Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Does Lemmy have a bump system? 2 days ago:
If you go on the web ui and look where the sort option is, there’s a little ?. Click it and it will explain the sorting options.
Many instances Active as the default, which is based on latest comment. However, it’s also based on the score, so if you are spamming or people don’t like your post you’ll get down voted (or no one will upvote) and then it won’t hit the front page even when sorted by Active.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Half-Life 2 days ago:
I can’t imagine it being worth it for one game. The occulus quest headsets are probably the cheapest entry point, especially second hand, but you also get Facebook lock in, and they sell them at a loss so they can better show you ads and make more money. So I’d only go for the quest if you are desperate 😆. Objectively the Quest 3 may be a better headset than the Valve Index, but that’s because the Index is like 4 years old at this point. Many people still think the Index is better, but it depends what your priorities are.
A new Index is still like $999 all these years later. You might be able to get a used one cheaper, but probably not super cheap if it still works well.
VR arcades exist, so it might make sense to find one and play the game there if they have it! However, part of the appeal of Alyx is the use of the Index controllers (Knuckles) that have finger tracking fancy stuff. Arcades might be using the Vive Pro, so you’d have to check if they have Alyx and if they have an Index you can play it on.
I guess this also applies to getting a Quest. It will be fun but not the full experience, Alyx was designed for the Index.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Half-Life 2 days ago:
I like the whole series. Others are talking about 1 and 2, so I’ll add Half-Life Alyx. It’s a VR game, and at the time the PC VR scene was almost all indie games. I remember working out that if I wanted to carry more stuff I didn’t need to worry about only being allowed to hold two grenades, I could just pick up a bucket, fill it with grenades, and carry that around.
I also remember being able to pick up pens and draw on a whiteboard.
I’m not sure how it holds up these days, but at the time it was quite the experience.
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content 3 days ago:
Not only that, but it had nothing to do with the content, and everything to do with how she was sending the link to loads of people (google said she was spamming, she apparently said she wasn’t, the top HN comment says sending it to alpha/beta readers though I didn’t see this mentioned in the article).
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
A larger person might want a larger sword, though!
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
This estimate was for your own blood, not your enemy’s, so probably best not to thoroughly dispatch yourself.
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
And then you can apparently donate like 470 millileters every 8 weeks.
Safely, you could probably speed it up a bit if you have a higher risk tolerance.
- Comment on The power of AI 1 week ago:
The best part is how the original comment is on a post about AI.
- Comment on joyous skittering of the least-bird 1 week ago:
Penguins man. The biggest species can get to a bit over 3ft tall, most common species about 2ft, smallest 1ft adults.
I’ve seen lots of penguins in my life, and yet I always think if I show up to Antarctica it will be full of people sized penguins.
- Comment on Wednesday, my dudes. 1 week ago:
Come to NZ! It’s already Thursday here!
- Comment on Too op 1 week ago:
Ah I forget about AI 😆. Best to take credit for it anyway!
- Comment on Too op 1 week ago:
I appreciate the effort that went into this 😀
- Comment on Funding 1 week ago:
Not all uses of such weapons are prohibited by treaty. The present invention is capable of delivering lethal and non-lethal toxins, including any agent that can be carried and administered by a mosquito.
I’m sorry but WTF. This is a patent about using mosquitoes to deliver lethal toxins? How is this not prohibited by chemical warfare treaties? Only legal if you use it against your own citizens?
- Comment on Too op 1 week ago:
Isn’t that pretty much it? You can buy chemical warfare sprays at your local store, flies aren’t covered under the Geneva convention.
- Comment on Anon can’t have a factual argument 2 weeks ago:
Wait, there are ethnicities other than “white” and “not white”?
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
Hmm maybe I’ll check it on in 5 years. Cos holly hell that price! Priced like a AAA game.
- Comment on party poopers 2 weeks ago:
All the good ones do.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
Is Kerbal Space Program 2 worth playing for someone who had fun with but was bad at 1?
Reviews are - not good.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
Oh for sure. There’s a massive grey area in the middle.
I guess Three Body builds on our physics knowledge, with assumptions about new things being discovered, where as Star Wars ignores it.
Some stuff that happens later in the series (the books) does seem to be pretty much fantasy, but it doesn’t have people warp across the galaxy with no time relativity issues so it’s probably closer to hard sci fi than soft.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
No one really gave examples, but hard sci fi works within our understanding of physics. It’s realistic, e.g. when people go to space they put on a space suit, climb into a rocket, and launch like how they would in real life.
Soft sci fi can ignore physics. Think of star trek or star wars, where the ship gently lifts off the ground and flies up into space, no gforce issues and no trouble just chilling in the sky without falling to earth. Their ship has gravity in space, they can turn sharply and no one feels it, and if they want go go somewhere far away they just warp there. Ships often run on magic crystals. None of that is realistic based on our current physics knowledge, so it’s soft sci fi not hard sci fi.
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
It’s 30 years old so I’m not sure you could call it new 😆
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
It’s a programming language used primarily in data analysis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)
- Comment on Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic 4 weeks ago:
What proportion of the bots were fediverse servers syncing with each other?
- Comment on don't tell iceland 5 weeks ago:
They talk about their process. It involves a whale harness, and divers to do the milking.
I’m honest still wondering if this is an elaborate joke 😆
- Comment on A very late "Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 31st" 1 month ago:
I played through DREDGE, which was a cool little indie game. I also played through the DLC The Pale Reach, which added another short side story.
- Comment on An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable 1 month ago:
That’s a perfectly acceptable approach, but it’s a bit odd to complain about seeing things you don’t like in /All. Of course you do, no oneikes everything.
- Comment on An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable 1 month ago:
Why block everything except the few you like, when you could just subscribe to the things you want to see then stay out of /All?
- Comment on knowing when to trust a login page on a Cloudflare site 1 month ago:
I think you can assume that your credentials go via Cloudflare.
But the only thing you can do on lemmy is post stuff publicly, and presumably you are using randomised passwords, so what’s the cyber security risk?
- Comment on Princess of Wales says she is undergoing cancer treatment - BBC News 1 month ago:
Haha yes, there are a lot of organs hiding out there.
- Comment on Princess of Wales says she is undergoing cancer treatment - BBC News 1 month ago:
It says she expects to make a full recovery.
In the video she says that she underwent abdominal surgery and at the time they thought it wasn’t cancerous, but subsequent tests showed that it was. And they she was recommended to have preventative chemo.
Sounds to me like they removed an abdominal tumour, it was probably successfully removed, and now she’s getting chemo just in case there’s any spreading or any they missed.