UndercoverUlrikHD
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
- Comment on Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? 7 hours ago:
What sort of protection are you after? Your VPN should encrypt your data to make it more difficult to snoop on your activity. I wouldn’t trust any random WiFi hot-spot just because you got a VPN encrypting your traffic though.
- Comment on Iron 1 day ago:
XcQ
Gotta hide it better than that chief
- Comment on Perfect Symmetry 4 days ago:
Further proof of Grizzly being the peak of human performance.
- Comment on Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut 6 days ago:
A War of Wrath trilogy could have been amazing, but with the current state of Hollywood, I can only assume it would be bland dialogue with a jacked, short haired Fëanor making snarky quips while slaying balrogs.
I really can’t imagine this turning out great when compared to the trilogy. Gollum of all characters is best left as a supporting character not the main focus.
- Comment on It's a trap! 1 week ago:
Actually the jury is still out on if oxidane is 100% lethal or not. A definite conclusion is expected to arrive ~at the end of anthropocene epoch.
- Comment on party poopers 2 weeks ago:
That sounds genuinely shocking to me, in what country? Do you not have supervisors for the high school students? At uni you shouldn’t need much supervision, but for teenagers that’s mandatory.
- Comment on party poopers 2 weeks ago:
Assuming it’s real, how could such a record be anywhere close to acceptable? I can’t remember anyone injuring themselves throughout every lab project in high school and university.
- Comment on Geography is neat 2 weeks ago:
The lake is actually ~99% on Norwegian territory, it’s just a tiny edge on the end that’s given to Sweden and Finland. We once tried to give Finland a mountain peak though (for their 100th anniversary of independence from Russia), but the constitution states the kingdom is indivisible so the legal work was deemed too much. It would have been their highest peak if it went through.
- Comment on The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series 2 weeks ago:
Buggy like most ambitious open world games, but still perfectly playable. It certainly lived up to expectations, it was one of the most praised games of its time, more than what I’ve seen about BG3. Granted I don’t follow the industry as closely as I did back then.
Just because you didn’t like 1 and 2 doesn’t mean they didn’t live up to expectations. CDPR was nobody before witcher 1 and a small studio before 2, so I really don’t get how they didn’t live up to expectations for those two games.
- Comment on The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series 2 weeks ago:
In what bizzaro world did the witcher series fail to live up to expectations? The first one was a masterclass of atmosphere and had zero expectations, the second were just fine and the third one still is the gold standard for quest design in open world games.
- Comment on 'It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable 2 weeks ago:
Damn. NHS struggling feels like being half the news coming out from the UK, but I never expected it to be this bad.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Announce Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Never played/watched the first, but based on the protagonist it looks like a story sequel?
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 3 weeks ago:
The new generation? I remember this stuff happening 15 years ago. People were camping outside before big game releases and had an incentive to ensure they got a copy of the game. The new generation that only buys digital is not to blame for the practice taking hold.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
Lol, alright dude
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
Your preference doesn’t dictate what’s industry standard is my point. It would be like someone only playing exclusively Total War games claiming the Warscape Engine is industry standard, sounds pretty stupid doesn’t it.
The last AAA game I bought was Fallen Order,
A shame you missed out on Baldurs Gate 3 then. Alan Wake also got great criticism.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
“ignoring the major players in the industry”
UE5 had turned into the standard whether you like it or not. I personally don’t like the engine, but that doesn’t mean I’ll lie about its position in the market, and neither should you. You aren’t doing Godot any favours with it
- Comment on 2D / ISO turnbased "cool" RPG recommendation 1 month ago:
Wrath of the righteous runs pretty poorly in my experience, no really playable without a graphic cards. Kingmaker works better though
- Comment on Sega sells off Relic Entertainment, will axe 240 jobs 1 month ago:
Eh, CA pretty much aced their DLC strategy for warhammer 2. It’s with Warhammer 3 that they fell of a cliff. And three kingdoms barely got any DLC before getting cancelled.
- Comment on Favourite developers 1 month ago:
Favourite is a strange term to use about companies, but in terms of how interested I would be if all I was told it was a game from X, it would likely go like this.
- Valve
- CDPR
- Guerrilla Games
- Naughty Dog
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 2 months ago:
Let’s say you got a circle with radius 1/π…
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 2 months ago:
Anything motorised that’s used in traffic should have license plate to be fair. Kudos to the Swiss
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
…what?
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
“don’t tell the Americans”, you are an American mate. The rest of us don’t think Fahrenheit is better.
- Comment on weaponized nerdery 2 months ago:
Yes? And by simple I meant in the manner that it’s not a competitive company. They aren’t there to bring in the AI revolution or invent the next iPhone. Their primary goal is to just keep the servers running, not create record profits for shareholders.
High six figure salaries in general seems foreign to me. A core part of the nordic model is to limit wage gap between high education jobs and low education jobs, so the entire CEO wage structure in the US seems completely backwards.
- Comment on weaponized nerdery 2 months ago:
I don’t buy that argument at all, it just doesn’t make any sense for a position like Wikipedia. Sure, if you’re in a highly competitive and specialised industry where connections and insider information matters I would get it, but just running a “simple” organisation like Wikipedia, no way.
- Comment on Physical or Digital? 2 months ago:
GOG>Steam>digital>physical
- Comment on I am an Indian and I hate to admit this. 2 months ago:
How did Norway’s “PR” fall after independence?
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 3 months ago:
Doesn’t the game run natively on Linux? Surprised the Deck would run into issues.
the puzzles are SUPER hard though, way harder than Revolution.
I feel pretty rusty just doing the puzzles in revolution, not sure I would have the time for even harder ones 😬
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 3 months ago:
Just tried the portal: revolution. Obviously missing GLaDOS’ voice, but the puzzle are neat so far.