bigmclargehuge

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[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Them reciting their mantra when they start shooting, or the shrieking they do when they throw the plates, just makes my skin crawl lol. I hope they omit those if they do an on screen adaptation.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

As a guy who still plays those old school FPS games, they're for me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Ghost Recon Wildlands, but the og GR with the Heroes Unleashed mod is unmatched. Ready or Not is visceral, but SWAT 4 feels better and has infinitely better AI.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I personally think it's a cool way to increase situational awareness while using a scope. Also, being an obvious callback to the old Delta Force games, there's definitely some nostalgia there. I at the very least hope it's an option that can be toggled on or off.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I'll never support Bungie again. I bought D1 and D2 before it went free to play, only to have the game I bought removed from the face of the Earth.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

ShadPS4 is what people are using to play Bloodborne on PC, and it is a traditional emulator, not a translation layer. It has a native Linux port already, no need for additional trickery. Not sure about XBox as I don't really follow much XBox homebrew or emulation.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ace of Spades which, for the record, is open source (in the form of OpenSpades), totally free, has mod support, and self hosted servers.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This specifically is a bit of an open secret afaik. There are a few semi prominent examples of big studios pouring a bunch of money into junk, not advertising it or just skipping theatres entirely, then watching it sink.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I had a conversation with my sister about that recently.

The amount of shows and movies that have $100,000,000+ budgets is rising, yet more and more of them feature very limited sets, small casts of mostly mid range talent, and a dozen executive producers all putting up their own money (this is all especially prominent with big shows on streaming networks, cough Star Trek cough The Acolyte)

Here's my comparison: a group of 10 investors come out and announce they're spending a billion dollars to develop a new luxury car. They drum it up as being the next big thing. Then, when it comes out, it's about as nice and luxurious as a base model Toyota Camry. Fine, but not "a billion dollars" fine. Immediately, everyone would be wondering where the hell that money went? There's definitely a chance it was just squandered, but you have to wonder. When you have a group of private investors with executive power over the project, what goes on behind closed doors?

For all we know, they're literally just passing massive checks in a circle to one another to say "yes, it says right here in our bank records that we spent a combined $100,000,000", meanwhile only 25% actually goes into the production, and they pocket the rest. Then, when the flock of people have to come and check out the new megaproject, all they need to recoup is a few million more than they spent (far less than the perceived budget), and they can run for the hills.

Anywho, crackpot theory time over. But think about it, if my simple brain can think this stuff up, why can't the hollywood bigwigs, who actually have the capital to make it happen?

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Most of my favourite movies from when I was a kid are still great movies for me as an adult.

I would bet my next paycheck this is not the case for any kid who grows up seeing this movie. A good kids movie should age with you.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My vote is always for plain ol Debian. If you don't need a bleeding edge system, Debian will just work.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This kind of opens up its own point: people need to accept that non-free software isn't the devil. It actually can be really good for a community to have large entities investing real, actual USD dollars into it, and creating products and services that people want to pay for. It absolutely shouldn't be the only option, FOSS is a beautiful thing and I love that the Unix community puts a huge emphasis on it. But, without some heavy hitters putting some money on the table, Linux/BSD will always be niche. They won't go away, but they won't blow up either.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Dusk. Quake meets Evil Dead. One of the best games I've played in years. It's definitely more of a straight up shooter than a horror game, but the themes/setting/art style nail the spooktober vibe. I replay it every autumn and always have a great time

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