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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    9 months ago

    I’ve seen a number of allegations he’s groomed minors online, as well as a number of videos with other youtubers/twitch streamers where… he just suddenly shifts the conversation to pedophilia for no reason at all, and starts trying to get whoever he is talking to to admit that they are into it or would consider it.

    Very fucking weird and creepy shit.

    I don’t frankly care for the ‘its satire/performance art’ defence.




  • Alternate solution: Live in a studio apartment lol?

    Yeah, you’re on top of this and know your shit.

    I just originally wanted to point out that there are generally workable solutions in case you had no idea… but yeah, you know your shit, and with games that need both super low latency on input registry and display output… yep, basicslly you still gotta go wired.

    … Maybe get swoll, or put your existing PC on some kind of wheeled base, set a cable management situation with the living room TV and your room monitors and controller for just… moving the PC around?

    Yeah I can’t think of much more than that -.-

    Ofc building a second machine is also a reasonable solution if that fits your preferences/budget situation.


  • That all sounds about right, yeah, a DisplayPort cable would work… but basically yeah, there aren’t many (any?) TVs that have DP … ports, and a long DP cable can be fairly pricey…

    A … relatively cheap wireless solution might work if you dropped the resolution down to 2K or 1080, but it sounds like you’re going for 4k?

    But Im just spitballing, sounds like you know your setup and have looked into this.



  • 1: I agree that the remaining exclusives are still annoying, but it is quite a far cry from the 00s and early 10s, where … with some notable exceptions, basically only shovelware corpo IP slop was not console exclusive, and the norm was largely based on picking a console for a its game library as a huge factor, as almost everything super popular/good was exclusive.

    2: You… know you can set up some kind of streaming box or other wireless solution from your PC to your living room TV, right?

    I used to just carry my rig into the living room and hardwire connect it to my TV for certain occasions… now there are many ways to just do that wirelessly.

    I rocked a multi monitor set up that also included the TV in my room for a while as well, all hardwired, would just set up the TV as an optional 3rd monitor to put on movies and lounge on my bed.


  • … You’re right.

    People get abaolutely addicted to mtx, and at this point, you’d have to societally treat mtx, and legally regulate mtx like cigarettes, to actually address the problem.

    Todd may have… invented the potion, or uncorked the bottle… but way, way too many people just keep gulping it down.


  • Pretty much haha.

    I have distinct memories of… actually having to look away when Alyx first gets sent through Kleiner’s teleport in the beginning of HL2…

    Because my piece of crap eMachine could not handle the scene, when your view is centered on Alyx.

    It would ctd every single time time, the 100% reliable work around was to look at the ground before the screen flashing/color inversion thing happens… I’m pretty sure my rig just could not handle that ‘negative’ effect on top of the … bloomy, glowing sparks/lightning from the teleporter, at the same time.

    Other than only that scene in particular, the game ran well, lol.



  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNote: before tariffs
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    9 months ago

    I remeber seeing my lifelong, die hard Nintendo fan brother, play BotW.

    After watching for about 30 minutes, I said something like ‘oh neat, its like an open world, version of a Zelda game, with more voice acting, open world item durability mechanics, and Garry’s Mod style physics/build nonsense!’

    I meant it in earnest. I did think this was neat, though maybe the item durabilty values or mechanics could have been tweaked a bit, seems like you often spend a bunch of time just re-grinding for good weapons that break too fast, with no straightforward repair mechanic.

    But he thought this was entirely an insult.

    He rarely played non Nintendo games, hated online multiplayer and never played an open world survival craft game, had never played GMod, and seemed to actually think these were all revolutionary game design concepts.

    Meanwhile I’d been a mostly PC gamer since like 2003, played too much GMod, DayZ (back when it was an Arma 2 mod), and had even written some fairly comprehensive game modes (mods, basically?) for GMod, and had… just in general played a much wider variety of games.

    When he decided to finally get a gaming laptop, he found Black Mesa when it formally, fully released for $$$, and he entirely did not believe me when I said that I had actually chatted with some of their dev team before, waaaay back when Black Mesa was just an insane dream of a bunch of HL2 adjacent dorks, many of whom talked and argued on ModDB and the old Facepunch forums before Garry nuked them.

    … He also did not believe me when I told him I actually met, and took a picture with Ashley Burch at PAX, back when she was just Ash from ‘Hey Ash Watcha Playin?’, waaay before she became the voice of Aloy, and she and her brother did panels at PAX.

    Same with Jonathan Coulton, the guy who wrote the ending songs for Portal and Portal 2, which my brother now finally discovered in like … 2022? When he finally got a gaming laptop.

    I had the pictures, from a decade ago at that point, but he was so convinced I was lying he wouldn’t even look at them.


  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNote: before tariffs
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    9 months ago

    I mean, yes, but you need a … fairly out of comparable price range to a console, pc, to be able to emulate … most wiiU forward games? depending on specific game, your definition of a playable frame rate?

    I was trying to mostly focus on the ‘console wars’ aspect of the whole thing, and how official releases that were console exclusives a decade ago on an Xbox or PS… basically those all just come out on PC a few years later now, though there are a few exceptions to this, I think.

    Bringing emulation into the discussion makes the comparison exceptionally complicated, because PCs vary so much, in so many ways, and of course the legal … dark gray area, and how its often considerably more complicated than just plug and play.


  • Ah, my American is showing, assumed you were ‘one of us’ lol.

    Apologies.

    But uh yeah… we are completely fucked lol.

    EDIT: I still can’t wrap my head around how basically every American Asmongold viewer right now must be tying themselves in even more mental pretzels to avoid comprehending how they voted for the guy that just made not only video games and hardware instantly 30% more expensive, but also basically everything else they need to buy/pay regularly to keep their ‘Being a Living Human Being’ battlepass going.

    I just cannot grasp how stupid these idiots are, but there are somethingn like 100 million of them.




  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNote: before tariffs
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    9 months ago

    The Nintendo fanboys/girls are the real, true, ‘winners’ of the console wars mindset, the last holdouts.

    Almost nobody really gives a shit anymore to tie their personalities to Sony or MSFT… because basically, console exclusives don’t really exist, and almost everything is on PC as well.

    But Nintendo? Nope. The company still holds a death grip on their inhouse titles being exclusive to their consoles, and the nostalgia/stolckhom syndrome is apparently the strongest with the Nintendo crowd.

    It took almost a decade for people to finally be able to admit that GameFreak is basically incompetent. You could not say that even 5 years ago w/o a deluge of insults and arguments and special pleading.

    The cope is strong with these ones, Nintendo would never hurt them without a good reason for doing so.



  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCuddles!!!!
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    9 months ago

    When I was a kid in the 90s/00s, I was basically a shy nerdy (later to be determined as autistic) twink.

    Almost all my friends were girls, because… almost all the guys I knew were rude macho assholes.

    … I guess I am an outlier, possibly along with my friend group, but uh, I did get invited to, and attend, a good number of slumber/cuddle parties.

    I know this may sound unbelievable, but they really were just cuddling, no hardcore sexual acts.

    Well ok, one time a female friend of one of my female friends, who I hadn’t met before… we ended up making out and fondling each other, but our clothes stayed on, I swear!


  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerelation rule
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    9 months ago

    Yes.

    Marriage is to Concubinage, (Noun describing the nature of relationship status)

    as

    Married is to … Concubinary, roughly. (Adjective describing the person in the relationship)

    Its basically just that ‘concubine’ related terminology is quite uncommon in modern English… at least from my personal understanding, the more common, roughly equivalent term is ‘domestic partner’ and its derivatives, to describe people who live together (and often, have done so for a number of years) and are intimate, but not legally married… but that tends to imply a monogamous relationship, where ‘concubine’ tends to imply some kind of polyamorous situation, usually when a man already has a legal wife, and has an additional woman in the home, but also a legal power/status disparity between the man, wife and concubine.

    … The technical legal differences, as well as used terminology, between every kind of relationship status listed in the image… vary significantly from county to country and region to region.

    To illustrate this: I’d never even heard of a ‘free union’ before until I saw this, apparently that is roughly a French/European(?) term/equivalent for ‘domestic partnership’ or ‘common law marriage’ … but not quite…?