Kapura

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by Kapura 3y ago
Cliff Bleszinksi's thoughts on the games industry should be taken with a gigantic grain of salt. The sorts of development he, in particular, describes has been recognised as destructive, and is increasingly uncommon at AAA studios that
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Medjed: From Ancient Egypt to Japanese Pop Culture (2017)(jgeekstudies.org)
43 points by Kapura 3y ago|8 comments
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by Kapura 3y ago
He's done a lot of bad things? Things that are bad for the public? In a very public way? Feels like the sort of thing that a series of articles was invented exactly to address.
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by Kapura 3y ago
Everything I've seen from Musk makes me believe that he wants to win, on his terms, full stop. The undermining of public will to invest in public transportation is real. A functioning subway and rail system in LA would dramatically cut
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by Kapura 3y ago
Writing software and building rockets are unlike each other in many respects; the cost of small errors being high among them.
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by Kapura 3y ago
Why would you want to test if you could refuel a rocket that keeps exploding
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by Kapura 3y ago
what if we had laws that prevented people from obtaining disproportionate amounts of wealth? Seems like it'd be a lot harder to buy a school if being a multi-billionaire is impossible.
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by Kapura 3y ago
If you want to really own something, buy physical media. Simple as.
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by Kapura 3y ago
It's OK, and getting better. I reckon console support will improve dramatically over the next 1-2 years.
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by Kapura 3y ago
You would be better served by Unreal, if that's your usecase.
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by Kapura 3y ago
This gets at the fundamental issue I have with AI: We're trying to get machines to think, but we only have the barest understanding of how we, as humans, think. The concept of a "neuron" that can activate other neurons comes
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by Kapura 3y ago
>At some point people need to be responsible for their own decisions. That point should come when they are no longer children. Targeting children to produce perfect little ecosystem consumers is... kinda evil.
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by Kapura 3y ago
Some people feel that there's a hidden, unprovable reality beyond what we can perceive, which dictates the things we cannot explain in our own reality. Religions are features of basically every human culture; "simulation theory&qu
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by Kapura 3y ago
Console generations; Playstation 5 is a generation after Playstation 4, with Playstation 3 before that. There are rough equivalents on the Nintendo and Xbox side, but Playstation numbering makes generation identification easier.
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by Kapura 3y ago
People are saying you should change the name; I disagree. Its important to expose developers to weird animated fetishes, lest life become too sedate.
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by Kapura 3y ago
It's not a scam if you can get away with taking a shitload of time, but otherwise 100%. The only person I ever knew who seemed to get good value out of unlimited PTO was my boss at the last job, but junior employees I talked to didn&#x
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by Kapura 3y ago
Extremely weird, or maybe not weird at all, that you don't include art of any form in your list of intrinsically valuable things.
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by Kapura 3y ago
CEO John Riccitiello has already lost his job [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23910441/unity-ceo-presid...
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by Kapura 3y ago
Given that the Zuckerverse has been a bust, and the motorola razr has now been replaced with the ubiquitous touchscreen-slab smartphone, I find it difficult to believe that either of these were inevitable, even as an intermediate step towar
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by Kapura 3y ago
I don't want to hear your ideology of how newly empowered bigots harassing folks off the platform is good, actually. Twitter used to be good and useful; removing actual verification, and then tweetdeck, and now you can't view thre
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by Kapura 3y ago
Change is inevitable, and going to extreme lengths to preserve the current status quo is almost never worth it. Consider the recent death of Twitter, which seemed so real that tweets were being routinely embedded in news articles. I persona
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by Kapura 3y ago
The only odd part is that it took so long. Leaded gasoline has been known to be toxic for many, many decades.
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by Kapura 3y ago
Progressive taxation rates, with the highest income brackets (say, every dollar made in a year past $100,000,000) being taxed on the order of 80%. Nothing would stop somebody with money under this schema from continuing to invest. The minds
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by Kapura 3y ago
[citation needed] i don't have any fucking money, i can't invest in shit. That's the big difference between Jeff Bezos and Me.
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by Kapura 3y ago
No, it's not, because i know that the wages of a single human lifetime are many orders of magnitude more valuable than buying a thing at a particular store.
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by Kapura 3y ago
You should resent your masters, the people who can afford to spend huge sums of money to suppress minimum wage increases, or benefits for gig workers, or greater public oversight. These people are making every other person's life worse
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by Kapura 3y ago
I see, and how is our god-king mr. bezos allocating his wealth? He's using it to electrify and build out american rail, to reduce dependence on cars? Is he pouring money into early education so that future generations will be able to m
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by Kapura 3y ago
Jeff Bezos had the idea of "what if we put a store online," and because he was the most successful at executing the idea of selling stuff using the computer, he deserves effectively infinity money? That seems like a super radical
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by Kapura 3y ago
Then it's just... a worse pinball machine. A pinball machine without the charm of mechanical engineering or physical craftsmanship.
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by Kapura 3y ago
Two points: 1) PC Pinball games have basically been done to the platonic ideal, unless you're intent on recreating something in like VR which would truly change the experience. The reason PC pinball games emerged early is because the p

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