Geth

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[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Ah, my bad. Didn't realize this is Ubisoft Montreal specifically.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure France is one of those places where it is indeed.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Not sure if I'm over-explaining this or not, but when you go to Google and you search something you say you googled, so this person went to duckduckgo and searched something and they changed the tense of the verb to come up with duck-duck-went.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I think my supposed judgment of others would not motivate them to lie to me or themselves if they had no guilt to go with it.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When food comes up the subject comes up and some people have a more guilt driven reaction to the topic. My impression is that they feel bad about knowing about the animal abuse and environmental damage, but not having the personal resolve to do something about it. They feel guilty and probably feel like I would be judging them so they make up these scenarios to feel less bad about the whole thing.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Right, fair, it's just not on any android app manager, you have to deal with it manually which is not great.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's not on play store. You have to side load it.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

On the one hand I approve of this strategy, on the other hand there are so many people that lie to me and themselves that they only eat animal products rarely or only from the most local grass fed farmer and then you spend time with them and you see they always choose the meat option, every single opportunity and since its the cheap corner restaurant that pece of meat has never seen grass in its' life. It's disheartening.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm talking about using a piece of software, no idea how you arrived to murder from that. People on this platform also have many opinions on TikTok without ever trying it. Feels like they are talking out of their ass whenever they mention it.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Isn't that the same case for Facebook, Instagram, x-twitter?

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Tbh I learned a lot about other cultures through tiktok and recently the US have proven that no matter how much chest pounding about freedom they do, they can be just as authoritarian as any other, even ignoring the invasion of other countries, literally murdering their citizens in the streets and abusing women and minorities, so the app being owned by a Chinese company was not really as big of an issue as others have made it out to be.

Now that ownership has changed, there's an active suppression of american sensitive topics on the platform, so that's already a visible downgrade.

I wish someone more neutral could offer a real alternative that people would jump on.

 

I think what's difficult to grasp is how easy they kidnapped Maduro. If it's as easy as a few months of training, simulation and intelligence and then just do it, how is it possible that none of the other much worse world leaders have not had this happen to them until now? Has this ever even happened in recent history?

You're telling me the US had the capability to eliminate any of the worst ones in much more problematic countries and chose not to because there was no oil in it for them? That's a grim thought.

 

Like for many other people, Valve single player experiences were one of my favorite of all time growing up. I considered both Half-Life and Portal to be masterpieces. It's true they've always been distracted with multiplayer games as well, things like Counter-Strike or Team Fortress and I did play them for sure, because I was a kid and I had all the time in the world.

These days I'm not a kid anymore and so when I game I tend to look more for memorable experiences instead of mindless grinding. Obviously I remember Valve as the experts in creating memorable experiences and I would like them to keep fully exploring those talents. They don't have that many employees, but they do have all the money in the world, no external pressure, no publisher to shit on them, it's just their developers and artists and a vision. But then they use all that and create this. An Overwatch looking moba shooter, really? I'm sure people will like and play it, but is this the results of the vision and ambition of a company like Valve?

It doesn't have to be Half-Life. I remember them saying that they dont want to do another one in the series because they are looking to innovate and make something truly original. My body is ready, give me anything. I can't imagine a moba shooter really fits with this description. I'm wondering how such a low hanging concept even becomes a real product at a company as ambitious as Valve.

I hear people are having fun with the new game and I'm happy for them. I am no longer the target audience and I wish them good luck with it. In the mean time let me hear your thoughts on it. Would you like to see another single player experience from Valve?

 

I've been using sync for a while and occasionally I go looking in the settings for the feature to hide read posts automatically, instead of having to do it manually. Other Lemmy clients have this so I was convinced sync should probably have it as well, I just can't find it. Does this exist? If not, is it something that could be added? Thanks!

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