CrazyLikeGollum

@CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. You’re supposed to use it anytime you’re about to turn or change lanes, including if you’re sitting in a turn lane at a red light or backing out of a drive way of parking spot.

  Not doing so makes you a road hazard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least as I understand it (and there’s a good chance I’m wrong) there’s nothing in US law preventing a state from seceding. It was determined that the way the southern states decided to do it in the runup to the civil war was unconstitutional (and possibly treasonous? seditious? Something like that), but there’s no law saying a state can’t secede. It’s just that there’s no defined process for it and the only way it has been tried was determined to be wrong.

  From what I’ve read on the topic, there is technically a way it could be done. The country would basically have to follow the same process as passing a constitutional amendment, just with an additional step.

  • The state in question would have to pass a ballot measure to secede
  • The state house and Senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.
  • It would have to be passed as a ballot measure by the majority of the country.
  • The US house and senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.

  So, not technically impossible just so difficult that it is effectively impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is an excellent episode. It would probably have been my fourth pick. That or Arena, the Gorn don’t get enough love and while the episode is cheesy (more so then the rest of TOS), it’s a classic. But I had to go with Mirror, Mirror. The mirror universe episodes in any trek are some of my favorites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, which of your three TOS episodes did I miss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TNG: Drumhead, I, Borg, and Chain of command (or if you don’t want a two parter, take your pick of Q who, Measure of a Man, or Yesterday’s Enterprise)

  DS9: In the Pale Moonlight, Inquisition, and It’s Only a Paper Moon.

  VOY: Living Witness, Tuvix, and Year of Hell (or again, if you don’t want a two parter, go for Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy)

  TOS: The Devil in the Dark, The City on the Edge of Forever, and Mirror Mirror.

  ENT: Similitude, Regeneration, In a Mirror Darkly (don’t really have a good non-two parter to suggeat over In a Mirror, Enterprise doesn’t have a lot of great standalone episodes IMO)

  Movies: if you want to use these as examples, The Wrath of Khan for TOS and First Contact for TNG.

  And I don’t really have a list for LD, PIC, DIS, SNW, or PRO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some slow acting poisons?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on your setting and desired outcome for the poisoner, uraninite (aka pitchblende) might be an option. It has historical uses in glass making and pottery glazing, which could provide justification for why someone would have it.

  It contains Uranium, which is radioactive, but I don’t believe will bioaccumulate, but can build up on surfaces, tools, and clothing providing a source of long-term radiation exposure. In addition, it contains lead, which does bioaccumulate, providing a source of gradual long term poisoning as well as radium which also bioaccumulates and is radioactive, providing an additional source of longterm radiation exposure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’ll have you know there’s no pusseeee!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends more on your instructor rather than the region you’re in. When I was in HS I took two years of Spanish and our teacher was from Spain, so her instruction was in line with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was more thinking of the N64 and GameCube games (Stadium 1&2, Colloseum, and XD Gale of Darkness) when referencing older games with poor graphics specifically. All four of those games were graphically inferior to other titles on the same consoles.

  However, every single release has been plagued by bugs that can result in completely corrupted save data, softlocks, and a wide variety of other unexpected behaviors. Major examples being MissingNo and the other glitch pokemon, bad eggs, a wide variety of exploitable, but potentially save corrupting bugs like the infinite item glitches in gens 1-3, and a whole host of bugs that break how moves are supposed to work in battle.

  Hell, shinies were originally a graphical bug in gen 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree that the graphics could and probably should have been better. I do disagree with the idea that it’s anything more than a minor annoyance with no meaningful impact on the game.

  However, regardless of what I think about it, my point was that at this point in the franchise, Gamefreak, the Pokemon Company, and Nintendo have demonstrated repeatedly since the very first game that optimization, stability, graphical fidelity, and any semblance of good development practices are not something they’re willing to commit to. Expecting that to change at this point is unreasonable and continuing to complain about it is demonstrably unproductive and just introduces pointless negativity into the pokemon community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because graphics are the most important part of a game?

  If the games are fun to play who cares if the graphics are bad? Scarlet and Violet were the best pokemon games since P:LA and that was the best since Gen 5.

  Based on the limited information we’ve gotten about ZA there’s no reason as of yet to doubt that it won’t be comparable to P:LA and S&V in terms of enjoyability.

  Complaining about the graphics of pokemon games or the bugginess of pokemon games is like complaining about CoD being an FPS or Assassin’s Creed having traversable terrain or Souls-likes being hard. At this point it’s a staple of the franchise with 40 games between the mainline games and major spinoffs establishing a trend of the games being thoroughly buggy messes and/or having shit graphics. There is absolutely no reason to expect any of that to change and constantly hearing complaints about it with every new game is getting fucking old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are You Working on Wednesday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a sysadmin/db admin and currently I’m waiting for a backup script to finish running so that I can fix some shit a user broke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, you’re allowed to make copies for personal use unless doing so requires bypassing DRM, encryption, or some other lockout mechanism.

  Emulation is still not piracy and neither is making a personal backup, but if making that backup requires anything more than a standard disc drive or a cart reader then it is a DMCA violation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨star bae⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And 1/2c is a pretty middle of the road escape velocity for a neutron star.

  The lightest known neutron star, at 1.4 solar masses has an escape velocity of right around 1/4c, while the heaviest at 2.35 solar masses is 3/4c.

  All of which assumes the neutron star isn’t spinning. Equatorial bulging caused by the rotation reduces the escape velocity at the equator relative to the poles and depending on whether or not you launch with the direction of the rotation you might be able to subtract the rotational velocity from your escape velocity.

  As an example, in the case of that 2.35 solar mass neutron star, it has a rotational velocity of approximately 0.24c. So of you launch with the rotation you get an escape velocity of 0.5c, whereas if you launch against it you’re looking at more like 0.98c.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard appears to receive its final update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game was solid from launch. When a game is an offline, single-player game, with no future content planned, and good QC from the get go, you don’t need a whole lot of updates. You just need to fix the bugs that pop up when the general public with their wide variety of hardware/software configs and gameplay styles that weren’t tested for get their hands on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard appears to receive its final update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The last three bioware games the last three mass effect games?

  Of Bioware’s last three games, Andromeda sucked, Anthem was an atrocity, but Veilguard was decent, not great like classic Bioware games, but it wasn’t bad, it was at least fun to play and had a decent story and characters.

  Of the last three Mass Effect games, Andromeda sucked, ME3 was great until the Horizon mission then it goes to absolute dog shit, and ME2 was great as a character driven RPG but feels a bit out of place in the franchise as a whole.

  Only in the latter case do I really see a true downward trajectory. In the former there’s a tentative upward trend in the quality of Bioware’s games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, I don’t disagree with that.

  I was just sharing my anecdote as a counterpoint to your minor rhetorical point at the end, because at least to me, it’s funny since eating ice cream outside at -10 degrees is a ridiculous thing to do.

  Though, I will note that while ice cream won’t melt at those temperatures, at atmospheric pressure it will still sublimate. So, in that way you could still lose your ice cream without intervention, it would just take a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have eaten ice cream outside when temperatures were sub-zero Fahrenheit. It’s not something I do regularly but it’s happened and will probably happen again.

  If I want ice cream, then I want ice cream. No other considerations matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else worried about the dehumanizing memes about Mark Zuckerberg being exploited for anti-semitism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the word you’re looking for is “racist.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets corrected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And The Dude abides

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The flame is a cloud of gas and particulate heated to the point that it glows. It will reflect light. Just not a lot, and it’s also emitting enough light to overpower any reflected light in most conditions.

  And of course the candle itself reflects light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But they still do. It might just be overpowered by the emitted light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EXO-6 Launches Preorders for 1:6-Scale Star Trek: The Next Generation Enterprise-D Captain's Chair Replica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1:1 scale or we riot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it should also be noted that the games industry is not audited for security to the same degree as a lot of other industries. So vulnerabilities may not be found until years after launch and then go unpatched indefinitely because the company has already moved on to the next thing.

  Hell, one of the older CoD games had an RCE vulnerability that as far as I’m aware is still not patched.

  Plus, major publishers like EA are now pushing to create their own kernel-level anticheat in-house. Why should anyone trust them to create a secure piece of software that runs with the highest permissions possible when they can’t even be trusted to create stable, functional games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NOT A TOY⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or better yet, giant tardigrades that are roughly the size of a large dog/small wolf for the purpose of having an effectively immortal sled team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite trailers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cinematic trailers for OG Guild Wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Standoff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It’s why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cats are Healers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But I’ll get cat hair on my programmer socks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just include a glossary of formulas for figuring out stats/chances/whatever in your game. With clearly labeled variables. Then throw a reference to that glossary in your tooltips/helpful popups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wood⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *Fred Durst and Chris Cornell bumping into each other at a random bar.