[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I played this during last Halloween. It's great for having really cool Halloween-themed art and sound.

Everything else- the level design, story, physics, abilities, combat, bosses... They're all perfectly acceptable for a 3D platformer. Nothing particularly bad, but nothing particularly great or noteworthy. Still I'd say it was worth at least $10, maybe $15.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

You got a source for that $6 billion? I've tried searching around and can't find that anywhere.

Every study I've ever seen has shown that funding the IRS is a net benefit to tax revenue. So my instinct is that the $6 billion you saw included more than just this particular campaign.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

For my library of 390 games, only 2 are "Borked".

One is Magic: Duels, which was discontinued by WOTC back in 2019. It's still playable on Windows, but seeing as it was kind of a weird experiment they did that ultimately got replaced by Arena I can understand the lack of support there. Also it was free, and I got clean a few years ago, so I'm not salty.

The other of Flatout 3 (the car racing/destruction game, not to be confused with the similarly named Fallout 3). I remembered seeing ads and reviews for Flatout back in PSM when I was a kid. Never got to play it back then, but I grabbed the series bundle on sale at some point. Still haven't played any of them yet, but it appears the issue with Flatout 3 in particular is... It's a bad game. Just learned this now, but apparently it was made by a different developer than the first games and is, by review score, one of the worst games of all time. So there's probably not a whole lot of demand for it on Linux.

Fun stuff. Always neat to find a new way to look at the library.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

For comparison, this is how Trump used to talk, back in the 2016 RNC debate.

He's always been an obnoxious and crass New Yorker, never what you'd call an intellectual or academic. But he used to stay on topic, finish sentences, make coherent points, and generally function. Now he's reduced to somehow shouting and mumbling at the same time, confusing names and years, connecting vague concepts together until he gets applause from the audience.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

He's gotten worse over time. I remember during the 2020 cycle seeing video comparisons even between his 2016 and 2020 debates.

I don't exactly enjoy going back and watching him talk, but it's shocking going back and comparing seeing how drastic the change has been.

Here's a bit of the 2016 RNC debate. Trump is still rude and crass. He's not coming off as an intellectual, but he's completing his sentences and making coherent points. He wasn't getting obviously confused like he has been since- talking about airports being involved in the Revolutionary War, claiming Nikki Haley was responsible for January 6th, the famous rant about his uncle being a genius, etc.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

Even that is a perversion- Victor Gruen is largely cited as one of the pioneers of the shopping mall. He was an Austrian immigrant to the US. He wanted to create a modern, climate-controlled version of the public spaces Europe had for centuries. They were designed to be public parks, housing, schools, etc, with shopping being just a portion of the space.

He famously denounced what the shopping mall became.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

This isn't censoring culture. This is a streaming platform focusing on streaming and giving up on trying to be more than that.

The communities still exist and will find a new platform. Just over a year ago there was a sizeable chunk of Redditors that came to Lemmy. It's happened time after time when a platform goes down. Communities are much more than just the platform they are on.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

What are you talking about? It's not fake maple syrup at all, but 100% real SYRUP, a completely and separate product no one would ever accidentally confuse for maple syrup when they're in a hurry at the grocery store.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

And... Why is that?

Anime can be found on tons of streaming services that don't have comments, like Netflix.

Anime in particular is pretty famous for having its own communities and niche spaces on the internet. If anything, Crunchyroll's comments section seems to me like it's unnecessarily fracturing those communities based on who watches on Crunchyroll vs other methods.

There are costs to maintain and moderate communities. It seems to me like that's adding a good bit of cost to Crunchyroll's business model in exchange a vlrelatively small value provided to a small percentage of their customers. Whereas with dedicated social media platforms, the business model revolves around and only attracts individuals who highly valued that community. With a smaller community like that, it's easier to rely on volunteer mods (like most of Lemmy) or a bit of ad revenue.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

OP really thinks vampires aren't gay?

[-] [email protected] 177 points 6 months ago

Here's his voting record in the Senate.

Seems like he's the politician I thought he'd be on like 99% of the issues. But if we want to book down an entire politician's record to just one issue, sure.

[-] [email protected] 257 points 7 months ago

I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but the Biden administration has really exceeded my expectations.

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Adding another decent veteran to what was probably their weakest position group.

Career seems similar to a guy like Spillane or Elandon Roberts perhaps: not terrible, never good enough to stick anywhere. I'm not familiar enough with him to know where he is on the spectrum of physical-athletic. Hopefully he's more on the athletic side because they have a need there.

Also he is a local so that's always fun.-

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