gerowen

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We have free health care? Coulda fooled me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, no mods. I’ve noticed certain braziers will have the effect in barrows and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how it worked, all I know is that it was real time and would react to player models, enemies or other things that would move in unpredictable ways, but only for specific light sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen the effect in other places, though I guess technically they can stick that torch wherever they want as you explore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim has “ray traced” shadows in certain places and works great. I was in a cave once and hiding behind a cliff. An enemy was wandering around the next room and I was able to use the shadow cast on him by a torch to observe his movements without having his actual body in my field of view.

  All this modern RT nonsense does is make things look slightly better than screen space reflections and tank performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A kid whose name is said “Akelah” phonetically, but is spelled “Akleah”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Showerthoughts was one I tried. I don’t remember specifics but I tried a couple times to post actual thoughts I had in the shower and they got insta-banned by a bot so I just gave up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I did and even contacted moderators a few times to try to have posts reinstated after they were insta-banned by a bot. I just got tired of fighting with it every time I wanted to participate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to like Reddit but every time I tried posting something I thought was original or thoughtful it would get auto deleted by a bot for not including the right “flair” or some other stupid shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole video game series on why this is a terrible idea. (Horizon Zero Dawn)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It had the best loading animation with the comets flying by. Much better than IE rotating and becoming the planet earth. This was back when you actually had to wait for pages to load.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t theft. ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Eagle Flag⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are regulated, but there’s a lot of breakdowns in the system. People passing background checks who shouldn’t, prior offenders passing background checks because local cops didn’t report them to the feds, etc. The DC Navy Yard shooter years back literally had fired a weapon into his neighbor’s apartment before and still passed a background check to buy the weapons he committed the shooting with. I also think if you’re a parent and you leave your weapon accessible by your children, and they go shoot up their school, you should be held at least partially liable. As somebody who is former military, the civilian population gets away with a hell of a lot with regards to firearms. No federally mandated training standards, concealed carry licenses are haphazard and go state by state, and not all states recognize other states’ permits, no federally mandated storage requirements, etc. When I was in the military, if I wanted to go target practice on base with my personal weapons I had to register them with the provost marshal on base, keep the weapons and ammo separate in locked boxes out of my reach while driving to the range, etc. And if one weapon went missing the entire base was locked down; gates closed and nobody in or out until it was located. Civilians get by with way too much.

  I think a lot of our problem is loose are missing standards at the federal level, which leaves each individual state to kind of make things up as they go along and not communicate properly with feds when things go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has google stopped working for finding anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years now and it works surprisingly well for me. 9 times out of 10 I find exactly what I’m looking for in the first coupe of results. Brave Search is another independent alternative you might look into.

  AI generated garbage seems to be cluttering up places like Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing advertisement for Threads by Instagram!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re beginning to federate with Mastodon, though at least so far it’s only developers and employees at Meta. If it becomes an issue later though I’ll just block that whole domain from appearing in my feed.