supersquirrel
@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again" 1 week ago:
Literacy is not something game devs are going to be able to solve.
First of all I am not invoking literacy in its general use here as implying it is connected to the ability to read, I am referring to a literacy in the basic critical analysis of art. I.E. basic middle school english class reading books and reflecting on what they mean or the ideas they suggest.
Second, the way art is received by an audience is the only thing that really matters about art, so your suggestion that the nature of how the audience of Helldivers interacts with the universe of Helldivers in terms of their realworld beliefs and politics just doesn’t hold water, the reason people make art is to impact people… even when it is “just entertainment” if that is undermined by a stoking of hateful ideologies than the entire enterprise of the artistic work has catastrophically failed.
Third, my beliefs on this are just as, if not more based on my interactions with human beings amidst grass, who are “real”, outside where there is air I can breathe deeply.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again" 1 week ago:
Thanks for the link! Yes Scifi but also fantasy.
For example, if we threw the upper management of all tech companies named after people and things in the Lord Of The Rings in prison the world would be a far safer place and I am struggling to think of anyone innocent that would be wrongfully imprisoned…
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again" 1 week ago:
Don’t insult games by suggesting they do not influence people. Any such claim against art is always childish and naive.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again" 1 week ago:
Yes precisely,
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again" 1 week ago:
This is a wildfire already grown out of control, I am glad I stuck to playing Deep Rock Galactic.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again" 1 week ago:
This is the kind of attitude that allowed us to rocket into Fascism in record time in the first place.
It is all of our jobs.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
- Comment on Xbox claim they're "not reducing [their] investment in games" despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft's total workforce are in the firing line 1 week ago:
Microsoft: The Genocide Computing Company
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again" 1 week ago:
I think parodying Trump’s wall is low-hanging fruit for a satirist at this point, not that Helldivers 2 has ever really tried for subtlety. I’m interested to know what current Helldivers 2 players think of the game’s satire. I haven’t played for a while, but given the trajectory of US and European politics at large, the extended riff on Starship Troopers is really starting to feel like wallowing in crapulence. I think the game’s writers need to, at minimum, start allowing for the fact that the Trump administration has no problem adopting this kind of shit-eating, irony-poisoned burlesque for propaganda purposes.
I 100% agree, the devs of Hell Divers 2 are dangerously clueless about the fact that fascists don’t have media literacy and that their art will be interpreted unironically by them.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Exactly, so much cope in that headline.
- Comment on Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People 1 week ago:
ACAB
- Comment on Big Tech slapped with $3.5bn in fines for using your personal data to train AI — and 'it could be only the beginning,' warns Surfshark 1 week ago:
Stop fining companies and start throwing upper management in prison.
- Comment on Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks 1 week ago:
I bet they are treated worse now even still.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Comment on Tech giant Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it embraces AI 1 week ago:
Thank you dumbasses for naming your company “Oracle”, it makes the stupidity and shortsightedness of this so much funnier!
- Navigational sovereignty: securing land maneuver in a GNSS-denied era - European Security & Defenceeuro-sd.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on State of Decay studio Undead Labs potentially up for closure, sources claim, with Bethesda and Blizzard also facing layoffs 1 week ago:
State Of Decay is stupid as hell to cancel.
- Comment on 'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube 1 week ago:
Billionaires are a threat to all of us.
- Comment on "The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe 1 week ago:
Yes I have a stigma against idiots who are terminally obsessed with AI, I have it because the only way to stop people ruining everything with AI is endless shame.
It is the same with all forms of fascism.
- Comment on Four out of five Australian children still use social media despite ban, study finds 1 week ago:
Hey nobody is talking about online gambling so mission accomplished!
- Comment on It didn't have to be this way | Nerdnest - Youtube (Invidious link) 2 weeks ago:
Ok sorry I got frustrated, this AI stuff is very frustrating and I am pretty damn worried it is going to send my country into a depression because of how much fake money is being tossed around… but you are right I shouldn’t have used the phrase “mentally incapable” like that, this is complicated stuff, life is hard, and that is a valid point that being ableist about isn’t productive for anyone or anything so fair enough I am sorry about that.
- Comment on PSA: The Deck works well as an HTPC while docked 2 weeks ago:
I am going to make a post soon, especially if people are interested, about how to use Boxbuddy with Distrobox to create mutable atomized linux distributions you can add packages to and do whatever you want with while retaining the vanilla immutable Vanilla SteamOS settings.
I am still encountering some limitations but I have Debian with R and Python along with multiple geospatial packages for both languages and Pandoc installed in an atomized linux distribution and it works great. I just installed emacs on the atomized linux distribution itself and having been using org mode to execute R and Python with codeblocks and set up a workflow that way.
- Comment on PSA: The Deck works well as an HTPC while docked 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I just use my Steam Deck as my main computer, everyone always seems to be surprised but like… the reason I didn’t buy a Nintendo Switch was so I wouldn’t have a piece of essentially bricked hardware outside of very narrow controls…
- 100 Indie Games to Try | Steam Next Fest June 2026 | Best Indie Games - Youtube (Invidious link)inv.nadeko.net ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- 100 Indie Games to Try | Steam Next Fest June 2026 | Best Indie Games - Youtube (Invidious link)inv.nadeko.net ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues 2 weeks ago:
The part about severance that is easy to miss it is so central to the show is that it is a mirror to the everyday inhumanity of modern business culture especially when there is no counterbalancing force like unions to moderate the insanity of what the people at the top want.
Severance makes the point over and over again how tragic and meaningless it is that people develop relationships sometimes over decades in organizations and yet have no power over when one day that person is essentially obliterated from their lives and their place in that organization and nobody can talk about it really on an emotional level.
- Comment on Another Xbocalypse begins: Microsoft are reportedly closing or spinning off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion 3 weeks ago:
Microslop is one of those companies that acquires properties and destroys their productivity and profitability.
- Comment on EA, the big brains behind The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff, announce they're "transforming how brands connect with audiences" – with in-game billboards 3 weeks ago:
Do not give them money.
- Letting Big Tech Off the Hook, UK Kids' Social Media Ban Called 'Right Diagnosis' But 'Wrong Prescription' | Common Dreamswww.commondreams.org ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 8 comments