adam_y

adam_y, 1 month ago

Updates to Todd Howard when?

adam_y, 1 month ago

Wait for the community to fix it for us

adam_y, 1 month ago

Top points for Matt “Wolves!” Berry voicing him.

adam_y, 1 month ago

That’s more like meat coffee. It has a kick.

adam_y, 1 month ago

I hear your Nan’s just as high.

(When she climbs it)

adam_y, 1 month ago

Yes neurotypical people all find the same things beautiful, they have a famous saying about beauty being in the eye of the beholder, which means just that.

adam_y, 1 month ago

I’m betting they weren’t around in the early 90s. I mean… If we are talking any real sort of publicly available machinima, we must be talking about the start of YouTube.

Unless watching your mate, Gary, do that thing where he voiced over Zangief as if we was a WWF wrester counts.

adam_y, 1 month ago

Right you are. They started in 2003 a full two years before YouTube and a solid four years after the 90s.

adam_y, 1 month ago

You should read up on how Dick and his drug usage led to his own paranoia. This is practically a diary.

I also think you are confusing films made from his work with the actual work itself. To comment on the worlds Dick was creating you need to look at the text rather than adaptation that came decades after cyberpunk was already a thing (in some cases). An aesthetic veneer of cyberpunk works well with his narratives but not neccessarily with the writing style.

adam_y, 1 month ago

I’m specifically talking about the difference in time between when he wrote the story and when that film was made.

That is, one is pre- the conception of cyberpunk as a formal genre and the other is very much post- it.

I wasn’t attacking anything you said, and I’m sorry you interpreted it that way.

Also, I’m not saying anything about the quality of the films made of his work. I sort of agree with you. They make fine books, but film is a different form and requites different ways of exploring narrative. If anything his work acts as a good launching point to explore ideas in film, rather than acting as templates for a movie.

adam_y, 1 month ago

It is a great step forward, but the barrier to entry is relatively high. You can sign up to substack for free and they take a cut of your profits (that most writers don’t draw enough attention to earn.

Meanwhile ghost charges $9 a month, billed annually.

That’s a significant barrier to anyone that can’t afford to see if their writing will be popular and as long as that remains it will struggle to gain traction in the same way.

And yeah, I know you could host your own too, but again a price point and a technical barrier.

I like ghost, the interface and the ecology, but the truth is that it isn’t going to attract the sort of vibrant, young community it needs if you have to stump up $108 just to see.

I think one of the great things about 2000s/early 2010s internet was the proliferation of free to use platforms like livejournal, blogger and WordPress. Sure there was a lot or jank, but I found some of my favourite writers back when they were scratching their name into the internet.

adam_y, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I think it is a question of representation.

If they say what this is, then fine, if they don’t then its a problem.

The reason being that an artist rendition is almost clearly an artist rendition, whereas ai imagery can look cannily like an actual photograph, and therefore present itself as a primary document.

The problem with misrepresenting, whether deliberately or accidentally, primary documentation is that this is supposed to be a documentary, one of the few show types where fact and accuracy (should) matter.

adam_y, 2 months ago

We did it boys, a spongebob meme that tends towards being ageist, racist and sexist at the same time. Wonderful work.

adam_y, 2 months ago

Not only not admitting fault but somehow making it the fault of the very people that told them exactly what would happen.

Don’t put your hand in the fire, johnny, it’ll hurt. johnny stares you in the eye as he puts his hand defiantly into the fireOoooow, it burns! Why did you make it burn me?!?

adam_y, 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e16992b3-670f-4f09-b2e1-839cd81fd6d6.jpeg

adam_y, 2 months ago

All women scare insecure men.

adam_y, 2 months ago

But… Look at his halo!

adam_y, 2 months ago

Lovely stuff.

adam_y, 2 months ago

I hate when people call it “Garlic 2” when it’s actually called, “Garlics”*

• Just because someone always thinks I’m being serious and totally doesn’t understand sarcasm, or perhaps feels like everyone else on the internet is a moron, or just needs to start every comment with the word “actually”, I’ll explain that this is a joke based on the title of the Alien franchise and is noted for being a pretty low effort one at that

adam_y, 2 months ago

Fair.

adam_y, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Easy diffusion. It’s pretty straightforward and you’ll learn a bunch.

adam_y, 2 months ago

No mate, I’m doing you a favour playing your game. You should pay me. It would be great exposure. I’ve got literally some followers.

And yeah, I’ll bang on about minimum wage being too low and I’ll post about AAA Devs ripping off their workers, but a lone developer asking $10 for something that probably took them months, too much. Too much.

What a sell out.

(/S just in case)

adam_y, 2 months ago

And what’s worse, half of those complaining bought Elon’s blue tick!