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- Comment on Yeah, right 1 day ago:
Carmageddon is a respawnable, resetable, impermanent world.
Its a toy.
Fallout 1 and 2 are not, they are deterministic, event driven, complex, and permanent.
Its a story.
You don’t tend to care too much about if some random team mate of yours dies in a team based shooter like Battlefield or COD.
Generally, they’re all randos you’ll never see again, despite being actual human beings on the other end of a screen.
You tend to care a lot if its one of your soldiers in XCOM or Xenonauts or one of your crew from ShadowRun Returns or Fire Emblem.
They’re literally fictional characters, sometimes barely even actually characterized, but, you have history with them, shared struggles.
Your brain tends to care more about things that are harder to replace, decisions with irreversible results… morality kicks in when we realize permanence is at play.
… thats a long way of saying I do not know if there is a specific psychological term for all this, lol.
- Comment on i mean 2 days ago:
Hah, oh god I remember Rainbow Six on the N64, yes, the controls were clunky as fuck, but, it… was a pretty insane thing to even attempt a tactical shooter with specific squad commands.
I remember just basically figuring out how to map out a good engagement plan for like… an hour.
Then you hit go and basically, the game can often basically just play itself.
- Comment on i mean 2 days ago:
… or a better knowledge of your own anatomy and how angles work.
Thats like 4 to 4 1/2 inches to get to the Z button.
If your girlfriend can tickle your pickle, you should be able to uh, handle the plunge here.
Just relax, and say ‘Ahh’.
- Comment on i mean 2 days ago:
Goldeneye and Perfect Dark both actually have a set of control schemas…
Where you play with two of these, at the same time.
As well as a number of different one handed configurations, that essentially make it possible to play those games with hands on the left and right prongs, left and center, or right and center.
You may or may not find some of them wonky, but … yeah, it was a perhaps needlessly versatile design, though also very innovative, though also a bit weird.
I’m pretty sure it was literally the first home game console controller with an analog stick, an actual true analog stick, not counting joysticks with huge bases and a button or two.
This is also the same era where the early Mario party games had minigames where you were supposed to spin thr control stick in a circle very fast.
So uh, beyond that being terrible for the controller…
A good number of kids figured out that you can just grip the center prong and then palm the stick, move it much much faster… but also tearing through your own hand and giving you blisters.
So Nintendo stopped putting those kinds of minigames in Mario Party, and basically issued a health advisory telling people not to do that.
cnet.com/…/nintendo-offers-glove-to-prevent-joyst…
… Apparently they actually got sued.
… and offered to give the injured parties… gloves.
- Comment on Absolute disaster, RAT backdoored through WINE. Assistance with Docker 3 days ago:
That all sounds like a pretty good diagnosis/evaluation to me.
You got got by somebody.
But do not spend any more time trying to invetigate with the aim of like, determining the culprit.
You need to act defensively.
See my other comment.
- Comment on Absolute disaster, RAT backdoored through WINE. Assistance with Docker 3 days ago:
Take the smoke break.
You’re not nuts.
But most people think you are, because they are morons.
You do actually have to calm down, or you’ll end up in a psych hold, which is probably highly undesirable if you now no longer have immigration type paper work.
Think of it this way:
You are a crisis management and resolution reaponse team of one.
Seems like everyone else involved in your network, wherever you are living, is an idiot, as well as the cops you’ve talked to thus far.
Sounds like you’re probably also making backups and records of everything you can, which is good.
Now, what I would suggest is to do an inventory of what kinds of documents you lost, which can be replaced, which can’t.
The ones you can get replaced, start the process of getting them replaced.
Calmly.
Put out whatever the equivalent of a credit freeze is wherever you are, for… basically everything.
Banks, any kind of ID that’s tied to you and/or your physical address… you’re gonna need to contact all of them, try to explain what’s happened, tell them you’ve already contacted law enforcement, give them a name or number of something so they can liaise, and also take you more seriously.
Again, you have to do this calmly.
It also probably would be best to show up to as many of such places as you can, in person, to explain things, with the physical IDs and such you hopefully/presumably still have.
… This is all gonna take a while to iron out.
A marathon, not a sprint.
Eventually, what would probably be ideal is getting new bank cards, new/updated IDs, new phone number… but do not try to change everything all at the same time, otherwise their own internal systems will flag you trying to recover from an identity theft as you potentially doing fraud.
- Comment on Name it 3 days ago:
TitanFall 2.
Metal Gear Solid V.
… maybe a slightly more impressive than average potato.
Amazing what you can do with a well optimized engine, eh?
- Comment on Couldn't have said it better 3 days ago:
Ow my brain.
Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 3 days ago:
Shhh you’ll upset the quantum mystics that need to believe magic is real!
- Comment on grass 😾 4 days ago:
… Be the bad thing you want to happen.
Who else will?
- Comment on Color? What's that? 4 days ago:
Aluminum.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 4 days ago:
I am from Seattle and I didn’t even know the Seahawks made it to ‘the big game’ until literally yesterday.
Sportsball!
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
Oh.
Wonderful.
Even better.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
Because ticketing is a revenue stream.
What, you thought police ticket people to… protect the general public?
- Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit 1 week ago:
Mircrowave.
Just take out anything LiON prior to nuking.
And also plan on getting a new microwave.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 week ago:
Yeah… there’s a difference between the kind of horse you bred to work in a team and pull a cart or carriage or train of them…
… and the kind of horse that’s a one rider endurance runner vs sprinter…
… and the kind of horse that you would gird with steel armor and sit a steel armored man on them, and then charge them directly into melee combat as heavy shock cavalry.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 week ago:
… Try riding a horse bareback, without a saddle.
It’ll give you new meaning to the terms ‘ball-buster’ and well, ‘bareback’.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 week ago:
… You also don’t see horses doing that, without being under the direct control of human riders.
Whereas search dogs are trained to actually go looking and sniffing and finding and alerting and then returning/retreiving if no one has come to them in a sufficient amount of time…
… all on their own.
Most dog breeds are significantly more intelligent than most horse breeds.
Also random fun fact: Did you know that as part of our domestication of dogs, we essentially caused them to evolve eyebrow muscles that can convey human like facial expressions?
Wolves don’t have that. Domesticated dogs do.
Because it makes communication and bonding between both humans and dogs just work better.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 week ago:
Way to be a neigh-sayer =P
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 week ago:
Way to self report that you’re a bad digital horse caretaker, lol.
Look, they bothered to actually model horse testicular shrinkage in very cold weather.
They have a set of systems designed to gauge how much your horse trusts you, and how well you treat it, whether or not you ride it into having a heart attack or not.
… They honestly did a shockingly good job of portraying at least some of the idiosyncracies of what its like to actually train and ride a horse.
Kinda analagous to how only a few milsim/tac shooters actually get close to portraying a bunch of the idiosyncracies that the vast majority of shooter games don’t bother with, but are actually pretty important when using an actual gun.
A thing that often gets left out of video game depictions of horses: they are actually kinda stupid and will do dumb shit fairly often, if not well trained and ridden by a skilled rider.
Like uh, one thing they could have easily done in RDR2, to be more realistic, but chose not to because it would likely be too annoying to most players:
You should pretty much never, ever, ride a horse along the inside of a railroad track, with all the alternating ties.
You should absolutely never get a horse up to a canter or gallop in the middle of a railroad track.
Not primarily because an unexpected train could cause them to freak out and do something stupid.
But because they are basically guaranteed to trip on the railroad ties, and eventually either stumble, crumple, throw you off, or break their own legs.
Horse will run full speed into a fucking tree and basically kill themselves (and potentially the rider as well), if you command them to and they trust you, or, if they are just sufficiently spooked.
They’ll have weird little quirks like ‘fuck you, i am not going to step in this specific puddle’, for no apparent reason.
The people I used to know who regularly did foxhunts, they would have their horses fairly often try to duck under a low branch… entirely not considering that they have a human on their back, who would then be clothes-lined by that branch.
Shit like that.
Having some dumb horse decision lead to nearly or actually getting thrown from a horse was… more or less, kinda like the way motorcycle guys talk about laying down their bike: It’s basically an inevitability that it’ll happen to you at some point, so you train for how to deal with it when it happens.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
I mean it sounds like we are in agreement then, that this works better for companies than it does for individual/retail investors.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
j-just… just gimme s-s-some gains bro, I need more GAINS!
I NEEED LINE GO UP!
I NEED IT BAD, MAN!
… you g-got any gains bro? P-please!
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
Try to apply that logic to any of Elon’s stocks.
Like, I generally agree with you, but… no one can possibly do any kind of analysis on TSLA, and Elon, and conclude anything other than:
Everything about this is completely insane and makes no sense.
Oh hi I’m Elon Musk, my car company only exists because of tax credits for EVs, and I just spent a squagillion dollars to elect a guy who will cancel those.
Oh, also, we build C3POs now, not cars.
Even though they’re decades behind already existing humanoid robots.
Also, please given Elon a squagillion dollars, to incentivize him to keep performing his super duper CEO magic.
… fucking what? He’s an actual madman, not a suave and calculating Bond villain, he’s a fucking lunatic!
… Does any of this not qualify as ‘management is going to do dumb shit?’
(also i am not sure if ‘manglement’ was an intentional joke or unintentional misspelling, but that will now be the word I am using in place of ‘mismanagement’, hahah!)
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
… Yeah… yeah.
Yeah that pretty much is the actual answer.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
… That kinda sorta works for companies, not so much people looking to make some kind of probably leveraged bet.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
… I didn’t downvote you, but uh, no, I really don’t think they can.
I think you are confusing an semi-automable asset pipeline that adheres to various kinds of standards for… a whole lot more than that.
I’d really like to see any evidence that what you seem to be describing actually exists.
Because if it does, and is or has been in widespread use for any amount of time prior to now… well very broadly, it would seem to be hurting more than helping things.
- Comment on This is my 6,000th post on Lemmy. It's been great eating beans and learning how not to poop for 3 days with you guys! Brb, gotta send my weekly nudes to the admins 1 week ago:
… stool samples?
… kinda difficult to ship physically, but we could all just literally provide a daily shit post, just so you know how regular we all are, potentially screen for internal bleeding or a few conditions.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
If you like holding an empty bag, this is a great strategy.
- Comment on Excusez-moi 1 week ago:
Any body else a fan of pinot grigio?
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
Roughly an average 10% drop in major gaming stocks, because a plagiarism machine can produce one minute of 720p, 24fps ‘gameplay’ at an absolutely astounding compute cost.
These people are all fucking idiots.
Therr is no universe where this even makes sense under a ‘a games are streamed’ paradigm.
This is like 100x to 100,000x the cost in hardware and energy, to produce a minute.
Do these fucking idiots think a game can just be wholly reinstantiated every single minute?
It actually would have made more sense to fine tune an LLM to interface with an API layer for Unity or something, to just… you know, produce an actual game?
Call that the uh, the processed training data/output condensed into a distilled an efficient piece of software.
I truly cannot comprehend the mind numbing level of stupidity on display here.
If that much investor money can be swayed by this utterly pitiful demonstration, then all these game stocks deserve to go to near 0, because clearly the people in charge (the investors) understand literally nothing about video games.
This is utterly asinine.
