Me playing an edgy rhythm FPS demo from Steam's NEXTFEST 2022 (Metal: Hellsingers)

antares · 2022-06-19T16:49:54+00:00

'Human capital mediates natural selection in contemporary humans'.

https://ideas.repec.org/p/uea/ueaeco/2021-02.html

antares · 2022-06-05T06:35:48+00:00

Two things about "trans rights activists" I can trace back to feminism:

pronoun-isms, maybe feminists had a point that using 'he' as default (to refer to an unidentified person) can lead to overqualifying the collective achievements of men. For example: the case of an unidentified tournament winner or inventor. Though I think 'he' as default also easily attributes losses or failures to men as well. And now we get "they/fae" third person neopronouns for people obsessed with how a third person perceives them.
the perceived right to a medical procedure (abortions for feminists, gender therapy for trans/gender/sexuals). There is no sloganism or chanting that is a substitute for a proper discussion on bioethics, but because of these movements, this is what we get in public discourse. (I am way more familiar with people getting kicked out from hospitals for not having insurance than having any 'right' to a medical procedure, to be honest.)

I mean this is besides the Marxism or sociopathic word games both of these movements have played in the past. If there happens to be some overlap between Marxist tactics and psychological abuse tactics from cluster B personality types, I will not be surprised at all.

antares · 2022-05-30T16:19:07+00:00

By the time I do, a couple hundred links have pushed down my original posts.

antares · 2022-05-21T17:21:32+00:00

Yeah that was an online match (demo replayed). I hide names of other players unless they tell me they're fine with having their name on a video.

I'm the green character if it wasn't clear.

antares · 2022-05-19T01:34:10+00:00

I know there are different brands of feminism. Just to emphasize, many people don't distinguish between them, myself included, because the word "feminism" alone regardless of any prefixes is enough cause for distrust. And trust is not earned by simple disassociation.

antares · 2022-05-17T23:15:34+00:00

I agree with him to some extent or at least recognize the type of person. In the case of the latter, those types have been living under the same threat of getting fired but for a longer time and with more experience. ;P

Many people were already fired or blacklisted by cultural marxists (2010s feminists). Example: someone getting fired for making a dong joke to his friend as Adria Richards sat behind him. And that wasn't even a guy that was publicly anti-feminist or conservative.

I agree with feminists in that "biological males" shouldn't be in areas designated for women and that children can not consent to sex changes. Yet I don't trust feminism not to revert and reuse lefty intimidation and life ruination tactics if they ever regain the power or Soros bucks they used to have pre-2016.

antares · 2022-05-15T21:16:48+00:00

I used to participate in a community specifically for a video game series, and it naturally gravitated to gaming news and discussion of gaming news specifically because:

the series experienced a hiatus so any discussion and speculation about the storyline and gameplay have been exhausted
the community was not producing new content such as videos, blogs, memes, fan art, or game mods.

There were more people talking than there were people with talent. Before the community died out, it just became gaming news gossip and clickbait. I would much rather have the community write autistic fanfiction of Dante from the Devil May Cry series, Adam Jensen, and Sanic saving the world from the Illuminati and learning the power of friendship than constantly read crappy news articles.

So TL;DR some communities run out of things to do or things to show other people.

antares · 2022-05-15T18:14:34+00:00

I mean any online patronage platform like ko-fi, patreon, fanbox, etc.

antares · 2022-05-04T01:35:16+00:00

It is easier to get Patreon donations for pornographic works, including derivative works. Online patronage platforms didn't take off (or exist?) pre-2010.

Also derivative works, from fanfiction to video game mods, exits the legal grey zone. So the rights holder may legally own a derivative work, but they will never want someone's SFM porn or smutty fanfic. Anyone with a moderately decent adventure idea is more likely to make it original like their own novel or indie game. Because now, there is a legal precedent to plagiarizing and selling someone else's fanwork.

antares · 2022-05-04T01:11:26+00:00

Conceptually, I think mothers may choose to abort their pregnancy. Just as there are many reasons to have a child, there are many reasons not to. Whichever reasons that may be, I don't judge.

I strongly disapprove of the corporate and commercial nature of American healthcare; the sale or commercial use of aborted remains. At any point, when someone profits from human death, including war, lethal injection, or abortion, the situation is sketchy in my opinion.

antares · 2022-04-23T17:05:10+00:00

I remember watching parts of this anime. I wish you luck on your endeavors to build this sub. Because you have clearly put much effort in to it.

antares · 2022-04-23T17:03:31+00:00

Tell your monster girl appreciating community about your sub. Start with your friends from within the community and grow from there.

Monster girls are a niche topic, and you may find disinterested audiences in general spaces.

antares · 2022-04-17T18:30:08+00:00

What value does Twitter have if it didn't have a massive userbase?

antares · 2022-04-10T14:23:51+00:00

I think there is little point in Lemmy and a Fediverse-compatible message board.

A user that posts on the internet is inevitably going to make alternate accounts so their internet activity isn't consolidated to one post history. There is actually little demand to post on discussion board with a Fediverse account. The fediverse doesn't boost userbases or drive views like a platform conventionally does because everything is subject to complicated instance-federation rules. The whole thing is comprised of tiny puddles pretending to be big oceans (i.e that user registration beg form).

antares · 2022-02-06T23:30:21+00:00

Well, if you make an account. I'll follow. I still want to figure out if they uphold freedom of speech...

antares · 2022-02-06T23:18:02+00:00

On Neocities, you get exposure by following someone, writing comments, or general account activity.

vs.

On your own web server you can run server applications.

If most of your content will be static web pages and managed by a single user, Neocities is a lot cheaper than AWS or GCS.

antares · 2022-02-06T20:11:17+00:00

I think that's the culture and style of neocities. I like looking through it because there is often minimal if any at all javascripting on most pages. The downside is that there are plenty of people who aren't good designers and make unreadable pages. E.G teenagers who seem to be caught in a temporal rift to 2001.

antares · 2022-02-06T20:06:16+00:00

It's a website host with some social media features. https://neocities.org/contact They claim they won't takedown websites unless the content is illegal in the US.

antares · 2022-02-04T23:16:06+00:00

And there is a online, general marketplace at https://www.gchange.fr/#/app/home

antares · 2022-02-02T04:45:41+00:00

There is one that is being used as a currency in France, and it is getting to the point, I will be very surprised to find any French bitcoiners remaining.

antares · 2022-02-02T04:23:00+00:00

I've been telling people to get off YouTube and start populating alternate platforms, but everyone really is glued to YouTube.

antares · 2022-02-02T03:42:25+00:00

I think many people are familiar with the pursuit of money and profits in the absence or abandonment of morals and principles. If American corporations chosen principles (freedom of speech) over profits, there wouldn't be the issue of internet censorship. If bio/medical corporations were firstly concerned with the health of their patients rather than acquiring new patients, there wouldn't be the epidemics of myopia, transsexualism, and covid.

Lust is harder to explain and a lot of it is from personal observation of other people. Pornography addiction can cause serious delusion. I don't know what is going on in people's heads when it happens. I blame it for the incel, coomer, and trans[gender/sexual] phenomenon. A minor can have an innocent interest in cartoon anthro characters or fanfiction, and that is a few clicks away from extreme content that portrays abusive relationships or sexual violence as arousing; or anatomically impossible fantasies, upon which an obsession may develop and can lead someone to try emulating that at the expense of their health (futanari and self-described "dickgirls").

antares · 2022-02-02T01:49:17+00:00

The deadly sins make cool anime characters. But a few of them overlap and generally relate to a lack of self-control. There is nothing inherently wrong with eating ("gluttony") or having sex ("lust"), but either taken to extremes is a detriment to oneself or society.

antares · 2022-02-02T01:36:57+00:00

I think the world is feeling the worst effects of greed and lust. Just imagine how much better the world would be if pornography consumption was reduced and if it wasn't so easy for kids to find it.

antares · 2022-02-02T01:19:01+00:00

I thought of it as

beat = got to the big bad and beat it/him/her up

completed = unlocked every equip and upgrade, found the secret level, etc. Sometimes, there are cheevos that are nonindicative and arbitrary, so they don't really count.

antares · 2022-01-27T00:11:43+00:00

The Terran forces somehow holding off the Zerg at New Gettysburg, and Kerrigan not getting infested would've led to an extremely different chain of events.

antares · 2022-01-25T05:39:41+00:00

Canonically, at the end of this mission, the player's base is overwhelmed by the Zerg (the purple aliens in this video), and Lieutenant Kerrigan is captured by Zerg forces. She gets infected by the Zerg virus and turns into the Queen of Blades, etc.

I just decided to fool around and use my excess resources to destroy the Hive cluster in the map before the mission ends.

antares · 2022-01-24T02:37:00+00:00

It's probably not your idea of a sophisticated vouching system. I imagine its more like a social media, networks, and alias dig. If your accounts are too young, or you said "there are only two genders" on a forum back in 1998, you're out.

antares · 2022-01-22T06:35:00+00:00

I don't know neogaf for anything other than its bans.

antares · 2022-01-09T01:09:38+00:00

Oh. The "special ending" in the video. It's not actually special or much of an ending but it'll unlock the next difficulty without having to playthrough the game.

antares · 2021-12-11T22:33:20+00:00

Happens when you start fresh on any platform including YouTube, really.

antares · 2021-12-10T00:06:17+00:00

Yeah basically. It is more for servers not personal computers however.

antares · 2021-12-09T15:00:06+00:00

I definitely had a "strategy" independent of discoverability algorithms.

The numbers sound real small compared to YouTube videos easily hitting the thousands of views. But I'm proud of them as I don't have a following on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube to carry over from.

antares · 2021-12-09T14:50:54+00:00

PeerTube is a federated video hosting platform. It is also software. What happens is that some admin downloads it and deploys it on their server. So there are a bunch of different peertube instances with different domain names.

antares · 2021-12-09T05:53:02+00:00

I can't find it again, but there was an old song that was critical of gaming journalism sung to the tune of Disney's Hercules ("Hercules" => Geoff Keighley). I think it was made around the time of the Doritos fiasco.

Nevermind I found it: https://vidious.librenet.co.za/watch?v=5mrm9fQLNO0

antares · 2021-12-09T05:29:22+00:00

I took a break from ArenaFPS. Health related reason but nothing serious. I might come back to the genre soon.

antares · 2021-12-09T05:27:26+00:00

I think it is already on that path. What's happening isn't a new group of SJWs that decided to join the commnity. It is the old team suddenly having a latent woke trigger flipped.

It sounds extremely weird. I've been in their IRC for years and have seen players from the devs clan casually use the n-word without any warnings.

I suspect why they do this is because they don't want a fork to happen. Anyone who can contribute to a fork, either directly or by sponsoring programmers and artists, can get banned for near arbitrary reasons and lose contact with each other.

Their reaction to a fundraiser for a fork:

https://archive.md/73263

antares · 2021-12-09T05:21:04+00:00

There is a sub at s/xonotic fyi

antares · 2021-06-12T20:42:08+00:00

There needs to be a word for this: "They specifically posted these things hoping people would say derogatory things against homosexuals that way they could compile as much as possible and possibly in the future get media and defamation corporations involved."

The closest is flame baiting, but it's of greater consequence than a classic flame war.

antares · 2021-05-12T19:54:44+00:00

I wouldn't know. I don't follow the series.

antares · 2021-05-12T19:43:32+00:00

I made two threads in s/Gaming before. https://saidit.net/s/Gaming/comments/7j02/what_games_are_we_playing/ https://saidit.net/s/Gaming/comments/7fqn/are_there_actual_humans_on_this_board/ They're long buried by now though.

antares · 2021-05-11T20:04:28+00:00

No, I don't want to follow a Twitch streamer or join a Discord channel. All I want is a sub with a loose community. The s/Gaming and s/PCGaming subs is one or a few people sharing links no one else cares about.

antares · 2021-05-11T19:58:45+00:00

Populism - Political philosophy that supports needs and desires of "the people" over those of "the powerful."

Why does the poster make it out to be a bad thing?

antares · 2021-05-07T19:29:59+00:00

I wasn't exactly looking for anything you listed. But after giving it some thought, I am basically looking for posts that indicate what people (the community) are up to. One or two individuals sharing external links to videos they obviously did not make can not be any further from what I'm looking for.

antares · 2021-04-26T20:45:45+00:00

Wow, check your multicellular privilege. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogamy

antares · 2021-04-25T06:21:07+00:00

I guess whoever's doing this is got a little snippy.

antares · 2021-04-24T18:48:28+00:00

I got two reports for spam (saying this as moderator). No idea where these votes came from, but the content is not spam.

antares · 2021-04-23T22:22:51+00:00

Would the recent event count as tortious interference? Is anyone here more familiar with law?

antares · 2021-04-19T21:06:25+00:00

That's weird. Because I was looking at assembly language programming communities some time ago. The reoccuring theme, at least of the ones I found, was strangely Christian.

antares · 2021-04-19T21:04:31+00:00

I haven't used Windows in years. Never had to complain about their stuff for a long time.

antares · 2021-04-14T18:38:35+00:00

I scrolled through and caught a few "what have YOU been up to" posts, so here's mine.

I've been using "quarantine time" to recover my eyesight (aiming to get 20/20 back). I've gone from being:

unable to read the screen at all without contacts or glasses
able to read the screen without glasses, but with big font and zoom
able to read the screen without glasses, with normal font and less zoom.

Currently, I'm reading The Relative Theory of Money and trying out the (crypto)currency based on it. As usual, I'm playing video games (generally, the ones that are color coded enough to play with blurry vision).

antares · 2021-04-14T18:03:59+00:00

I didn't expect this many responses.

antares · 2021-04-11T21:15:36+00:00

I don't like Cloudflare either. Usually, I never have it that bad. I do legitimately dislike the use of Google captchas. In that, if you use youtube-dl or invidious enough, they'll try to make you train their Waymo cars. Cloudflare probably shitlisted some combination of your ip address or user agent.

antares · 2021-04-11T21:07:30+00:00

These kinds of things read extremely fake just by the tone. Then again, someone out there falls for it.

antares · 2021-04-03T21:11:12+00:00

I can't care less of what some e-celebrity on YouTube, who I'll never interact or have contact with, does. Regardless of how mundane the people around me are (even in the internet sense of being able to directly respond), what they do matters 1000x more.

antares · 2021-03-31T16:16:25+00:00

lmao the avatars they picked for themselves.

antares · 2021-03-21T22:21:03+00:00

Oh sure. Maybe I should introduce the game a little more on the sub description and introduction.

antares · 2021-03-18T19:25:12+00:00

Seriously, let me know what response you get when you actually bring this up to a transgender marxist/communist.

antares · 2021-03-16T19:07:38+00:00

Seems normal for updates to be slow in this genre, indeed.

antares · 2021-03-16T16:49:27+00:00

Most subs are flooded with link bots or people acting like link bots, so I don't bother visiting external links or videos.

antares · 2021-03-16T16:08:59+00:00

The terminology or sentence structure around "non-trans" should be revised. It might sound better if it's about the preference for natural sex than it is about the exclusion of transgenders.

antares · 2021-03-16T00:46:54+00:00

I hate how they censor something then say all the shit they want about it (e.g "nazi 4chan movement") because the people they just censored can't contest or represent.

antares · 2021-03-15T19:31:25+00:00

Despite all the text, I still don't have a clear idea of what is going on beyond drama and some others kissing up to the admin. If there's ever a community vote whether to ban the topic starter, I would vote no though.

antares · 2021-03-15T19:27:45+00:00

Good initiative. They could use better editing and quality footage however.

antares · 2021-03-12T06:10:48+00:00

Oh nah. Gunshots or other sounds that'd involve ear protection aren't realistically loud in my dreams.

antares · 2021-03-11T05:36:50+00:00

I came across some empty boards, but it looks like a good way to find new things.

antares · 2021-03-11T04:47:47+00:00

Pick something other than GoFundMe.

antares · 2021-03-10T21:11:24+00:00

IMO: Complaints are only effective if authority and power is willing to accept it. Otherwise, a complaint is easy to dismiss. Humor, however, appeals to the public.

antares · 2021-03-10T05:02:15+00:00

I have no expectation of Reddit bans making sense.

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