This is a dark time for Cirno.

I don’t think many insects care about Elon’s kids.

The stock broker is a genuinely nice guy, they realize they are soul mates and he quits his job to be a house husband so she can chase her dreams and make an indie game on steam. Coincidentally it has no AI and blows up, and they both get to retire and live off the earnings. Sorry, what were we talking about again?

That’s exciting! I hope you find success with that! It’s nice that you already had a starting point with how you’re going to use it. My job is entirely unrelated to drone work so I’m just throwing myself out there and hoping to find gigs haha.

I also just passed! Doing my first flight with my “work” drone tomorrow morning, wind allowing. I have a “new” dji air 3s that I promised myself I wouldn’t fly until I passed, as motivation haha. Have you found work other than real estate or are you using it exclusively with that?

I don’t have a solid game plan for work, but I plan on doing all sorts of things like mapping, scanning, real estate and independent photo/video. I have a full time job so my first order of business is to build up a portfolio of each of those types of work myself with no clients, just to prove I can. Then I’ll find clients on my days off.

I block most communities that aren’t mostly memes.

If you squint, this painting looks like the Wednesday frog.

Maybe 3 letters isn’t enough and if the word is “mostly” pedo it fails

I know this and that they didn’t specifically design for it, but it was the reason for its success, and the community instantly took notice and started designing to replicate that specific phenomenon. The success itself relied on social media, not the devs. I bet if social media in the lockdown didn’t launch it into the stratosphere it would have stayed at its original level of success.

I think among us is a great example of this, to take the first one that got popular. It’s just a form of werewolf, blood on the clock tower, town of Salem, etc. Just distilled and simplified and put onto phones and made accessible. The “gameplay” is that of a board game, just with a few moving pngs. I’d much rather play one of the games I listed above which has more engaging mechanics with the same premise. Among us is hyper simplified, and I believe it relied on social media and the pandemic and an extremely low bar to entry to gain snowballing popularity.

It’s not a “good” game in comparison to most of its competitors at the time. But its competitors weren’t as conducive to social media reactions and didn’t have that spark of luck at just the right time to start snowballing, or lacked the accessibility of simple mechanics.

I typically do not play these games, but I see a new one on a daily basis. The problem with naming and shaming is that someone who sees something they don’t like doesn’t investigate further, but starts to notice trends and patterns over time of the same “type of stuff” on their social media feeds (or suggestions from friends). My friends keep suggesting games like this as well. A couple of them were space themed, a few were horror themed, but most of them (and I investigated every single one at the time since a friend personally suggested them, but promptly forgot about them) were in the same genre of “mediocre but fun game clearly conducive to inciting TikTok reactions”

Edit: just to make a point on the other end, I think lethal company is a pretty great game. It’s immersive, pretty scary sometimes, the “manned ship with a computer” mechanic is unique and impactful, and specific interactions with each monster, item, role, map, and weather make for a bit of emergent gameplay here and there between the normal gameplay. It’s very good, even if I think it has a shorter than average shelf life before it gets old compared to most games I like. It ALSO is conducive to TikTok reactions, but it provides new and interesting mechanics of its own.

I wish the bot would post the full video. I don’t enjoy watching embedded shorts like this. (I don’t enjoy shorts at all anyway but that’s besides the point) I could tap the full screen button but like… why? By the time I do half the video is over and I wanted to know more anyway so I might search up the full video anyway.

I’ve heard it for a while now, and when I first heard it I know precisely what it meant with no explanation. It really is a “good” (linguistically only) word. The definition and usage is asenine and counter productive, however.

I think it comes from a different place, unrelated to graphics. “Old” or “traditional” gamers are more and more getting turned off by games like among us, fall guys, and the like. Those are some early examples which popped off during the pandemic, but the “genre” of similar games is what is referred to by friendslop. Playing games with friends is fine, but many of these games would be entirely unplayable without friends, and rely substantially on interactions with friends to provide entertainment with only a loose framework to support that.

That itself isn’t necessarily bad, but the point where this turns into a problem is when a lot of these games fail or do not try to actually make good gameplay beyond that. Again, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, I’m just describing why it exists.

There is a growing rift from the group of people that would be described as “gamers” in the 90’s, 2000’s and 10’s and the group of people that are described as gamers now, which is largely more casual than the first group. The former group is where most of the people who would use the term friendslop come from. They want games with substantial gameplay that doesn’t have to rely on social interaction, regardless if it relies on online multiplayer. The latter group is just having fun doing things with their friends, where 10, 20, or 30 years ago if they were the same age, they might have done in person while “gamers” at the time would still be playing video games.

So the “slop” part of it comes from the idea that game developers are churning out games that don’t provide much entertainment, and you’re supposed to “bring your own” fun in their framework. It also very much seems tied to the rise of youtubers or tick tockers playing these games, hyping up random social interactions and people see those 3 seconds and simply want to experience the (fake) reactions and emotions that are on display. The constant barrage of these games and reaction videos on social media is inescapable.

All of that being said, there’s no reason you can’t make a game that does all of that but does actually have good polished gameplay, but so many games chasing (and catching) this trend do not.

Let me reiterate 2 things: I don’t agree with the phrase. A game is a game and if it’s fun, it’s a good game. But also, it really has nothing to do with graphics. You can make friendslop with AAA graphics and it could fit in perfectly with all the other friendslop games.

No they’re not, they’re just being a troll. Look at their username. Don’t feed them.

Would make sense with fabric in the lead haha. Also where is neoforge? It’s THE replacement for forge on newer versions. It’s more popular than fabric with large mod packs. Surely it wouldn’t be part of “other” would it?

It’s inexplicable to me. Why are folks ignoring Battlemage and AMD 9000 series when they’re so good?

Because the 2022 GPU amd 7900xtx has better raw performance than the 9000 series, and I’m pissed off they didn’t try to one-up themselves in the high-end market. I’m not buying a new Nvidia card but I’m not buying a 9000 series either because it feels like I’m paying for a sub-par GPU compared to what they’re capable of.

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A reference to /r/Im14andthisisdeep

Bring back Pierce brosnan

KDE on cachyos