Cethin
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- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 3 days ago:
Fair enough. It is at least more fun than most of the other stuff we see.
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 3 days ago:
I just struggle to see this as doing a good thing. Do you think he cares? Who is this helping? I just see it as a cheap PR stunt that takes advantage of an old famous person’s birthday to get people to think of them instead of that other person.
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 3 days ago:
How is that relevant to this? No one was discussing that. Yes, that’s also advertising, but for Iran. I’m not saying it’s good, but at least it’s trying to say something, unlike this.
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 3 days ago:
This is treating it as if they’re being nice. No. They just priced it at the maximum amount the market would allow. If they raised it further it’d cost them far too much in sales. Them increasing costs (assuming it actually does, and they don’t get a tax write-off that counters it or something) has no relation to price.
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 3 days ago:
Maybe I’m just too cynical and tired of this shit, but it’s just an ad. It isn’t wholesome, in my opinion. It’s just to make people share their product, and they had to pay almost nothing to do it. They didn’t actually do anything for Attenborough. They just took advantage of his birthday to make an ad. Being really cynical, this was already a planned change, and they just picked an opportunity to maximize advertising opportunities.
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 3 days ago:
Yeah, I think even base Morrowind sometimes looks better. Skyrim is higher fidelity though, unless you replace every model and texture. I still assume there’s some stuff that can’t be fixed, but idk.
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 3 days ago:
And, while the graphics aren’t as high fidelity, this is quite possibly the better way to play. Skyblivion won’t have Morrowind specific mods at launch (the Skyrim ones should work probably). I don’t know about the VR version, but all later Bethesda games are a significant downgrade in UI/UX for PC at minimum too. The UI is made for consoles first now, where Morrowind was PC first, and it was pretty amazing.
- Comment on Boop Snoots 4 days ago:
We’re mostly past that though. There was a period that made people feel strange, but modern games the characters are close enough that we can empathize with them, and we don’t think there’s something wrong. There’s still some improvements to make, especially with how light interacts with skin, but it’s close.
- Comment on Boop Snoots 4 days ago:
The ability to render more polygons creates more opportunity for different graphics, but you’re right, it isn’t better. The issue is that the “premium” style is realism. All AAA games now think they need to recreate reality. Style is what they should be aiming towards. We want something that looks cool, not necessarily real.
How many people say their favorite painting style is realism? Probably not very many. Why do we limit video games to that then? (I haven’t played a AAA for a while now, partially because of this, and partially because their gameplay is all boring and generic.)
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 4 days ago:
Their games never drop in price, and they are priced higher than anyone else. Don’t buy this shit ever. If you really want, emulate it. That’s the closest you should get to it. (Even then, is there anything worth it? There are too many amazing PC games already. I don’t need to play the fairly generic stuff Nintendo makes.)
- Comment on New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs 6 days ago:
Leaving them destitute is much more polite than the alternative too. That basically requires them to comply, which I assume they won’t. If it comes down to other actions being taken, because the systems aren’t doing their job, it’ll require some level of violence.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 week ago:
Nuclear has been artificially made way more expensive than it should be.
For one part, why is it the only energy source that has to take care of its waste? (LCOE includes this cost, and I’m not saying they shouldn’t, I’m saying other sources should too.) Coal can spew waste out (including radioactive waste) and they don’t have to handle it. Wind just throws out blades and doesn’t have to deal with them. Etc.
The insane strictness on designs and safety are also far higher than they should be. A lot of its based on a linear no threshold model of radiation safety, which has been disproven., which dramatically increases costs.
Even still, LCOE for nuclear is pretty competitive in the US, and the US is one of the worst places for nuclear, as our dirty energy companies have easily been able to purchase laws to increase the cost of nuclear, so they can’t compete as much. Sort this by LCOE and see how many cheap nuclear is for most nations.
- Comment on load bearing worm 2 weeks ago:
That’s not totally true. Sure, many are military, but not all. I think all of the pilots are though, for obvious reasons.
- Comment on tuff enuff 3 weeks ago:
Exact timing, including air resistance, is far more than what’s required. Sure, everything about the orbits needs to be almost exact, but the fact we can predict exactly how the craft bounces about in the atmosphere, which is turbulent, and predict the landing this accurately is insane. Landing on the moon, on the other hand, is a lot easier to predict.
- Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift? 3 weeks ago:
So it’s not a “hashtag” without the hash and the tag. #TIL
Technically, yes. Practically, I don’t think this is true. If you ask 100 people under 20 what “#” is called, 99 or 100 will say it’s a hashtag. Language shifts, and that’s becoming the common name for it, even without it tagging something.
- Comment on Is putting black beans in my chili a bad idea? 4 weeks ago:
Anyone who considers themselves a chili purist is out of their mind. That’s one of the most insane stances to hold.
- Comment on PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining 4 weeks ago:
I’m willing to bet it’s at least in part to anchor a higher price for the PS6. It’ll “only” be a little more expensive than this, so why not buy it?
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 4 weeks ago:
Another good example for Unity is Escape from Tarkov. Yes, EfT is a Unity game. It’s hard to believe.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, dark in the same meaning as “the dark ages.” It’s referring to a lack of knowledge, not a lack of light. Both these terms have fallen out of favor though.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 5 weeks ago:
Well, it is a pretty poor indirect source. Just like the moon lighting things at night by reflecting the sun, Earth does the same.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 weeks ago:
I don’t remember, but I think KJP is independent. They just signed a contract with Sony for money for DS/DS2. I don’t know, but I somewhat doubt they’d agree to total PS exclusivity. I think their games do pretty well on PC.
- Comment on Hands-On with the Anbernic RG Vita Pro; A Unique Dual-Boot Handheld Finding Its Place (my review!) 1 month ago:
From my memory of the original PSP, the stick wasn’t used as often as the d-pad. Obviously the right didn’t even have a stick. This layout is good for this use case. They could swap the sticks and the d-pad/face buttons, but then they’d be really annoying to use. Since they’re more used they should be the priority.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s a goal, not a method. Even with a democracy/republic, there are so many different versions of it that exist. Is there a parliament? Is there a central leader? Who can vote? What happens if people can’t agree on who should be in charge?
Anarchism is a large set of ideals. There are a lot of people who have thought about how to make it work. Any issue people have with it, I promise you it’s been considered. Everyone probably won’t agree on what the solution should be (because that’s always the case), but it has been thought about.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
That’s kind of the point. Anarchy doesn’t mean “no rules” or “no government”. It’s recognizing that people in power are either already corrupted or easily corruptable. It’s about creating rules to curb this. There are a lot of ways to do it, but anarchy, in general, is just about removing hierarchies. Those are the thing that causes so many issues, because it let’s people take advantage of it to benefit themselves.
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
Value indefiniteness is just solipsism. If particles do not have values when you are not looking, then any object made of particles also do not have values when you are not looking.
They do have values. Their position is just a superposition, rather than one descrete one, which can be described as a wave. Their value is effectively a wave until it’s needed to be discrete.
This was the point of Schrodinger’s “cat” thought experiment.
Sure. That doesn’t make the general understanding of the thought experiment accurate. Once the decay of the atom that triggers the poison is detected, it’s no longer in a superposition. It has to not be in order for the detection to occur. The thought experiment is a meme because it’s absurd, and it is. That’s only because the entire premise is fundamentally flawed. It can’t exist as it’s implied. Also, even if this weren’t the case, that doesn’t actually prove it wrong. The double slit experiment shows that an interaction can change the result from wave-like to particle-like behavior.
This view of “value indefiniteness” you are trying to defend is indefensible because it is literally solipsism and any attempt to promote it above solipsism will just become incoherent.
I’m literally not. My entire point is that it isn’t a solipsism. Any interaction causes the waveform to collapse. Not a person observing it. The universe doesn’t care about what we describe as consciousness (or sapience, as it’s better described). It just does physics. The fact we don’t have a model for it doesn’t change anything.
This experiment shows that behavior can change just from a measurement. How do you explain that while also not allowing superpositions? You make claims about this meaning a few things (which I don’t agree with), and yet you give no explanation of an alternative. Something is happening. How do you explain it?
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
It is. I just always feel the need to comment this on these posts because the mystical understanding annoys me, and is surprisingly common. This meme doesn’t do that exactly, and it even has an accurate experiment setup.
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
Yeah… no. There are multiple interpretations, but basically it’s when position is needed to be known that causes it. Until then, the position is in a superstate of all possible positions, but for an interaction to occur it needs to be in one position. It’s not about choice. It’s about when information is needed for a physical interaction to occur. If one occurs then the particle must be at that location.
Collapse happens when you step out of quantum picture with (mostly)linear equations and try to project the calculations onto the “classical picture”
This (at least your wording) implies that physics cares about our mathematical models. It doesn’t. Quantum mechanics and “classical” physics are just ways we organize things for education. Though we don’t have a model for it, the unvirse is not using two separate models of physics. There is no “quantum mechanics” and “classical physics”. There is only physics. When a measurement occurs the universe isn’t looking at it to see if it should use quantum rules or classical rules. The interaction just occurs.
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
To clarify, “observer” in the double slit experiment has nothing to do with humans, or consciousness, or anything like that. It has to do with it interacting with something on the other side of the slit. This thing, that creates (or “observes”) an interaction collapses the waveform. A human can watch or not. It doesn’t change the results of the experiment.
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s correct! Interacting with the barrier that creates the splits we don’t care about, but yes, that collapses it too.
Interacting with the surface we’re measuring in all the experiments. It doesn’t change, so it shouldn’t be effecting the results. It does collapse the waveform though, which is how we measure it.
Detecting it at the slit is the part that changes. If we don’t do this, we get wave-like behavior, because there’s no interaction until it hits the surface at the end. The wave can pass through both slits without any interaction. If we put in a detector, then it must interact with that to pass through, so it collapses the waveform and behaves like a particle at that point. This means it must be at one slit or the other, and not both.
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
I totally agree. “Observe” was a bad choice of words, but it stuck. It should have been “interacted with”, or “measured”, or something like that.