WolfLink
@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 2 days ago:
This feels relevant: The Device has been Modified by Victims of Science a song made of quotes from Portal.
- Comment on flouride 2 days ago:
The fluoride is intentionally added to the water to improve tooth health.
- Comment on Petrichor 4 days ago:
There absolutely are petrichor scented things
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 6 days ago:
Minecraft FTL Destiny 2
- Comment on USA President term limits 1 week ago:
Or the Supreme Court makes something up about why it doesn’t count
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 1 week ago:
I’m really not sure where I originally read it. I did some digging and I found some discussion about FLAC and patent trolls on a few forums, including the Talk page of the Wikipedia article, but I haven’t found anything concrete.
It might be that the patent troll thing was just a rumor!
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 1 week ago:
Apple made ALAC as an alternative to FLAC due to the dubious licensing around FLAC at the time.
- Comment on spite 1 week ago:
The paper has at least 35 other sources it is citing.
- Comment on Why are most mobile games trash? 1 week ago:
I played through the entirety of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within on my phone. That was a feature length PS2 game.
Other feature length games with decent ports I know of:
- Transistor
- Bastion
- Ace Attorney
- Myst
- Riven
- Minecraft
- Terraria
- Comment on What would it feel like passing through a wormhole? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine you are falling, but someone hooks something onto your feet, and attaches it to a rocket that shoots downwards at a speed far faster than you are falling at, so fast that it rips your legs off.
That’s what spaghettification is. One part of your body is being pulled in so much harder than the other part of your body that it rips you apart.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
“Anti-pornography” specifically means “anti-LGBT”.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 3 weeks ago:
10% if
- Comment on (In Python) Can you save an object that is in memory to disk and reload it at a later time? 3 weeks ago:
What is the “executable” in this context? I’m kinda confused as to what you are looking for.
What’s wrong with parsing the input files at runtime? Is it performance? Do you want one file to load instead of multiple?
Many have suggested pickle, which is kinda what you are asking for, but on some level it’s not much different from parsing the input files. Also, depending on your code, you may have to write custom serialization code as part of getting pickle to work.
Note that pretty much every modern game is a bundle of often multiple pieces of executable code alongside a whole bunch of separate assets.
- Comment on Why do some folks insist they'll only listen to their doctors? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t believe everything on the internet is a lie (although of course I don’t believe everything on the internet is true either). You have to read it and judge for yourself.
In the case of getting medical advice, there is an inherent bias to finding anecdotes on the internet. The people who post are going to be the people who have something to say. That’s going to be either people who had a life changing positive experience, or who have something to complain about. The middle-ground experience is underrepresented.
However, there is value in anecdotes. The doctor can tell you high likely a given side effect might be, but people on the internet might have a better description of what that experience is like.
I try to take in as much information as I can when I am making an informed decision, including things like asking my doctor, finding anecdotes on the internet, and finding actual scientific papers.
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 3 weeks ago:
In a disaster situation they have to decide who does or doesn’t get treatment:
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 4 weeks ago:
All (or at least the vast majority) of Ubisoft’s Steam releases require installing and using Ubisoft’s launcher.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 5 weeks ago:
He learned to magic because he thought it would let him fix his hands. Instead he learned the guy who he thought fixed his legs with magic just uses magic to control his non-functional legs.
So he probably could do surgery but he’d probably magically control the needle instead of holding it or something. Maybe.
- Comment on Altered the timeline 5 weeks ago:
TLDR from the actual interview with her:
- She did lose the internship. He did try to get it back for her but it didn’t work.
- She eventually ended up working for Boeing, but on commercial jet engines rather than space stuff.
- they called her to rescind her internship while she was at her brother’s wedding
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The ganon fights from Wind Waker and Skyward Sword are similarly cinematic!
- Comment on Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM 5 weeks ago:
Wdym “quarks centralize mass to one point” they are beholden to the probability clouds of quantum mechanics just as much as any other subatomic particle
- Comment on Carb Party! 5 weeks ago:
Most of what makes toast unhealthy is the assumption that you put some sort of topping on it.
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 1 month ago:
You can also just Photoshop or edit the page source to make it say whatever you want
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 1 month ago:
If you do every sidequest you will be massively overleveled.
If you go to an area where “you are not supposed to go yet” you’ll be massively under leveled.
I’ve heard there are mods that just even everything out so you can play the game at your own pace.
- Comment on What is the current best smart TV software/brand/ecosystem option? 1 month ago:
You pay for it in the data they collect from you and the ads they show to you.
- Comment on Having fun with text scams 1 month ago:
I’ve had someone repeatedly put my email as their spouse’s email in important situations. I’ve replied multiple times asking them to stop but they keep doing it.
I have the same name as their spouse, but you’d think you’d know your spouse’s email, or at least talk to them about it when you get a reply saying it was the wrong email!
- Comment on Science fact 1 month ago:
No this post was the correct location. Don’t second guess yourself. You were always meant to be here.
- Comment on Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player 1 month ago:
Co-op > singer player >>>>>>>>>> pvp
- Comment on Aah 1 month ago:
Idk what the “learning curve” is. It’s not really harder to use than Photoshop for basic things IMO. If you want fancy AI tools Photoshop is better but GIMP does have some.
- Comment on Deadlocked is one of the funnest games I've played in a while 1 month ago:
By “Overwatch” I meant the original Overwatch. I stopped playing shortly before Overwatch 2 came out and I never played Overwatch 2.
- Comment on Deadlocked is one of the funnest games I've played in a while 1 month ago:
I enjoyed Overwatch. League of Legends always feels awful to play. Deadlock feels way more like League of Legends than Overwatch to me.