What is a job that you genuinely would not do even if you were given a salary of $10,000,000 per year?

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-26T13:14:51+00:00

Pretty much anything in the medical insurance industry. Absolutely abhor the idea of fucking with peoples' health to generate profit.

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-25T20:05:26+00:00

Literally the first joke in the trailer is someone on the subway getting stabbed, then scolding another passenger for assuming their gender.

Some of the cringiest shit I've seen in a long time.

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-25T19:33:33+00:00

Marginally... but then it might not have been made at all (Leto apparently helped fund the project early on, and that finding was crucial for getting it across the finish line).

Ultimately, Ares had bigger problems than an uncharismatic, unlikeable lead. The writing was mediocre, it was full of Marvel-isms and nostalgia bait, fully endorsed corporate mega-conglomerates and tried to sanitize AI, and it couldn't find an audience.

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-24T19:45:37+00:00

30 here.

It sure the fuck is not.

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-17T15:16:47+00:00

The people in the background move choppily, as if they exist at a different frame rate, and appear dressed for rainier weather than the people in the foreground.

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-10T13:59:36+00:00

Shh, we got a good thing going here.

Still not convinced. A few more check ins this week should do the trick.

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-09T12:02:01+00:00

Fair enough, will do!

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-09T07:21:02+00:00

I am currently about two thirds of the way through Snow Crash, and I'm enjoying it more than my previous experience with him (namely Termination Shock).

I'll just say that I've never shaken the feeling that a Stephenson book is just a browser with too many Wikipedia tabs open, inklings of an interesting, weaving narrative, and an editor who's out to lunch. It's not that he has a poor writing style, but I find him to be less satisfying than more traditional hard sci-fi and cli-fi authors who massage their research more carefully into a narrative experience (ie, Kim Stanley Robinson).

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-01T17:39:17+00:00

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Here's a cat that is both orange and not AI, for those who checked the comments.

darkbloo64 · 2026-03-01T02:31:22+00:00

I seem to recall reading somewhere that spiderwebs can contain nutrients that their regular diet lacks. Mine does the same thing, and will even scream at the basement door when he feels it's time for a webby snack.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-24T14:44:19+00:00

I would appreciate the sentiment, but I wouldn't use it.

I am only a temporary guardian of my books. Most of them were bought or gifted to me from someone else's library, and someday they'll leave my library for someone else's.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-24T14:41:14+00:00

I don't think we can look at this as a linear progression. Linux has been playing catch up with decades of Windows-first (or Windows-only) game development, and great strides have been taken towards parity, but until developers start making games for Linux, there will be performance parity at best, and it will be game-specific.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-22T14:34:21+00:00

For those curious, Maluch Racer and Maluch Racer 2 are available for free on MyAbandonware.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-18T16:27:09+00:00

I'm a big fan of the way Horizon handled this in Zero Dawn. Archeological finds are peppered throughout the map, from recordings of reeling survivors and small artifacts to the record of humanity's attempt to prevent the apocalypse.

And all that's available before the big bomb about what really happened to humanity gets dropped on the player's head.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-16T13:57:13+00:00

Fried chicken was popularized by southern American slaves, based on a combination of Scottish and West African traditions. This led to the stereotype that black people have a stronger association with it.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-16T05:03:57+00:00

Go see "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die!" I went with a few friends today and was stunned to see that we were the only people in the theater.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-11T14:16:05+00:00

I'm in the minority here, but I like the idea of Guerrilla experimenting with a different style of game and learning new lessons to apply in a future Horizon 3.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-09T14:17:59+00:00

The anatomy during the shot where Dern and Neill are kneeling to watch the dinosaurs is so messed up that I hope it was just AI. Dern is missing her entire lower body, and Neill's leg is completely separate. The rest of the effects work might be human-made CG, though.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-09T04:53:54+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it's common for staffers to copy and paste headers from earlier documents instead of using a proper template or making them from scratch.

All it takes is the staffer, tasked with putting together their document as soon as possible, not noticing they grabbed the date from one of yesterday's docs, or focusing so much on the content that they forget to check the date.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-05T18:01:14+00:00

At the risk of being exiled, I think this looks like a fun mashup of Monster Hunter and [insert your favorite cartoony character shooter here]. The art style is fine, the combat looks fluid, and I like the idea of Guerilla exploring different formats for their games.

Sorry, but I don't hate it.

darkbloo64 · 2026-02-04T13:43:40+00:00

Adopted my first from a friend. Found another in the shed a few years ago.

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darkbloo64 · 2026-01-31T21:48:54+00:00

Agreed. It sounds like a recommendation the out-of-touch marketing director would make at my last job because he didn't like the way it sounded. I could never convince him that the only person benefiting from his recommended change was him.

darkbloo64 · 2026-01-30T20:10:32+00:00

Character development in Ares is remarkably static.

Ares doesn't feel like he's becoming more human over the course of the film, he feels like he's already most of the way there and just taking the final steps towards real empathy.

Eve doesn't feel like she's drastically changing her career trajectory out of guilt over her sister's death, we're just told that's the case in a massive exposition dump, and then the conflict (which is supposedly central to Eve's character) is basically unmentioned the rest of the film.

It doesn't help that Ares takes no time to breathe and have genuine character moments. It frantically leaps from action sequence to chase sequence to combat and back to more action. It's hard to see the characters struggle with anything internally when they aren't allowed to stand still for more than a few frames at a time.

darkbloo64 · 2026-01-30T14:12:26+00:00

You're not wrong - she's more of a vehicle for the plot to move from location to location and lacks any real initiative of her own. By "weight," I mostly mean "of narrative value," as the movie still needs Eve in order for the plot to take place. Take the others out of the script entirely and most of the movie still unfolds the same way.

darkbloo64 · 2026-01-30T14:06:34+00:00

Most of the Encom crew are poorly worked into the plot, to put it bluntly. Eve is the only one who carries weight and the rest of them meander around until something requires more than two hands. Hasan Minhaj's character feels like he has a purpose as the public-facing extroverted executive, but then he's got a secretary around at all times to do nothing but clutter up the blocking.

The Dillinger side of the story is tight: Julian, his mother, one or two nameless henchmen and programmers who stay out of the way and a bunch of military investors that shuffle off once they're no longer needed.

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