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- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 34 minutes ago:
Maybe, though processes and algorithms won’t be copied easily legally. If they did some special coating to lenses or something, or if they have a really smart algorithm to correct for different effects, those are protected by law. You can examine it and try to replicate it, but you can’t copy it.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 4 hours ago:
Well, most likely they’ll never say what they did to solve it, assuming it is solved. That’s how capitalism works. Everyone tries to keep innovation secret, so we have to invent the same thing dozens of times.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 2 days ago:
IIRC McGonagall does say something similar in the book. The movie just leaves it out. Harry asks if she could sign it, and she says something along the lines that she can’t, because she’s not his guardian, and she also wouldn’t anyway because she doesn’t think he should leave the grounds.
Honestly, it goes with the poor writing that she says it too. She really hammers in the point that he’s supposed to be scared of Black, because she doesn’t trust the reader to remember it for the twist I guess.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 days ago:
Yeah, I had GamePass before I switched to Linux. It sucks that they’ve chosen to not support Linux, but it’s their choice. I’m not going to let them hold me hostage on their shitty OS for it. I’d likely happily pay for it again if they decide to release a Linux version, but until then they can fuck off. I don’t need their service.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 days ago:
You can without using it if you really want to. I probably wouldn’t though. I use Garuda, which is Arch based, but I don’t say I use Arch ever. However, basically everything on the Arch wiki will apply (which is probably the greatest resource for Linux even if not on Arch), and also the AUR will work.
Just so you’re aware though like others have said, this should probably not replace Windows for your desktop. It’s designed for a handheld, not a desktop. Use a distro designed for desktop if you want to. Garuda has a great version for gaming that gets you up and running in minutes. There are a lot of other great choices too.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 4 days ago:
I’m a hobbyist game dev, and I have friends in the industry, and yeah it hard to make anything at all. I meant more that it’s easy to conceptualize mindless fun. Implementing either is just as hard really.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 5 days ago:
Saying “do you want to play CoD tonight” is different than discussion why the gameplay of CoD is good/new/innovative/whatever.
I actually did see people discuss the campaign of the new CoD (or maybe two before) because it was actually fairly unique for them. Other than that, the only time I hear about CoD is people talking about how much money it makes, how bad the skins are, or things like that. It holds almost no relevance in game discussion circles because everything they did well has been innovated on since then.
People talked about how smooth and responsive CoD 4 was, because it was innovating. People don’t talk about the mechanics of whatever the latest CoD is, because it’s not doing anything worth copying.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 5 days ago:
Do you really need a guide? It works exactly the same as Windows. The only difference is you need to run it through WINE with Proton. That’s easiest handled with Heroic Launcher or Lutris, which you’re probably already using one of these already. Just add the executable and launch it. (You may need to run an installer first, which Heroic at least makes really easy.)
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 5 days ago:
People talk about playing CoD. They don’t discuss the game really, and also this is being discussed because it’s news, and also because they’re being greedy and stupid. Again, it isn’t the game being discussed.
BG3 people talk about the story, the writing, the gameplay, etc. They talk about how the game is something actually made for players, to be enjoyed, not by business people to make money. They talk about the game.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 5 days ago:
I would absolutely disagree. Fun, maybe. Mindless fun? No. I’m fine with games that are mindless fun, but it isn’t what all games should strive for. I personally much prefer games that require your focus and consideration.
Mindless fun is cheap and easy. Making a game that sits in people minds for years is difficult and takes effort, but is much more rewarding. BG3, for example, is anything but mindless, which is why it’s been able to still be in conversations for so long after it released. How much do people talk about Call of Duty, even though it sells like crazy?
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 6 days ago:
I don’t know if there’s even anything to get back. Is it that 3 was bad or is it just that Borderlands doesn’t interest us anymore? I honestly don’t know, but I think it’s at least partially the latter for me. I’ve played much better games since, and I don’t really find that formula appealing anymore. Almost everything it created has been used to make better products since, so is there even a reason to care about them anymore?
- Comment on Valid point 1 week ago:
Forcing people to go into the office is the boss pretending to work.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
Honestly, in my opinion, there’s too many games to justify buying it at all. I enjoyed one and two when I was a kid, and there wasn’t competition for the genre. Three I think was free on Epic or something, so I played and it was fine, but not great. I don’t expect much from four, and there’s companies I’d actually like to support instead.
- Comment on Apartments and metros 1 week ago:
I really like the DC metro stations. Sure, most aren’t opulant, but they’re usually clean and well lit, and I think the style looks really cool.
- Comment on Apartments and metros 1 week ago:
I see you’ve never lived in an apartment. Sure, these aren’t soundproof. However, they were made of concrete. It’s better than the US apartment made out of drywall and prayers. Still, I prefer one of these in a livable area than an isolated house you have to drive to get anywhere.
Commie blocks aren’t perfect, but they solve a lot of issues, and they were cheap. They were made for communities, being built in areas with access to everything else you needed to live. There’s never going to be a perfect solution, and anything like this is going to have an issue with hearing your neighbors. That’s just a compromise that has to be made to get the many advantages.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
Although at some point you’ll get collisions, but I don’t think that’s actually an issue. It still equally hard to guess a password from the hash, there will just be some solutions that are much longer than others.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 1 week ago:
Nope. I don’t really know why they decided to do this, but it does use the existing lore. The Phor are going to be involved, and a bunch of other Marathon stuff is going to be used. It’s almost the exact opposite game mode of what Marathon was though.
- Comment on who are you? 1 week ago:
Yeah, most experiation dates are made up. Some are real, like milk usually. I’ll still drink milk after the date, but I always make sure to smell it if I’m approaching or past that date.
99% of foods you can smell or see if they’ve gone bad before you taste it. Always use your senses, not some date printed on it by a manufacturer that wants to sell more product. We’re literally evolved to identify food that’s gone bad.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 1 week ago:
OK, criticism is fine, by reskined Helldivers? It’s nothing like Helldivers. It’s an extraction shooter, with a focus on PvP.
I guess Helldivers is a shooter where you extract, but it isn’t an extraction shooter. Extraction shooters are like Escape from Tarkov, Gray Zone, and the upcoming ARC Raiders. They’re about entering a game with items, collecting loot, and leaving. If you die you lose everything you brought. Nothing like Helldivers.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 1 week ago:
Every game’s style is inspired by something else. For example, Sable has a great style, but it’s largely inspired by Moebius, and that’s OK, and actually encouraged.
There is nothing in this world that is not inspired by previous experiences.
- Comment on Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials 3 weeks 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 5 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" 5 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" 5 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" 5 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" 5 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" 5 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" 5 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" 5 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. 5 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.
