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- Comment on SuperTuxKart is moving to Godot Engine 2 days ago:
I guess, they noticed:
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- Comment on i just wanna live 4 days ago:
Same. What we refer to as “centipedes” also looks a lot more like millipedes with less legs. So, their body is longer and the legs shorter.
- Comment on Bouyancy 6 days ago:
I think, the seagull that sits on the floating manatee is called Evelyn. But yeah, a bit confusing…
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, I wasn’t trying to say that Luanti had an incredibly original thought with volumetric lighting. There’s been (pre-resource-pack) volumetric lighting mods for Minecraft probably already a decade ago. I was rather just wondering, when the proof of concept has existed for a whole decade, why do they decide to include it now. It probably would have worked well even on weaker phones three years ago already…
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed 1 week ago:
Huh, half a year after Luanti introduced volumetric lighting. I find it hard to believe that Microsoft execs watch out for what Luanti does, but maybe a whole bunch of Android re-packagings of Luanti suddenly looked a whole lot better than Minecraft and that got through to those execs…? It’s a bit of a strange coincidence, at least.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 week ago:
Well, vegan foods with lots of proteins include: Beans, lentils, peas, nuts, peanuts, tofu, soy.
Personal favorites are red lentils (cook pretty quickly and don’t need to be soaked before) and pre-cooked white beans (I just have a jar of those in the fridge and will scoop a spoonful into all kinds of meals).Proteins are cool, because they stick around in your stomach for a while, but they’re bad at filling you up. For that, salads and veggies are the best. Sometimes, I’ll eat an entire bowl of salad, which is not a lot of calories, but still fills me up.
I would also recommend slowly changing your diet over. Your gut microbiota need time to adjust to a different diet. If you don’t give them that time, they can kill your will pretty effectively.
- Comment on Any Xbox 360 Can Now Be Hacked with Just a USB Flash Drive 2 weeks ago:
I’m actually aware of the difference, but would also argue that this difference isn’t that big. If you have to bypass security mechanisms to be able to use hardware as you please, that doesn’t sound to me like you actually own it.
- Comment on Any Xbox 360 Can Now Be Hacked with Just a USB Flash Drive 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was gonna say: Oh, like most laptops then? If the hard drive is not encrypted, you can just boot a different OS to access what’s on the hard drive…
- Comment on "Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps" 2 weeks ago:
Honey bees also actively take pollen back to their hive, meaning relatively little of it is spread to other flowers. They’re also often involved pollen theft, where they take pollen, but don’t spread it appropriately at all.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 weeks ago:
Those are classifications made by humans. Nature doesn’t have a concept for sexes and even less so for syndromes. If it became evolutionarily advantageous to have a dick and a vagina, nature would be onto that.
- Comment on Ocean Hedgehogs 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia says hedgehogs are called that, because they live in hedges, not because they look like one…
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake Will Reportedly Be Revealed Soon, and Released Not Long After That 2 weeks ago:
Well, I mainly mean that they’d need to put in quite a lot of work to make the existing Oblivion mods work with it or to develop a new modding API. I doubt, they’d put that much work in for a cash grab remaster/remake.
I mean, I have heard of some weird constructs before, where games used their own engine for physics and whatnot, and only used Unreal for rendering. If that makes sense for them to do, that would preserve support for most mods.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake Will Reportedly Be Revealed Soon, and Released Not Long After That 3 weeks ago:
The thing is, the age of the engine doesn’t say anything. The Unreal Engine started its development before 1998. But you do have to put in work to upgrade an engine over time and Bethesda doesn’t have Fortnite money for that.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake Will Reportedly Be Revealed Soon, and Released Not Long After That 3 weeks ago:
If it is in Unreal, that’s going to be interesting. Presumably, mod support is out the window then.
- Comment on Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" 3 weeks ago:
Damn, the buildings in that screenshot do look like the terrible assets you got in simulator games ten years ago…
- Comment on Autistic woman wrongly detained in mental health hospital for 45 years 4 weeks ago:
If we don’t get bullied for being different or locked up in solitary confinement, then our mental health is generally fine…
- Comment on Autistic woman wrongly detained in mental health hospital for 45 years 4 weeks ago:
I think, they misunderstood the “mental health” and thought they were supposed to fuck that up as much as possible.
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 4 weeks ago:
My impression is that it is certainly a lot worse in the US than here in Germany. I imagine the abundance of guns means that being a cop is fucking dangerous, which means they will get uneasy in conflicts quite logically, but also that it’s not exactly a job you go for, if you have aspirations in life. I mean, why would anyone voluntarily become a cop in the US, if not to abuse your power?
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 4 weeks ago:
I mean, they do have an appendage to manipulate things, but a species that breaks our expectation is ants. In the plural, that is. We typically assume intelligence to be an individual trait. That you need to use tools, because you are an individual. Meanwhile, ants exceed our ability to collaborate in many ways. As such, they even build bridges, not with tools, but rather with more ants.
- Comment on nets 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I simultaneously want to comment that the left panels are a wild fantasy, as I’ve never seen an actual human say that we should focus on plastic straws. As far as I can tell, that’s propaganda put into the world by companies trying to discredit genuine efforts.
But at the same time, it’s not even like you have to focus on straws. You can simply not use them, because it is just a stupid concept to produce something that’s immediately trash, and then also go and do other things in life. Believe it or not, most activities in life don’t involve straws.
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 5 weeks ago:
There’s a local store, where you can bring your glass jars and they fill you up with all kinds of dry foods. Since I’ve started buying there, I’ll look in normal stores specifically for products that come in decent-looking jars. 🙃
- Comment on What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too. 5 weeks ago:
“Server” is a really terrible word. There’s server software, which is often referred to as just “server”. And then there’s hardware, which happens to run server software, so it also gets referred to as “server”. There’s also hardware that’s specifically built for the purpose of running server software, so even if it does not currently do so, folks would likely still refer to it as “server”.
But yeah, in principle you can run server software on your desktop PC or even your phone, and then someone might refer to that hardware as “server”.
So long as it serves something on a networking port, you can technically call it a “server”. - Comment on Morrowind game engine OpenMW gearing up for a huge new 0.49 release 5 weeks ago:
Alright, I just looked it up, so I don’t talk nonsense and apparently, what I assume to be most mods, will work directly with OpenMW. Mods that require MWSE, MGE or MCP won’t, though: openmw.org/faq/#mods
Here’s also a guide for modding OpenMW: modding-openmw.com
- Comment on Morrowind game engine OpenMW gearing up for a huge new 0.49 release 5 weeks ago:
For experiencing Morrowind in its original form, I would definitely say OpenMW is the best way to do that. It works well on modern operating systems, allows playing in higher resolutions and has some quality of life improvements, like greater rendering distance and practically no loading times.
Some folks prefer to mod it, and I’m not really up-to-date on that, but I assume there’s still more mods out there, which target the original engine…
- Comment on Observer 5 weeks ago:
Specifically, because it’s non-vital information for the average person, I really do not think you can blame anyone for merely learning about it through memes. But I do also think this problem is much greater than just memes. I did not receive a better explanation during high school, despite opting for more advanced physics classes and us repeatedly telling our teacher that it makes no sense to us. I have to assume that our teacher did not know either. As such, I got the impression that more advanced physics is just devoid of any actual logic, which was a major factor why I decided against pursuing it further in college. Reading a proper explanation under a stupid meme, could’ve made the difference for me.
- Comment on Observer 5 weeks ago:
Lots of folks get their superficial education from memes and will be mislead by this…
- Comment on Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser 1 month ago:
I have no idea, if it’s any good, but apparently this exists: content.luanti.org/…/aw_personaje_anthro/
I believe, you could in principle use any Blender model, although I’m guessing, they’d need to match in terms of animations. I’m not deep into either Luanti modding or Blender, so not sure how it works together, but here’s some documentation describing it: docs.luanti.org/models/using-blender/
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
The SSN is likely to appear in multiple tables, because they will reference a central table that ties it all together. This central table will likely only contain the SSN, the birth date (from what others have been saying), as well as potentially first and last name. In this table, the entries have to be unique.
But then you might have another table, like a table listing all the physical exams, which has the SSN to be able to link it to the person’s name, but ultimately just adds more information to this one person. It does not duplicate the SSN in a way that would be bad. - Comment on Sploosh 1 month ago:
It just fills in the gaps with a whole lot of imagination, not too different from how a human would. Unless it has access to a more detailed picture or contextual information, it cannot extract more information than was actually captured.
- Comment on Is Civilization 7 not fun? 1 month ago:
Yeah, its game mechanics are very similar to Civ5, which is still considered one of the high points in the Civ series. And it does reproduce them quite well, so I do think that can give you a good impression, if Civ is for you.