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- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
Yeah, extremely cheesy way of putting it: The best work position is the next one.
I.e. don’t stay in one position for a long time, but rather switch it up regularly.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
I’m always surprised to hear people believe in ghosts, not because I consider it particularly ridiculous, but rather because ghosts have no relevance in my life. I don’t need them to exist to explain what’s happening around me.
Every few years or so, I might hear a noise where I don’t have an explanation, but that always feels adequately explained by me not knowing things. I’m constantly surrounded by living beings as well as materials that are subject to gravity, temperature, humidity etc.. Occasionally, they’ll make noises quite naturally.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
Their point is that one could come up with a billion hypotheticals for what might theoretically exist, because we cannot disprove it. If we spent as much time humming and hawing whether each one actually does exist as we do for ghosts, souls, gods, Big Foot etc., then you won’t be doing anything else in life.
That’s why it’s a typical position to just say that they don’t exist until proven otherwise.Or in the more general sense, this is Occam’s Razor: If there’s multiple possible explanations for something, then one should assume the simplest explanation until proven otherwise.
And if you hear a door slamming shut in your house, then wind is a much simpler explanation than ghosts. - Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 1 week ago:
I would guess that the units used in smoke alarms and microwaves generally have integrated drivers that only operate at a single frequency.
Yeah, you could more easily create a rhythm than a full melody. If you get a few devices, which beep at different frequencies each, you could do a lot more by having them beep in succession and in intervals.
Of course, this requires that they’re roughly in tune, which may not be the case at all. 🥴
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
To be fair, Sarah Bond was in a similar position and is a woman of color, too.
- Comment on Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, for some reason I thought the title was going to end with:
by boosting software and network service efficiency.
Of course, they’re just talking about offsetting the costs, not actually about reducing them. 🫠
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was thinking that recently when I realized I’ve known
the crazy plot twist in Star Wars
(Luke’s daddy issues)
for as long as I can remember.
I’ve also known
so many iconic characters and scenes
(Yoda, R2D2, Chewbacca, the metalkini, C3PO, when they boop the Death Star etc.)
before I was even old enough to watch the movies, too.
I’m sure they’re cool movies, with lots of cultural relevance, but they’ve been spoiled in every possible way for me, specifically because the older generation loves them so much that they can’t shut up about them.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
No worries, I find plenty opportunities to remind myself of that. Currently playing a troll of Xom, because I’m dumb. And one time, the jackass teleports me into the middle of the fortress in Elf:2. Had to read 3 teleport scrolls, because they kept teleporting me just to different parts of the fortress, since I guess that fortress is quite large.
Apparently, I was too panicked to take a screenshot of that, but here’s another fun one from Xom’s teleportation shenanigans:
The most brutal part is that he always teleports you a variable number of times and you never know for sure, whether he’ll stop there, so I also have a version of that screenshot with
–more–at the bottom, where I still had hopes that he’d port me back out of there. He did not. 🫠 - Comment on 2 weeks ago:
To be honest, the main reason I linked to that wiki page is that I had opened it to try to find out whether orbs of mayhem are still in the game. 🙃
Would not have surprised me, if they tweaked the design a bit with 0.34 and then gave them a different name, but at the same time, well, I did just describe that they have upsides and downsides, which is how the devs like to design things…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve kind of stopped opening crystal doors until I’ve cleared at least another floor. I’m not sure, if you still get the same total XP when you do that, but just died a few too many times from crystal vaults…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
For monster infighting, there’s also orbs of mayhem. But yeah, somewhat of a risky option. You can’t really control which monsters are affected and they can still decide to attack you, and the affected monsters get buffed. 😅
- Comment on Why am I able to edit communities that don't belong to me? 2 weeks ago:
Python goes brrr… 🫠
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, then you should get a mod for that. I can absolutely understand your qualm. Morrowind came out in an era when RPGs were still computerized DnD, and that’s a design decision which aged particularly poorly.
Admittedly, it was also perhaps just a bad design decision in general. In DnD, you don’t either roll a dice for each sword hit. Nor are you able to miss an enemy from just not being near enough. At the very least, they could’ve played a different sound, if your sword connects, but does no damage.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it is the green bar. And yes, it drops from attacking.
As has already been said, stamina potions are often quite worth it. But it also helps, if you switch to walking for approaching an enemy, for example (instead of running). If you’re sprinting across the landscape and get ambushed unexpectedly, then yeah, the game punishes you for being exhausted.
In general, Morrowind is much more roleplay than the later parts. You can optimize the fun out, by waiting around until your stamina recovers, every so often. But the game gives you enough opportunities to become filthy rich and overpowered, so that you shouldn’t need it.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Speaking of the combat, I can’t say i’m a fan. Maybe there’s something i’m missing but it’s definitely a lacking point of it. I just find myself jabbing at the enemies until either one of us drop dead.
One thing that’s perhaps not obvious from today’s viewpoint, is that stamina affects your hit chance quite a bit.
It is also a good idea to be rather skilled in your weapon of choice.
And of course, the real pro tip is to install a mod which changes the hit feedback. 😅
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 3 weeks ago:
Here in the Ger of Many, you can buy scouring agents which are branded as “scouring milk” (Scheuermilch), but oat milk is where we draw the line, apparently.
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 3 weeks ago:
I’m open for counterarguments, but I always felt this was a silly way of looking at things. You cannot measure stuff at the quantum level without significantly altering what you measured. (You can never measure without altering what you measured, since we typically blast stuff with photons from a light source to be able to look at it, but for stuff that’s significantly larger than photons, the photons are rather insignificant.)
As such, you can look at measuring quanta in two ways:
- Either the quantum had the state that you end up measuring all along. It is only “undetermined”, because strictly nothing can measure it before you do that first measurement.
- Or you can declare it to have some magical “superposition”, from which it jumps into an actual state in the instant that you do the measurement.
Well, and isn’t quantum entanglement evidence for 1.? You entangle these quanta, then you measure one of them. At this point, you already know what the other one will give as a result for its measurement, even though you have not measured/altered it yet.
You can do the measurement quite a bit later and still get the result that you deduced from measuring the entangled quantum. (So long as nothing else altered the property you want to measure, of course…) - Comment on it's a long distance relationship 3 weeks ago:
The analogy that makes most sense to me so far, is this:
You rip a photograph in half and put both halves into envelopes. Now you send one of the envelopes to your friend in Australia. You open the other envelope. Boom! Instantaneous knowledge of what’s in the envelope in Australia. Faster than light!!!In quantum terms, you “rip a photograph in half” by somehow producing two quanta, which are known to have correlated properties. For example, you can produce two quanta, where one has a positive spin and the other a negative spin, and you know those to be equally strong. If you now measure the spin of the first quantum, you know that the other has the opposite spin.
- Comment on Not So Far 🚦 3 weeks ago:
Used to drive along a road where you would always get stuck behind a truck sooner or later, with no way to overtake for many kilometers. Whether it was sportscars or suicidal van drivers or me keeping a steady pace, everyone always got stuck behind the same damn truck.
Really would’ve liked a radio intercom thingamabob, to tell people that we can save fuel by going 10 under and still get stuck behind a truck in due time.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 3 weeks ago:
Capsaicin (the chemical that causes the heat sensation in chilis) is soluble in oil, so it can definitely play a role.
- Comment on Not that limit 3 weeks ago:
In my experience with maths, there’s a whole bunch of different conventions all over the place, so it might’ve genuinely been how they were taught, even if you were taught differently…
- Comment on Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, that was my assumption, for sure, too. I was just playing devil’s advocate for the trenchcoat theory, because it’s funny.
- Comment on Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat 3 weeks ago:
I mean, probably happens a lot that the bones of different dinosaurs end up next to each other.
Would it happen for every T-Rex fossil in the same way? Well, less likely…
- Comment on Social Contracts 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Well, there might’ve been some change that made it even more like the original, which could’ve prompted such a title either way…
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I mean, there’s already Starbound…
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I would still call it virtually the same game, especially since they didn’t even bother to fix lots of awful bugs.
But I think, we can both agree that Morrowind would need a significantly larger overhaul, if you wanted to make it feel ‘modern’. You’d need voice acting. Perhaps optional quest markers. Well, and the combat system would basically need reimplementing from scratch.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 4 weeks ago:
For PC, there’s already OpenMW to do that: openmw.org
Basically, it’s a fan reimplementation of the Morrowind engine, which you feed the original game files into. It also has a number of improvements over the original, like higher resolution, higher view distance and virtually no loading times.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 4 weeks ago:
We could start sending radio waves there and if something happens to be alive there, the response wouldn’t arrive until 300 years from now. 🫠
- Comment on Why do onions and chips keep washing up on England’s south coast? Here’s the science 4 weeks ago:
Huh, so that’s how you guys came up with fish & chips…
