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- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 5 hours ago:
Did they do Tripple Band at your show at the very end as well with the opening act joining in with Double Band? Was a ton of fun.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 6 hours ago:
Twinsies!
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 7 hours ago:
I saw Jeff & Pup last month. Was such a blast to party with punks of all ages at that show. Even bought myself a nice Death Rosenstock (yes, death), that has a nice “Fuck ICE” message on it.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 6 days ago:
Since a lot of Furries work in STEM, and Seattle has a ton of STEM folk, a furry that’s flirting or making a nuclear innuendo joke has a much higher probability of happening in Seattle than most other places (except for maybe Portland).
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 6 days ago:
You probabaly won’t have to wait too long. At this rate, the US is going to fracture and as a result I predict a large part of WA will become a new Canadian territory/province.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Doorman was a cheater that made his own game hacks, not a god!
Context: =DiG= (Doorman is God) was the FPA clan where that boycott started. I was a member of that clan for some time (before it came out about Doorman’s cheating and no longer playing the games they were a clan over), and one of the mods of that boycott group that failed so hard due to consumer apathy.
AMA.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
UE5 performance is fine these days if the game developer actually utilizes the tooling in place to catch problematic assets, sequences, blueprints, and more. Now, those tools may not be the easiest to use, but they do exist, and, with official documentation. It’s got challenges, but the tooling exists. In 5.6 there was even an expirmental plugin released that’s supposed to help with the burden of integrating this work, so it’s obvious there’s effort being put into providing tools for developers to make performant games
The problem is that takes additional time in a production pipeline, and is uaully pushed off to the side til the end of a game’s dev cycle instead of the beginning, if it’s done at all. And due to the way that many game studios are funded and operate, it’s not uncommon for product quality to follow the model of delivering features first to meet funding milestones instead of focusing on making sure the work that’s being introduced is also performant.
- Comment on TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear" 2 months ago:
One of my biggest fears of riding MTB in grizzly country is spooking one while out riding.
I’ve seen videos of people that have been chased and I don’t know if I’d survive.
- Comment on well? 3 months ago:
There’s also been some major leaps in dark matter physics in the last few years. Revisiting primordial black holes using lasers and microlensing might actually be able to get supporting evidence here before long if the hypothesis holds.
PBS Space Time has a good video breaking this possibility and methodology down.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 3 months ago:
SG1 was amazing. I really wanted to like SGU but the drastic change in story telling and direction made it difficult for me.
- Comment on we are creators 3 months ago:
Hell, in 2000 I had teachers that wouldn’t take printed reports because not everybody had access to comoutera for their work even though I did. Kids these days will never know the finger cramping pain of doing 20 page, college ruled, hand written papers.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 4 months ago:
There’s been a push in higher education and professional markets for a STEAM education paradigm over STEM. Especially when you consider that there’s a ton of crossover between tradition STEM education and arts in modern day professionals (User Experience relies on all 5 domains for delivering truly great UX for example).
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 months ago:
Fun fact: Many cultural artificats do go on tour!
For example I’ve seen both Pompeii & King Tutt exhibits in San Diego that have since rotated. I’ve also seen other traveling exhibits in several other major cities I’ve lived in that were far more than art.
Many cities also have free admission days to museums for people that live nearby (depends on the institution but it could be for City/County/State).
With this knowledge, you too, can now learn and explore societies that predate written word.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 4 months ago:
Or create leaf mold (a pile of sticks and leaves) in targeted areas of your yard/property that are ideal for breeding fireflies and other desired native insects/spiders. Especially if you live in an HOA community that requires reqular raking and can hide the leaves under bushes/shrubs/trees/garden beds as mulch.
Raking of leaves isn’t really the problem so much as is the complete removal of leaves from the property & neighborhood (which also removes the nutrients from the local top soil).
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 5 months ago:
Who’s the one bullying and gatekeeping here?
I’m not a camera nerd either, but I recognize that there’s people that need professional hardware either for a professional use or an obsessive hobby (either photog or other electronics or optics work). If a cell phone is “good enough” for me, that doesn’t mean it’s good for a specialist. Just like pretty much everything else in life.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 5 months ago:
The only reason I have a frednica is because that’s where I chill and hang out with the Fediverse Chick.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 5 months ago:
Nah, I’m cool. I’ll do without.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 5 months ago:
This is incompetence.
I’ve been in and out of games for my entire career. Every place I’ve been has had strict policies on outside art assets. I’ve even seen every new art asset to require a monthly license review to prevent any chance of outside art having slipped in somehow, including any usage of Blender’s example model Suzanne.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 7 months ago:
Most distros have a great getting started guide.
If you have an Nvidia card, make sure you’re looking at distros with Nvidia support and are using the correct installer version for Nvidia support. Some have both supported in the distro and require Grub modifications and I’d recommend avoiding those if you’re not comfortable doing that.
Some great distros to look into with above in mind:
PopOS Ubuntu Mint Fedora
As much as I thing it’s a great distro, and abstracts away a lot of the difficulties, Garuda Linux, should probabaly be avoid until you’re more comfortable with Linux due to its Arch roots (even if the docs are robust, they dive deep on tech concepts and require tons of requisite knowledge).
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 8 months ago:
I was on the fence of asking for one for my birthday late last year for exactly this reason.
What tipped me over was that I took a look at my Steam library and realized I literally have hundreds of indie and AA games that I’ve never played or have less than 4 hours in that I always meant to go back to. And that was it, I decided the Steam Deck was going to be my indie gaming experince platform. It has been amazing at doing this, and I’ve been chewing threw my indie game library like crazy, and have picked up so many more that I’m loving gaming again! I can see myself keeping the current steam deck around and will be used regularly for at least the next 5 years.
If you’re looking for a portable machine that’ll tackle most modern & higher end games, either look at the alternative SteamOS portables or wait for the next Steam Deck (the touch screen, D-Pad, Sticks, and dual touch pad make it the best choice for best I out options for game compatibility).
However, if you want a great machine for indies, AA, older AAA titles, and console EMU, the current hardware is amazing and worth the price
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 9 months ago:
“Latina Favorites” huh?
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 9 months ago:
If you want to see a good modern take on an RTS, check out Mechabellum.
- Comment on flouride 11 months ago:
Like everything, including water?
- Comment on Luma Island devs spent an 'enormous amount of effort' to make it smooth on Steam Deck 11 months ago:
This is great news.
However highlighting the “enormous amount of effort” came off as immflamatory as a headline. Now to prove to them that we appreciate the effort they put into this.
- Comment on Anon is sick 1 year ago:
I’m glad my employer says, “you’ve been working hard. I comped you a day so you can rest and recover.” even though I’ve accrued nearly 2-weeks of sick time at this point.
I’m fortunate that I don’t work for a shitty company anymore.
- Comment on Bitey 1 year ago:
- Comment on Anon takes the welding pill 1 year ago:
There’s a ton of work in green energy and water management.
When Harris wins, there will be even more federal funding being dumped into these sectors. However a ton of that work is either going to be labor intensive or require a specific education (or both).
Also, the software engineering field isn’t going to be replaced by AI any time soon (if ever). What will happen is that AI will become a tool of skilled engineers to increase their output efficiency, consistency, and quality.
- Comment on What's the leaf icon behind some users' names on Mbin and why can't you see them on lemmy? 1 year ago:
What?
New users.
github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/969
Not on lemmy?
Because it’s a Mbin UI customization.
- Comment on Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. 1 year ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. 1 year ago:
Lol… The Twitter offices are even in a nicer area of the SF business district. I’ve walked around that building many times in the middle of the night and during the day and have never felt unsafe.
What a weirdo.
