carl_dungeon
@carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 3 weeks ago:
Oh Christ, that’s ridiculous.
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 3 weeks ago:
The game looks super cool- why wouldn’t they list it? Is horror off limits now too?
- Comment on Resources 4 weeks ago:
Why can’t we just have fewer people too? Instead of finding ways to support 50 billion people, how about we have good birth control facilities, education, and economies not based on constant never ending growth? The reality is unending growth WILL end whether people like it or not- wouldn’t it be better to do it on our own terms rather than in a global catastrophe?
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 month ago:
Milkshake
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 2 months ago:
Christians are the fucking worst
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 2 months ago:
5 inches thick? It’s a chunky clam chowder can, yikes
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 2 months ago:
Walle had the Apple startup chime when he recharged
- 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" 2 months ago:
The trailer for the new borderlands looked like the most soulless, boring cash grab. Anyone put much time into it yet?
- Comment on "somebody needs to do it" 2 months ago:
Yeah remember the guy that put Biden bound and gagged on the bed door of his pickup?
- Comment on They're unstoppable 3 months ago:
Those guys don’t have time for hair.
- Comment on Nvidia RTX 5090 can crack an 8-digit passcode in just 3 hours — password cracking benchmarks show tremendous performance 3 months ago:
Totally fair points! Password managers FTW, all my passwords are 25 character complete random.
- Comment on Nvidia RTX 5090 can crack an 8-digit passcode in just 3 hours — password cracking benchmarks show tremendous performance 3 months ago:
Digit being the key here- alphanumeric with mixed case and symbols takes a dozen cards over 160 years.
- Comment on Socialism bad 3 months ago:
Now THATS a shit post
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 3 months ago:
cbc.ca/…/talula-does-the-hula-from-hawaii-9-gets-…
www.nzherald.co.nz/…/E7OGEDDDEGAWK2V5W4ODX22U24/
So yeah, it should and it is some places.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 4 months ago:
No- is it like a grunt?
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 4 months ago:
I really doubt switch 2 games will emulate at all or well for quite some time.
I get the money argument. In that case, get the one that does more for you now now, and save up for the other one later. You don’t need them all at once.
I waited a year before getting the first switch, and almost 2 years for a ps4. I think I waited at least a year for all the other PlayStations too save the 5.
Getting something at launch isn’t all that great- bugs, limited games, max prices, etc… a year or so later and you get bundles and deals and lots of game choices.
I don’t have a deck- but a few of my friends do and I’ve played with it a bit- it’s great and I want one at some point, but I can wait for #2 to come out and then go on sale before I dive in.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 4 months ago:
I really truly don’t think so. While there is some overlap, I would never give my 5 yo a steam deck and tell them to just figure it out. And on a steam deck, I’d be really sad to not have any Mario kart, Zelda, etc…
I don’t see the problem with having both- they fill different niches.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
And yet, he does this shit anyway.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 4 months ago:
No that movie was great.
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 4 months ago:
Wouldn’t it just be facts?
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 4 months ago:
My understanding is that only some games are a “key in a cartridge” and they are able to be resold second hand.
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 4 months ago:
Yeah, from apple’s perspective it cheapens their brand and makes them just another commodity parts supplier. Plus, used outside of their ecosystem, the cups might not shine the way they do on their managed platform which could tarnish the image too. Plus, it kills some of the competitive edge they have on hardware if anyone could slap something together with the same chips.
I suspect keeping their chips and tech to themselves is vital to their strategy.
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 4 months ago:
You mean as stand alone parts for purchase?
Because Apple does have m series chips in desktop configurations already- the Mac Studio and iMac.
- Comment on Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey' 5 months ago:
I feel like all this visual upgrading kinda missed the point of Minecraft. It’s like colorizing black and white movies.
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 5 months ago:
My thermostat has a hot and cold setting that will heat when cold and cool when hot- I can also set it to a mode based on outside temp or time of day. You might just need a smarter thermostat.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You’re thinking of people as a service rather than connecting with a person for being a person. It’s a give and take, you need to give back. Think of the situation in reverse, someone just using you for ass and pep talks.
You should be with someone because you like them and want to do things for them.
- Comment on Technology isn't fun anymore 5 months ago:
Well some of it is really fun- the problem is all the mainstream shit coin micro transaction nft ai bullshit. Just stop supporting those things
- Comment on why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??, 5 months ago:
It’s bitrate and computation based. Playing back a waveform through speakers takes very little computation and doesn’t really have all that much data.
Computing billion of pixels per second by doing exotic math between thousands of entities with millions of individual physics calculations and then ray tracing all that and doing it 100 times per second… dude, that’s many many many orders of magnitude more complicated.
To put it in perspective- a heavily compressed song almost fits on a floppy disc. A heavily compressed movie almost fits on 600 floppy disks. A decent quality movie takes 4000 floppies. An hd movie- 10,0000. A 4K UHD etc etc film? Close to 50,000 floppy disks. That’s just video, there’s no physics, no ray tracing, no rendering, no bump mapping, no animation, no anything, just displaying data. Now imaging doing all that, but 5x more per second and add all the things I said.
Graphics cards of today are more powerful than an Empire State Building sized computer of the 90s, probably more powerful that most of the computers on earth put together in the early 90s.
Why did games look basic? Because we had basic level computational power. But why was sound so good? Because sound is like stacking wooden blocks when modern games are like colonizing mars. Different orders of magnitude in complexity and scale.
A single smartphone image is easily 3x bigger than a high quality song- and that image needs to be rendered hundreds of times a second for a modern game. It’s not even the same sport.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 5 months ago:
Good point. I believe it’s $$$ and is tough for smalls. Best of luck on your search!
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 5 months ago:
I’ve worked for a small business in tech for 15 years- it’s a great company that cares for its people. I think some of what you’re describing is just the nature of larger companies. The bigger the machine, the smaller the cog.