VinesNFluff
@VinesNFluff@pawb.social
Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3
Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.
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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.
- Comment on Why does good faith matter ? 4 days ago:
points at op
That’s bait.
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 6 days ago:
Imagine a fictional creature that has wings like a bat and foot-beans like a cat
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 6 days ago:
Bats.
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 6 days ago:
I just wanted to say
My just-woke-up brain combined these two into “how do you cope with moth memes”
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s actually around the 30s (or 60s, depending on whether you consider interlaced frames to be ‘true’ or just ‘halves’)
A CRT television runs at 60Hz because it uses the alternating current from the wall as a reference, but in every half cycle it only actually draws half of the image. “60i” as they call it.
So you can say it’s 60 interlaced frames a second, which is about comparable to 30 progressive frames.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 3 weeks ago:
Funny
I played a lot of Lunistice some time back. It’s a retro 3D platformer that has an option to cap the framerate at 20 for a “more authentic retro feel”. Fun lil’ game, even if I eventually uncapped the framerate because it’s also a high-speed and precision platformer and doing that at 20FPS is dizzying.
And yes absolutely Zelda 64 chokes on its 20 frames from time to time. I played it enough to know that.
But it wouldn’t change the fact that its absolute maximum is 20 and it still doesn’t feel bad to play.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t know. Could never afford a posh high-refresh-rate monitor, and it’s very low on my priority list, so even if/when I do get a windfall of money, it probably won’t be what I buy next.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 3 weeks ago:
Wrong but also not completely wrong.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 3 weeks ago:
Framerates weren’t really a
Thing.
Before consoles had frame-buffers
The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.
Before that, you were in beam-racing town.
If your processing wasn’t enough to keep up with the TV’s refresh rate (60i/30p in NTSC territories, 50i/25p in PAL) – Things didn’t get stuttery or drop frames like modern games. They’d either literally run in slow-motion, or not display sprites (often both!)
You had the brief window of the HBlank and VBlank intervals of the television to calc stuff and get the next frame ready.
Buuuut, as of the PSX/N64/Saturn, most games were running anywhere between 15 and 60 FPS, with most sitting at the 20s.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 3 weeks ago:
Descent is pretty fun. Not as big of a fan as you are, but I definitely dig it.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 3 weeks ago:
Ackshuli – By late 2000 there were a couple games on PC that could get there.
… If you were playing on high-end hardware. Which most PC gamers were not. (despite what Reddit PCMR weirdos will tell you, PC gaming has always been the home for janky hand-built shitboxes that are pushed to their crying limits trying to run games they were never meant to)
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- Comment on How do children address a non-binary parent? 1 month ago:
The words “mom” and “dad” are both derived from baby babble, syllables babies have an easy time making.
I therefore suggest that an enby parent should be a child’s wawa
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 months ago:
612 years in the past
In BrazilWell
As a person from modern times – From AFTER the Americas came into contact with Europe, if I went near a person here in the Land of Palms (that’s what the natives called Brazil!) from those times we’d both get horribly infected and die a lot due to how antibodies work. Viruses did a lot of the legwork in genociding the natives.
The place I currently live in is slowly turning into a desert, but was a deep jungle back then.
… I think I’d just die? Become food for a jaguar or sth.
Would love to indulge in the fantasy of giving the Guarani people guns and a warning to shoot white people on sight just to see how history would change, but that ain’t happening.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 2 months ago:
If you’re looking for a rational argument for the big party or the religious ceremony or anything like that – You won’t find it. These things are meant to play to the emotional, and this isn’t a flaw, it’s the whole point. If neither you nor your partner give two shits about big parties or ceremonies, then y’know, neither of you needs to bother. If said partner does want this and you don’t, then y’know, maybe have a good chat about that and find a compromise. That’s how partnerships work.
Being legally married is a separate thing, and is inexpensive in most countries (just a small fee so the bureaucrats can process the bureaucracy), and is often done weeks in advance of the big party and/or religious ceremony. To be legally married is to have you and your partner recognised by The State ™ as being a family unit. This has uses for a few situations in life.
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 2 months ago:
“why does this well known social-and-political figure tend to be a certain way?”
“because of a social system” (said social system is older than capitalism and feudalism alike)
“OMG HOW DARE YOU SAY CAPITALISM IS TO BLAME?!??!?”
Bitch can you fucking read?
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 2 months ago:
Because Gerontocracy is the true law of the land, and is older than both capitalism and feudalism.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 months ago:
Only sickos don’t use their blinkers
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 2 months ago:
From the Steamed Clams we’re having. Mmmmmmm, Steamed Clams!
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 2 months ago:
Drink water until your piss is crystal clear and you’ll be doing 10 or more graves per day.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 2 months ago:
Pee on Kissinger’s grave?
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 2 months ago:
“All of the above and more”
Makes sense I suppose.
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- Comment on What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too. 3 months ago:
A server can just be a PC left working in a corner, depnding on what specifically you’re doing with it. Hardware designed to be a server tends to have more power in the places that matter for that job and less (if any) power dedicated to home use stuff like graphics.
I have a server for my family (WELL mostly me and my father). It consists of an old gaming PC with Linux Server Stuff installed on it. Doesn’t need to be anything more, it’s just Emby (media, mostly films) and NAS stuff.
It’s mostly intent and what you run on it.
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 3 months ago:
Shinto’s “head god” was Izanagi, who was very much a man.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 4 months ago:
People who bitch about being banned/blocked are always the most blockable/bannable human beings imaginable, istg.
- Comment on Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance 4 months ago:
Insert SpongeBob clip of Mr. Krabs saying “MONIE!”
- Comment on Woke furry hijacks social media of right-wing group that published 'DEI Watch List' 4 months ago:
I am very sorry and promise to do better in the future.
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 4 months ago:
Possible? Yes. Going to happen? No.
If your authoritarian government wants you gone they don’t need to pull off Hollywood Hacker shit. They can get you for “drugs” (that they planted) or even just outright “disappear” you. They can get rid of you quietly, anonymously, and only your equally powerless kith and kin will care.
This kind of evidence planting is only for REALLY FAMOUS PEOPLE, when they want to put them through courts and convince the peasantry that, actually, this guy deserved it, and don’t be like him, before putting them in an electric chair.
- Comment on Woke furry hijacks social media of right-wing group that published 'DEI Watch List' 4 months ago:
Whow (basedbasedbasedbased)
