ZoteTheMighty
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- Comment on why 6 days ago:
There was a whole battle about whether covid was masculine or feminine. I think feminine won, probably because it sucked.
- Comment on WHY??? 1 week ago:
It’s less weird when you realize it’s not a hexagon, it’s a sine wave in cylindrical coordinates. There are a lot of negative feedback loops such that a sine wave can turn into a standing wave. You just have to get a little lucky with a couple important things like your rossby number et voila, hexagon.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
As someone who works in the field, that sounds like something I’d pitch to shareholders when I’m trying to steal their money, not when I’m trying to fuse particles.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 week ago:
I played Saint’s Row 4, does that count?
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
Fusion releases a daughter particle and a neutron. Thr daughter particle is much larger and will deposit its energy back into the plasma, the neutron will travel much further until it hits a collector outside the chamber, heating it up, which will heat water. You don’t get to decide which direction the neutron goes, so you have to build this absorber around the entire thing.
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 week ago:
Was it a blue elanta? Just turned mine back into enterprise for tire leaks. Maybe they didn’t fix it and sent it back out.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 week ago:
This is literally why people spend $500 on a switch 2; it has the only arcade racer on the market worth playing. If you don’t want a single-game console or Mark Kart isn’t whst you’re looking for, tough luck.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you asked me to name a major gameplay innovation in the last 5 years, I literally couldn’t. Clair Obscur won a fuck load of awards for doing basically what Final Fantasy did 15 years ago, but not completely losing the plot. Hollow Knight blew everyone’s mind for making a decent Metroidvania game. Balatro made a game where you make a series of combos that people have been making for over 200 years. You don’t need fancy gimmicks anymore to be considered good, you just need to be good. Major publishers waste their time because they don’t know how to put “be good” on a spreadsheet.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 2 weeks ago:
P@ssw0rd is ahead of Password. Times they are a changin
- Comment on Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III 2 weeks ago:
As the readme states, you can’t actually compile the source code. The compilers are lost to time and it’s from a very obscure, proprietary fork of an obscure language. Essentially, this headline should read “Microsoft owns code not even their engineers could comprehend, so they released it for free since they couldn’t possibly make money from it”.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 3 weeks ago:
Stalin disappeared thousands of people. Tiger Stalin “disappeared” a few, but there was no hiding it, the pile of intestines and bones was a dead giveaway.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 3 weeks ago:
Intelligent people are worried about the blackmail context of the emails, but intelligent people never supported Trump, so this is just another reason to hate him and a new reason to be worried. Among Trump’s core supporters, homophobia is a critical issue, it has always been a major topic for the Trump admin. Previously the Epstein files were just about pedophilia, and conservative states have always taken a softer stance on the topic with things like child marriage.
There may be more important things to the story, but where voters can be swayed, the big story is “Trump did something gay.”
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 weeks ago:
Half Life 2 was about 5 years too early to be considered “basically beyond imptovement”. The graphics are a little dated now, and maybe the gameplay is a little simpler than a modern FPS, but ultimately it’s pretty close to the mark. I haven’t been surprised by FPS mechanics or graphics in 10 years, so there’s basically no way for Half Life 3 to surprise us. Dishonored 1 and 2 were basically identical. If you told me the second one came out immediately after, I’d believe you.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 weeks ago:
Dishonored nailed a neat trick: If every game dev stops innovating immediately after you release an innovative game, your game will always be considered highly innovative.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 4 weeks ago:
If you killed patient 0, then it wasn’t a world ending disease either.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 4 weeks ago:
“This franchise will never have a meaningful conclusion, but I hope you gave up on that nonsense by the end of Black Flag”
- Comment on Anon thinks Silksong is problematic 5 weeks ago:
Remember that Hornet’s journal is filled out after a dozen or so of the creature in question attempting to kill her.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 5 weeks ago:
I like how this approach gets called “okay on the privacy side” and just assumes you’re logged in to everything. In case you missed it, the subject matter here is browsing porn, a vast majority of people aren’t logging in at all with any service when they watch porn.
- Comment on Discuss: 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 5 weeks ago:
Nothing would be a great brand name if they were dedicated to making good phones without any bloatware.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 5 weeks ago:
So, what’s the catch? Surely Microsoft and Mojang didn’t just suddenly become good?
- Comment on If someone evil want to murder a lot of people, couldn't they just add prions to meat and slowly infect everyone with Prion Diseases? 1 month ago:
That’s basically the plot of the next Avengers movie.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 1 month ago:
On the downside, we’re not building a better world, but on the plus side, we at least have more PFAs than we did before!
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 1 month ago:
Not sure what kind of jobs you’ve worked OP, but every job I’ve ever worked explicitly says in training that if you’re being robbed, don’t resist at all.
- Comment on just one more bro 1 month ago:
I’m a physicist, not a genie, and I have no fucking clue what adding an electron to every atom would do. I can’t even begin to fathom the question.
- Comment on Girls 1 month ago:
I was hoping for L’euler
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 2 months ago:
Pretty sure the term was invented in Minority Report as a legal gray area where it’s in many way immoral to prevent crime by arresting people before they commit anything. It’s literally a real life example of the Torment Nexus meme.
- Comment on EA's new owners are making "a huge bet" on generative AI cost-cutting to help repay a $20 billion loan, claims report 2 months ago:
Thanks for the warning I guess.
- Comment on geography is neat 2 months ago:
How could Canada complain about anything when they’re clearly underwater?
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 2 months ago:
Honestly, I don’t think I could be with anyone who understood a single word of that wiki description.