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- Comment on It's true 1 hour ago:
He thought he had protection.
Like he was some kinda made man, had the Godfather’s blessing.
Turns out…
You can’t out pizza the hut.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 2 hours ago:
Ok uh, barely related, but:
Is there an actual name for the genre of music of Half Life 2, Ep1/2, Alyx?
Its like… progressive rock but sometimes also hardrock guitar riffs, but also with … basically ‘experimental’ industrial/techno usually mixed in quite well, and then also very often with essentially breakbeat drumming, and a lot of it also uses some pretty uncommon time signatures and switchups.
And then sometimes there is either classical instrumentation, or, essentially some kind of filtered or synth version of it.
… I literally fail to describe it succinctly, I don’t know how, I’m not aware of anything else that really sounds consistently like it.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 2 hours ago:
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… fuck.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 2 hours ago:
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 hours ago:
Yeah, so add stretching/yoga a bit beforehand, add in some reps of crunches/situps/squats, do an hour routine like that that 2 or 3 times a week, go for a 30 minute walk/jog/run on off days.
Its… really not that hard or complicated for a person who is already in reasonabley ok health to put together a simple workout routine, that will hit most of your muscle groups, get you into decent shape.
Hell, just going for a 20 minute walk 3 times a week is I think more excercise than half adult Americans get, and that’s actually significantly better than nothing.
Get some stretchy bands, do resistance training positions.
Fill up some empty milk jugs with water, do some curls.
Pretty much the only thing I think you might actually need would be a solid pullup bar, but if you’re doing pushups correctly, maybe not.
Or, you could just find a place to go swimming.
Easier to get into for people who are in less good of shape, and basically works every single muscle group, if you have do a variety of strokes.
Theres ‘getting into decent shape’ and then there is ‘bodybuilding’/‘sport-specific athletic training’.
Its not very difficult or money intensive to ‘get into decent shape’, so long as you don’t have serious pre-existing health issues.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 5 hours ago:
Also Mario 64.
Basically its ‘thanks Koji Kondo’.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 8 hours ago:
Call your bank, freeze your cards/accounts, get new card.
If you have emails like that, there’s a pretty good chance they’ll go ‘Well, yeah, that’s horseshit.’
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 1 day ago:
As of 2 days ago, FSR 4 works on a Steam Deck, w/Cyberpunk:
youtube.com/watch?v=0er-7pyMr3Q
This will also work on AMD 6000s and 7000s series cards.
- Comment on Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people' 1 day ago:
Half the things you are describing here are basically just core game systems that should already exist within the product you paid for.
The reason that a lot of more comprehensive mods exist and work for older Bethesda games is that they’ve been around long enough that people have figured out how to essentially hijack the exe itself, and input custom low level c++ commands, usually via a higher level scripting language.
This category of mods is generally called a script extender.
Script extenders exist because the game is fundamentally so limited and/or broken, and propper modding tools do not exist.
Then, people build the fancier mods on top of the script extender mods.
Bethesda is not capable of creating proper modding tools, because their engine and games are fundamentally too unstable, they’re a spaghetti code mess.
Poke one thing here, and something seemingly completely unrelated breaks somewhere else, because they used a hacky solution 4 years ago once, and then that got forgotten about… multiply that by 100 or 1000.
They would have to actually have a base game and engine that is stable and follows consistent rules, ie, they’d have to refactor everything.
But refactoring everything is expensive and takes time and does not produce more money within a a quarter of its completion.
And also, with Fallout 4 recently, well they actually tried to refactor it, and basically they failed; game just has all new classes and categories of bugs now.
They’re literally not capable of meaningfully improving the situation.
- Comment on when people on here tell me to diversify my posts: 2 days ago:
Don’t forget to put a few rivets into Rosie:
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 3 days ago:
… Are you aware of any study or perhaps graphic or map based on a studies that… actually tries to model an AMOC shutdown?
Because I loosely keep up with Paul Beckwith’s roughly weekly videos and uh… the SMOC ain’t doin so great, and like, currently, and in the last month or two… well, the artctic polar vortex has … more or been destabilizing… to a rather extreme amount…
- Comment on Choose your fighter 3 days ago:
Ahem.
Whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you…
… stranger.
- Comment on One stop shop 3 days ago:
I mean… sounds pretty interesting to me!
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 3 days ago:
Personally, I’m excited to see what kind of biomes end up emerging on a melting/melted Antartica.
Well ok, even I’m not pessimistic enough to think I’ll live to see that, in a way that its dramatically different than it is now, but hey, its like uh… a subbranch of speculative evolution, sorta.
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to be fixed 4 days ago:
We just call this a ‘glow up’ these days.
Dark Academia flavored glow up?
Cottage Core?
(Has that one just fully turned into ‘TradWife’ yet?)
GothAltEmoPunk?
(Because Gen Z apparently can’t figure out the difference between these things, because they sorta look the same, and personalities don’t exist, only aesthetics do.)
MomJeans Core?
(JFC, I made that up as a joke, apparently ‘MomCore’ actually is a thing… as are ‘Momiforms’ … smdh…)
- Comment on Anon notices some fan service 4 days ago:
I know why she has to have exposed skin, but… it still doesn’t constitute exhibitionism.
As far as the in universe explanation goes…
I mean, does it biologically make sense?
No, not really, but also, its sci-fi.
Does it thematically make sense?
Entirely yes.
All of MGSV rotates around questions of identity, connection/relation to yourself, and others.
Yep, she basically appears to be handcrafted as a beautiful woman who has a ludicrous reason she has to be scantily clad, and she can’t talk back, for roughly equally contrived reasons.
… Can you see past that?
Can you see the person inside, beyond the distracting skin, deeper than that?
Do you grow to respect her and her choices, as a person?
As the game progresses, and she’s in more ludicrous scenes… do you actually find youself feeling disgust as a voyeur… because she shouldn’t be treated that way?
If you just get stuck on the ‘Kojima is just a horndog’ angle, I’d argue you missed the point he was trying to make.
Basically, he keeps trying to get you to objectify her so hard, view her as nothing other than over the top fan service.
But there’s a person in there, a kind of strange, awkward person, but one with a ferocious sense of duty and responsibility, who is extremely capable.
She ‘speaks’ through actions.
Do you see her, or only her outward, superficial appearance?
Its… fairly notable that Kojima’s whole way of doing many ‘cutscenes’ is that they’re often in first person, or can be, and where you are looking, what you are focusing on… can significantly alter the actual scene you experience. Characters react differently, say different things, depending on where you are looking, at what point in the ‘cutscene’.
You’re the often the one choosing or not choosing to oogle her.
You can just not.
As to Paz… yeah, RIP, life and war are full of horrible tragedies, they hurt more when you care about them, when you can empathize with them, when you trust them.
What, did we… think war and conspiracies of power… did not involve innocent young women being forced into impossible situations with basically 0 ‘good’ possible outcomes?
… Have you heard of maybe this whole Epstein files thing?
Tiny smidgen of the amount of horrific shit that’s been done to women in war, that’s happening somewhere right now.
- Comment on Anon notices some fan service 4 days ago:
… I see where you are going with this, but as with ‘exhibitionism’, … that really strains the definition of fetish.
Thats… basically just preference, in terms of sexual/aesthetic attraction.
A fetish is an obsession with … essentially, a particular body part, a particular kind of activity (which may or may not be typically regarded as related to sex or attraction), a particular kind of clothing, a particular kind of body form/feature.
Regardless of where and how exactly you draw the line there as to what does and does not count as a fetish… a core of the concept is that it is fairly uncommon, and particular.
A guy, being broadly attracted to women who are generally considered attractive, just, in that broad of concept… yeah, its heternormative as hell, but its basically the opposite of a fetish.
What is and what is not ‘a fetish’ is basically the opposite of what is extremely socially accepted.
While I totally think that the actual attempt to draw the lines of what is and is not a fetish… reveals the concept itself to be kind of fundamentally nonsensical… the general idea is that it is unusual, and that is the core of what the vast majority of common usage of the word revolves around.
- Comment on Anon notices some fan service 5 days ago:
You described wearing basically a bikini, sheers, some tac rigs, boots, etc…
As exhibitionism.
Thats a signifcant exaggeration / misunderstsnding of exhibitionism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibitionism
Exhibitionism is basicslly flashing, intentionally showing off the bits that are in this image, not visible, specifically to an audience.
Exhibitionism is a nude bicycle parade.
Ehibitionism is flashing your nude body to a crowd of onlookers.
At least by the framework of the game world being a consistent universe unto itself, Quiet is not an exhibitionist: She is a sniper, who prefers to operate very far away from other people.
Sure, if you want to expand exhibitionism to include breaking the 4th wall, to ‘being viewed by the audience of gamers’, then… ok… but… can you see how that creates a standard where any character that is depicted nude, is then an exhibitionist by way of existing in a form of media?
So its pretty innacurate to describe either Quiet, or gamers seeing Quiet, as an exhibitionist, unless she is actually doing an exhibitionism.
Being eye candy is not the same thing as exhibitionism.
Telling someone they are either into viewing exhibitionists, or are themselves an exhibitionist… for seeing a scantily clad character… thats not correct, just factually, unless you want to bend the meaning of exhibitionism to the point that it basicslly breaks.
- Comment on Anon notices some fan service 5 days ago:
Sure.
Keep explaining why you’re saying what you’re saying.
Yep, your understanding of the implicit context is such.
Other people can have different implicit understandings of context.
And you still aren’t listening, you’re rationalizing, explaining yourself.
I already explained what you are doing.
I understand.
- Comment on Anon notices some fan service 5 days ago:
we’re not talking about the character in a vacuum, we’re talking about kojimas extreme defense of
Deflection / Framing Control
That’s what you’re talking about.
You’re dissatisfied with the canon explanation for Quiet’s exposure, you think Hideo made too big of a deal about it, that Hideo should have just said ‘yep I’m doing fan-service’.
Ricky is just stating that he finds conventionally physically attractive women physically attractive, that this is not a fetish, that wearing clothes that broadly fit the climate and Quiet’s combat role is not exhibitionism.
You keep talking past him, and the original commenter, never acknowledging that you keep throwing out tangential exaggerations, based around Kojima, that don’t apply to the people you’re talking to, the things they are saying.
You’re talking, but you’re not listening.
- Comment on Anon notices some fan service 5 days ago:
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 6 days ago:
Well, think of it this way:
China now knows how to shoot down F35s, if you’ve been following other news.
Yeah, sorry Taiwan, between that and the US wasting all of its missiles and interceptors on Iran… and dismantling the SK THAAD system for parts, after two of them got destroyed in the GCC…
Huang is gonna be taking orders, moreso than giving them, in the near future.
- Comment on Great Tits 6 days ago:
… would not have expected such a dick move from a great tit.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 6 days ago:
Ok, so you are building your own engine, that makes a lot more sense, and you do realize that… the editor itself is actually quite substantial a task, to get everything coherent and also functional.
Honestly, best of luck to you!
No clue if you’ve seen these before, but maybe they could be helpful?
…medium.com/trying-out-sdl3-by-writing-a-c-game-e…
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, but I’ve never heard anyone say Godot is fairly unkind to older hardware before.
Sure, yeah, if somebody is futzing around in 3D, in the Forward+ renderer, and has no idea what they are doing, yeah.
But… broadly?
How… old of hardware are you talking about?
Like, 15+ years old?
Also, SDL isn’t … a game engine.
Its… a rendering/input/output layer/library.
Sure, if you want to write your own game engine, you could use SDL… but… that’s a bit much to ask of a novice indie dev, who wants to complete a 3D game that’s maybe roughly as or more graphically advanced than say, Fallout New Vegas, in under what, 3, 4, 5 years?
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 week ago:
Steam Deck runs everything up to a PS3 and Xbox 360, and the Switch.
Almost everything a generation prior to ran runs with 0 problems, PS3/360/Switch can be hit or miss somewhat, depending on the game.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 week ago:
No, we are not.
We can go back to the basics, focus on not graphical realism, and/or, invent new rendering paradigms that lead to new art styles, and compute with less overhead.
There has literally never been a better time to become an indie dev, make a small team.
Just don’t overpromise, and don’t take people’s money untill you actually have a minimum viable product.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 1 week ago:
Oh hey, no prob!
Yeah, the… fragmented-by-design nature of lemmy can be a bit confusing… I don’t even know how many different mobile client apps there are at this point, and many instances have differing layouts for the web browser version.
- Comment on stages of mitosis 1 week ago:
(I have no idea what i’m talking about.)
And yet I actually follow what you are saying, silly it may be, it is… theoretically, technically sound.
So for spinning rooks, (especially when accelerated to rotational velocities experienced in a coil gun), to avoid the gimbal lock problem, you can use quaternions to represent their actual orientation, which… more or less, is complexifying their 3D orientation vector into being a 4D object, manipulating it in 4 space, and then solving or reducing the 4D object back to its 3D shadow/original self.
This particularly helpful when playing any kind of chess that involves more than 2 dimensions, as well as keeping track of long distance ballistic deviation due to projectile wobble, and/or a ballistic trajectory through different ambient pressure/resistance/drag-inducing gradients.
- Comment on stages of mitosis 1 week ago:
Hrm.
I think I’ll try spinning, thata a good trick!
