tomkatt
@tomkatt@lemmy.world
- Comment on it's true! 4 days ago:
Benefits of living in bumfuck. Though to be real, I’d never buy or build in a HOA. It’s a choice.
- Comment on it's true! 4 days ago:
It essentially all takes care of itself, it’s a whole ecosystem. There’s no standing water for mosquitos thanks to the foliage. There’s also lizards, the occasional frog, birds. The deer eat some of the taller stuff. Even with the deer, there’s at least one mountain lion in the area I’ve seen, which I presume helps keep the population reasonable. I dunno, it doesn’t really need any tending, other than to clear a path where I need.
Aside from that, my neighbor has pine trees, and occasionally pine cones take root and need their root- balls shoveled out. That’s the only big maintenance because I don’t want the big trees on my property. I wouldn’t mind, but for two things:
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They always seem to root down near the road on my driveway path or walk-down.
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I have solar panels and can’t have them growing up on the southeast side side of the house, and that’s where they tend to fall.
Besides that, I have to knock down the occasional wasp nest (paper wasps) on the house, but if they nest away from the house I leave them alone. It’s all minimal maintenance. If you let nature do its thing it tends to find a balance. Humans are the ones usually screwing it up.
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- Comment on it's true! 4 days ago:
I know this is a meme, but shit like this is why I allow wild growth on my property. First year I owned my home the ground got muddy as hell from the new build since the ground was all dug up and tilled.
From the second year on I’ve only mowed a path for my driveway and the front walkway and the rest grows wild. Sweetgrass and other native plants anywhere from like 1 to 3 feet tall and the area is high desert (Colorado) so the “weeds” suck up any moisture they can get, no flood, no mud. It’s great.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 1 week ago:
After a certain tipping point, stupidity en masse becomes indistinguishable from malice. The result is more important than the intent.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 week ago:
Thanks, for some reason when I was looking at post earlier it was just the screenshot, no link. Maybe it didn’t load properly, happened to me sometimes with Lemmy.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 week ago:
Got a link? I don’t know who this is but my curiosity is piqued.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
En Dash (single dash) usage is not standardized for literature to my knowledge, and is primarily used as a divider for ranges, in lieu of the word “through.” E.g. The year 1998-2006 (or 1998 - 2006) can be used in lieu of “The year 1998 through 2006” in text. It’s also used to denote negative numbers and compound words, of course. It can also be used to denote relationships, E.g. - The Johnson-Winters wedding party, or the Osea-Belkan War.
Informally I’ve read that a a single dash can be read as a half-beat, shorter than a comma, but I don’t think it’s actually defined in style guides for writing.
Fun fact: En Dashes and hyphens are not the same thing, though often used interchangeably, while a double-hyphen is often considered an exact equivalent to the em dash.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
My bad, I was probably overly aggressive there anyway. I’m a nerd and the idea of em dash as emoji horrified me.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
An em dash is an emoji.
The fuck it is. Em-dashes have existed in literature and text since long before the existence of computers and are a traditional form of textual form pause length:
- comma (,) - one beat
- em dash (–) - two beats
- semicolon (;) - three beats
- period (.) - four beats
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
We just split duties there, and tbh our third run of the game was mostly custom characters just because the combat is so fun. For that run we sent Yrliet to the inquisition, spaced Idira, told Agents she wasn’t needed, and pointed Cassia off the ship at the first sign of trouble. Was actually a hilarious run, and ended up siding with <spoiler guy> at the end for the first time, who was as crazy as I thought but not actual evil and still emperor aligned.
We’ve also played a ton of Solasta, and looking forward to Solasta 2, but absolutely despised BG3. We want to go in adventures, not play a soft-core fuckin’ simulator.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 300 hours into that one with co-op.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 5 weeks ago:
Happy to help, I made a donation.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 5 weeks ago:
At $20 this is a day one Steam purchase for me. Even if I don’t get around to playing it for the next several months.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 month ago:
Of course there’s bugs, it’s a sequel to Hollow Knight. It was all about bugs.
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 2 months ago:
That’s actually something Wipeout did, it’s one of the few things from Fusion that people liked enough for it to be brought back.
Ah, I didn’t know that, I’ve never played the series past 3 and XL/2097.
Just a heads up to, BNG has a 2097 mode as well, with entirely different physics/control. It’s still in dev builds but it seems like the goal is to integrate both styles from OG Wipeout (2085 and 2097) within the game as separate campaigns.
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 2 months ago:
Redout is a weird one. It got a lot of comparisons to F-Zero because of the speed but it plays a lot more like Wipeout, or like an F-Zero/Wipeout hybrid. It’s very fast, and the steering mechanics are interesting as it requires using both joysticks to steer through a lot of turns. I like it, but find it pretty difficult. The ships tend to be a bit floaty and the main thing is controlling well to not hit walls as they utterly kill your momentum.
With BallisticNG, it does ape on Wipeout a lot (by design) but it’s an absolute love letter to the series and is extremely polished. It also has workshop support for all kinds of custom tracks and ships.
There are things BallisticNG does though that are really interesting, like solo races where your goal is to go as far as possible without exploding from damage. You can’t use the brakes and it gets faster every few sections. Those are probably my favorite races.
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 2 months ago:
Since you mentioned AG racers, check out BallisticNG and the Redout games.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 2 months ago:
No worries. I’ve heard of BeamNG but don’t own it and am not familiar with it to recommend. I mean BallisticNG, it’s an AG racer in the style of the Wipeout games.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 2 months ago:
How’s Redout 2 compared to the first one? I have the original, but have been on the fence with the sequel.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 2 months ago:
- WRC 7, 10, Generations
- Dirt Rally 2.0
- Rush Rally Origins
- New Star GP
- Forza Horizon 5 (I don’t own this one, but hear it’s very good)
- BallisticNG
- Wreckfest (don’t own this either but I’ve played it in the past)
- Assetto Corsa
- Assetto Corsa Competizione
- Descenders
- Grid Autosport
- Redout
- Automobilista 2
- V-Rally 4
- Sebastian Loeb Rally Evo
These vary between arcade and simulation racing, and things in between. For some (Assetto Corsa games, Automobilista, WRC and Dirt Rally games) a racing wheel is highly recommended.
- Comment on Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
The main story points are further apart level-wise, leading to more grinding. There’s also more fluff side story content involving multiple characters instead of just one. Which isn’t bad in itself, but none of it is actually optional because of the leveling curve.
The way it was done, the story beats for individual character plot arcs are very far apart. 30 hours in, I only had a few characters through the second parts of their stories.
- Comment on Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
I really like the first one, but OT2 felt very padded. At 30 hours I think I was less than halfway through the game. I got frustrated and put it down, never got back to it.
- Comment on true friend 2 months ago:
Has something similar with Bacardi 151 back when I was in college. Me and two friends were playing cards and drinking, losers take a shot. We went through a huge bottle in like 30 mins. I was just utterly blasted, I’d never drink so much in my life. Thought I might die of alcohol poisoning.
I stayed completely sober for like 5 years after that, and some 20 years later I still rarely drink.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Can confirm, fucking off from society helps.
Wife and I moved from city life to a rural area with more deer than people back in 2021. In terms of well being, the peace and nature are incredible. I never want to live in a city again.
Couldn’t completely piss off to the woods since we still need groceries, doctor, mechanic, etc., but it’s been rural enough and nobody bothers us. Now I only go into town every 5 or 6 weeks for necessities and get out as quickly as I can. I’ve become something of a hermit, but happier for it.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 2 months ago:
Sony had some fucking weird ads back in the day.
- Comment on We did it everyone, the future is here! 3 months ago:
I little of column A, a bit from column B, I suppose.
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- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 3 months ago:
Is this provided via T-Mobile or did he rip off T-Mobile’s logo font?
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 4 months ago:
True, but even that is higher than the latency was on the original systems on CRT. My previous comments were specific to display tech, but there’s more to it.
Bear in mind I can’t pinpoint the specific issue for any given game but there are many.
Modern displays, even the fastest ones have frame buffers for displaying color channels. That’s one link in the latency chain. Even if the output was otherwise equally fast as a CRT, this would cause more latency in 100% of cases, as CRT was an analogue technology with no buffers.
Your GPU has a frame buffer that’s essentially never less than one frame, and often more.
I mentioned TVs above re: post processing.
Sometimes delays are added for synchronizing data between CPU and GPU in modern games, which can add delays.
Older consoles were simpler and didn’t have shaders, frame buffers, or anything of that nature. In some cases the game’s display output would literally race the beam, altering display output mid-“frame.”
Modern hardware is much more complex and despite the hardware being faster, the complexity in communication on the board (CPU, GPU, RAM) and with storage can contribute to perceived latency.
Those are some examples I can think of. None of them alone would be that much latency, but in aggregate, it can add up.
