
Does Arkham Knight get better?
I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can't get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time....
Neglect - 3D ( lemmy.world )
A little something I whipped up to stress test my new workstation PC while in-between bigger projects. Made in Blender and Photoshop! :D
Judge finds Donald Trump in contempt for 10th time over gag order and threatens jail time ( www.cnn.com )
Maggots ( mander.xyz )
Sony cancelled the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2 ( lemmy.world )
Let's not forget the real reason for Cinco De Mayo ( sh.itjust.works )
That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit ( www.theregister.com )
When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless
Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter ( www.swissinfo.ch )
Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF are drastically reducing their communications via the social network X (formerly Twitter)....
The PlayStation 2
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What's not to love about this legendary system?...
Three arrested and charged over Sikh activist's killing in Canada ( www.bbc.com )
Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, which sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries....
A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Dinner and a Movie on TBS ( tesseract.dubvee.org )
With Paul Gilmartin and Annabelle Gurwitch
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks (1996) ( youtube.com )
Ukraine wiped out 100 Russian troops at once in a strike showcasing the range and power of its new US ATACMS ( www.businessinsider.com )
Ukrainian forces took out more than 100 Russian soldiers with an ATACMS missile, per OSINT analysts....
palaeoartists are dreamers ( mander.xyz )
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Pg 1: Becoming terminally online ( lemmy.world )
Spin Doctors - Two Princes (1992) ( www.youtube.com )
Deepest blue hole in the world discovered, with hidden caves and tunnels believed to be inside | Live Science ( www.livescience.com )
Mexico's Taam Ja' Blue Hole is the deepest known underwater sinkhole in the world, researchers have discovered — and they haven't even reached the bottom yet....