binarytobis
@binarytobis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Valid point 2 days 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 2 days 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] 3 days 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] 3 days 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? 6 days 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 week ago:
This was my favorite Smartypants segment.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on Welcome to New York City 2 weeks ago:
Everyone I know IRL hates cars and driving in rush hour, and all of them live at least 30 minutes away from work. I don’t think they properly weigh their options when choosing a place.
- Comment on Welcome to New York City 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Welcome to New York City 2 weeks ago:
I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.
- Comment on God speed brother 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t run into one at all yet. Either proton got better before I switched, or I’m lucky.
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 3 weeks ago:
I was prepared to go through hell when I switched recently, since Windows was making me so mad. Everyone told me my geaphics card wouldn’t work, gaming would be hard, etc. Then Mint just worked. 🤷
I did have to troubleshoot why my speakers were muted on startup, but it was worth it. Oh, and volume up defaults to 5% instead of the standard 2%, that took some fixing. Games just work, though.
- Comment on battlecheat 3 weeks ago:
According to the rules (which also state you can’t stack ships. Lol) you’re supposed to state which ship was hit.
TIL I’ve never played by the rules.
- Comment on battlecheat 3 weeks ago:
what are you going on about, that probability depends on the number of turns you get? last I checked it, no it does not depend on that.
I didn’t say this or anything like it. I suspect you didn’t read my comment at all.
The point you are making is that you are less likely to hit one 5 point ship than one of any among 17 points of ships. This, while true, has nothing to do with anything.
What the rest of us are talking about is whether stacking ships would help you win. The only factor in winning is if you sink all of your opponents ships before they sink all of yours. The % chance to hit the first shot is, frankly, irrelevant. Objectively, the more ships you have the longer you will last, and the higher your chance to win.
- Comment on Funni video 3 weeks ago:
Every time someone sends me a link to a Technology Connections video, I open it and think “Yeah right, I’m not watching an hour long video about humidifiers! I am curious about his conclusion so I’ll skip to the end.” Then, suddenly, it’s an hour later.
- Comment on Funni video 3 weeks ago:
The intro coming on the second time is what made me actually laugh.
- Comment on Take that, Scar! 3 weeks ago:
Maybe he’s punching the dye out of his hair, like in Scott Pilgrim.
- Comment on battlecheat 3 weeks ago:
How odd!
- Comment on battlecheat 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lower chance of getting hit on turn 1, but it takes more turns to sink a five space ship and all of the others than just one five space ship. The goal is to last more turns with at least one boat, not avoid getting hit for the longest. I don’t see the advantage.
Unless you add an extra rule requiring you to shoot the same space multiple times.
- Comment on battlecheat 3 weeks ago:
If you had a ship on every possible space, they would have a 100% chance of landing a hit, so by your logic this would be worse. But it would take 100 turns to sink you, which is the best possible outcome.
Having only one 5 space ship is objectively worse than having one five space ship and all the others. Unless of course you also created a new rule that they have to hit the same spot multiple times, once for each ship.
At that point you’re just playing Calvin Ball, though, and you might as well put the ships under your chair and claim “You never said floor!”
- Comment on what even is the purpose of life? 3 weeks ago:
It might be the tunnel from Exit 8
- Comment on Buzz off 4 weeks ago:
A few months back I was visiting my retired parents, and I wanted to break the routine a bit and decided to sit at a lakeside table we never used because it was redundant.
As I walked up to the table and sat my stuff down, I heard a “FWOMP” followed by a sound I can only describe as “chitinous rubbing”. I slowly checked my surroundings until I noticed an almost basketball sized mass of wasps waking up that had fallen with part of a hive underneath the table. In a moment of extreme calculation I decided the only one of six things on the table worth risking stings for was the tablet, and I sprinted for the first time in years to get away.
So, I guess thanks to the wasps for the fun new core memory.
- Comment on Well said 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been calorie counting for a while now, and one of the things I’ve found is that if you get one average burger and medium fries, the fries are often more calories. A medium fry at Chick Fil A is 560 kcal. Personally, I’d rather get a second sandwich.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 5 weeks ago:
Loved this game when I was younger.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 5 weeks ago:
I wish Vangelis’ other music had been like their Blade Runner music.
- Comment on Boots 1 month ago:
My first job out of college my boss told me to machine something out of “teflon impregnated delrin”, which is like slippery machinable plastic. Just stared at him for a while to see if he was serious.
- Comment on Feelin like a snack 1 month ago:
Last week I accidentally put my melatonin in the “8am” slot of my pill divider for each day, thought I was dying or something with how incredibly tired I was while still not being able to sleep at night.
- Comment on Lefty tax 1 month ago:
Clearly you weren’t ready for the lifetime career of being a Walmart cashier.
