Ty for the list, I was curious since I’m a Java player and wouldn’t ever know. That’s… yeah that’s real bad. It’s bad when you make the Java version look stable.

Ironically that also works for the metaphor given just how many Americans have terrible fast food diets, either by choice or necessity. Lol.

But that’s why my analogy works; imagine if all you ever got to eat was potato chips. You’d survive, at least you a little bit, but your quality of life would be abysmal. On occasion they might not be too bad but in excess, or exclusively, you’d die young. Yes, it does take effort to consume something better, especially in a society incentivized to continue feeding you empty calories, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try getting a fresh vegetable in your system.

That’s … kinda pathetic for the industry, though not surprising for a genre that lost it’s heart ages ago.

Someone pointed out to me a while back the main draw of human made art is the effort put in and the genuine connection people make with the artist. When you actually engage with the art, it’s provocative and emotional and has that connection. Slop can’t do that. It’s like empty calories for the soul.

But that argument falls apart for commercial endeavors — plenty of human made slop also exists and while it may look pretty (or in this case, sound pretty), the artistry is lacking. It’s made to top charts, not build a connection. You lack the artist’s emotions, creativity, the imperfections that make it genuine, even the backstory behind the piece, etc. All that is art.

County (and other commercial pop) has lacked that for ages. There are genuine artists out there, but marketing and promotional strategies tend to drown them out with slop. No surprise that side is getting the AI overhaul.

One of the worst US congress members shares a last name with me, but it’s also so common that it’s pretty diluted. It needs to be both infamous and uncommon, sharing a last name with millions of people ain’t that.

Then again, Epstein is kinda common and I can’t help giggle when I bring up a certain researcher with that last name and call her model the Epstein model.

Oh no, Trump’s gonna enact more tariffs in retribution isn’t he.

Mumble was… fine. My friends actually moved to Discord from Mumble for our MMO stuff but that was primarily because it was easier to invite randos to the chat. That quality makes it almost impossible to break away from atm.

I recall the latency being only a little worse than Discord, but I think that’s because a friend set up the server at his work as a side thing (he also hosted Minecraft and Terraria). It’s not too complex to setup, but your quality will depend a lot on the computer and network you’re running. At least, it did for us, back in the day.

We’ve thought about alternatives to Discord. Old names were Ventrilo and TeamSpeak but they’re just not very modern. Plus, now almost every chat app has voice, too. Just, for features, it’s hard to beat Discord at this… though I’m willing to read the other comments to get for ideas, too. Lol

People talking about how they could have just CGI’d it traditionally for (maybe) cheaper, but what about even the non CGI option most ads go with? It’s a gimmick.

They’re doing this to get people talking, which it does. That said, don’t drink coke. Like, regardless of the ad – it’s super bad for you, lol

Didn’t have mpreg Bill on my bingo card this election…

My dad got a gimmicky aurora beaming lamp thing and it’s kinda cool but if it was mine I 100% would set it up in my kitchen for this exact reason.

I found that odd for a Lemmy post but also, one year milk is in much worse condition than this image. Unless they froze it for clout? Why go through the trouble?

But that just makes me wonder even more why that is blocked out, lol.

Sounds like some Filipino style crackdown, which did actually eventually lead to ICC arrest. Trial pending, anyway.

Imagine if they went full exploitive and made the ice cream flavor but then added an Israel flavor in some twisted fair and balanced way to undercut Jerry’s wishes.

Oh, I tend to grab Zenni glasses every couple of years and saw that option. I opted against since I didn’t think they were much more than a gimmick, but also at time (and probably still is) they were not compatible with the kind that auto tint in the sun.

I’m also pretty sure if I do get tracked, they have my phone and my unique appearance. I’m not sure someone of my height and build is going to be able to Luigi someone.

Maybe not the worst, but I’ve been playing old RPGs and I really hate mandatory loss fights in late game or NG+. Radiata Stories was a fantastic game but I was bonkers powerful on my second playthrough yet somehow lost a fight to a humongous chud asshole for plot reasons. Rare misstep in that games story, honestly.

Best example of subversion of that trope, though,b was in Dragon Quest 11. If you know, you know, but I won’t spoil that, lol.

Wow that’s on my backlog list but seriously, it forces a reload either way, at least make it a splashy permadeath.

And they move very, very slowly…

Hey hey, me too. I mostly just don’t want too many “redo this whole game again” stuff, unless there’s a reason (split path, etc). A stress filled second run is not a good reason.

Wild, just an hour ago I was sharing that song with my partner who never heard it before. First time. I got weird looks.

No no, don’t recommend Linux to a Mac user. Suggest other kids toys, like an etch-a-sketch or something.