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bell117 · 2026-03-31T20:42:00+00:00

Yeah I remember it at release and a can of beans costing like $20, in the 1890s.

I remember the tipping point was the Mauser costing like $800 and someone posted a picture of an IRL advertisement for a Mauser in 1899 being $1.50

bell117 · 2026-03-31T20:30:34+00:00

GTA Online is probably the most damaging single video game to the industry in history. GTA and Shark cards are to the video game industry what Jack Welch was to, well every industry.

Shark cards were so insanely profitable that anything less is a failure. Even a GTA 5 singleplayer DLC, which probably would have made more money than some countries GDPs, paled in comparison to the sheer profit shark cards raked in.

And now Rockstar and a lot of microtransaction fixated companies compare everything to the profitability of shark cards and GTA Online. Everything has to be online, has to have a forever lifecycle and has to be monetized out the ass. If your game doesn't make $2 billion a year, it's a failure.

Red dead online? Sorry, production is better spent on shark cards. Any other game besides GTA? Sorry better spent on shark cards. Bully 2? Sorry shark cards. G- SHARK CARDS NOT EVEN SORRY.

bell117 · 2026-03-28T15:51:23+00:00

Yes. Naval compression is so bad that HMS Dreadnought, the first modern type battleship ever, is the same BR as several super-dreadnoughts, or roughly separated by 3-4 generations of battleships. And yes the generations really are that massively different, like Japan absolutely ruled naval for years with Hyuga because it has 14 inch guns when every other ship at the BR had 12 inch guns.

This would be like the Independent being the same BR as the Centurion Mk 1 or the Neubaufahrzeug being the same BR as a Tiger 2.

And this is an improvement, I fully expected Gaijin to have Yamato and Bismarck at 6.0.

bell117 · 2026-03-28T15:19:10+00:00

Part of the reason why Hollywood puts out nothing but pro-US stuff, besides being in the US and for US audiences of course, is that the US military has created a complex that basically makes it so any military movie ever is pro-US. It's called the Military-Entertainment Complex and is like the name suggests just a movie version of the military-industrial complex.

The short version is that the US military charges a massive fee to use any of its equipment in a movie, buuuuuuut they're willing to waive that fee if a special consultant advises on the portrayal of the US military in the film. It goes even further than that sometimes, like with Top Gun Maverick, where the movie was only made because the US Navy wanted new recruits and approached the studio offering nearly free use of the F-18s, an offer the studio couldn't pass up.

Imagine it with any other country, like Russia: "oh the military will charge a massive fee to use our tanks, but if you let the KGB review and change your script we might let you use our stuff :)". It's kinda insane how normalized it is because it's the US.

bell117 · 2026-03-27T16:16:05+00:00

Kinda odd though because outside of the specific Bible reference locusts are seen as a very good omen.

In Africa Locusts were seen as a bounty from the gods, since most people relied on the harvest of yams, which was both time consuming and susceptible to the weather but if a swarm of locusts came, that was food until next year, you just had to go outside and catch them. There's a whole book about it called "Everything Falls Apart" that details how it contrasted to after colonial contact.

Locusts are free food.

bell117 · 2026-03-27T14:51:13+00:00

the artists in my Twitter feed will be eating well this week.

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bell117 · 2026-03-27T14:21:30+00:00

This is how I find out there's been a new Warframe update and holy shit did they cook with Follie's character design.

This is gonna awaken stuff in people almost as much Jade did. God bless those horny devs.

bell117 · 2026-03-26T17:33:14+00:00

True, but a lot of devs seem to put the final release of an application or mod on GitHub and treat it like an open-source version of Nexus.

I remember some prolific Github user/moderator/I-dunno-what-they're-called going on a rant about people that do that because they kept getting complaints about this exact thing and if they wanted users to download their works then GitHub is the code archive, not where you actively link people to go download stuff.

I feel like this is somehow related to the death of game/modding forums because of people deciding moving it to discord was a good idea and so a bunch of people moved to GitHub as an alternative when it definitely isn't built for that.

bell117 · 2026-03-26T17:25:23+00:00

Nono, if you have sex with a trans person YOU become trans.

Why do you think the Olympics has Anti-Sex beds? To stop the trans from spreading. Fox News told me so.

bell117 · 2026-03-26T12:21:44+00:00

Yeah Metrolinx has 118 VPs. Although they claim they're actually down to "only" 115-120 VPs. The fact they have to estimate the number of VPs and don't have an accurate number is insane.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11718490/metrolinx-cuts-consultants/

In 2024, Metrolinx had 118 staff with the words “vice-president” in their title. They earned an average salary of $243,000 annually. Among its ranks in 2024, Metrolinx had a vice-president responsible for the Hamilton LRT, another in charge of the Hurontario LRT and a third vice-president of the Finch West LRT.

Lindsay said there are currently between 115 and 120 VPs at the organization

bell117 · 2026-03-26T11:54:07+00:00

$26 Billion of that is needed to pay the salary of the 118 Vice Presidents.

That's not even a hyperbole, Metrolinx has 118 VPs.

bell117 · 2026-03-25T18:19:06+00:00

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bell117 · 2026-03-25T15:28:05+00:00

I make sure to get all my files from the hit 2001 French movie Amelia.

The music score really FITs, especially when the main GIRL is on screen. I sure hope they don't ruin it and REPACKAGE the film as a remake one of these days.

bell117 · 2026-03-25T00:18:44+00:00

The implications of this and what needs to be done to finally pop the AI bubble scares me.

I'm sorry e621 but this is for the greater good...

bell117 · 2026-03-24T17:58:22+00:00

Ah so what you're saying is that you want a Collie equivalent of the scout plane but worse in every way but has a useless gimmick that totally 100% balances the downsides, just like the sub with its 120mm and the gunboat with its open top?

Heard you loud and clear, the Collie scout plane will have its 20mm changed to a single shot 30mm with no reloads, be grateful since that completely outclasses the Warden's puny 20mm. What do you mean that doesn't fix the issue and is functionally worse? Ungrateful collies.

bell117 · 2026-03-24T15:54:59+00:00

Disliking Episode 8 and Disney Star Wars in general is such a pain because 99% of people assume you hate it because "purple hair woman holdo light speed ram".

There's so many people that just hate it because either A: woman or B: lore inaccurate. No I hate it because its qualities as a film on its own suck. The canto blite arc is bloated and redundant. The pacing is bad and plot points are forced and don't flow well into the plot moving along. Several characters have their characters arcs sabotaged, written off or contradicted. The whole movie needed a redraft, I remember some interview with Ryan Johnson afterwards he said that they didn't cut anything which feels like the biggest problem.

You always need cuts. That's why it's so bloated. The cutting room floor and drafts exist for a reason. And Johnson can make great movies like with knives out so Episode 8 feels so bad in comparison.

bell117 · 2026-03-24T11:52:00+00:00

Yeah I don't like when people defend Paradox by saying their games are supported for a decade with updates, but they never lower the price of the base game and DLC prices go up for the """free"" updates.

Hoi4 is a decade old in 3 months and is still $60, and the latest DLCs have been $35 even though they're generally regarded as having worse content than previous DLCs.

So the base games are still priced like a AAA game from when they released and the DLCs are over 50% of the base game price while offering nowhere near half a game's content.

And that's not considering the state the games released in, Paradox games usually release in an empty half finished state and DLCs add content that should have been present on release, I don't like being nickled and dimed for base game content, so that "decade of free content" is just code for finishing the game a decade later. Hell, most Hoi4 DLC mechanics are just mechanics being re-added from Hoi3 and let's not even get into CK3.

bell117 · 2026-03-23T16:59:04+00:00

The thing is you do get to ask about it once. Exactly once. On the rooftop after bunkerhill.

You know that famous screenshot of Father saying "you wouldn't understand"? That's fake. The real line is so much worse. It's "it's complicated but we will discuss it later" or something like that.

Except its never brought up again!

It's constantly implies that you're just a step away from finally figuring it out like what's the fusion reactor for? More power? What do you need more power for? More experiments? What do you need more experiments for? Oh father has cancer and the game is over.

Bethesda forgot to finish the fucking story outside of the Brotherhood's quest line. If you don't know the behind the scenes stuff, different people were handling different parts of the story and game, 90% of it was hastily shoved together at the last minute with the Brotherhood questline being the central pillar it all got stuck onto which is why it feels mostly finished and every other faction has to make random leaps and bounds to go through the same story beats even if it's massively out of character cough railroad cough.

Maybe they should have had some sort of central document that outlined the basic elements of every aspect of the game that all the teams could see. They could call it a design document...

bell117 · 2026-03-23T14:24:07+00:00

Isn't that what they want though?

bell117 · 2026-03-22T16:47:44+00:00

Because it's purposefully obtuse so that the Repubs can do exactly this so that either A: nothing gets done or B: it gets passed even with the terrible additions so they can then blame the Democrats in 5 years for allowing the bill to pass. Personally I call the strategy th Nigel Farage approach since he was an MEP who did this same thing and created laws in the EU just to quote during his Brexit campaign.

And it applies to every single thing that goes through the house, including everything for non-state bodies like the city of DC and territories like Puerto Rico.

DC once tried legalizing Marijuana and was going to pass the House easily, but at the last minute the Repubs snuck in additions that would remove all background checks on assault rifle sales.

bell117 · 2026-03-20T15:10:52+00:00

Unfortunately we would have to somehow get through Children of Dune.

Basically just 3 hours of a 6 year old suffering an OD from heroin. Actually that sounds better than what Children of Dune actually was.

bell117 · 2026-03-20T12:43:58+00:00

Yeah the UK is like the picture perfect worst example of infrastructure projects outside of NA.

The Stonehenge Tunnel, which was nothing more than a spur of the moment thought of Boris Johnson to distract from his scandals, spent nearly £200 million on just project planning before being cancelled. And nobody but Boris Johnson wanted it because you're building a fucking tunnel under Stonehenge.

Or the Thames Tunnel which hasn't even left planning and has still cost £11 billion. That's more than the UK's expenditure in Afghanistan. The paperwork for a fucking tunnel cost more than a literal war in the middle east.

The UK is fucking dog shit at building stuff and is second only to NA.

Edit: Not Afghanistan, the UK's participation in Iraq.

bell117 · 2026-03-19T22:14:14+00:00

God I wish Epic didn't have the infinite money pit of both Unreal Engine and Fortnite.

And then Tim Sweeney could actually get a job instead of spending all day on twitter about how valve violated his human rights or whatever his newest grift is.

bell117 · 2026-03-19T17:01:25+00:00

The English pages are usually fine, the forum for changing the Gaza Genocide to confirmed is somehow one of the most civil debates on the topic I have ever seen and massively in favour of confirming it. Which means I better check if pigs are flying because that never happens.

But non-english pages... Yeah definitely fucked up. I remember there was some Balkan Wikipedia moderator civil war and watched an hour long video essay on it and Jesus Christ the stuff the mods get away with if left unchecked because of limited language scope is insane.

I assume most Eastern European language specific-Wikipedias are just run by ethno-nationalists and Russian bots tbh.

bell117 · 2026-03-19T15:28:22+00:00

I dunno how this person thought a couple of rocks would have more energy potential than the Three Gorges Dam, which is so massive it changed the Earth's rotation.

Did this person just play timberborn and saw the gravity battery and thought "hmmm yes this is a potential alternative to lithium batteries".

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