vrighter
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- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 days ago:
i bought an original cartridge and played it on the vcs i iherited from dad
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 days ago:
i still enjoyed the crap out of it. Sometimes zoning out and just running around collecting stuff is just what I need.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 days ago:
he was forced to release it quickly to coincide with the film’s release. For comparison, it used to take a team of devs a couple of months to make a game. He had 6 weeks
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 days ago:
when climbing out of the pit, it was very easy to immediately fall back down (due to the pixel-perfect collision detection).
And here is an excerpt from the manual: “Even experienced extraterrestrials sometimes have difficulty levitating out of wells. Start to levitate E.T. by first pressing the controller button and then pushing your Joystick forward. E.T.'s neck will stretch as he rises to the top of the well (see E.T. levitating in Figure 1). Just when he reaches the top of the well and the scene changes to the planet surface (see Figure 2), STOP! Do not try to keep moving up. Instead, move your Joystick right, left, or to the bottom. Do not try to move up, or E.T. might fall back into the well.”
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 days ago:
it was actually way ahead of its time, for a game. One small bug (the workaround for which was in the manual) ruined its reputation. But I genuinely think it was a good game.
Also written in 6 weeks by one guy. Freaking impressive
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 week ago:
Snaaaaaake!!!
- Comment on That's a good question 1 week ago:
from the unending death that he himself (holy trinity and all that) would have inflicted upon you.
- Comment on That's a good question 1 week ago:
he could have just, you know, forgiven them. Like he preached. If I kill myself over a grudge I hold towards you, that just makes me an idiot. And, If I go around preaching forgiveness to everyone else, a hypocrite
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 2 weeks ago:
eh, it’s close enough. I only know up to 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 by heart.
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 2 weeks ago:
3.14 is pi
- Comment on 'The Last of Us' Season 2 Finale Viewership Down 55% From Season 1 3 weeks ago:
the second game was not received well by the vocal neckbeards.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 3 weeks ago:
1 and 2 are definitely not the same
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 3 weeks ago:
most kids today are technologically illiterate. We didn’t call anyone who watched a ton of tv a tech-wiz, because tv was just a device made for consumption of content. Even though the tv uses electricity to work
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 4 weeks ago:
altered carbon. Season 2 was so cheap in comparison
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 1 month ago:
we do understand why. It’s model collapse due to “inbreeding”
- Comment on The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique 1 month ago:
the only tatches that stuck with me were the original pebble, pebble time steel, and a pinetime. I also have a galaxy watch gathering dust in a drawer somewhere, which is just not practical
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 1 month ago:
it has to pay for itself faster than it becomes unprofitale. Which is never, now
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 month ago:
and our manager sounded so proud to announce it. I just don’t use it, but lowered my standards instead. If they want us to use more ai, then ai quality work is what they’re going to get. It has indirectly made my job easier by helping me give less of a fuck.
- Comment on Eye wash 👀 1 month ago:
can confirm. Still have about 950 of each
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
don’t you want copilot in your notepad?
- Comment on this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire 1 month ago:
also sharpened by some wacky sharpener that leaves an off-center tip
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 2 months ago:
and it was partially shot in my tiny country of Malta! So one of the reasons I am also slightly fond of this one
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 2 months ago:
resale
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 2 months ago:
they limit the amount of time because it quickly goes to shit after a while, probably
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 months ago:
the size of the framebuffer has nothing to do with how much power the device has to fill it up.
Even the crappiest integrated gpu is “4k” capable
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 2 months ago:
are there any models where the training software, hyperparameters, seed and full training set is released?
No? Then open source models don’t exist.
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 2 months ago:
well you can’t compress anything by making it into an iso. Because iso does exactly zero compression whatsoever.
- Comment on And I even lost the one that I had 2 months ago:
we make it a point to take one (1) every year. No more, no less. On new year’s eve
- Comment on Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?' 3 months ago:
open core isn’t open source, imo.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 3 months ago:
bitcoin is a workaround, not a solution to the byzantine problem. Its security hinges on humans placing value on it and wanting to hoard it. It’s a clever psychological thing that makes it so that the participating cleanly is more advantageous than trying to cheat. But the byzantine fault problem is just as mathematically impossible to solve as ever (because proven math does not change).