SlothMama

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Russia Launches Multiple ICBMs in Major Nuclear War Drill: A Breakdown of Each Missile Class Involved in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Yes, lots. This isn't North Korea or Iran here, Russia absolutely has advanced rocketry and has for decades.

How many users have you blocked? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I haven't blocked a single anything, but I don't feel like I've had a reason to or even run into anything questionable so far.

I don't understand why it seems so common. Are people having issues on other servers?

What are some popular criticisms you see about any show/movie/videogame that you strongly disagree or you just don’t think it’s really a bad thing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Forspoken is low key incredible and like, exactly one sound bite sealed it's fate, once it became a meme, people already made up their mind about it.

It was one of the best games I played last year and I found the story to be compelling and the gameplay fresh.

I think it'll be regarded as a hidden gem in the future unironically.

Iran is extremely hostile to LGBTQ+ people. It's also a global hub for gender-affirming surgery. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The conceptual framework is entirely different though. It's regarded as a treatment for homosexuality at worst, or at best medical treatment of a birth defect.

Iran isn't a hub for transgender surgery because they have the same idea about what transgender means as the US does, it's more like they accept the idea that some men were supposed to be born as women and they concede it to be a medical issue that demands treatment.

My words aren't explaining it the best, but I'm familiar with the mentality and the ideas that prop up that mentality.

Oblivion Horse Armour dev looks back on hated DLC – “We had no idea what we were doing” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago

I was working in the industry at the time and people absolutely talked about the implications of microtransactions and how it would result in more expensive games and being nickel and dimed.

Like, I distinctly remember conversations with actual human beings from exactly the horse armor DLC and maybe we didn't think it was going to result in, say the online shooter battle pass formula exactly, but we without ambiguity understood that meaningful in game items, and things like levels / experience would be monetized.

The biggest shocks to me were how patches would be used to reduce the game testing cycles, enabling companies to print incomplete or broken versions of games, requiring day one patches.

It's a disgusting practice now, and it was then too.

YSK: At the current rate of consumption there's only 50 years worth of oil left in the world in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, yes, but there is a finite amount, we just don't have the ability to accurately gauge how finite. We also created new techniques for extraction and technology changed to enable those new techniques.

The information was good at the time, but it won't get better at the same rate, we're closer to the truth now than we were before because of advancement.

Anyway, my point is the new estimate is much closer to true than the one your comparing it to.

Biden administration writes to Israel demanding it improve Gaza humanitarian situation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure it's strongly worded, almost a condemnation if you will

Alright guys, who shut down their farmbot yesterday? Loss of 70k users (5%), graph might be misleading in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's the only way to demonstrate the fall, of you did it at scale it would've even be noticeable.

Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What portion of potential buyers? I am, for example, no longer considering a Tesla because of Musk, but I doubt very many others are truly consciously avoiding them for ideological reasons ( pertaining to Musk )

Rule of owning in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've been trying to tell people for years this is how it actually works, now they're being ultra transparent about it so maybe people will actually care.

People that were in Hurricane Milton, how was it and how are you doing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm curious ( I'm not in FL )

So it rapidly decreased in intensity a hour or so before landfall? I know someone near Tampa that they lost their car and home, but overall damage is significantly less than what happened in the Carolina mountains from Helene, is that correct?

Any ideas why it deintensified so? Is it worse than I understand? Pretty much everywhere reads like this ended up being far less destructive than anticipated, but that the anticipated storm and destruction would have been record setting.

Is it okay to fake Vitiligo makeup for a cosplay?? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Such weird reasoning - people ask because they don't know outside of their own limited perspective and what they can infer from their idea of the values of their peers.

You should absolutely ask, no shame.

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Souls are confirmed to exist, but can actually be destroyed with nuclear weapons. Death of the soul is now a new type of true death and has changed the face of war and politics. (lemmy.world)
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how to get Mushimesama Futunari DLC now for 360? any other release? (lemmy.world)
 

I have Mushihimesama Futunari on Xbox 360 for a long time, store closed and I learned black label DLC is now going.

Are there any option? I can't find physical DLC disk, maybe it never exist.

I have options?

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I never hear people talk about the animals that are likely dying of a heat stroke (lemmy.world)
 

Sorry for the poor title, but even when people talk about climate change, and know it's hotter for them, people don't actually seem to talk about the impact on the rest of the biosphere.

I can't tell if it's not thought about, or just not discussed as much because it is not 'relevant' to their lives.

I can barely function outside for a few minutes without being drenched in sweat, and some of it is probably poor health and not being used to it, but I can tell sl with certainty that I can't survive outside in this heat, and I'm living as a result of a trick or technology.

The animals though? Some of them are straight up fubbernucked. There will be mass animals die offs and people won't even notice.

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Remakes and faithfulness to the original vision (lemmy.world)
 

I think about this from time to time, but most recently it's the Persona 3 remake that's got me thinking about it now.

The original game was dark, gritty, and I'm really concerned that they're going to downplay that for the more colorful 'mainstream' style in Persona 5.

I loved Persona 5, but 3 has my favorite aesthetic, my favorite 'feel'. I'm worried they now feel like the dark blue, and 'gun' motifs are more controversial now.

I'm also highly disappointed that the extra content from FES and portable won't be in it, that feels like half the appeal of a remake for this title.

I want to like it, but I probably won't.

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Brought my Vita on vacation and I'm in love again (lemmy.world)
 

I've been a Vita refugee for years, I own two actually. I'm fond of the system, and it makes me miss smaller, actually portable systems.

The past couple years I've largely migrated to the Switch, and it's a good system, but it always feels so heavy in my hands and arms, it won't fit into my purse, and so much of the library is digital only ( Vita did have this problem at the end though ) that I long for the Vita and PSP.

I picked up and played some games lately, like the Little Big Planet on the Vita, and wow that game is so good! The levels feel a little long for a portable system, but it succeeds at feeling like a full blown home console game.

I just picked up a physical copy of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel because I hear a lot of good about these games. I like JRPGs, but haven't really dived into them because it feels like no matter where I start, I'm starting in the wrong place and it feels so overwhelming.

I go through times where I get obsessed with a specific console again, recently it was the PS3, and before that Sega Saturn.

What systems are you going back to, or maybe even finally getting to try for the first time?

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With the release of Phantom Liberty, I truly hope this game is remembered fondly (lemmy.world)
 

Maybe I like bad games, or maybe Cyberpunk 2077 was never quite as bad as people say - I'm not sure because I unironically love Forspoken and think it's one of the best games I've ever played.

I did hate on the game hard at release, and a lot of it was well deserved, trying to play it on PS4 or Xbox One ( I picked it up on both ) was actually awful and unstable, I couldn't progress past the club at the beginning of the Street Kid life path so I eventually hung it up for a while.

I bought it at launch, and it was a bad launch, reminded me of the launch of No Man's Sky, except visually the game was stunning, and there was a lot more substance, but it was actually broken.

I ended up giving it a real try at the end of 2021 when I managed to get my hands on an Xbox Series X and it was a drastically different game. This was before the 'next gen' patch, but it had enough fixes and ran butter smooth on the Series X that I ended up getting enthralled.

Y'all this game is good. I had a great build that was frustratingly nerfed hard at the next gen patch ( RIP Overwatch ) but wow the story and world is so interesting, and I feel like this is this AI revolution story just waiting to be told in the background - it's good shit.

I haven't played since the next gen patch, so all that will be new to me along with Phantom Liberty so I'm looking forward to a drastically different game than I played a year and a half ago.

I think CDPR finally did it, or will have did it upon release.

I can't wait.

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