Actually, technically, the way teleportation works in Half Life/Portal universe…

They are aliens, extraterrestrials, they’re not from … a mirror realm, a distinct and different universe or timeline.

Xen acts as a kind of … bus stop, for the universe, if that makes any sense. But it does exist somewhere in our Universe, it is not in an alternate/parrelel universe/timeline ala Marvel different universes.

Xen is a relay, that, for whatever reason, seems to be a spot in the actual universe where transdimensional travel often … ends up at, or traverses through. Like a strange attractor in a chaotic system.

So this goes for the Combine as well. Xen, Vorts, Headcrabs, the Combine… they are all from our Universe, though they could be from totally different galaxies than our own.

The teleportation tech/system in the HL/Portal Universe works more like the Webway from 40k, than it is like the Warp from 40k.

It is a system / series of gateways in … string theoretic 11 dimensional space, that in our 3d experience of reality, appear as basically a complex network of subway tunnels, semi-stable wormholes. The Combine make great use of this, the Human Resitance barely understand it, but use it in different ways, and the Portal tech just most directly punches wormholes through 3d space via … fucking moondust and intensely technogically perfected spite, or something.

… even in the instances in the series where time itself is … paused or traversed… by G Man or the Vorts … these occurences seem to all take place inside of a single consistent and coherent universe.

Cameron is much more into ‘I love the deep sea’, has more senoirity as a legitimate deep dive submersible expert, but Gabe is giving him a run for his money.

That yacht Gabe has?

He bought the shipyard so he could direct them to refit the yacht to also have a docking bay and facilities for a submersible, (and also a LAN party room lol) which he has since gone on to use to plumb the deep seas south of Japan, mapping various trench beds in high detail, and possibly capturing some never before seen hadal zone creatures on camera.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GsbYXGVSPmo

He is literally playing Subnautica IRL.

Gabe also funds actual legitimate neuroscience / medical brain implant research. Unlike Elon’s Neuralink… which poached a PHD’s research team and then basically stole and claimed credit for inventing a certain kind of brain implant tech… and then ran around saying he was gonna change the world with this half baked over hyped tech, untill he got bored / came down from ketamine…

Gabe is a bit more hands off and just actually lets the experts do expert things, try to discover and invent new ways to help people with Parkinsons and such… the goal isn’t primarily to make money, it is to do research.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108049-valve-gabe-newell-backing-new-brain-chip-startup.html

He’s closer to an old school American business tycoon… an actual philanthropist who has more money than he knows what to do with, so he throws it at things he thinks are neat and could contribute to society in some way.

Even Bill Gates, for all the shit he absolutely deserves to be criticized (if not imprisoned) for, he did and does throw a pretty substantial amount of money at cancer research, that has led to very useful research there.

Now, I still don’t think billionaires should exist, but, they do. And at least some of them do less horribly bad things with some of their money than say, I dunno, directly fund and bankroll fascist politicians.

A man chooses.

A slave obeys.

Wooo hooo boooooy!

So… ok.

Time to start building the Blackwall, I guess?

Does any one perhaps have any ideas as to… how… one… would actually do that?

Funny because this is generally more of a femboy/transgirl move… who doesn’t like surprises?

Yeah I agree with you, this just actually does not make sense unless he’s a Ken Doll.

Bro literally has no balls.

Yeah, you can tuck, or maybe have a micropeen … but he would have had to actually lose his balls, which is simply too on the nose insane for me to entertain for the serial rapist king of the manopshere.

And also yeah… any… basically woman that’s actually a woman, that’s gone through puberty, would also have more of a bulge than this.

… mmm … forbidden kith…

… this has to be shopped, right?

He can’t actually be a eunuch, right?

I’d make more displacement than that while unconscious and not dreaming, in a blizzard…

Arbys called. Where’s the meat?

They’re only a tiny fraction now…

I really don’t care either way if Trump decides to further cripple the capital class, what businesses are able to use.

Just hastens the collapse of the bubble these idiots created.

I mean yeah, but you can easily tell those cases because such deleted comments have very few votes.

A deleted comment with a bunch of votes is a cowardly retreat from being some kind of embarassing or stupid.

I am potentially going to do a heresy here:

I fear not death, for our strength is eternal.

You Wouldn’t Torrent A GGUF

… really, how could they actually ban specific models? From business use? Yeah sure, ok, but… there’s no way to fully ban some particular kind of data.

Just another subsidy to the idiot pedophile rapist owner class that can’t even run anything well.

Unfortunately, you’d have to actually make a left and right hand version… ‘hand agnostic’ wouldn’t work with this kind of design.

Imagine a non reversible hand agnostic glove.

Hope your thumb and pinky are identical, on each hand, just swapped.

Mirroring the entire hand isn’t the same as a hand being symmetrical.

… you could perhaps try to model a mouse around a pistol grip or flight stick… not sure if that would be doable to work out to the correct wrist angles though?

Hrm.

Actually, a standard dildo with balls/flared base design might actually work as a kind of basic shape to start from…

… the balls would be the place the pinky side of your hand rests on… then you’d need symmetrical flaring/indentation where either thumb could go… make the left and right click and scroll wheel be along the … would it be dorsal? side of the shaft, have a button or switch elsewhere that can flip button assignment and wheel orientation between left and right handed use. Scroll wheel is horizontal due to grip angle / both handedness.

Then I guess add more bonus buttons the thumb could use.

You’d also have to weight the bottom of this thing to prevent it from toppling, the whole thing would have to be fairly heavy.

And you’d have basically double the amount of buttons as per a particular handed variant…

… design is all about compromises, lol.

Once it clicks, eh?

You can literally bind a button to double click with this one, so theoretically the process should take half as long =P

BILLY MAKES HERE

Ah, no, vertical only.

Ok, actually, I just futzed around with the thing…

You can, apparently, bind a button to ‘Horizontal Scroll’, and what that does is make it so when that button is pressed, the mouse wheel now scrolls horizontally.

… I didn’t even know it could do that lol.

Not sure if that meets your requirements.

I wholly agree.

What I am trying to describe is… that room thought it was done, with Obama getting elected.

They tought that was ‘the end of history’.

I was trying to tell them what you are saying… no, this never ends, you are never safe to rest on your laurels after declaring ideological victory.

… but they did. They ‘won’, that was that, onto the rest of life, making big bucks in an ethical capitalist megacorp… thats what they thought, thats what they did.

Arrogance. Entitlement. Declaring victory far too early, ironically, just like Bush who they all hated.

Those kinds of people… they are our current ‘illiberal liberals’, if that makes sense. They’re actually just class elitists, interested in the appearance of moral superiority, but not the substance of it.

…only now dawns on me that I was different from them: significantly poorer upbringing, but I got excellent grades in spite of it.

… didnt matter in the end though, i ended up poor anyway, because people like them get ‘the ick’ from people like me, calling them on their bullshit, highlighting their privelege in undeniable detail.

A society of entitled narcissists… oh god we are doomed lol.

Yeah haha, ‘casual’ as a word for that… I tried to expand on the meaning confusion via stealth edit, I may not have been fast enough lol.

But yeah, a lot of bog standard dudebro games are not casual in the sense of uh … sweatiness?

But they are casual in the sense of ‘you only have to be casually aware of video games to know… CoD, or Zelda, or Halo’… like, opposed to niche, basically.

You are precisely the kind of exception I was trying to describe.

I know not all console primary gamers pretty much only play games from well known publishers… but most of them mostly do, as you seem to agree.

‘Casuals’, as we used to say, though the vocabulary has changed in the last 20 something years, so thats probably not a great word to use these days, as ‘casual’ is now more of a genre or an attribute, games that tend to not require intense/precise input sequences, or very much thinking, are designed to be low intensity, low frustration.

Back then, we meant it as ‘casually interested in the hobby of gaming’, as opposed to some kind of diehard nerd that was always looking intently for the best or the weirdest or rarest, or something like that.

… No, I haven’t.

i’ve described reality as it is.

I’ve also said that in general, people should be allowed to publically make mistakes and publically learn and grow from them.

If you want lemmy to … actually support truly deletable posts and comments? And also be public facing?

Go redesign it then.

You are ignorant of how the actual mechanisms at play here work, and you’ve decided that me describing them to you is somehow a moral defense of surveillance capitalism.

You can’t have something that is totally public yet is also truly totally redactable at the same time.

You’re just mad that you don’t understand how software works, and lashing out wildly.

I don’t do it because I wish to take part in the construction of an online archive of everything that anyone has ever said that can be easily scanned to profile people, harass them, and for other such fun anti-social uses of technology.

Then stop communicating on any public facing communications platform.

What you said there applies to all of them.