whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 week ago:
There are no registration or registry with individuals’ information if guardians use parental controls and adult sites and apps identify themselves as adult for those controls, check what their kids are doing online, and talk with them about dangerous people or content they might see to teach them how to stay safe.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
I can’t think of a setting that would university apply to all games, like I’d be hard pressed to say a setting in Tetris that would apply to Minecraft. Vision and auditory accessibility is probably about it, but those settings would look pretty different I think depending on the game or genre of game.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 week ago:
“Economy” is almost always corpo newspeak for wealthy people’s money. If they actually meant the economy as in everyone’s stake in the economic system the phrase “cost the economy” would be meaningless.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
I find it gets better with practice to some degree, if I go for a long stretch reading more or less fiction I find it affects my imagination and ability to visualize with more or less detail and memorability. I don’t think it’ll bridge the gap to 5 necessarily, but it might bump a 4 to a 3 or a 2 to a 1.
- Comment on We have one at home 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a counter recommendary (anti-recommendist?), whatever they recommend look for the opposite instead
- Comment on We have one at home 2 weeks ago:
Wow, replied before I saw this. 2 on live references in a single thread, feel like I just spotted a bigfoot or something
- Comment on We have one at home 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on me_irl_conflict 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I like how it kinda looks like ‘oh no no n-’
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Golden Corral’s new slogan
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 5 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 1 month ago:
Someone is getting serious about their chess game
- Comment on for future fireflies 1 month ago:
Still cleanup sidewalks and walkways please, those leaves can be slippery little guys
- Comment on concert 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Maybe dipped in some oily legume seed paste that has a name including -nut but isn’t one
- Comment on Fucking idiots 1 month ago:
And the earth is flat, nobody is going to carbonate all the oceans
- Comment on I'm down with that 1 month ago:
There were, and they were good too. I think they had a white packaging, then a light blue.
- Comment on one bright second 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Lasagnaius 1 month ago:
We might be related I’m Fried Eggius
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 1 month 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 1 month ago:
That whole crossover run was pretty great and not very long either
- Comment on wax on 1 month ago:
Weird bee teeth
