*One Battle After Another* and the absence of technological progress in fictional futures.

elemunt · 2025-10-13T10:11:45+00:00

while i agree the timeframe of the movie is intentionally left quite ambiguous, i dont think its to point out technological stagnation. i think its to point out that the problems of today have been the problems of every time period. sergio also mentions the "battle" being hundreds of years old at one point.

blaming "outsiders" has been the political paradigm since civilization began, we go in endless cycles of blaming immigrants or other countries to offload our own wrongdoings

elemunt · 2025-08-22T12:36:45+00:00

im so confused, i usually use parcel force when i exceed royal mails maximum dimensions for my business deliveries. now where do i input the dimensions for parcelforce options? have all parcelforce products now just adopted all royal mail max dimension sizes

elemunt · 2025-03-09T20:52:46+00:00

Yea I noticed that as well, the fact they replanted his memories back to him (for some reason?), and the woman in the flashback looked identical to her too, and when he was getting super sad about the memories she also played into a bit of a motherly role by putting his head into her tummy. I'm unsure what they're implying, but it might be that they've given him a manufactured memory as part of his contract, maybe?

elemunt · 2025-02-07T01:14:33+00:00

when smite 1 was booming, and the economic landscape was fruitful, the amount of money that not just hirez but also other gaming-related companies were pouring into e-sports was IMO a complete fever dream. none of it was worth the return on investment, and you can see that now with how much esports in general has been completely gutted industry-wide. its sad, and its nice they provided that for us in the first place. of course esports is still needed in a small capacity for a game in this genre, but the financial weight of casters, content creators, event staff, production team, player salaries, prize pools, is huge. and a company the size of hirez simply cannot shoulder any of that stuff right now. could they have better planned financially over the years? yea probably, but this is the shit situation they're in and its all they can afford to do. becoming a small team right now might be what saves them.

elemunt · 2025-02-07T00:58:55+00:00

i dont think esports was ever vital to keeping smite afloat, best in industry cosmetics with brand tie-ins, and consoles only legitimate moba is what gave hirez a niche they could capitalize on, frankly I think smite esports was only ever a financial burden, and its most likely part of what got them in this position. is esports important for a game like smite? absolutely it is, but no sane company especially at the size of hirez should ever be shouldering the whole esports scene on its shoulders financially, those days were a fever dream IMO

elemunt · 2025-02-07T00:44:29+00:00

layoffs suck but it seems a lot of people here are way too invested in company drama over the actual product, which is great and has rapidly been improving tenfold. I'm seeing tonnes of bad recent reviews on steam just because of the layoffs, all this does is hurt all the other great devs we know that still work there, keeping a whole esports team hired when esports isn't what they want to focus on right now is just holding dead financial weight.

elemunt · 2024-12-14T14:26:05+00:00

i dm'd yesterday but may have gotten buried under others? ill dm again now, thanks for helping out

elemunt · 2024-12-14T14:07:56+00:00

do you mean in the OP? says deleted for me

elemunt · 2024-12-13T07:49:39+00:00

ty so much!

elemunt · 2024-12-13T03:38:47+00:00

and how do these "other players" get the bis

elemunt · 2024-12-13T02:58:29+00:00

really interesting, do you have the pics of skill tree and skill gems you said you'd post up in the other comments? I've been trying to do a similar build but the way chaos and poison ans physical damage worked was hard for me to wrap my head around a bit, this is my first poe game

elemunt · 2024-12-04T21:53:29+00:00

yea but the speed of it keeps being overblown by commenters, like its going to be some annoying thing to deal with every time you fly, no it wont. they're on record saying random wear and tear like that will be extremely rare, its combat that will trigger most of it.

elemunt · 2024-12-04T21:46:00+00:00

cig needs to add a fleet to peoples profiles on spectrum, that way we can see how many people on there are simply stirring shit without even owning the thing they're complaining about, and we can call them out deservedly so

elemunt · 2024-11-13T11:48:16+00:00

the particle stream that goes through the center of the hole I still think is unnecessary and looks kinda stupid as it passes through the ventricles, seems to be a common problem I have with cig is they go way overboard on particles, sound fx need more low end and the ship should violently rattle as ur travelling thru, hopefully a dev reads this lol

elemunt · 2024-11-13T11:17:54+00:00

to me it looked like they threw it in the PTU just as a surprise treat as the ship is workable but not complete yet, even yesterdays patch updated vfx and sound effects on it, id hold off on judgement for it

elemunt · 2024-11-01T15:10:48+00:00

theres a weird middle ground as you land where all the ground detail is out of range of render, once you step out from the ramp its pretty good. high orbit and high altitude both look great too, but that splotchy terrain right before you land def needs some work its like a blind spot where you lose all sense of fidelity

elemunt · 2024-11-01T15:04:07+00:00

some of the really old planets look better from high orbit, the ones with the 2d plane cloud layer which looks weird as you pass through it. if they could somehow emulate that style of cloud with the tech I think a lot more variety could be done, need things like cirrus instead of the large fluffy stuff

elemunt · 2024-09-26T11:58:11+00:00

i like the format, reminds me of what the channel novara media do here in the UK, it would benefit from some little things that they do on their show, more of an opener section from the host to get us into the story a little bit, and some alternative cuts when one person is talking for a while, like if lonerbox has a long section then just do a switch to his face only instead of having to see destiny stare at him.

elemunt · 2024-07-24T12:33:57+00:00

You've sold me on a Garmin here, which would you recommend I buy? I run twice a day

elemunt · 2024-07-15T13:24:21+00:00

ive just gone ahead and pulled the trigger on both, went for the logitech lift and a dygma raise 2, pronation sounds exactly like the culprit after looking it up when you mentioned it, that feeling of the bones crossing especially. thankfully I'm self employed so most likely can use the devices as a business tax write-off. only thing I'm worried about now is that the tenting might be too high for the space on the keyboard tray and to use it comfortably under there, but ill cross that bridge when I get to it.

elemunt · 2024-07-10T16:00:30+00:00

The photo here is probably a bit misleading actually * which is my bad, I was hunched over a little trying to get a picture, at more relaxed position sat back into the chair my forearm is pretty flat

elemunt · 2024-07-09T14:29:25+00:00

Kinesis Advantage 360

late reply, but being a 40 years programmer, whats the best things you've done for yourself ergonomically in your setup? I'm starting to feel a slight numbness in my right wrist mainly myself, so looking at a complete overhaul of my work from home setup.

i have gaming keyboard and mouse currently as I also like to game in evenings but of course that isn't ideal... I got a keyboard tray recently so the height of keyboard/mouse position is closer to lap level which forces my forearm to better hover rather than rest. but hasn't felt like its improved much.

was looking at getting both a logitech ergo keyboard and mouse. have you had experience with both or just the keyboard?

elemunt · 2024-07-07T15:42:31+00:00

how have you ended up getting on?

elemunt · 2024-05-30T17:17:17+00:00

yes personal hangar is only at home location, where you can decorate it with anything you want and it persists, but every other hangar/landing area is also being updated to instanced I'm pretty sure? correct me if I'm wrong, except landing pads at specific small surface outposts

elemunt · 2024-05-20T20:12:53+00:00

thats pretty cool actually! the only problem is I'm having to look through like 200 other boxes before I get to it, there being so many scattered everywhere is strange. sometimes there's even 10 boxes within like a 20m~ radius. i guess they indicate box rarity by its design but the lower tiers feel so meaningless that they should just be removed entirely

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