catloaf
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- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 day ago:
When was the doomguy humanized?
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 4 days ago:
I didn’t forget it, but it’s not strictly an update.
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 1 week ago:
The union doesn’t have control over your personal health. There is no cause of death mentioned in the article.
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 1 week ago:
And the games in the article would have worked just fine on the Switch 2 as well.
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 1 week ago:
Steam Deck, for one.
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 1 week ago:
Yes it did store.steampowered.com/…/6941797379568863069
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." 1 week ago:
Much as I agree with the headline, this site appears to be entirely AI generated slop.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 week ago:
That’s basically what happened here, except the guy quit his job long before he had an employment contract, let alone a start date.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 week ago:
For a company like PayPal, I’m sure their legal team has written the offers in a way that they allow for this, and aren’t an employment contract.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 week ago:
I’m glad I don’t work a job where they give tasks as part of interviews. I’d want to invoice them for my work if they did.
- Comment on The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no 1 week ago:
Someone has probably already done that.
But regular PLA printing doesn’t work well at this scale, I’ve tried.
- Comment on The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no 1 week ago:
The only one that actually looks bad is the one at the top of the article. The others look fine.
The one of the red woman (I haven’t played the game so no idea who is who) looks like it might be bad, but the pictures are also terrible so it’s impossible to say.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
It might still be. But the pool of applicants is even larger.
- Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update 2 weeks ago:
Investors demand recurring revenue.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 2 weeks ago:
Blu-rays can hold up to 128GB (BDXL, quadruple-layer).
Read speed could be an issue, but if you’re smart about preloading and compress what’s on disc, you have to read less data (you just have to decompress it in memory instead). If you want to get really fancy, there are compression algorithms that let you seek inside compressed data so that you don’t have to load the whole archive.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I guess they wanted to take each new Doom game in a new direction. Which is a shame, because they don’t really feel like Doom, they feel like other games with a Doom theme. Even Doom 3, which was more horror than action, still felt like Doom. Because of that, I liked it, even if a lot of people didn’t.
- Comment on Ori Studio Head Says Review Bombing Might Force Studio Closure, Then Takes It All Back 2 weeks ago:
There was no review bombing.
- Comment on Nvidia RTX 5090 can crack an 8-digit passcode in just 3 hours — password cracking benchmarks show tremendous performance 2 weeks ago:
That depends on whether you believe in determinism.
Current CSPRNGs are good enough for our purposes.
- Comment on Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment 2 weeks ago:
That was a recent change, and it’s still anti-consumer. It’s an attempt to block class action suits.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t seem how threatening to brick a device is intended to help you sell more of them. Like I was seriously considering buying a Switch 2 even recently, but this is really the nail in the coffin. Why should I pay money for something that could stop working on their whims? Because it’s not like these measures have been 100% accurate in the past.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 weeks ago:
You could have said that about every Nintendo console since the NES, yet here we are.
- Comment on Nvidia RTX 5090 can crack an 8-digit passcode in just 3 hours — password cracking benchmarks show tremendous performance 2 weeks ago:
Specifically, a bcrypt hash with the cost set to 10, i.e. 32,768 iterations of hashing. If you are choosing an algorithm, consider Argon2id .
- Comment on Survey for curiosity: How many readers are in a library network that holds video games? 3 weeks ago:
There are multiple library networks in my area. I’m sure at least one of them does.
It’s sad to think that with physical copies going away, libraries won’t be able to loan them any more.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I never said that any birth rate was good or bad. I only said that if population increases, and currency supply does not increase, you will experience deflation (and that slight inflation is easier to achieve than aiming for balance and ending up too low).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s a separate problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Tell people to stop having more than 2.1 kids, then. As long as the population increases, without making changes to the currency supply, money is going to become more scarce. Keeping it exactly in line is impossible, so it’s better to keep a small amount of inflation.
- Comment on Half Life 3 3 weeks ago:
Tyler McVicker
Still nope. That guy just spins rumors for YouTube views.
- Comment on Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, this sounds fun! I would play this game.
Any kind of “action at a distance” would give you the feel you’re looking for.
- Comment on Silksong is playable in a museum this September, but that probably doesn't help narrow down its release date 3 weeks ago:
Unless they’re far from the chest, or at a normal distance.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 4 weeks ago:
There are so many games that have yet to even be thought of.
Oh yeah? Name one.