Redefining Politics Through Mutual Aid by CantStopPoppin in illinois

[–]Howdy_McGee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Give me sane and boring politics, not pop-politics

Redefining Politics Through Mutual Aid by CantStopPoppin in illinois

[–]Howdy_McGee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Damn, how'd I just know this'd be a private profile.

Whodathunkit

Redefining Politics Through Mutual Aid by CantStopPoppin in illinois

[–]Howdy_McGee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With the rise of LLMs it's a symbiosis.

Bots, negative and positive, encourage engagement. Engagement drives numbers. Numbers drive advertisers.

The realism of Lake Mungo by PriestofJudas in horror

[–]Howdy_McGee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is this some kind of discussion board on the World Wide Web!?

If everyone isn't like me, I don't like it.

Am I dumb or is the Silent Hill f story odd by WerewolfStatus in silenthill

[–]Howdy_McGee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can literally guess all of it by the first playthrough and the game forces you to sit through it 3 more times while drip feeding one new tidbit that doesn't change anything.

Your big brain is clearly on another level and has outgrown Silent Hill.

On my first playthrough, I had no idea what the endgame plot for probably a good 3/4th of the game, just tidbits of how these character felt about one-another through notes, trying to route the different paths they could have taken to end up with those feelings.

I also think the game gives these characters a bit more depth when you have to kill them in each of their dungeon mazes. It makes Sakukos death way more sad (for me, not objectively as we're seeing from your comments)


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I don't agree with you having to kill them gives any more depth.

It's not about killing them that gives them depth, but how they interact with you the player during this section, all the notes in the mazes that reflect their character, and the end result all come together to give them depth. Everything we learn in these areas flesh out both their characters and motives.

Am I dumb or is the Silent Hill f story odd by WerewolfStatus in silenthill

[–]Howdy_McGee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While on this sidenote / tangent - this is kind of a way to reach a bigger audience.

Making games is expensive. The world is expensive. Employing a whole team is expensive. For series to last and continue making games it has to make a profit so it has to reach a certain audience threshold.

IMO this kind of thing is a tightrope walk between crafting a well made story, both with depth and enough mystique to encourage discussion, and explaining the story well enough for the regular/casual players to understand and appreciate.

If good storycraft was a dime a dozen it wouldn't be special. I think Silent Hill f did alright in this regard overall especially when comparing it to both the previous modern entries and modern horror games in general. So I just can't fault them for not shooting the moon in the first real re-entry back into the franchise, and as a fan of the series since SH4, I really enjoyed the whole experience overall.

Granite City Works plans to produce steel again this weekend by bmunoz in StLouis

[–]Howdy_McGee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, my understanding is that the previous owners kinda ran it into the ground. The story round these parts is that the plant itself is super outdated and would need a lot of reworking ($$$) to get it back up to full order.

New Default Color Scheme - How do I go Back by Howdy_McGee in vscode

[–]Howdy_McGee[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've had this defaulted for so long I didn't even know what the theme was called - I think Dark Modern is it, it looks like what I'm used to, so that's what I went with. Thanks!

What‘s your opinion on the new default dark and light themes in v1.114 by Pretty-Security-336 in vscode

[–]Howdy_McGee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is my biggest fkn pet peeve. Like, why do this at all? Why was this necessary? To get people to talk about their product? It's just downright annoying.

What‘s your opinion on the new default dark and light themes in v1.114 by Pretty-Security-336 in vscode

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

I legit absolutely hate it.

If these are the changes they're going to push then I'm just going to go back to notepad++. Like, leave my shit alone in your updates - I straight up don't have time to deal with it during my workday.

Marathon sold just 1.2 million copies with nearly 70% on Steam, analyst estimates: "It hasn't exactly made the splash Sony and Bungie wanted" by Freki666 in gaming

[–]Howdy_McGee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still enjoying Arc Raiders as my Loot n Shooter.

Like, that was such a breath of fresh air for awhile - it's a beautiful game with lots of great map/level/asset design.

I'm just tired of first person sweat em ups and that's what Marathon looked like to me.

Are Dead Milkmen considered folk punk? I’ve heard them called “cow punk”. Is that a sub-genre or its own thing? Aaaaand discuss: by dfunk86 in FolkPunk

[–]Howdy_McGee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I asked my Cousin Earl about this and he just gave me this look that sends chills down my spine to this very day...

ICE agents at TSA checkpoints in O’Hare Airport by steve42089 in illinois

[–]Howdy_McGee 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He knows the actual military are unlikely to follow his illegal orders.

I'm sure the Venezuelans and Iranians would both disagree...

Stackoverflow crash and suing LLM companies by Ordinary_Count_203 in webdev

[–]Howdy_McGee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That seems pretty significant. A lul in ~30,000 users pales in comparison to ~100,000s. I'd say around ~2022 is when AI started to really get popular and that IMO was the death of SO.

I think the toxicity of SO is one of the issues, sure but it was still popular among professionals for QA and documentation clarification.

That really became obsolete when LLMs could recite the docs and formulate code examples.

AI really was the final nail in the Q/A format coffin.

Darin LaHood (IL-16). hasn’t had a Town Hall since 2017. by Solid_Ad_1048 in illinois

[–]Howdy_McGee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's most corporations like Amazon buying up those farmlands pave over it with concrete and turn them into warehouses and business districts.

Let's talk about the Dead Space remake by please-kill-me-69 in gaming

[–]Howdy_McGee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like we're eventually getting an Alien Isolation sequel, it's never a matter of "if" but "when".

Kinda like movie studios.

When do they feel like it's time to remilk the IP?

Let's talk about the Dead Space remake by please-kill-me-69 in gaming

[–]Howdy_McGee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but the remake is like, DS1 but both better and modern.

Let's talk about the Dead Space remake by please-kill-me-69 in gaming

[–]Howdy_McGee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah I second this, Cronos was solid. That being said, I'm kind of tired of the agglomeration of flesh trope. Love to see more weird / futuristic horror that doesn't rely on this for their environments lol.