xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

The "censorship is good actually" to "I want to kill myself I'm so miserable" pipeline is real

the games industry is waaaaay too focused on "realism" and it takes away from it actually seeming real, funny enough. there's a certain style you have to achieve to trick someone's brain into glossing over inaccuracies, but when you just go all in on the realistic stuff then your brain picks up on it way more.

especially with all of the techniques devs use for various things... they end up looking really bad in motion and you focus way too much on them. it ruins the immersion. i'll take purely rasterized lighting that's really good over ray-traced reflections that smear everywhere when you turn the camera any day.

New data from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy’s homeschool research lab show that 90 percent of states reporting data saw an increase in homeschooling in the 2023–2024 school year.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/homeschooling-numbers-continue-to-climb-after-covid-19-pandemic-report.html

You would have to be an insane conspiracy theorist to believe the government can manipulate the weather to..

Yahoo! no! ..what are you doing?!?

I never used to believe crazy shit like weather manipulation years ago, but I believe it now.

SquareEnix is purging the interview with Dragon Quest creators where they lament the forced restrictions of their vision and creativity, in particular the Westernized Neoliberal mind rot. Do not forget.

Before and after hurricane Helene!

Reminds of the difference between the satellite imagery between North and South Korea.

Food prices—especially meat and poultry—have skyrocketed in the past four years and could be exacerbated further next year when new EPA rules for meat processors go into effect.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/dozens-of-meat-processing-plants-expected-to-shut-down-under-new-epa-rules.html

An Anna's Hummingbird sharing a water fountain with four bees on a hot California summer day, 2016 - by Toshiyasu Morita, Japanese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5YdD1pYzes

JRPGs slowly becoming a reality, except inverted. All the filler characters look like some character creator randomized mishap and you can spot the main cast because they all look "normal."

RT: https://poa.st/objects/687ab0d8-5327-491b-a947-83153b4b225d

The world could be on the cusp of another food inflation shock as the benchmark for world food commodity prices recorded the fastest monthly increase in 18 months in September.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/global-food-prices-jump-most-in-18-months-as-supermarket-inflation-storm-worsens.html

Tencent is looking to buyout Ubisoft. If they do I still won't buy their games. I am not putting Chinese spyware on my pc.