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- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 18 hours ago:
Not everyone does it. Shady places charge equal price for virgin cocktails.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 day ago:
Looks nervously at counter strike and dota.
- Comment on What is that sound effect in the House M.D theme music? 5 days ago:
Sounds like a buzz and a sine wave mixed and lots of reverb. It reminds me of a flute. The truth is that a lot of these sounds are usually synthesized, it is the signature style of Massive Attack. As a result it shares a lot of similarities with the kind of simple analog sound makers used in hospital equipment. It doesn’t sound sampled to me, at least, but I could be wrong, it has a lots of things layered on top to say for sure. If anything, it reminds me of the stereotypical code blue alert used in drama shows. Though I have never encountered such a thing in real life, usually those things are communicated verbally without any sort of alarm. Hospitals actually avoid alarming or excitedly modes of operation, preferring calm and collected action.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 week ago:
It’s a marketing term. It means nothing. It was invented to sell scams. Just like Web 2.0, nothing changes in the underlying tech stack or the technical capabilities of the infrastructure. Unlike web 2.0 which was coined post-hoc to describe a qualitative change in the way the web was being used, web 3.0 was invented as a copycat term. A gimmick to create the illusion of technological progress.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
I’m not asking anyone to do anything. That’s a straw man the size of the wicker man.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
I never played or bought it, because I hate Sony and don’t play always online multiplayer games because they treat players as cattle and not as users.
- Comment on Sony gives up on forcing PlayStation Network for Helldivers 2 1 week ago:
Agreed, I said harder not impossible.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
we are gonna trash that because of a PSN account requirements ?
Yes, next question.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
These reviews will have a lasting effect on the game
Good, let them learn their actions have consequences.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
My prediction is that the game will rebound, certainly, but will not reach back to the levels it had before. A percentage of people who refunded won’t be buying again and another section probably will quit the game altogether, now or as soon as something newer and shinier shows up. Lots will forget to change their review.
Sony actively hurt their own game and probably made irreparable damage.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
You just know that there used to be an “…at this time” at the end of that sentence and some good PR folk edited it out because managers are out of touch douches.
- Comment on Sony gives up on forcing PlayStation Network for Helldivers 2 1 week ago:
Sony learns that PC players are somewhat harder to fleece than console players. Will try to be gentler next time.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
I agree, but that doesn’t apply to multiplayer with server side verification and matchmaking. It’s notoriously difficult, nay impossible to pirate exclusively multiplayer games.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Yes, when you own the thing you can say no to selling. Why is this point so hard to understand?
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Yes, notice how the person who owns the thing gets to decide to sell or not to sell it. Wild concept, I know.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
When you own something and someone comes to offer you money to buy it, you have this thing called “No” you can say, and then they don’t buy it. It’s a pretty neat hack.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Workarounds get banned. So PSN gets to keep your money but also denies you the product that you bought.
- Comment on I have amblyopia. Is this accurate? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pair of binoculars, but it has always made me feel uneasy. It’s a single device, composed of two oculars. It’s technically called a “binocular telescope”, because there are monocular telescopes. But we just call them telescopes. Though it wouldn’t be wrong to call a pair of binoculars just a telescope. So both ways are correct, but I guess language is just weird like that.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
Juno: New Origins. It is currently on sale on Steam.
- Comment on I have amblyopia. Is this accurate? 2 weeks ago:
I gather you have never actually used a binocular. In reality, a good binocular has a wide FOV that you barely notice a border on the peripheral vision. At worst, you see a single circle around your vision, not two overlapping circles, that’s just Hollywood shorthand, not something that happens in real life.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
The problem is the corporate greed. But anyways, Juno exists. It has the same spirit of accurate spaceship design and flight simulation, even if the tone is distinctly different.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
I predicted KSP2 was going to be eventually abandoned and IG close around the time of the launch, when the first industry layoffs were starting to happen. The mildest thing I was called for suggesting this was pessimist and it only got worse from that term. I suppose I was half right…so far.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how will they manage that logistically. They are firing every single developer from IG. Who exactly in Private Division is going to be doing the updating? I suspect they will just brush a little of the code that is ready, then completely abandon the product in a year or so.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
They were non-game developers doing a videogame. But they were pretty good programmers for what they put out. It’s still the best and most popular space exploration sim game ever made. The thing does the thing they said it was going to do, it will probably melt your computer during edge cases, but everywhere else it’s a solid game. They even managed to confine the kraken to very extreme circumstances. If it is a hack job but it works, then it isn’t a hack job.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
The sequel was given way more manpower, experience, and money right from the start.
Which was then squandered by bad management by scrapping almost two years of work to startover with entirely different staff. Let’s not kid ourselves, from a managerial POV, KSP2 is a perfect template of all the “what to do to ensure a video game fails at launch”.
- Comment on Technology Connections - The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers 2 weeks ago:
Congratulations! you are one of today’s lucky 10,000!
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
Nothing rude, but I don’t care who you are. The matter of the fact is that MS W11 isn’t cutting it for my organization. I do not make the rules, a friend in ICT just tells me what happens at headquarters and I’m relying that info without violating NDA rules. We are not a regular company, what we deal with is beyond the scope of any of those private sectors you mentioned, it’s beyond any company in a private or public sector. We cannot just trust MS anymore, we did once and we got burned bad. Millions of records got leaked. Thank goodness encrypted by our own in-house infosec software. But still, we are more than weary and thus far MS hasn’t done anything to rebuild but rather has grind what little confidence was left.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
Not really. W11 doesn’t pass my company privacy and security certification (we deal with a lot of sensitive data). A lot of stuff, specially the intrusive AI hooks into the filesystem cannot be removed. I mean, you can remove them to the point that a user won’t notice or think that the AI was there. But there’s a bunch of under the hood shit that still makes it a liability. Even just disabling the Bing AI BS on Edge doesn’t actually remove it, it just makes it invisible to the user. Just like OneDrive and Teams cannot be actually removed, they just exist and act out of the user eye, but we actually pay to use those so the evaluation is different. But the AI crap is not transparent enough to even be audited by an independent third party. We are already a bit weirded out by Teams auto transcript that just listens to all chats and all meeting at all times. But that shit is so bad that it never gets a single word correct. But we received proof that the transcript runs locally and never leaves our sharepoint server, so we accepted it. MS is just crap all around when you actually need to be secure or private.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
11 has ads, AI and other annoyances crammed in.
- Comment on ))<>(( 1 month ago:
As a professor said, most programming languages don’t care about readability and whitespace. But we care because humans need it to parse meaning. Thus, write code for people, not for the machine. Always assume that someone with no knowledge of the context will have to debug it, and be kind to them. Because that someone might be you in six months when you have completely forgotten how the code works.