Kyrgizion
@Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am bereaved 1 day ago:
Sure, but this is the only one future historians will be holding entire seminars on.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
Reddit until two years ago, and now Lemmy. That’s honestly it.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
Nope. Managed to stay off of it for my entire life so far. Reason for it was that back in '05 or a bit later one of the very first things I learned about the nascent Facebook, was Zuck’s famous “Dumb fucks” remark about his early users. I rightfully concluded that someone with such a mindset would be an absolutely plague on mankind and I would never willingly help them in any way, no matter how insignificant.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
I would sooner put my nuts in an iron vice while running 10.000 volts through it and lighting it on fire than provide Facebook with anything at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Oh boy, one of my favorite hyperfixations, Roman coin debasement & inflation! TLDR: the parallels of today and back then are much more than just similar. We’re essentially repeating what happened in the fourth century but on a global scale.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 5 days ago:
High-powered lasers have a very wide beam ;)
- Comment on Comfy cozy 5 days ago:
Small, probably stupid tip, but what the hell. There is an almost surefire way to kill drones without needing a firearm. Buy a high-powered laser (>5W). It obviously won’t be enough to take the drone down, but just a fraction of a second of that beam is enough to permanently destroy the camera. The downside is that the beam is very visible so you’d also be giving away your location. Also works on static cameras like traffic cams, number plate readers, …
- Comment on Comfy cozy 5 days ago:
I don’t think enough people noticed the Trump regime’s demands that EU destroy their own healthcare just so theirs could look, well, not better but less terrible by comparison.
This is not a joke. These people will absolutely do everything they can to rob the few nations on this Earth that manage to take care of their citizens to the point they’re all beholden to the same crime lord family.
- Comment on A real American 6 days ago:
Post was made by Billy Mays’ son. Extra memey.
- Comment on Woof 1 week ago:
What a bitch.
- Comment on Such are the times 1 week ago:
I’d be Weedbear prolly…
- Comment on Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry Nintendo, even as someone who grew up on SMB, you’ve thoroughly convinced me to never do business with you ever again. Not even nostalgia…
- Comment on Someone give me money so I can find out 3 weeks ago:
Yeah unless your stomach is producing aqua regia that gold’s coming out the exact same way it went in.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and that is why people like you and me will never be rich in the first place. This mindset completely prevents it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Everyone’s so tired and broken down with all our societal problems that they’re just trying to make enough money so the problems don’t apply to them anymore, rather than trying to tackle the actual underlying issues…
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 3 weeks ago:
We’ve been up against the 5Ghz thermal wall for over a decade. We can keep adding cores but we need significantly improved design (less nanometers) for these gains - and these are now running up against another wall, namely quantum tunneling which begins being a problem at around the nanometer scale.
I assume only a radically different architecture (light instead of electricity?) will be able to smash these barriers.
- Comment on Day 288 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Horrible creatures.
- Comment on Shrigma 4 weeks ago:
Who needs they shrussy ate?
- Comment on Only the biggest ones, folks, trust me! 4 weeks ago:
Satire is well and truly dead, isn’t it?
- Comment on *hands to an undergrad* 5 weeks ago:
I felt the same way after being handed a corp full admin account over the datacenter. Like “I wouldn’t give my car keys to a toddler, but here I am…”
- Comment on Oblivion Remaster Rockets Past 100K Players on Steam Hours After Launch - Insider Gaming 5 weeks ago:
Damn, this is with everything on max at 4K with DLSS & Framegen?
- Comment on 3 Adams Case Prosecutors Resign Rather Than Express Regret to Justice Dept. | They had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to abandon the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. 5 weeks ago:
Respect. Although they can’t eat that, sadly.
- Comment on Odin 2 Maker Ayn To Join Anbernic In Pausing US Shipments 5 weeks ago:
Send 'em all our way (EU) I’m sure we’ll find a use for it.
- Comment on Oblivion Remaster Rockets Past 100K Players on Steam Hours After Launch - Insider Gaming 5 weeks ago:
I must admit, it’s not “just” a remaster, but they somehow managed to capture the spirit of '06 when this first came out PERFECTLY. Picture this: I was still in college and studying at home when Oblivion was finally released. I had been waiting for it for a long time (to my young mind back then) and I remember it was a perfectly beautiful, sunny day and I was home alone with no obvious way to get to a game store.
So I asked my elderly neighbor if I could borrow her clunker of a car for “an errand” and drove over an hour to the nearest game shop.
From the game itself I mostly remember how drop-dead gorgeous everything seemed - and how terribly my PC’s performance was back then, especially in outdoors areas.
Today, I experienced the exact same form of awe, followed by the most gorgeous graphics I could imagine, and… 15 fps outdoors. EXACTLY how things used to be when I was a young man.
Magic. Truly a win for Bethesda (after Starfield). Now all I need is a PC who can actually run the damn thing on high with over 60 FPS.
- Comment on Anon plays old games 5 weeks ago:
Thanks :) Can I ask why you can’t play BG1? The Enhanced Edition on Steam isn’t very expensive and compatible with almost all possible modern OS’es. I can very much recommend it ;)
- Comment on Anon plays old games 5 weeks ago:
It’s not a problem with turn-based, per se. I love Xcom. I finished Expeditions: Rome which is 100% turn-based combat on a grid exactly like BG3 & D:OS I&II. I love D&D rulesets as well. It’s just something about the exact combination of these things in BG3 that really REALLY irks me and prevents me from enjoying the game at all.
- Comment on Anon plays old games 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know what it is, but… I have always been a Baldur’s Gate fan of the first hour. BG1, when I played it back in 1998, blew my mind so completely that I STILL consider it the best CRPG ever made, hands down. After that came NWN and NWN2 and I enjoyed those also. It was also what introduced me to D&D and I read a ton of D&D novels after that.
So you’d think that when BG3 came along, especially with me being Belgian, I’d be completely stoked. I immediately bought the game and… found to my greatest surprise that I just couldn’t enjoy it. At all.
See, I bought and tried Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2 and had the EXACT same problem. I just couldn’t/can’t get over the turn-based combat. It sucks so much ass. Realtime with “hidden” dnd rules was the way to go.
So now whenever I see people gushing about BG3 I somehow feel like I “failed” myself for being disappointed in what seems to be the objectively best game ever made according to, well, everyone.
Maybe it’s just a sign that there’s something wrong with me and that I’ve lost the ability to enjoy good games. Ah well.
- Comment on Bros being bros 1 month ago:
Like the other poster said, just make it yourself. Reddit is bound to piss off more of their users and they’ll need a place to land.
- Comment on Good ol' Reddit, at it again (and again, and again, and...). 1 month ago:
Only 7 days? Amateur. I have an a4 full of permabans. And I wasn’t even trying to troll or anything.
/s, but also not.
- Comment on How to love 1 month ago:
Been out of the house for 20 years, things have never changed.