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Comment on Steam tighten up rules for games with season pass DLC in ~games
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Comment on Sony closes Concord studio and permanently shuts down the game in ~games
an_angry_tiger Link ParentTalking out of my ass but: they went very realistic graphics-wise in the rendering, and made every character zany (quirky?, also: not a value judgement that part, its a video game), but then based...Talking out of my ass but: they went very realistic graphics-wise in the rendering, and made every character zany (quirky?, also: not a value judgement that part, its a video game), but then based the faces off of what I can only describe as the most theatre kid headshots I've ever seen.
Like they've all got this weird expression on their face of a person who will try and get you to see their intermediate improv show and then talk your ear off about disney, it's just got that annoying quality to it.
Compare that to something like Deadlock (https://deadlocked.wiki/), where it's also got zany and quirky characters, but they went far more cartoony, and the portraits are all neutral expressions (the game is still a work in progress) or more apt to the character (like Infernus smirking in an evil way, Kelvin looking focused, McGinnis looking tough). It doesn't conflict as much.
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Comment on Sony closes Concord studio and permanently shuts down the game in ~games
an_angry_tiger Link ParentI wouldn't say ugly, but I would say weak aesthetics. I hadn't heard of the game until the weak release either, didn't hear a lick of marketing or anything about the game until I heard it flopped....I wouldn't say ugly, but I would say weak aesthetics.
I hadn't heard of the game until the weak release either, didn't hear a lick of marketing or anything about the game until I heard it flopped. Looked up some gameplay footage, and the most striking thing was that it was both quite pretty graphics-wise, and also incredibly generic design wise, it felt like I was watching a video of every FPS game ever, like AI generated it based off the laziest prompt.
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Comment on What shampoo/conditioner do you use? in ~life.style
an_angry_tiger LinkTresemmes Botanique Nourish & Replenish Conditioner, or apparently "Tresemmes Botanique Coconut Nourish", which makes me wonder if I ordered the slightly wrong one when trying to stock up. No idea...Tresemmes Botanique Nourish & Replenish Conditioner, or apparently "Tresemmes Botanique Coconut Nourish", which makes me wonder if I ordered the slightly wrong one when trying to stock up.
No idea if its good or whatever, works for me, it was on the list of Curly Girl approved products, so it doesn't have sulfates or things that strip out oils. I think that's the real key, I stopped shampooing (still do every once in a while, but that's a timeframe of months in between) and just use conditioner every day instead. I have pretty curly hair and it works for me. Also lightly drying with a t-shirt (usually the one I was wearing before taking a shower) and letting it airdry the rest.
I finish with some hair gel ("not your mother's, curl talk") to stop it from frizzing after. Works for me.
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Comment on Why does "Everything Everywhere All at Once" repulse me so much? in ~movies
an_angry_tiger LinkYou know what, I have a friend who saw Oppenheimer and for a while after its release, would keep telling me how much he didn't like the last hour, and how he thought that part was bad and didn't...You know what, I have a friend who saw Oppenheimer and for a while after its release, would keep telling me how much he didn't like the last hour, and how he thought that part was bad and didn't understand why everyone else loved it. He linked me a few reddit threads of other people not liking that part.
And you know what? I don't know what the hell to tell him, and I don't know what to tell you, you haven't even seen the damned movie. Oppenheimer was fine, many people loved it, many people loved the last hour, everyone has an opinion, everyone's entitled to one. I watched Eyes Wide Shut the other day for the first time, after hearing all the acclaim over decades, and I found it "fine", actually I found it boring, sue me, not a fan of this acclaimed movie, I'm the one guy in the world who doesn't like that movie that everyone else loves.
Anyway my advice is the same I'd give to my friend and to myself: move on, who cares. It's a movie, a movie you haven't even seen, what do you want from the universe? Validation that you're right for not liking it? Many many more important things to worry about than a movie.
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Comment on Governor Gavin Newsom orders homeless sweeps throughout California in ~society
an_angry_tiger Link Parentor they'll just die, which may be seen as a success to the people enacting these policies. Not me, I think that's a shitty and inhumane approach. I also don't believe that most people living on...but making living on the streets worse will push people to make the sacrifices needed to get their lives back on track.
or they'll just die, which may be seen as a success to the people enacting these policies.
Not me, I think that's a shitty and inhumane approach. I also don't believe that most people living on the street in terrible conditions and trying to stay alive day by day are just a few sacrifices away from having a reasonable place to stay either, so
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Comment on Jack Black ends Tenacious D tour after bandmate’s Donald Trump shooting comment in ~society
an_angry_tiger LinkI wonder who's turning the screws on them this time, I can't see Jack Black normally caring enough about a throwaway statement like this without some external pressure. Wants to keep on starring...I wonder who's turning the screws on them this time, I can't see Jack Black normally caring enough about a throwaway statement like this without some external pressure. Wants to keep on starring in family-friendly media perhaps?
It's kind of beating a dead horse at this point, but still very funny seeing people have to act appalled by violence being applied against a guy who has spent 8 years promoting and encouraging violent acts. His supporters marched on to the capital to try and enact a coup, constructing a gallows in front of the capital and chanting "Hang Mike Pence" against his own VP, he's pledged to have members of his party and his opposition be thrown in jail from a military tribunal. Suddenly we all have to act shocked when violence comes in to play. An assassination attempt on the guy? Wow, well I would never, what a terrible tragedy yadda yadda.
Anyway, did you know Gerald Ford survived two different assassination attempts during his 1975 presidential campaign? Only reason I bring that up is I really never heard that before this news and its use in context of someone surviving assassination attempts and losing their election bid. Never in my life had I heard of that tidbit, and it was just casually used as an example of political probability. Not even a notable president, boring ol' Gerald Ford. Assassination attempts against political candidates, doesn't really feel like an unforeseen shocking event anymore, it along with the normal violence and cruelty, just feels like it's a regular part of America to me now. People always talk up America as a place of freedom and liberty and hope and the American dream, but really the last few decades has shown me that it's just as much about racism and violence and cruelty and greed than any sentiment of equality.
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 15 in ~news
an_angry_tiger Link ParentHe's being named as the candidate for vice president, by the guy who is pretty openly going to try and cause another coup if he loses. What more is there? It's the same story as all of the other...He's being named as the candidate for vice president, by the guy who is pretty openly going to try and cause another coup if he loses. What more is there? It's the same story as all of the other GOP politicians who were against Trump but changed their tune very quickly once they saw the tides changing in his favour. Bunch of people who want money and power, and they're chasing the guy who has it.
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Comment on The best and brightest don’t want to stay in Canada. I should know: I’m one of the few in my engineering class who did. in ~life
an_angry_tiger LinkAs a Canadian engineer who did get brain drained to America (later in my career though), a big wrinkle here is that it isn't like people are being brain drained to the United States, they're being...As a Canadian engineer who did get brain drained to America (later in my career though), a big wrinkle here is that it isn't like people are being brain drained to the United States, they're being brain drained to one of the maybe four big tech cities there -- the SF Bay Area, Seattle (Microsoft and Amazon), and to a lesser extent New York. You could run the same article for most states in America too, someone growing up in say Michigan, going to Umich, and then what do they do after graduating? Hey they also move to one of those cities. It's not like Canadians are en masse moving to Ruston, Louisiana or New Haven, Connecticut.
I decided to try the America experiment after 10 years of working in Canada because I got bored during covid and wanted a change in my life, and also I kept hearing about big tech salaries in America and wanted to cash in before the boom ends (if it does). I make a lot more in America (although NYC has many ways to try and sap that from me, but hasn't succeeded yet), but my quality of life back home was roughly the same. It's only a 1.5 hour flight back home too, so it wasn't an arduous journey nor does it feel hard to come back.
I think this sentiment also applies to many countries in the world too, this is just from a Canadian source. What do a good number of European software engineers try to do? Hey they want to try and go to SF (or Seattle yadda yadda) for their big pay day. Same with Indians (huge source of H1B applicants), and Asians, and probably most people if they can cut it. I don't think this is a uniquely Canadian phenomena (although the ease of getting work authorization is way easier than most places), it's more like USA just has an outsized tech sector from venture capital and finance pumping insane amounts of money in and causing salaries to blossom.
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Comment on Joe Biden's path to US re-election has all but vanished in ~society
an_angry_tiger Link ParentThe New York Times, every other publication, the donors, at least 3 house democrats, half the internet, I don't know if I would describe it as fear mongering at this point, it's looking at every...The New York Times, every other publication, the donors, at least 3 house democrats, half the internet, I don't know if I would describe it as fear mongering at this point, it's looking at every media appearance this guy does and having no confidence he can get swing voters to turn up at the polls. People in general are losing confidence he can win the election, might as well look at if the party can pivot before it's too late.
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Comment on Redbox owner (Chicken Soup For The Soul) to liquidate in Chapter 7 bankruptcy shift; workforce of 1,000 to be let go and 24,000 kiosks shut down, lawyer says in ~movies
an_angry_tiger Link ParentI went out to the remote(-ish) oil fields in Drayton Valley, Alberta, for a work trip, and one of the hotels/motels we stayed in had a whole bunch of shelves of DVDs for the oil workers there. The...I went out to the remote(-ish) oil fields in Drayton Valley, Alberta, for a work trip, and one of the hotels/motels we stayed in had a whole bunch of shelves of DVDs for the oil workers there. The number of places in North America that have poor enough internet service that you can't stream has to be declining, the remaining places are probably small enough that most stores and services are operated locally instead of by a chain. You don't necessarily need a chain to service a local need.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~misc
an_angry_tiger Link ParentOn paper his age is not bad compared to the other old people in politics, but when you see a clip of him nowadays, my god he seems like the oldest person in the world.On paper his age is not bad compared to the other old people in politics, but when you see a clip of him nowadays, my god he seems like the oldest person in the world.
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Comment on Arlington Virginia missing middle trial heralds legal fight over suburban zoning in ~design
an_angry_tiger Link ParentThey don't want new development happening and lowering the long-term value of their house. Or at least that's what I presume it is, not a rationale that's good for other human beings. It's always...They don't want new development happening and lowering the long-term value of their house.
Or at least that's what I presume it is, not a rationale that's good for other human beings. It's always either land value or not wanting more people in their neighbourhood (especially those who can't afford houses, gasp, the indignity).
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Comment on Players celebrate mod that deletes homeless people in Cities: Skylines II in ~games
an_angry_tiger Link ParentVisually you start seeing tents pop up in recreation areas (parks, basketball courts, etc.). I have no idea if that has an impact on the parks themselves, if it lowers happiness or stops people...Visually you start seeing tents pop up in recreation areas (parks, basketball courts, etc.).
I have no idea if that has an impact on the parks themselves, if it lowers happiness or stops people from using the parks, etc.. Parks themselves may be buggy, I don't know if they've fixed this yet, but there's a bug where people will only ever go to one park in your city, no matter how many you build, they'll all be empty (but provide happiness to those living around it), and no one will go to them, regardless of homeless people.
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Comment on Players celebrate mod that deletes homeless people in Cities: Skylines II in ~games
an_angry_tiger Link ParentAlso worth mentioning that the homeless people in the game aren't a good representation of real homeless issues. Like, in the real world, there's a whole aspect of lack of mental health resources...Also worth mentioning that the homeless people in the game aren't a good representation of real homeless issues. Like, in the real world, there's a whole aspect of lack of mental health resources and rampant drug use, and things like not enough homeless shelters, and existing shelters being underfunded and sometimes dangerous, and a loop of losing your job, maybe not making rent, potentially running in to the law (especially now that sleeping outside can be criminalized), now you may not be able to get another job due to a criminal record, etc.
Well the game doesn't have any of that, homeless people in this game are just people who lost their job and can't afford rent, and one of the main ways to deal with it in the game was just build a bus connection to outside the city and they'd all just leave to greener pastures. There's no sense of mental health in the game, there's no drug use (although there is policing), there's no homeless shelters, there's a thin representation of welfare (you can place welfare offices, but honestly I don't really know what they do), there's very little politics (or at least, little idea of politics influencing and causing some of these issues) in the game.
In the game, homeless people are just people who lost their job and can't afford rent, and they can exit the city and stop being your problem. They're not really analogous to real life homeless/houseless issues, and I don't think there's much to learn from the game's representation of it. It's interesting that they included a real world issue in the game, especially a negative one (clarification: it's negative that homeless/houseless people exist and we haven't been able to provide better lives for them, not that I'm demonizing houseless people), but they also didn't model it in a very realistic way, or at least in-depth way -- same as a lot of things in the game.
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Comment on Players celebrate mod that deletes homeless people in Cities: Skylines II in ~games
an_angry_tiger Link ParentAs someone who has been playing since launch, yeah that's about right. The thing is, the game is approximating real world systems, but doing so in an odd, and a lot of the time, unrealistic way....As someone who has been playing since launch, yeah that's about right.
The thing is, the game is approximating real world systems, but doing so in an odd, and a lot of the time, unrealistic way. Things like them removing the "landlord system" to fix high rent issues, but its not really the same thing as a real landlord in the real world, although its somewhat similar. Or the bug they fixed recently where offices would keep shrinking their employee count over time (I think due to not actually selling the things they make, so their stockpile grows and grows and they let go of employees because they're producing too much, but also their stockpile provides them with a high net worth), which also contributed to high homeless counts. One of the big signs that they (the devs) make weird decision choices is that the main revenue in the game from your city is taxation graduated by education level, as in, you can tax highly educated people more than less educated people, and that's your main source of revenue, a scheme that as far as I'm aware is not used in any city in the world.
Makes for fun headlines though, but again, take the sentiment with a grain of salt, most players are just doing whatever they can to work around issues in the game to stop their city from collapsing.
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Comment on Why a new conservative brain trust is resettling across America: Pro-Donald Trump professionals aren’t just talking about remaking Western civilization in ~society
an_angry_tiger LinkThe Claremont Institute has been located in Southern California since its founding in the late 1970s. From its perch in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, it has become a leading intellectual center of the pro-Trump right.
Without fanfare, however, some of Claremont’s key figures have been leaving California to find ideologically friendlier climes. Ryan P. Williams, the think tank’s president, moved to a suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in early April.
His friend and Claremont colleague Michael Anton — a California native who played a major role in 2016 to convince conservative intellectuals to vote for Mr. Trump — moved to the Dallas area two years ago. The institute’s vice president for operations and administration has moved there, too. Others are following. Mr. Williams opened a small office in another Dallas-Fort Worth suburb in May, and said he expects to shrink Claremont’s California headquarters.
“A lot of us share a sense that Christendom is unraveling,” said Skyler Kressin, 38, who is friendly with the Claremont leaders and shares many of their concerns. He left Southern California to move to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in 2020. “We need to be engaged, we need to be building.”
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Why a new conservative brain trust is resettling across America: Pro-Donald Trump professionals aren’t just talking about remaking Western civilization
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Comment on The Lakers select Bronny James in the second round of the NBA draft in ~sports.basketball
an_angry_tiger Link ParentSo first off to preface: I don't like Bronny, this draft pick made me a little irritated, and it's pretty clear nepotism that got him picked. That being said, it's also good to keep in mind that...So first off to preface: I don't like Bronny, this draft pick made me a little irritated, and it's pretty clear nepotism that got him picked.
That being said, it's also good to keep in mind that it was the #55 pick, and the players in the past 10 years of drafts that went at number 55 include: Semaj Christon, Cady Lalanne, Marcus Paige, Nigel Williams-Goss, Arnoldas Kulboka, Jay Scrubb, Kyle Guy.
I'd be hard pressed to know any of them, most of them flamed out of the NBA very quickly, a few of them probably never even saw meaningful playing time in the NBA. The #55 pick of the NBA draft is mostly GM's playing slots hoping to get someone who can actually play basketball. Very few #55 picks are even qualified to play basketball in the NBA.
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Comment on Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ in ~tech
an_angry_tiger LinkFor what it's worth, since the article doesn't go over it, Adobe posted a "clarification" on this: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms-of-use and a news item...For what it's worth, since the article doesn't go over it, Adobe posted a "clarification" on this: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms-of-use and a news item here: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/10/updating-adobes-terms-of-use .
And a more neutral and in-depth article by the verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24175416/adobe-overhauls-terms-of-service-update-firefly
I have no idea what the real story is, and I suspect only lawyers really know if the change had an impact or not.
Some could say they are only in that position because they're such a better platform for consumers. It's not a monopoly, there are other game distribution platforms that are out there, lord knows I have the Epic games one, and the EA one, and the Ubisoft one, and the Microsoft one built in to the OS, and the smaller players like GOG. I forgot Anno 1800 existed for years because I owned it on the Ubisoft one, which I never open. My gaming desktop only ever has Steam open, its the one thing I see when I shake the mouse, and it's the only one of these stores that I have open on startup.
I have free games on Epic games, they're giving away games to entice you to use it, and you know what? I kind of forget I have those games on it because its kind of a pain in the ass and I never launch their launcher, I keep going back to Steam because it works well.