wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 1 day ago:
I’m still frustrated by that shit. There were actual instances of bad shit happening in gaming news media that got drowned the fuck out by all the culture war grifters and rampant fucking incels.
- Random “ok but not GOTY” indie games getting GOTY level reviews, then people finding that the dev and the journalist(s) had a history of bar crawl pictures on twitter together.
- Leaked industry email lists where journalists openly were asking other journalists to take it easy on their dev roommate’s first release.
- A few big names in games journalism getting shit canned for writing honest reviews about how mediocre some AAA game was, when that game bought an ad on their site to the tune of a full site retheming around the game.
- Undisclosed referral links.
- Undisclosed sponsorship of good reviews.
- Some games trying to use the fact they had LGBTQIA+ representation to paint valid critiques as the same thing as bigoted harassment, when some of the critique was even coming from LGBTQIA+ folx.
- A few no name indie devs caught faking harassment and hate DMs.
It was a few big issues, a scatter of medium issues, a few minor things only noticable to obsessives, and then a massive clusterfuck of actual stalker/*phobe bullshit slopped on top.
I’m happy that shit like responsible disclosure started happening in the end, but what a fucking mess.
- Comment on Source Skin Rendering 1 day ago:
Not sure about skin rendering, but way back when Half Life 2 was new, one of the ways it pushed things forward was with the facial rigs and animations.
At least as far as I remember from gaming news at the time.
I remember reading that it was a big leap in terms of matching real facial muscles to the 3D rig face “muscles”, and in using those little dot things to capture actual facial movement of some of the line reads. I think Valve’s discovery and/or usage of the fact that real eye iris angles are offset by about 2 degrees was also something that was noted as a big move forward past the uncanny valley.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 3 days ago:
Come on, you gotta at least use some primer first. Kilz that shit so you seal in all the mold. Then it’s forced to become structural, and in a few years you can use your well trained mold to grow extensions to your units!
- Comment on Can your ISP see a spike in your internet usage even if you are using a VPN? 4 days ago:
Your ISP will be able to see the usage, and will almost certainly be able to tell that it is VPN usage. They won’t be able to tell what you’re doing or where you’re truly connecting to, just that you transferred whatever quantity of encrypted data with the VPN company at whatever time.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the main piracy community on Lemmy and links to a community wiki.
- Comment on They won't be happy 4 days ago:
Thanks! Corrected now
- Comment on They won't be happy 4 days ago:
Always have been: !surrealmemes@lemmy.dbzero.com
Run by the OG mothposter.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It was probably the “gold standard” modern port of the OG DooM/DooM II/Hexen etc games. There are some other source ports made for multiplayer, some made for cranking the graphics up to 11, some made to ensure exact match to original engine behavior for speed running purposes, but GZDoom was kind of the standard the community had settled on.
There are full “boomer shooter” style indie games built off of it and the expanded features it offers, like 3D model support and greatly improved lighting. Then the lead dev went a little bonkers (I don’t know the specifics) and people forked it into this and have kept improving it.
- Comment on Cookies policy 1 week ago:
They also adjusted the color to make it all more flesh colored.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 week ago:
I’m well aware. I’m not talking about those situations. I’m talking ~20 comments deep on a thread that has seen no other action for multiple days. And I’m not talking about it just getting one downvote between when I reply from people happening to find it.
And even then, I just check. I’m not harassing people, I’m not jumping to immediately blocking. I’m just looking to see if it is something weird going on. If there is, I block.
And I haven’t done any of this since last year. No need.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 week ago:
What? Ok?
This isn’t a comment on a sub thread of a sub thread of an otherwise long dead thread jumping from no downvotes to -3 in like a single day (between the time I made my comment and the time I’m responding to the reply). I’m not actively watching this stuff and I think you’ve misunderstood what I’m talking about.
Now if you’re going to check my profile page over the next few days to a week? Then I might notice the downvotes and look, but I honestly haven’t noticed anything like that or checked votes against my comments since the event I mentioned in my last comment with that powermod, which was sometime last year.
Downvotes on a comment like mine, offering a semi-reasonable explanation for disliked behavior, are entirely expected. Hell, downvotes an any comment expressing an opinion.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 week ago:
The only time I check is to try and catch if I’m being targeted by someone mass down voting me or using alts to do so. Only when I’m seeing weird stuff like every one of my comments for a while getting at least one downvote, or seeing my comments deep in a one on one conversation on an otherwise dead thread getting multiple downvotes (no one’s going to even see those except me and who I’m talking to).
Unfortunately, this has been a “you’re only paranoid if they aren’t out to get you” situation. Most give up after a day or two and I just block and move on, but it was a bit common for a few months.
I caught one of the “respected” members of my instance pulling that shit, a person who moderates multiple comms, downvoting me using their alts over multiple instances.
They accused me of doxxing them (they were actually around that time). Now I have a bunch of bans in my modlog saying that I used a slur, when I was quoting the name of an ancient meme and I edited the word out long before they did the bans.
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, far_university got it. Infrasound is what I was referring to specifically, and your comment has me wondering now if there’s been any attempts to measure for it around wind turbines too.
The known negative health effects from the noise pollution are bad enough, but there’s evidence of further effects than that due to the infrasound as well, which isn’t immediately obvious as it’s not within human hearing range
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 2 weeks ago:
At least something made them reconsider. Land zoned for housing development near where I live just got abandoned after multiple years owned by some shitheads who were suing the local government for not allowing them to turn it into a ground shipping hub in the middle of miles of residential land (broken up with the occasional school and strip mall type businesses), only for the land to be picked up by a group trying to build a data center claiming it would bring significant jobs to the area.
I’ve been to a few data centers for work. Job hubs they ain’t.
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 2 weeks ago:
I’ll make sure to leave plenty of illegal pollution in my surroundings, and to emanate sub-audible frequencies harmful to human health for a multiple mile radius.
Precariously balancing a terrible mobius strip of circular financing that itself props up the majority of the US stock market might be a little tough though. Anyone have any tips?
- Comment on The legendary PS2 2 weeks ago:
Your boyfriend is at most 25 years old, and only if you are 69.
Oooooh boy I’m glad that I already have everyone responding to you blocked.
My wife’s ~15 years older than me, and while it generally doesn’t matter more than making restaurant servers that check ID do a double take, there are times where her pulling me up past a stage of my life has resulted in me lacking some skills people normally build up during that time.
Just be safe and make sure you’re doing what is truly best for each of you. Good luck and enjoy yourself.
- Comment on CAH at it again 2 weeks ago:
Money
- Comment on Hooaaaaaa!! 3 weeks ago:
I’ve left all these bodies in the sun
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, if it’s the same price why the hell would you not stay in a hotel instead of “pretend this random house is a hotel, but now with the added magic of no regulation”
- Comment on The perfect date 4 weeks ago:
If you work at a company where all of its offices are in the same time zone and you’re time-stamping logs, then it’s more expedient for understanding and placing an event in time against other things to use local time.
Unless everything is already standardized as GMT with offset I guess, but I feel like down that route lies madness.
“I got your email at 20:37:45-7:00” is a few more steps than “I got your email at 1:37PM”.
It’s not a big hurdle, but I try to design for the newest member on the team scrambling in panic rather than a calm cool professional already familiar with conventions.
Now, as soon as we do start dealing with multiple time zones I would just cut my custom time formatting string down to the shorthand to have the scripting language output in the full ISO 8601 format. But until then, being able to easily sort the the date properly and having the time be more human readable is a more “workable” compromise.
- Comment on The perfect date 4 weeks ago:
Except I can’t get behind the time part of it, personally. I can see the point of doing GMT with the offset if you’re working across multiple timezones, but it’s overkill for situations where you aren’t.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 4 weeks ago:
While better pay for care workers could end up being a problem resulting in higher costs, when people like you bring up this topic it is without addressing the potential cost savings to be had by clawing back “administrative” costs.
Yes, there is absolutely some level of administration needed, and no one is arguing that we should make some aspect of care worse to enable better pay for nurses and other care staff.
The argument generally is that there is more than significant overpay happening at high levels (executive and levels close to them) which could be drawn from at little to no noticable difference to the executives and overpaid themselves while significantly improving things for the levels below them.
Oh no, one of them made 3m in a year instead of 4m? That’s 5 whole six-figure positions even with your 20% overhead.
Until such time as these sorts of hypothetical talks about the impact of raising pay begin to also including the hypothetical that this additional pay could come by redirecting money that already exists and already goes into these systems, examining executive compensation packages and the like, you aren’t going to make any ground on the “costs” argument.
Because there’s currently a lot more than 20% of expenses going to “overhead”. Maybe 20% to administrative overhead, plus 50% to executive compensation packages.
And look, I get that not every exec is Musk, and the margins can be smaller than people may assume. I have family that run a small family business who have to make those sorts of decisions and costs absolutely do add up fucking quick.
But that’s all the more reason to be open and honest about this shit instead of trying to frame this with only one side.
There probably are some hospitals out in podunk nowhere where there isn’t anything left to cut from the execs and administration, but there are plenty of places (at least in the US) that are explicitly for profit.
So just as I have family running a small family business where things are fair for their grand total of… four employees I think, my wife’s family used to be close with the elder care magnate in their area. Wife’s family matriarch was close friends with the lady who married the elder care magnate.
We had to sit and watch this entitled bitch have a puff-piece novel ghost-written about the trauma of having a dedicated live in care team for her own mother while she declined, dedicated driver and multiple handlers so they could go on beach days still… while her former supposed best friend (my wife’s mother) suffered in one of her husband’s facilities. Had the audacity to message asking if there was anything she could do, but couldn’t even get off her ass and visit. To even risk seeing the true mess of elder care as her husband ran it.
So yeah, all that shit to say: Yes, the money has to come from somewhere, but there’s a whole bunch of fucking money right fucking there that keeps going into hoards instead of actually being put to use for the betterment of the company/workers/etc.
- Comment on Praise the Corn Maiden! Praise her! She is your god now! 4 weeks ago:
It was originally a shitposty way to drown out/protest the overwhelming flood of every goddamn post in the shitposting and meme communities being about American politics.
- Comment on how babby is formed 4 weeks ago:
They need to do way instain mothers
- Comment on welcome home 5 weeks ago:
No, if you knock it over it holds nothing you useless prat! God dammit this is why we can never have anyone over! Ten years. Ten. Years! I kept thinking, maybe this is the time you’d be able to- to- fuck it. It’s not worth it anymore. I’m done. I think I’ve been over this for a while now, but it’s real now. You can be here, with your cans and your beans and your fucking shit mess everywhere! Without me.
No, it’s fine. It’s fine! You just go do exactly what you want. What you’ve always done. Just without me now. It’ll be even easier for you. Goodbye.
- Comment on Howdy 5 weeks ago:
Nice fuckin model!
- Comment on Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron 1 month ago:
I’d have to guess it’s something weird with how they’re using web fonts or something. Looks fine on my end.
- Comment on Why does not LW have it's only little icon that can be seen across the fediverse? To let people know which area of the Fed we represent. I would totally put it by my name. 1 month ago:
What? Nearly every UI for the fediverse displays the instance of the poster after their name if they are not from the same instance as you.
That’s why to you I show up as wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and to me you show up as Patnou@lemmy.world
There’s no need for some sort of icon, you show your home instance wherever you go already.
- Comment on Shameful display 1 month ago:
Ugh, when the food places near my work started recognizing me. Yuck.
- Comment on The Head 1 month ago:
Lol no. Very no. Getting gut shot is a wonderful way to die slowly and in agony.
