VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on The 1996 experience 11 hours ago:
Minerva Mink
She only had two starring shorts because the showrunners decided she was too sexy for something aimed primarily at kids. Didn’t even get to the suits asking them to tone it down, they just decided they had crossed a line all on their own.
- Comment on Congratulations! 1 day ago:
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 2 days ago:
It’s not done yet, but it’s very close.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 3 days ago:
I had a manager that spent a good twenty minutes explaining to this little old lady that the guy asking her to send gift cards was not Jason Momoa.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
I was kind of hoping they’d continue the other theme naming for the FF7 series and call it Final Crisis.
- Comment on something to be reinvented 2 weeks ago:
Well, you could send a lump of pure gold. That would have atoms but no molecules. You could try it with silver or iron, too, but the surface would probably start to oxidize before you got it into the box.
- Comment on something to be reinvented 2 weeks ago:
They actually repealed that in 2022. I’d guess the problem has to do with the destruction of mail sorting machines during Trump’s first term and a decline in people mailing letters.
- Comment on wat 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Quantum entanglement is when two particles are made to have the same states. Measuring one tells you about the other one in much the same way you can tell what someone you’ve never met before looks like if you’ve seen their identical twin. Also, much like how punching one twin in the face and breaking their nose has no effect on the other twin fifty miles away, doing something to one half of an entangled pair does nothing to the other. In fact, because they’re no longer identical, the particles aren’t considered to be entangled anymore.
Entanglement can be used for encryption, but it can’t be used to transmit data.
- Comment on Splinter Cell designer says “one of the difficulties with modern stealth games” is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much “harder to read” 3 weeks ago:
Or make lighting less of a factor in detection. Line of sight only worked just fine for Dishonored, and Assassin’s Creed used to have a fantastic social stealth system.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
This is what I do. The only parts left from the original build are a pair of 2TB HDDs installed back when it was a Win7 system.
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 4 weeks ago:
Hawke is like Shepard; you can customize them, but the pre-made face model has more detail than what you can make in the character creator.
- Comment on Day 664 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Bloom was brand new. Devs didn’t have access to it at all until that console generation and took a while to figure out how to use it right.
The ‘real is brown’ phase was similar, with devs suddenly being able to use color grading and having no idea how to use that responsibly.
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 5 weeks ago:
Most Skyrim SE mods are compatible with Skyrim VR, so there’s a chance.
- Comment on Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ 5 weeks ago:
I still don’t see why they copied this feature from Humankind. It was the worst part of an otherwise decent game. They should have learned from Humankind’s flaws and done something like keep your civ but change your leader by era. Same general concept, but feels much more Civ.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 1 month ago:
That was BioWare and Fallout 3.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 1 month ago:
The promised bonus was dependent on what rating the game got from Metacritic. If it got an 85 or better, they got the bonus. It got an 84 and specifically lost points due to the rampant bugs. BioWare was responsible for bug testing and QA according to the contract.
- Comment on Lmao 1 month ago:
And part of the reason the setting is almost never China in adaptations is that the original 1001 Nights version of the story is very much set in China in name only, with the setting being modeled after the Middle East anyway. I mean, there are two jinns, a sultan, and the sorcerer is from Morocco. And when characters are actually named, they have decidedly non-Chinese names like Mustapha.
- Comment on Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Costing…how much?
$1139
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 1 month ago:
Doesn’t matter much in relation to reputational damage.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
Dutch were the damn spice traders of the world.
I’m just going to point out that the English were also spice traders and made good use of the spices themselves until they had to sell all their spices to prop up their collapsing empire.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 2 months ago:
Yeah, that wasn’t a good example since taste is weird. A better example would be that most people would agree that the pink background on this sprite sheet is almost painful to look at while other, more luminous, elements are fine. If our perception significantly varies, then simple mid-luminance color blocks shouldn’t have consistent effects from person to person. Parts of that yellow gradient on the right should cause more strain to someone you know than the magic pink field if perception is strongly variable.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 2 months ago:
The logic is based on perception, though. Colors either clash or go together because of how we percieve them and which colors go with which is pretty consistent between cultures and time periods.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 2 months ago:
Given that color theory works the same for anyone that isn’t some variety of colorblind, I’d argue we probably see colors the same way or very very close to the same.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 2 months ago:
It’s his cover for why he doesn’t have a real job. If Bruce isn’t wealthy enough to not have to work, then he has to work during the day, fight crime at night, and never sleep. Even Peter Parker has a job with flexible hours to accommodate his Spider-Man time.
However, Peter only has the one gadget, doesn’t even own a car, and barely makes ends meet. Bruce needs a vehicle to get around town and at least a few gadgets and body armor to deal with the fact that he’s outnumbered, even with just normal criminals and not considering supers like Mr Freeze or Poison Ivy. If you’re keeping supers out of the equation, you could probably strip Bruce down to things that you could make in your garage, like reducing the Batmobile to an ordinary car he’s tinkered with a bit, painted black, taken the license plate off of, and ground off the VIN.
You still need to deal with how the hell he funds everything, though. Even with minimal gear, he’s going to need a full time job to afford it all. And if he doesn’t want to advertise who he is and where he’s operating out of, he’s going to need a second location to store his bat-stuff so that his neighbors don’t notice the Batmobile parked in his driveway. You’re probably looking at a small house that he doesn’t live in and another house or an apartment that he does live in without any roommates or renters at either place. Even with this minimal setup, Bruce would need at least $100k a year in income. This means one of the following: a) a well-paying full-time job, which cuts into Batmanning; b) inherited wealth; c) lottery winnings; or d) an extremely successful Only Fans account. The first doesn’t seem viable, the second is what’s already being used, the third just feels contrived, and the fourth, while something I’d probably read for the novelty, is probably really difficult to market.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 months ago:
There’s actually an official “back path” for the Morrowind main quest if you killed Vivec. You need to take an item from his corpse to Yagrum Bagarn, but you also need a high reputation. If you muck up the back path, too, you can brute force the main quest by completing the final step anyway, but good luck figuring out how to do that without a quest pointing you to what you need.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 months ago:
Sure, same general premise, but the structure is very different between them. In Dances with Wolves, Dunbar is basically abandoned by his people and slowly assimilates into the local village. By the time Dunbar’s people return in the third act, they’re no longer his people at all. In Pocahontas and Avatar, Smith and Sully are part of an active and present colonial force, wind up on generally friendly terms with the locals, start dating the chief’s daughter, and wind up with a strong case of conflicting loyalties, having to pick between their people and their lover’s people when the fighting starts.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 months ago:
Avatar is absolutely not Dances with Wolves. It is Pocahontas. Throw in a couple musical numbers and it’s real close to being a shot-for-shot remake of the Disney movie.
- Comment on Bird leaf 2 months ago:
In Spanish the word for pen can also be for a feather.
In English, too, with the word quill. Though the word now specifically means a pen made from a feather rather than a pen in general, and calling a feather that isn’t being used as a pen a quill is very archaic.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 2 months ago:
What assets you’re recycling is a huge factor. There are crates in Fallout 4 that were originally made for Oblivion. You almost certainly won’t notice unless you’re looking for it. Similarly, I’m playing Divinity Original Sin 2 and there are a bunch of little things that were reused for Baldur’s Gate 3, like vases. Again, most people will probably never notice.
On the other hand, BioWare reusing animations that were originally created for Neverwinter Nights in Mass Effect 3 is jarring, even though those animations generally worked fine in KOTOR. Or Assassin’s Creed 3 using combat animations in the modern day segments that were designed for the flintlock-wielding enemies in the historic segments.
- Comment on Everytime 2 months ago:
Really? I heard that you got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.
