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- Comment on Always the cat! 2 hours ago:
Face recognition, but instead of facial festures, whisker patterns.
- Comment on The life of the party! 2 hours ago:
Mrrrreow, prrrhhhrrp, prrhhhrrp, mreow!
- Comment on Always the cat! 4 hours ago:
lol, very good wordplay!
- Comment on The life of the party! 4 hours ago:
… hiding from all the strange new people, of course.
- Comment on The life of the party! 5 hours ago:
Dogs are legitimately more interesting and have more unique and pleasant personalities than many people I’ve met at house parties.
- Comment on Always the cat! 5 hours ago:
One day kitty will figure out your password.
… one day.
- Comment on 11 hours ago:
Yep. Everthing had at least doubled in the past ~ two months, because Nvidia’s AI bubble must not be allowed to pop.
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 1 day ago:
I believe that’s correct, you can… VR melee enemies, it will cause some kind of animated response, but it doesn’t do any actual damage to them.
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 1 day ago:
At one point, Valve accidentally broke blinking in HL2 era versions of the Source engine.
Like uh, there was originally, for all humanoid NPCs with visible eyes, some kind of timer and functionality that would cause NPCs to blink, at semi-random, semi-regular intervals.
Somewhere around approximately 2010-12… they broke this, and no NPCs would or could blink anymore.
… Last I checked, roughly a decade later… they appear to have fixed it.
But I remember this being broken for like, years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
As the saying goes:
It takes two to tango.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
A bunch of people have already pointed out that, generally, most men are not simply looking for a fleshlight with legs attached, they’re looking to have a very enjoyable time with someone who is also having a very enjoyable time with them.
Personally, as a queer dude, nope, I could not do a serious relationship with a literally 0 sex drive guy, gal, any other gender / trans status, etc.
Even if you had a sex schedule that actually matched with hypothetically my sex drive, nope, I would know that you having sex with me is literally a chore for you.
Nope. Doesn’t work for me. I aim to please, and knowing that’s impossible for me to do with you?
I’d end up leaving, due to not being able to satisfy my need/desire to feel that I am satisfying someone else’s need/desire.
The good thing here is that you are honest and upfront about your 0 sex drive.
You would probably, I would imagine, have the best luck finding a mate who also has literally 0 sex drive, and is also as upfront and honest about that as you are.
Also… I have a question.
So, you have 0 sex drive.
How would you view, or feel about, if you did have a long term partner, with a sex drive, and they just slept with other people?
Would you view that as cheating, intolerable, or would you not care at all, or maybe somewhere in the middle, or something more nuanced?
Like uh, say they live with you, come home from work to you every day, you two cuddle and snuggle and go on dates and figure out bills together… but they just take that sex schedule idea you’re proposing, and instead take those timeslots to uh, pencil in somebody else.
How would you fedl about that scenario, or something approximating it?
Would that be like “Great! More time for me to do me stuff!” or … not?
- Comment on We all do this 2 days ago:
Hope you find something you fancy!
- Comment on We all do this 2 days ago:
Unfortunately no, I don’t have a playlist that I could share or recommend in good faith, not at the moment.
But if you mean more generally, just, what do I listen to, to help concentrate?
Hrm.
Various chiptuny, melodic beep bloopy music… sometimes things with rolling or constant bass or drum lines or something… ‘Conga Fury’ by Juno Reactor, ‘One of These Days’ by Pink Floyd, or ‘Tick of the Clock’ by the Chromatics…
But, sometimes much more laid back and chill stuff, lounge background music type stuff, ambient electronica, Boards of Canada type stuff…
Sometimes various classical songs.
Sometimes literally Mongolian throat singing, which I guess does not register to my brain as speech.
It depends on my mood, lol.
And also the … level of instensity of what I’m trying to do, whether or not its very physical, very mental, or both.
Going even further, a decade ago now, I actually tried to see if I could find some kind of actual… threshold, where my brain, or I, whatever, can’t really decide if its ‘vocals’ or not, in terms of 'does this mess with my ability to concentrate.
And that is how I ended up finding TOBACCO / Black Moth Super Rainbow.
… Nobody really sounds like them.
The way they make their sounds, you’d think its digital, but apparently its all analogue… they have a very strange way of … making, and then using, some kind of vocoder.
… I would basically describe the music as what a good LSD trip … sounds like.
- Comment on We all do this 2 days ago:
I have an internal monologue.
(I say this because this is apparently somewhat uncommon)
Music with lyrics tends to make it more difficult for me to focus on my own thoughts, whereas music without lyrics tends to be much more effective at helping me focus on my own thoughts.
Of course, some music without lyrics is… just too jarring or loud in some way… but whenever a song has lyrics, those lyrics are basically taking up the same … memory channel, bandwidth lane, as my own thought process.
Same with any background conversation, actual people, TV, whatever, doesn’t matter.
Human voices throw off, to some extent, my ability to literally think through a complex process.
- Comment on I hope so :D 2 days ago:
You can also view that sort of… tonal dissonance, as intentional.
Nowadays many people say we live in ‘clown world’ because of the ludicrous and absurd situations and contrasts.
Like that old copy pasta of the Anarcho Capitalist private detective.
That kind of overwhelming contrast that becomes absurd… thats part of what an actual hypercapitalist hellscape actually looks like.
- Comment on I hope so :D 2 days ago:
Either that or the less angular/intimidating, more kawaii/chibi Tachikomas!
Quadruped, not hexaped… though they do have essentially a big ole badonkadonk.
- Comment on I hope so :D 3 days ago:
- Comment on *Yawn* 3 days ago:
… anyone who is naturally expressive and has genuine, authentic responses that go against whatever current sociocultural norms are?
Hey, popular person told a dumb, offensive joke, that validates my internal insecurities by projecting derision outward onto some kind of minority group!
(Face twists up into disgust, shock, and maybe pity)
WTF is wrong with you, popular person is funny! We hate you now!
- Comment on *Yawn* 3 days ago:
My entirely uneducated guess would be that its some, very basal, ancient, basically gasping compulsion, that… just never quite fully got patched out by the subsequent tens of millions of years of evolution.
Sort of the behavioral version of vestigal limb, way down at some fundamental nervous system level.
- Comment on Anon reaches their breaking point 5 days ago:
Congratulations on being functionally illiterate I guess?
- Comment on Anon has a bully 5 days ago:
I’ve known people who’ve done shit like that.
Like, actual ‘pocket sand!’, worked because their assailaint wasn’t wearing glasses, they then just ran away.
Obviously, no way to know if this particular tale is true or not, but its plausible, imo.
Its basically impromtu, ad hoc mace.
Fiddle and rifle through your pockets nervously, playing the part of scaredy cat, bully is boisterous and cocky, not paying too much attention…
Yeah, I can see this actually happening.
It would be awkward as fuck, but not impossible.
- Comment on Anon has a bully 5 days ago:
Omae wa, mou shindeiru
REEEEEEEEE!
- Comment on Anon has a bully 5 days ago:
I… I actually entire with anon on this one.
That’s fucking hilarious, that indeed was worth it.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 6 days ago:
I mean, a whole lot of them really do seem to want to go back to Roman/Greek norms, so uh…
Does this toga make my (UwU) look fat?
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 6 days ago:
As an econometrician / data wonk, I’m pretty sure we are past ‘plausible’, more like well into ‘you could do a legitimate scientific paper on this and essentially prove it, and now we’re arguing over error bounds and precise methodology’.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 6 days ago:
… Have you encountered a Republican before?
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 6 days ago:
… They could try saying the alphabet, that’s a least a place to start.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 6 days ago:
They really did go very in depth to the ‘game controller’, basically its a simulated DM for a TTRPG.
The … constantly on edge thing?
Systems of spawning and nudging AI states of groups of enemies, specifically designed to make you feel that near constant tension.
The other element of that is that they’re much better at traditional map design, making choke points mixed with more open spaces, giving you some options to explore/use as cover/retreat to, but also, some of those options are actually traps that will punish you.
Also uh L4D doesn’t have a 2D minimap.
It uses things like way points and object/objective stencils/borders, and, a lot of the maps are complex vertically, in addition to horizontally, so… just naively moving toward the waypoint?
Probably not gonna work so well in L4D, whereas in most games, that basically will work.
There is also a kind of problem in that a growing number of people cannot navigate their own hometowns without a real life minimap… players generally are getting worse at complex environment navigation overtime, and that’s true in both real and virtual spaces.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 week ago:
The NSA has something like the 5th or 6th largest data center in existance, its been around for about a decade, in Utah.
They just capture everything, they have wiretaps on all the trunk lines that feed into undersea cables going international, they work with every major ISP, basically every major city in the US has a building where there are a bunch of floors for major ISPs/TelComms, and a bunch of floors for DHS, FBI, NSA, (Not the) CIA, etc, where those trunk lines come in.
For over a decade now, the problem is that they have so much data that they don’t know what to do with it, how to search through efficiently.
Or, well, that was their problem.
Enter Palantir, whose intial early whole thing as a company was developing ways to prioritizes and rapidly search through astounding amounts of data.
… You aren’t paranoid enough.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 week ago:
Yep, that last part is … basically the most important concept of running a large organization, if you’re a corpo/evil bureaucrat.
The obfuscation is the point.
The ‘I thought I was in compliance’ is the point.
The ‘this is too complex to assign blame simply’…
That is the fucking point, of designing and running a system that works in that way.
