Bartsbigbugbag

joined 1 year ago
[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

It’s not bad, better than overwatch 2, but that’s but saying much.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I’ve played Devilution X on my Anbernic handheld and it was serviceable enough, I got to like level 17 before I ran out of steam on my rogue.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Second news story I’ve heard today about IWW unionization at places. Glad to hear it. Too many unions are bourgeoisie captured. While the IWW is a bit too syndicalist for my tastes, it was still the only option for me when I was looking for a union. Wish my coworkers had been more willing to unionize our shop, but labor aristocracy so often misses the forest for the trees that I’m not surprised they weren’t.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mass transit works just fine in rural areas when it’s properly constructed. Busses are about the single worst option for mass transit, and options like high speed rail excel in connecting rural areas to urban and exurban areas with better job opportunities and connecting urbanites to rural areas, both of which bring money to the rural areas.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

There’s a lot of games that do very well that don’t fall into your stereotypes.

Sure, CoD sells the best. That doesn’t mean Disco Elysium sucks though, or Citizen Sleeper, or Stardew Valley, or Sekiro, or Psychonauts 2, or Hollow Knight, or any number of great games. Games that were impossible when manufacture was monopolized by Nintendo’s cartel, or when cartridges were required and made games cost $60 in 1995.

Gaming is not immune from dialectics. It too exists in a tension between contradictions. It is both terrible, and wonderful, as it was during the golden age you are highlighting from the past, when games cost far more money and were available to far fewer people. When there was no way for one person (Stardew) or two (Hollow Knight) to be able to make and distribute an entire game without submitting themselves to subservience under a publisher.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

One chip SNES already have super sharp pixels, this just brings 2 Chip SNES up to the standard set by the one chip models. This won’t make them look sharper than one chip SNES on a CRT, but it will make them look more accurate on them, and it will look better on modern displays also.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I swam naked in the fountain at our towns courthouse as a child, and it was fine. You’re weird and creepy.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Splinter Cell 1 was the first game I got when I built one of my computers, and I went out and bought a surround sound set up just for it. Totally worth it. It blew my mind after dealing with chintzy desktop 2.0 setups and onboard speakers before that my whole life.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I still use those, how else can you hear your POST codes?

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

**16. **Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

A lot, probably most, of my hours on steam are from before they tracked it. I had 3,000 hours in CS:S and it shows 0 because I stopped playing long ago. Steams been around for a long time, much longer than its ability to track games, so I imagine there’s a lot of people with “unplayed” games that they’ve played, plus people like you that don’t show their hours for whatever reason.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

There’s news articles claiming MLK was secretly funded by the USSR to bring disorder to the US, and it was considered credible at that time by the majority of the white population. The point isn’t people’s reactions, when the civil rights act passed the majority of America thought MLK was a terrible person harming America. The point is to create enough disruption that the people with the power to do so are forced to take action or risk outright collapse of the social order.

 

They’ve also been sandbagging negotiations for the last 9 months, the union today is on a march, no strike action yet.

 

I just found this band and I am in love with every song they do. It’s so elegant, and the composition is really on point.

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