Weirdfish
@Weirdfish@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 week ago:
This is so me, find the right gear and feather the clutch, never touch the brakes.
- Comment on Only 7 PlayStation games have sold over 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, says analyst, as commenters demand discs without buying them 1 week ago:
While I’m all for physical media, I get why things are going this way.
I have a large library of PS3 games I can just fire up and enjoy, offline.
With the PS4 and PS5, I can’t think of a single game that works from the purchased disc. Everything requires huge download patches, to the point the disc is nothing more than a license to the game.
I think the bigger issue is game longevity and ownership.
If I buy a game, I expect to be able to play it, today, next year, ten years from now.
I have N64 games I still play on an original system from the 90s, they are mine.
Games, especially single player games, that require online connections to servers that can be taken away at any time is absolute bullshit.
I’ve spent a crazy amount of money on Rocksmith 2014 over the years, and when they pull the servers I’ll lose access to hundreds of DLC songs.
I think that any game you buy, physical or download, should be yours, and if they need server access to run, the company should be required to provide the server source code, or a free patch, that allows you to continue to play the game, when they take the servers offline.
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 1 week ago:
But it is in and of itself a piece of history.
Changing a story that is thousands of years old is wrong.
Go ahead and make the movie, but be faithful to the original work.
- Comment on When the first Black Hole was discovered in 1971 what did the scientist actually think it was at first? How come now it seems that it destroys everything it ingests? Why is it not a funnel of sorts? 2 weeks ago:
It’s what I’ve heard it called. The closer to the center of mass, and the smaller the black hole, the greater the change in gravity as you get closer.
The pull at your feet and the pull at your head when standing on Earth is so close to identical that it makes no difference.
Picture it like the lines on a topographical map of an open plain, they’re all spread out, almost no change over a long distance.
The more you fall, the closer the lines get together, so that the gravity up top isn’t the same as at your feet anymore, and that difference only continues to grow.
When the change in the gravity rate is high enough, the pull on your feet is so much stronger than at your head you get pulled apart like taffy.
- Comment on When the first Black Hole was discovered in 1971 what did the scientist actually think it was at first? How come now it seems that it destroys everything it ingests? Why is it not a funnel of sorts? 2 weeks ago:
As was already stated, they’d been theorized for a long time, the first one discovered was very much specifically looked for, not stumbled upon.
As far as destroying everything it ingests, and why it’s not a funnel, that’s all to do with gravity.
Gravity is by far the weakest force, but in a black hole, it simply wins.
The density of matter is so great, all the other forces are for lack of a better term, over powered. The forces that hold atoms together to form molecules, the forces that hold particles together to form atoms, particles that make up light, all fail to the might of gravity, all get pulled into what is called a singularity.
What is a singularity? Well, no one knows. It’s what is at the heart of a black hole, it’s whatever is left when everything is smashed into a point that not even light can escape. There is very complex math describing singularities, which I don’t pretend to understand, but in all practical sense, we don’t know what it’s like in there because we have no way of reproducing those conditions or look inside one.
The point of no return in this gravity well is called the event horizon, and it’s just about the only meaningful way to judge the size of a black hole. That and its mass.
It is theorized that energy/mass can radiate from a black hole, when spontaneous particle pairs form along the events horizon in a energy into matter solution to E=MC2, where one has enough momentum to escape, and it’s pair does not. Under lab conditions these virtual and opposite particle pairs usually just destroy each other and return to being energy.
Not sure where the debate is at now, but the information loss caused by the destruction of this matter over here, and the formation of new unrelated matter over there, was a big deal in physics.
A back hole was the answer to the question, what happens when stuff gets so packed together gravity just wins? Discovering one in nature proves that that can actually happen.
It’s also the spot where much of known physics and math just breaks down. We study them, but they really are a true mystery to science.
As to why it’s not a funnel, well, in theory it sort of can be.
If the black hole is large enough, the tidal gravity forces increase gradually enough that a person could survive crossing the event horizon, though it would be a one way trip.
The time dilation caused by the high gravity means that time would slow down, functionally stop, from point of view of an outside observer watching this jump.
From the point of view of the spacewalker looking outward, time would speed up, and in principle they could watch the entire rest of the history of the universe play out.
Unfortunately, from their point of view in relation to falling into a black hole, time would just go on ticking, until the tidal forces grew strong enough to turn them into spaghetti.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but the question was, who is more hated? I do not think that globally at the moment the population thinks about, let alone actively hates, Bush Jr these days.
Yes Trump has his core base, but man, it really feels like if you don’t love him, you hate him.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard to keep perspective over the decades. I was more passionate back then, and he really did some horrible things, but I don’t remember feeling like he was so, I don’t know, disgusting of a human being as Trump.
Time will tell I guess
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard to remember how much we hated Bush II back in the day. The fact that he is now just lumped in with the other surviving presidents today for me is the real demonstration of just how much worse Trump is.
- Comment on How does a teenager learn to "eat out" a women without doing it like a dog at a water bowl? 3 weeks ago:
Get a grapefruit or an orange, heat it for about 20 seconds in the microwave.
Then cut it in half, throw both halves in the garbage, and do like everyone else suggests and listen to your partner.
- Comment on First American Woman Rows Solo From California to Hawaii 3 weeks ago:
Even with every modern convenience, GPS, safety equipment, and I’m sure support craft, this is absolutely terrifying to me. Good for her.
- Comment on Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything. 3 weeks ago:
I tried playing at launch, on a PS4. Only time I’ve ever really felt a game was unplayable.
Year or so later, tried on a PS4 pro, but still wasn’t any good.
Today after a friend bugging me for like week, I’m giving it another go on a PS5, and this time, it looks and plays the way they promised.
First game I’ve played that makes use of the trigger feed back, going to have to get used to that.
Just finished the tutorial, really hoping it lives up to the hype. Do have to say it’s the best looking game I’ve played.
- Comment on Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ??? 3 weeks ago:
For perspective, me at 22. Kicked out of the military, recently divorced, and living on a couch in my parents basement.
By any measure, I was WAY behind anyone else I knew.
Now, at 50, I have a job I truly love, a nice apartment with just me and the cat. Have a couple motorcycles, game consoles, and my time is my own.
I’m not rich, but I make more than I spend in a given month, have enough savings that I’m not living paycheck to paycheck, and an emergency expense won’t ruin me.
It took a long time to figure out what happiness looked like for me, and to stop judging my life by those around me.
Sure, my siblings are more “successful”, but I can’t say they seem happier than I am.
I don’t use any social media aside from Lemmy, I don’t follow anyone, and experience people the old fashioned way, in person or through phone calls.
Look around your life and see the things you do have. Not to post, just for you to recognize.
Think about what it is that makes you happy, both day to day, and in say a five year plan. Make a goal, make it achievable, and then do it. Just for you.
Go see a live show, buy yourself a present, take a short trip to see a place you’ve never been, invest in a new hobby, take up a musical instrument.
And for fuck sake stay away from AI chats and social media!
- Comment on Single player games 4 weeks ago:
The closest thing to multiplayer I touch now days are Fromsoft invasions.
I play exclusively on consoles, and enjoy a slower pace to gaming.
Have a huge backlog of games I haven’t touched, and a few that I just keep coming back to.
Really gotten into permadeath gaming, which slows things down even more, but makes every decision and hour of gaming truly count.
Factorio, Cities Skylines, Far Cry 2, Subnautica, the Fromsoft catalogue, Mass Effect, I’ll do a full play through at least once a year.
Finally playing the Witcher III while listening to the book on audio.
I get why people enjoy multiplayer games, but it hasn’t been for me for a long time.
I think the last one I really spent any time on was America’s Army around 2006.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure it was because the windshield was littered with too much HUD.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I have a very specific skill set so my experience may not apply, but I’ve had the best results going through technical head hunters.
Tempt to perm positions lasting six months to a year, then they decide if they want to hire you.
Yes spam away, it’s not like your credit score is getting dinged each time you send one.
My only caution to this approach is that you want to be sure to research the company before any interview, don’t show up and be like “Well, ya’ll were the only one of the 500 I sent out to reply, what do you do?”
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 month ago:
I went through the No Mans Sky turn around, and ended up loving the game. I always thought Cyberpunk would rock, given the team behind it.
You’ve convinced me that it’s my next big play through.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 month ago:
I’ve bounced off this game twice, the early PS4 disaster and another attempt admittedly before all the fixes.
I have a PS5 now, so maybe it’s finally time to give it another try
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 month ago:
$300 something for the system, $60 for the game, not sure how much a pair of pro controllers cost, but I walked out spending close enough to $500 for the point to stand.
US dollars, don’t remember what year I bought it. I’m guessing around 2018, it was shortly after breath of the wild released.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 month ago:
Something around that, I don’t remember exactly
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 month ago:
I bought a Switch, which for a long time I call “My $500 Zelda machine”, as I really only played Breath of the Wild on it.
Now with Factorio and the classic N64 library, I feel better about buying it.
There isn’t anything technically speaking about the Switch 2 I want, as I just got a PS5 and it blows that out of the water.
Shame this isn’t on switch, I’d have liked to play it
- Comment on Do people really "need" friends? 2 months ago:
If you are going to limit yourself to what your romantic partner is interested in, I suppose it could work, but feels very confined.
I have many hobbies and interests not shared in full by any romantic partner I’ve ever had, though there have been some notable exceptions.
One woman I dated for many years rode motorcycles and snowboards.
Another shared my interest in Fromsoft video games.
I doubt anyone I would seriously date at 50 is going to share my passion for skateboarding, though I’d love to be proven wrong on that one.
I don’t have many close friends, and only two live within visiting distance. Most have spread across the country. We stay in touch with a phone call every month or two, catching up, sharing stories, discussing common interests. The ones in town I’ll see maybe once a month as well, for dinner, drinks, or a motorcycle ride.
They all bring ideas and experiences into my life I wouldn’t otherwise have, and by maintaining friendships with a wide variety in background and education, it keeps me from becoming too narrow minded or stunted.
Could I live my life without my friends? Sure. Would I want to? Absolutely not.
- Comment on Is there a way I can become Baptized a Catholic without going to school or memorizing all the saints I am 37? Always thought it would be an honor to be Catholic. Like being knighted. 3 months ago:
I was raised catholic, and the steps you need to complete, the sacraments, would be baptism, which I would think is a freebee as they do it to babies, first communion which we did around 1st grade. I went once a week to a school in the evening until the third sacrament, confirmation, which is your “I’m an adult and chose to be a Catholic” . That was around 15 or so, similar to a bar mitzvah.
There are a total of seven sacraments, last rites at death and a Catholic wedding are two others I believe.
There really weren’t tests and such, I could name a few more saints than the average person I suppose.
I’m sure a local church will have adult classes, I can’t imagine it being a difficult process, though how long it would take I have no idea.
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 4 months ago:
Still haven’t played this one through, just downloaded it for like the third time.
I don’t know why it hasn’t hooked me, it’s just the sort of game I should enjoy.
- Comment on Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does. | A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. 6 months ago:
I had no idea, why did I think he had passed? I swear I remember this.
Guess I’m just getting old.
- Comment on Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does. | A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. 6 months ago:
Shame Gary Larson didn’t live to see this.
- Comment on Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol 6 months ago:
Well, I’ve heard if you spin it backwards you can hear satanic messages
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time …
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 8 months ago:
Laughed at the humor in a game? High on life had some really good stuff in the opening hour.
Laughed at the situation in a game? My recent play through of the ever chaotic madness that is Far Cry 2.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 8 months ago:
No, not in the sense you mean, it’s a 5 door hatch back. The gold standard was always “Can it fit a sheet of plywood?”, and no not a chance.
With the roof rack it can carry whatever ,including the giant tree that fell on it five years ago that makes me not care if I carry anything on it.
If you have the money, buy the all wheel drive Volvo wagon, it’s what I’m looking at next.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 9 months ago:
2014 Subaru Impreza sport wagon and I couldn’t be happier.
Had to basically replace the entire tans at 80k miles this year, but otherwise bullet proof.