As a (probably) even older guy I find it the weirdest thing ever. “watching games being played”. It’s boring AF.

Sure, I can’t t play counterstrike effectively anymore. Sure I am the one with the most deaths in helldivers2. Doom eternal is just way too twitchy for me. I’ve become too slow. In mechwarrior 5 I have too put the difficulty on story/easy and aim assist on. Which hurt my old ego the most to be honest.

But doing it still beats the shit out of watching it.

/start_old_man_rant

Especially these days when every streamer is an egocentric manchilds screaming their head off in a totally scripted “episode”. Or girls in bikinis only because it sells. Can we just leave that in hooters? And everything is bought and paid for. You’re watching a commercial. Or do you really think that logo on his mike just happens to be in view? Or the brand of the gaming chair?or that cupboard behind him filled with lights and gaming gear? Its ultra consumerism. And the begging for money. Fuck off. Really.

I hate it.

I miss total biscuit. That was entertainment.

/end_old_man_rant

The economy seemed ok because of all the help lines (extra loans, delayed taxes for companies, etc.) due to covid. Inflation didnt exist because the loans all governments took to pay for these helplines weren’t due yet. Illegal immigration was in the news, he even built a wall and let mexico pay for it. Or something. The war in Ukraine started because of trump politics : the west, nato looked weakened. Divided. Afghanistan collapsed due to Trump’s decision to move out. Which Biden inherited.

But… Yeah… Fucking libtards I guess.

Greetings from Geert Wilderstan.

What I’ve seen many times (and what often still is a pretty good deal)

• JAN: product X, 1100 bucks
• FEB: product X EOL. last items BUY NOW - 20%!
• MAR
• APR
• MAY
• JUN
• JUL
• AUG
• SEP
• OCT: some warehouse: Fuck. Is that a a stash of product X?
• NOV: BLACK FRIDAY WEEK! Product X -45%! LIMITED STOCK!

And they dont buy the game and vote Trump. (or over here the dutch dude with the weird hair.)

In the end the videogame industry is not about being politically correct. Its about making money.

I for one am very curious how this all will work out.

I do think we all should “chill out” a bit about these “issues”. A lot of people, everyone even, do not care what you do or don’t do. Nobody wants to tell you how to live your life. But that goes both ways. And if you don’t respect that you get a push back, an overreaction. And that is what’s happening now.

People see “gay stuff” (…) everywhere. The sociatal change is too much too fast and like in IT projects, we’re reaching or have already exceeded, the change capability of our society.

So ease back and it all will work out. Give it a few more years. We’ve come so far, maybe it is time to just sit down for a while and smell the flowers.

Or don’t, feed the overreaction some more and see if it implodes. But it can also explode in your face, its 50/50.

This doesn’t work in Europe where this bullshit fortunately doesnt exist. Yet. But don’t worry, we’ll get there.

And with bullshit i mean this US versus THEM narrative.

And here is the problem with elden ring.

Grinding.

Since when is grinding fun? The word itself, grinding isn’t even fun.

Elden ring is my most played most hated game. I come back for the vistas, the art. But there is no story and if there is it’s stupidly well hidden. Some story quests are so very easily missed and other things just impossible to do without a guide. Also the fact that there is no quest log (do this for that guy) makes returning to elden ring after a hiatus almost impossible.

Choosing a fighter class makes the game way too hard. But if you choose a caster the difficulty drops like 400% or even more.

No guidance. Nothing. Fuck you if you chose a samurai because he looked cool on your first playthrough.

Everything is hidden behind a grind wall. And so many quests are so very buggy. In my current playthrough I should meet blaidd the half wolf down below looking up to whats the cities name. But he isnt there. Doesn’t spawn. Apparently i went of on another quest and it conflicts or something. Now im stuck.

Do bushes talk? Here they do. Because one of them isn’t a bush. A voice says: over here! But what is that, exactly? Here? Where is here? Im on a computer, directional audio doesn’t really work. It took me hours to find that useless guy.

Jellyfish. Just kill them, they are inconsequential and do not really interact with the player. They cant talk. Untill… You’re far into the game and suddenly you hear a voice. Talking about his/her lost spouse. Who? Where? You just slay that jellyfish because they cant talk, that cant be it. Or… It could? Fuck it was. Important item forever locked to you.

If you like that kind of foolery in a game i seriously recommend the 80s/90s sierra online games. Police quest, kings quest, the larry games. But i thought we where way past those kind of stupid game mechanics. Ken sent me. Flush the toilet. But not too many times because then you drown. Go to the hooker but if you forgot to buy a condom you die. Dont give a too big tip to the cabbie. He will buy liquor, get drunk and kill you both. The dialog made that fun. The first time.

The difference was, in those ganes i could save scum. Here I can’t.

I fucking love AC6. that’s a masterpiece by from software. But ER? ER shouldn’t be easier, it should explain more. Not much but a little. I see you chose a fighter. Are you sure? We recommend a caster class for beginners. Give me a quest log. Unbug those quests. Give a warning if something breaks something else.

And thats the problem with ER. It could be fantastic

The question op is posing is:

Which new tech?

In the decade op’s talking about everything was new. The last ten years nothing is new and all just rehash and refinements.

ML, AI, VR, AR, cloud, saas, self driving cars (hahahaha) everything “new” is over a decade old.

Looks at the top of the line Samsung Odessey 49"/54" ultrawide monitor. Looks at specs. Reread this comment.

Uhuh

I build my own systems. And I dont know what y’all are smoking but a typical windows installation has the complexity of opening a jar of pickles. Next next yes and away we go.

Linux on the other hand…

Now, if you want to debloat and install without a ms account then yes. But then… Really… Who does that? (i mean of the typical windows users

As a dutchie I say both is true.

Yes, the Israeli mob brought it over themselves by chanting, insulting and attacking several people including a Dutch taxi driver of arab descent.

Fuck around, find out was a very appropriate way to describe what happened next.

Did it go too far? Was it even pathetic, wrong singling some strays out and attacking them with 5 or even more?

I know, fighting isn’t about being fair, it’s about winning but this was just stupid.

And that’s true also. It went too far. They where literally being hunted.

Also, this “editorial” is very biased. There is more then enough footage of israelis being molested by a group. This article says there’s no proof or whatever but there is. Like… A lot.

The books (since they all share the old testament in one way or another) talk about it, us being good shepards and responsible for all beings. Just a little, but it is there. Somewhere in the beginning.

It’s just that we’re assholes and if something doesn’t fit our narrative we ignore it.

Just like all the books make killing crime no 1, but we go “yeah, no” when it suits us. (in war you may kill because i say so and you may kill that Israeli, westerner or arab because they are subhuman unbelievers/desert rags.)

The commandments are very clear and there are no exceptions possible according to the book. But we made those up anyway. Which is weird. Here we have the guiding principles of being, given to us by god and we choose to disregard them. Sometimes even in the name of god/allah/Jahweh.

Disclaimer: not an active Christian. Just had to go to a lot of sunday school in my day.

Read the book. Be it the bible, tora or koran. You dont have to read it very much, it’s in the beginning somewhere.

And its not her cat. It’s the ship’s cat.

Hans… Are we… Are we the baddies?

Most fun? Most wanted. But these days it’s just such a pain to get it running most of the times.

I had fun with heat and a few other of the new titles. But the police are just too easy and the dlc hell is just too much. I saw the last one for sale on steam this weekend. To get all the dlc i had to fork out another fifty or something and they mostly just added cars, not tracks or areas.

If you remove “becoming” from your reaction it becomes 100% right.

YouTube, like tiktok, is mostly unusable these days.

So… If i read this correctly… The net difference is zero? Except when I’m being an asshole and I dont tip.

So in the end, this boils down to offering the option of being an asshole to your customers.

As an european I always find this discussion weird. And when visiting stateside I never really can “gauge” what I should tip. Am i in a joint which underpays the server? Is (s)he fine? Is 10% enough? More? Should i just make it whole? I just never know. I sometimes even have resorted to just bluntly ask the server or a patron what is customary. (my weird accent helps getting an honest answer)

It’s quite honestly a shit fest. There is an amount on the billl… But that isnt the real amount, except when you’re an asshole. And if you over tip you’re still an asshole, just a stupid one, and if you’re undertip you’re also an asshole.

Come to think about it: it really boils down to which kind of asshole do you want to be.

I dont know what you’re talking about. My dumb brain just completes this with:

mushroom, MUSHROOM. A snake oh no its a snake it’s a…

Its very simple. Sex is boring to look at. Even porn. Whats the longest you watched a porn movie? 5 minutes? 15? Let’s top it off at 30 minutes. Just to be safe.

Violence is not boring. Stuff like John Wick grabs you by the ass and puts you on a roller coaster.

Want proof? Look at gaming. How big are the dating sims? Now compare that with call of duty/etc.

So, me? Yeah, stop with the xxl steamy sex scenes in movies. Very rarely do they add anything more then an interlude. A time to get coffee. To look at your notifications. At best.

To be clear: I love sex. My sex.

Prometheus good? Your not a minority, you’re alone.

So many unanswered questions. So much alien lore down the toilet, hours of backstory takes with guy Pearce and Charlize Theron cut and thrown away. Scientist looking like mercenaries and making worse decisions then a five year old. The little clues pointing to a blade runner connection going nowhere. If david was called weylands son, what does that mean for his daughter?

I guess it works as a generic non alien body horror film.

Prometheus wasn’t cut, it was butchered to be just that. A generic scifi horror story.