CrazyLikeGollum
@CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
- Comment on star bae 1 day 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
I think the word you’re looking for is “racist.”
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 5 weeks ago:
And The Dude abides
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
1:1 scale or we riot!
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 2 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 2 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? 2 months ago:
The cinematic trailers for OG Guild Wars.
- Comment on Standoff 2 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 2 months ago:
But I’ll get cat hair on my programmer socks!
- Comment on Percentages 2 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 2 months ago:
*Fred Durst and Chris Cornell bumping into each other at a random bar.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 3 months ago:
That just sounds like the gut biome version of a spworm.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 3 months ago:
That song goes hard though. Felt bad ending it.
- Comment on Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over 3 months ago:
Yeah, there was a great video on YouTube I saw a few days ago that went over why Sony is backing Pocket Pair, why Nintendo is making this case about patents, why that’s a massive risk for Nintendo, and why Nintendo is willing to take that risk.
It largely seemed to come down to the Nintndo-Sony rivalry that started when Nintendo backed out of the SNES era deal to create the PlayStation. Nintendo is trying to crush Sony’s potentially viable competitor to their largest franchise and are making the case a patent case because that’s the only route they can pursue. If they lose, Nintendo stands to lose those patents.
- Comment on lab toys 3 months ago:
Khorn really stepped up his game once we started rounding the edges on our PC cases.
- Comment on lab toys 3 months ago:
Just be sure to do it in binary. You gotta squeeze all of the value out of those phalanges.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 3 months ago:
The equation to determine watts is P=VA
If you have the same voltage and a higher amperage, then by definition you have a higher wattage.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 months ago:
- Comment on Nihilism spectrum 3 months ago:
The nostrils are connected to the throat through the sinuses as are the ear canals. Topologically making them all part of the same mouth-anus throughole.
- Comment on Nihilism spectrum 3 months ago:
Fun fact: humans are geometrically a donut.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 months ago:
We would also scavenge fallen fruits and berries that were at least partially decayed. It’s most likely how we discovered the intoxicating effects of alcohol.
- Comment on Is mooning someone considered sexual assault? 4 months ago:
In most jurisdictions battery involves touching someone while assault is the threat of immediate danger.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 4 months ago:
I still occasionally fire it up and just walk around some of the hub cities.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 4 months ago:
I’ve tried getting into GW2, but just couldn’t really get into it.
Doesn’t help that I fell of contact with all of my old guild mates who were supposed to be switching over.