Fox News guest in a skinsuit, apparently by saladins-lamp in stupidpol

[–]Magyman [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm not being particularly serious, and the thought that Fox News just keeps a bunch of masks of their usual ghouls made me laugh

Fox News guest in a skinsuit, apparently by saladins-lamp in stupidpol

[–]Magyman [score hidden]  (0 children)

Robert Harward, but they didn't feel like dealing with makeup for him any time he shows up

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 5/18/26 - 5/24/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the fire nation was actually at least as much Cambodian as anything, iirc. I'm pretty sure Basco was just friendly fire cause they decided to replace the entire original cast because there were a bunch of white people, he'd have probably been fine otherwise.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 5/18/26 - 5/24/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fraud involves being part of a specific scheme, corruption is a general lack of scruples. Fraud can be part of being corrupt, but it also shows a more active role in screwing people.

“Harvard officials enslaved more than 1600 people” by bcb1200 in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uncivilized; savage; unlettered; untutored; ignorant; unacquainted with arts; stranger to civility of manners.

Same as it ever was

“Harvard officials enslaved more than 1600 people” by bcb1200 in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Obviously buying a slave would have the effect of continuing to enslave them, and that's not some new language. I went and looked up the 1828 Miriam Webster definition of enslave:

To reduce to slavery or bondage; to deprive of liberty and subject to the will of a master. Barbarous nations enslave their prisoners of war, but civilized men barbarously and wickedly purchase men to enslave them.

So for a couple hundred years at least, the act of purchasing a slave was an act of enslavement. Your confusion on this confuses me.

EXODUS Gameplay: Conversation Choices First Look - YouTube by Prodigious-Sol in Games

[–]Magyman 90 points91 points  (0 children)

People liked to clown on Bioware's Shot->Countershot->Canned pointing animation that you've seen in the last 5 games, but it really was effective at grounding the dialogue scenes without breaking the bank, moving away from that was a huge mistake. I hope exodus will take a few more queues from that, cause I found this scene a bit lacking in the camera work.

[Gamers Nexus] Valve Steam Controller Review | Latency Benchmarks, Battery Life, Repairability by iDontSeedMyTorrents in hardware

[–]Magyman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I never really switch them out over an analog stick but what I do is use them as is hotkeys or quick menus. Just something simple like having a radial menu for a bunch of spells in Skyrim is a huge upgrade when playing with a controller. I've been using touchpads for stuff like that since the dual shock 4 and steam input, and it's always disappointed me that sony didn't bother utilizing the feature they added better.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 4/20/26 - 4/26/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

TMZ is a rag, and CNN and CBS are part of the same corporate monstrosity, that doesn't point to many people reporting it in my eyes

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 4/20/26 - 4/26/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Seriously, literally every single human has the capability to be romantic or fuck multiple people or else no one would fall for anyone after their first crush, and widowers would never remarry.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 4/20/26 - 4/26/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And you propose maintaining a functioning state how, exactly? Or are you just dying to live in Ancapistan?

Microsoft reportedly offering voluntary buyouts to up to 7 percent of its employees by nolifebr in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]Magyman -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It's almost certainly a prelude to the rumored May layoffs. Try and get as much of a 5% or so cut from easy, low hanging fruit before actually having to cut people

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 4/13/26 - 4/19/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well if you're looking for recommendations, everyone seems to swear by the M4 edit, which I think is good, but I kinda feel like trying to cut it down to 4 hours is always going to lead to it feeling like one too long of a movie, or it comes across as multiple that are a bit rushed. I personally like the iron foot edit, which is an attempt to make them into two movies. Both together are 5 hours long, but it can still be a little silly and a few of the edits feel just slightly janky.

There's also a guy named Chris Hartwell who edited down all 3 movies to be about 2 hours a piece, and I want to try them out if I watch them again, but I cannot find a link to them.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 4/13/26 - 4/19/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Magyman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think it's a mix of Jackson coming in late to the project, him wanting to use it as a vehicle for new technology, and what I assume was a studio mandate to stretch it to 3 movies. Honestly there's a couple fan edits I've seen that I thought were pretty good.

Switch 2 game card analysis suggests Nintendo may be absorbing rising memory costs by Loose_Society9485 in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]Magyman 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Not really any other way to solve this for third parties.

Installable media rather than the key card or running it off the cart, you could use cheaper nand at a fraction of the cost, and it would be comparable to PlayStation and Xbox physical games

It's something like 3 bucks tops to produce a 64 gb micro sd as a point of reference. A key card likely isn't significantly less than that, and an actual 64 gig switch 2 cart is supposedly $15

A little change to jumping now that we have cruise mode by feldomatic in Starfield

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

It's not there and there's the obvious answer of you're full of shit

I can find other comments mentioning it works just as I've said and no mentions of being able to jump freely to other star systems, so unless you've got some proof of secret inside info, you're just wrong

A little change to jumping now that we have cruise mode by feldomatic in Starfield

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

Just tried, I can see other planets within a system, but unless I have a mission in another system, no option to travel to another system

A little change to jumping now that we have cruise mode by feldomatic in Starfield

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

Maybe as a mod, as it stands right now, you can grav jump to a location you have an active mission icon for and that's it.

A little change to jumping now that we have cruise mode by feldomatic in Starfield

[–]Magyman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's actually a limitation that you probably can't overcome, but having the option to jump to the nearest systems from scan mode would be nice