wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Zen 1 day ago:
Ahh, the good old “shit yourself” diet
- Comment on Same as it ever was 6 days ago:
- Comment on Same as it ever was 6 days ago:
Time isn’t holding up. Time isn’t after us.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
The remake is being handled by a third party, and it’s unclear so far what they’ve been allowed to do besides replace the graphics rendering with Unreal Engine 5. It’s all reportedly still Creation Engine under the hood.
Considering that Bethesda refused to roll in the community bug fixes with their rereleases of Skyrim, it’s likely that it will have all the bugs of the original.
- Comment on Found out about this modding recently for Half Life 1 1 week ago:
Unfortunate to see that they haven’t tested with xash3d or the like. I’d be especially interested in the ray tracing fork of xash being supported.
Improved lighting does wonders for old games, imo.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
Then who was phone?
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 1 week ago:
And is now illegal, thankfully.
- Comment on Regarding the Sudden Increase in User Sign-ups from a Specific Region 1 week ago:
Might help you to know that lemmy.dbzer0.com is run by the former head mod of /r/piracy who left reddit a few years ago, and it has the most active piracy community I’ve found anywhere on lemmy.
- Comment on Kanyes new album 1 week ago:
I really enjoy interpreting the Jesus Christ at the end not as a quote attribution, but as a frustrated epithet thrown in at the end.
- Comment on Anon works at a warehouse 1 week ago:
And with how much companies like Microsoft are shoving AI features into everything, it’s a constant battle for well meaning sysadmins to keep busybody management types from getting enough force together to push through enabling this shit.
They all see it as a “no manpower required” thing that can just be switched on and used as a feather in their cap. “Look! I did a thing! For free!”
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 1 week ago:
Is joke.
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 2 weeks ago:
The point being made is that it isn’t very different. Focusing on the technicalities ignores the broad strokes of it. Missing the forest for the trees and all that.
The discussion of Bluesky’s flaws, drawbacks, misleading claims of “federation”, etc… has already been done to death.
This also isn’t debate club. “What I’d like OP to address” good god.
But in the interest of good faith, here’s the cliff notes: It’s run by a corporation headed by one of Twitter’s original founders, and there’s not significant evidence it will not fall to the same path to shittiness that Twitter did. It is only technically federated, not actually in practice. It is not fully open source, as key portions of the infrastructure code have not been released. Of the portions that have been released, it is nearly impossible to run your own node due to the major amount of storage space required. Beyond that, all communications must ultimately go through BlueSky’s centralized infrastructure. There’s no point to running your own node because their centralized infrastructure won’t talk with it. No one has actually been able to do anything more than host their own profile in regards to federation. At this point there is no financial incentive for them to invest money in solving the issues preventing it from being able to be truly federated.
Most of all, mastodon already exists as a mature system for federated microblogging without the major drawbacks of bluesky.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 2 weeks ago:
He’s comin’ out again with a good one. Place your bets now ladies and gentleman.
- Comment on light pollution 3 weeks ago:
Don’t need an algorithm at all. Just needs what is effectively a lampshade cut to direct the light at the sidewalk and street instead of the houses.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 weeks ago:
I’m fairly sure the update cadence is set by the game dev/publisher, not GoG.
- Comment on yum yum 3 weeks ago:
Ara ara?
- Comment on Please let Pillars Of Eternity's surprise turn-based mode spark a wave of turn-based updates for all other games 4 weeks ago:
There are a lot of people who want the challenge and skill expression of a game decoupled from reaction time.
- Comment on Harley Quinn Fartacular: Silent Butt Deadly #1 review | Batman News 4 weeks ago:
Wow, what a surprise. This is my surprised face. The character they’ve been assassinating for use as fap bait for ages gets an honest to god fetish comic.
I had thought that the general consensus online from the moment of the announcement was that this was pretty clearly fetish material, but I guess a site named “Batman News” has to maintain an absolutely absurd level of “benefit of the doubt” lest they drive away their readers.
- Comment on Going on Reddit today be like... 4 weeks ago:
Buddy, they already skipped those ones. I can dream though. Those were jank but had charm.
- Comment on Enshittification 4 weeks ago:
No, because you can literally look this shit up, or talk to most hiring managers or business owners.
Surely if that was how it worked then someone would have posted the documents, or emails, or any sort of paper trail. Come on, we’re all waiting.
- Comment on Teslagrad devs reveal Knuckle Jet, a jetpunk nose-breaking ricochet action platformer 4 weeks ago:
Oh my god, why does everything have to be x-punk? Game looks good, but what the fuck.
- Comment on World travelers 4 weeks ago:
Not with that kind of attitude.
- Comment on Eat it 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! You want some glue? I brought extra!
- Comment on One-handed games? 4 weeks ago:
XCom and XCom 2 can be played entirely with the mouse. Minor typing if you want to name your soldiers, but nothing requires quick reflexes. Everything is turn based.
Emulation opens up a lot of options for old school turn based games. RPGs, turn based strategy. Any of the Pokemon games gen 1-3 can be played one handed with some clever button mapping. Any game made to use just the Wii-mote as a pointer would also work, but I don’t know those off the top of my head.
You might want to look into one handed controllers, or something like the FLIR USB dongle that you can use to map IR TV remote signals to keyboard button presses. Just need to use a remote that doesn’t already control something.
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 4 weeks ago:
It also depends on the system they’re trying to emulate the style of. This would fit fine in the PS1 “Of Mana” game. Too complex for SNES, which is what most people probably assuming graphics like this are going for.
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
I would have loved AI to fill that need as well, but it’s not an adequate tool for the job.
- Comment on It's not up for debate! 5 weeks ago:
Crab people crab people
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point 5 weeks ago:
Emigrate?
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point 5 weeks ago:
For warehouse positions, at least a decade ago, “hiring events” consisted of showing up with a valid driver’s license. I think they did a background check. No interview. Boom, you’ve got a job.
They effectively have an infinite labor supply and have everything structured to be incredibly resistant to what little room there is for error.
- Comment on Lil silly 5 weeks ago:
So is this (unfortunately the comment was edited after Cranston responded to it).
