psycotica0

@psycotica0@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Luke, I am your *second* father"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And in a roundabout, indirect sense, Darth Vader did kill Uncle Owen. He just might not even know it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thank you fb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention, given the labels on that one map, they seem to think Google satellite view is, like, a live camera feed from space or something they just overlay roads and borders and stuff onto?

  And that it would mean anything at all for the map to just suddenly have a big snake in it unexpectedly…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was like “haha, that’s funny” and then accidentally spent like 10 minutes finding stuff because I was curious where the binoculars could be. So… thanks I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too late⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Chatta-newfy-doofy-poopy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right!? It’d be like if you were eating a banana and you just threw the peel away. It’s against nature!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Challenge accepted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FROM THE TOP ROPE!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] A good cameraman says more than a thousand words⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be Toronto’s Pearson Airport! Often ranked the worst or nearly the worst in North America, depending on the survey. It’s not great…

  YYZ is a pretty great song though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn homepage swaps the "sign in" and "create account" buttons depending on whether you're a new or returning visitor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, my bank does this. But they fucked up so bad, it’s on the client side and so slow that the page loads, and I go to click the login button, and then it moves out from under my cursor and I click the register button.

  I don’t know who decided this was a thing people wanted, but they should have their UX license taken away…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨friendship ended with pi, now sigma is my best friend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know we’re joking… but just in case people don’t know, π, despite what we call it in English, is the letter “p”, which ought to be said “pee”, and was chosen for “periphery”. Though “perimeter” could be used as as well. Because even though we have the special word “circumference” for the perimeter of a circle, pi is the ratio of a circle’s perimeter to its diameter. As in, take diameter, multiply by magic constant p, get perimeter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what this pic of Ron Perlman has to do with anything. Maybe he’s one of the good ones!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully support this correction, and I’m glad I know more than I did before. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All of her facial features are a bit bigger on the left, like her nose. I wonder if it’s a focal length thing like this dude?

  GIF

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "screwing around" Game Request⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All good info, thanks! Time to put some stuff on a wishlist…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "screwing around" Game Request⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!

• Best "screwing around" Game Request
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Wilds drawing I made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely unrelatedly, I think I’ve concluded that black men are also real women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Duh, it probably divides by 3 in metric…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?