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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon predicts the future⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI would be chronically incapable of implementing actually surprising plot twists that are both unexpected and consistent with the rest of the plot (and not somehow someone back into existence). If it hadn’t been written before, an AI would never make Darth Vader be Luke’s father unless specifically prompted, at which point, why even.

  (I’ve just finished a hexalogy marathon, my head is full of jedi.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon considers LASIK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When your eyes are open and unobscured, light is coming in from every direction. The lens is shaped in such a way that light rays parallel to the eye’s axis are focused on the macula, the center of your sharp vision. A near-sighted (myopic) eye focuses those parallel rays in front of the retina, and a far-sighted (hypermetropic) eye focuses them behind. The farther away the ray is from the eye’s axis, the more it is refracted by the lens, and the more obvious its out-of-focus-ness becomes if the lens has an incorrect shape.

  Corrective eyewear works by refracting the light before it enters the eye and essentially cancelling out the lens’ imperfections.

  A pinhole works by obscuring light rays that are farther from the axis and contribute to the blurry image, only letting through light rays that are near the axis, already aligned more or less with the macula, don’t have to be refracted as sharply, and don’t contribute as much to the blurry image. This is why the camera obscura works, and why apertures in modern photography are used to control both the image’s exposure and the strength of the depth of field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do they come up with this seriously⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Edgy teens trying and failing to mimic the insanity of early 4chan posts “before it was mainstream”.

  Alternatively, fake and gay: OOP fantasizes about getting topped by an elderly Chinese man with a cane and a service revolver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game files are verified, House⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Instant gratification has rotted y’all’s brains. A stable 25 down is not just survivable but cromulent. I’m on 100 down 40 up and can’t imagine how having a gigabit connection would make my experience better when the bottlenecks are generally upstream of the ISP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads between the lines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile Yoko Taro: “I like big butts and I cannot lie”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨submissive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linguists now agree that the word “copium” was coined in ancient Rome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨want to be a woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This artist just happens to use a distinctive watercolor style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨want to be a woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The artist is bbmasa on Pixiv: www.pixiv.net/en/users/27414306

  Slightly NSFW, some cartoon nudity but nothing explicit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon eggs her on⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America is a different universe, I swear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a consistent definition of “woke” is too woke for some dinosaurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who knew decanters could be in funny shapes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  dickanter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If darker coloured materials get hotter in the sun faster, will a display with the screen on or off change how quickly it heats up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about LCD? Switching the state of a cell results in mechanical changes, which might influence how much sunlight it absorbs (even if it’s minuscule compared to the heat generated by the backlight)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Understanding your target audience when marketing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “So you slipped in the bathroom… and fell on top of the shampoo bottle?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You “own” your car, but the dealership stole the keys, removed the engine, and locked the wheels because you bought a used set of winter tyres from a reseller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best argument in favor of emulation so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remastered or something idk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrestle the cave bears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon blames millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • Hollow Knight
  • Stardew Valley
  • Factorio
  • Outer Wilds
  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Clair Obscur

  Gaming is fucking phenomenal right now, OP is looking in the wrong direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets investigated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to listen to a podcast titled Small Town Dicks (unfortunate title without context). It’s about the forensic procedural work that goes on behind law enforcement. One of the details that stuck with me was the effort that goes into a CP investigation and criminal trial.

  When evidence is uncovered, like a hard drive full of CP, the goal is to present the worst of it to the jury. One of the hosts, a retired detective specializing in child abuse cases, had to go through a disk full of the most degenerate shit with victims in the single digit age, rank them, and also run facial recognition to figure out if other perpetrators may have been involved in a different case concerning the same victim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays ff14⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You meet the Mandervilles once, next thing you know, you’re oiling up Gerolt’s abs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Physical media died when games expanded beyond their capacity. Optical discs are physically fragile, they have a limited shelf life, they have to be reproduced by specialized equipment (not considering piracy here), they have to be physically transported to the customer, some regions are financially unviable (imagine the Helldivers 2 situation but with every game), and production has to end at some point. Having to set up a physical supplier also severely limits the ability of indie or solo developers to have any kind of success or even presence.

  Physical media is obsolete, and people clamoring for its return are nostalgic for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Goo 2 is out now on Steam and a great pick for puzzle game fans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also available directly and DRM-free on the developer’s website: worldofgoo2.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was there with KSP from the early days. Squad was not in the video game business, they were a billboard advertisement company. The lead dev HarvesteR started it as a passion project. It found success with the alpha and full release in 2015.

  Then in 2017 Take-Two bought the rights to the game. Squad kept working on the original, but development of the sequel was handed off to Star Theory with Private Division publishing. The game was delayed, then development was moved to a new studio, Intercept Games, which was owned by Take-Two. They also poached a third of Star Theory’s personnel, which resulted in the studio’s death. They fucked around for a few years, released the early access version, then sold Private Division, closed Intercept Games, and abandoned the game.

  In short: corporate interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religions have some of the wackiest rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rabbits, beavers, and hippos are fish, you see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woah, there's a cool little spider on my wall. I wonder what it's called?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did somebody let an ornithologist into the entomology enclosure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For dramatization, when some event is so stupidly, unexpectedly bizarre that you have to check your figurative notes to make sure you’re not just remembering a fever dream. Example:

  America is rolling back renewable energy development to promote the use of beautiful, clean… (checks notes…) coal, of all fucking things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are two different measurements.

  He’s six foot.

  And he’s three inches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just go through Sloan? Seems so much easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a statistic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the matter of guns not being tossed around like candy at a Willy Wonka publicity tour in most of Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a statistic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remembered a different source. The one I linked uses a different definition for “mass shooting”: it counts events where at least four victims are dead or wounded, and includes cases of domestic violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a statistic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2022 or 2023 there was one mass shooting for every day of the year