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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully this one is built of many redundant layers instead of just one layer of metal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very clear.

  Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (also considered tertiary);

  Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (also considered secondary);

  They do have a handy table later though:

  | Level | Type |

  |-----------|------------------------| | Primary | diaries — world war | | Secondary | biography — world war | | Tertiary | encyclopedia — world war |

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You shouldn’t cite wikipedia in a paper because it’s a tertiary source. Somehow that got lost in translation sometime in the 90s.

  You shouldn’t cite any other encyclopedia either, because they’re “some guy” writing a paragraph or so about a thing. I think it was Britannica that Tolkein wrote a lot of the “W”'s for. I’m sure he did a great job, but it’s not exactly easy to fact check him either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine it’s a single physical server anymore but a server instance across many blades / VMs / whatever. But absolutely there are many games where “600+” on a server would be considered a sign of a dying population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are 600 player servers impressive? I’m sure they have plenty of hardware and engineering involved but that doesn’t sound exceptional as much as expected for the scope they’re aiming for.

  WoW is a simpler game, in that it’s effectively 2 dimensions and doesn’t involve physics, but that would be a fairly low server population, especially back in it’s heyday. Ditto for many other big MMOs.

  EvE has 600+ player battles on a fairly regular basis, much less on a server instance in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s weirdness sometimes if devices don’t respect your network’s dns settings and just use their own. You can override that by forcing a dns redirect if your router supports that but not all consumer ones do unless you put openwrt or something on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. The one the Nazis used was / is also a symbol used in Asia. The Nazis used it because of their obsession with Aryans. (And really, everywhere. It’s a fairly basic pattern.) Sometimes it’s at an angle, sometimes it’s not.

  Generally in the west, unless it’s on a statue of budda, any swastika-ish symbol since ~1930s is going to be a reference to Nazis though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe you’re talking about the Steam Link. Which if you had ethernet running everywhere worked pretty good.

  The old Steam Machine branding was more a set of guidelines / branded manufacturer specs for mini-PCs. Not many actually came out and yeah it became shut down pretty quickly. Though it was the origin of Steam OS and what became Proton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be amazing, but given how speculative the Framework and other RISC projects are I feel like that would be a massive headline for Valve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US those’ve been almost universally replaced by 401k plans, which I assume is what they’re referring to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mess with SC and S42 every few years, have access from the kickstarter from way back when.

  They’re fine. They’re even neat. But Elite Dangerous gives 90+% of what their original promises were and has much more demonstrable development progress. Planetary systems without a loading screen is not as impressive as it was in the early 2010s. KSP has been created and died in that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with AAA games is the development time is longer, the time spent working on the final game is not.

  Time and time again when a game as been “in development” for 5/7/10+ years, the game that shipped was only really being worked on for the last year or two, once they finally got the design and gameplay nailed down and worked on the final game. Anthem is one of the more egregious examples in that some of the developers working on the game learned at the E3 presentation a year before launch that the game involved flying.

  There’s an iceberg of effort and only a fraction of it gets released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looked up the episode (2015, Ep8).

  They’re investigating whether it would be deadly by cutting through your neck. Drone tech has also changed significantly in the last decade. They literally have trouble flying straight and level and hitting the neck of their dummy. But their main problem is the drone hits something and falls away. They put the same smaller prop on a stick and saw into a plucked chicken. Their bigger one did actually slice the neck open before falling away.

  Modern drones have much more powerful motors. Do not randomly assume they will not cut you, especially if you grab them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent a ton of time on LotR II and it’s expansion. I distinctly remember finding the box for 3 a few years later and just being confused that they didn’t seem to know what was good about their game.

  Had a complicated time trying to get 2 running a few years ago, I think I ended up setting up a Win95 VM specifically for it. But now it looks like they’re just on GoG and Steam. Might have to grab it there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have also been out of the loop too but went through the know your meme’s page.

  Pirate Software made a video a year ago criticizing the initiative on a very surface level and has continued to do so in streams. Guy who created/sponsored/however-that-works the initiative posted a counter-argument video talking about what the initiative would actually do. Pirate Software did the ol’ Internet Doubledown and in general was kind of an ass and kind of revealed some ignorance. Cue Drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Duck Season is pretty fun too FWIW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Incognito mode (Chrome) and Private mode (Safari/Firefox) and InPrivate Browsing (Edge/IE) have had disclaimers/explanations for years, Chrome just expanded the disclaimer after settling the suit. Unfortunately for them the judge didn’t know how the internet works any better than the plaintiffs. Winding back the odometer on a car doesn’t mean toll roads don’t know you drove there, it just means “you” have no record of it.

  Opera / Vivaldi offer an integrated VPN, but they’re about the only ones other than stuff like the Tor Browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spaceballs 2 | Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dick Van Dyke is also still around and doing projects heading towards 100.

  If keeping busy is keeping them around I look forward to each of their 150th birthday parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of that’s cultural momentum right? Like I don’t know how many Pickles it takes to make a Peck of Pickles despite hours singing about it as a kid. There’s not a lot of reason sans-nostalgia to read an analog clock or drive a manual car. (I love my manual, they’re not getting any less niche with EVs on the way.)

  And everyone’s going to learn something the first time, some time. But it is just nuts that for some people that is apparently after getting a job with a Bachelor’s, somehow. So much time, money, and energy was spent in the 90s/00s having computer classes in schools and now so much of it has been cut because the people in charge are so out of touch that watching youtube on a device designed to be easily usable is indistinguishable from “technical skills”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope Joan⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The show Bones had a lot of weirdness, but I did appreciate that they consistently (at least the first few seasons when I was watching) stripped the bones down and even had a bug guy to do it efficiently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t even have to show the gold. Just say you saw it and it’s now in that tent over there. No you can’t go in. This is what was written on it though. Oh it’s in a language only I can read. Don’t worry, I’ll translate. Give me your wife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “OldSpend” is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dropout’s Emmy Plans: ‘Very Important People’ Lands in Talk Series Category, ‘Game Changer’ Season 7 Not Eligible for This Year⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair. I generally don’t care for the “newbie D20” seasons either. I think that they’re at least partially a mechanism drawing in a wider audience and giving them an on-ramp to the seasons that assume more base knowledge of the game. If anything I kind of wish they’d try for a few more shorter seasons like Mentopolis/Burrow’s End. Parts of the Fantasy High seasons can get sloggy IOM.

  Overall a lot of their catalog is kind of hit or miss but I appreciate the variety. Sometimes it’s just a mood thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dropout’s Emmy Plans: ‘Very Important People’ Lands in Talk Series Category, ‘Game Changer’ Season 7 Not Eligible for This Year⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it’s something about it being more directly a sketch show instead of at least nominally a competition?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah lack of third spaces and class mixing is big. Everyone is segregated into their own existing (shrinking) in groups, that then get concentrated by the webiverse.

  The 70s oil crisis was an inflection point for Europe and a lot of cities/countries started moving back away from cars as the sole transportation option but the US didn’t have the same reaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cans are actually recyclable. That’s the benefit. The rest is marketing.

  Red Bull doesn’t give you wings either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  👈😎👈

  The one about Peter Jackson making They Shall Not Grow Old is also neat.

  Apparently he collects WWI artillery and they used his private collection for the sound recording.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most “um acktually” of um actualities but…

  For the Apollo 11 documentary that uses only 1969 audio/video they built a custom scanner to digitally scan the film with the intention that the originals will never need to be touched at least in their lifetime and its ~16k resolution.

  Granted I don’t think you can get that version anywhere? But it exists.

  Super cool doc by the way. Really surreal seeing footage that old at modern film quality. The documentary about the documentary is also really interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, but I’ve also seen it the other way around, where the price on Amazon is the price on the manufacturers site plus shipping. Usually for more reputable/niche products. IFixit I would’ve thought would be big/popular enough to do that but I guess not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IFixit is generally good quality/value in my experience if it’s actually them and not some knockoff/drop shipper. Granted haven’t had a need to buy anything of theirs for years because the one I have keeps being great.

  That kit is $40 on their site. Weird that it’s cheaper on Amazon in the first place.