Ultraviolet
@Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 3 days ago:
Because it’s just a text prediction engine, the only training data it has about taking a goat across the river is a well-known puzzle involving a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage, so it just regurgitates the solution to that.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
Yes. We could have had a planet Orcus and we were like “nah, we’ll pass.” That would have been metal as shit.
- Comment on doggos 3 weeks ago:
I guess you could say the study was dogshit.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 5 weeks ago:
BotW ruined the series. Open world, despite the promise of freedom, is a crippling set of shackles on world design. No upgrade can meaningfully interact with the world because every area has to be a potential first area. There’s no mystery of “what’s past this obstacle?” because everything has to be passable as soon as you see it. Worst of all, your reward for thoroughly exploring and completing all the optional quests? Butchering the final boss, which at full power is a highlight of the game, into the worst anticlimax of the series by removing multiple entire phases and drastically nerfing the HP of the phases that remain.
All of this wouldn’t be too bad if it was a one off, but Aonuma confirmed it’s the template for the series going forward. We’ll never see another proper Zelda game.
- Comment on English, old 5 weeks ago:
It’s the unabridged ISO 639 list.
- Comment on ))<>(( 1 month ago:
I would never write -n². Either ‐(n²) or (-n)². Order of operations shouldn’t be some sort of gotcha to trick people into misinterpreting you, it’s the intuitive reading of a well constructed mathematical expression.
- Comment on I feel so old. 1 month ago:
Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green. Teenagers took the bait hook line and sinker.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 month ago:
Competitive NES Tetris exemplifies this. The game was already retro when most current top players were fetuses, which completely eliminates nostalgia as a possible factor.
- Comment on FF Evangelists 1 month ago:
Also, adblockers still work.
- Comment on It's more interesting when self-directed 1 month ago:
Early on they were more or less getting along, just under false pretenses. The settlers claimed they had no interest in expanding into native lands and they were just there to facilitate trade with England.
- Comment on honestly 1 month ago:
That’s why there are no clinically proven hiccup cures. There’s no way to be better than placebo when the placebo effect is more than enough to get rid of hiccups on its own.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
Good luck surviving in 0°F long term.
- Comment on How does delisting a game make/save money? 2 months ago:
That would be an entirely new level of unethicality. Not only does it fly in the face of preservation, it’s a stab in the back to the developers who trusted them to publish their game. Imagine having made a game that you’re proud of and want to share with people, but you’re not allowed to sell it or even give it away because the megacorp that promised to do the business side of things and let you focus on development turned around and decided it will be buried forever.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 4 months ago:
Ok, strictly speaking, the language is called the Egyptian language and hieroglyphs were the writing system used to write it (until Greek influences evolved it into Coptic). But that’s an extremely pedantic distinction to anyone who isn’t a linguist.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 4 months ago:
The Celeste mod Strawberry Jam. It’s a lot of fun, but I’d be more than satisfied with just getting through the expert levels, which are already at the point where simply watching gameplay of them would kill a small Victorian child, but I’m at just the right level of masochism that this is a tough but satisfying grind. But I’ve seen what’s next, I’m fully aware of the horrors of the Grandmaster levels, and I know I’ll hit my upper limit well before 100% completion.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 4 months ago:
The difficulty curve in Tetris has a few different possible knobs to adjust as the levels go up, generally involving how much of a delay you have on certain events. The most obvious is gravity, which is how many frames it takes to fall one space (or, to ramp that up further, how many spaces it falls per frame), but the relevant one here is lock delay. This is the amount of time between the piece landing and the player losing control over the piece. Low lock delay like you have on NES tends to make small mistakes a lot more punishing. High lock delay lets you reposition a piece shortly after it falls. Modern Tetris has a small but highly controversial change to the lock delay logic: rotating a piece resets the timer. This means you can spam the rotate button to think about where to place a piece indefinitely, a technique called infinite spin. Presumably this was done with timed and battle modes in mind, where this isn’t really an advantage because it’s always better to play quickly, but in endless it has no meaningful cost. So leaderboards started to get pretty grotesque, with top scoring games dragging on for dozens of hours. Something had to be done about it, and shifting focus entirely to timed and line limited modes was the choice they made for better or worse.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 4 months ago:
The crash was known, it’s been reached by a TAS but no human had gotten far enough to trigger it. He was intentionally trying for the crash to be the first one to do it.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 4 months ago:
Blame the Tetris Guideline. In the mid 2000s, they changed the rotation system, and under the new system, any player of intermediate skill can just play forever. Once you know the tricks to keeping a piece in play and building the stack in a way that you can always get a piece where you want it, you can’t lose until you voluntarily lose. That was, needless to say, a bit broken for leaderboard purposes. So as a bandaid solution to that, the main mode was changed from endless to 150 lines.
- Comment on All in the Memery 4 months ago:
Right wingers making memes of characters that they had absolutely no idea were making fun of them is one of my least favorite meme genres.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
They needed to go scorched earth on SEO years ago. Try anything unethical, your domain is permanently blacklisted from all search results. No appeals, no second chances, your content will never see the light of day again.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 5 months ago:
PF2e is a lot more approachable than 1e. It’s a lot harder to truly botch a character in 2e, while preserving variety of options. The 3 action system is also much more intuitive than action types.
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 5 months ago:
It’s probably too difficult to implement now because of computers being entrenched in the existing system. If we were going to implement it, it would have been 100 years ago.
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 5 months ago:
No system can avoid arbitrary bullshit because the earth doesn’t go around the sun in an amount of time that’s an exact multiple of the time it takes to rotate.
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 5 months ago:
It’s an incomplete explanation. You have New Year’s Day as an intercalary day, essentially January 0th creating a 3 day weekend. It’s either considered a Saturday or not assigned a day of the week at all. Leap days are either immediately after or inserted as June 0th the same way.
- Comment on Does anyone feel like an actual adult? 5 months ago:
It’s like the horizon of ignorance in science. The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon 5 months ago:
The ending of part 1 was literally killing a manifestation of the concept of sticking to the original story.
- Comment on apple users in a nutshell 5 months ago:
I assumed this was about Twitter blue checks, I think I prefer that interpretation.
- Comment on The Hidden Costs of Long Playtimes in Modern Gaming 5 months ago:
Money and time are separate costs, consuming time is not, in and of itself, something of value.
- Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 months ago:
There’s no such thing as a child in the womb. A child, by definition, has been born.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 6 months ago:
Don’t forget starvation, that’s a big one. Climate change hits your food supply before it hits you.