davidgro
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- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 12 hours ago:
I’ll have to try that vsync thing when I get a new PC (laptop)
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 14 hours ago:
Super Hexagon
It’s about as simple as a ‘modern’ game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it’s a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game’s.
The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.
With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that’s not happening.
The criteria to beat a level is “last for 60 seconds”.
- Comment on Why are Kiwi Farms users being banned, despite their adherence to the instance rules? 4 days ago:
What part of “we don’t care for Discord either” don’t you understand?
Fine. Pretend we did care. Your point is still worthless for very obvious reasons: Discord has millions of users, and perhaps hundreds are pro-mass-violence. Most will never have any interaction with those that are. KF has maybe thousands of users (I’m not going to check) and roughly all of them are at least pro-evil, likely also pro-mass-violence given the opportunity.
- Comment on Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 2 weeks ago:
Seems perfectly reasonable to me - this isn’t about the model itself (which the article says is even available though Azure) but the app that sends and receives its data from the Chinese servers.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 3 weeks ago:
I asked Google to roll a D4 and it rolled a 4. So my answer (correct or not) when following the directions in the question is the fourth one (D).
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 3 weeks ago:
Where I live it does that so often that many people from the area are known to just go outside and walk in it with no extra protection or shielding. Crazy in my opinion.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
I rather thought that was one of the main selling points of the Proton services.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t any other provider just give up the senders’ details immediately?
- Comment on Anon plays ff14 4 weeks ago:
It can be used in moderation. Obviously when talking back and forth with an actual cat is one example.
Another is from the days before cell phones. If my parents got separated from each other when shopping, my dad would start to meow very loudly and mom would run over as quick as she could, to shut him up and stop embarrassing us.
- Comment on Are there rollerblading performances like ice skating performances? 4 weeks ago:
Slalom gets pretty close in some ways. It’s amazing to watch what someone highly skilled can do, even when just practicing.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 4 weeks ago:
Not only does your explanation match my understanding, but your username suggests you know this stuff.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 5 weeks ago:
I’ll go one better.
A (non-spinning uncharged) black hole with diameter 1+5/8th inches (so it fits in the box) has a mass of about 2.3 earths.(Near as I can tell QGP filling the whole box is around a ten billionth of that.)
Of course the box would Very quickly no longer be outside the black hole. QGP would also cause the box to no longer be a container in short order. To put it mildly.
- Comment on Anon watches Jurassic Park 5 weeks ago:
Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watchingEtc, etc.
- Comment on Monkey See Monkey Do 5 weeks ago:
At least the character is an adult. (I just checked.) So I don’t see much issue with this besides the usual parasocial relationship stuff.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 month ago:
No I didn’t, but you made me curious so I just looked it up.
It’s not a sound I remember hearing anywhere, but I certainly could have and not known what it was at the time so ignored it.
- Comment on Anon is looking for a new video game 1 month ago:
Which one is “The zombies scale as your character does, so the longer you play the harder they are to kill”?
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 month ago:
Serious answer: A huge negative amount. Anything above iron requires energy to fuse (which is why it produces energy from fission.) and I’m pretty sure nothing with 184 protons could be stable enough to count as being produced - the nuclei be more smashed apart than merging at that point.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 month ago:
That’s fissed, not fused.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 month ago:
Australia.
- Comment on Come study linguistics!! 1 month ago:
ENGLISH HAS 4 LETTER SIMULTANEOUS 4-GENDER PRONOUN CUBE
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 month ago:
I’m disappointed that nobody here has asked the right question yet:
How many Smoots is a Carlos?
- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 1 month ago:
What is this “blue” you mention? That’s not green Or amber!
Seriously though, errors in native code back then would either freeze the system or just spontaneously reboot, either way no time to display a reason. (Although the BASIC interpreter would at least try to say what happened with errors in BASIC code.)
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 1 month ago:
Best I can figure it translates to “They are naive”.
- Comment on TIT-BABBLER 1 month ago:
A.k.a. Motorboater
- Comment on Was Donald Trump ever cool? 1 month ago:
Trump was explicitly the inspiration for rich-Biff in Back to the Future part 2, so if you’ve seen that, you’ll have some idea of how people thought of him.
- Comment on sussvival instinct 2 months ago:
Cellular peptide cake with mint frosting
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
This is one of the things that could have been a nice feature, but the devs never fixed it.
It should let you set a default, and options in the list should include ‘detect from browser settings’, and ‘most recently selected’. (Default should be that one probably, but on the very first post it should detect it automatically.)
If they had done that, and encouraged the same in apps and other clients, then filtering by language would actually work and not exclude the vast majority of posts.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 2 months ago:
There are hundreds (at least!) versions of the bible, and that’s just in English. Would have to make sure it’s exactly the same one.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 2 months ago:
It looks like a code even when not trying to.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 2 months ago:
The concept for this is called Steganography and that article has several examples, but most would be difficult without tools/references.
The easiest would be stuff like using certain letters of words or word lengths as mentioned in some other comments here.