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Harris has big lead among early voters, polls show in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 191 points 1 day ago

Ignore everything you see about polling. Polls don't win elections, but they can sway elections.

Vote. Vote. Vote.

I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Thank you thank you thank you. This is exactly what I want on Lemmy.

Screenshot of what I'm playing, day 3: Sonic 3 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No no no.......Sonic and Knuckles was just Sonic 3, the other half of the cartridge that they sold you a second time, somehow.

It's not though? Sonic & Knuckles has unique stages and story vs. Sonic 3. Unless you mean they were designed as one game and split at the end before release; that I don't know.

Do any non-corpos actually like AI slop? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I have had fun with ChatGPT, but in terms of integrating it into my workflow: no. It just gives me too much garbage on a regular basis for me not to have to check and recheck anything it produces, so it's more efficient to do it myself.

And as entertainment, it's more expensive than e.g. a game, over time.

How Trump or Harris tax plans might change your income in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Republicans making $35k a year: "but wHeRE is The iNcEnTiVE to bE sUcCeSsFuL????!!!"

Screenshot of what I'm playing, day 3: Sonic 3 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There was a 2010 2D platformer released as Sonic 4 which was meant to be the spiritual successor.

I'd say the real spiritual successor on Genesis/Megadrive was Sonic & Knuckles, which came out after Sonic 3 and for all intents and purposes may as well have been called Sonic 4. But they had to push the Knuckles aspect because the cartridge had a passthrough that would accept another Genesis cartridge and allow you to play e.g. Sonic 2 with the Knuckles sprite, iirc.

Red Dead Redemption released on Steam in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (3 children)

$50 for a PS3 game.

The absolute state of AAA gaming is ridiculous.

Kamala Harris Wins Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids Pick the President’ Poll With 52% of Votes, Trump Grabs 48% in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Take your upvote and leave.

‘We have to blow it up’: can never-Trumpers retake the Republican party? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I think the JD Vance "I'm a never Trumper" clip has kind of killed the title, no?

_____ is the second best Operating System. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

T

'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

Fuck Denuvo. DRM does not benefit the gamer. Period. No amount of gaslighting will change that.

Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We've gone from alternative facts to alternative reality.

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Are there previous historical examples of cult-like followings of US political candidates? (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

(This post was intended for [email protected], but as it seems they don't allow text posts, I'm posting it here)

This post will likely not go over well with everyone and some people may not agree with the premise of the question. Mods please remove if not allowed.

I am curious if the MAGA-esque approach to politics is new for the US, or if there have been other examples of similar political movements which may be considered "cult-like". To better define what I mean, here are some examples:

  • Large amounts of signs bearing a candidate's name being shown by single individuals (e.g. big trucks covered in Trump signs everywhere)

  • Use of a candidate name over the US flag

  • Use of a kind of supporter uniform (e.g. the red MAGA hat)

  • The "alternative facts" of MAGA, where debate can be impossible because supporters believe anyone who is a detractor must be lying

  • In some cases, voter intimidation or coercion from staunch supporters

It seems to me that some of this is new but I'd love to hear other thoughts. I have heard and seen many relatively obvious parallels to German politics in the 20s-40s, but I'm specifically wondering if anything similar has ever been seen in the US before.

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Out of everything, I really want to see my helmet in first person (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

I know a lot of people hate this kind of feature, but there are significant reasons why I think it would make Starfield better.

If I'm not wearing one and I leave my ship, I start taking damage if the planet is dangerous. The only way around that is to be in 3rd person while in the ship (aside from the workaround below). There isn't any indication anywhere as to whether or not you are in a spacesuit, besides your menu and 3rd person view. There is no way to know while maintaining immersion.

Bethesda's workaround is to auto-hide spacesuits and helmets in atmo. This sucks, because I personally like tailoring the look of my character to the environment. But more importantly, I want to know that I am wearing a pressure suit if I'm out in a dangerous environment. I don't want it to feel like I'm a freecam wandering around -- I want to feel like I'm slogging along in a freaking spacesuit.

What's really strange is: if you put on the broken Constellation helmet, you can see the tape piece from the inside. It has an overlay! Sadly this works for no other helmet. Did they just abandon making the textures?

A similar annoyance with a related system: the quick menu does not unequip items. This would make it super easy to change between a spacesuit and regular outfit and not deal with more menus.

I figure there will be a mod at least for helmet overlays eventually, but damn is it frustrating that they definitely thought about it and only implemented it for a piece of masking tape.

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