Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying new trends is a choice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No disagreement there, I only responded because of the “ain’t no other way” in your OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying new trends is a choice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What about playing them on the original consoles? I’ve got a Game Cube and PS3 I still use occasionally, and a PS2 that I haven’t tried in a long time but would give it 50/50 for just booting up if I hooked it up, plus some portion of the failure 50% includes the possibility of repairing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big thing funny⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have at least one instance where one gets in the way of two characters having a conversation while trying to see each other around it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's an open and shut Caes against you, maleman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I nominate them to do a census.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shhhh! it's sleeping.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the kind of housing market crash the people were hoping for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shhhh! it's sleeping.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Scale is right, too. Just need to fix the rotation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one step closer to 100%'ing life!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t it more like a receipt with an url on it that may or may not still be the image that was at that url when the purchase was made. Or maybe you could do a hash of an image, at which point changing a single pixel or cropping it would change it into an image you don’t “own” and most people won’t have any idea how to even check it.

  Really, with the lack of tech savyness out there, the best way to own an NFT would be to just lie about buying one and what it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might put you out to stud if you're a fast runner for a while, though⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That horse has two front-facing eyes. If you see it, run. It is a predator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love Wins⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why people use that one version of solar where essentially the power company gets most of the benefit because they buy the generated power from you at wholesale and sell it by to you at retail and, as you said, you can’t even use it when the power goes out.

  Though do you know if there’s automated systems that take both solar/battery and the grid as input and do load balancing such that it automatically uses the cheaper power when available and then falls back to the grid for whatever else it needs? Or even better, one that keeps a certain amount of battery power as backup in case the grid goes down?

  Though what I’d really like to see are DC home circuits to avoid the energy loss from first converting DC to AC to match the grid, then converting it back to DC inside the power blocks of your device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looked it up, there happens to be a 50% sale for it on steam right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some options I know of:

  • The Forgotten City
  • Deathloop
  • Stuck in Time
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need an adult⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the part I have trouble with. Leaves are green, the sky is blue. They are very different colours. It’s not ambiguous like whether teal or turquoise is green or blue (I could easily see either of those being labelled as either blue or green), or different shades of the same colour like fuscia or maroon. They are different primary colours of light.

  It’s just weird to me that two very common every day colours that don’t look anything alike wouldn’t get distinct names. I understand that the blue photoreceptors we have are the newest ones and are less sensitive than the red and green ones, but I wouldn’t have figured that our evolution of it to the point where we see what we currently see (if you aren’t colour blind) would have been that recent. I expected hundreds of thousands of years, not tens of thousands or just thousands, which is what it would need to be to explain cultures that didn’t differentiate between the two until recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant the Sega CD’s performance and reception might have been a factor in Nintendo deciding they didn’t actually want to bring their project with Sony to market.

  That said, I looked at the actual timeline and see that that speculation was incorrect as the Sega CD came out in December 1991 while Nintendo backed out of the deal in June of that year.

  Hooooly fuck @ the story, too.

  Sony had completed a prototype but were positioning themselves to gain control over licensing and distribution of the disc format they were using, which made Nintendo think they weren’t going for a partnership but full control.

  So at the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony did a tech demo of their prototype. The very next day, Nintendo announced their partnership–with Philips, not Sony. This was the CD-I, another console I forgot about in my last comment (that also failed because of its focus on FMV games, including the only Zelda games for a non-Nintendo console).

  Kinda interesting that this one story seems to contain both companies’ full gaming arcs. Sony wanting control over their software ecosystem but being hated for it, and Nintendo wanting to keep control and pulling surprise dick moves to do so. There were no good guys in that story.

  Though back to the original point, it wouldn’t surprise me if the reception of all those initial disc-based consoles helped Sony steer away from shitty FMV games and make sure they had the great games library the PSX did have. But again this is just speculation that could also be based on an incorrect understanding of timing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love Wins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not doubting what you’re saying but just a bit confused because wouldn’t electrifying what a lineman works on end up overloading the generator because you’re now powering everything up to where the circuit broke upstream? Saying this based on an assumption that the lines service multple households and the generators are designed to keep important things running rather than just replace power plants for even one house, let alone the neighbourhood.

  How do they handle solar setups that are set up specifically to send power into the grid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget the Atari Jaguar. Pre-ps2 would also include all the sega systems, NES, SNES, NeoGeo, the older Ataris. Leaving commodore and Apple out because they were more PCs than consoles. I think that’s all of them but could be missing some rarer ones.

  Jaguar, 3DO, and NeoGeo were like legends that in hindsight I’m glad I never got because they would have been disappointing most likely. None of them really blew up so only had a handful of games. Iirc most of the 3DO games were those live action ones that were more like choose your own adventure movies. Jaguar claimed to be 64bit but it was because of a technicality that was a bit of a stretch (something like it was capable of 64-bit math but it usually refers to the address width). NeoGeo was a system to play arcade games, so that might have been kinda cool, other than arcade games being the OG P2W platform because so many games were tuned to extract quarters rather than for fun.

  There’s a retro games store I go to every now and then that fulfilled a childhood dream of seeing a sega genesis with both the sega CD (the bit above that might have applied to the 3DO definitely did apply to the Sega CD) and the 32x (which I think was decent but didn’t get popular).

  The Sega CD might (this is more speculative than the rest so don’t take this as fact) have even caused the PS to exist because Sony and Nintendo were working on a joint console that was going to be CD based but then Nintendo backed out and made the N64 instead. Sony, not wanting to abandon the work entirely, then pivoted and just made their own console. It wouldn’t surprise me if the combination of Sega CD flopping plus their games not being very good and CDs adding annoying load time are what made Nintendo back out. It probably also helped Sony direct game markers towards better ideas than FMV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason I found a USB to ethernet network adaptor on my floor in my dorm room (no idea how it got there, just noticed it under the bed one day) at university and tried it with the PS2 I played using a TV in card for my PC and it just worked. Played some online Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 with it.

  Contrast to today, where my PS5 supports Bluetooth but when I paired it with my Bluetooth headset, it didn’t recognize it and I’m sure that was deliberate to get people to buy Sony’s (or partners) headsets. Which is one of the reasons I probably won’t ever bother with a console again (though Sony has been generous and has provided me with plenty of reasons to not bother).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low rating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying it’s a 1 star and you’ve unsubscribed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I’ve considered a double sink to be mandatory in any place I get. At some point I’m going to just get a commercial style sink and use a tub or something in there to contain the dish water and soaking dishes, though most dishes go in the dishwasher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A customized delivery experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pizza delivery is generally cheaper and more reliable, assuming the pizza place has its own drivers. Cheaper because the delivery service is intended to extend the restaurant’s sales, rather than needing to extract enough value to pay both a driver and the middleman app. More reliable because the driver isn’t just some anonymous person that decided to download an app but a driver that has an ongoing relationship with the pizza place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love it when this happens while I'm scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to have difficulty getting through doors. Turns out they are designed to prevent you from going through when closed and luckily I was able to solve the problem from there and mostly get through doors when I want to now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love it when this happens while I'm scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When they leave the foundry in Taiwan, they aren’t ready to be just used. I’m not sure if TSMC even cuts the dies out of the wafers, then they need to be packaged and binned (not necessarily in that order… Being packaged makes binning easier but it’s a waste to package a junk chip). Packaging might happen in Malaysia, Singapore, or China (or elsewhere, I just know those countries have packaging facilities).

  Packaging is when they put the chip(s) on the little PCB that has the pins or pads (for CPUs), though GPUs generally go on a board of some sort, though I can only guess how this one was packaged. Imagining Jensen Huang on an assembly line, licking the backs of GPUs and sticking them on missiles as they pass by and causually get dumped in a steel bin at the end of the conveyor, but that’s probably not what’s happening with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not but IMO the whole concept of “support the visibility of opinions you don’t like” was doomed from the start because you can’t force people to play along with an alternate vote meaning (and the version this is an alternate to also wasn’t the intention behind the voting system, so there already was a drive to use votes as support of the idea rather than the discussion).

  Also, if posts make it to all, then there will be voters who don’t even realize the community wants votes to work differently, even if they care about what the community wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if you want to make obnoxious messages that invoke images of Facebook Karens that think clapping to emphasize words helps their point (to the point they add clapping emojis to text… Holy fuck I can’t emphasize enough how 👏 utterly 👏 braindead 👏 that clapping looks to me), this tree emoji looks kinda like a bush, at least on my device: 🌳

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which they have to keep an eye out for because doctors fell for drugmakers’ lies and overprescribed addictive opiates while claiming they aren’t addictive (which makes it even easier to get addicted).

  Or they just use that as an excuse to not have to deal with an annoying case they can’t flash diagnose and then get offended if a patient decides to do their own research because the doctors they see can’t be bothered.

  I always think back to the time my ex was trying to get a diagnosis for a rare condition that matched her weird symptoms very well. She got a new family doctor, a young new doctor, and he would always dismiss her when she brought up wanting a referral to a clinic that specialized in it so they could diagnose her or rule it out. One time I went with her, she brought it up again, he said he didn’t think she had it, and all I did was ask what made him think this wasn’t the case and he admitted he didn’t know much about it and would do some reading. On her next appointment, she didn’t even have to ask because it was as obvious to him that she probably had it as it had been to us, he just gave her the referral.

  So his justification for dismissing her belief she might have that condition was jack shit, probably involving imagining House saying “it’s never lupus” or something like that. Like yeah, rare conditions are rare but some doctors treat that as if it’s impossible instead of rare and then don’t even bother learning how to tell.

  The Dunning Kruger effect seems to be particularly strong in the medical field. Though to be fair, they do have to deal with their share of idiots and liars, but it makes them jaded rather than sharp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watcha gonna do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean stay in the bank and take hostages?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watcha gonna do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Go to the roof of a skyscraper and throw it all over the side towards the busiest street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol at that age I remember my daughter thinking Mario Kart was like a movie where you picked your character and their vehicle, then watched them race (because auto steer and accelerate were on, which is good enough to finish middle of the pack, at least for 50cc).

  These days she spends most of her gaming time on Minecraft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to nudge my daughter into playing it, but I guess I shared too many other interesting looking games with the family. A Game About Digging A Hole caught her eye first lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The woke liberals are making our wars gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but the song is about someone who is NOT a fortunate son. Or a senator’s son.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aperture Science doesn’t test on animals, all tests are ethically done on humans, of which I am one who is definitely still alive after finishing all the tests and full of cake.