Cethin
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- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 18 hours ago:
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s an adaptive trait, just one that isn’t useful anymore. It wouldn’t be good for everyone to have ever, but it probably was useful for some people to have. Just like most people are more awake during the day, you’d want some people awake at night to keep everyone safe, so we have “night owls” who are maladjusted to the typical work hours we have today.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 19 hours ago:
Conservation of mass is not what would be effected here. They said weight not mass. Weight is an object measured in situ, effected by gravity and the atmosphere above.
They would lose mass, but they’d become more dense. If that gas was less dense than the atmosphere then the slightly increased density would make the weight of everything above the scale slightly higher. Vice versa if it was more dense.
- Comment on [Fredrik Knudsen] Unofficial Skyrim Patch | Down the Rabbit Hole 2 days ago:
I love the “you can’t modify my mod because it undermines authoritative intent” and them modifying things like the standing stones because “oh, that’s not the way it’s supposed to work.” Obviously he doesn’t even believe what he says. He just says whatever he needs to to “win” like a true narcissist.
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 3 days ago:
You could maybe defeat LIDAR with retro reflectors or something. Probably not, but that’s the only case it’d be possible realistically, since it’s actively shooting lasers out that you could reflect back, without actually locating the camera. Anything else, yeah it’d require actively finding the camera and attacking it, since it is only receiving light. I guess if you wore something bright enough to damage any camera looking in your direction that would also work, but I don’t think it’d be considered passive, and you’d also blind everyone else who can see you, probably permanently, and it’d require huge amounts of energy.
- Comment on Help. 4 days ago:
People have this issue with video game characters who don’t even pretend to have intelligence. This could only go wrong.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 days ago:
And you still haven’t seen him acting.
- Comment on These shipping tape things 1 week ago:
I would argue yes. Before we had clothes no one would have cared, but now most people think it’s weird to see other humans naked. I don’t know what you’d call that if not brainwashed.
- Comment on These shipping tape things 1 week ago:
What is brainwashing except forced adaptation to manufactured requirements?
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 week ago:
I really think someone needs to make a modern evolution of Dark Cloud. Maybe the technological limitation was actually a benefit though, because a modern game would probably try to do open world, full 3d construction, and things like that. The technology at the time required that they keep it fairly simple but also really well designed.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
I have a question. Is this for you in the future, or for someone who may find it? If it’s the latter, and it’s just information you want to store, not media, I’d just go with paper. Storing digital data is both hard and error prone, and it also requires them to have the technology and power to read it. If things really go to hell, this isn’t a guarantee. Paper ensures they can at least view it no matter what. It’ll degrade eventually, but it’ll hold up better than digital.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
An ammo box is probably cheaper than a pelican case. I’d go for that no matter what.
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 1 week ago:
4 years of development and they didnt have anything to show except for a CG render?
Anything to show you. They aren’t beholden to you.
Are there any examples of games which have had 4 straight years of radios silence that have not had major development problems?
The vast majority! Game dev cycles are often 8+ years now, and you don’t hear anything from them until about a year before launch. You think about the canceled ones, but most of them that launch you just don’t consider, which is good. No news is good news, as the saying goes.
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 1 week ago:
Why would we have seen it? You normally don’t see anything until they’re gearing up for launch.
I think it’s more likely MS looked at their portfolio, looked at how much this was costing, and decided it didn’t fit what they were looking for for how much it was costing.
This is not to say it’s a good call, just that MS executives are pretty shit at game development analysis.
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 week ago:
You can narrow it down to just the Americas. The European honey bee (and subspecies) are native all across Europe, Asia, and Africa I believe.
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 week ago:
I’m going to expand on the end bit: honey bees in the Americas are invasive European honey bees (meaning they aren’t invasive to Europe, or Africa and Asia either). There used to be honey bees in the Americas, but they’ve been extinct for an incredibly long time.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 1 week ago:
Lol. Almost no one who has an opinion on AI is a technophobe. I’d argue it’s the opposite. To be informed enough to have an opinion means you must like technology. However, LLMs have been proven to be confidently in a inaccurate and misleading, and it creates situations where people believe they’re correct when it just made shit up.
Sure, it help you get an answer pretty quickly, but then you have to check it for accuracy (if you aren’t a fucking idiot who just trusts the thing innately). It doesn’t actually save any time most of the time if you actually learn how to do it yourself. For example, I sometimes use a local model to write boilerplate code for me, but if I ask it to write anything that solves a problem it’s almost never correct. Then I have to parse it and figure out what it was doing to fix it, when I could have just written it myself and been done.
Yeah, it’s great if you’re an idiot and just want to sound smart. It’ll give you an answer that seems reasonable, and you can move on with your day. However, there’s very good odds it isn’t correct if it’s anything complex and/or niche. (I think I saw something not long ago saying 70% chance of being wrong.) If it isn’t complex or is common, you didn’t need a fucking LLM to solve it.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 1 week ago:
Cheating is when you skip a part of the process, and when the process is there to help you learn something then you’re cheating yourself. It is the same as math teachers enforcing no-calculator rules. They weren’t doing it to be pointlessly strict. They were doing it to force you to excersice your brain. You need to know the processes they’re asking you to do. Once you know how, then you can use a calculator without missing out. Knowing the process is incredibly helpful in higher math, or in practical applications when you need to think of how to get to a desired result from what you have.
It’s like going to the gym and having a robot lift the weights for you. Sure, the reps got done but you didn’t actually get anything out of it. Is that useful or are you just wasting your time and money?
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 2 weeks ago:
Is there anyone who sells games that aren’t bad in some way? You don’t become successful in capitalism by being altruistic. Any company successful enough to run a market probably has some skeletons in their closet.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s a slight against them. There’s a whole shit load of stuff not included. Just because something wasn’t doesn’t mean it was a choice. It would have been nice, but we can’t really know why there’s none here.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 2 weeks ago:
I have a suspicion $80 was made up to anchor the price, so when they drop it to $70 stupid people think they won and are getting a deal.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you that time isn’t the measure of value. That’s not what the person above said though. Honestly, I think it was a pretty bad game. The writting didn’t trust the player, instead they beat them over the head that it’s a goofy critique of capitalism. The characters were boring. The game in general just wasn’t very fun.
Honestly, it did fall into what you’re saying where it felt bloated. There was potentially a good game in there, but it was buried under everything that wasn’t interesting but they thought they needed.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have a theory that the absurd $80 price was to make as feel like we won when it drops to $70. This isn’t a win. Don’t celebrate it.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 2 weeks ago:
Throw the System Shock remakes into your replay. They’re Bioshock in all but name, except you get more freedom (that decreases steadily over time with each game in this “series”).
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 2 weeks ago:
With the right team willing to take risks, I agree. There’s still so much it could explore. I doubt this is that though.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, they are largely anti-american and woke, but in a good way. Woke is good, and America has some fucking issues. If you’re choosing to be not woke or actively pro-america, then you might be doing something wrong.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 2 weeks ago:
🏴☠️
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 2 weeks ago:
That shouldn’t make you less pro-bunny. It should make you more pro-possum. It’s an ecosystem. We threw it out of wack, but there are things that help keep tick populations down.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
Iff the rules of physics are accurate then it does, but we don’t know that they are. In fact, we’re pretty sure we’re missing some things. See: The Crisis in Cosmology.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
Three spacial dimensions, which is normally what people mean when they say that, unless they specify otherwise. For example, we call them 3D game engines, not 4D. Yes, there’s also a time dimension that is special. It cannot be moved through freely.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
No, time does not become irrelevant. It’s perfectly normal for things inside the black hole. Here’s the space time diagram for our universe on the right, and a black hole at the top-left. The speed of light is a 45° angle to the top right, and the solid lines are event horizons. Notice the space-time diagram looks exactly the same on the other side of the horizon. To get back through though you’d have to travel faster than that 45° angle, which is impossible.
