AeonFelis

@AeonFelis@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can probably get away with it if you write it in a confusing enough fashion; but you need to make it really confusing - to the point even CPU architecture experts could miss it unless they pay very close attention; and remember that the claims - which are the only part of the patent that has any legal meaning - may be limited by law to a single sentence each, but there is no limit on how cumbersome each sentence is; additionally, semicolons are not sentence terminators; this means that this entire comment I just wrote is technically a only one sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I find no joy from anyone’s death, but in some deaths I do find amusement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  UBI is not a real socialist plan

  UBI is not a socialist plan at all. UBI is what happens when you:

  • accept the capitalist worldview that interfering with the market and the price system leads to distortions that ruin everything

  but

  • think that people deserve to exist even when they are not useful to you
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age check⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not every power imbalance is automatically coercive.

  The problem is that power imbalances make it impossible to establish consent:

  • The underling has no guarantee that refusing will not result in retribution.
  • The superior has no way to know if the underling’s agreement is true consent or if it was out of fear of retribution.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you share⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here: goatse.cx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you approaching other people’s kids and take away their ipads?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roomscale VR when?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when ur higher than sagan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want everyone to be immortal. I want to be the only immortal and watch you all perish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when ur higher than sagan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hugh Everett understood quantum mechanics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't you creating more workers??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  14 hours leaves you barely 2 hours of personal time in a day

  You’ve misspelled “commute”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least he is forming concrete opinions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pandering to conservative Americans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Pandering to conservatives
  • Has the recycling log
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is true wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • "true wisdom"
  • Picture of an orange cat
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a proud catholic and I can name all of them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even remember all the names I’ve called my own two cats. There are just too many…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is my furry pfp okay though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a prehistoric girlfriend. She mostly hunts and gathers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working Overtime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the article: www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-36443264

  I can’t be bothered to read the study itself, but even the article is better than the headline. From what I gather, it’s not that snails only have two brain cells in total like certain people, but that the researchers have managed to isolate a very specific task that utilizes two specific brain cells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beaver girls rise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beaver girls twerk, and suddenly - dam!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist - what Collective Shout wanted all along was to get these specific games for free (and more importantly - without official transactions to prove they’ve bought them)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird based storage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IPoAC is going to get so much faster!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They have seatbelts, but for the most of the flight they are unused - you only need to buckle in during takeoff, landing, and if when encountering turbulence.

  I guess there wasn’t enough time to get all the passengers to fasten their seatbelts before the collision?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy 😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  THEY WERE ON A BREAK!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants robux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not clicking on this click. I suspect a yacht is not the only thing that are never gonna be given there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the cave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be quite a lot of chest to clutch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rats.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as mad as the guy who’s lunch you’ve stolen!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No need for link - even in that picture the word “animal” is never written.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also didn’t mind the two extra buttons, and was a little sad when they went away, because they were largely replaced by the joystick buttons, which I think are hard to use properly.

  Weren’t the black and white buttons replaced by triggers? The joystick buttons already existed in the first XBox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The original PS1 controller didn’t have joysticks, and when it did, the position sucked for larger hands. I have always preferred the XBox layout.

  Right. I meant the second PS1 controller, not the original one. The design changed over the years, but the general specs stayed as the baseline of controllers.

  The XBox layout with its six face buttons did not stick, and the XBox 360 conformed with Sony’s design of four face buttons and two triggers. Which makes more sense for shooters (since you have more buttons while keeping your thumb on the right thumbstick)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire industry has agreed on a de-facto standard for controllers, which is pretty much the PS1 controller:

  • Two clickable thumbsticks
  • Four face buttons
  • D-pad
  • Four triggers
  • Two menu buttons
  • The only thing the PS1 didn’t have (but games can’t use it, so maybe it doesn’t count?) - a button for showing the platform’s menu

  You can add things on top of that (trackpads, gyros, making some of these digital buttons analog), but if you don’t have that - your controller won’t work for games that expect these inputs to be available.

  If I had to put a date on when this became the established standard, I’d say 2005 or 2006 - the years when the XBox 360 and the PS3 were released, since both consoles had these capabilities (Nintendo kept doing its own thing, and only supported this standard starting with the Wii U). So when the Steam controller was released in 2015 - this standard was already established, controllers for PC made sure to support it - and even PC games stuck to it.

  This is why I think the Steam Controller failed - you had to map it. You couldn’t use it like you would a standard controller even if the game was made for standard controllers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just how docile are your cats? If I’d take my cats to the bus without a container I’d have to run back and forth trying to fish them from the overhead storage racks when I reach my stop.

  I tried releasing them in my car once, and they managed to squeeze under the driver and passenger seats. At least that was an environment fully under my control.