MrFinnbean
@MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 2 weeks ago:
Hunting old or sick animal that cant reproduct does not effect that.
Hunting unstable animal that kills younglins of other males only helps with this.
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 2 weeks ago:
When was the last time you donated money for animal sanctuary?
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 2 weeks ago:
And you could volunteer at the homeles shelter.
The way these things work, is that the people working in these places identify problem animals, like infertile males that prevent the herd, or pack or pride or what ever growing, unusually agressive animals, animals with genetic faults that could be hereditary etc etc. Basically anything that could hinder the the population of the endangered or vulnerable species. These animals are hard or impossible to relocate because most places dont want to take these problem animals in, because they generaly are bad where ever they are. I mean what zoo wants lion that kills anything they see or what animal sanctuary wants rhino that kills anything it can catch?
The park rangers could very easily kill the animals them self, but running these animal sanctuarys is very expensive so its better if they find some rich dude that is willing to pay ridicilous amount of money to do it for them.
The rich dude them self isint necessary a philantropist, but the money they spend goes to local economy and is often used for things like security against poachers, vetenarians and infrastructure.
Its easy to think that killing any exotic big game is always bad, but in reality the targets are always chosen carefully.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 weeks ago:
- I don’t think we should try to re-introduce those games to new audiences
Well if we disagree on this deep fundamental level i dont think we can have real discussion about this, as my personal opinion is that stories i love should be made as easy as possible for people to reach. Like i would love people to read book Kalevala, but its written in old Finnish so i think its completelly fine for make the book more easily approachable for the masses by translating it to todays English, even if it looses a lot by turning the writing to prose.
- A remake by definition I just want to say there is no real definition for remake.
if we spend resources on remakes (and sequels) then we are robbing the current generation from having their own formative experiences. I want to see new IPs come out that try new and different things and move the medium forward.
This goes more to the business end too. Its not zero sum game and making remakes dont mean companies stop making new games.
Like activision tasked Vicarious vision to make Crash remakes and because those did allright they were comfortable to let Toys for Bob make comoletelly new Crash game. The remake indruduced the Crash games to new audience. Without that push the new game would most definedly did worse than it did. (It was profitable, but not as much as investors wished).
Same with resident evils. Both remakes and new installations are being produced at the same time and they help to make the engine better everytime.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 weeks ago:
I must disagree.
Like while i can still fully enjoy old resident evil games, because i have nostalgia for the i fully understand why people who are born after they have been made would be put of by them.
By remaking those games they could indruduce the game to whole new audience who would never play the yanky outdated versions.
More extreme example. I would love to have modernised version of Betrayal at Krondor. It had good story. The core gameplay and world was great and there was intresting mechanics, but it was released 1993, so it by modern standards it looks like garbage and the ui is very unintuitive.
Most gamers now will never experience that story and those who do, will not get the same experience i got, because they will look everything in the game as a product of its time and the focus will be on the retro aspect, not on the game it self.
- Comment on Future 2 weeks ago:
I must missread something somewhere. I put much more weight on the terror side than the accident side.
If i was a civic engineer and a law maker and i would need to start making infra for flying cars, cities would be no fly zones, outside of dedicate “roads” that can be designed in so there is minimal danger to others in the case of crash. There would need to be dedicated flight height. These could be enforced similiarry than rentable electricscooters are now, so if driver would drive on a no fly zone or at wrong height the car would slow down. These would need to be build in things from the manufactorer. These no flight zones would also be near anything dangerous like energy plants, airports, military instalations etc etc.
We have allready things like automatic braking because pedestrians or deer or other cars. These would need to be supercharged so the vehicles do not let people drive to close other people or buildings.
Then things like harhers punishments for breaking the traffic law, more strict inspections for the vechicles and own permint for driving flying cars, that is prerequisite to buy a car and if you loose it, you cant keep the car, or there needs to be a mechanism where the car is made earhbound only.
Clear idea that flying is not a right, it is a responsibility.
- Comment on Future 2 weeks ago:
- Nobody
- I just wanted to calculate stuff for fun.
Talking about the danger. Cars can allready be driven to masses and many houses or businesess dont have any guard railings protecting them from normal cars, but we dont see those happening that much. Why it would suddenly change, by adding additional dimension.
Also small planes are not really that hard to come by. Why we dont have those driving in to buildings now?
Also doing “mini-9/11” would most certainly kill or atleast hospitialize the driver. I can somehow understand giving your live for cause you support and cause the enemy lot of pain, but i think there would be much higher treshold to give a life for something that is very unlikely to do anything but structural damage and hurt your self.
More likelly would be crashing while driving under influence, but i would imagine there would be higher treshold for anybody to fly drunk than drive drunk.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 2 weeks ago:
Oh i did not know we are adding new requirments to the conversation.
Well your comment does not count because you did not write it while standing on your hands. Bucko.
- Comment on Future 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. This sounds like maths.
Quick google search say that averag plane weights are about 40 000 kg for small jets, 70 000kg for narrow-body planes and up to 570 000 kg for large wide-body planes.
While average car weight is somewhere in the 2000 kg mark.
If the dreams of flying cars come to trough the way most scifi/cyperpunk depicts them and the flight speeds would be at the similiar range than driving on the street.
So lets be generous and say flying cars would be much hevyer and weight 3000kg and the flight speed would max 175 km/h wich is pretty much the max speed for regular cars.
Lets go with the average plane so Weight is 70 000kg and flight speed is 930km/h
So maths:
E = 0.0386 * m * v^2
Car: E = 0.0386 * 3 000 * 175^2 ≈ 3.5MJ
Plane: E = 0.0386 * 70 000 * 930^2 ≈ 2.3GJ
So you would need about 670 cars to get same impact as one plane.
*all the numbers came from google-fu and from my ass. Also all the maths was done while sitting on a toilet, so there is large margin for error.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 2 weeks ago:
Isint “good game” little vague description? Are you the president what is good?
And the point is that there are thousands of games to choose from, but you bitch that there are only live service shit on the market.
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (2023) Remnant 2 (2023) Rise of the Ronin (2024) Hades II (2025) Pragmata (2026)
- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 2 weeks ago:
And i dont like Elden Ring or Nindendo, but those were all big releases.
I just find it funny when people complain about something and when given proof that they are not correct they start to move the goal post.
Ie. List that contains only small portion of recent non live service games --> “well i dont like some of them”
- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 2 weeks ago:
Yeah modern games all have live service elements and you cant find any good games!
Just ignore these: Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023) Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (2023) Starfield (2023) Hogwarts Legacy (2023) Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) Alan Wake 2 (2023) Black Myth: Wukong (2024) Dragon’s Dogma 2 (2024) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024) Metaphor: ReFantazio (2024) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (2024) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025) Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (2025) Donkey Kong Bananza (2025)
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
*Bypassed
Works until next patch and does not stop denuvo eating recources at the background. But yes you can download and play it, if you want.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
I do agree with you that it makes games worse, but…
It does not do anything to prevent piracy beyond maybe a month depending on cracking scene interest.
The first months of the release are the most profitable time for games. Denuvo is not meant to be uncrackable. Its just meant to protect the release window. Thats why some studios remove it some time after the launch.
Its only a minor inconvenience to game cracking groups and pirates.
Even the most popular games take one to two week to crack. That is not just a minor inconvenience. It takes time and effort. Also updates ofter change things enough for the crack to stop working.
- Comment on Lmao 3 weeks ago:
You can question whether we know everything, that’s always fair. but saying “maybe something will escape a high-gravity planet because we don’t know everything” is like saying “Maybe we’ll find out 2+2 isn’t always 4 because math isn’t complete.” Possible? In a philosophical sense, yes. Useful? Not really.
Most “revolutionary” discoveries refine our understanding, not overturn the foundation. Relativity didn’t make Newtonian mechanics wrong. It expanded the domain. Quantum mechanics didn’t nullify classical physics. It explained small scales. Dark matter didn’t erase gravity. It suggests additional components.
When you argue, “We’re still making discoveries, therefore our predictions about what is possible are worthless,” you’re ignoring that the discoveries rarely contradict established, experimentally validated constraints.
You aren’t offering any reason to believe our current models are wrong, only that they could be wrong because science is incomplete. By that logic, any claim can be doubted indefinitely, and no amount of evidence ever matters.
But i truly like your child like enthusiasm for space. You throw intresting ideas around, but so far they have been only wishfull thinking. Difference between science, fantasy and religion is, that when something new is proven in science, people accept it, but it needs proof first.
In fantasy people throw crazy ideas and have fun, knowing they are not real.
Religion is when you have “faith” that something is true.
You are living in somewhere between fantasy and religion with your ideas. There is nothing wrong with it, but it makes discussions meaninless, because while i try to argue based on science you dont have any limitations and can just say. “We dont know, maybe they can manipulate time”. Its really convinient isint it.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 3 weeks ago:
There are games where you watch how protagonist reacts to the world. (The Last of Us)
There are games where you decite how protagonist reacts to the world. (Mass Effect)
Thete are games where player reacts to the world (Zelda, Dark Souls, Valheim)
I feel like Crimson Desert is more of the last category.
- Comment on Lmao 3 weeks ago:
You’re treating scientific uncertainty as if it means “anything is possible.” It doesn’t.
We don’t assume variables on other planets match Earth. Astrobiology, planetary science, and exoplanet studies are built on the opposite assumption: that most planets don’t resemble Earth. When scientists estimate what life or civilizations could be like elsewhere, they work from measurable constraints (gravity, density, stellar flux, atmospheric composition), not wishful thinking. For example, we know that: A planet with 3× Earth’s gravity constrains organism size, structural strength, locomotion, and escape velocity. A planet with a dense hydrogen atmosphere changes chemistry and energy availability. A star’s light spectrum dictates photosynthetic possibilities. These aren’t guesses. They follow from basic physics and chemistry, which apply everywhere.
“They misestimated a heat shield” ≠ “we don’t understand planetary physics.” Engineering uncertainty in a single atmospheric re-entry doesn’t invalidate the underlying physics. Weather variation, material tolerance margins, and modeling limits don’t erase Newtonian mechanics or thermodynamics. If your argument were valid, airplanes would disprove gravity because turbulence is hard to predict. Scientific uncertainty does not mean lawlessness.
An organism the size of a mountain on a 10g world can’t simply evolve because “maybe their brains are bigger.” Biology cannot override: stress limits of matter metabolic scaling laws biomechanics gravity energy density limits An advanced species might innovate, but it doesn’t get to ignore basic constraints. A billion-year-old civilization would know more than we do, but they still can’t accelerate to escape velocity without energy, or support infinite mass with finite-strength materials. Knowledge does not nullify physics.
For all we know, they could be scientifically a billion years ahead of us and might be able to manipulate time or matter in ways we couldn’t conceive
This is pretty much just “We can’t rule out magic, therefore you’re wrong. Science can only operate on what’s known to be possible or what follows from tested theories. Speculating about physics-breaking abilities isn’t meaningful without evidence; it’s equivalent to saying “you can’t disprove dragons.”
When scientists say “a civilization on a super-Earth would struggle to reach orbit,” they base it on: the planet’s mass and radius → calculates escape velocity atmospheric density gravitational load on structures realistic energy sources We don’t need to know the exact geology to know that a planet of a given mass requires a minimum amount of energy to launch mass into space. That’s just conservation of energy.
Saying “we don’t know everything” is true. Saying “therefore any extreme scenario is viable” is not.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 3 weeks ago:
I would argue that main character being some what plank canvas is more a design thing than anything else.
Player is experiencing the world themself and its not filtered trough the protagonist morals.
Zelda games, especially Breath of the wild does things similary.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I think you have some kind of frequency illusion situation going on.
Like many have pointed allready there has been many great single player games relased in few past years.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 3 weeks ago:
Care to give few examples of what games irk you?
- Comment on Lmao 3 weeks ago:
I was sure you were bullshitting, but no. Its true.
Iron and nickel core + enough mass for gravity to start compress the planed and we are just little more dense than Mercury.
- Comment on Lmao 3 weeks ago:
Uh… being smaller or larger does not really change the laws of physics… if the gravity is too high, no fuel has enough energy density to escape the gravity of the celestial body.
If you need 150kg of fuel to get 100kg worth of matter to escape velocity it does not matter how much fuel you have. It will not ever be enough to leave.
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 weeks ago:
Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 4 weeks ago:
Do you think discussions like that happen in real life?
- Comment on Starfield on PS5 Pro is the best it's ever been, but it's still Starfield | RPG Site 4 weeks ago:
Simple answer. Because they dont think about those things or care about them.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 weeks ago:
They run on pc sure. On the spesific spects computers they use. They need things like support for different resolution. Work arounds for the controller only features. If you want to make things like mouse control feel good, it needs lot of fiddling. Optimizing for million different hardware possibilities, error handling, launching, settings, key bindings and propably million other things i cant think right now.
Its not just flicking a switch.
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 5 weeks ago:
Ukraine has been always one of the biggest wheat and fertilizer producers in the world.
Is Missouri part of international decition making? Does Missouri participate in UN summits? Does the governor of Missouri have voice in international treaties? Does it have embassy in other countries?
There are probably distinct provinces in Canada and China outperforming many countries, so why should they exist on a lower tier than a “country”, just because they were persuaded or “persuaded” to incorporate into something larger?
Because povinces dont decide foreign policies. Dont have militaries, cant make treaties.
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 1 month ago:
I dont agree with this article at all. There are still as much intrest to longer single player games than before. Its just that the audience is wider now that 15-30 years ago.
Back in the 90’s and 00’s gaming at home had pretty high level of entry. PC side was just starting up and installing and trouple shooting games were much more cumbersome than now days. If you bought a console you basically committed to the games on that console. Thats why games were catered to much narrower audience. Those audiences are still there, but now that the bar for starting to play games is so much lower there is completelly new group of gamers on the market.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 1 month ago:
Opposide for me. I realised i enjoy playing games much more than making them.
But im happy for you that you found a thing you can be passionate about and spend time working on it too.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 1 month ago:
At the moment you are my favorite person and i hope your socks are never wet and your food always warms up evenly in the microwave.