NutinButNet
@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
- Comment on How does code that's meant to fix one bug break other features? 3 days ago:
This happens a lot in the same application’s code, let alone between two different pieces of software.
You wouldn’t believe how often I go in to fix something in an app I’ve built and end up breaking something else despite never directly touching that. Like I have a music player I built and I’ll go in to fix an issue affecting skips at the beginning of the song and when I go to test, I find that issue is fixed but now the whole app’s color scheme has changed or some other unrelated issue has appeared.
Code is very finicky and fragile and relies on specific conditions it expects. The removal of a space somewhere in the code can do a lot of damage you never thought possible. You think it’s just an empty space, who cares? Nope! The code is expecting that space and when it doesn’t see it, it throws a fit and shit breaks.
And when we’re talking about issues on the same system, these applications talk to the same things or each other enough that they have a similar effect. One application expects specific conditions and when it doesn’t find those, it spazzes out. Nvidia’s software was given explicit instructions on where it needs to go and what it needs to do. But if another application does something that interferes with those instructions, your Nvidia GPU will start acting up. The application unrelated to Nvidia wasn’t written by someone who is aware of what Nvidia is doing and so an issue appears. And then these developers work to figure out what happened and provide an update to fix.
You can see why you’ll have more issues the more software you add into your system that’s unrelated to each other.
It’s like hiring a bunch of professionals to work around your home but not explicitly telling them about each other. You hire a landscaper, an exterminator, a maid, a butler, a chef, a chauffeur, a contractor… and all of them come to your house on the same day every week. Each of them has a job to do and on your end, their jobs seem independent enough that they won’t be bumping into each other, but you forget about the little stuff that will cause interference. The maid wants to clean the living room, but your exterminator is chasing down a mouse right now and is gassing the living room. The maid starts working in there to clean up but doesn’t know about the gas and now she gets knocked unconscious and this causes the rest of your house to remain in a disorderly state. This is also not even taking into account any issues that can happen from one person that affect the whole home and everyone else indirectly like if the contractor was fixing the foundation but he uses dynamite and the whole house comes crashing down and now no one else is able to do anything.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 4 days ago:
Would love it if they just let these studios spin themselves off and not be bought up.
But that’s not going to happen.
I imagine a lot of talented and creative people work at these studios and have great ideas that non-gamer owners won’t greenlight and are holding them back, but they know what actual gamers want.
- Comment on If you slipped and fell into a waist-deep swimming pool, would you refuse to stand up and let yourself drown? 4 days ago:
Yes I would, now fuck off
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
Gotta be honest, I’d probably do the same here. There’s no room on the sides to take from the side to not make it noticeable like that. Kind of like a cream cheese container.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
People block you for a reason. Cut this stupid shit out
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think it will greatly depend on: 1. What device it is and who the manufacturer is 2. The country where it came from 3. The country it is currently in
Those 3 things will play a big role in how this all plays out.
A company like Valve may not behave like Nintendo would for a warranty claim like this. The European Union may have strict laws that protect customers regardless where the device was bought, if it’s there and it’s sold there, it’s treated like it was bought there (not saying that is how it is or Valve is better than Nintendo for these; just possibilities).
- Comment on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours 1 week ago:
Hopefully they get hit with a massive lawsuit and lose 😊
Just another reason I don’t want another console. Fuck these assholes.
- Comment on GTA 6 Reveals $80 Price Tag And Ultimate Edition Bonuses 2 weeks ago:
My hype was already at a low for GTA VI and I found that it could get lower.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone can give you an answer yet since the game has not officially released so no one has played to say whether it’s a good game or not, let alone if it’s worth the price they want.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 weeks ago:
Starfield. I mean, I didn’t really, really enjoy it, but it was fun to me. It has issues I can’t overlook, like wish we had more factions and more NPC settlements. Player created settlements do not full that void no matter what they add to the game. Hundreds of systems and only like 5/6 of them have major settlements that you can visit for actual quests. Aligning with the pirates is cool but then you’re only left with the Spacers as the only true enemy faction which sucks. I hate going to some world and there being friendly pirates. I wanted a firefight, not walk around and hear NPCs talk about being tough.
Bonus is Crackdown, the newest one with Terry Crews. I’m a big fan of the first game and semi liked the second, but the newest felt like a better return to the original without the dumb zombie invasion. Wish we had more gangs and all that. But open world mayhem as a supercharged cop is so much fun to me that I still go back and play the original in an emulator.
- Comment on Why are we so afraid of cockroaches? 3 weeks ago:
I had a similar but less severe experience when I was younger too.
I was standing at the refrigerator looking for something to eat when one of those fuckers ran out from under the fridge and ran up my leg under my pants.
+1 on all roaches dying.
- Comment on Over-Sensitive HP 3 weeks ago:
Their computers are crap too. At least the cheaper end ones that people fall for.
Oo a $200 Windows laptop!
Yeah, don’t. It should be illegal to sell those pieces of shit with Intel Celeron, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC soldered storage running Windows 11. You’ll be using 80% of CPU sitting at the desktop, 60% of RAM, and 20GB of free storage after removing the bloat of Windows 11.
I don’t know about their higher end computers, but I always hate when someone brings me one of these pieces of shit and asks me to help them set it up.
I am also reminded of trying to get support for one of our HP monitors at work. We bought 400 of the same model monitors for our offices and one of them ended up going out. A director had two of them sitting side by side on her desk and one of them started going out. We hadn’t had these things for a full year when this happened.
Contacted HP support and they wouldn’t do shit for me until I formatted Windows to “confirm” it was the monitor despite me already saying I’ve tried multiple computers, other cables, even HDMI and DisplayPort, and even going as far as different power cables and outlets…no. HP “support” said they wouldn’t honor their warranty unless I formatted the computer. I lied and told them I did just so I could get the warranty I was owed. Still wasn’t good enough. They needed to see the receipt and the receipt needed to have the serial number on it. wtf…we bought these in bulk. This isn’t fucking CVS where the receipt is the length of a new movie’s red carpet with all the serial numbers. “Sorry, can’t help you.”
Fuck HP.
- Comment on When making a game level in a modern engine, is the (main, static) level geometry big one model, or many smaller pieces? 4 weeks ago:
It depends on what you’re going for and how much time you want to spend on it.
If the bunker is far off in the distance from the player and they’re never meant to see it up close, you’re best off making one big 3D object that contains everything.
If you want to be more detailed, like you’re making a VR game and want realistic effects like what you see from Half Life Alyx, you’ll want to take your time and build the bunker into as many small pieces as you can. The player will likely be picking up objects and holding them and examining them, turning it around and looking at all sides. For best results, you’ll want each object to be its own thing built from the ground up.
But it really depends on what you’re aiming for. And Half Life Alyx is actually the exception for VR games. Most use very low quality assets and don’t put too much thought like Valve did. But if that’s what you’re aiming for, that’s your best bet.
It depends on how much time you want to spend, or money if you’re going to pay others to make the assets for you. Most solo devs aren’t putting that much effort or money into their project. A bigger team may do it.
As for the bunker itself, same deal here. Some people will build out the bunker into separate pieces. I’ve done this in some levels where I’ve taken 4 long rectangles to make a room rather than getting a solid rectangle room and then hollowing it out.
- Comment on I will never unsee the penis on my sons $0.50 sandal 5 weeks ago:
It’s upside down, it’s not supposed to be seen that way. Plus it’s obviously a heart with a health meter, even recognizable while upside down. It’s also made for kids who should be innocent enough not to have minds to recognize that sort of stuff. And it was $1, so you can’t expect the best quality or thought placed into every area and how things might appear to redesign. It’s most likely made in a sweat shop by kids in some south Eastern Asian country.
I’m not sure what’s mildly infuriating? It’s not like someone intentionally designed it that way.
- Comment on Why do people hate the Kardashians? 1 month ago:
Depends on who you ask, but I think the biggest reasons:
- they seem to have contributed to making people dumber indirectly. You see a lot of street videos of people asking questions like where is this state or that country and they can’t answer those questions but they can tell you almost anything about the Kardashians. Because of that, some people hate the Kardashians.
- they’re rich and have no worries. On one hand, you have some people who hate for jealousy and others who think it’s gross how rich these people are.
- the reason why they’re famous. On the one hand, the late father was one of the lawyers in the OJ Simpson case, but the real reason for their more recent fame comes from Kim doing a sex tape and getting famous off that. To some people, that’s gross and a stupid reason to be famous compared to someone else who finds a cure or does work in the community or just someone who actually worked for their fame like a movie star or famous writer.
- the Kardashians are kind of a nasty bunch of divas. I mean, if you have seen some of the clips, you can see that most of them are not really good people who care about other people but themselves and their fame. And the people they’re connected to aren’t the greatest people either which speaks more about who they are as a family.
- the fact that they are famous at all. To some people, it pisses them off that the Kardashians get a spotlight at all.
- scandals. Caitlyn Jenner is an extension of the family but the accident and death resulting from it and barely a slap on the wrist is worth hatred from some people. Scandals like those are among the family. You also have conspiracy theories like what happened to Lamar Odom’s death and some thinking they had something to do with it.
A whole lot of possible reasons depending on who you talk to.
- Comment on Marshall's new on-ear headphones look like a guitar amp and feature ANC 1 month ago:
Yeah I noticed that, especially with the noise canceling feature that doesn’t seem present on the older, cheaper model.
- Comment on Where are you supposed to put your eyes when you're not using them? 1 month ago:
I had the same “problem” and I’ve learned to just ignore those people. We were just being bored/curious which is natural for humans.
I think it’s older generations who were abused and trying to pass that off onto us as well.
Which is funny because staring at someone is rude. So either you be rude and stare at someone or you stare off into the void and let your mind wander.
I still do it. I don’t give a fuck.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 month ago:
Well he’s wrong because all console games eventually come to PC one way or another. He’s just ensuring they won’t be coming first under their control.
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 1 month ago:
I hear a lot of good things about Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. I have yet to really play it but it does have that feel to it form what little I played.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 1 month ago:
The first one was weird with VR because it worked very well at first and then broke later in its release. I was using a Windows MR headset which wasn’t officially supported but it worked, and their responses to players like me was “well it’s not supported so, tough luck.”
But like…it worked. Why not try to figure out what changed to break it?
But even last time I tried with my Meta headset, which I think should be supported, it’s the same behavior where it’s like you’re floating above the menu and you can’t actually play the game.
- Comment on Moss, One of VR's Best Series, Is Being Un-VR'd and Brought to PC and Consoles 1 month ago:
The Steam Frame has a good chance of changing that like the Steam Deck did for handheld computer gaming. Partly because it bridges the gap between PC gaming and handheld gaming because the early Rift and Vive were strictly PC based which excluded people who didn’t have the best gaming rigs and these headsets weren’t cheap either. And then Meta comes along as does Pico but they focus on handheld gaming which is cheaper but doesn’t allow the best graphics or long term games, more mobile style games than anything else.
But the Steam Frame has a chance to make a better bridge between the two since it is a PC at its core and runs Linux and doesn’t need a dedicated PC to play games.
I’m optimistic, anyway.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 month ago:
Nice portal gun hiding up on a shelf.
- Comment on New York lawmakers endorse Governor's plan to reduce car insurance premiums by making it harder for crash victims to seek compensation 1 month ago:
Okay so you get the promise of cheaper premiums for now….
Insurance companies of all types are greedy as fuck. This is temporary. This will get increased in the next 5 years, and I’m being conservative with that number because these slimy fucks will likely be trying to increase prices the next day after this goes into effect.
Supposedly you’ll get a cheaper premium today at the cost of not being reimbursed to make you whole tomorrow. So what happens when these same companies come back and want to increase your premium by $10? Are you now going to make parties whole by the same percentage? Likely not. And the cowardly government is just going to let them step on the public again.
And how does this work for out of state drivers in New York? You get into a wreck and you’re just fucked despite supposedly paying more than a New York driver who hit you?
- Comment on Dunno where else to post a gripe 1 month ago:
Lmao this is the future we all dreamed of as kids. Talking to an AI who’s only concern is your preferred pronouns than actually helping you with what you need 😂
- Comment on Why do old people's farts smell either like decomposition or sickly-sweet? 1 month ago:
I imagine a good chunk of it is due to the various medications they take. Whereas most younger people don’t take the same types of medications or in combinations.
- Comment on Leaked audio of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Slamming Remote Work 2 months ago:
He sounds like a tool. And I can’t get over him saying “I worked 7 days a week since Covid”. Bullshit.
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- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 2 months ago:
I think distance may be one of the biggest reasons why.
There’s a Papa John’s that is in my city but too far for their actual drivers to deliver to me, but those delivery apps list it as being a place that I can order from and get to my address. So while Papa John’s won’t let their drivers deliver to me, the delivery apps don’t have the same restriction.
- Comment on Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know? 2 months ago:
If I can’t make a U-turn completely, I don’t try to make it. I’ll go up until I find a place where I can like a dedicated left turn lane that does have enough space to do a U-turn or I find a driveway/business where I can safely do one, making sure no cops are nearby to ticket me if it illegal.
Or I’ll do the 3 left/rights to perform an alternative to a U-turn if it’s that busy of a city/town which can effectively get what you want in a different way. Takes a little bit extra, but is worth it to avoid a ticket or an accident.
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 2 months ago:
I’ve been playing for about 45 minutes so far and it has met my expectations for sure. First game I’ve bought on day 1 in a long time. Reasonable price + original idea + good features + reasonable requirements are such a rarity nowadays except in indie titles. This game plays at 60 fps on medium (good graphics and rarely dipping below 53 fps) on my Steam Deck. It’s fluid and flows great. I am enjoying the gameplay a lot. Feels like a classic shooter on the level of classic Bioshock and Doom with a great art style and atmosphere.