MentalEdge
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
- Comment on 🔪🔪🔪 1 day ago:
I’m not sure whether you are making a joke?
The vast majority of bees wasps, ants and any other hive insects you’ll have seen, are infertile drones. With each hive housing only a single female individual capable of sexual reproduction, which does not leave the hive after it forms.
Fertile males only exist for a short time during swarming season, and they do die after doing their thing.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 day ago:
You’re thinking of seeds.
Pollen is only the male half of the genetic material required for sexual plant reproductin.
Hence, jizz.
- Comment on After Years of Struggle, Blizzard Has Found Itself in Uncharted Territory: Overwatch Players Are Having Fun Again 3 days ago:
FFS. Literally no free fun allowed. Bare minimum to appease players.
- Comment on After Years of Struggle, Blizzard Has Found Itself in Uncharted Territory: Overwatch Players Are Having Fun Again 3 days ago:
Even better.
- Comment on After Years of Struggle, Blizzard Has Found Itself in Uncharted Territory: Overwatch Players Are Having Fun Again 3 days ago:
Wait. Loot boxes are back?
- Comment on It must tremble 1 week ago:
They are right about the drama. Making the toy act like it’s trying hide/run for it’s life makes my cat immediately interested.
- Comment on Hardware recommendations 1 week ago:
The standby power of a desktop is not that massive. Especially when you don’t run a GPU or display. That windows 8 machine you have is probably fine as-is.
An ATX PSU doesn’t suck down 500 watts at all times, just because the sticker on it says it can. How much power your machine will use will depend much more on the CPU.
So just slap linux on it and have at it. If nothing else, you’ll get familiar with the software involved, and be better prepared if you end up wanting to buy new hardware for this.
There’s not really any lock-in with linux. Almost any piece of software you might run can be run on almost any distro you might consider using.
- Comment on Find a circle that is going places 1 week ago:
What?
The last one is like only one me and my friends get up to.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 2 weeks ago:
Oh hell yeah, doing it right now, too!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Smh. Right doesn’t show off those abs nearly as well.
- Comment on S p i n o s a r u s 2 weeks ago:
It’s a Spinosaur.
Do you have ANY IDEA what happens if you don’t treat it right?
- Comment on Anon gets outed 3 weeks ago:
It’s a good come-back.
But laughing at someone and making them feel unimaginably belitteled, over something like whether they’ve gotten laid, wouldn’t have been cool in any scenario.
“I was molested” just jolts everyone into reconsidering what just happened.
- Comment on ooo.ooo 3 weeks ago:
No, he choose to make it orange with spray-tan.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Something something fuck Ted Faro
- Comment on Mini Metro -- surprisingly simple but compelling game mechanics and fantastic UI design 5 weeks ago:
Or steam, for PC.
- Comment on Mini Metro -- surprisingly simple but compelling game mechanics and fantastic UI design 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know about mobile but on PC it’s just straight up on steam.
- Comment on One wrong invite and now there is drama in my life 5 weeks ago:
Most of my irl friends know my lemmy handle.
- Comment on How You Doin? 5 weeks ago:
In Finland, if you ask “miten menee” (how is it going) you’ll either get to hear someone’s life story, or a single word reply “menee” (it’s going).
Or, if someone is having a genuinely good day, you might get a few sentences explaining why things are looking up.
Hence, most people will go with literally neutral statements. An example, my go-to farewell is “päivänjatkoa” which is literally just “may the day continue”.
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 5 weeks ago:
Most modern exchange services are semi-scams.
Most banks will let you use your card in other currencies, directly, and just do the exchange on their end.
And it’s usually really favorable too. If you’ve used your card abroad “like normal” for stuff like a restaurant meal, then you’ve used your banks currency exchange service.
It’ll still add up if you make a ton of small purchases, and it would be good to check what your bank actually charges for exchabges.
But, lots of places will pretend to offer to do the exchange for you, at sky-high rates, when really you can just charge your card directly, and get a much better rate via your bank.
Once saved a friend like 50 bucks when she bought an leather jacket on the expensive side during a cruise. The shop offered to do the exchange for her, as if that was necessary. I saw the rate and immediately told her to refuse, knowing our bank charges almost nothing for foreign currency charges. She would have fallen for it.
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 5 weeks ago:
The guy you’re replying to, is saying the opposite.
Using an ATM usually gets you your banks exchanging rate, which depending on your bank, can be damn near free. (If the ATM tries to do the exchange for you, refuse, let your bank do it).
Same goes online. Paying with paypal, I never ever use their exchange service. Charging my card directly with the foreign currency is ALWAYS a better deal due to how good the exchange rate provided by my bank is.
- Comment on we are type 2 5 weeks ago:
That is not the aspect that differentiates the types.
- Comment on If you haven't done and agree, vote! 5 weeks ago:
This is a huge reason I never even considered getting into Destiny after the fact.
I literally can’t play it from the beginning.
It’s like if new players wanted to get into Mass Effect, they have start with ME2, because the furst game has been purged from the facw of the earth.
- Comment on The struggle is real 5 weeks ago:
The only kernel of truth required is that most people have experienced completely unfair matches, and will usually attribute that to the shortcomings of modern skill-based matchmaking.
What exactly the mechanics behind those shorrcomings are, matters little.
- Comment on The struggle is real 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but I’m explaining the meme, not writing an essay like I was in the other conment.
- Comment on The struggle is real 5 weeks ago:
Not so much a counterpoint. It’s actually a factor that I’ve thought about too, and I think it adds to the problem.
One of my other comments here, where I talk about how it’s an impossible problem talks about how I’d solve the problem by not trying to find a bunch of players of the exact same skill level to begin with. You go for rouchly for even teams, not precisely even players.
If you have 10 people at almost the same skill level, the tiniest difference in ability gets massively magnified, because that’s the only deciding factor that’s left.
- Comment on The struggle is real 5 weeks ago:
If you play enough, pure random chance will eventually get you a game that feels like a fair fight.
But quite often, video game matchmaking systems will fail to accurately estimate player skill correctly, creating teams where one will utterly bemolish the other.
- Comment on The struggle is real 5 weeks ago:
I also think it’s an impossible problem to solve.
The same player isn’t going to perform identically every session, and accounting for every possible weapon or character/class they might play, potential synergies with teammates, or potential advantages/disadvantages in matchups against any given opponents…
It all makes for a literally infinite number of variables, all of which must be accounted for.
The correct way to get interesting matches, imo, is to make it semi-random, and not try to have all the players on both teams be exactly the same skill level. Rather, put players on both teams from a range of estimated skill levels. This way both teams have weaker links for the other team to potentially exploit, and both teams have strong players which will try to stop that.
Instead, the system should just enforce common sense stuff, like not pitting someone who is literally playing for the very first time, against a team with someone who is 2000 hours in, and hence might straight up deny the new guy a chance to play at all.
I should know. I literally wrote THE team balancer for titanfall 2 community servers.
- Comment on The struggle is real 5 weeks ago:
I swear, some of the best titanfall 2 matches I ever played were on northstar cusrom servers.
- Comment on The struggle is real 5 weeks ago:
Anyone able to comment on Valorant?
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