[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 days ago

What's worse is that they are gonna forget about this in a week, probably less, and resume labelling anti-Israel demonstrations as antisemetic.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 days ago

Is Gemini Pro 3 really that much better than GPT-5?

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 days ago

I think icons stop being helpful when there are more than 6-10 memu entries.

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PROFESSOR CHOMSKY - Normal Finkelsteim (normanfinkelstein.substack.com)
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Anyone able to get the full version?

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Disclaimer: I am a cis man

The past two months saw the release of two highly anticipated indie sequels: Silksong and then Hades II

I loved that Silksong took "female protagonist" a bit further and 70-80% of the prominent characters were female. Hornet of course, Shakra, the Forge Daughter, the Architect (I think), Pinstress, Seamstress, the final boss, the real final boss, etc. It was refreshing to see.

Hades II is not as heavily dominated by women. That is not to say it is any less chicks rock. Since the game is extremely queer and there is a lot more room for nuance given the exposition-heavy nature of the narrative, it doesn't need to rely on the gender ratio as much. But most of the prominent characters are still women from what I can recall.

And of course, not to mention that both games also have great gameplay to back the themes. These are easily the two best games of this year.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 104 points 2 months ago

I was expecting them to do something like this but I shocked to see that they wrote "wh*re" in large letters and drew dicks on her suitcase for everyone to see. Not that I think it was beneath them, but I thought they would deem it "bad optics" for the most moral army in the world to do something like this to a prominent white person.

The liberal mainstream has also abandoned Thunberg because she turned out awesome rather libbing out and using her credentials to support imperialism, genocide and other cool things that libs like to carry water for.

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I played this game first time a little bit after the last DLC was released. Overall I think the game is excellent. I don't have much to complain about. But I'm replaying it right now and I'm facing the same problem I faced the first time around and when I played Animal Well. I have no idea where to go.

I think the level design works out beautifully when you are in the process of exploring an area. The path unravels fluidly. But there comes a part where you hit a wall--sometimes a literal one and sometimes it's a barrier you are not capable of overcoming yet (standard metroidvania shenanigans)--and then comes the only part of the game I dislike which is figuring out where to go.

Tbh the game tries to help you with this. The map shows pathways to unexplored areas explicitly even though they are not always easy to spot owing to the small size of the markings and how massive the world map becomes as the game goes on. But I still much prefer to just open a walkthrough and find out the easy way.

I feel like maybe if I kept track of the roadblocks in a notebook or something like that it would be easier. But I don't really wanna do that.

Thoughts? Am I the only one who struggles with this? Am I stupid?

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The Drifter (2025) (lemmygrad.ml)
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I started playing this game two days ago. In terms of mechanics it is a classic point-and-click mystery game but with some polish. The story is okay so far but I am enjoying the fact that it is fully voice acted. The voice acting is great too. It's a bit over the top at times but it works well with the rest of the game. The pixel art and animations are beautiful and so are the sound effects. It works brilliantly with a controller. It's a bit cliched but the game has a lot of character. If you like point-and-click mystery games I strongly recommend it.

You can download the game here:

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early game spoilersSo early on after completing a few key deliveries we finally get a bike at distribution centre. We aren't able to use it the first time but the next mission gives us a generator that makes the bike usable.

The problem I have is that I can't take it anywhere. Once the game allowed me to use the bike, I was supposed to go to Capital Knot City but there's a mountain in the way that the bike can't traverse. How should I use the bike properly? Should I just leave it before the mountain/hill, traverse on foot from there, then hop on the bike again on the way back? I didn't do this because I thought the bike would disappear (stolen by MULEs or other porters maybe).

(I feel so stupid. I painstakingly managed to take the bike to Capital Knot City somehow by hopping and jumping at whatnot. But I can't bring it back from there because of the adverse terrain. So I stuffed it into the Capital garage and am now walking around like a jabronj.)

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Stanislaw Lem vs. Bioware (mastodon.gamedev.place)
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Only one survivor. Really tragic.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 81 points 1 year ago

I am always caught off guard with this genre of reporting.

Since then, China has nearly doubled its output of silicon wafers, way more than it needs. The extra wafers had to go somewhere—and they went overseas, pushing prices down by 70%.

Do... do you not know how international trade works?

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 85 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, the man’s happiness was short-lived.

He recently revealed that his savings had significantly diminished due to the yen’s depreciation since the start of the year.

The man also expressed concern that if the yen continued to weaken, achieving financial freedom might remain out of reach, rendering his 21 years of hard work seemingly pointless and tragic.

Oof. He got pranked.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 108 points 2 years ago

Tie me to a missile and send me straight to the White House

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 94 points 2 years ago

Love seeing how SHOCKED federated folks are at the mere implication of China being better than the US. I feel like if you view the USA from outside a highly myopic lens painted by extreme privilege, there is nothing redeemable about it. Even if the worst theories about China were true, they would be a drop in a bucket compared to how much evidenced misery the US has wrought. But most of the people slinging shit at China rarely care about the folks who are not white in the imperial core.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 87 points 2 years ago

The urge shoot the idiots who parrot "Israel has the right to defend itself" just rose tenfolds.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 83 points 2 years ago

It's not an eye for an eye though. Israeli atrocities over the decades dwarf what has been inflicted upon them by Palestine and Hamas.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 113 points 2 years ago

Just gonna reiterate that I hate the settler colonial apartheid "state" of Israel.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"General purpose" instances are something else. Someone claimed that during the Tiananmen protests PLA tanks intentionally ran over students. When I pressed for evidence I was banned by the lemmyshitpost mod for denying genocide. Tiananmen "massacre" is a genocide now too. The Chinese are geniciding themselves.

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