eRac
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- Comment on CNC 4 hours ago:
I always go France or Korea. Base walking Grand Cannons or spamming Black Eagles.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 4 days ago:
I really like Mardi Gras Mustard. It has the balls to be mustard, not honey mustard.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 1 week ago:
I mean, the guy didn’t know that water and ice are the same thing.
The summaries I find reference him theorizing that water may be spherical, leading to the hexagon pattern. He also related the feathery ends to steam hitting a cold window.
It seems to me that he knew that steam, water, and ice were the same thing.
- Comment on Project Shadowglass channels Thief, Deus Ex and System Shock while dunking on generative AI 1 week ago:
The pixelization shader is cool. It compensates for camera rotation and warp to keep objects consistent when looking around. It’s like a pixelized 360 video.
Things still crawl when moving, but it significantly improves issues with distant objects flickering as you turn.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Ratchet & Clank and Going Commando are great.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 1 month ago:
According to the article, Oracle made $18b from cloud services this year. They are projecting that to grow to $130b in the next five years, with half that growth being this deal.
Absurd.
- Comment on Directors cut 2 months ago:
I genuinely cried during my first listen to that album when I got to T.I.M.E.
- Comment on Directors cut 2 months ago:
Last night, while brushing our teeth, my wife made a comment about losing all her hair. That required a delay in going to bed until we had listened to I Earn My Life. Unfortunately, that leads into the obligatory Reaganomics dance party. Before we knew it it was 11PM and we were considering the philosophy of logo design.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 months ago:
No, Lingo. Two games, both in the past few years. It’s confusing word puzzles in an equally-confusing world.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 months ago:
- Mirror’s Edge
- Lingo (2?)
- And Yet It Moves
ME has stuck with me as my favorite game for fifteen years now. I love it visually, the soundtrack is incredible, and the gameplay is fantastic.
Lingo and its sequel are a bizzare, unmatched puzzle experience. I don’t know what else to say there.
And Yet It Moves is… something else. An indy platformer from the heyday of Indy platformers. It is an interesting example of how story can influence art style.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 months ago:
Valve also clarified today that it was the processors, not the card management companies, that they talked to. The processors were pointing at MasterCard’s rules, but refusing to provide Valve with someone at MasterCard to talk to.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 2 months ago:
There’s a skill tree, equipment (not clothing/weapons like most RPGs, but still equipment), and crafting. That’s enough to make it an RPG mechanically.
There’s also the perspective definition. You are embodying a person separate from yourself and you are expected to make choices as them. Textbook RPG.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 2 months ago:
Dishonored is an RPG. It also adjusts the world based on your body count, with corruption getting worse as you kill people.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 3 months ago:
Yes. Nothing is truly incompressible. The speed of sound can be viewed as a measure of how much a material can squish on the atomic level before the next atoms move.
- Comment on In the cave 3 months ago:
You should look at a set tour for Technology Connections on YouTube.
His backdrop is a wall of cube organizers with interesting objects and artifacts from previous episodes. Each cube is backlit, some with flat colors and some with pictures.
The backlights are actually TV screens displaying an array of images that align with the edges of the cubes.
- Comment on Buckshot Roulette Creator’s New Game Is A Dark Psychological Hacking Adventure Launching Next Month 4 months ago:
Now for the real question: is it actually IRC or just an in-game IRC-like interface.
The greatest hacking game of all time, Uplink, has an actual IRC client that you can buy and install on your in-game systems.
IRC pops up a lot in less obvious places too. The in-game chat in Warframe is IRC, but it handles all the server and channel connecting, locking you out of connecting to arbitrary servers.
- Comment on Helldivers 2, Spider-Man 2, and more PlayStation titles have been freed from their region lock prison on PC 4 months ago:
Sony wanted the games to require PSN login. They got enough pushback that they stopped, but they left the games locked out for regions that don’t have PSN.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? 4 months ago:
If your primary usecase is text, don’t get a color e-reader. There are significant downsides to the display quality for very little benefit.
If you are wanting to read comics, manga, or illustrated guides, then you will want the color.
I’m a big fan of the Kobo Libra design. It’s friendly to software mods and has a rail for holding it with a nice big button that sits under the thumb for page turning.
I find that the Kindle-style thin bezel gives no comfortable way to hold an e-reader since the only good place to put your thumb is on the screen, the primary input method. It leads to a bad experience and turns people off from e-readers.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? 4 months ago:
I tossed KOReader on my Kobo Libra 2 recently after a year of thinking it didn’t add anything useful. Oh boy, was I wrong.
It’s so much faster, I can dial in the formatting exactly how I want it, and I can customize the inputs to my liking. Page turn only on buttons, tap a corner to toggle dark mode, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This is a international variant of the video. The intention is to have the text rendered as a forced subtitle so that it can be localized without having to serve a different video for every language.
They don’t have the English version doing that, likely because it was assumed it would serve the original video instead.
- Comment on Speedrunner already beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch 2 5 months ago:
Many modern games have a separate physics frame rate to avoid that issue, but tend to always have the physics process a fixed amount of ‘time’ regardless of how long the frame takes so that the physics is more consistent. If that lags, the whole game will pretty much play in slow motion.
- Comment on Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping illegal immigrant evade ICE 5 months ago:
What a title/summary. Better one:
Feds attempt to engage in obstruction of justice, throw a fit when judge heads them off.
They are charging her for stopping them from commiting a crime.
- Comment on What is an example of an adaptation of a book where the TV series was better? 6 months ago:
Similar with The Expanse. There isn’t a huge difference, but changes were largely for the better. The authors of the books also wrote the show, so they could polish things while adapting it and know where things were going in the future.
I really hope that the adaptation comes back for the rest of the books at some point. In the final season, they included a short story in the show that occurs at the same time, but is only there to set up the last arc of the series. I didn’t get why it was there in the show until I read the later books.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 6 months ago:
Do you have an example that does first person melee combat well while rolling for accuracy?
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 6 months ago:
The problem with combat in Morrowind is that it simultaneously measures player skill and character skill. Chance-to-hit works when the character does the aiming and gap-closing for you. When you have to handle that with poor depth perception and you have chance-to-hit on top of that, it’s always going to feel like garbage.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 6 months ago:
They didn’t make another because they were forced to make a game that was Wonder Woman and live service. How does that work? Clearly they didn’t know either since they spun their wheels for like seven years, lost all their old staff, and then got shut down.
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 6 months ago:
Pretty sure Jason Statham twirling in a leapord print speedo gives him with a big gun a run for its money.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 7 months ago:
Giant: Citizen Kabuto
Deep cut. Such a strange game.
I remember playing 3-person multiplayer with no router in that game. A friend had two Ethernet ports but couldn’t bridge them, so he’d host and the other two of us would join. Some stuff worked smoothly, but other stuff was super broken.
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 7 months ago:
Scare us away? Some of us are on instances that make the connection more obvious.
- Comment on How is Arcane the series based upon League of Legends, a tower defense game? 7 months ago:
The game prints enough money that they could afford to have a writing staff and illustration team. I think the idea is that building character depth will make a subset of players more connected to them. This keeps them playing and also increases the odds of them buying a skin for the character.
It’s similar to the Meet The ______ videos from TF2 and the comics that built on them.