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You take the pirate out of the sea, not the sea out the pirate in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 4 points 4 months ago

This isn't IS though.

You take the pirate out of the sea, not the sea out the pirate in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is built from scratch. There is no reason to use an antique cannon barrel for this - and it's not like those are lying around in Syria, whereas material and equipment to manufacture this is far easier to come by.

You take the pirate out of the sea, not the sea out the pirate in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I believe this is one of the famous Omar cannons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_artillery_in_the_Syrian_civil_war#Omar_cannon

Easily one of the most sophisticated Syrian hell cannons. It's breach-loading, it has a recoil damper and it's mounted on a strong enough truck chassis. They are even seemingly hitting what they are actually intending to hit, which is far from guaranteed with these kinds of improvised artillery pieces.

A new Steam Deck rival is coming, and you’ll never guess who makes it [Antec] [expected price range $600~$900] in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Get one of those gamepad cradles with USB-C (but don't cheap out on it).

Why have loaf of 🍞 bread 🍞 when you can have glorious Buhanka, comrade in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As good an excuse as any to post this infamous video:

https://youtu.be/j00abiiaDgc

I swear there's another one, but can't find it right now, so it's definitely not a fluke.

I Want Better Games With Worse Graphics And I'm Not Kidding - Aftermath in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

The studios who do this mostly aren't looking for an actual artistic vision. Play any of the recent Ubisoft open world games and you see at best moments of it during distinct, isolated sections (usually trips caused by substance use) that were clearly tackled by smaller teams within the large group of developers. The rest were busy making 15 different types of trees.

I Want Better Games With Worse Graphics And I'm Not Kidding - Aftermath in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 18 points 4 months ago

They do exist and in greater numbers and variety than ever before. Play Undertale, Baba is You, BeamNG.drive, FTL, Disco Elysium, Emily is Away, Islanders, NEO Scavenger, Rodina, Whispers of a Machine, Proteus, etc.

Totally random examples, but I could name dozens more. We are spoiled with great games that are pure expressions of their developers' visions. There are more of them than anyone can realistically ever play.

I Want Better Games With Worse Graphics And I'm Not Kidding - Aftermath in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[+] DdCno1@kbin.social -14 points 4 months ago (13 children)

That's not how this works. You can comparatively easily scale up art departments, but you can not do the same with engineering and design. It's also much less difficult to find competent artists in their respective niches than programmers and designers. Art skills can be far more easily taught and to a wider variety of people regardless of their inherent talent than software engineering and game design at the required level. Especially in the area of software engineering, game studios also have to compete with other fields with inherently better work/life balance, which is far less so the case with e.g. texture artists, modelers and animators.

Art can also be produced sequentially in large numbers and making more of it at a certain high enough level of quality makes a game appear more valuable to consumers. It's practically guaranteed: Spend more on art, have more stuff you can impress people with, a more enticing value proposition. You can spend a fortune on game design and programming, but that's invisible and there is far less of a guarantee that it'll work out in the end (see: the phenomenon referred to as development hell), let alone attract customers.

Try marketing a game on mechanics and design instead of graphics. Most people pay maybe 15 to 30 seconds of attention to promotional material at best before making a purchasing decision. The vast majority of gamers do not read reviews, let alone whining essays about how some journalist doesn't care about graphics (which have been written since the 1980s - there's nothing new under the Sun). You can wow customers with fancy trailers and gorgeous screenshots, but you can not explain why your game that you spent 100 million on game design alone on has better game design than that blockbuster with individually modeled and animated facial hair.

Germany just now approved new laws that make setting up solar on your balcony super easy in c/energy@slrpnk.net

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

Lots of people are already doing that. I've seen kits of solar cells and batteries being sold.

Liz Truss endorses Donald Trump to win US presidential election in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 9 points 5 months ago

Not just the withdrawal, but also the assassination of a Revolutionary Guards general, which Iran themselves said was why they staged October 7 as an act of revenge.

L85 is next, mark my words in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

I don't think special forces fall under large military contracts.

L85 is next, mark my words in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why should HK care about third party accessories? Those do not matter at all for large military contracts.