dubyakay

@dubyakay@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But are you skin inside?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's the best material for wiping out a cast iron skillet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So microplastics and soap embedded in your iron. Yum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can only speculate, but his infidelity with staffers was known, and him being on the Epstein list may have been the final straw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey fellow RO player.

  I quit when my hometown Morroc got obliterated on iRO. I’ve tried coming back once right after the server mergers, but I don’t know what kind of methodology they’ve used when determining name conflicts, I’ve lost quite a few character names to what I assume were randoms from other servers banking on taking over the names. Pissed me off way too much. Tried coming back a second time about a year ago, but I was unable to figure out my character account passwords with the warp portal changes and what not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the reason Melinda divorced him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I can’t be angry at people that didn’t vote or voted 3rd party instead of democrats. People were rightfully disenfranchised. It’s like blaming a rape victim for dressing a certain way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean a minority? Trump won by 2.3m votes going by popular vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if we just take heat pumps for example, or even cpu water coolers, the heat is carried away from where it’s hot to somewhere where it can be radiated off and equilibrium of heat conducting material and surrounding occurs.
  You can bet your ass that these US data center are just brute forcing heat exchange via evaporation instead to make the initial investment cheaper. It’s the equivalent to burning coal instead of straight up going for the renewable but initially more costly option when it comes to energy production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being invulnerable and not being able to receive a jab for your illness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve probably also ages out of it. I never thought it’d happen, but I can feel my hand/eye coordination getting worse over the decades.

  It’s well document in Korean pro leagues that APM decreases with age as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But it was a tournament among gaming studios, with Valve being on home turf basically.

  It’s like when you had the Blizzard dev smurf the SC2 ladders at a really high level, but the guy regularly lost to the actual Korean pros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve competed on stage in a rural village in F-29 Retaliatory head2head tournament (over serial cable) around 1993. I’ve gotten to grab first place in a Bo3 single elimination format, defeating my nemesis, Lil’ Cloud, in the finals. I took home a mobo for a 286 (but no cpu, PC case, peripherals or anything else). For a bonus prize, they’ve pitted me against the final final boss, the IT admin from the neighbouring town. I’ve beaten him 4:1 in a Bo7, and my reward was an AdLib card. I did end up using this one in a 386 SX build that my dad bought me a couple months later.
  Despite being on stage, I do not remember having any stage fright at all. I remember the crowd around us, but everything got drowned out by the sound blasters screeching the noise into my ears through some cheapo cans. I just remember being baffled that after having my toughest final against Lil’ Cloud, I suddenly have another challenger I have to sit down against.

  Around '97 I got sucked in by Quake II in PC cafes, mostly playing FFAs on LAN. However the Q2 scene gradually moved on to QuakeWorld, Quake 3 Arena and Counter Strike. Since my PC was always lagging behind in performance, I chose to stick with QuakeWorld, and mostly played in 320x200 software rendering so I could aim for 120Hz + 120 fps vsync as time passed.

  Around this time, between 98-2003 there were a couple LANs in and around Budapest that were CPL feeder events, however QuakeWorld has long been dropped from the biggest international events, and was relegated to mostly online tournaments and smaller local LANs only. Despite this, they always allowed QuakeWorld players in and even offered prices for first three places within categories. However the participants gradually declined from 50:50 Q3/QW to 50:40:10 CS/Q3/QW to 75:20:5 CS/Q3/QW by the end.

  In the last LAN where they still allowed QW players in, must have been around 2003, I think we had no more than 50 players out of 600+.
  I’ve competed, but not on stage, in the 1v1 category, choking due to nervousness around the quarterfinals, dropping to Loser’s Bracker. I did lose my LB match as well, the nerves never recovered. I remember one of my buddies talking over my shoulder, asking me wtf was wrong with me that I’m making all these mistakes. I came out as a sweaty mess from both matches, feeling totally defeated and unable to process why things were going the way they did. It haunts me to this day and gave me flashbacks to it in online competitive play, like WoW’s Arena 2v2/3v3.

  I also competed in 2v2 at the tournament with my best bud as my partner later that day. The nerves were still pretty bad, but I was relying on my partner’s skill to carry us, along with some clever map selections. It was a Bo5, and we knew that with my nerves shot we had to focus on just one map that had mixed shaft (lightning gun)/rocket launcher (RL) play in order to take the series, as otherwise we could dominate maps that relied on RL only, as predictive spawn lockdowns was our forte, in contrast with raw skill/aim. Basically the moment we won first draw for map selection, we knew we could make it a 3:1 or 3:2 at worst if we selected our least favoured map and won it. I’ve still made a lot of mistakes in heated moments, and we did have to draw out one map by deliberately avoiding respawns near the end of the match in order to deny our opponents a win, but in the end my partner carried us to victory.
  While the 2v2 finals were not exactly on stage, they did put a cam on a big screen and we also had a bit of a crowd forming around us. Smoking a light joint an hour before the match did help though. I forgot what we won. I just remember receiving a trophy at the finals ceremony and feeling completely undeserving of it. And then moving out of my parent’s basement and in with my buddy, getting high 24/7 for the next 6 months.

  As for the question is it even worth it: yes, yes it is. Not when you are older though. At 20+ you are already aged out, and the commitment required is tremendous just to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Better stick to turn based strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? I loved moo3. Not as good as moo2. But still good.

  Either way, Master of Magic was the GOAT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My foot found the worst Lego that can be stepped on.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I buy a bag of these to deter alley cats from using the fire escape as a highway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam gets a brand new video player for trailers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  np m8

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Especially the Ø...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Børn to be wild or Børn baby, Børn?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s anti cheat, not DRM. But recent protondb reports don’t indicate any problems. I haven’t checked areweanticheatyet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rocket League seems to work fine with Proton GE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a bad thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toothbrushes don't list what they are made of.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember in Moscow during the Soviet Union dsys my dad was amazed when he saw that stores were still selling horse hair tooth brushes.

  I wonder if they are still being made somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American ambassador to Italy refuses to live in the official US residence in Rome. Instead, he stays on his super yacht moored 60 miles from the capital⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Italians love cowboys though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That just means that the idiot writing the article got the link provided to them by chatgpt during their research. All it does is tell the website that you visited that you followed a link from the given source. They can aggregate the data from all visitors for metrics, to see where they lag behind in exposure. But they can’t associate users to each other with this method.

  Unlike the “igsh” tag in instagram post/reel urls, which when opened, will immediately create a popup stating “join <user that shared the URL with you> on Instagram today!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silky Smooth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tl;dr/dl: cotton and wool good, polyester and polyester blend bad. No study on silk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In racoon we trust⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on this Ontario and Quebec should be pretty good at recycling aluminium as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy noises*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a verdant place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats!

  One of your early stories got me into playing Zomboid with my buddies.

  So barring this post, which one is the most up voted one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dangerous angle. That’d mean giving back Tampa and Miami to the swamps, two leftist strongholds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let a stupid chart tell you what you can and can’t lick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an acquaintance who is a lead Dev at an Indie studio where he is developing and training an NPC behaviour engine with thousands of responses and actions. Think fallout or mass effect response wheel, where 2-4 dialogue choices have 2-4 outcomes, but instead you can tell the NPC anything and it will have a different response. Or it will do different things whether you hand it a book, give it book, throw a potion at it or cast a healing spell on it or hug it. It could also change tactics if you tried to snipe it vs if you went at it melee. All of these are trained and accounted for and made in a way where it can be built into any game using a certain engine. And this is just aimed at generic npcs, not companions.

  So if this is what disclosure of the use of generative AI means, I’m not against it. I think there is nuance to what can be done with it. Using final art assets? It’s theft. Writing? Theft. NPC behaviour? Definitely not.