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  • fanbois [he/him]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.netHATE.
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    2 months ago

    Warhammer40k-ass name. And like 40k it looks like someone made an obvious satirical exaggeration that is meant to make you recoil and then some asshole came and said “that’s actually good and cool and represents my personality”.

    And then they park at 3 parking spots simultaneously in front of an McDonald’s in an desolate American suburb to get the new BaconChokerSupreme and they feel absolutely nothing. An empty void where the human soul should be.


  • I think that’s a good sign of taste though. Games are so incredibly diverse, even the ones that reach the peak of their genre can be just eh for others.

    I’ll never finish Witcher 3 because that’s just too much stuff for my little adhd brain. Ghost of Tsushima was a wonderful 2 hours of ogling at the most beautiful wind-swept grass fields I’ve ever seen and I’ll never touch it again.

    There is probably fantastic shmups or fighting games that I will never touch. But I gladly bang my head for 5 hours against the next Gulgagram, Darkblood Impaler From Soft throws at me and defend the 15 ms reaction window I have to dodge his instant kill grab.


  • Because I like to live on a habitable planet more than I like your ability to prompt a defective and stylisticly pathetic essay for your college class.

    Scientists have estimated that the power requirements of data centers in North America increased from 2,688 megawatts at the end of 2022 to 5,341 megawatts at the end of 2023, partly driven by the demands of generative AI. Globally, the electricity consumption of data centers rose to 460 terawatt-hours in 2022. This would have made data centers the 11th largest electricity consumer in the world, between the nations of Saudi Arabia (371 terawatt-hours) and France (463 terawatt-hours), according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

    By 2026, the electricity consumption of data centers is expected to approach 1,050 terawatt-hours (which would bump data centers up to fifth place on the global list, between Japan and Russia).

    If your phone could do the ai trash, it would still be morally bankrupt and devoid of any humanity. But it’s done on 5 gpus that eat as much energy as your entire household.

    The real usefulness of ai technology is probably limited to 1% of what it is now. Signal processing, protein folding, translation and transcription are all fine and well. But it is 99% spam and so I’ll judge the technology on that.







  • People here focus a lot on the fighting and difficulty.

    Just so you know, it’s also absolutely gorgeous to look at and the game feel is incredibly tight and responsive. If you just run around in it for an hour or two, but don’t have the patience for getting really good a tapping your shoulder button, you probably still have a good time.


  • fanbois [he/him]@hexbear.nettogames@hexbear.netHow good is Sekiro?
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    4 months ago

    The only one that was on par so far was Nine Sols. It has the most insane final boss I’ve ever seen and the only bossfight I had to grind harder than Father Owl. Probably took me 8+ hours over three days. After beating it, i felt like I could parry bullets in real life if just tried a little harder. Gorgeous and deeply engaging game too.






  • If you make or sell anything in the US, or really anywhere, you need stuff from China. Anything that contains any electronics (i.e almost everything important), many resources, plastic parts, anything the US has outsourced is ordered via sea freight from China.

    Now it’s 64% less things over a single week. Your whole economy relies on cheap stuff from China and they made it not cheap anymore. So companies will not order anymore, because they can’t afford it, knowing that can’t just double their prices. Most companies probably hope, that this is temporary and want to delay their orders until they have some level of security, that shit is not two or three times as expensive as it was the month before.

    If that doesn’t happen, everything down the supply chain will be affected. From food to cars to data centers and IT, consumer goods, cosmetics, healthcare. The shipping companies themselves. Logistics, ports, trucks. Building materials like steel and concrete. Everything. And most companies hold very little things in storage these days, they rely on just-in-time delivery because material on stock is expensive, so this impact will come very quick.

    And nothing, outside of a gigantic national effort that would be comparable to the brutal industrialization of the Soviet Union or China, could compensate for this. The consequences are a massive economic crisis agaist which 2008 or Covid looks like peanuts.

    Trump will bend. Or he might have to dodge a few more bullets.


  • I think it’s a bad rep, because people (ofc especially women) would like to have at least some body parts that aren’t immediately sexualized, but now you even have to think about the beach pic of your feet in the sand.

    Bare feet are seen as very innocuous… Until the feet people show up, are horny on main, put them in a wiki, give them a rating and catalogue all the feet pics.

    In bed it definitely falls for me under the “if it brings you joy, we’ll find a way” category.


  • Cutscene at the end of Act 2:

    Kim lies with a gunshot wound against a wall. Harry tried to stop the bleeding with a handkerchief he got from Joyce Messier, who is very reasonable and also young and hot now.

    Kim takes off his pissf****t jacket and hands it to Harry.

    “Guess you gotta be the pissf****t now, huh…”

    “Goddamit, Kim, don’t say shit like that!”

    “Take care of it… Can’t go on… Woke has gone …too…far…”

    Kim closes his eyes and dies.

    Harry gets up, puts on the jacket, tightens the horrific neck tie, who’s back as comic relief and has an incredibly annoying catch phrase, and looks into the sunset. A slowly rising mashup of Revacholiere/Won’t get fooled again plays.



  • Good, cheap wireless noise-cancelling headphones are one of the few legitimately wonderful technological advancements of the last 10 years. Very few things help my with my ADHD as much as these fuckers.

    Annoying coworker breathing like a 400 m runner? Headphones. Loud, stressful supermarket? Headphones. The little kid downstairs throws it’s third tantrum of the day? You know it.

    Cables can suck it. I will wrestle Bluetooth anyday before getting my head yanked back because I forgot my headset has a cable and i suddenly got up to get some water.