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cyncerely sinical

@aetherred.bsky.social

Player of games, enjoyer of cute pet videos, sayer of dumb sh*t

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it can be hard for us to celebrate ourselves, so celebrate the ones who celebrate you listen to their stories, share their laughs, smile at their passions, and support their triumphs cherish those who cherish you

movie night since chronic issues been kicking my ass Oceangate Titan implosion doc on Netflix, worth a watch Nobody and Nobody 2, first one was better than 2, but 2 is still a lot of fun and Sharon Stone is great Cleaner, 2007 Sam Jackson vehicle, nothing groundbreaking but a nice twisty thriller

the Titan implosion documentary on Netflix taught me that CEOs are sociopathic, egotistical and will threaten, bully, and harass anyone that stands in their way to get what they want. like a child. so basically everything we've already known about CEOs.

in an ideal world publishers of games wouldn't exist it should just be Dev > Player we're in this mess because too much power was given to men in suits that don't care about the art, or the people. just money. idk how to get out of this cycle, but it's very clear, publishers are poison

tech companies cutting ai spending while they were seemingly happy ushering in a tech apocalypse are like hol' up that's too much apocalypse i ordered lite apocalypse, doctor said i have to watch my human-soul intake

the absurd gulf in quality between Lord of Hatred and Vessel of Hatred makes it very hard to dismiss the feeling that Vessel might originally have been planned as a free xpac to hype LoH and blizzard execs went "lol no" don't get me wrong, the story beats of Vessel absolutely had work put into them

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corrupted into a vessel for Mephisto, along with the ENTIRE ZAKARUM FAITH, and there's nothing. no murals, no lore; to have such an iconic area be devoted of anything at all is nuts then you play LoH and ALL OF IT is back. lore, dialogue, references. it drips with Diablo and Sanctuary history

aside from the cutscenes and addition of the spiritborn, it's such a barbone expansion or really does feels like Blizzard just ripped it out and put a price tag on it because they're Blizzard, and Blizzard sucks

the absurd gulf in quality between Lord of Hatred and Vessel of Hatred makes it very hard to dismiss the feeling that Vessel might originally have been planned as a free xpac to hype LoH and blizzard execs went "lol no" don't get me wrong, the story beats of Vessel absolutely had work put into them

but even going from the original Diablo 4 campaign, where there are lore objects in the environment in major areas, extra dialogue with tons of backstory, and references to past figures and storylines to Vessel that has almost none of that, is jarring. you go to Travincal, where Sankekur was

i would rather play a single Mario level for 10 hours than "play" a single kojima game that's 10 hours of cutscenes and 2 hours of game trying to passively consume games like they are movies is alien to me; they are different mediums for a reason

putting ingredients in food packaging is so political, informing the customer about allergens hurts my business they should just buy it and see if it kills them, that way my bottom line isn't affected why won't you think of us poor indie food processing plants 🥺

THIS RIGHT HERE it's still just a drug dealer giving you the first hit free people are getting addicted to the slopmachine, become unable to function without it, and then the prices are going to skyrocket and they'll be forced to pay because it's rotted away all their skills and ability to think

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was just reminded of the Titan implosion and its lesson that the rich idiots who own a company will literally kill themselves in order to save money and suddenly everything Tim Sweeney has said in the past week makes sense

it's funny that asha sharma hasn't realized she's going to be the scapegoat for the next decade of xbox failures they picked someone full ai and with no game experience for a reason

bluesky atmosphere looks like a horrendous idea (for users) "give us access to all of your accounts so you only need one" is EXACTLY Google sign-in despite what they say and it's probably 90% vibecoded and wow all these ai security issues sure haven't been flooding the news lately, right?

if you read the article, he's not actually pro ai he explicitly says everyone bashing ai is right, but unfortunately he's basically been brainwashed by the "do it or get left behind" crowd he is a victim, here, and it's sad as fuck to see

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breaking: call of duty players still have zero taste after 19 years of the same game every year oh and it's made with gen ai

it should be illegal for restaurants to upcharge on food just because you use a delivery service greedy and shameful, almost as bad as the outrageous fees these services charge which is often more than the price of another entire dish

destroying the hardware market with AI on purpose to make this appealing to morons should be the target of a federal investigation for market manipulation among other things

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social

Xbox cloud gaming prices revealed, with 50 hours of ad-free game-time priced $11.99 www.eurogamer.net/xbox-cloud-g...

my exact thought when i saw this on TV was: oh lying about how it works isn't selling so they swapped to telling the truth, huh?

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

shuttering bioware is on brand for ea and it still fucking sucks no matter how unsurprising it is i hope everyone lands somewhere they are valued and not under the thumb of throat-cutting c-suites

gamble boxes in games should be banned, but anything is better than nothing for now

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

European games ratings body PEGI has started increasing the age ratings of games that feature loot boxes to 16, including EA Sports FC and Pokémon Go. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ea-spor...

we have entered the Borgception, not to be confused with the Federation-Borg conflict, or Deep Space Nine (since Deep Space Seven ate it, anyway) thankfully, now everything seems calm on all Borg fronts (not to be confused with "the front of a Borg" which most people find hard to look at)

Sanjeev Kohli@govindajeggy.bsky.social

Ernest Borgnine was part of an ongoing experiment. Ernest Borg8 spontaneously combusted, Ernest Borg10 killed his master but (so far) Ernest Borg11 appears to be free of software glitches

it's the double standards that really sell it "i know it's built off of theft, buuuuuuut" "i would develop the skills myself, buuuut" "i'm a confirmed minister and the human voice is more important than anything, buuuut" (yes i have actually seen this exact reasoning)

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between "devs" spending 1k a day on tokens to keep their slop demo alive, another spending 55k in tokens to cuckcode an n64 backport, and sweeney trying to burn down the concept of art having a voice i wonder what happens when the bubble pops and token prices skyrocket in an attempt to save face

are we going to see "devs" bankrupting themselves on ai trying to get their slop out, crying about how their "art" is now being threatened by the big bad oligarchs you know, the way real artists are now?

9 games that shaped me but instead it's a more relevant tier list of the 9 c*nts who gave me crippling emotional damage that shaped me into the singular c*nt i am today

i invite you over for sex but when you get here i tie you down and narrate an entire sl1 playthrough of dark souls (the night ends with you proposing bc i'm that good at videogames)

blizzard's writing is terrible on a brand-as-a-whole level so idc how much lore they add to overwatch i will never. ever. care about it. ~person who played so much last season they got every title, and still won't waste time on the lore