343 cant make Halo cause Microsoft wants Halo The Product, not Halo The Game.
They dont want couches of happy people playing Blood Gulch, they want preorders and that "marketing moment" they got with Halo 2 and 3. They dont care about the franchise as a thing to be enjoyed, they only understand it as the thing that can be sold, and it shows.
343 devs have gone on record saying the rework of the core game and the stagnant development was due to MS saying "no, thats TOO Halo, you have to make the NEW THING." And thus we get clusterfuck stories, reworked weapons for no reason (seriously, ANOTHER new pistol and they get rid of the SHOTGUN?), ziplines pulled from Apex Legends and more out of game marketing collabs than in game content. Oh and a shit TV show that Neil Blomkamp shouldve gotten greenlit to make 10 fucking years ago.
Also the PC port of Infinite is trash. You cant give any player input without the frame rate going bananas. Stand still and I get 60 FPS, any motion its 5.
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Ad-blocks-you-back Youtube
Login locked pay-to-win Twitter
We are cattle to the elite's ad revenue system.
Ad revenue was the Pandora's Shit Box that has opened up the fall of capitalism. Can i just watch ads all day while i work my shit job instead so I can have a fucking life, Mr Corporation?
Impossible. You can only deter and mitigate risk. But war is in our nature. War is uniquely human because it requires at least one civilization to wage.
The only way to stop war on Earth is to convince everyone here to go to war somewhere else.
So my plan is to militarize the school systems, manual military or scientific service at 18, create a federated republic under an international parliament, nationalize systems and get away from "profit" in exchange for progress, and go to war with the unknown to find "God" or whatever. Everyone who cant/wont can get UBI and healthcare and education a plenty, create art to their hearts content and do the "culture" thing.
The classics like Super Metroid, Turtles In Time, F-Zero and Link to the Past are always on rotation but I always love to pop on Cybernator (aka Assault Suits Valken) for a good run and gun mech time. Time Trax is another one not mentioned often but is nostalgic for me.
If this guy changes the internet include me in the screenshot.
Bold of you to assume I am buying anything in this economy.
Headlines get more and more stupid everyday.
People live in houses: should we build them?
People struggling to live wont have babies: Is there a connection?
jfc can people just snap out of it? All of these issues are "no fucking shit" levels of dumbassery. Cut executive pay, confiscate and eliminate, feed and house the people, prosper, repeat. ITS REALLY THAT SIMPLE UNTIL SOMEONE STARTS SAYING "GOD". And then you tell them to stfu cause theyre ACTING LIKE BARBARIANS.
8 billion people and one planet and were all standing around with our thumbs up our asses wondering where the smell is coming from. You GOVERN the private sector cause thats what GOVERNment is for. If private interests step out of line and go corrupt you IMPRISON OR EXECUTE THEM. You embargo, sanction and confiscate their assets. Its the one thing China does right. The West needs to get with the fucking program and stop letting regular Janes and Joes get assfucked for the profits of like, 50 people.
The fact that I have to wait 5+ years for a damn apartment I can afford by myself, when Elon and these bozos can blow entire countries worth of money on bullshit for no reason other than to flex on us peasants, is infuriating. And them trying to say its for some greater altruistic good is a fucking lie, every time, like clockwork, its proven wrong.
If your bank account is nine digits long you should be PUT UP AGAINST THE WALL. Cause you dont get there by being anything else but a TRAITOR and a THIEF.
But no, lets all lick the boots that step on us! I love when website become unusable! I love living with tonnes of people I dont like, eating rice slop and 10 cent noodles everyday! I love not being able to get a valid education! Its so nice to see the same 10 dickholes enjoy THEIR dreams on Youtube after a sequence of 10 unskippable ads! I LOVE THE FUTURE. YA ITS SO FUN. I CANT WAIT TO BURN UP FROM CLIMATE CHANGE WHEN MY LANDLORD REFUSES TO INSTALL AC. THIS FUNERAL IS SPONSORED BY DOOR DASH!!!!
Fuck!
Imagine an encyclopedia.
Now imagine I own the encyclopedia, and Walmart offers me money.
So i paste Walmart's Xmas catalogue pages in between the useful information in the encyclopedia. You ask about frog facts, you get frog pajamas. You try to look up cultural information and get travel ticket prices. You never planned on purchasing anything, and you are too poor too anyway. But somehow I and Walmart make money off of your displeasure.
This is ad revenue. This is the modern economy. Its a sham. Its an infinite money go brrrttt machine for billionaires.
Enshitification.
Cowardly move.
Stop supporting human rights and start gambling! Great message for the next generation.
Cowardly move.
Stop supporting human rights and start gambling! Great message for the next generation.
I started Enterprise begrudgingly as it was the last series I hadnt consumed yet. I got a few episodes in and thought "hey this aint that bad!"
One of the best Mirror arcs in the franchise IMO.
purely to confuse NASA scientists
Ah then it is simple: we place an ESA spacecraft there.
300 Pakistanis capsize, the world: "I sleep"
3 billionaires and a con man build world worst submarine and sink, the world: "Real shit."
Clown world.
Most definitely. But all it takes is one visionary with one repository of a good idea to inspire a community.
The growing pains will hurt, but being open source alone gives me more confidence than I have in CEOs of competitors. Im still trying to figure out this whole "Federation" business with fediverse. If they can make it more digestible it will certainly eclipse the current lot.
So am I downloading ZIPs and running their files? Why? And many other questions are novice user may have.
Are you hacking my mainframe to steal my cloud?
I mean, no, "they" didnt!
Its a frustrating but special moment, being early enough that your dissatisfied but can watch it grow. Well just have to see what happens.
in what world do you think a github link is helpful to a normie tho?
Thats what I mean: it should be more accessible and more usable natively. If there are solutions out there open source, it would be nice to have a sort of "App Store" or similar experience, like a plug-ins or Extensions menu or something more user friendly.
if they (we?) can make things like that happen, it would be revolutionary IMO.
Preface: I am not an engineer. I am not a software guy. But I play games and use websites, and have since i was 8.
If you make the website usable, people will use it.
Reddit and Twitter had a symbiotic dichotomy where they were the embodiment of "causal brainfarts and reactions" vs "long thoughts and thorough argument". One tweet with an exclamation and some emojis, vs a 7 paragraph breakdown or tutorial in a technical subreddit with hyperlinked sources. Both platforms had just enough to give what people needed in an easy to digest manner.
Kbin (and by extension the Fediverse, which I still do not understand after using this website for a week) just doesnt have that easy to drop in rabbit hole experience that these major platforms do. BUT IT CAN.
But right now pictures are smooshed and theres still huge empty space. It feels old, theres weird bugs like the UI flashing light mode on refresh, and other problems that make a user go "ick".
Fill my screen with content and let me touch it, interact with it, react to it, let me repost it, let me subscribe to that community or user, and maybe preview THEIR feed or posts so I can get MORE content.
The major companies are at a plateau and know they have to start farming our clicks: thats why we see trends like Tiktok's "knock on the screen to keep engagement" or "satisfying" videos pasted together with political opinions. Its why every company refuses to innovate while maintaining they deserve more money when they are already the monopolistic hegemony. If kbin can provide a more honest, more personal, more legitimate content sharing experience anonymously, it can explode into the new "front page" as reddit likes to call themselves.
I really like the idea of an integrated Twitter/Reddit alternative, that shares content across "front ends" like Mastodon and reformats information to be readable based on the users preferences. If we (and by we I mean you, the coder who can actually help this open source project) can come up with a design ideology that fosters curiosity, and enables connections, instead of force feeding you ads and sponsored content, that will be the future.
Im really, really hoping the internet heals from this huge burning that Elon and Spez have put on us. I know it can be done.
EDIT: i want kbin to the the place where Iranian women go to be heard. We should strive to be a platform for sharing an education. For connection, not profit, and not propaganda either. #womenlifefreedom #slavaukraini #freepalestine #fucktheccp #beexcellenttoeachother
EDIT2: also NOTIFICATION?! like there is no indication when i go to kbin that this post has any interaction. I have to manually go to the post.
chainsawrobot @kbin.social I know something about everything yet somehow nothing about anything.