Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is coming for the Switch 2 as people make emulators and native ports of the Switch 2 exclusives for PC⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the new one in your face about the hand holding? Because I’m currently playing through the GCN version (which I believe is a straight N64 port) and Navi will give you a hint every 10 minutes or so about what is “next”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Wednesday, my dudes!⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it also indicates that what we “see” (in our mind) isn’t necessarily chronologically coherent. Some parts of your field of vision might be from earlier or later points in time compared to others. As in it can still be processing the previous frame when it starts displaying the simplest parts of a newer frame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Wednesday, my dudes!⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As the other commenter mentioned, if you’re on a monitor, the effect isn’t nearly as strong if you’re shaking your head vs shaking a phone. It’s still detectable, but I think that’s because I know what to look for. If I didn’t know what to expect, the effect is subtle enough that I don’t think I’d have seen it. This was also from shaking my head in front of my phone screen. I think the size of the image will make a difference (where smaller is better).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Soup does not want you to know this⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy soup from scratch:

  1. Saute some veggies and spices in your soup pot.
  2. Add water or broth, like 500ml to 1L, depending on how much soup you want to make.
  3. Add more veggies and spices. (Bay leaf)
  4. Simmer it for… Well, depends on the soup but could be 10-15 mins or however long you want. I’m not your supervisor.
  5. Season it. This is important unless you prefer food that can be described as “watery”, “diluted”, “bland”, “the weakest soup ever”. Salt, some kind of acid, sweetness, soy sauce or mushrooms for umami. Just a hint of each, though taste it. You want seasonings to be present but not overpowering. This step is good for any food, even desserts (though when baking it can be more complicated). (Remove bay leaf)
  6. Serve with some thick bread (both slice size and density to slow the rate at which the soup saturates it). Sourdough is good.

  I said veggies but you can do meat or eggs or cheese. As long as you cook it to a safe amount, do whatever.

  Thai red curry is pretty much the same except you add the curry paste at the end of the saute and toast it for like 30 seconds, and some of the liquid is coconut milk, like half. And you serve it with rice instead of bread. Or both. Or neither, you do you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Walk Used AI In 'The Final Stretch' Of Development, Kicking Off Intense Awards Debate⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What about new ways of generating those things? Eg, I’ve been getting more into music theory and have been thinking that this seems like something that is automatable, but from the theory rather than training on existing music. Things like chord progression and harmonies to back up a simple melody, maybe even generation of a melody itself.

  It’s just an idea but if I actually get around to making it and it works, and then I actually get around to making the game I want to make, I’d want to use it to generate the music. Hiring a composer would depend entirely on the quality of its output and the budget.

  It wouldn’t be taking any existing works and making something out of them, but it also wouldn’t be paying composers and musicians to create music.

  It’s probably purely hypothetical because I get a lot of ideas of things to try that never end up going anywhere, if they even get started, but what would you think of that in this kind of a context?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The question could be meaningless. Consider this: if I program a simulated world, I can give that world any rules I can think of (that are computable in finite time) and create any objects I want in that world (within the available storage footprint), as well as set it up to report any events or conditions I can think of (again if computable within finite time with the resources available). This pretty much meets the requirements for omniscience and omnipotence over that world, though omnipresence would be more of a technicality arising from the two others (I can detect things anywhere and can affect things anywhere, so it’s like I am present everywhere, just not physically).

  So while I could make an arbitrarily large bean in that simulation, I have no physical presence or parameters that such a bean could exceed. So in that way, the question doesn’t mean anything.

  I could create an avatar with a set of parameters and then create a bean that exceeds those parameters. But I could also then just change the parameters of the avatar so that it can eat it. Or I could change how eating works. That’s more in line with how those omni-s would work if such a being existed within this reality, so the question has meaning in this case but not useful meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, Jim broke character there. Any normal person would look at the unexpected bright smokey thing before looking away. Jim’s reaction there was that of an actor not wanting to be partially temporarily blinded with a face full of smoke!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is looking for a router⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the fools think they can avoid them by not scanning them. Lol they still carry the mark and the curse along with it even if they aren’t scanned. You need at least some white out to break the curse (Sharpe won’t do it because it can be removed with isopropyl alcohol).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is looking for a router⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rename your wifi to “<current name> (disabled)”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a carpenter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, isn’t that just a hallway? Don’t you want each step to be a higher height than the previous one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And Make It A Yummy One⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Caesar is hard to compare with people today. He was an elite but was also different from them. Like he was incredibly popular with the military because, in addition to being a respected commander who led his legions to success, he also took the controversial position of “hey maybe we should honour the promises we made to those who signed up to fight for our former republic rather than use beaurocracy and the Senate to weasel out of it and fuck them over”, which was very unpopular with the wealthy landowners that either wanted the land themselves or just didn’t want more competition.

  The assassins complained about the dictatorship becoming permanent but I think it was the land thing that really drove them because Augustus continued on to become the actual first emperor of Rome (and also ended up pushing through Caesar’s land distribution reforms once he secured his power anyways, though that could have just been pragmatic for both of them, since an unhappy military is how Caesar was able to do his coup in the first place).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And it's not unsettling at all⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or… 50% more teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bond plays UNO⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I… also… like to live dangerously. <= actually a brilliant move (or something)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else obsessed with Queens Domain?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already on my wishlist. Looks like an interesting game, though I’m not really a fan of how grainy it looks. Not that that will stop me from trying it, but I might try some (deterministic) filters. Does it have any built in ones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rage bait ravings⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can also deduce from them saying it was already a difficult day that they still are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bear posting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing is the most unusual part of that meal for a bear is the steak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves Kebab⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That gives the upper limit, but I have a feeling anon’s kebab friend is far more generous that just increasing it by one cell per day and I think it’s safe to assume that he’s making larger pitas as the volume increases in appreciation of anon’s generosity so I think he would hit the limit at least ten thousand years before your calculations suggest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves Kebab⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how long we have left before a last ditch effort to maintain that pattern means all animal life needs to be used for meat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a proposal for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it’s an animal, not a mindless monster. Unless you’re its only possible food source, it will probably just avoid you after a couple of attempts and knife wounds. And if you are the only food source for it, you can just wait it out in the hut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scrooge would definitely be on that list.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tony Stark, too.

  Though even with that propaganda, it doesn’t seem to be aging well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel... is the title of the highly-anticipated follow-up to Bethesda's Skyrim...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only thing that would make me interested is if they vastly improved the NPC AI. And I don’t mean hooking them up to an LLM but improving their behaviour.

  Make neutral NPCs more interactive (instead of just repeating a set of lines and otherwise ignoring anything you’re doing, unless you touch an owned item in front of them and they telepathically summon guards because only a thief would touch a bowl on an inn table).

  Make hostile NPCs smarter. Part of the reason that so many people end up pigeon holed into some kind of stealth archer build is because NPCs completely forget someone is there harassing them with arrows when they can’t find them after like 30 seconds of searching. They should put up barriers to block line of fire, add torches to light up dark areas, inform others and group up to search the area. If they keep getting picked off without even seeing who was doing it, eventually the remaining survivors should try to run or lock the place up tight.

  Would also be nice if the density of the world can be increased. Like not so much stuff to do, but how full the world is. Like have more than a dozen NPCs plus guards in towns. Just random people that don’t even have to interact much but are there. Instead of like 5 farmers supporting 30 guards and the lord’s household.

  Also add some more dungeon layouts. Sometimes reuse makes sense, though for ruins it doesn’t make sense for something to decay in the exact same way even if the layout is the same. But there shouldn’t be any identical caves (or if there is, it should be notable that they are identical and there should be a quest or at least hidden notes or something talking about it).

  I’m also not completely satisfied with the whole “everyone is about the same relative strength as you”. I get why they do the balance that way but IMO it really hurts the whole sense of progression when the whole world is always appropriately balanced against your current level. Other mechanisms could be used to bring early level areas up so that a high level character can still do interesting things there, which would also make the world more interesting. Have bandits move around and take over areas, or necromancers, or pull another encounter from a hat. But not a “oh you’re now at a level where you can fight trolls? Ok, the forests are full of them now”. But I acknowledge that this particular facet is hard to tune right and pretty subjective.

  I really hope they put some attention towards these things and aren’t just building a new map and quests for a game that might as well just be called the biggest skyrim DLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naaaaaahhhh 😂🤣⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine you’re using this and suddenly need to swerve sharply to avoid an accident…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things they don't want you to know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are using the existing vents for powdered milk delivery, I suggest you skip the beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it still there‽⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol it’s extra funny how he both did that joke but also was very careful to make it clear he wasn’t really putting his hand anywhere near his cock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it still there‽⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sigh you just reminded me of Patrick Stewart :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life hack #74492⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this helped me, also. Though I like to cook a bunch of different things, to the point that I have three freezers to store all the various water volumes I need.

  I’ve also got a set of bowls to thaw the water in. Plus a bigger bowl to catch the overflow in case the bowl I use isn’t big enough to hold all that water when it thaws. I have no idea how this happens, but sometimes I put in a bag of frozen water and it fits in the bowl fine as ice but then doesn’t fit when it melts. But I at least solved the problem by placing a bigger bowl under it and, just in case that isn’t enough, I have a really big bowl under that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Steve Buscemi in 2019. Both age 34 in their respective photos.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the Connery pic, the wrinkles that stand out the most to me are at the corners of his eyes. They don’t look bad, to be clear, but I’m also older than he is in that pic and can’t find a facial expression that causes those to show up at all, let alone that pronounced.

  For Buscemi, he doesn’t look old so much from the winkles but from how his skin hangs in general, though he’s always had eyes that also make him look older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's friend gets exposed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your brain continues developing throughout your whole life, otherwise no one would be able to learn new skills or information after whatever the cutoff point is and things like strokes and TBIs would not be recoverable.

  That study said 25 because that’s the age the cohort was at when it was cut off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it could never get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the one! Lol my memory about it was so vague that while I remembered you had to collect things in the maze, I didn’t remember it was a capture the flag game. It came on the windows 95 CD, though IIRC you had to install it separately from windows, which I think meant not that many people were aware of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it could never get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t even tried 1 in a long time. It’s been a while since I played 2, so maybe it won’t be so bad. I’ve even got my own copy now, though I think I might still have the burnt copy of brood wars from my friend’s disc lol.