ICastFist

@ICastFist@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who came up with the phrase "coming out of the closet" to describe homosexuals admitting they are gay? Why not coming out of the kitchen or coming out of the bedroom?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it has something to do with how paramours would “hide in the closet” when the spouse came back home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky for new slow player⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason to investigate derelicts is to pray you get a halfway decent upgrade for your own freighter, which almost never happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky for new slow player⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with over 400 hours, expect the whole experience to be puddle deep. Granted, I last played in 2024, so my opinion is a number of updates behind, but from what I’ve seen up until then, the core of the game didn’t change and nothing pointed to it changing.

  The gist of it: every planet is procedurally generated and everything feels empty and lifeless, even when the planet has lifeforms. There are some cool looking planets, but they rarely have anything interesting on the ground. On-foot exploration is rarely rewarding in any sense. Points of Interest have some minimal distance between them and nothing besides your compass pointing towards the nearest one, with any building or settlement that has one of the 3 alien races in them being little more than a pit stop. There’s very little variation in the POIs you can come across. Hell, even a town that you get to become a “mayor” feels like a big nothingburger.

  You don’t really “command” a fleet, especially because space combat is super basic and boring. At one point, you just get a big freighter for free and that’s it. You can get other ships to join your fleet, but they don’t do anything while in space proper, they just look pretty while there. You can send these extra ships on missions, then wait several hours for said missions to conclude. You’ll likely forget you even sent them, not to mention upgrading your small ship to jump from star system to star system is much, much, much easier than upgrading your freighter - you need to explore derelict freighters, essentially “space dungeons” that are very annoying and slow, to get upgrades for your freighter.

  The game has a “story”, but it’s pretty bland and not worth the time. Any quests the game offers can be abandoned and picked up again at any time and, when you do, they don’t ask you to travel back, they just point to a nearby place or star. Hell, I remember there was an exploit that you could pile up several pirate bounty quests (you’re tasked with killing a pirate in space), move to a star system over 2k light years away, reset all of them - which would cause them to ask you to kill a pirate in the system you’re currently in - then fly out and kill one pirate for the prize of ALL of the quests. No idea if this has been fixed.

  All in all, the game won’t crush you, but the repetition and tedium might. Frankly, I recommend you try a pirate version first. If, 8h in, you feel like going further, buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is "open browsing"? And why is Reddit getting rid of it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  linkie please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is "open browsing"? And why is Reddit getting rid of it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Open browsing is letting anyone read what the site has.

  My suspicion on why, is because AI bots and crawlers can just read the contents of the posts and send it back to whoever prompted, thus “stealing” clicks that would otherwise go into reddit proper and generate ad money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A gun they got from the same hand feeding them lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show me what slimed you.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Killed by a rogue byte to the face

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it legal for Trump to short stocks, then bet against them? I mean he gets a shitload of money. But what about the common folk?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Supreme Court says president is immune to criminal charges from "official acts"
  2. Commit crimes through “official acts”
  3. ???
  4. PROFIT!
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure “decompiling” has always been the easy step - open the binary with a hex editor and dump the contents as some source code. Making sense of that is where shit gets really difficult - making it work was usually even harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve gathered, those nvidia APUs are only good for AI-style workloads, kinda like ASIC crypto miners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called ReactOS :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For most games, the answer is “publisher contracts”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. I was the ambition. I sat there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free land for those who will build on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK's social housing problem? | Phineas Harper⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  giving packages of public land worth up to £2m each to community-led organisations such as housing co-operatives, on the condition that they build social housing.

  There better be something to deal with potential astroturfing, because a for-profit company can easily make a “community-led organisation”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Proceeds to append an exclamation mark*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And don’t you dare use stuff like , or ç as a special character!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some have greatness thrust upon them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a cishet man, I tried a regular sized one that my ex left behind. With the whole having a prostate thing, I expected to feel something at least interesting, but after a bunch of pose, speed and angle experimentation, it felt like a nothingburger, which really left me disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some have greatness thrust upon them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You expected powerful lower muscles, but little did you expect the chosen one to be the great swallower

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shh, don’t tell him that, you’ll break his fantasy of the big bad gubmint being the only thing between him and being the next melon musk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only cognitive dissonance until you remember that police obeys whoever has money, just the way libertarians and ancaps love

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays an RPG⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that is easing me into using items is watching speedruns, of all things. Hell, I used to be an ammo hoarder for side-scrolling games that had them (Jazz Jackrabbit, Mega Man), nowadays I prefer to blast the powerful stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays an RPG⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure Phoenix Down insta killing undead continued afterwards, I recall that working in FF Tactics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bang!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More so I think, if we’re not fostering a culture of killing again we might get over it completely some days.

  Until another group comes around promising to kill all the peace lovers.

  Fine, you only capture and don’t kill the evil killers. Some “learn their lesson”, others only pretend to. If you release them, some will come back with a vengeance. If you keep them imprisoned, you’re treating them like animals/slaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Maced⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the type of woman that sounds best gagged

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NOOOOO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite a lifespan for a mobile game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would make a great gift for Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was a grenade at first glance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t get swept up in the live-service trend

  I guess by “didn’t get swept up” the author meant these companies didn’t go all-in like western studios, because all 3 have their portion of f2p mobile crap, with Konami being the worst offender with, PES Mobile, eFootball and others.

  I suppose another big difference is shareholder expectation. In the US, if you don’t grow every quarter, you’re dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OwO what’s this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants are forced into debt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many years ago, ~2015, I applied for a Canadian work visa. I probably used a company site without knowing, as I got a phone call 2 weeks later with a dude trying to talk me into paying the company he represented to ensure i’d get the visa and everything would be fine, trust me bro. Immigration with a 3rd party like this feels shady as fuck, like, what are you even supposed to do if they don’t fulfill their end?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlike any of those things, you can work quit anytime, but you sure as hell cannot get back after quitting whenever you feel like.