bionicjoey
@bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon dabbles in magic 2 months ago:
You and literally everyone else in the world
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 2 months ago:
Was he heavily involved in the film’s production? I’m not very familiar with how this movie was made, but a lot of the stuff I’ve heard about it gives me the sense that his style didn’t influence it very much (weird casting, lame jokes, etc.)
- Comment on How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ? 2 months ago:
If you are sleeping so heavily that you sleep through your alarm every time, you probably aren’t getting enough sleep. Go to bed earlier.
- Comment on Anon misses something 2 months ago:
Yup. The first one I remember is a concert where I went to see the opener and didn’t much care for the main act. While I was on the floor during the opening act, I was next to a girl who seemed similarly enthused about that band. We definitely both noticed each other fangirling over this relatively unknown opening act. Then, afterward, I bumped into her on the balcony while the main act was playing, and she’s like “these guys kinda suck right? I think I’m gonna head out and get a drink at $nearby_bar”. And I totally missed the hint.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
If you were to walk this route along the surface of the earth, you would walk in perfectly straight lines apart from the three turns.
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 2 months ago:
Even once mobile internet was introduced, it was really expensive and many businesses didn’t have a web presence that would work on mobile. It’s only since maybe 2011 that someone could look up a business on their phone and be relatively confident that they’d find contact info on a mobile friendly page and not blow out their monthly data allowance in the process.
- Comment on How come roosters crow but crows don't rooster? 2 months ago:
Moose do actually cow. They are incredibly scary and imposing.
- Comment on Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game? 2 months ago:
Whenever people criticise Bethesda games for their engine, I pretty much assume right away they know nothing about game development. Bethesda’s engine is something they have a lot of control over and can constantly improve and iterate on. It’s not as though Starfield and Morrowind are running on the exact same codebase.
Starfield is bad because of bad game design, not bad game development. Skyrim was buggy on release as well, and yet people loved it because the design of the game was good enough that people were willing to forgive the programming flaws. People overvalue the engine in discussions about Bethesda games and it’s become this meme among people to seem like they sound like they know what they’re talking about, but ultimately the flaws in Bethesda games that determine their success has very little to do with what engine they use.
- Comment on Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game? 2 months ago:
For Oblivion, there is Skyblivion coming out next year.
Not sure what you hope would be added in a “remake” though. You’re asking for something which would inherently do very little and be exactly the sort of cash grab that we normally condemn. You want these games with better graphics or mechanics? Play with mods.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
The Anno games are notoriously hard to run on Linux. Protip: always check Protondb for Linux compatibility.
Also, if you find yourself missing Anno on Linux, check out Tropico or any number of city builders by Hooded Horse. There are lots of great resource production chain city builders out there that don’t force you to use Uplay
- Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives 2 months ago:
Now I’m imagining the deal between Tesla and Siemens:
Siemens guy: alright Mr Musk, just sign these papers and the mireo will be leased to your company
Elon (in 8 year old voice): woo! I made a Giga train! Choo Choo!
Siemens guy: umm, okay… As I said, the train is a Siemens Mireo. Hopefully this lease agreement will benefit both of our companies
Elon: nuh uh! It’s a Giga train and I invented it! Nobody ever had anything like this for getting around before!
- Comment on "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy" 2 months ago:
So funny when a corpo is forced to seem positive about something where there is absolutely no positive way of spinning it. It has this surreal energy where the person doing PR seems almost uncanny, like some kind of lizard person.
- Comment on My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. 2 months ago:
If I’m writing a blacklist for slurs, I’m not thinking of archaic words like “griffe”. I’m just making sure it doesn’t use anything that would be used in a modern context.
- Comment on Anon hangs out at the gym 2 months ago:
I think the joke is just that this is psychopath behaviour
- Comment on My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. 2 months ago:
Unless the game procedurally generates the words from a dictionary
- Comment on My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. 2 months ago:
How does the game work? Did you have to give this answer, or is it like boggle where you have to construct whatever words from a set of letters?
- Comment on Anon learns how to lucid dream 2 months ago:
This is just like that time I tried lucid dreaming
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 2 months ago:
Funny, that game is by the same creator as the game OP mentioned.
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 2 months ago:
If you like Obra Dinn, you’ll love Outer Wilds
- Comment on Anon boots up a game 2 months ago:
I like the Borderlands approach where clicking interact would put it in your inventory, holding interact would either equip the item if it was equippable, or else pick up all the pickups around you if it wasn’t.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
Honestly I think that if ES6 is to Skyrim what FO4 is to FO3, it will probably be good.
The danger is if they try to replicate Starfield or FO76, ie. cut corners like crazy, be blinded by dollar signs in their eyes.
- Comment on Anon works out 2 months ago:
How is that your takeaway from this entertaining fabrication?
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 2 months ago:
A lot of jobs are bullshit. Generative AI is good at generating bullshit. This led to a perception that AI could be used in place of humans. But unfortunately, curating that bullshit enough to produce any value for a company still requires a person, so the AI doesn’t add much value. The bullshit AI generates needs some kind of oversight.
- Comment on Anon meets a good man 2 months ago:
As tasteful as Lawrence Ollivier in Othello
- Comment on Anon enjoys hot chocolate 2 months ago:
You are describing everyone who would walk into a Denny’s by choice
- Comment on Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station? 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure there was in Firefly
- Comment on Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station? 2 months ago:
The Klingon restaurant on DS9 was more of a sit-down restaurant IIRC
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
If Borderlands 3 had released on Steam, I’d have probably bought it when it came out because I still had a lot of goodwill for the series at that time. Instead, I had to wait until the Steam release when the game already had loads of negative press. Exclusive deals are idiotic
- Comment on Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to" 2 months ago:
Machine learning is irrelevant to the sort of AI used in a game like this.
- Comment on Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to" 2 months ago:
Same! I still play Civ V all the time