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- Comment on The first orbital racing game Slingshot Speeders now has cosmetics and an extreme difficulty rotating map and refueling system 1 week ago:
Sabaka, now I have to watch the show again, sasa ke?
Btw, I saw you added the white arrow. It is helpful, but it’s a bit small and there’s a swarm of arrows already.
Tbh, I don’t know how helpful the gravity arrows are. Are they toggleable? They already convey fundamentally the same information as the white line, just less informative.
- Comment on The first orbital racing game Slingshot Speeders now has cosmetics and an extreme difficulty rotating map and refueling system 1 week ago:
I won’t be making ships a certain shape to make them easier to know which way they’re pointed. Because space has no air, no need for aerodynamics.
True, but even in space it makes sense to put all your hot and dangerous engines and fuel systems on end of the vessel and all the crew and life support stuff on the other hand.
Since the ship can be turned around in any direction it really doesn’t make much sense to put anything but small maneuvering/rotation thrusters at the front, since if you want to thrust in the other direction you can just spin the ship around.
For comparison look at the Rocinante from The Expanse. That thing isn’t meant for athmospheric flight or aerodynamics, but it still has a giant engine on one end and windscreens on the other.
In the first scenes of the first episode of the show they even make it a point to show how a cargo ship flips around at the centerpoint of the journey to switch from acceleration to deceleration.
There’s an entire replay system where you can see all other player’s runs, easily by clicking the leaderboard runs, or going to a user’s profile history. If you’re playing the easy map and it’s too easy, and you’re sitting waiting for 2-3 minutes, check out the fastest run which are around 25 seconds on both Prime and Reach.
Yeah, of course, but when I’m doing my first run in the game on the first map of the game I’m not going to fly optimally. Even with a basic understanding of orbital mechanics.
I just think it would be good if even the “tutorial” maps are somewhat enjoyable.
The later maps are really cool!
- Comment on The first orbital racing game Slingshot Speeders now has cosmetics and an extreme difficulty rotating map and refueling system 1 week ago:
UI scaling via the settings saved this on the phone. With 130% UI scaling and 100% for the rest it’s playable. TBH, I didn’t find the settings before you pointed out they exist. 50% scaling is probably not a good default. What’s also a bit of an issue is that I can’t get to the settings with a game running. It seems like I first have to exit the current game to get to the settings. That’s a bit annoying if I want to e.g. adjust in-game scaling, because I have to completely exit the game, adjust, and to see if the setting is ok, I have to start a game and repeat the cycle.
I wonder if it might be worth it to make the ship sprite more conical instead of rectangular. Like, make the front pointy.
I keep forgetting whether she ship is pointed up or down. I always have to try if forward or backward gives me the effect I need.
The more difficult levels are pretty playable. The easy ones I think don’t represent the game well. I first tried the top easy level and it was 2-3 minutes of waiting. I’m happy I tried trefoil next, because that level was much more fun.
- Comment on The first orbital racing game Slingshot Speeders now has cosmetics and an extreme difficulty rotating map and refueling system 1 week ago:
I really like the idea. I played a bit and got feedback.
- First I opened it in Firefox on Android. It almost worked. Keyboard bindings worked, but scaling is messed up. It’s all super tiny. I then continued on PC.
- I miss a “advance time” feature. Especially on the easier maps you just don’t get a lot of momentum and being able to fast forward would be nice.
- R is too close to keys you need to play the game. More than once I accidentally touched R when I wanted E and it messed up a promising run.
- The ship is sooo tiny. It also looks the same in all directions, so it’s often really hard to see where it’s pointing.
- I wonder if instead of rotation+thrust it would be better to just WASD to accelerate the ship in screen direction. So W would always propell the ship towards the top of the screen. That way it also wouldn’t matter that the ship is so tiny.
Other than that, it’s a pretty cool idea, I like it. Spaceflight Simulator meets The Expanse-style slingshot racing.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 weeks ago:
I don’t own a switch, nor do I care for Nintendo.
But why are we posting news that’s older than a year? Got nothing new?
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 2 months ago:
Yeah, but also the red lightning bolt sign of the polish pro-abortion movement was introduced in 2016. The SS sign with the sigrune was introduced in 1929.
If nazis had time travel, how did they manage to screw their war effort up so badly? They must have been even worse tacticians than we thought!
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 2 months ago:
Dude, you got the timeline completely wrong: obieg.pl/…/210-the-red-lightning-of-all-poland-wo…
The red lightning sign as part of the polish pro-abortion movement came into existence in 2016! A whopping 87 years AFTER the Nazis created the SS sign.
- Comment on LA is proposing a subway system for Dodger Stadium. This will allow people to commute from the stadium parking area to the stadium 2 months ago:
Oh, it’s even better than just evicting mexicans. They did so under the pretence of building public housing. After the evictions they dropped the plan and built a privately owned stadium instead.
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 2 months ago:
I’m gonna need some proof of this. I wonder why a German, designing a sign for the German members of the SS in 1929 (10 years before Germany invaded Poland), would choose a sign with the purpose of harming a Polish feminist/pro-abortion movement.
It makes no sense and I can’t find any sources saying anything like that at all.
So cough up some sources. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Apparently, you are so much in need of parenting, that you call random people giving you good advice mom or dad. You must be a little child.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If you behave like a little child…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Please do NOT fill that space!
Any kind of flash/SSD storage requires free space to do wear leveling and disk management. If you fill one of these disks completely, they will wear out very quickly and then you are left with a broken console in need of an SSD replacement.
You should leave at least 20GB free, also so that there’s space to download update files.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 4 months ago:
And still it might happen that the outcome on her side is the same.
Post partum depression is super common, same as self-image issues, body issues and so on. Also, even if you do everything right as a husband, she’s still not going to get a ton of sleep, especially if she breast feeds.
OP is an idiot for treating sex as just transactional.
- Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world 4 months ago:
Tbh, Lemmy admins and mods are hardly authorities. None of them make actual money or have actual power.
Remember: All of Lemmy combined as a bit fewer active users than the Crackberry forum. The LTT forum is quite a bit larger than all of Lemmy combined.
It’s not exactly mass media.
- Comment on how things become science 4 months ago:
Nah, I’m running a GNU Unix.
- Comment on how things become science 5 months ago:
This. Here’s a comparable case where human journalists did exactly what LLMs are doing now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally…
The difference is the scale.
- Comment on how things become science 5 months ago:
I think I caught an RSV virus from you.
- Comment on how things become science 5 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally…
We did the same before AI. AI is once again just putting an old problem on steroids.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 5 months ago:
What’s really weird is: The person cooking and the person getting cooked have the same opinion, they just can communicate right.
- Comment on he forgor 6 months ago:
The process for this is usually like that:
- Software dev team lead: "We need another senior frontender."
- HR person: "Ok, what are you looking for?"
- Software dev team lead: "Someone who knows how to use Angular."
- HR person: "Great, so which version of Angular are you using?"
- Software dev team lead: "Version x.y.z"
- HR person (thinking, not saying): "Ok, so senior means 5+ years, so 5+ years of version x.y.z it is!"
- Also HR person: “Why can’t I find anyone who’s qualified?”
- Comment on he forgor 6 months ago:
Friend of mine applied for a job where they asked for at least 5 years of experience with Angular version x.y.z (can’t remember the exact version). The friend responded that he had 10 years of experience with versions x-3 to x+1.
The HR person doing the hiring asked back “But do you have 5 years of experience with the exact version x.y.z?” to which he answered “Version x.y.z has only been out for 3 years so it’s impossible to have 5 years of experience with it.” HR wrote back saying that he was rejected because he didn’t have 5 years of experience of experience with that exact version.
- Comment on Acciracy 6 months ago:
We wasn’t exactly as nice about it as I was lead to believe a Canadian would be.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Break laws and move things.
- Comment on ESL homework 6 months ago:
You are acting like you deliberately want to be offended.
- Comment on ESL homework 6 months ago:
Which makes my assertion correct.
Can you grow up in Wales never learning Welsh? Yes.
Can you grow up in Wales never learning English?
- Comment on Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended 6 months ago:
There’s a ton of precedence for this.
We have accepted that our clothes don’t fit, that our non-fitting shoes ruin our feet, that our furniture all looks the same and doesn’t fit into the spaces we have, that consulting by knowledgeable sales people was replaced by product listings that can’t even reliably tell you if a printer is monochrome or color.
Enshittification is nothing new. It’s something that has been going on for at least the last 70 years.
I mean, just compare the fabric of clothes from 20-30 years ago to new stuff. I still got some clothing from the early 2000s that holds up just fine, while the newer stuff just falls to pieces after a year or so. You can even see that in the marketing. If you look at clothes ads even of cheap brands from the 80s, they all advertise with long-lasting quality. Pretty much no brand does that anymore.
So yes, AI will just make customer support, marketing and software quality way worse and we will just accept that like we have done for the last 70 years.
- Comment on ESL homework 6 months ago:
I’m not argueing that it isn’t the national language. I just said that you could grow up in Wales never learning Welsh, because English is just as much (if not more) the language used in every-day dealings.
That said, the farthest north I have been was Merthyr Tydfil.
At least in the areas I have been in and the time that I lived there, Welsh was a language you had to actively seek out and not a language that was necessary to know if you lived there.
And that’s the point of the 3rd category: That’s the language you need to know to get around well in that country. If you go to the doctor’s, if you want to talk to your coworkers, if you want to make friends with the locals, which language do you need?
I’m from Vienna and it’s a similar thing with the Viennese dialect. While there is a limited revival happening, it’s mostly a cultural relic more than a necessity in every-day life. 70 years ago, if you didn’t speak Viennese you’d be an outcast. Now it’s rare that someone speaks it.
While I was in Wales I got myself Welsh language resources and actively sought out Welsh speakers to try to learn the language, but of all the people I met there, I only met two adults who could fluently speak Welsh. The kids learned it in school as a second language, but by and large the adults didn’t speak it.
- Comment on ESL homework 6 months ago:
I lived in Wales for a year and I managed to learn some very basic Welsh myself. It’s been about 15 years now, but at least back then it was mainly old and very young people who spoke Welsh. Most people aged 20-60 didn’t speak Welsh at all, with the younger ones learning it at school.
But I guess with that generation being up to maybe 35 now, speaking Welsh is likely much more common than it was back then. So yeah, my chart above is likely outdated.
- Comment on ESL homework 6 months ago:
Not any more. It used to be, which is where the term comes from, but it hasn’t been for a long time.
- Comment on ESL homework 6 months ago:
Languages come in tiers. English is the global lingua franca. People use it to speak to anyone, no matter whether English native speaker or not. If someone from Norway wants to talk to someone from Japan, they’ll most likely use English since both of them likely speak it.
Then there’s regional lingua francas, languages like Spanish, Russian or Mandarin. These languages are popular in specific parts of the world and often used to get around there. Someone from Ukraine can speak to someone from Belarus using Russian.
Lastly, there’s local languages that are spoken only in a country (or even only a part of a country). People speak them because that’s what they were grown up with.
So in general, there’s 4 “language slots” of languages people speak:
- The global lingua franca
- The regional lingua franca
- The language of the country they live in
- The language they grew up with
One language can fill multiple slots.
So for example, if you grew up in Ukraine and moved to Germany, you might speak the following languages, according to the slots above:
- English
- Russian
- German
- Ukranian
If you are born in Wales and never moved away, it might look like this:
- English
- English
- English
- Welsh
If you spent your life in the US, it would be like this:
- English
- English
- English
- English
This is the reason why people living in countries with lower-tier languages frequently speak 3-4 languages, while English native speakers really struggle to even learn the basics of one additional language. Because the former group has an actual use for more than one language, while the latter one don’t.