Cethin
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- Comment on Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials 2 days ago:
You’ve got to be more clear about serving in the IDF. Luckily your quote gives more detail, but literally every Israeli citizen has to serve in the IDF, so former service in the IDF doesn’t mean much more than just saying they’re Israeli.
- Comment on Brib Cuddles 2 weeks ago:
Just keep in mind, you’re the one intruding on their environment. Don’t use a cat to kill the native birds. We’ve had many extinct species from us letting our cats out into the environment.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 weeks ago:
I disagree. It’s been done well before. Where Morrowind fails is only in that it doesn’t display success or failure well. If your character did an animation where they fumbled their attack, or the enemy dodged or blocked, then it would be fine. Instead you just spam attacks that all look the same but only some make your targets health bar go down.
Feedback is always critical. Instead of implementing proper feedback, Bethesda instead simplified it so they don’t have to and all attacks succeed. It still looks and feels bad, but it made it so it doesn’t need to show failures.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 weeks ago:
That’s true. It’s still on Bethesda, but yeah they could have an agreement. Skyblivion has been in development longer than this though I’m sure, and Bethesda was aware of it and said it was OK, so I’m assuming there’s no agreement like that. If there were then Bethesda would have done something that will make them look really bad, which they do tend to do so it is a possibility.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 weeks ago:
I totally agree. Morrowind gets a lot of hate for it’s combat (some deserved), but most of the time it’s people not understanding what it’s trying to do. You don’t complain in BG3 when an attack fails, and that’s the same thing Morrowind was doing. It cared about character skills, not player skill.
Yeah, if you create a scrawny character who has never held a blade, grab a dagger, run into a dungeon until you’re exhausted, then try to fight then you should miss. The later games, especially Skyrim, not caring about the character makes every playthrough feel the same and no one has a unique experience.
Morrowind needed animations to convey what was happening, but the foundation is very solid. It’s just the technology at the time limited it and it didn’t communicate what it was doing well.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 weeks ago:
They don’t have any rights to Oblivion as an IP. They’ve been contracted to make this game and that’s where their rights end.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 weeks ago:
It can’t if they’ve made legally binding agreements, which I would hope that they have.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 weeks ago:
I know they’ve said combat is overhauled to be more like Dark Souls. I don’t think we know much else though.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 weeks ago:
I love when people are just totally confident and wrong on things that are well known and easy to find.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 2 weeks ago:
Human is such a flaky word, and species isn’t much better. I’d bet there could be a situation in which they can successfully interbreed with relatively modern humans and still produce viable offspring, so still the same species. Human doesn’t even require homo sapiens though. It can include other species that have the traits of humans.
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think you read my comment. They wouldn’t bring back dire wolves that don’t have a niche in the current ecosystem. They’d bring back things that have gone extinct in the last century or so, or maybe artificially modify existing creatures to fit niches that are no longer filled. This project isn’t doing what would happen in an ideal world. It’s only making garbage to sell to investors to make a bunch of money and bail.
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
In an ideal world, it’d be to de-extinct fairly modern things that filled a niche that is no longer being filled. This is far from an ideal world though, and the reason in this world is to make press releases to get people talking about it so they can raise more money while not creating anything of actual value.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 3 weeks ago:
OK, but you didn’t say that. You said worth the $/h, which is a common metric people use but is less than worthless.
$/h is useful because it isa universally transferable measure. Enjoyment is not, but is actually what we care about.
I’m just trying to work to remove $/h as something people discuss, because it’s ruined so many games.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 3 weeks ago:
$/h is a shitty metric. Some hours are more enjoyable than others, and also time is a resource we spend, just like money, not something we’re gaining, so it taking time is a negative. Enjoyment/$ is the metric to use, or maybe (enjoyment/h)/$.
$/h is a marketing term. It isn’t a term consumers should bother with.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 3 weeks ago:
Why not ask them for something else, unless they really want you to have that device in particular for some reason.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 4 weeks ago:
They aren’t in the same class, but I does seem like they’d both be in the same category. They’re weird goofy movies that shouldn’t be taken too seriously. I could imagine having fun at the MC movie if you’re allowed to goof off. I couldn’t see myself having fun with it if I need to sit quietly and watch it for it’s “art.”
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
Garuda is great because it comes with a tool where you can select a bunch of packages you may need (but also most won’t, so it’s not built in), then it’ll install them for you. You don’t need to search for what you’ll need because they’re listed with a description for you right on the first boot. It makes it very quick and easy to get set up, while still being Arch underneath.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
I’m using Garuda and it has a setup specifically for gaming. The gamer look it comes with out of the box is ugly in my opinion, but that’s easy to change.I highly recommend it. It’s Arch based, so the AUR and Arch wiki work great with it. It’s really great and (in my opinion) user friendly.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
It’ll let you upgrade to Linux. It doesn’t play those stupid games with you like MS does.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 4 weeks ago:
Eh, it’s likely not an issue. There’s radioactive material in water runoff and all kinds of places. A small amount is not noticeable. Even in the worst case, these aren’t an issue. If they can be near your body 24/7 without causing problems, them getting spread out into even smaller pieces can only be less significant than that.
People are too scared by radiation. It usually isn’t an issue and you’re constantly interacting with it. It’s only in very rare circumstances where you need to worry.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, I won’t bother. I only tried a few Switch games on emulator out of curiosity, and never played long. They don’t make anything interesting enough for me to want. I don’t get why people feel the need for Nintendo.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 5 weeks ago:
It’s convenient to place my phone on at my computer and it’s just always charged. It is a little less efficient, but if you’re running a heater anyway then technically they’re both lossless (though gas heat may be cheaper for you if you have gas heat).
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 5 weeks ago:
I agree, but going back to Morrowind is incredibly easy oddly. Oblivion was on the path to Skyrim, but Morrowind is in a totally different position.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Sure, we don’t know what makes us sapient or conscious. It isn’t a handful of neurons on a tray though. They’re significantly less conscious than your computer is.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t get how the ethics of that are questionable. It’s not like they’re taking brains out of people and using them. It’s just cells that are not the same as a human brain. It’s like taking skin cells and using those for something. The brain is not just random neurons. It isn’t something special and magical.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The LLM systems are pattern recognition without any logic or awareness is the issue. It’s pure pattern recognition, so it can easily find some patterns that aren’t desired.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
To an extent, but it isn’t a replacement. Talking to random strangers online is not the same as talking to real local people.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That sucks. If I were you I’d try to move to somewhere more dense and it could help you out. I know, easier said than done. You can try applying for jobs online and maybe get lucky though.
Good luck out there!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m willing to bet one of the largest factors is the isolation we now live in. We used to have third places on every corner, we interacted with our neighbors, and public transport made us connect during commutes. We also relied on talking to people for most of our news and information and generally just were forced to be part of a community, or multiple.
Now we drive alone in a car to work, drive alone back to our house that’s isolated from others and don’t speak to neighbors, we have no third places left, and we get all our information from the internet or TV. Most people don’t have a community larger than a handful of close friends. We can’t organize and we don’t see the struggles other people are going through or help each other out. There’s no social bonds, and everyone only looks out for themselves.
I order to progress, we need to figure out how to form communities again. We need to be able to organize. This is all constructed to keep us thinking about ourselves as an individual rather than the collective us. We think about what I can do, which is pretty minor, not what we can do, which is almost anything we want.
- Comment on the duality of beetle 1 month ago:
It’s so you can see the top and bottom. It seems pretty obvious it’s left-right that has the differences. Just look at the mandibles!