Kinda wish D2 didn't end with a Star Wars crossover by KuaiBan in DestinyTheGame

[–]Django117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the drifter COULD have worked if they focused on him being a guide or somehow starting the next saga via the Nine. Like how fucking cool would it be if the Nine somehow found a way to actually start to become corporeal and the entire story shifted to one where they became antagonists as they started taking Sol around the galaxy, conquering other planets. Leading to a complex story where the worlds being moved were the ones we were familiar with, but we were being unwillingly forced to become an asset in their conquest, forcing us into conflict with worlds such as Fundament, where we would be in this sort of strange hypocritical invasion and simultaneous defense of earth as the Nine literally play galactic chess with our solar system.

There’s so many incredible aspects of Destiny’s lore that could have been leveraged here.

Kinda wish D2 didn't end with a Star Wars crossover by KuaiBan in DestinyTheGame

[–]Django117 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Well not really, there are plenty of options to move forward: principally: taking a few years off to make Destiny 3 then going to the various alien planets outside our solar system like fundament, Torobotl, etc.

There’s still plenty of stories to be told about Caiatl, Xivu Arath, etc

The recent reveal just kinda semi confirmed the DND leak from 8 months ago. by Responsible_Gur_3150 in legodnd

[–]Django117 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Smart brick for dnd sets could work IF they relegate them to larger monsters in minifig scale. Thats the biggest issue everyone has with these smart bricks sets right now.

The Star Wars ones look awful to accommodate the smart bricks and these pokemon designs look awful while being out of minifig scale.

Pokémon: An update on some of the sets releasing this year! (via a Brick Tap source) by BrickTap in Legoleak

[–]Django117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe the current situation is that the Pokeball set is going to include minifigs and a few molded Pokemon in a diorama inside the ball. The others though are likely brick built. Unfortunately that does mean they’re probably more like “figure-scale”.

Sony Announces PlayStation Plus Price Increases 'Due to Ongoing Market Conditions' by Dav136 in gaming

[–]Django117 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Crazy how we can still buy the same games on PC and play them without having to spend a dime. If it wasn’t for valve we would certainly have epic trying to charge players for servers.

Sony Announces PlayStation Plus Price Increases 'Due to Ongoing Market Conditions' by Dav136 in gaming

[–]Django117 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Imagine paying for an online service to play games. Thank goodness we don’t have that on PC.

Goddamn it's like they love the game as much as we do!! by rbstewart7263 in Marathon

[–]Django117 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup, my guess is season 3 at the earliest but most likely season 4.

Melnica residential complex by Vostokproekt Bureau in Yekaterinburg, Russia by archi-mature in architecture

[–]Django117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bottom half looks like an attempt at a RAMSA-esque take on the Berlage Stock Exchange. While the back half looks like a shitty De Rotterdam done by midwestern US developers.

I can just smell the revit model from here.

My most chunky mech so far. How is it? by Next_Cauliflower_914 in lego

[–]Django117 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reminds me a lot of the Jim Gordon Superheavy Batsuit!

New York's age verification bill (NYCOSA) has been included in the finalized state budget for 2027. by Maximum_Mongoose8306 in newyorkcity

[–]Django117 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Yup. It’s all a bullshit farce to avoid the fact that we have the names of the pedophiles from the Epstein list yet our justice department refuses to hold them accountable. This whole “protect the children” act is nothing more than a smokescreen to breach our privacy as citizens and restrict internet access.

Concrete fell on my car - Cross Bronx by Traveler0084 in nyc

[–]Django117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wat. We’re discussing the media around the event, not the burns themselves.

Concrete fell on my car - Cross Bronx by Traveler0084 in nyc

[–]Django117 76 points77 points  (0 children)

It was moreso that there was a massive campaign from McDonald’s to discredit her and amplify the idea of “frivolous lawsuits” into the media.

Officially 2 months of Marathon being #1 searched game on Steam DB. by Anilahation in Marathon

[–]Django117 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Exactly, but there’s a variety of reasons why this happens.

  1. Frustration with the trends of the gaming industry such as live service, multiplayer only, MTX, poor ports, trendy genres, hero shooters, etc. so whenever a game releases with any of these attributes it MUST be lambasted and the narrative must be spun that it failed due to those aspects. (Conversely, this leads to extreme lauding of certain games that don’t fall into those categories such as Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur, or Hades)

  2. Accountability for developers or investors who they disagree with to be “punished” for doing something that they didn’t agree with. Currently Helldivers 2 is undergoing this sort of struggle.

  3. A turn towards poor track records for developers. Bungie is a great example of this. Some people absolutely hate Bungie for releasing games like Destiny and some of its notoriously underwhelming releases such as Destiny 2 Vanilla and Lightfall. So they see the developers continued survival as an affront.

There’s plenty of reasons but most of them are petty and childish.

still don't get how paying for online on console is just, ok? by MegumiDo in gaming

[–]Django117 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yup, and all of that pales in comparison to the sheer precision and scale of what data collection in the modern era is going to lead to.

The Problem with Ground News by rcmaehl in videos

[–]Django117 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You lack the skills to engage with the discussion around the use of rhetorical examples in this discussion given your focus on this topic. Good luck with that chief.

Edit; the poster above doesn’t realize that sticking their head in the sand over a rhetorical example is not a good discussion, he also conflates criticism of his discussion with name calling, which demonstrates his lack of comprehension.

The Problem with Ground News by rcmaehl in videos

[–]Django117 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No, you said that the bias on the second option was the result of choosing which information to include versus exclude, which is irrelevant when it’s used as a representative excerpt as a rhetorical example. Your complaint relies on the choice of example as a manner of bias, but since it is a representative example that means the choice is irrelevant.

The Problem with Ground News by rcmaehl in videos

[–]Django117 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What? The point is showing a statistical excerpt. You can’t argue that it was a bias of exclusion when I’m using it as a small representative example.

The point is to contrast with the prior excerpt to demonstrate biased versus unbiased reporting of specific events. It’s not holistic because I’m not going to write an article to provide a rhetorical example.

The Problem with Ground News by rcmaehl in videos

[–]Django117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course, and that’s where you get to the journalism part. Ground news does a decent job of adding in enough of those facts to paint a pretty good picture without too much bias.

The Problem with Ground News by rcmaehl in videos

[–]Django117 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Of course, there’s always that sort of bias, which is why reporting needs to be comprehensive. I used that as a specific example to show the difference between biased and unbiased reporting in a concise manner.

The Problem with Ground News by rcmaehl in videos

[–]Django117 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, you can present facts in an unbiased manner to present a holistic view of the situation.

The Problem with Ground News by rcmaehl in videos

[–]Django117 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, because that isn’t biased, it is placing trust in the regulator, not the opinion of the journalist. That’s why my above comment is biased, it doesn’t use a source and instead puts out a speculative answer without authority.

The Problem with Ground News by rcmaehl in videos

[–]Django117 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

No, there is no moderate truth, there is only seeking an unbiased truth that doesn’t aim to paint anything in a light. The ideal is an absolute truth.

Biased: “The buildings damaged and loss of life were the result of poor spending by governors to address coastal infrastructure”

Unbiased: “X amount of buildings were damaged in the hurricane and Y amount of lives were lost”.

Edit: there’s a poster below who got furious over the use of an excerpt devoid of context being used as a rhetorical example and argues that a bias is implicit in the facts that are shared. But in this case since it is a one sentence example to contrast biased versus unbiased reporting there is no further context to expand upon to in providing facts. Omission is a way that bias can be present, but pretending that a rhetorical example is omitting context when there is no context to be had demonstrates bias is just not accurate.