binarytobis
@binarytobis@lemmy.world
- Comment on A true prophet 22 hours ago:
Of course!
- Comment on A true prophet 23 hours ago:
I liked RATM for a while before I really noticed what their music was about. Insane to me in retrospect, as there’s nothing subtle about their message.
- Comment on not on my watch 1 day ago:
Why does it need to be a patch though? I feel like that is the kind of thing you just say, verbally.
- Comment on YUM 2 days ago:
“We do things a little different around here.”
Then proceeds to explain Tapas.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 6 days ago:
Yeah, tbh I’ve only seen “I don’t feel like driving, let’s DoorDash” in personal experience.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 6 days ago:
Has anyone else noticed how absolutely awful spellcheck has gotten?
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 6 days ago:
I’ve only ever witnessed people using “digital assistants” to play music and make grocery lists. Both of those things are so trivial that I wouldn’t spend any time or money solving them, and it’s not even easier their way. The number of times I’ve heard someone say “Alexa. STOP. <Repeated command phrase in increasing volume>!”
Definitely not enough of a tradeoff to wiretap your own house.
- Comment on "I don't answer questions" 1 week ago:
One time a cop lied that he caught be going 94 in a 65. I said “I was not going 94. I’ve never gone 94 in my life.” And he said “Are you saying that wasn’t you?” “I don’t know what you recorded but I wasn’t going 94.” So he goes and sits in his car for a while pretending to check his tapes, then comes back and says “You are definitely the one I recorded.” Conveniently ignoring what I actually said.
Eventually he dropped the speed he was claiming down to like 70 and my dumbass then-21 year old self was like “Oh OK, yeah I was totally going 70, just not 94.” and he handed me a ticket.
I’m still mad about it.
- Comment on Washed up 1 week ago:
I worked in such a place once. The dishwasher was always running at max capacity, but it wasn’t fast enough for the manager who kept yelling at me. No one but me stayed in the dishwasher position for more than three days. Eventually they brought in an old “specialist” dish washer from years back, and he showed me the “right” way to do it.
This guy seriously loaded the dish rack onto the conveyor, then sprayed the dishes with a hose while forcefully dragging the rack through the dishwasher in five seconds instead of the standard minute. The dishes weren’t even close to clean, it was disgusting.
They were under new management a couple of months later.
- Comment on Languages 1 week ago:
I’ve always thought it was funny there is no “o” in “eaux”.
- Comment on This bookstore wraps all books in plastic. 1 week ago:
No way in hell I’m buying a sofa without sitting in it. They never feel like one would expect.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I loathe AI so much I didn’t know that, thanks!
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 2 weeks ago:
Twice
- Comment on Anon orders a martini 2 weeks ago:
Great games, by the way.
- Comment on Anon orders a martini 2 weeks ago:
One could argue that most people don’t eat the ice, so if it melted they might have another sip or two before ordering another. Could possibly make the difference of a drink or two over the night.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Why are his legs… backwards?
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 3 weeks ago:
Hannibal preferred intimate one-on-one murders. I doubt he would kill more than 100 people while in office.
More US citizens died to COVID than all wars, and Trump told people not to wear masks or quarantine. That alone got him on the death toll leaderboard.
My uncle and cousin died after catching COVID at a superspreader event shortly after his speech. I bet Hannibal Lecter would never have even come close to killing my personal relatives.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 3 weeks ago:
Man, I wish we could elect Lex. He was a full-on criminal, but he took care of what was his. I would disagree with his stance on aliens, but I bet he would give us healthcare on a whim.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
its not funny anymore, its just too real
Office Space was my favorite movie for a decade, but I can’t watch it any more because it’s too relatable. I imagine Idiocracy might have a similar effect.
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 5 weeks ago:
Gonna have to vet the Blarney Stone before I lick it. Could be made out of anything.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
I knew a guy who always wrote “drugs” as the reason on Venmo, until he got contacted by them asking him to stop.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
From what I can tell in this thread, most people carry wallets outside of generational divides. There is also a significant number of generational-independent psychopaths who have absolutely unhinged systems like “I just carry lose cards in my pocket because I don’t want to take ten minutes picking out a wallet”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What ticks me off about modern AAA games, and the “texture size” reason for large file size being mentioned in these comments, is just how misguided the effort is.
If your game is running in UE5 (as many modern AAA titles are), it probably has forced TAA and a bunch of other unoptimized garbage. With the TAA and misc frame interpolation nonsense you inevitably get smearing and weird shadows.
Who cares if you can make out individual hairs on a character whose hand just smear melded into the background for a few seconds? None of those fine textures are visible through the motion blur and bloom lighting and post-processing filters anyway. It’s absurd.
I’ve been playing The Talos Principle: Reawakening recently, which is a 2025 remake of the 2014 game, fresh with all of the UE5 bells and whistles. The old game looked pretty good, despite being made by a smaller team. It was a bit austere, but that fit with the theme and setting of the game. The new version looks objectively worse to me. Sure it has raytracing, but everything is a little blurry now even if you tweak the settings. As someone who loathes TAA I also can’t help but noting the smearing. In a game where noticing the details is important to solving the puzzles, focusing quickly on things matters. Sometimes I don’t even see an important laser connector tool until my third time in an area. Also, since it’s unoptimized as is par for the course, my 4090 isn’t enough to fight the frame dips down for a stuttery 30 fps in certain areas.
I’m sure there’s games where the larger textures have an impact, but if you’re burying them under several layers of blurry filters, I don’t see the point.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think BG3 saves remember things like the position of every item you’ve ever left on the floor, because the entire world seems persistent. Which is cool, but it’s also a game where I have hundreds of saves. Maybe I should also check my save file size, come to think of it.
- Comment on Good offer! Which one should I pick? 1 month ago:
They were rated highly among my options when I was choosing services last year, and I ended up not picking them because it felt like they really want to be Google, and that at any moment they will pull the rug out from under their customers in a “remove ‘Don’t be evil’ from the charter” move. These stories seem to suggest I was right.
And then the co-owner of the VPN I did choose funded far right politics in Germany. Whoops.
- Comment on Every fucking time 1 month ago:
This was my favorite Smartypants segment.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
Oh please, plenty of games push my top tier hardware to its limits!
It’s just that they do it by not bothering to optimize their software.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
Exactly, the small form factor is a huge draw. I’ve built as-small-as-possible cheap gaming PCs before and never gotten close to this size.
I currently use one with no video card that just streams my main PC, but the streaming sucks.
- Comment on Welcome to New York City 1 month ago:
Not everyone, certainly, but some people do have a choice, and willingly choose the commute.
I knew a guy in Alaska who drove three hours one way to work every morning because he didn’t like having neighbors. I’m not sure why he cared about his home situation so much when he was inly there to sleep, but here we are.