[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 91 points 2 weeks ago

Game mechanic patents are such an unbelievable joke it's hard to understand how any court could take them seriously. "Yes your honor. As you can see, we own the exclusive rights to the idea of throwing a ball at a creature in a video game."

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 212 points 2 months ago

Imagine all the cool stuff we could be doing if we weren’t wasting the time of hundreds of engineers figuring out how to shove ads in people’s faces.

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I mostly like Doctor Who for being a fun, campy show. I stopped watching after Capaldi initially because it felt like the show wasn't really doing that anymore. I've been re-watching the modern show after checking out classic Who for the first time along with family recently. We recently got back up to where I had stopped and... I'm still not really feeling it. But the show has been on for quite a while since then. So I'm kind of curious what it's like now and if it's worth pushing through/skipping ahead to get to a part that I'll like more.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 130 points 5 months ago

I hope this is just a joke and she didn’t dox her mom for internet points.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 81 points 5 months ago

Yeah. It’s more like:

Researchers: “Look at our child crawl! This is a big milestone. We can’t wait to see what he’ll do in the future.

CEOs: Give that baby a job!

AI stuff was so cool to learn about in school, but it was also really clear how much further we had to go. I’m kind of worried. We already had one period of AI overhype lead to a crash in research funding for decades. I really hope this bubble doesn’t do the same thing.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 108 points 5 months ago

I am tired of living in a world with all of these problems. Whether or not I have the luxury to ignore them is besides the point.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago

NJ is just sadder NY.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 98 points 5 months ago

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 195 points 7 months ago

Ah yes, because what I want when I tell my computer to stop playing audio and video is for YouTube to play some audio and video of some random thing I didn’t ask for at like 3x the volume of the video I just paused. Thanks google. Such an innovative company!

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Over the last few years my family and I have binged all of Star Trek, then moved on to Star Trek adjacent shows like The Orville and Stargate. At the moment we're not really watching anything sci-fi. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for similar shows (or maybe some books) that fill the void left by Star Trek. In particular I really like the episodes that deal with interacting with other civilizations, diplomacy, and exploration more-so than say, an anomaly episode.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 141 points 11 months ago

There is no punishment horrible enough that we could inflict on oil execs, especially the ones that have known about this since the 70s and chose to fight for the status quo, that would make up for what they’ve done to us.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

Because he’s right wing? This isn’t that complicated. People only get killed for actually threatening the gravy train. If this were another country the US would have backed the coup. Im still not convinced this will end with anything more serious than Trump getting a vacation in rich people jail.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

I’m not that familiar with the speedrun community, but no way they do much checking for any runs that aren’t reasonably in contention for a top spot right?

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Obviously spoilers ahead:

I recently got to the lower city and after taking a long rest I was ambushed by some of Astarion’s vampire spawn siblings who want to take him back with them. The dialogue suggests that killing them would close off the option to have Astarion ascend later, but it seems like I can’t avoid fighting with them. I thought maybe using nonlethal attacks would be the way, but upon reading the description it doesn’t work on undead.

What am I supposed to do if I don’t want to kill them? I tried looking up the quest on some wikis/guides, but they don’t seem to give advice on that option. They just mention that if you fail in this encounter Astarion could be kidnapped, which… wouldn’t be ideal considering at the moment I have no spare party members to fill the 4th slot due to… circumstances…but I’d also prefer not to shut off the option for this quest line.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 232 points 1 year ago

It's crazy how successful they've been off just making and selling a good indie game. They're still doing free updates AND they can afford a $200k donation?

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