WolfLink
@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 5 days ago:
There are situations where the charge carrier is positive (e.g. a positive ion flowing in a solution)
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 1 week ago:
Plenty of Steam games are DRM free and will launch just fine without Steam installed
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 1 week ago:
I too prefer to buy from GoG, but I often add my GoG games to be launched through Steam as non-Steam games so I can take advantage of features like Proton and Steam Input.
If I want to take advantage of certain features Steam only offers to games you buy through them, I will buy through Steam instead of GoG. Usually when I do this it’s for multiplayer or save file syncing reasons.
Steam features you can use with non-Steam games:
- provides SteamInput which allows me to use any game controller in any game with a lot of configuration options. It’s the best tool for that purpose I’ve ever seen.
- provides Proton for playing Windows games on Linux (and I do 99% of my gaming on Linux these days)
- provides VR headset drivers and tools for using different VR headsets with games not designed for them
- provides a TV and controller optimized interface (“Big Picture” mode)
Steam features exclusive to Steam games:
- updates games automatically
- backs up my saves and syncs them across devices
- provides multiplayer server infrastructure making it easy to play with friends
- provides modding infrastructure, although not all games use it
- provides tools for managing which version of a game you have installed
- Comment on 1 week ago:
When the weather is 100% hot outside how hot is it?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah you should definitely get that shot if nothing else.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The danger isn’t blood loss, it’s nasty bacteria getting deep in there. If you haven’t gotten a tetanus vaccine recently you really should go get that.
Other than that it’s probably fine but definitely keep an eye on it. I got a minor dog bite a few years ago and it was fine just treating it with neosporin and keeping it covered with a bandage.
- Comment on People need the truth 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve decided not to go after the golden strawberries in Celeste. The only other thing I’m missing is the moonberry.
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 3 weeks ago:
Notch sold the game to Microsoft long before it was ever a complete game.
I know it’s a bit fuzzy with Minecraft since it’s constantly getting updates, but I find the claim that Minecraft was “incomplete” before selling it to Microsoft is a big stretch.
Version “1.0” came out 3 years before the Microsoft sale, and at least to me, the game felt “complete” long before 1.0
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 4 weeks ago:
Mercury isn’t infinite, it just isn’t as broadly useful and valued as gold.
- Comment on Peak technology 1 month ago:
A Homestuck post in the wild in 2025?
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
Garbage
- Comment on Nat 20 1 month ago:
The Venn diagram of people who play D&D and people who get excited about fancy D20s is practically a circle
- Comment on should I go back to my old job now that several people, some of them more knowledgeable than me have told me they don't understand my decision to quit it? 1 month ago:
I’d just try to understand why they feel that way to make sure you aren’t missing anything.
Is it the pay cut? 20% sounds pretty significant to me but 2% isn’t, but in the end if you are making enough to live the way you want that’s all you need.
Is it the career path options? That can be more complicated, but if there’s nothing you would want from “climbing the ladder” that’s up to you.
- Comment on Games you played inside video games. 2 months ago:
In smash bros, turn the launch multiplier all the way up and turn on sudden death mode so everyone starts at 300%.
Go to one of a few levels (the underground area of Hyrule Temple works, the underground area of Skyworld is better, but it’s best if you make a custom stage)
Getting hit once will send you bouncing around the screen! You only ever loose if you get unlucky. It’s hilarious, and we call it “Pinball Mode”. I’ve made a couple custom stages to improve on the experience.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 2 months ago:
This is a pokemon if I’ve ever seen one
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 2 months ago:
I think for the Mac icons here I like the 2001 variant.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 2 months ago:
It peaked in 2006
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
I add non-Steam games to Steam just so I can use Steam Input for controller rebinding
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 months ago:
inb4 someone says “just try xyz!”
lol fair enough
I don’t have a smart TV.
Honestly where did you get one? When I was shopping for a TV a couple years ago I wanted to get one without any built in smart TV software and I could not find one
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 months ago:
- Comment on Feynman rules 2 months ago:
I think it’s more fundamental than that. He could talk about relativity and electrostatics and particle spin, but at some level the electromagnetic force is called a “fundamental force” because it’s one of the postulates we just kinda accept about the universe.
- Comment on Feynman rules 2 months ago:
To be fair: "A magnet works because negatively charged electrons repel each other. "
This is the Coloumbic (electrostatic) force, which is related to magnetism but this explanation would be insufficient to explain magnetism.
“… Well … Ok, so hear me out. You’re going to need to understand quantum mechanics and then the fermion principal. Then you’ll know that the electrons aren’t allowed to occupy the same space, and the easiest way to avoid being in the same space is to not touch each other. The electrons know they aren’t allowed to touch because they’ve studied fermions.”
This is the Pauli exclusion principle, which does act like a force, but is not the same as the electrostatic force or magnetism.
Magnetism is moving electrons repel/attract/affect each other depending on the direction they are moving.
The simplest explanation for that I know of is that force needs to exist alongside the electrostatic force for the motion of electrons to be consistent with relativistic time and space dilation effects.
And no, that’s not a simple explanation, and it requires explaining relativity, and at the end of the day the best explanation we’ve got for the electrostatic force is more or less “electrons repel each other because they do”.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
It’s much better for games that were designed around VR in mind.
Some of my personal favorite recommendations:
- Beat Saber
- Super Hot
- I Expect you to Die (trilogy)
- Half Life Alyx
- The Myst and Riven remakes
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
I just checked and I’ve gotten over 100 hours out of mine so far.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
Interesting. Optimizing the factory for your immediate current needs sounds very tedious, because those needs change all the time. I instead optimize for expandability and adaptability. The factory game genre isn’t for everyone, but if you are interested in some tips:
My solution is usually something like:
- really long line of basic resources (usually a belt of smelted copper and a belt of smelted iron, eventually adding more stuff and adding more belts of iron and copper as supplies are needed)
- when I need thing 1, I make a little package that builds it, drawing resources from the line with splitters so the excess can continue down the line
- thing 2 is an independent little package farther down the line
- When it’s time for thing 3, I build copies of the packages for building thing 1 and thing 2 as necessary to feed the construction of thing 3, again as separate feeds splitting off the main resource line
- when it’s time for thing 4, its again independent of the production of things 1-3, except they are splitting off the same main resource belt
- If the resources on the main belt are insufficient to feed all of those machines, one of three things needs to happen: 1. Add more raw resource processing until your belt is full and backed up at the beginning 2. If that’s not enough, upgrade the belt 3. If you don’t have a belt upgrade available, build another main resource line and use splitters to rebalance it onto the main line
This construction allows for easy expansion without having to destroy anything. I typically don’t disassemble anything unless it’s actually a problem for some reason or I need the space. This is especially important because you often need some basic components like the level 1 belts even into the late game.
Also, once you unlock robots, you can literally copy-paste, just select an area to upgrade all belts/arms/etc. in, and a lot of other neat tricks that drastically speed things up.
And one last peace of advice: Overproduce everything and let belts backing up balance out the resource distribution. Then if you discover that belts that previously were backed up are now sparse, figure out why and optimize it, usually by adding more production of whatever the missing resource is.
Ultimately throughput is all that matters. Loss of throughput because you don’t need something isn’t wasteful. Loss of throughput because you aren’t producing enough of something is a problem to solve. Things that don’t affect throughput don’t matter and aren’t wasteful.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
That’s funny, I love Slay the Spire, but I have mixed feeling about Balatro.
Balatro is addicting in that once I start playing I don’t want to stop, and yet after playing for a few hours I couldn’t say for sure I had fun at any point the whole time.
Playing Balatro feels like exploring the backrooms to me - just infinite bland nothingness.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
Yeah I’ve seen people try to balance things perfectly in factorio, but strat is always to overproduce and let belts getting backed up balance out the throughput.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided do a similar cyberpunk vibe to Cyberpunk 2077 but with better gameplay and plot IMO.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
I’m curious how you play factorio because when I played there was very little refactoring, just adding more and more onto the assembly line.
