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- Comment on Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer? 1 week ago:
“Hotseat” multiplayer isn’t in the game at all yet.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t remember specific examples (probably because I didn’t stick with any of them very long), but I’ve played several games that don’t even let you touch the options until after you’ve finished some tutorial section… which is especially annoying for players you play with inverted y axis.
- Comment on How To Make Coca Cola...For REAL 2 weeks ago:
TL;DW:
The flavor mostly comes from essential plant and spice oils such as nutmeg, cinnamon, lemon, lime, and quite a few others.
Surprisingly, there seems to be a small amount of vinegar that’s essential to getting the correct flavor.
There’s also a mandatory heating step that allows the phosphoric acid to “develop” some of the raw flavor compounds from the essential oils into more complex compounds with different flavors.
In the end, it’s all stuff you can buy yourself. The start-up cost of getting all the ingredients is high, but once you have them you’d basically be set for life and could make your own coke for much cheaper than buying the “real” stuff at the store.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
Noooo, not even close. There may be some senior devs in AAA studios making bank, but the vast majority of people doing the day-to-day art and development work on games typically get much worse pay and benefits than similar roles in other parts of the tech sphere.
A lot of people are very passionate about making games, and the games industry heavily exploits that passion to short change its workers. A lot of (mostly young) devs are willing to accept less pay to work on games because they feel like it will be more fulfilling than working on other mindless corporate crap, and those who do get jobs in the industry are afraid to ask for more money or try to unionize because they know there are a dozen equally passionate candidates waiting to replace them for less money if they make too many waves.
The result is that wages stay lower than other tech jobs and hours worked are much higher. With AI on the rise the problem will no doubt get even worse as execs use it as an excuse to shrink teams and “do more with less”.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
highly paid developers
Not in the games industry, lol
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 3 weeks ago:
That’s not true. The “fatness” of metallic atoms doesn’t even come close to overcoming how rare they are. Hydrogen and helium combined still make up ~98% of the total mass fraction. Oxygen, which is next in line, is only about 1% the total mass.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 3 weeks ago:
Any good astronomer knows that the real binary is metal/non-metal
- Comment on Omg 3 weeks ago:
I will never get sick of this ridiculous copypasta
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 3 weeks ago:
Why on earth would you want to unlearn something as awesome as that??
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 3 weeks ago:
Darth Flatulence
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Using an IDE to write code is like using a pie tin to help you make a pie.
Using generative AI is like going to the local bakery, breaking their window, and stealing the pie.
- Comment on LET IT DIE offline version announced 1 month ago:
I’ve never played this game and don’t know anything about it that I didn’t just read in the article… but there’s just something so rad about a game called “Let it Die” having such a graceful end-of-life plan like this.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 month ago:
Fusion neutrons are able to cause fission in ordinarily non-fissile materials, such as depleted uranium (uranium-238), and these materials have been used in the jackets of thermonuclear weapons.
Fun(?) fact: something like 50% of the energy output of thermonuclear bombs comes from secondary fission events in the bomb casing triggered by the high energy neutron flux of the fusion reaction.
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 1 month ago:
Considering the number of NMS updates that are just back-ported features that were created for Light No Fire, I suspect the game loop will be pretty much the same as what we already have in NMS
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 months ago:
Statistically, there are no small numbers.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 2 months ago:
I guess it makes sense that multicellularity would be more of a spectrum than a binary condition. If life evolved into it gradually, then it would make sense to find a lot of “intermediate” evolutionary states that don’t feel like they’re distinctly one or the other.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 2 months ago:
I always cringe a little bit when someone says a person has ‘become a parody of themselves’… but honestly, what else is there to say about Molyneaux?
Peter Molyneaux really has become a parody of Peter Molyneaux.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 2 months ago:
I’m 1000% sure Molyneaux is gonna try to use AI to develop as much of this new game as possible.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 2 months ago:
I’m not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn’t directly involved with since like… 2010?
What we’ve seen of his new game really isn’t that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers’ attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.
Then when you consider Molyneux’s propensity towards feature creep, it’s probably safe to assume that even if the game is a ‘success’ by most conventional metrics, it won’t be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 months ago:
You may be interested in this new research from a few weeks ago! space.com/…/the-search-for-life-on-venus-just-too…
- Comment on ugly little cutie 3 months ago:
MFW my mom tells me I’m handsome
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 3 months ago:
Trump is pre, peri and post-criminal.
- Comment on United States of Autism 3 months ago:
The US should just switch to paracetamol. Problem solved!
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 4 months ago:
Fusion restaurant
Can I get an order of the yellow cake to go?
- Comment on Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator 4 months ago:
LOL, since when does AI respect copyright?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 4 months ago:
Yet!
- Comment on I just beat Bloodborne for the first today, and it's probably one of the best playthroughs of a video game that i have ever had and stories of one as well. 4 months ago:
Paleblood Hunt intensifies
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 4 months ago:
Yeah, Activision was my first thought as well.
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 4 months ago:
Shouldn’t it be trivially easy to demonstrate “prior art” in this case, making the patent invalid? I guess that requires someone to get into a legal battle with Nintendo… but it’s not like this is some niche mechanic. Surely there are other entertainment megacorps who are currently in violation of this “patent” and do have the resources to fight it in court.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 4 months ago:
Probably sarcoidosis