cerebralhawks

@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t pay through the nose for one. They’re old systems and should not be considered reliable (though, they may be).

  The value in a 3DS is the jailbreak. Once you have the “H-shop” replacement for Nintendo’s E-shop, you can basically download any game that was available digitally. You can also dump your cartridge-based games, save some wear and tear on the slot. I know some people value physical, and that’s a fine point, but it’s also true that the card slot is an (eventual) failure point, and it’s one you can eliminate.

  Another cool thing you can do with a 3DS is dump the saves and restore them. I have Animal Crossing: New Leaf on cart, but I’ve dumped it to digital. I also play (mostly play) on my MacBook Air via an emulator. If I think I might be going back to the 3DS, I can put the save game back on the 3DS and pick up right where I left off from on the computer. There’s also a level editor online, you browse to your save, you can make your whole town green again (no dead grass), you can touch up locations or straight up move stuff around, you can even reroute rivers and such. Just note there are a few checks the game makes (when Isabelle says “getting the town ready”) and if it fails any checks, your save won’t load. So don’t go too crazy. If the game won’t let you do it, like place a lamp post in front of a neighbour’s door, that might make it fail the check. By the same token, the game itself is overly conservative with placement, but the check, not so much. You can definitely move a light post one space closer to a bridge than the game will let you place it. I’ve done this — I don’t need to be able to walk between the light post and the edge of a bridge. The game makes you place it a full space apart, but the check doesn’t care if it’s now right next to it. But always keep the old save, and only make one controversial change, and verify the change passes the check.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we need legal genders at all?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More like “say you’re an iPhone user without saying you’re an iPhone user.” Modern iOS is infamous for hallucinating stuff in the keyboard, often after you typed/sent it.

  I’m gonna leave it. Everyone knew what I meant, and now it’s attributed to Apple “Intelligence”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we need legal genders at all?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. Physical sex is impotent but gender identity does not have to be binary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Female approached by man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you did fine. As a guy with nieces, my standard for how I’d approach a woman socially is how I’d like another man to approach one of my nieces socially. In a public place where she has several outs if she gets a bad vibe from the situation. But also confident and direct. But just because he shot his shot respectfully doesn’t mean you owe him conversation. Being at a mall to shop or to walk or to kill time is perfectly fine. A lot of younger people do use it as a meeting place because it is big and public and you can explore similar interests while shopping, or even window shopping. When I was younger, I avoided the mall because “mall people” weren’t my kind of people, but now I can see the advantage.

  I’d ask you how you’d prefer to be approached, but it’s beside the point since you weren’t looking to be approached in the first place, and that’s fine too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fandom won’t allow adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never had a problem getting on that shit site. It’s Safari ands Wipr2 on t my phone or it’s that or Firefox with uBlock Origin on the desktop.

  These sites are fighting for the scraps while more and more people just ask the chatbot for the information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the NAACP is for colored people, why is there not one for Asian People, White People, People of Middle Eastern Desent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, MAGA exists so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are wireless mice these days?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re always gonna run into things like interference. I use the Logitech Ergo M575, on a Mac. It has a receiver for wireless, or it can do Bluetooth. So I have it on Bluetooth. Sometimes it lags. When I had a Windows machine, I used the adapter, but now ports are at a premium and I don’t have a dock, so I just went Bluetooth. The adapter is a good choice for Logitech, especially if you have multiple parts, since one receiver can support several devices (you don’t need one for each).

  My keyboard is also Bluetooth though, and it has zero issues. They’re both about 18" from the Mac (which sits above my monitor on a shelf). Keyboard is also wired, but I think when the switch is on BT, it only uses the wire to keep itself charged. If I pull the plug, it’ll run for a while without needing to be plugged in, but I have no reason to rely on the battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If this survey is any indication, Audacity wants to add generative AI because of course they do⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard about Tenacity, but while it says it supports macOS, it doesn’t actually run. If they get that sorted, I’ll switch us. My wife uses Audacity more than I do, and she hates AI.

  I don’t mind AI for some things, but it has no place in the arts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinity+1 Complex⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least OP was honest about it and up front. Some people coding using AI try to hide it, like when you find out you’re just going to be okay with it?

  Would you rather OP lied about it?

  Were you even interested in the game in the first place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christa Pike at 18 years old when she was sentenced to death. She is now 50 and they are supposed to kill her this week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, there are anti-death penalty groups out there, but most guys who are put to death — in fact, I’d say all of them at this point — don’t get the level of scrutiny this case has.

  It’s just wild to me that a man can shoot a person in the head, execution style (for example) and only the anti-death penalty crowd really objects to his punishment. But most people generally believe that he deserves to pay with his life. A life for a life. I don’t personally agree with that, but that’s how it goes. Then you get a woman who tortures a teen girl to death, carves her up while she’s still alive, and we’re gonna pump the brakes because she’s female? It’s absolutely a double standard.

  I’m of the opinion that nobody should be put to death by the state, that the state should be better than that, but let’s see how many come out of the woodwork for the next condemned man. See if it’s all over the news like this case has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunken Storage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost makes me think of Warehouse 13. Haven’t watched in ages though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christa Pike at 18 years old when she was sentenced to death. She is now 50 and they are supposed to kill her this week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re fine with the double standard, just admit it and own it. Nobody’s perfect, and in fact, perfect is the enemy of good. If that’s your position, defend it. If you can’t, you should look at why that is. It’s fine if we disagree, and disagreement is good to advance the discourse. We shouldn’t be a hive mind online. But defend your position. Explain why it’s okay for men to be put to death but not women. Or whatever your point of view is — I don’t want to put words in your mouth. Or maybe you don’t think it’s a double standard. Just explain your position better and defend it. It’s also fine to be “wrong” and own that, too. Like, I like pineapple on pizza. I know most don’t. But I own it. I’m not gonna convince someone who’s never had a great Hawaiian pie that it’s pretty good. I don’t need to, I like what I like and if that’s wrong… I’m not perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christa Pike at 18 years old when she was sentenced to death. She is now 50 and they are supposed to kill her this week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sad but world people have as much sympathy for a man on death row? Would they even care to read how bad his childhood was? Most people wouldn’t care. Let’s see if somebody takes up for a condemned man and how much social media attention it gains.

  That said, I’m not strictly in favour of the death penalty. No matter what the penalty is, people will commit crimes. But we have to do something. I’m not sure what, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s be absolutely clear, they didn’t just kill third-party apps.

  And to be fair, third party apps often bypassed their ads. So Reddit had a legitimate grievance there. The apps were contributing nothing, were collecting money from Reddit users, and the app I’m going to talk about, Apollo, actually had a recurring subscription if you weren’t one of the first ones to buy it.

  So Apollo was kind of the big dog and so Reddit basically went after them primarily. After the conversation did not go well for Reddit, Reddit’s CEO started telling everyone that the Apollo dev tried to extort Reddit. The Apollo dev did make a joke about money changing hands, but he absolutely did not extort Reddit, and he brought the receipts. He transcribed the call… for those who didn’t have time to listen to the actual recording, which he also shared.

  With a big pie in their face, Reddit reacted by killing third-party apps entirely. And it was mostly based on a lie.

  Reddit is run by the Epstein class anyway. Heck, I was banned just for suggesting longer prison terms for people who prey upon children. I guess they took that as a threat against their leadership? And/or certain politicians who they support (or who support them)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all the bad stuff said about AI can it actually better humanity in some ways or another? Or is it just doom and gloom?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It possibly could but the people running it are doing so for profit.

  Okay, say an AI cures cancer. That’s not just going to be free. They’re only going to sell it to people who can afford it, and price it out of reach of working folks.

  Stuff like that.

  It can be used to solve problems, but it’s not going to share the solutions. The person running the AI will get to choose to share it or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on your definition of nudity. Plenty of people post “nude” or “naked” in the NSFW subs and they are wearing underwear.

  There’s a certain definition that these people subscribe to that describes nudity as wearing less clothes than you’d be comfortable going out in public. That it’s a form of vulnerability. I always thought it meant completely nude, like not a thread on them. Others disagree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of thing is fairly common in gaming. I stopped giving my Skyrim kids new outfits because, the way the game would handle it, the character would unequip their previous outfit and then equip the new one. On a fast PC, it happens instantly, or near enough that you would not notice. However, on the Xbox 360, or a potato PC, there are a couple of seconds where the character appears “nude” for a second or two.

  To qualify the “nudity”, all Skyrim kids have the same body and face. There are hair types and they are gender-specific, and that’s how you get boys and girls. Both have painted-on underwear. “Panty” style with a tube-top “bra” for girls and “boxer briefs” style for boys. The child outfit comes in four colours (IIRC) and is also gendered. It’s a dress for girls and a shirt and pants for boys. In both cases, the top is coloured and the bottom is grey, IIRC.

  A simple solution would have been for the “nude body” to include the outfit in white. But hey, what do I know? I am not a programmer.

  Another solution would be to stop using the adoption system entirely. Nothing forces you to have kids in the game. Of course, we’re all still going to adopt off-brand Aerith, right? (If you don’t know, just keep an eye out for a girl in a red dress selling flowers. She’s in Windhelm, where the Stormcloaks operate out of.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some communities don't have actual mods, and you can request Lemmy World admins to take them over⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To clarify, the mod would need to be on your instance to request to mod a community on your instance, right? Or no?

  Something I’ve always wondered.

  Like I’m sure I can only create a community on dbzer0 (and have done). But what about adopting a community?

  I don’t have any in mind, I’m merely curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just a number that is way lower and more sustainable. It’ll grow back but it’ll take time. There’s probably someone better equipped to tell you the Goldilocks zone for world population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cynical answer is “charge for air”.

  So imagine you’re someone like Elon Musk, you’re invested in space exploration and you’ve just told the world you’re going to build a colony on Mars. What’s the benefit? Sure, it’s land, you can charge rent. It’s going to cost a lot to get appliances and other “creature comforts” there, so that will be a service as well. But look at what else Mars lacks that we have? Air. They will charge for air.

  Building a colony on a planet that does not support life doesn’t have many obvious short-term benefits. I think the biggest long-term benefit is, you do it to show it can be done, then when you discover a planet that does support life, you take what you learned from the Martian colony and you send people there. After a couple generations of scientists and engineers and others have made it a place worth living, you can start sending regular people.

  Now if we could get Earth’s population back down to about 3 billion, we might be able to reverse some of the damage and keep Earth much longer. One way to get rid of 5 billion people is to colonise them on other worlds.

  But, all that’s pretty optimistic. What’s to stop these space companies from flying settlers into that planet’s star rather than landing them on the planet? Not the sun because people would notice. But if those people take a decade to arrive, and messages take months to get back to us, well, easy coverup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to have more than one account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s okay to have more than one account on Lemmy as long as you only have one per instance. Many communities have rules against multiple accounts, but each instance is its own community. They’re just federated. Just don’t use them dishonestly. But that’s up to each user to decide.

  I made a second account on another instance, but I haven’t found any use in using that account over this one. I have been banned from a few communities, but not because I broke rules, because a mod saw me in another community and thought I’d be a bad fit for their community. I say a bad thing about generative AI, I’m risking a ban from generative AI communities. I say a good thing about AI, I risk a ban from anti AI communities. Dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t. So I don’t let others influence what I say. The truth is, I’m neither entirely for nor against the tech. I just think it needs to be regulated and used responsibly. That’s just one example. I don’t believe in ban evasion. But if my other account sees something in a community that banned my first account with zero interaction, that isn’t ban evasion, it’s just normal use of the service. Mods banning people who never interacted with their community are the abnormally behaving ones. But it’s not a big deal. Just a grey area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Reportedly Sending Game Developers Massive Survey With Question Asking About Physical Discs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Both platforms will be discless for their next generation. PS6 and Helix will both be digital only.

  The problem is, PlayStation does not have the infrastructure in place to implement a proper disc to digital system like Xbox has. Xbox’s still half-arsed though as it only covers XB1 and Series games. Like PlayStation games, Xbox and 360 games are not individually license-coded. So they both need a mail-in programme where you can mail in your discs and get a code to redeem the game on digital.

  The only real issue I have with that, aside from the possibility they can take your game from you, is that at this point, we don’t need a next-gen console. GTA VI is the big release this year (though I personally don’t care about it) and IMO it doesn’t look better than Cyberpunk 2077 from nearly 7 years ago. Okay, the faces look better, but the world? Hell no. I just got Pragmata and it in no way pushes the envelope of what XSX/PS5 can do. Hell, the 360/PS3 era games are still peak, IMO. I don’t need PS6 or Helix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Reportedly Sending Game Developers Massive Survey With Question Asking About Physical Discs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do that. They still sell PCs, as far as I know. Consoles are subsidized because you have to buy from them.

  Those PCs just don’t run PlayStation games (unless they have a PC version).

  I always felt like if you bought a PC, you should be able to buy a license to play Xbox and/or PlayStation games on it. Just have to pay the piper. Sadly it didn’t work like that. They all make money if you buy multiple machines, so they will push you in that direction if you want more diversity in your gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re talking about the truck drivers, they were just never aware of it. Global politics aren’t their concern. Getting brown people out of the pool of possible competitors was, and they voted accordingly. Papa Trump told them that Iranians are brown and therefore have to go, and they backed him. They’re also Muslim, so, you know, guilt by association for 9/11, at least in the minds of the uneducated masses. To be fair, these people also believed the president they voted for when he said he could beat Iran in a few weeks. They thought Trump would control all the oil by then and sell it to them cheap. They thought they were his people because they waved the same flag and carried guns. But they got to keep a brown woman from becoming president, so they still consider that a net win… even with diesel having nearly tripled in price. It’s like that quote by former US president Johnson about giving white Americans a brown or Black man to look down upon. And they’ll vote all the way down the Republican ticket in November, too. Because, they will tell you, eventually that cheque will come in. (And they still believe they’ll get the $1776 for the America 250, the $2000 DOGE cheque, the $3000 tariffs cheque… and they believe the Trump phone was made in America…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Hands-On Preview: What a Wonderful Night to Have a Curse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the ideal would be if we could italicise titles, but we can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Hands-On Preview: What a Wonderful Night to Have a Curse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Articles and game titles both use title casing though, so it’s grammatically correct. They could have at least put the game title in quotes to make it clearer, though.

  The game is called Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, as long as Soulslikes remain popular and win awards, I’m fine with this.

  I don’t mind a little challenge as long as I can learn the game and master a skill. I don’t like QTEs at all, and that includes dodge/parry mechanics. It’s like playing Guitar Hero on Expert with a controller, but you can’t see the notes. If you’re doing what the game wants but you’re a second or so off and that napes you lose, that’s a game I won’t complete… or shed a single tear if anyone pirates it or the studio closes. Games that punish gamers shouldn’t exist. If gamers want the challenge they can have it, but it should be optional and not required to complete the story. I’m fine with achievements being disabled for lowering the difficulty, just make the game accessible to differently abled gamers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't windows in detail mode show the size of a folder unless you hover over it? They will show the size of files but not a folder unless you either go to properties or something?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. macOS does do folder sizes. It rarely shows because it takes forever. Maybe if the drive was formatted APFS it would be faster? Not sure though. My drives are NTFS and exFAT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a dungeon master⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody missing the point of green text: it probably didn’t happen. It’s also 4chan. So yeah.

  But, DM clearly set a timer on when apocalypse would happen if certain goals weren’t met. Players sought other goals and thus, lost the campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the most common stupid question you hear/see?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “How’s it going?” I’m at work. You’re at work. Both of us can name five places we’d rather be without a second thought. The fuck you think it’s going? Same as you, so let’s quit lying to ourselves.

  Ironically, the best way to answer a Christian (or, I suppose, any member of any Abrahamic religion), works here. “He woke me up today,” and they say something like “yeah any day above ground is a blessing”. Like yeah, that is literally the best thing I can say about my day. I woke up. I had coffee. Good coffee. I had a good breakfast. I am “blessed” in the kitchen. That was the best part of my day. THEN I CAME HERE.