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 marble balls floating on water are nice sculptures. why doesn't the water squirt out like when you pinch a garden hose ? 1 day ago:
The water comes out at a single point at high pressure below the sphere.
It then travels out and exits all around the sphere.
The water can be pumped below the sphere very slowly, but at high pressure, and that way still lift the sphere.
The water doesn’t get squeezed and accelerate towards the outside edge, because as it flows outward, the circle gets bigger. The area expands.
Hence it slows down, drops in pressure, and comes out at a trickle.
It’s not like pinching a hose. It’s like adding a kink in the hose. There is huge pressure before the kink, amd after the kink the pressure is super low. It makes the water slow down and come out at a trickle. Even though the pressure before the kink is huge.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 week ago:
Makes sense to me, actually.
It’d be an easy way to get and also store the DRM-free offline installer, in where you don’t have to permanently allocate active storage to keep the installer around.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 1 week ago:
Good start.
Fortunately whether you are in particular are impressed, has no bearing on whether we are in fact getting more good games than ever, nor is the amount of hours you get out of game a metric for quality.
That you like the types of games you can immerse yourself in for those amounts of time is a matter of taste. A game can have a runtime of 15 minutes and still be worth both making and playing.
Let me keep going.
- Crying Suns
- Lumencraft
- Death’s Door
- Frostpunk 1/2
- Moonlighter 1/2
- The Long Dark
- Iron Nest
- Dead Cells
- Slay the Spire 1/2
- Project Zomboid (theoretically still not 1.0)
- Outer Wilds
- Hollow Knight: Silksong (ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE TITLE, and it’s indie)
- Ultrakill
- Signalis (One of my favorite horror titles of all time, maybe “the” favorite)
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Nuclear Option (speaking of games you can sink hundreds of hours into)
- CAIRN
- Risk of Rain 2
- Judas (upcoming)
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Schedule 1 (another massive title, while I’m personally uninterested)
The point, is that things are going fantastic. Whether one or none of the new games succeeding today are up your alley. That you already found your evergreen timesinks, is great. But it is a fact that more indie titles are getting traction than ever before, and more people are opting out of AAA titles with expiry dates.
That’s the thing. You can keep playing your 2013 titles forever. And more games that work like that are being released, and succeeding, than ever before.
That’s a good thing no matter how you look at it.
There is genuinely so much to play I can’t keep up. I regularly discover stuff from the last several years I had no idea existed, but which is exactly the type of thing I like.
Go look. Tons of these games have absolutely no ad campaigns, and I find a lot of them through word-of-mouth via friends, or the communities of other games I play.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 1 week ago:
Windrose is a giant indie success that shat all over Ubisofts attempts at satisfying people wanting a pirate game.
More. Not all meet the technical definition of indie (the studio being 100% self-pulished)
But all of these games are quality projects that have good traction without massive budgets.
- Haste
- Sektori
- Kletka
- Peak
- Species: Unknown
- Routine
- Buckshot Roulette
- Crow Country
- Deep Snow Delivery
- NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
- Jump Space
- Motorslice
- Hades 2
- Sifu
I could literally keep going if went into games that are older or that I haven’t gotten to yet.
My wishlist is getting longer, not shorter. I am finding games I want so much faster than I can play them.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 1 week ago:
Plenty of good stuff still happening in games.
Indies are bigger and better than ever. Yeah, the shitty stuff is front and center, but its not hard to find games made with genuine passion either.
Looked at different, we are a in a new golden age of games. Not for giant AAA titles or hardware.
But for the fact that game engines and tutorials on how to use them are readily available, and lots of normal people with neat ideas are making them into real games.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 2 weeks ago:
Much worse.
He was vegetative.
- Comment on Me after Jerboa announced it is ending support 3 weeks ago:
Android developer verification BS
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 3 weeks ago:
So what is you actually wanted to add?
If you aren’t bringing up practical difficulty to argue in favor of theoretical impossibility, what are you adding?
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 3 weeks ago:
So?
Emulate.
As long as the application doesn’t rely on something external like a server that no longer exists, it can always be run.
This isn’t about system changing. If you can either find the original hardware or simulate it, it should run. Not just go “lol no, expiry date passed, no longer functional”.
You’re saying it can sometimes be practically impossible. That doesn’t mean it has to theoretically and actually impossible, too.
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 3 weeks ago:
You’re right.
Burning the book in case it might offend some future reader is reasonable.
/D
- Comment on A Marker of Distinction 4 weeks ago:
SMH. You started, and didn’t take the middle?
- Comment on Dammit 4 weeks ago:
In a parallel universe: staff meetings, but underwater.
- Comment on I forgot that AAA slop devs actually made fun games that didn't have money pits 4 weeks ago:
Yeees! I keep wondering how the hell they’re funding the remake trilogy. There are dozens of us!
- Comment on I forgot that AAA slop devs actually made fun games that didn't have money pits 4 weeks ago:
Aside from it being split into 3 games, this is how I feel about the FF7 remakes.
They are so very full of love and obvious developer passion. The gameplay systems are internally consistent, the charachters are adorable, the world is beatiful. Once you own the game, it doesn’t ask again. You can just step into the world and live there until the credits roll.
I was worried, and I’m still worried, that some squenix exec will ruin it. But it hasn’t happened.
Remake and Rebirth are simply good games. Anything bad you could say about them is subjective. I know the gameplay and charachters don’t jell with everyone but I love it.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 4 weeks ago:
I thought about it more.
I really don’t like it. Not because there’s no precedent, but because it doesn’t work thematically.
Fey being alive, actually, undermines so much of the story in the previous two games.
It means Kratos and Atreus and the many scenes where they gradually accept she truly gone are wrong, actually. It means Odin was right, and that Kratos and Atreus not helping him unravel death, prevented them from reuniting with Fey.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 4 weeks ago:
That’s just insulting. If you’re not gonna elaborate then don’t say anything at all.
TLDR: It’s not a lack context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.
Long version:
The part of her journey that’s in GoW/GoW:R happened before her death. GoW Laufey takes place after that, not before.
I’m worried about this new game is muddying the thematic weight of GoW, and GoW Ragnarok.
Fey is (was) DEAD. Kratos and Atreus accept this and spend the two games mourning, moving on, and finding themselves in a world without her. While honoring her life and living in a way that does not erase or ignore the fact that she lived. They learn many things about her that they did not know, and feel her love for them live on in the things she has set in motion. They embrace her presence even as she is truly gone. The narrative stresses this multiple times.
That she exists, anywhere (after her death), undermines this.
It undermines the underlying difference pinning Odin against Kratos.
Kratos and Atreus accept death, and that it is something beyond that which can or should be understood. Odin does not, and seeks to unravel it like it’s just another law of nature. Like gravity.
The mask should not be explained. Death isn’t a mystery to solved. It’s an unknowable to be accepted as such.
The games are about being at peace with that.
Laufey not being gone literally means Kratos and Atreus are wrong in their acceptance that she is gone.
The only way this works is if it’s a spin-off that NEVER ties back into Kratos’/Atreus’ timeline, but that they are doing this at all is not a good sign to me. I do not trust them to not undermine their own themes in the face of the potential fanservice that reuniting Fey, Kratos and Atreus would be.
It’s not a lack context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 4 weeks ago:
No.
I’m genuinely confused.
What do you mean? What did I miss?
- Comment on Just migrated from Reddit, is this what the Fediverse looks like? 4 weeks ago:
No denim?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yes and no.
If the goal is to have the best support for all future games, sure.
But that’s not what protons main goal is.
The main goal is to get all the hundreds of thousands of games that have already been made, to work.
Making one game for linux, only produces one game.
Getting proton right, gets every past game that has ever worked on windows, to work on linux.
That a lot of future games will also work thanks to this, and hence require less work to run on linux, is a bonus. Not the main goal.
Hence, proton is ABSOLUTELY worth it. Even if microsoft released directx 13 tomorrow, that wouldn’t break any of the games that already work. The alternative is to go back port each game one at a time. Proton isn’t happening instead of linux ports. It’s happening instead of porting all old games.
If you REALLY want appimages, the best way would be to package indovidual games and a proton wrapper with all the dependencies, and compile that up into a neat appimage. Then you’d have a “future proof” executable file for that one game to keep and run in the future.
But that’s ignoring the fact that appimages and flatpaks aren’t truly that agnostic. Changes in graphics APIs happen on linux, too.
And it makes way more sense to use the same proton for multiple games, instead of bundling of an extra copy of proton with each game.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 4 weeks ago:
What?
Laufey does a ton of things in the first two games, but none of it is posthumous.
- Comment on Feather coat! 5 weeks ago:
Yes.
Ocean water can also be supercritical. You can find videos on youtube of under-ice water flash-freezing out from a nucleation site.
- Comment on Roasted 5 weeks ago:
We have absolutely no context for the messages.
How does a cruel response help in any of the contexts you suggest?
There are very, very few situtations that warrant not being cordial to a fellow human being, as it’s almost bever, ever, helpful. To either party.
How does telling someone they’re too ugly to talk to you encourage them to show others respect?
- Comment on Feather coat! 5 weeks ago:
They have that too, but less of it.
The feathers work almost like a dry suit. Trapping a layer of air to insulate their bodies and keep them exceptionally warm, even as they swim into water that’s below freezing temps.
They can’t dive as deep though, as their insulation is partly provided by air. Ai is compressibly by the quickly increasing water pressure, so the cold will sap their body heat faster as a penguin dives deeper.
Fat isn’t compressibly, so seals don’t suffer the same problem.
- Comment on sjmmbmgvgdh 😱😱 noowomder,,,,, ghhbhh.. hb& 5 weeks ago:
And that’s why astrology is different from astronomy.
- Comment on Roasted 5 weeks ago:
Response:
“Ah.
Now I see why.”
- Comment on Day 686 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
I know the feeling.
It feels SO WIERD to think about how long I’ve been on the fediverse.
It still feels so new and fresh that the idea that I’ve been posting anime girls for years now just feel incorrect.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
I…
Do not know how I feel about bringing back a charachters who does SO MUCH because of her absence.
Too bad I won’t be finding out if it works, as Sony wont be porting this to PC.
- Comment on Human-readable forwarding addresses for ports on Synology NAS? 1 month ago:
What the other guy said.
What you do is set up a reverse proxy, which you can then configure forward to either certain subdomains or subpaths to the relevant ports.
Subdomains look like
jellyfin.domain.comwhile subpaths look likedomain.com/jellyfin. Generally the former is preferred, because the latter often requires that the service you are running allow you to configure the subpath you’re using.Subdomains in turn require separate SSL certificates for each one.
- Comment on Realistically speaking, how do you think the year 2063 will look like? 1 month ago:
It’s bleak, but I’m pretty sure we’re headed towards some form of collapse in terms of food production.
Right now we’re fighting over fossil fuels and rare earth metals. Those are solvable problems, you can have civilization with none or just a small amount of theses things, and renewable production will mean that you can have energy without needing fossil reserves or fissiles in your soil.
But I think the next several decades are going to be defined by the international dealings that will occur over arable land, the elements to keep it fertile, and the infrastructure and water sources to irrigate it. Up to and including wars.
The simple fact is, farming is getting harder. For now, the technology is keeping up. Corporations in the relevant industries prioritizing profits and intellectual property over national food security also isn’t helping.
And even though there’s theoretically more than enough land on earth to feed all currently living humans, there are already individual countries with more people than what their land area can feed.
Worse, there a countries who share the same sources of water, who are increasing their water use in ways that will cause droughts for their neighbours.
- Comment on And full of carbs 1 month ago:
Nice !dungeonmeshi@ani.social art.