Notices by pon (spinning_bird@mstdn.games)

@agaudeul @skinnylatte same here, I had to look up narcan and it said it’s an OD antidote or something.

Is there anything I’m missing, or why is there a malicious intent?

You know that saying “this meeting could have been an email”?
Since I got into #Doom and its mods, a similar thought now pops up when I look at a lot of games, like “oh that could have been a Doom mod”

I had a brilliant idea: What if OpenAI made marketing contracts with companies, to have ChatGPT push their products? So if someone asked about vacuum cleaners, for example, the 100% recommended one would be a Dyson.

In fact if someone talked to it about any sort of handiwork project, GPT could tell the user to “make sure you have a Dyson nearby, so you can clean up afterwards”.

And after a couple of consecutive prompts, it could remind the user to take a break with a refreshing ice cold Pepsi™️.

See, I could be marketing manager at OpenAI.
Or I’ll patent the idea myself and make sure they pay *me* when this feature is inevitably implemented.

@captainarcee oh and 6 shift keys but only one ctrl. Also typing will be difficult if space is only up there.

I suppose it might be good if you really want to play something like Nethack while lying on the couch 🤭

@captainarcee @rootcompute wait is the ctrl key pressed by the left thumb? but that’s also the c key up there for the left thumb!
How do you ctrl-c?

@keirFox @CursedSilicon a lot of this is centered around Discord I feel.

Sure Discord is a corporation too and they try to sell us their Nitro stuff, but who you interact with on a Discord server isn’t influenced by an algorithm. A lot of young (but also old?) people have Discord servers for friend groups. It’s at first a closed community, but through invites it can grow.

@buru5 of course it's better to have something for unlimited instead of limited time. And, since the status quo for games was the former* for so long, people hate to see it change?

But as for preservation, for example MMOs simply can't be preserved, because the game code is only a shadow of what the game is near its peak player count.

But I also keep thinking: There has been so much art lost over the centuries, and soooo much gets produced these days. Do we really need to preserve it all?

@buru5 Ok but, even so, there is inevitably a selection process taking place, right?
And we're talking about "art products" here. A popular product will be preserved either way, capitalism sees to it.

If anything, I'd say we need to come up with good laws that protect those things that have stood the test of time?

@buru5 Of course the artist can preserve it. In the case of an individual, it's up to them.
And if it's a company, they will probably do so based on popularity (which the goal was to achieve in the first place, unlike maybe someone's personal project.)
Maybe someone's personal project will gain popularity 50 years later, like van Gogh's work. If they chose to preserve it and make it available.

But all that is not dependent on whether we, as consumers, own the games, right?

@buru5 Well, yes, I agree.
Just not super strongly, and I feel like a lot of people feel very strongly about this. (Maybe not you specifically, it's more the general sentiment of many people I read here on Mastodon) That's why I was wondering.

Also, something more personal, which I find hard to put into words... something about memories, and letting go.
Like, I think people should learn to better accept how everything's ephemeral or something. I don't know...

@buru5 a bit of both 1 and 2.
I mean, we must somehow accept that our youth, our health, friends and loved ones can and will all be gone, and appreciate it all while it’s there, and hopefully preserve some memories (which you won’t notice disappear).
So why not start by accepting when a video game suddenly becomes unavailable?

I realize it’s a strange take.

@buru5 It would be a 180 for Netflix to suddenly let us own something. The way I see it, they give access to a handful of games as a "bonus"?

But probably more controversial: Why do you (or others) have this strong need to own media things? What's so bad about not owning the things you consume?

@NaClKnight @Gwendolyn I think Gwendolyn said it very well, the fourth wall break combined with the 😏 face you can see on the devs face.

It would be annoying as hell having to wear something like that and be careful about indecent exposure all the time, so maybe trying to identify with the character, some of that annoyance transfers over. In a way, if 2B only wore underwear it would be less annoying 😂

@Gwendolyn @NaClKnight 2Bs design is neat, EXCEPT for how the dress invites panty shots all the time. It's irritating.

I don't know what it is about those that annoys me so much. Perhaps because how they're always made to look incidental, but it's so apparent they're very deliberate.

@NaClKnight @buru5 @jake4480 sorry for the confusion, I’m talking about buru5s, mmh, gaming magazine. If you look at his recent posts you’ll see what I mean.

If you read some of his articles, the main focus is often on personal experience over details about the specific game, so maybe just playing a little bit of GGX could be fine? Idk buru5 is the boss, but I had the impression it could be a fit. 🤗

When a guy claims he’s "too nice to find a girlfriend" … yellow flag or red flag?

@NaClKnight @buru5 @jake4480 Guilty Gear X is on the list of games for the next issues, I'd be interested in reading about your relationship with fighting games.

It actually makes me feel a bit bad because I can hardly say why I like games so much. Maybe I can say "it's well designed because ..." but that's hardly very personal. 😶

@jake4480 @buru5 you don’t have to lead with Phantasy Star Online 😂 for example, the FF7 remakes are something a “modern gamer” will likely know, so it’s a good way to bring the ps1 original into the mix.

I for one would be delighted to meet someone who’s enthusiastic about Helldivers, even though I haven’t played it myself.

@HauntedOwlbear This says something about the way some people interact with social media. If you look for 2 seconds, you'll notice the AI artifacts, but it seems many will just stop scrolling barely long enough to hit the like button?
It's funny that this is called "engagement".