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- Comment on GTA VI developer accused of union busting in mass firings 8 hours ago:
Wow I am so incredibly surprised.
Anybody remember when Rockstar used to parody American capitalism, not embody it?
- Comment on Anon likes Dragon Ball 9 hours ago:
… I have not heard that phrase before, but if you mean I’ve hired an escort I found on lemmy, no, I haven’t.
I’m currently crippled and do PT all day everyday, I am essentially physically incapable of fucking, much less walking normally, at the moment.
Would be a waste of money.
- Comment on Anon likes Dragon Ball 12 hours ago:
More realistically, OF models either hire off shore people, or construct LLM models, to have those flirting conversations with sad, lonely nerds.
The… old joke in the 90s/00s was that on the internet, girl is just an acronym that means Guy In Real Life.
Perhaps ironically, one of the main things that Andrew Tate, of all people, did, that earned him a lot of money early on… was that he handled the actual chats with the uh, Johns I guess, with his cam-girls’ chats.
Because he was much more skilled at being manipulative, getting money out of them (and lets be real, he probably stole a fair number of cc numbers and identities as well).
So uh yeah, even if you see pretty pictures and videos, you still never really know who (or what) you’re chatting with, whether it be OF or some ERP discord or anything.
Though, there are still OF and escorts and camgirls and such who do actually conduct their own communications, due to either having a smaller clientelle base, or just very much preferring to do their own comms.
We also have all this on lemmy, too, mainly on lemmynsfw, though its much smaller in scope, and it is least, you know, contained to the kinds of comms you would hope it would be in.
A good number of lemmynsfw accounts/posters link to their OF, and hell, I’ve managed to go a few links further with some of them and find out that they are also actual escorts as well, with specific websites explaining services, pricing, and their travel schedules and what not.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 1 day ago:
Hah, I actually typed it with heliboard!
I will have to look into xcompose for linux, though … I’m using wayland these days, and just thinking about trying to get some specific, unique part of Xorg, that I haven’t tinkered with before, working on Wayland…
Yeah that’s basically PTSD inducing lol, every time in the past 5 years I’ve tried something like that, I discover some new problem that is both a massive problem and also is not a problem, and whose ‘fault’ this is becomes a giant shit fest argument.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 3 days ago:
Now I want to figure out how to auto macro all my zeroes into ∅, hahah!
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 3 days ago:
You’ve just turned ‘butt-head’ into…
… I guess roughly ‘but-thed’.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 3 days ago:
Ther’s Yoko Kano, Nujabes, Tsuneo Imahori… people like that…
… and then theres 192 bpm J-Pop song #4838573.
And then of course there’s Jojo, where… basically half or more of the characters just are named after, or a pun on classic rock bands or songs.
Whole wide spectrum out there, but there certainly is a lot of formulaic slop.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 4 days ago:
Oh that?
Thats the motion you make when fanning through dollar bills, to count em.
They’re doing a pavlovian reflex everytime they need to remind themselves where their money comes from, and how its time to focus in on delivering
shareholderlobbyist value. - Comment on Fucking genetics 4 days ago:
Huh.
Well of course I know that beard on the left!
It’s on me!
Same length and growth pattern, was actually going to trim it a bit this weekend, but uh, despite my head hair being basically the same as Ewan’s (color, waviness), my main jaw line and sideburns and jet black like Pedro, as are my eyebrows… but my moustache is about the same color as Ewan’s.
… So clearly what that means is I as attractive as both of them combined =p hahaha! /s
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 4 days ago:
No, I mean BotW.
I very distinctly remember these real world social interactions I had with BotW players around the game’s release… I very distinctly remember accidentally pissing them off by not being blown away by the construction mechanics, when I said something like ‘oh that’s neat, they did some Garry’s mod style stuff!’
That was apparently not enthusiastic enough for them, and they literally exiled me from their friend group after that.
And uh, the specific problems you mention with GMod?
The standing/moving while on a phys object being jank? Yeah you can fairly easily fix a good deal of that in GMod by toggling some server side settings, you can more comprehensively fix that by writing some gamemode logic in lua that moderates/alters/hooks into the source/havok phyics.
The ropes don’t act like chains? Yeah, cuz… they aren’t chains, they’re meant to be visually cheap effects. You can make actual physical chains with actual physicaly colliding links via a series of joint connected props, pretty sure there are just tools you can find now that let you automate and customize the generation of such things.
In both of these cases, basically what you do is just clamp translational and rotational acceleration values below a certain threshold… thats one main ‘trick’ that source/havok/gmod doesn’t do by default, that BotW does, anither one is just hard limit the number of potentially active physics capable objects in any given scene down to a lower number.
Also, Gmod has a bunch of early gamemodes that involved having to construct something, given some limitation set, to achieve some specific goal, or gamemodes that were more like some kind of other common at the time game, but made use of on the fly, but tightly regulated, snap build type construction mechanics, sort of like fortnite, but from a first person POV.
I guess you just never played these?
I guess people don’t realize that GMod was basically a precursor to Roblox.
Its more of a platform for making wildly different kinds of games than it is just… ‘a game’.
Gmod just didn’t have a built in currency system, Gmod gamemode developers had to (and did) figure out how to tie that into some kind of out of game webserver/db to keep track of player accounts and purchases, and then tie that back to the player’s in game inventory/abilities.
… I know everything I am saying here, because I either knew people who did all of this stuff, wrote scratch, or I did myself.
Anyway, yeah obviously BotW has a huge open world and an actual narrative storyline and all that good stuff.
It has that, plus some simplified version of Gmod buildy stuff, neat!
But ‘neat!’ wasn’t ‘unprecedented and my mind has been blown’.
In summary, no, no my account is not disingenuous, you just aren’t very familiar with or have much experience with Gmod as I do.
And that’s probably a good thing: while Gmod offers a lot of possibilities, it also has one of the worst and most toxic communities of any game I’ve ever played.
I could go on about how… the comparison to Roblox also extends to massive problems with grooming and sexual predation / exploitation of children, but that would probably be fairly far from the original topic.
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 4 days ago:
lol, I still remember being utterly baffled by how many Nintendo uberfans were just blown away by the kind of construction / physics elements of BotW.
Like… I’d been playing Garry’s mod for years before it even became a game, sold for money.
I was doing that kind of construction silliness … what, before Twilight Princess came out? Something like that?
Funniest part is that learning how to fuck around in lua there, was what spurred me on to learning programming… whereas Nintendo fans kind of tend to be the Apple fans of the video game world… on average, they don’t really know anything about hardware or software, compared to an Xbox or Playstation, if you compare people of similar ages in each of those fandoms.
So, I remeber ending up inadvertently triggering a fair number of BotW fans when I just started to describe havok/source physics calls, as well as contraptions I’d built an actual decade prior.
ACF is fucking bonkers, don’t know if its still maintained, but yeah I basically just made my model minfigs of tanks and ifvs and such in digital, functional form, hahah!
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 4 days ago:
The rejected patent is both a child, and parent of patents cited in the lawsuit.
Read that last quoted sentence again.
So, sure, it doesn’t directly effect JP7493117 in the case, as it came afterward… but it does make Nintendo’s use of JP7545191 in the lawsuit look less credible.
That and the… entire fact that Nintendo is very obviously spamming the patent system.
I’m getting this out of a translator:
Generation 1 Application 2021-208275 Publication 2023-092953 Registration 7398425
Used against Palworld
Application 2023-204842 Publication 2024-020611 Registration 7505852
Generation 2 Application 2024-016448 Publication 2024-042091 Registration 7505854
Application 2024-026645 Publication 2024-054400 Registration 7493117
Newly rejected patent
Patent Application 2024-031879 Publication 2024-059945
Generation 3
Used against Palworld
Application 2024-123560 Publication 2024-149570 Registration 7545191
The lawsuit against Palworld began on September 18 2024.
Here’s that last actual patent, a child of the one just rejected.
…inpit.go.jp/…/JPA 2024149570-000000.pdf
Now, I am not a lawyer, don’t speak barely any Japanese, and am certainly not a Japanese lawyer… but…
This is from the translated summary from the webportal, I am unable to directly link to that page as it is using java or wasm or something:
(19) Issuing country: Japan Patent Office (JP) (12) 【Publication Type】Public Patent Gazette (A) (11) [Release number] Special opening 2024-149570 (P2024-149570A) (43) 【Release Date】October 18, Reiwa 6 (2024.10.18) (54) Name of the invention: game program, game system, game device, and game processing method
(Reiwa roughly means Imperial Era, its kind of a cultural artefact / quirk of their calendar system. Reiwa 6 began in 2019.)
This patent (JP7545191) was published… after… Nintendo’s lawsuit began.
Meaning that Palworld is being sued, at least in part, for violating a patent that did not exist prior to the start of the lawsuit, a patent which builds off of the failed patent that this article is saying was just struck down and would need to be appealed.
So… again not a lawyer, but that seems like insane bullshit that would piss off a judge, to me.
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- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
In the same vein:
“Practical illustration of deformation caused by gravitational tidal forces between two nearby, massive bodies. (scale greatly exaggerated)”
- Comment on Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games] 6 days ago:
Sorry to double post but uh… Warframe.
Are they… still an actual independent studio, that just has a lot of partnerships with Amazon?
Or did they end up getting folded fully in?
I’m not gonna pretend like I give a damn about any other Amazon created/associated game, cuz I don’t.
- Comment on Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games] 6 days ago:
Yep, frankly I am amazed Twitch still exists at this point, given how server demanding it is, and how it is s constsnt clusterfuck of incompetent messaging that regularly produces quite bad PR.
I very much would not be surprised if they went to some kind of ‘yeah you have to pay a monthly subscription and also watch ads’ kind of model.
- Comment on Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games] 6 days ago:
Its’s complicated, but basically, Amazon also basically spun off Lumberyard into the fully open source, O3DE engine.
I am not sure if they still hold any particular rights to anything exclusive to Lumberyard, but yeah, O3DE is basically Lumberyard from some years back, that got handed over to a non profit, and has since been developed by that non profit for… 5 ish years? More?
The other wild thing is that… somehow, Cloud Imperium / Chris Roberts of Star Citizen… also got a version of Lumberyard/Crytek, or something like that?.. Before Amazon then later spun it off as O3DE.
So… the crytek engine has very weird family tree, at this point.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Holy shit that is awesome!
I did not know that was a thing.
Woo conlangs! Woo con… scripts?
English sure is funny sometimes.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Also autistic people of lemmy:
Would you like a lingusitic history lesson?
Perhaps I could interest you in Icelandic?
… maybe we can settle for the ‘long s’, written sort of like an f with no crossbar ( ſ ), or sometimes even approaching the modern integral symbol of calculus?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Yep, iirc, Icelandic is the only language that still uses it as a standard letter.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Because the thorn is an old timey English character, and some people are quirky / write in a stylized way_‽_
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
Oh I’m not saying its all 100% bad.
Having a reasonably healthier, similar tasting alternative is good when it is a good deal cheaper.
I’m just saying it doesn’t cross my bar of ‘real cheese’.
Used to be a bit of a brie and wine snob, and I still have the strong opinion that basically all pizzas should be 3 cheese blends, not just one.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
Used to be that parents and grandparents would teach the kids how to cook something a bit fancier for a holiday.
But we’re all too atomized and busy and politically polarized these days for that.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
Thank you, I’d seen something like this before, did not manage to snag a copy that time =D
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
The pasta is real, the seasoning is real, the cheese basically is not real.
For example, regular Cheeseburger Hamburger Helper contains trace amounts of blue cheese, which is absent from the Deluxe Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper. The “Deluxe” product also contains parmesan cheese, palm oil, and lactic acid. These can all impact the texture and taste of the dish.
In an email to the Daily Dot, an Eagle Foods representative wrote the following: “The difference between the Double Cheeseburger Mac and the Cheeseburger Mac products are that, for the Double Cheeseburger, the ingredient ratios are slightly different and there is double the amount of cheese powder in the seasoning packet.”
dailydot.com/…/regular-deluxe-cheeseburger-hambur…
Its only ‘real cheese’ if you consider a dehydrated powder that you have to add butter or milk / water to, and then prepare with heat as a ‘cheese flavored sauce’ to be ‘real cheese’.
Yep, the tiny trace amounts of ‘100% Real Cheese!’ it contains are indeed tiny denydrated crumblets of real cheese… but I am fairly sure that by that metric, Cheetos are also ‘real cheese’.
For most Americans under the age of 40, the idea of making an actual cheese sauce out of… an actual block of actual dairy cheese from their refrigerator… that is literally a foreign concept.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
I figured out we were poor once I hit middle school, and me asking about this and further realizing the truth of it… well of course that sent Republican dad further into an insecurity/rage/alcoholism loop.
Being honest would have been too difficult, I guess.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
I mean, you’re not wrong.
I grew up poor, mom had 0 cooking skill, mac and cheese and sliced hot dogs was pretty common.
I can try to spin that positively as ‘at leasr I have more experience being broke than most people who are new to being broke’, lol.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 1 week ago:
Eh, not all furries are so bold, but I see your point as well.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 1 week ago:
You almost certainly have bumped into a furry if you’ve spent a fair deal of time in Seattle.
They… just… aren’t always wearing their fursuits, corporate tends to frown on that.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 1 week ago:
Its a neighborhood of Seattle.
They famously historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood.
Its also where the uh CHAZ/CHOP momentarily existed, after Cap Hill got tired of being abuses by the local police force, barricaded/seiged them in their own Police HQ in the district, and forced them retreat from it entirely, in the dead of night, after literally burning a bunch of documents that would have proved they were knowingly breaking the law in their own ‘riot control’ actions, destroyed a bunch of their own computers too.
Anyway, I brought it up because the OP specifically mentions Seattle.
