halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on [Technology Connections] I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it [41:26] 1 week ago:
It probably doesn’t have a prewash at all. That’s the only reason the door is needed, to prevent the detergent from being used before the actual wash stage.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 1 week ago:
Black Flag was a mediocre Assassin’s Creed game, at best. It was a phenomenal pirate game
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Sure wasn’t me running all that stuff when I was 6 years old.
Yeah we didn’t go to the trophy companies at 6 years old and demand they start making participation trophies, Deborah. Our generation didn’t start that shit.
- Comment on If I can only find an artist on streaming platforms and no other search hits, does that most likely mean it's an AI generated artist? 1 week ago:
I bet that he has something like Bandcamp though. Most of these| AI “artists” don’t even bother to set anything like that up.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 1 week ago:
That was almost certainly to help settle bar arguments before they became bar fights.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 1 week ago:
To be fair, those are the exception to the general rule that licensed games suck.
And the LEGO games are sort of cheating. They have no right to be as good as they are.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot more than just recognizing known raw IP addresses used as endpoints.
One method larger services with CDNs use effectively is to use DNS for blocking. When you try to access a site, your DNS request will resolve to a server close to you, with your location determining the domain resolving to a different IP. Then the platform just responds to those requests from outside their normal area with a consistent message. No need to know whether it’s actually a VPN or not, the traffic is acting like it is and doesn’t really have much of a reason to do that normally.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
VPNs aren’t hard to detect, especially if you’re using a major service.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My absolute favorite bit of social media was this instagram exchange. It just encapsulates so much that’s inherently stupid with it.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 2 weeks ago:
Nearly everything is a derivative of something from before. Occasionally something new comes up though. I don’t remember anything like Getting Over It seems to have created the Foddian game genre for example. And while Balatro uses relatively normal cards for its base, the gameplay itself is unique.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 2 weeks ago:
First… Not everyone is just hiding being a dick because it’s socially unacceptable. Most people just aren’t dicks and don’t want to be. Just like most people don’t have to be told not to kill others, that’s just not something they’d do. They don’t have to be threatened with prison, or eternal damnation, or anything like that to stop themselves.
Second… Superman is an alien. How do we know what is normal for his species? The only insight we have is the comic universe.
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 2 weeks ago:
Well, they did. That’s why the deodorant is now locked up.
- Comment on Embark Studios confirm rollout of Denuvo Anti-Cheat for THE FINALS 2 weeks ago:
Denuvo does anti-cheat? I thought it was anti-pirate?
- Comment on Fear their power 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they are just for different environments. Fins aren’t very useful for terrestrial animals, and legs aren’t as useful for aquatic animals. Both provide similar functions suited to their environment, and are therefore roughly equivalent.
- Comment on I hate it when a show gets a different actor for a main character. 3 weeks ago:
It was a lot more than that. He said from the beginning he was onboard for like 7 seasons if they stuck to the source material. Season 1 they immediately started fucking with main characters. The showrunners made it clear they wanted to make their own story, but had to use The Witcher IP.
The best scenes in the first season were ones that Cavill insisted were changed and that he worked on specifically to stay truer to the source material and his character.
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 4 weeks ago:
They’re the same thing. A small oven heats up faster than a big oven. It’s only faster because it’s 1/10th the size.
- Comment on At 1% 4 weeks ago:
Just need another adapter.
- Comment on Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5 5 weeks ago:
Not really. They can see how many people play on Game Pass. 100% chance they’re just taking downloads from Game Pass accounts and multiplying it by the retail price though, which isn’t a perfect comparison, but good enough for this type of general estimate.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 5 weeks ago:
This is one of the weird aspects of games that seems to make no sense because of archaic laws that never entered the 20th century, nevermind the 21st. It seems to be about manufacturing new copies of the already made game, not selling them. So it only affects digital sales, I would assume because of their “creation” on a new sale, every physical game copy was already manufactured and out there, nothing changes there.
- Comment on My (incredibly divisive) dessert choice 5 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between having guests that are politicians, and politically charged monologues.
- Comment on My (incredibly divisive) dessert choice 5 weeks ago:
Latest target, because Trump groups all late night shows together. Despite Fallon avoiding politics as much as possible, and not going after him at all.
- Comment on Does more expensive phones have better reception? 1 month ago:
It could, but realistically not much in most cases. Only if you’re on the very edge of losing a signal entirely.
The specific network chip and device antenna design could play a significant part on reception, but realistically there won’t be much of a difference in the real world, lots of research and development has already gone into the technologies we use now.
Higher end phones will often support more frequency bands, and thus support more signals, but no carrier uses all of them. Just make sure the phone you pick supports the bands your carrier uses.
Now when new technologies come out, that’s when you can see real world significant differences between devices because there isn’t as much real world experience with a new technology yet, but everything out now and in the near future has already gone through that phase.
- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 1 month ago:
His videos answer the questions I’ve never thought to ask, but desperately want the answer to once it is brought up.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 month ago:
Discovery is fine. It takes some weird turns, sort of a necessity since they chose to make it a prequel with a unique propulsion system. And it is not like the 90s shows. And there’s a vocal group of fans that hate it just because it’s different, it was the first show coming back from the long show hiatus, and many are simply incapable of admitting that.
Picard’s seasons are all weird in their own way and with their own flaws, totally separate from Disco.
Watch the first season and make your own decision. Star Trek fans are some of the worst for having outsized online hatred of shit that doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 1 month ago:
Those were the days. The idiotic crackpots were kept separate. They didn’t know there were others like them. They couldn’t discuss and coordinate their insane theories together easily.
The Internet allowed them to find each other, and recruit others to their cause one by one, bringing people down to their insane level of stupidity until they found their way into politics.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 1 month ago:
We could. But think of the shareholders.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Give you one guess.
- Comment on Poor pugs 1 month ago:
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 1 month ago:
You seem to misunderstand. We don’t negotiate. We supply them because they’re killing people we want killed, or we blow them up.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 1 month ago:
Political violence is of course bad… but as soon as you call for it, especially indirectly, you deserve whatever comes to you. Stochastic terrorism is still terrorism, and there’s not a lot more American than the fact we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
