theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Discussion] Should Twitter links be banned from lemmy.world? 7 hours ago:
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 days ago:
Reading comprehension
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 days ago:
But saying that a country can’t do anything about espionage unless they pass that law is unrealistic.
Who said that?
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 days ago:
No I’m not conflating anything, you’re just moving the goalpost…
People can still do murder even though its illegal and most murders go unsolved, so we shouldn’t have laws making murder illegal
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 days ago:
I would expect a meaningful data privacy law would involve forcing the client software to be audited to ensure they aren’t collecting the information in the first place?
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 days ago:
They are while doing business in the USA
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 days ago:
They all suck, yeah. I think banning individual social media services is not the solution. The solution is to create meaningful laws that hold any company, Chinese or American, accountable for data privacy and misinformation/influence violations.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 days ago:
So what is considered perfectly fine for Facebook and Twitter to do, got it
- Comment on BRB, need more cheese 2 days ago:
Does velveeta count? Personally, I say no
- Comment on If a criminal says a cop planted drugs or whatever on them why don't they ask for a finger print test? And vice versa a cop could also request it to clear up everything? 5 days ago:
You don’t get to make requests lol
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 weeks ago:
I think he is wrong because being informed and aware of what has happened in the world does not equate to “mentally masturbating to disaster porn”. We do have a real problem with sensationalized media, but the solution is not to just be uninformed…
I sometimes hear similar logic as an argument against things like funding science research: “Why spend money and time on a deep space observatory? We can never get to those places in space anyway”
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 weeks ago:
It didn’t happen to me personally, so it’s fine! Stop paying attention!!
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- Comment on 84% of H-1B Visas Go to India and China: Is It a Scam in Disguise? 3 weeks ago:
I mean… they are more than 35% of the world’s population. And in order to grant visas, people must seek them. With cultural and socioeconomic factors, there is no reason to expect population from all countries to seek and be granted visas equally?
I wonder what the distribution looks like for the equivalent visas in europe and other countries besides the USA.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 3 weeks ago:
With minecraft, it allows you to select from different versions and modes of the game and set up your account.
- Comment on What do drain unclogging liquids actually do? 3 weeks ago:
Well, sometimes they create more problems than they supposedly solve.
This is really only the case if you use them incorrectly. Most people are not too bright
- Comment on What do drain unclogging liquids actually do? 3 weeks ago:
Lye definitely works, it’s just chemistry
- Comment on What do drain unclogging liquids actually do? 3 weeks ago:
They are caustic bases, like lye, and will eat through material that is causing a clog
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 month ago:
Fostering a society where violence is commonplace, bad.
Damn, I have some shocking and bad news about America and literally the entirety of it’s history
- Comment on Obsidian's new first-person RPG Avowed channels Baldur's Gate 3 in one key way: "The core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content" 1 month ago:
So what you’re saying is that it’s a valid comparison?
- Comment on The darkness of hell 1 month ago:
Wicked
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 2 months ago:
Team Fortress 2
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 2 months ago:
Have it on DVD
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 2 months ago:
youtu.be/fQBUu3J2USA?si=Uep27GNBx_s1ukwE
Kitchen fires are scarier than they are difficult to deal with, if you are prepared and remain calm. You can see in this video how quickly and easily you can contain and extinguish the fire with just a baking sheet or a pot lid. The real trouble happens when people panic or respond to the fire improperly, like splashing water onto it. It’s also smart to keep a small fire extinguisher in your kitchen, just in case.
There is also a lot of food that you can cook that will have little to no risk of causing a fire, although if you keep your kitchen clean and tidy, and use your stove burners on appropriate levels, there should be little risk of a fire anyway.
- Comment on Hidden razor blades 2 months ago:
Cost and quality
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 2 months ago:
That would help, but I doubt it would be as effective as a real air fryer that is actively blowing air while heating it, instead of just circulating it. An air fryer gets really loud because it is moving so much more air.
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 2 months ago:
I was like you once and believed a convention oven and air fryer are the same thing and produce the same results. But I was wrong!
There’s actually a subtle but crucial difference between an air fryer and a convection oven. A convection oven only circulates air around inside the oven, keeping the steam trapped with the food, while an air fryer actually removes all of the steam away from the food, allowing it to get much crispier much faster than is possible with a convection oven.
- Comment on Are there ways to use VR headset for realtime assistance? 2 months ago:
I think you’ll just be adding more problematic devices to troubleshoot…
- Comment on On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? 2 months ago:
I genuinely have no clue. I only ever have it once in a blue moon if I stop during a road trip and don’t have another option. I wish I had money to open a fast food place with because holy shit, how can you even fail, given what is successful???
It’s actually more expensive than other options, truly awful service, usually much slower than it was in the past (I’ve literally never gotten my food in a McDonalds in less than 30 minutes because they prioritize drive through and online orders), it tastes like shit and makes me feel like shit after I eat it.
- Comment on Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Smoking Barrels Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
Gunplay seems very bulletspongy
It is S.T.A.L.K.E.R… you compare it to fallout, is fallout not bulletspongy? This isn’t a PvP game, it is an open world RPG…
weapons seem very static and weightless
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general atmosphere is dull
AI enemies just run around like imbeciles and spray into the general direction of the player
Have you ever played a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title? SoC had literally revolutionary AI, where NPCs behaved in ways never before seen in video games prior, such as intelligently grouping, splitting up and flanking, scouring an area in a human-like-way instead of just walking to wherever you were and then giving up when you aren’t there, taking cover, reinforcing and covering each other, and applying grenades in actually useful ways. I mean yes, it was still a 2007 game, it definitely wasn’t perfect, and there was loads of wonkiness and weird NPC behavior that you could exploit, but at the time it was mind-blowing. Clear Skies took this idea even further and applied it faction-wide to the entire map, and suddenly you were dropped into a highly dynamic full scale war with shifting fronts and struggles over strategic objectives. Amazing AI is one thing that the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. titles are known for.
You can hear in the video ~1:24, an AI yells “Cover me, I’ll hide”. I’m guessing they included in this clip to hint and signal that this game will have the same kind of focus on great AI mechanics. In some of the indoor clips, you can see that the AI are actually taking cover during the fire fight instead of moving around. Even if they took the NPC AI code from Call of Pripyat and just directly shoved it into this game, it would 1) be nothing like what you just described and 2) be head and shoulders above NPC AI in even recent titles… I’d love to see some significant improvements and iteration still, though.
It just makes it look like this game was made for the sake of having a sequel
Hurray! Exactly what everyone was asking for! We just want more original S.T.A.L.K.E.R., yes, correct.
