whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on me_irl_conflict 3 days ago:
Einstein died in 1955. Redshift observations started in 1912 but weren’t clear on what was happening or why, Friedmann etc al’s calculations in 1922 probably raised the question in a serious context, and Hubble’s law was published in 1929. He knew about it, probably at least from the early '20s.
- Comment on 0^n+0^n=0^n 5 days ago:
I like how it kinda looks like ‘oh no no n-’
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 6 days ago:
2d/3d: I want to keep both thumbs on the sticks for 3d so I prefer a controller like this 3rd party Xbox with back buttons and extra shoulder buttons
Xbox style controller with 4 back buttons and 3 buttons per shoulder
Fighting: leverless is a lot of fun, I have a slab mini and a junk food micro lite I prefer the micro it’s way lighter
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 1 week ago:
Dwarf fortress, chess, crosswords, Nonograms, sudoku
Check out scummVM and ROMs for old point and click adventure games like grim fandango, monkey island, Sam & max, etc
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’s a too big for a simulation type game world, go all the way. But for more directed game styles that are narrative driven or more carnival ride than simulation don’t make it boring use techniques from past games; the keeping distant landmarks in view outside like in New Vegas, or hilly landscapes to obscure stuff to discover like in Zelda or Skyrim. Bad examples would be like traveling between towns in daggerfall or those monuments in the middle of nowhere in starfield.
- Comment on Check your candy 2 weeks ago:
Golden Corral’s new slogan
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 2 weeks ago:
The secret of Monkey island games have a tropical Halloween feel with ghost pirates and root beer
Kentucky route zero for a slower ghost story, dear Esther for a walking sim ghost story both with great soundtracks
- Comment on Progress 3 weeks ago:
Someone is getting serious about their chess game
- Comment on for future fireflies 3 weeks ago:
Still cleanup sidewalks and walkways please, those leaves can be slippery little guys
- Comment on concert 3 weeks ago:
It’s about $42 just from inflation not accounting for decreased spending power with many prices increasing faster than inflation itself.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 3 weeks ago:
Special interest journalism is usually overrun by corporate interests and inflated reviews. Find someone who was fired or left an organization for something like reporting a low review to search out integrity for individuals.
- Comment on Got 'em 3 weeks ago:
The haversine formula is more accurate than a straight line in measuring distances around the size of cities or zip codes. Geodesics are even more accurate because they take into account the stretching around the equator, both require curved earths to calculate more accurate distances than flat calculations. But obviously math, especially addition, is a conspiracy to cover the truth of the Time Cube™. /s
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
Maybe dipped in some oily legume seed paste that has a name including -nut but isn’t one
- Comment on Fucking idiots 4 weeks ago:
And the earth is flat, nobody is going to carbonate all the oceans
- Comment on I'm down with that 4 weeks ago:
There were, and they were good too. I think they had a white packaging, then a light blue.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
Time can stretch and squish and follow physical rules, if the passage of time is an experience of the mind time itself would remain existent without minds just as real as distance and the passage of distance via movement between objects would remain without minds.
One interesting thing I heard is the DESI data from a telescope observatory in Arizona that was trying to build a more accurate map of the universe identified the dark energy acceleration as slowing. That could mean if the trend continues eventually gravity will overpower dark energy and everything collapses back together again. I don’t think it’s conclusive, but it is evidence maybe heat death isn’t an ending phase.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 4 weeks ago:
There used to be audio scrobbling programs I think they called it that would run on your computer to keep track of what you listened to and publish on a user page and also use the site to get recs, check out what your friends are listening to, etc. I think last.fm fucked up the official client or something but there were a couple open and universal scrobbler that might still work, but they do still only connect with last.fm I don’t think there’s a self host option.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lasagnaius 5 weeks ago:
We might be related I’m Fried Eggius
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 5 weeks ago:
Uneducated weirdo pretending to know science and medicine to bully people they don’t like and grift everyone else calls other people strange, and he’s in charge of the HHS
comic book panel with a woman looking out the window saying what a dumb time to be alive
- Comment on Priorities 5 weeks ago:
That whole crossover run was pretty great and not very long either
- Comment on wax on 5 weeks ago:
Weird bee teeth
- Comment on I Quit 5 weeks ago:
Just imagining a world where there’s no antidemocratic inheritance and all income is between 20-230k per year
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 1 month ago:
I think you can generalize it even further to don’t reward bad behavior. That should include purchasing goods and services from organizations that try to exploit people or commoditize art.
- Comment on It's true 1 month ago:
The Klein bottle of quixotism
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Reminds me of one of my favorite articles
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 1 month ago:
- Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now 1 month ago:
Who are Nexstars biggest advertisers?
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 month ago:
Snake oil don’t sell itself
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 1 month ago:
It’s all Brownian in the end
