So... wobbledogs's breeding system 20 years early.
wizardbeard
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You can ask him yourself, lol.
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
And the more active piracy community is run by him as well: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
EDIT: Fucking hell, nevermind. I found it. He posted it himself.
Don't you know that it's entirely unreasonable to expect your users to have hardware that's a standard feature on any machine made in the last ten years, that can be added to existing systems for around $30 and a free card slot? /s
I don't think I'll ever understand the insistence that a TPM module is a bridge too far.
I mean, it definitely is, but it also has been since Episode 2 came out.
Re: Upload, total agree. The best (and funniest parts IMO) are the worldbuilding and playing with the ridiculous scenarios that would be commonplace in that world.
Fucking Intel-Oscar Mayer and the download experiment. The reconstruction of the MC in the digital world from a backup copy of his conciousness made before a software update, and someone impersonating his girlfriend by copying her digital avatar. Oh my god, the fucking FARM filled with horrifying genetic monstrosities made to maximize milk and meat output. Just dystopia as comedy.
The more it leans into the romance aspects the less I've enjoyed it. Not sure I even finished the latest season.
While identity politics are important, I have always believed that their explosion into mainstream after Occupy Wall Street died was part of an intentional plan of the powers that be to kill the momentum of the potential class war.
That, along with some of the stories coming out of the camps as things crumbled, match up pretty directly with stuff out of leaked and un-classified three letter agency guides on disrupting grass roots movements.
Hard to have any kind of momentum against the 1% when you're busy arguing about microagressions along identity lines. Or ignoring the point of intersectionality entirely to lump poverty level trailerpark white males in with old money white male ceos.
Wealth is a far more influential force on life outcomes than any identity aspects. Identity more heavily impacts the 99%, so focusing on it takes eyes off the tippy top elite.
Just like all the recent focus on landlords including hate for small local people renting out one family property rather than focusing on the fucking investment companies buying up entire towns worth of housing.
Keep your eyes on the fucking prize folks, instead of squabbling over the tablescraps.
No, we don't see how well voting works. Trump got less votes this run than he did in the last election where he fucking lost.
Some supposedly do, and then have been found hallucinating non-existent ones.
I think you want to direct that at the people who voted for Trump, not the people pointing out why others voted for Trump.
Unfortunately you can't expect the entire voting public to be aware and knowledgable about all this shit, and the candidates still need to appeal to those voters to win. Which plays a decent role in why Kamala lost.
You might be interested in Marc Laidlaw's (the story author for Half-Life) Epistle 3, the rough outline of the story plan for Half-Life 3 that he turned into a letter from Gordon and released after he left Valve. He has since said that he regrets releasing it, as game stories are wildly impacted by the design and development of the game itself, so the end result would likely be far different. Especially with Alyx retconning some things. That said, it's still an interesting look at what was planned at least at one point. Fans are working on a fangame based on the concept.
Likewise, there's the book Half-Life: Raising the Bar, which documents a TON of stuff about the creation of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, with a bunch of info on concept art and cut ideas. The original plan for the game would have been even darker than what we got and didn't feature Gordon at all! Unfortunately you'll probably just need to download a pirate scan of it, as I don't believe they've printed new copies in over a decade.
Together with everything the fans have figured out about the early leaked version of Half-Life 2 that matches up with the cut plot in Raising the Bar, you can build your own rich "fan canon" until Valve releases anything more.
I do think it was a missed opportunity to not have Laidlaw write some books set in the universe when they didn't need him working on game plot though.
Ugh. A dumbass who didn't understand the very clear message of "Render to Ceasar what is Ceasar's". You may "work" for Jesus in the abstract sense, but you absolutely work for Toyota in the job sense. And you seem to be doing a poor job on both fronts.