FishFace
@FishFace@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Is that on the 17% joke rate?
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Right that’s why no other country had dreams of home ownership.
American exceptionalism really did a number on you guys!
- Comment on Temu: UK artist's anger at finding work on site without permission 2 weeks ago:
Well, kinda. Their cost of production is lower partly because they don’t have to pay an artist enough to feed themselves.
- Comment on Interesting observation 2 weeks ago:
Ok but this is a joke, not an instruction on how to behave in real life.
- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 2 weeks ago:
They’re taking advantage of the ability to do so with modern cameras and TVs because a dark look communicates something - a dark mood for example. It contrasts with other shows or scenes.
It stands out to me when a scene is supposed to be at night but obviously has a 100ft light tower just off camera. Toning it down looks good.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Right, so if making the plot and lore obvious in a book is fine, it’s also fine in a game. Using pejoratives like “spoonfeeding” criticises this without giving any reason.
From games are particularly bad because most of the lore is on item descriptions that are often themselves locked behind random drops and easily missed questlines. This is not good world building, this is purposefully obscure world building. People mistake “hard to put together” for quality, but it’s the opposite - making this stuff harder to get makes it worse, because players are less likely to get it! If you feel too communicate the lore to most players, that’s not good!
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 2 weeks ago:
I see. That sounds very over-zealous to me, yes. The delay in moving off is so small that it doesn’t really have a safety impact (and the idea that a delay in moving off is a safety issue is way overblown in general, because the occasions when it comes up are so rare compared to the occasions when adequate braking comes up.).
The beefier motors do cost more, and I haven’t seen a cost comparison. I would imagine they don’t cost much more though, and soon pay for themselves if you’re driving in the city. And they won’t overall increase fuel consumption - that much is clear from measurements. A random reddit post claimed that the break-even point in stop-start is a mere 7 seconds, which is basically every red light. Idk if that’s reliable but it gives you something to consider.
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Stop signs are not a big part of driving in some countries. I obviously don’t know about everywhere, but in other countries I’m familiar with (Europe), most USA “stop” junctions are give way/priority/yield junctions where you don’t have to come to a complete stop, so stop-start would have no impact.
In the UK, you only get Stop signs on junctions where your view is so extremely limited that anything less than a stop or absolute dead crawl would just always be dangerous. They’re very rare. In comparison, Yield signs in the USA are comparitively rare (in my experience) and most junctions where you most yield priority are governed by Stop signs.
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Engines with start-stop have beefier starter motors. Electric motors can be sized for basically any task - the motors in my EV are not going to wear out and their duty cycle is crazy compared to a starter motor! So it’s just a matter of cost and size.
Sounds insane to require drivers to disable start-stop to pass a test - where’s that? You mention stop signs so that sounds like the US. I’m afraid I don’t really trust US driving tests to accomplish anything sensible…
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Typically it experiences most wear at start because the oil isn’t up to temperature. When stopped at a red light, oil is still coating all the components, so while the pressure may be low, it will only be a momentary increase in wear. 7 seconds is very little compared to the time it takes the engine to get up to temperature on a cold morning, which is wear the majority of wear will still come from.
These systems have been in common use for like 15 years or something, and first became commercially available over 25 years ago. We’d have actual hard evidence if it were causing excess wear.
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Why will stop-start cause additional engine wear? It’s literally off. It only kicks in when the engine, and hence engine oil, is warm, so there should be no extra wear caused by starting.
The fuel savings can be significant, but more significant is the reduced emissions. I guess you don’t care about that though. Fuck all the children breathing in the polluted air, right?
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
k?
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Auto stop start is to save fuel and emissions in heavy traffic.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Do you consider it being “spoonfed” to you when you read a book and the plot and everything is just written down?
Do you consider it positive that you have to “work for it” if every fifth word is written in Chinese and you have to translate them?
Making it hard to understand does not make it good. Making it easy does not make it bad. Is there an aspect of it you like that isn’t just that it’s hard to understand? Because that’s all you mentioned.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Zanzibart forgive me
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Eh?
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. And Skyrim really needed better VAs. That one guy who voiced Farengar just did not properly understand some of his lines and consequently butchered them.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that is a great classic example. There’s a lot of environmental storytelling so you can get an idea of what’s going on, and what it is is very interesting, but it doesn’t get in the way of the game or its story.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
“Zanzibart, forgive me”.
Nah, Fromsoft has great vibes. But the worldbuilding and story is all deliberately obscured because of Miyazaki’s love of sci-fi he couldn’t properly read. That makes it a trove for obsessives but it can’t really be called good.
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 3 weeks ago:
There was a puzzle at an online puzzle hunt recently that was about this phrase. It was annoyingly ambiguous due to languages that have more than one phrase.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 3 weeks ago:
is a hot dog a sandwich
no
is cereal soup
no
is a foo a thing-which-obviously-is-not-a-foo
no
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 3 weeks ago:
The UK is becoming more automatic now, and we also have a lot of EVs. I learnt on a manual but didn’t get a car until last year, which is electric. It’s much better.
- Comment on Discuss 5 weeks ago:
I dunno about that, but I do know Reeses cups taste bad. Too much sweet and salty.
- Comment on Discuss 5 weeks ago:
Europeans don’t eat peanuts? Or chocolate?
- Comment on Project Rebearth (in development), an MMO city-builder, with a top-down map style view, where players repopulate a 1:1 replica of Earth, releases a demo on Steam. 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what world population has to do with anything. It’s a city builder - players are building cities, not people.
- Comment on Cardiff set to impose SUV parking premium after council approval 5 weeks ago:
It’s not really an SUV premium; it’s a heavy vehicle premium. This makes some sense, as heavier vehicles tend to be bigger and therefore require more space to park. But it would make more sense to have vehicle weight feature as part of car tax and actual vehicle size feature as part of parking permits, since that’s the variable that affects how much parking they require. Using either of these as a proxy for pollution (as is alluded to) is an awful idea, as electric vehicles tend to be larger and heavier than equivalent petrol ones.
- Comment on Project Rebearth (in development), an MMO city-builder, with a top-down map style view, where players repopulate a 1:1 replica of Earth, releases a demo on Steam. 5 weeks ago:
Intriguing. I wonder after what length of time the world will “fill up” and it’ll be hard to find anywhere to start fresh? I guess this is something that the dev tries to tune consciously. In a similar vein, I wonder whether it will be best as a single player to start near someone else (to trade with them) or far away from others (to avoid bumping into each other)
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 5 weeks ago:
This is a specific genre of text adventure - have you been on text adventure sites to try and find more? Because they’re low cost to make you can find loads for free or little money.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 5 weeks ago:
Many of their songs are in Icelandic actually, and a couple in English.
- Comment on Forbidden knowledge 5 weeks ago:
But it isn’t, and no it probably couldn’t.
It sounds like you’ve just got AI on the brain and wanted to moan about it.