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omg they made lemmy political

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago (2 children)

impossible odds

Plays games that are literally designed to be possible

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

we're forged by endless zero-stakes fights built explicitly to be in our favour

just didn't have the same ring to it, I guess

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Put Elon in the title please,
so people can filter it out of their feeds.

Edit: Thank you OP!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm interested in using such filters.

Is is a feature of your client? I googed around and it's only apparent that you can block entire communities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's a feature of my client, Eternity,
I've written a guide once on how to set it up:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

Other clients might support similar filter functionality though, but afaik it's not natively supported by Lemmy at this time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I really like the client "Thunder" it can filter keywords, too.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What would the silver spoon nazi bitchboy know about struggle?

In life he was given everything, in games he cheats and hires someone else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My partner plays POE2 and said it's statistically impossible for Elon to have what he had without developer assistance. There were multiple statistically perfect items (like one in a trillion chance).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I don't even need to go that far, he plays like dogshit. Every time he streamed himself playing PoE2 was proof he didn't achieve anything. He'd have needed to play for hundreds of hours at near peak efficiency to reach that position on the leaderboard, there's no way somebody who sucked so badly accomplished that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, the greatest Diablo IV and Path of Exile II player in the world, who totally didn't cheat and paid others to play his accounts for him, replied.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I need two shields, how can I protect myself without two shields?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I think ER lets you dual wield shields but it would have to be one in each row and it’s a meme build.

Anyways fuck that Nazi piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Okay, I sometimes also do this in Elden Ring, but this is an ER specific quirk because some shields can parry and some can't. I tend to keep two shields on if I have the equip load for them so that I can have a parry shield and a WA shield on an easy swap.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

He's right, nobody wants to fuck gamers, period.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Unironic gamer copypasta in 2025. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yes, forged into being a whiny child that breaks their controller when they don't immediately succeed at the vidya games.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

We're forged by endless boss battles against impossible odds.

I wouldn't know, Em-8ER doesn't have any.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Don't fuck with people who enjoy being entertained by manufactured and tested challenges designed to be rewarding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Living proof that no amount of money can ever un-lame someone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I looked up the original Tweet and there doesn't seem to be any. Mark Kern, a man in his 50s, just posted that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Mark Kern (Grummz) is basically the face of modern Gamergate. A terrible gamedev and terrible person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Is Elon gonna fund Firefall 2 now? Right after Mark abandons his current grift he's been stringing people along with for years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That definitely has Tim Buckley vibes. Kinda cringe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've been gaming so long I can tell when a high school student has recently seen Enemy At The Gates for the first time ever by the fact they will use the name "Vassili Zaytsev" (or at least an approximation of it; it's almost never spelled correctly) and will exclusively be sniping. Or named God and also sniping because they saw NAVY Seals.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion: gaming is a lazy ass hobby.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Consumption of media isn’t a hobby in general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I differentiate between creative and consumptive hobbies, as someone who has both.

Saying gaming "isn't" a hobby is like saying sports or board games aren't hobbies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If all you do is sit and watch sports then no it isn’t a hobby it’s a passive activity. If you’re going to a sports bar and talking to other people or getting online and engaging with people, Tracking statistics, betting things like that are what elevate a passive activity to a hobby. I’ve probably been playing games longer than a lot of people on Lemmy have been alive. It’s never just been a consumptive hobby for me. I paint as well (both Warhammer/miniatures and canvass) I consider those creative hobbys.

I’m not sure how you would do board games as a consumptive hobby. Could you elaborate on what your mean?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don’t think you can just count board games as a hobby.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I agree but lots of people don’t. People who proudly wear “video games” as their hobby hate that. But honestly it’s the truth.