atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Lying motherfuckers 1 day ago:
You only need to do that if you are using an eink screen.
- Comment on Lying motherfuckers 1 day ago:
Click and drag the image. If the background goes with it, it isn’t transparent.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 days ago:
The CBS/Paramount app has always had so much tracking in it that it’s blocked by most PiHole like devices and software. Even if you pay for the no ads tier they still won’t play the video if they can’t hit the ad server.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 days ago:
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on that one. Personally, I think you are giving the Xbox far too much credit.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 days ago:
You clearly missed out on a whole era of shit like Pocket Tanks and Zuma.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 days ago:
When I think of the rise of indie gaming I think about the early 2000s when people could put their game on their own website and things like Steam were coming out. The Xbox doesn’t even cross my mind. Consoles were very much not the realm of indie games until like the Wii U.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 days ago:
The original meaning of indie was independently published. I would think having a publisher would pretty squarely put you in the not indie category.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 week ago:
If I let myself I will easily fall into a 28-30 hour cycle and end up only going through 5 or 6 “days” in a week.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 week ago:
When it didn’t go away when I was temporarily taken off my adhd meds as a teen. Before that they thought it was just because of the meds. That was apparently also the earliest indication that I would have adult adhd. If you have an adhd doc talk to them about it, it’s pretty common to have both.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 week ago:
I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome… light has no effect on me. Checkmate scientists!
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 weeks ago:
Bunch is made hams for Mac originally. The 2003 Mac version isn’t a port, It’s the original game. The PC and Xbox versions are the port. That’s why it feels like it’s behind those. Because it literally did have less development time despite coming out later.
They released another Halo for Mac a few years later that I think is the one the other commenter is talking about. It came out around the time of the MacBook Air and as a result is the only game I know of that has an official no-cd patch.
- Comment on A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game. 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of my first game, a Zelda arrow shooting clone that we built in Microsoft XNA. What was this built in?
- Comment on We have one at home 3 weeks ago:
Because the Xbox was built in secret while Microsoft and Sega collaborated on the Dreamcast. It’s actually somewhat compatible with Dreamcast games but MS never wanted to allow that feature.
Also the Duke is the only comfortable controller I have ever used.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 4 weeks ago:
It’s weird, there is a long history of these kinds of games getting a console release going all the way back to SimCity for Super Nintendo. IIRC it could optionally use the Mario Paint mouse.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 weeks ago:
They have always been this way:
Although Sony ultimately did not win any of its lawsuits against them, Bleem! had to shut down when the huge court costs became too much for the small company to handle. Bleem! shut down in November 2001…
- Comment on UK union accuses GTA maker Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise 5 weeks ago:
Looks like it was a brand new account too.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what problems that would lead to. Lenovo is a big part of the reason I think it’s Motorola.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
I still think it’s Motorola.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
That’s only the Cavendish, there are other varieties of banana. I was recently in Hawai’i and got to try an Apple Banana that had been grown there.
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 1 month ago:
- Comment on Who haunts your home? 1 month ago:
This is cool but it shows where tribes are now, not where they were before removal.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 1 month ago:
Just for clarification the Wii, Wii U, 360, and PS3 all used the Cell Broadband Engine which is a PowerPC derivative. The original PowerPC was made by the AIM Alliance which stands for Apple, IBM, Motorola. Apple and Motorola had a long history of collaboration as all Apple machines had used Motorola processors up to that point.
- Comment on Want to avoid AI gen on Steam? This browser userscript might save your day 1 month ago:
I’d rather play an ugly game with crappy art made by a human. I genuinely don’t understand this “but it isn’t pretty” mentality.
- Comment on Fucking math... 1 month ago:
That’s because elevators use counter weights usually equal to the weight of the car and half the occupancy load so that it takes less energy to lift it and if it falls for any reason it won’t hit the bottom as long as the counter weights are still attached. The occupancy load is determined by the counter weighting system not the cable load capacity.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Do they not have soles? It looks like you can see through to the top on the first picture.
- Comment on Amazon advertises DRM-free ebooks that have restrictive DRM 🤦 2 months ago:
Dell and other companies are now using Amazon’s RTOS for their firmware. You could cut every Amazon branded device out of your life and still be giving them money just by buying a laptop.
- Comment on Remember the past 2 months ago:
I was just never with it.
- Comment on Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo 2 months ago:
The Lost World (the second movie) is also based on a book by Michael Crichton [pronounced cry-ton], but it diverges from the book even more than the first movie.
It’s worth a read, as is Disclosure by the same author (pretty much all of his books are good).
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 months ago:
No, it’s not a real photograph. It says so in the photograph.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 months ago:
It’s super cool that we can still see it even though the photograph isn’t real.