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[bloop_bleep]

Saw a person with a shirt saying something about their voice as a black woman. The person was a white bald guy. ??

[JoshuaFH]

I just want to yell at the people writing Bravely Default 2's story. Specifically, what I want to yell is "YOU KNOW COMIC RELIEF IS A THING RIGHT?! YOU'RE NOT TOO GOOD TO ADD IN SOME JOKES OR SOMETHING! SHEESH!"

Like, in a longform story like you'd see in a JRPG, you'd expect pretty frequent changes in style, tempo, pace, ambiance, theme, whatever just don't keep the same feeling going for too long or everything starts to blend together. This is normally done by adding in comic relief, just some jokes or ribbing, just something to cut the mood, so the Viewer or Player can laugh and smile for a second before we go back into the serious shit. Bravely Default 2's writers decided that they don't need shit like that, they can just have the player progress through a continually escalating series of tragedies one after the other, with all the characters' input being very sober and rational dialogue as it all unfolds in front of them.

And while I appreciate all the voice acting, couldn't they, you know, have done a better job? There's all these big dramatic scenes, and people are supposed to be angry and distraught, but I'm just not being moved by any of it. Legit feels like amateur hour actors half-assedly reading the lines to a 2nd-rate play sometimes.

It's just upsetting because the Bravely Default series' hallmark is taking the cliched RPG-storylines and tropes, and just playing them straight harder than anyone else in the market. I want Bravely Default to succeed as an IP, but it's very hard to see it continuing if the best it can do is this underwhelming. Being good is good, being bad is atleast memorable, but being unremarkable is completely lethal to any game or series.

[wierd]

In my attempts to get all my stuff to work on my newest (used, but new to me) laptop, (which runs xubuntu), I found that the blizzard battle.net client does not like any flavor of stock versions of WINE, and thus wont work via play on linux or lutris.


Hilariously, though, it works JUUUUSSST FINE in Steam's Proton, using Glorious Eggroll.

The irony of using the Steam library to launch the Blizzard library, is not lost on me.

WTF.

[McTraveller]

Just wait to see what nonsense ensues if Microsoft's purchase of Blizzard Activision is approved.   

[MrRoboto75]

One can only hope for master chief doomslayer crossover game of ass kickery

[None]

What frightens me are all the accompanying cries of 'Who will Sony acquire in order to compete with Microsoft?' instead of 'Hey let's maybe not aggregate every publisher and producer under a select few supercorporations that are going to implement walled gardens and console exclusivity in order to drive sales against the consumer's best interests and eliminate competition which drives predatory monopolistic practices' but that might just be the anticapitalist in me speaking.

I dunno. The only people this move is good for is Microsoft, and given how Windows 11 is going, they're not building products with the best interests of the end-user in mind.

[dragdeler]

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[None]

Android is ad-riddled?

[wierd]

non-lineageos / non-AOSP android is, yes.  Advert tech is DEEEEEPLY rooted in.  (those two options though, are very clean.)

[None]

Sure, the tech is in there, but is it ad-riddled?

[Frumple]

Just wait to see what nonsense ensues if Microsoft's purchase of Blizzard Activision is approved.   

Probably can't be much worse than what actiblizz was already getting up to, ha.

[MrRoboto75]

Just wait to see what nonsense ensues if Microsoft's purchase of Blizzard Activision is approved.   

Probably can't be much worse than what actiblizz was already getting up to, ha.

New boss, same as the old boss.

[King Zultan]

given how Windows 11 is going, they're not building products with the best interests of the end-user in mind.

So I take it that Windows 11 is windows 10 but worse with more ads

[wierd]

given how Windows 11 is going, they're not building products with the best interests of the end-user in mind.

So I take it that Windows 11 is windows 10 but worse with more ads

My hot take on it:

Media Companies:
Hey, Microsoft-- you have this huge install base of mindless morons that dont know how to manage their own computers, and we are very eager to control their entire media consumption experience, can you help us accomplish this goal?

Microsoft:
ABSOLUTELY! We have been wanting to be the prima-fascia gatekeeper for media for DECADES!
We have also been slowly but subtly removing "Features nobody uses!" (like actual administration and system tweaking features), and dumbing down the experience that whole time, and our users ARE LOVING IT!


Media Companies:
AMAZING! We'll have our people get together, and form some consortia to divvy up how we intend to control all aspects of media consumption on your platform-- We'll be sure to give your people strong leeway, and we can discuss the licensing particulars.

Microsoft:
GREAT! LET'S DO THIS!

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[4 Years Later]

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Media companies:
In order to STOP THE EVIL PIRATES (that really, our own research teams-- DAMN THEM--- tell us are not actually the problem--- But we will listen to MARKETING instead of RESEARCH, because we like their answers better!), we need to take more control away from the end user, so that they cant be involved in OUR SUPER SECRET CRYPTO DRM!  We know that you have been pushing for TPMs for over a decade now, but end users have been resistant to the push-- If we get on board with it, will you continue pushing?

Microsoft:
ABSOLUTELY! Keeping parts of the OS locked up, away from prying eyes, and running in secure enclave/PSP is part of our deal with the NSA (Damn you Snowden for revealing this!), since we can hide nefarious bullshit in the secure enclave and end users would never even know!  We would be happy to set up a partially trusted access to the secure enclave to hide media decryption routines for you, to PROTECT YOUR ASSETS FROM THE EVIL PIRATES (that our own research teams tell us are not actually the problem also, but we will agree with you that Marketing has more desirable answers on that.)   We will make TPM2.0 an ABSOLUTE NECESSITY in our newest OS!

Media companies:
FUCK YEAH!

End users:
Uhm--- NO.  DO NOT WANT.

Microsoft:
Really guys!? REALLY!?  FINE--- You can use software TPM services instead. Jeeze, you guys are such killjoys!

Media companies:
BOOO!  We expect you to try harder, Microsoft!

Microsoft:
Dont worry, We will just do what we always do, and just incrementally take away this "feature", and force compliance more slowly.

Media companies:
YAY!!!

[scriver]

What's bad about it? I've been pressing "no update plz" for a while now but mostly just because no reason.