Supervisor194
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world
- Comment on Grr Windows 3 weeks ago:
Windows 10 users, I’ve been using kill-update.exe for years now to only update Windows when I damn well want to.
Disclaimer: before the inevitable dogpile, yes, this is bad practice. Yes there are many reasons why you might not want to do this. Yes, allowing your software to update itself whenever it wants is safer. No, I don’t care. If you don’t care either, this software might be for you.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 4 weeks ago:
Hot take, English got it wrong. I’ve never heard a frog make a sound like “ribbit”.
It’s a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.
- Comment on Anons are not happy with their names 5 weeks ago:
heh. Yeah, that’s right. Turd Ferguson, it’s a funny name.
- Comment on A loaded God Complex 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sam Raimi to direct ‘Doctor Strange 3' 1 month ago:
I wasn’t really sold on the MCU from the beginning, as I wasn’t a fan of the Iron Man comics. I saw it anyway, at the behest of a good friend (who actually did like the comics) and I was blown away. After that, if a Marvel movie came out, I went and saw it, whether or not I cared for (or even knew) the source material. This got me to some great experiences I would have never imagined liking, ie: Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man.
But for me I started looking a bit more critically after the release of Iron Man 3. I thought it sucked, so I realized then that although the MCU has a disproportionate number of real winners, it can still have losers, it’s not a given. So I would wait to see what public opinion was before I’d spend money to see it in a theater. I still saw a lot of them in the theater. Most of them. Right up until Avengers Age of Ultron. I hated that movie so much that I’ve never seen another Marvel movie in a theater since. I’ve seen most of them after their theatrical run, streaming - some have been quite good, most have not.
So yeah. Big fan of the comics when I was a kid. Reluctant fan of the MCU turned enthusiastic - then turned reluctant again. I still haven’t seen Deadpool and Wolverine yet, but it’s on the agenda.
- Comment on Big Mac 1 month ago:
Ah thanks, I was about to call Peter.
- Comment on New! 1 month ago:
🎵You allll everybody!🎵
- Comment on Amino acids 1 month ago:
this whole thing took me a while to process, ngl
- Comment on Should we consider Jesus a zombie? 2 months ago:
He’s a dream divine and we make love together 🎶
- Comment on old.lemmy.world comments are broken 4 months ago:
OK, so super weird. Private window behavior was the same. However, when I created a new profile (I am on Firefox 128.0), everything showed up normally. I tried everything to pinpoint the issue.
I restarted with all extensions disabled, no change. I cleared all my history and cache, no change. I have a custom userChrome.css, so I moved it out of the way, no change. I logged out (because my new profile was not logged in), no change.
At this point, I noticed that the settings in my new profile window were different (I have “top 6 hours” selected), so I set everything to be the same as the settings in the new profile window. When I did that, everything started appearing again.
But the weird part is: when I reset it back to the way it was… everything is still working.
So I tried my best to get an actual answer to what’s going on here, but I’ve come up empty. Something about resetting the settings frees up whatever was going on, in case anybody watching sees this.
- Comment on old.lemmy.world comments are broken 4 months ago:
Literally every comment section. Including this one. In fact, I saw I had mail, so I saw your reply here in my inbox, but when I clicked on the thread link to view your comment, it says “there doesn’t seem to be anything here.” Here, look at this very thread that you yourself have posted in:
But it’s literally every single comment section. My original post is a link to a comment section on a thread about Bernie Sanders:
Replace “old” in the URL with “www” and you can see they are not empty.
But again, it’s not just these two, it’s all of them. They’re all like that.
- Submitted 4 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on If it ain't broke 4 months ago:
It’s too lucrative to die completely, somebody will always be there to take it up.
- Comment on Cursed wretched marketing 4 months ago:
- Comment on One of the problems of working on the weekends. 7 months ago:
Yeah my whole family done give up on me
And it makes me feel oh so bad
The only one who will hang out with me
Is my dear old granddad - Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
Everybody is blaming SEO, which is true - but Google is also hamstrung by walled gardens.
Before Facebook, most content posted to the web was open. It could be viewed by anyone without logging in. Reddit even uses this paradigm.
But then Facebook started putting everything behind their account login and suddenly, Google can no longer spider a significant amount of the conversation going on on the Internet - and it can’t link you to it either, because the link would be dead if you weren’t a logged-in Facebook user. And of course it’s not just Facebook.
This is why appending site:reddit.com has come into fashion in the past couple years. Reddit, being open, viewable without a login, is a fantastic source for finding people who are talking about exactly what you’re searching for.
And it’s another reason why Meta is cancer: all the conversations going on about whatever problem you are experiencing that made you do a search in the first place, if they exist in private groups on something like Facebook - they are useless to you and useless to anyone but the members of that private group. We are losing our giant public knowledge base because capitalism.
- Comment on Mayim Bialik Out As ‘Jeopardy!’ Host 11 months ago:
She doesn’t deserve hate and animosity
No? A science-denier and anti-vaxxer who shills her brand of vitamin supplements? I’m sorry, I think she deserves exactly that and I’m glad she’s fucking gone.
- Comment on Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield 11 months ago:
Yes and this is what Starfield doesn’t do. Starfield doesn’t actually have whole planets generated by a shared seed. Planets in Starfield are just unlimited sources of randomly generated playboxes. Since the planets don’t actually exist, they can’t properly be said to be explorable.
For anyone interested in this topic, there is a super great video that explains the difference between procedural generation and random generation and how a tiny amount of data can be used to generate extremely complex things.
- Comment on Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield 11 months ago:
But I don’t think they can grab that explorer fanbase again, they are just against procedural generation in general, they probably wanted Outer Worlds but bigger.
I don’t think that’s true. Elite Dangerous is one of my favorite games and it’s procedurally generated. I think the issue is that that’s not exactly what Starfield is.
When you “land” in Starfield (outside a handcrafted city or similar), you land in a procedurally generated box made just for you. It isn’t repeatable by anybody but you. Other people who “land” in the same spot will not see what you saw, they get their own procedurally generated box. The contents of the box are similar (the terrain is the right color, the flora and fauna are the same). If you were to see something particularly cool in your box (although I never did when I was playing the game) - ie: “unusually tall mountain range” or “unusually deep valley” - you can’t tell someone “hey go to coordinates x,y and check this out!” You CAN do this in Elite Dangerous. All worlds, all settlements - everything is the same for everyone, and if you explore through it all and you find something interesting, you can share it with people.
In Starfield, your box always contains an uninteresting/unremarkable patch of terrain and magically, literally everywhere you land, there are structures and ships within walking distance - none of which anyone can get to but you.
There is literally no WAY to explore. Everywhere you land, it’s just another box and it will always contain the same variation on the same things. That isn’t exploration. Exploration implies things that exist whether you are there or not and which can be found by someone if they look long enough.
- Comment on Yes, I'm a rancher 11 months ago:
There is a line. And there is a reason we do not cross it.
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 11 months ago:
I hate an open catbox. I also don’t want to directly pick it up, bag or not. So I had to unclip the top and use a scoop, and I had three cats so I did it every day and I just effing hated it.
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 11 months ago:
Did you have the large one? I have a 17lb long-haired Maine Coon and he has no issues with it, but I do have the large one.
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 11 months ago:
This is going to sound like hyperbole, but this thing changed my life and I always love it when I get a chance to share it with somebody. It requires no electricity, it has no moving parts and in the 11 years I’ve been using one, it’s never broken. I give you: Omega Paw.
It requires clumping cat litter, so if you use that you’re golden. When it’s time to clean, you roll it - and as you roll, the loose litter flows through a grate, but the clumps and waste stay on top of the grate. As you continue to roll it, the waste falls to the ceiling. When you roll it back, the waste all falls into the drawer, which you pull out and dump. Cleaning the litter box takes literally 10 seconds. It’s awesome.
- Comment on Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has? 1 year ago:
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Chinese buffet sheet cake? On what planet?
- Comment on The Plucky Squire devs explain how challenging the wild 2D to 3D gameplay was to pull off: "Can we do this? Is this even possible?" 1 year ago:
This looks like a great game, but “can we do this? Is this even possible?” I mean Super Paper Mario did it in 2007.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
lol, every one of these threads has a highly upvoted corporate shill comment. And it’s virtually guaranteed that this comment will be replied to in a paternalistic, condescending manner by a for-real-actual-lemmy-user who is only spouting Google’s talking points because they realize how hard and expensive it is to host a video website you guys.
YouTube pays five-year-old “influencers” millions of dollars. Obviously this is because it is losing money which is your fault for using an adblocker. 🙄
- Submitted 1 year ago to support@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world 1 year ago:
The legal and moral be first to swing from the yardarm, matey and you may lay to that. 🏴☠️
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Unfortunately I think it’s a losing battle. I’m not sure why the entire industry doesn’t do what Blizzard has done with D3/4 (ie: physical copy or not, it’s always online, validating your user and exposing you to mtx) but it seems to me that “resistance is futile” as more young players are normalized to it and it becomes the rule rather than the exception.
For my part, I generally refuse. But of course, the “generally” part is why they will all eventually succeed. There are games that always-online is more necessary because of multiplayer and shared world. There are also games where always-online is nothing more than naked capitalist bullshit. But who’s to say where it’s appropriate to draw that line? The players? Christ knows D4 isn’t hurting for money because they haven’t gotten mine.
So if you think that your single-player experience has no technical reason why it should be always-online, Blizzard’s just gonna be all: that’s just like… your opinion, man.
- Comment on Just started Strange new worlds s1 Gorn episode 1 year ago:
Yeah, same. He was easily my favorite character on the show, what a bad decision that was.
