Krudler
@Krudler@lemmy.world
- Comment on Every last one of these questions is terrible 1 day ago:
Do you not get the basics of this? You’re not asked to pick from all the questions when you answer the security questions in an authentication scenario… lmao
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 days ago:
Yes, you have to imagine you are looking into a mirror at yourself and focus your eyes on that place; look past the image.
- Comment on Every last one of these questions is terrible 2 days ago:
pick the first three, then always punch in your own version of “none1” “none2” “none3” as the answers. This isn’t rocket surgery.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 5 days ago:
Yeah well only a shit cook would think that oil coming off means bad meat.
I know that people don’t know fuck all about cooking, yourself included.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 5 days ago:
It failed because it offered too much customization. Really.
Physical construction was shit tier. I should know, I early adopted November 2015 and in total I went through 17 not counting the 3 DOA. My ear actually became attuned to the specific mini-crunch that signaled the impending demise of a shoulder button.
It also had undeniable layout and design issues. The D-Pad they implemented was a joke. Fanboys wouldn’t shut up about it but truth is, it was completely unacceptable to put a track pad in it’s place and it was more or less unusable. Other buttons and inputs were juuuuust a little cramped or off-kilter and it was common to input mash accidentally.
The configuration software was also a nightmare. Ever try setting up a Mouse Region for a twin stick game? Sweet jeebus. They tripled the efficiency of the configuration screens in recent updates and it’s still a nightmare. It’s 30 inputs just to tweak something like a deadzone, then you have to menu out… then test in game… then drill allllll the way back down to tweak a little more.
But back to my assertion at the top. It made SC gamers literally unfairly better. Gryo aiming, effectively programmable macros, mode shifts, radial wheels, action layers, targeted mouse clicks, button toggles, sliders, regions, I can’t even remember it all from back before it got heavily neutered. It got out of control to the point where you could bypass “cheating” standards and macros in big online games, etc. You could simulate inputs.
Design iterations would have fixed the other issues, but it became a deadly-unfair device for competitive gaming and a lot of companies hated how the Steam Controller hardware and software customization… basically allowed people to “cheat” their systems in a sense. It opened a huge fucking can of worms. Something like it will probably never be seen again for these reasons.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 5 days ago:
Throwing away animal fat and oil is failing at cooking
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 1 week ago:
My understanding is 100% up to date.
I developed games professionally for 2 decades and ran MANY startups. If you think I don’t get it, THINK AGAIN
Linux people need to get a fucking grip. It’s a shitty tool for EVERYBODY except developers.
The year of Linux on the desktop was 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025
You need to understand that your ZEAL shows how little you understand about the overall landscape of OS and tech.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 1 week ago:
Give it up.
Lengths required for this solution: purchase computer and use it.
Lengths required for Linux: spend 10 years understanding all the technical underpinnings so that you can get a basic install going and then realize you can’t accomplish 98% of what you need to because it’s a piece of shit not made for desktop use.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 2 weeks ago:
The way I have done it for the last several years and it has brought me amazing new dimensions of sound experience…
Find an artist that you like, look them up and find out who produced the album and other group members.
Then do a little Wiki research into the discography and solo work of each of those performers or producers.
Follow up on interesting threads, and you’ll be exposed to all kinds of amazing new stuff.
Although I’m definitely out of this listening phase now, an example that worked for me was I got very obsessed with Talking Heads band. Looked them up and found out that Brian Eno produced them.
Started to notice from other bands I looked up that Brian Eno was mysteriously involved in so many of them.
Started to look into all the bands that Brian Eno produced and worked with over the years, and then started to look into the music of Brian Eno.
Starts to give you a realization that the true talent in a band is generally not the performers, but rather the veterans with decades of experienced who guide them.
Another example is Buckethead, started to see this dude buckethead appearing on literally hundreds of different album credits! Did a lot of research into the guy and the various bands he’s worked with, and that opened hundreds of new experiences to me.
This comment is getting a little outside of my original point, which is to actually do some research on your own, go out and find the lesser-known works of artists you love.
Basically just follow different Wikipedia links, and then when you find an album in a discography that you think might be interesting, look it up.
- Comment on In one week, Lemm.ee will shutdown 3 weeks ago:
I’m just leaving this whole platform.
It’s nothing special. Every fucking idiot you’ve ever met in your life on Reddit is coalescing here.
Have you had a meaningful conversation here? An informative one? I’ve been here 2+ years and I can honestly say no.
Have you seen a link that isn’t effectively a complete recycling of what you already know to be true?
It’s the same recycled bullshit you have seen for the last 20 years.
The whole format of a “democratic” link dump site is fundamentally broken. I see that now.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 3 weeks ago:
Prone?
Hell, they are almost designed to break. They are utterly shabby in terms of build quality.
I was one of the early adopters going back to November 2015
I am not lying when I tell you I have been through 17 of these controllers. It’s the right bumper almost every time.
I have a giant handful of the dongles. I was saving them thinking they would go up in value but now like $2 knockoffs are available LOL
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah because you’re totally a 65 year old that buys electronics at Best Buy
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 3 weeks ago:
2 that make fans go bananas.
Torchlight 2; Grim Dawn
Right in the middle of the middle part of the middle part of the middle pack.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
So you are both a liar and semi-literate.
- Comment on Steam Deck and SteamOS hit 20,000 playable games 4 weeks ago:
Are 12,000 of them “anime girl fuck fantasy girl love sweet dating woman simulator love sex” game?
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 4 weeks ago:
First off, you cannot attend any kind of event where women are involved.
I’m not doing a battle of the sexes thing, but the reality is that social dynamics massively change when opposite sex are involved. It is fundamentally impossible to have genuine interactions with other men, when women are around.
Before you get all triggered and decide to hit the downvote, remember I am not doing battle of the sexes…you cannot take women’s wine night for example, deposit a man in the group and expect the social dynamic to remain the same.
So go find something where women are not allowed. Find a clubhouse with a crudely written sign that says “no girls allowed” and the R is backwards.
Find a place where men are not in competition for the attention of women.
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 4 weeks ago:
No they’re horrible environments for meeting on socializing with other people.
If you’ve ever been to a socializing board game night, you would be aware that there’s effectively zero chance to communicate, talk, have a conversation - a group of people can’t focus on two things at once.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 4 weeks ago:
Well it is in another dimension. We analyze spatial dimensions in a 3D framework, but it’s very obvious there are additive forces that we don’t understand.
We don’t live in a 3+1 dimensional universe, at minimum we live in a 4+1 universe.
- Comment on Drunk Hulk Hogan wants to body slam Kamala Harris 4 weeks ago:
That was the beers talkin’
K.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 4 weeks ago:
I’m actually very fond of elements of the pilot wave concept.
I think there is a pilot wave, and I think it’s in an inaccessible dimension, and I also think whatever drives it also obeys quantum weirdnesses.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 4 weeks ago:
I cannot intuitively grasp that I’m holding a ball in my hand that is 10 to the umpteenth power particles, each of which is made of smaller particles, each of which is everywhere in the universe at the same time all at once.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 4 weeks ago:
Entanglement is a fucked up concept that I’m just starting to grasp.
Parametric down sampling, say, causes particles to split, and then certain states of the resultant particles must respect conservation.
So if the source particle had no spin, but the resultant particles must have spin, one will have minus half spin and the other will have plus half spin. Equals zero, which was the total spin of the source particle. Same deal with charges.
But they are not resolved until this wishy-washy “measurement” thing comes into the picture
- Comment on what is north? 5 weeks ago:
You better believe I’m here for this squabbling
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 5 weeks ago:
Being able to function on the deck does not make it a good game, just saying
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 5 weeks ago:
Torchlight is so highly spoken of… Am I the only person that thought it was pretty pedestrian?
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 5 weeks ago:
The last feature Epic added that was meaningful was the ability to look at my own game library.
They still have a storefront without reviews… They have ratings “captured from the ecosystem”.
They remain a joke.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve read a lot of comments.
My personal experience is very different than what people are saying, maybe it applies to you, maybe it doesn’t.
I have the same thing over my life with different types of pain. I would be given different pain relievers from surgeons, dentists, doctors, etc. For the most part it did fuck all.
Now that I am decades older and I’ve gone through all this bullshit, I basically learned that I’m immune to most painkillers. I metabolize caffeine very quickly and codeine and morphine are in the same family - so they’re useless on me!
Freezing at the dentist always took double or triple. And very often the dentist would have to stop mid procedure and reapply freezing.
These are just a few, but certainly not all of my experiences, being completely baffled at the ineffectiveness of painkillers.
My friends could never understand why I was so blasé when I was prescribed heavy duty medications. And I could never understand why they were doing flying cartwheels to get them off me. It makes a lot more sense now that I figured shit out.
And like you, I turned to alcohol, actually at the advice of one of my oral surgeons who finally just said “look go home drink a 6 pack you won’t feel any pain”.
Let’s leave all the completely unethical recommendations out of the discussion for now, and accept the fact that we now have more knowledge about painkillers than we did back in the day.
All of this to say, you may be just simply immune to painkillers. There’s a variety of reasons for that, and it’s no sense trying to explore those in the comments with laypeople like myself.
But on to any advice that I might give you? Perhaps not advice per se… but to tell you that what I did which helped me and perhaps it will help you.
I finally got over all my chronic pain by stretching and strengthening. I’m not going to sugar-coat it, certain parts of it were hell. I went to an athletic therapist who made me cry, but made me stand up straight. And I devoted myself to doing all the exercises and stretches… yes… 45 minutes every 2nd day for like 10 weeks. But damn did it pay off. That initial investment (not trying to half-ass it or go through the motions) got me to a certain plateau where I barely have to stretch anymore, my body is pretty happy.
I sincerely hope any of this applies to you and can be used but if not oh well maybe it will help someone else!
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends. 5 weeks ago:
It wasn’t groundbreaking, it was a bad design decision.
And they weren’t even the first.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 5 weeks ago:
As somebody that created and moderated communities for almost 20 years you nailed it.
Nobody should actively want to be a moderator, it’s a hell job.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 5 weeks ago:
End the friendship now.
She doesn’t want you plus the suicidal ideations complicate matters.
Don’t make it a thing, just stop being in her life slowly. It doesn’t need to be an event, just stop being around her.