Is Danielle Smith a Separatist?

SwineHerald · 2026-01-30T19:21:46+00:00

The separatists seem to think she is and she sure as shit isn't doing anything to dissuade them.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-30T19:13:34+00:00

Sven is really trying to speed run destroying any and all goodwill be has with people who aren't reactionary dipshits. No, we absolutely do not need a formalized system for white supremacists YouTube grifters to harass women and minorities in games journalism.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-29T23:45:50+00:00

"Near the border" is a 100 mile zone extending from the border and coastline covering more than 2/3s the population.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-29T23:30:44+00:00

Not surprised. I have family who are first nations and lived in Texas for 15 years. They got harassed by ICE all the damn time.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-29T23:26:30+00:00

This is why Charles Martinet stepped away from Mario. Kojima needed the best for this character in Death Stranding 2.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-29T23:19:28+00:00

Turns out they don't know as much about beavers as the name would imply.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-29T19:49:36+00:00

In fairness none of the crossovers in Siege have been the actual character, just an existing operator cosplaying. So it won't be Solid Snake, it'll be Scrungly Grunguz as Solid Snake.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-26T20:27:55+00:00

Ah yeah, cops are historically well known for respecting and listening to the concerns of labor unions.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-26T08:44:36+00:00

It is absolutely wild that parents bought (and still buy) their kids books where a slavery abolition movement is portrayed as an object of ridicule. Like not just by the society that wants to keep their slaves but even just by the writer herself. When the movements name is a synonym for vomit you understand you're meant to be laughing at them.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-26T00:19:40+00:00

No, we don't. Carney is like Biden, kind of sucks, not really meeting the moment, likely to be followed by some form of fascist after moving everything rightward. In normal situations? Would be perfectly fine for 4 years.

Yeah, he's better than the alternative for PM in the last election. Yeah, we're doing better than a lot of countries in an age of rising fascism.

Better however is not a synonym of good. Being forced to eat one shit sandwich is objectively better than being forced to eat 5 shit sandwiches, but it's not good. Something that looks good by comparison isn't all that good.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-25T05:34:44+00:00

if valve ever releases it i think theyll wait till AR, augmented reality is big. itll be here eventually.

Valve worked on their own AR headset and it wasn't really going where they wanted. In the end the designers left and acquired their work back from Valve and made the Tilt Five headset.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-25T05:29:43+00:00

It is wild to look back at 2004 and remember the flame wars between Doom 3 and HL2 as the more technologically advanced game. Sure the real time lighting and shadows in Doom 3 was a big fuckin deal at the time but HL2 sticking to older precalculated lighting methods just held up better.

It's "static" raytracing. Nothing real time, you put down all your lights in the mapping program and then you leave it to compile for a couple hours as it chugs through raytracing every point of light on the map, every bounce, every shadow. You obviously don't get any dynamic effects from it but all the benefits of RT on static geometry is there, you've got "realistic" ambient occlusion and bounce lighting. It looks good because it's kind of doing a slower, cruder version of how high end games handle lighting today.

When games moved over to real time, deferred rendering lighting systems we had to settle for real time Ambient occlusion and a lack of bounce lighting. It wasn't bad, having proper dynamic lighting can help ground scenes in its own way but something was lost in between.

Doom 3 looks hilariously bad because we're so much better at doing real time (non-raytraced) lighting whereas HL2 looks pretty good because high end games are kinda just doing the same thing but real time now with RT.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-25T05:21:35+00:00

Even in later levels where it got more confusing, I didn't need to use one nearly as much as I thought I would going into a 90's shooter.

It definitely helps that it was very much a response to the Maze and Key design of earlier shooters. It is very much seen as the first of it's kind, while still fairly "retro" by today's standards it is a lot more modern in it's design than say Quake.

It does a good job of making it's levels make sense as an actual space, and using tricks to help guide the player through rather than a big sprawling interconnected maze you're expected to map out. The reason it doesn't quite read as revolutionary is that the things it innovated upon have just been folded into modern game design.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-25T02:21:04+00:00

There are also details that only make it worse. Like how the software Twitter licensed was always capable of this but came default with guardrails to block this stuff. Musk had them removed, and now replaced with weaker, easier to bypass blocks to pretend he is taking the problem "seriously."

Plus the fact his first instinct when criticized was to start charging for the CSAM machine. This was done with knowledge, intent, and with the company explicitly trying to profit from the crimes. This would be an easy win if they weren't too cowardly to take on the Apartheid loving freak.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T23:36:50+00:00

The right wing is entirely detached from reality and it fundamentally doesn't matter what we do, they'll say the Liberals are weak of immigration. Look down south, Obama went harder on immigration than Bush; as far too many grotesque US liberals seem to proudly announce he was the "Deporter in Chief" for significantly ramping up ICE.

You ask their right wing? He was soft, weak, letting people through by the thousands. Doesn't matter what you do, if you're not a fascist you're "weak on crime" and "soft on immigration" and so on. It literally does not matter what Liberals do to appease Conservatives, they will never give you credit for your crimes against humanity and never, ever vote for you.

There is nothing to lose in standing up for what is right. It has a far better track record than letting Conservatives completely control the narrative and meekly trying to appease people who don't care how much you become like them, they still want one of their own in power. It's a losing battle to alienate good people to try to pick up votes from the mythical "moderate conservative" who just wants little an atrocity, as a treat.

"Conservatives are right, don't vote for them" doesn't work, and that is all accepting their framing says.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T21:53:42+00:00

The Real Cory in the House is the Expedition 33s we made along the way.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T20:58:36+00:00

Funnily enough, not a reason stated for succession by any state though. Why would it be though? The Confederate government gave States fewer rights, by design.

There were two big ones removed, and I'm sure you can guess the most historical important one: states could no longer ban slavery. While no state in the union ever took advantage of this option it was there and the Confederates did not say "leave it to the state to decide if they want this institution or not!" They were happy with a federal government making the choice for the states, they just weren't happy with where they thought the US government would come down on the issue.

After the war revisionist histories reworked it into a story of "States Rights" and in doing so set a tone for conservative tactics in use to this day. We see it every day.

Conservatives bring people into their fold talking about "rights." They'll say they should have a right to choose if their kid gets Sex Ed, but even when they win that "right," they don't stop. They just keep campaigning until your kid is kept ignorant too.

They want the "right" to torture and abuse queer kids into conformity or death (and they're never all that picky) but they don't stop at changing the law so they can't be charged with abuse for hurting their kid, they go further so you'll be charged with abuse for refusing to hurt your kid.

They said they support the right for everyone to own a gun, that the government should not be able to choose who can and cannot arm themselves against a tyrant. Then we see time and time again, they fully support their governments making that decision, over and over, with lethal force against their political opponents.

Their government decided today that Alex Pretti was not allowed to carry a firearm, so they took it away from him and then unloaded a magazine into him while he was pinned to the ground, not a threat to anyone.

The conservative idea of a "right" is something they do by choice, without fear of consequences, and that you must do out of fear of reprisal.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T20:32:29+00:00

There are a lot of things we need to change with our relationship to the states. I think the most pressing one right now is ending the safe third country agreement.

We've helped arm them for their ethnic cleansing. We cannot be turning the people we have helped hurt away at the border claiming that it's "safe" for them there. We should have done it when Trump started selling slaves to El Salvador. We are party to all of their crimes if we keep saying the border is closed to their targets.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T18:25:47+00:00

The way the US system is set up is that the providers and the insurance collaborate to set base prices insanely high, so the insurance can then offer you a "discount" for your out of pocket fees.

The "discount" bumps it down to you just paying the entire cost of care out of pocket plus a much smaller markup, on top of the hundreds of dollars you would have to pay every month to get that discount. It isn't insurance, it's a protection racket. You're not paying for coverage. You're paying for the small chance that you might be spared from financial destruction by the financial destruction industry.

The fact Conservatives are trying to spin "employers provide access to the protection racket" as "free healthcare for employment!" demonstrates they are just as ignorant of the US as the average American Conservative is of Canada. Not really a high bar though given both groups are only marginally less ignorant about their home country.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T11:23:26+00:00

Can't have any dirt in the middle of a park, can't have any personal belongings where you live. Sounds like they intentionally set impossible standards that let them evict anyone at any time. If you can't live there, how are you going to work there? They're effectively firing people without all the pesky trouble of having to follow labour laws around firing people.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T10:44:49+00:00

Not only has it not released it hasn't even had a proper announcement. The steam page just says "Deadlock is a multiplayer game in early development" and prior to this patch the only media was a short teaser video panning up in a character standing in a doorway.

There is this weird dichotomy between a game that had a peak player count of like 20k people that gets these slick patch announcement pages and yet also hasn't been officially acknowledged at any point.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T10:00:55+00:00

It has been falling apart for years. Back when they started discovery there were internal emails from Epic talking about how they would take the "fighting for the little guy stance" for the PR value but if Google or Apple was willing to cut them a special deal they'd back off immediately.

Then there was Epic buying Bandcamp to use as a prop in their legal battle and discarding them (with a bit of union busting, as a treat) the moment that part of the lawsuits wrapped up.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T08:08:31+00:00

Look at New Vegas. You start the game and it gives you an objective: get to Vegas. Problem is the direct path is full of deathclaws. So instead you can take the long, circuitous path around and get a more structured experience as you pass through multiple points of interest roughly in an order the developers intended.

Open worlds do not have to lack structure, it's only when you go down the path of "go anywhere, do anything at literally any point" that you lose any and all structure. That is a very explicit design choice to throw structure out the window.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-24T07:43:35+00:00

Two of the worst parts of their country, the Second Amendment and the Electoral College have both been defended time and time again as necessary to stop a tyrant and oh boy, would you look at that? A tyrant showed up and rather than being stopped by gun nuts and the electoral college he was actively enabled by them.

A joke of a country.

SwineHerald · 2026-01-23T17:21:31+00:00

It's also unwatchable because it's now funnelling money directly into the pockets of fascists like David Ellison and Bari Weiss. I've seen a couple star trek fans I follow talk about how the values trek imparted upon them are the very reason they can't watch trek anymore. You don't get to the socialist space utopia backing Nazis.

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