psycotica0
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- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 5 hours ago:
I’ve played a bunch of Valheim with friends, but I can’t do it by myself. The openness is cool, but I can’t grind, so any kind of survival or crafting game becomes tedious so fast.
It seems like fun when other people do it, but it just doesn’t happen for me. Oh well!
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 5 hours ago:
A few people mentioned Saint’s Row, and it basically wasn’t even on my radar as a series I knew about. I’ll check it out!
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 5 hours ago:
All good info, thanks! Time to put some stuff on a wishlist…
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 5 hours ago:
Yeah, I said in another reply I didn’t even think of Spiderman, but I actually have been playing the remaster of the first modern one, and I agree fully. It totally matches this vibe and it’s pretty great!
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- Comment on Outer Wilds drawing I made 1 day ago:
I fully understand. But if it helps (without major spoilers), the horror elements are not permanent, and as you learn to progress you learn to work around them and through them.
But yeah, if they’re too deal-breaky upfront, I totally get that. You do spend a lot of time, pun intended, in the dark.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 day ago:
As a person who didn’t work on New Vegas, and in fact has never even played a Fallout game, I’d like an invitation if we’re giving them out!
- Comment on He a little confused, but he got the spirit 5 days ago:
Pop what? Pop what Magnitude? What’s he trying to say!?
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 week ago:
Huh. I didn’t know this was a feature Steam had. Weird!
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 week ago:
I hear people say this sometimes, but I don’t know what they mean. Is there part of Valve’s system that has a gambling mechanic I’ve just never engaged with?
Or is it one of their games that has gambling?
Because I’ve been using it for years as basically my sole gaming interface and haven’t seen any gambling.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
Yeah! It’s dope. With this new understanding I’ll circle back around. In an indirect sense the groove of a record represents how far our eardrum should be from its “silent resting position” over time. That’s it. The brain is what takes that complicated signal that varies over time and makes something it recognizes out of it.
And then the information encoded on a CD, or magnetic tape, or in a compressed audio file is just the same thing: distance of eardrum from neutral over time.
Oh, and stereo and surround sound and all that is just different audio tracks that play out of different speakers at a synchronized time. Again, it’s our brain that notices it hears a flute in the left ear very slightly before it hears it in the right ear and thus feels like that means there’s a flute to our left. But there’s nothing “flute left” about either individual signal, they’re just different audio that we detected a slight difference in from ear to ear.
- Comment on Seals the deal, once and for all. 1 week ago:
Entirely unrelatedly, I think I’ve concluded that black men are also real women.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
Yeah! The “timbre” (which despite how it looks is said “tamber”) of an instrument is its audio “profile”. It’s what makes a piano different than a flute, or on a more subtle level makes one piano slightly different from another.
But here’s the nuts part: what makes up the timbre of an instrument is a bunch of different resonating bits all resonating together. Essentially the reason a flute sounds like a flute is because it comes “pre-loaded” with a boatload of simple waveforms already added together. When you play a note on one, you get the main pitch you’re playing, but the instrument’s body and your breath all also produce a whack-ton of side tones all playing at the same time. And like a fingerprint, our ear/brain hears all these bits start and stop together and says “that’s a flute”.
So it’s the same process, really: simple bits adding together. But “flute sound” isn’t the atom. It’s made up of a bunch of simple waves already added together, which then gets added to the other sounds that sound like pianos or guitars, which produces the final mix.
I don’t know if you’ll get anything out of it, but you could look up videos of a “modular synth” setting up a trumpet sound or something. These devices have simple electronic tone generators, but by layering them and plugging them into each other, and using effects and the like, they can start to mimic the timbre of a trumpet or whatever. By essentially adding together the “key bits” of the harmonics (these other waves) they can start to approach the feeling of a trumpet sound, but just with simple, raw, parts.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
Highly basic answer, let’s say the strength of the vocals wave over time is:
5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4
And drums is:
4, 0, 2, 0, 4, 0, 2, 3
Then you add them together for each time slice and get:
9, 4, 5, 2, 7, 4, 7, 7
And you put that on a record, or out to a speaker, and our ears are able to break that up into the two parts when it hears it. This is the same as when two things are in the room making sound, there may be two sources, but my ear only has one hole, and that hole has one eardrum behind it. The different sounds just add their powers together and hit my ear as one mixed wave.
Alternative answer: magic
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 2 weeks ago:
Congratulations, you’re the man they’re trying to forget exists for 10 fucking minutes a day in their off time!
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like Nemo needs to spend some time watching Matt Colville’s video on Community
Everyone should watch it, really… even if it is an hour…
- Comment on fucking French 5 weeks ago:
Duh, it probably divides by 3 in metric…
- Comment on Discuss 1 month ago:
Woah Woah Woah. I’m Canadian and peanut butter and chocolate is also a thing here. Peanut butter may be my favourite thing. Why am I catching strays?
- Comment on Took me a moment 1 month ago:
Unsure if… fuck it I’ll just blow it open.
The context is that log~e~ has a shortcut called “ln”, that is L N, said lawn, for “natural logarithm” (but not in English)
And so the joke is that “ln” looks like “in” in this context.
- Comment on VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed 2 months ago:
That’s true, but JMP holds a balance. So you could put a bunch of money into it and then forget about that for a while and it’ll truck along until you run low. If you feel like that’s similar enough.
- Comment on A national tragedy 2 months ago:
I know this is just a me thing… but I think there’s a lotta "me"s on here. I wish they’d used “JESUS CHRIST, GAZE INTO YOUR ORB” or something instead. The idea of “turning on” an orb just really rubs me in a bad way.
- Comment on What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL? 3 months ago:
The other answers are really great, but I want to dig into the APGL a little.
The GPL said everyone you distribute your software to is also entitled to the code. This made sense in the pre-web-service era when software was some code you downloaded or got off a disk and ran on your own computer.
But with the internet it became common to run software on a server, which responded to distant users’ requests. But that was a problem for the GPL because now the software wasn’t distributed to the user, it was distributed to the server, which is controlled by me. So now I’m entitled to the code from my own changes, but the user has no such freedoms.
So the AGPL was created to try and close that loophole, and make it so that the internet users are protected as the license was originally intended to protect local users.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
As a Canadian visiting Munich with only very basic phrasebook German, virtually everything was English Compatible, and I had nearly no problems. The biggest problem I did have was that one night we got takeout from a Thai restaurant (don’t ask…) and the people at the Thai restaurant spoke German, and presumably Thai, but not English. These were the only people in Munich we encountered that didn’t speak English, but that seems fair to me since presumably German is already not their first language.
And the second was that we went to a grocery store that apparently only had Self Checkouts or something, and we didn’t understand the protocol for how the line divided between the checkout machines, so we were shouted at for not taking machine 7 when it was our turn. Again, our fault, but the shouter didn’t know we didn’t speak German, and so shouted in German, and I didn’t put together right away that what they were shouting meant “7” in the context, but in the end it worked out and we all lived.
The last problem I had was just the general vague sense of shittyness I feel about myself anytime I visit somewhere without speaking their language, but the Munich trip was kind of a surprise addition to a France trip for logistical reasons, and I had no time to study. But none of the people there made me feel that, it’s just a me thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Comedian James Acaster offers “crizzos” in one special. That’s got some zip to it.
- Comment on its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬) 4 months ago:
On the contrary, as a dude with many friends, none of us put in “tons of effort”. Each of my friendships are casual and relaxed, we “see each other when we see each other”, and that works well for all of us. We have lots of mutual respect, and an intent to have a friendship, but friendship just means different things to different people.
Some people, like it seems maybe yourself and OP, have the energy of a drowning person who will take any person who tries to help them down with them. And also a sense of… justice?.. that’s highly attuned to amplify small slights. I’ve seen it before in some second hand reports of like “I sent him a photo that I really liked and he didn’t respond within 24 hours, and when he did it was just with a 😛. Can you imagine the gall!”, when actually there’s no indignity, he just doesn’t look at his phone much… or he was busy. But it’s a problem when the sender isn’t busy, and is in fact just sitting there fuming for 24h because they have way more energy invested into this.
I want to check in real quick here, none of my tone here is intended to be angry or even mocking. I’ve got a lot of privilege for sure, and it helps combat this. A person suffering with food scarcity is going to react differently to a backyard BBQ than a person without food scarcity, and I’m willing to bet a person suffering from social scarcity would do the same.
My only purpose for writing this is because I’ve met people who feel “desperate”, and people who have a sense of “principles of friendship” that are iron clad, but also not mutual and are inflexible and cause them to push everyone away for not respecting them, meanwhile all the people they pushed away seem to get by just fine. And often it’s easiest to just let these people go because they’re, perhaps through no fault of their own, toxic to non-manic casual friends and friend groups. And I figured I’d give a more “average” perspective of what the other side of this might actually look or feel like.
And I already feel like I’m going to regret it 😛
Also, since we talked about expressing intent upfront, let me say that I’m going to post this and then get out of bed, and I probably won’t look at Lemmy again the rest of the day. I have some errands to run and I’m going to a BBQ with some friends later, and I have notifications turned off because I don’t want Lemmy stuff being a force of push in my life, only pull, so I probably won’t see any replies until maybe tonight when I go to bed, maybe tomorrow morning if I do something else tonight? So I can’t guarantee I’ll want to respond to any replies, but if I haven’t replied in 24h, that isn’t actually emotionally meaningful. I’m not ignoring you, I’m just doing other stuff and literally not thinking about you. 😉
- Comment on Mail addressed to Mr. and Mrs. (husbands name) 1 year ago:
I think it’s great! If we’re Mr and Mrs MyLastName we know they know me and assumed she was the same. If it’s Mr and Mrs HerLastName it means they know us through her, and assumed she must have gotten the name from me! It’s like putting the name of the company in the email you’re giving the email to, it tracks the source. At least that’s the game we play, because it mostly doesn’t matter to us.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 1 year ago:
On most modern distros (like Mint) you can do basically as much with Linux GUIs as you can do in Windows or Mac. So normal users don’t need the terminal. But if you want to do more, if you want the secret sauce, the terminal is there for you.
But fear not! Basically all of us have some level of autism or ADHD, and the best of us tend to be the most extreme. If anything the terminal was written by autistic nerds for themselves! If you’ll be okay being a bit of a n00b for a bit, I think you’ll find there’s a lot of depth here to obsess over / hyper fixate / hyper focus on.
There’s a reason people have been “fighting” for, like, 40 years over which terminal text editor is the superior one… The flames of war can run pretty deep, and there’s a lot of opinions.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 1 year ago:
I mean, I can’t speak to OP in particular, but there were definitely lots of years where people made shit for free, sold nothing, and didn’t consider it a job.
Like, there was no real mechanism for stick figure martial arts animations to make any money at all. Newgrounds or Ebaum’s World must have made some money from ads, but I don’t think any of that was profit-shared with the creators back in those days. Some of the creators were straight up anonymous because they didn’t even think to put their names on their stuff.
Obviously celebrities and ads and stuff still existed on the earth at the time, but it didn’t spread to the internet in a big way until later.
At least that’s how I remember it…
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 year ago:
Actually, that Hertha Ayrton quote at the end? That was actually me. I said that.
- Comment on Gotta catch em all 1 year ago:
Also that’s not even a prism, that’s a pyramid…