Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on MeIRL 3 hours ago:
I just put a Hue switch on the headboard and stuck a lightstrip behind it. No harsh lighting, can turn it off without moving. Win win.
- Comment on They really hate artists 3 days ago:
I suspect the ones who are, were already programmers.
I’ve had some success taking our main windows app and converting it to a server with a Flutter front end.
Mostly stuff that I already knew how to do but couldn’t be arsed because it’s a lot of work to keep it all in sync. Break it down into actual tasks and Santa Claude stands half a chance. I’ve never written a line of Dart.
I’m also absolutely certain there’s a limit to how far this approach will get me. The old the first half of the work takes 90% of the time. The second half also takes 90% of the time.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 3 days ago:
I got one on launch day. The only console I ever did that for.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 4 days ago:
I wonder how many people crashed their cars trying to figure out if they were about to be obliterated in a nuclear inferno.
This was supposed to be for emergencies, not PSAs.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 6 days ago:
Ah, the Paperboy delivery experience.
- Comment on Challenge everything 1 week ago:
Aw, it cut off the list of antagonists.
One of them was “child molester”.
Not even making that up.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
Happy to write “change” and “hope” on posters.
Not so happy to actually provide it.
- Comment on Good ole reviews 1 week ago:
HDMI cable 3m 2.0 2.1 2.2 4k 8k for PS5, Xbox X S, Switch, PC, BluRay, DVD, HDR, Dolby Vision
4.7 stars (4,371 reviews).
1st review: looks great on our Christmas tree, just what we needed.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 week ago:
Few things made me feel more depressed that seeing cars backed up for what must have been an hour long queue trying to get McDonald’s at the drive through, since that’s the only bit that was open.
I don’t really want to wait an hour for good food, let alone some hyper processed slop.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 week ago:
If anything that just makes the decision to stop eating it even easier.
- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 1 week ago:
It Takes Two and Split Fiction were published by EA.
I also played Titanfall 2 which was a great little campaign.
That’s about it for me.
- Comment on Relentless UK heatwaves turn ‘green and pleasant land’ brown 2 weeks ago:
Well my garden is lovely and green and I didn’t even need to water it.
This is because it’s 100% weeds.
- Comment on Bestselling author Lynda La Plante says six-month driving ban could end her career 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t realise she’d swapped writing for rally driving. Sad times.
- Comment on Hell yeah. 3 weeks ago:
I’d really like to see the capitalist Fire Brigade, if only to see Terry Pratchett proven right once again.
Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
Push for laws that force digital stores to provide full ownership of digital rights.
The ability to pass purchased licenses from one account to another would be a real game changer.
They’re trying to kill ownership completely, and this would blow it wide open.
And that could just be step one. We need assurances about what happens when a store closes (can we download everything and archive it and play offline? will it be moved to another provider?) We need the ability to move purchases between stores. Hell, even between platforms. We need to make sure accounts that have paid for goods cannot be completely revoked under any circumstances. Locked out of online play or prevented from making further purchases, sure, but never just blocked.
Law makers have sat idly by for too long as our rights were taken from us. It’s high time to take them back.
- Comment on What, all of you? 3 weeks ago:
Yay, I’m on there. I was worried for a second.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 weeks ago:
And by common sense, we mean actual things that might improve the lives of the majority, rather than the racist, sexist twaddle that might come out of a drunk trailer dweller, only spoken by a rich white (or in this case, mostly orange) man in a tie.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
You’re way overblowing the difficulty of the Souls games.
I’ve beaten most of them, and my reactions are shit. 90% of the difficulty is from not knowing how it differs from other games.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
That and some very strange ideas about where the jump button should be.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
You often can’t do that until you’ve made a little bit of progress. The real difficulty curve early on is knowing that picking the heavy armour class will make things much harder for yourself, that the real progression is knowledge of enemy attacks and opening shortcuts, and that losing your currency when you don’t have enough points to reach the next level isn’t really a big deal.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t the Steam version just give you different graphics?
- Comment on Thirsty much? 3 weeks ago:
It’s in South Korea somewhere, apparently.
I remember seeing it before everything became AI instead of Photoshop.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Happiest day of my life! I'm gonna be a dad! 🥰 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Blood and Wine took the headlines due to the sheer size of it, but I honestly think Hearts of Stone is probably the best DLC for any game.
Maybe tied with Outer Wilds Echoes of the Eye expansion.
- Comment on Film Studios: "Put that man in a jungle!" 4 weeks ago:
He certainly doesn’t like to be typecast.
I actually sat through The Smashing Machine recently because I heard they’d actually got him to act in it, like Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems. This was a complete lie, and it turned out they’d just put a wig on him.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
Realistically we’ve chosen to have pricing tightly controlled and to no longer own anything.
Both these things can be fixed without needing physical copies, but we’ll have to fight for it.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
Find somebody who looks at you the way conservatives look at ivermectin.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 4 weeks ago:
Got my IMAX ratio TV all ready for it.
- Comment on PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I suspect most game developers felt the same way about it.
Most PS3 ports were rubbish compared to the Xbox 360 versions, despite the PS3 theoretically being better hardware.
Only the fancier PS3 exclusives really made the most of it.
