VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 5 days ago:
Or it could be LLM slop.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 6 days ago:
Even if they really want to use an existing series for the brand recognition, they could do Neverwinter Nights or Icewind Dale or something.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 1 week ago:
They also list the Fenrir motorcycle and cite the movie Advent Children instead of the one game it appeared in, which is Dirge of Cerberus, even though they cited the X-Wing as being from Battlefront.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 1 week ago:
Sometimes the key function works by keeping critical files on the disc and never installing them to the system. Might install the art assets but not the executable, for instance.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 1 week ago:
Games haven’t actually been played off of the disc in ages, though. The system typically just uses it for installation to the HDD or SSD and then as a key to allow the user to run the program.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 1 week ago:
Blueray Discs, which max out at around 30-40GB of data at the top of my head
Single layer BDs are 25GB, but dual-layer BDs are 50GB and released simultaneously in 2006, 2010 introduced triple-layer discs with 100GB capacity, and we’ve had quadruple-layer discs at 125GB since 2018. I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen a single layer BD, to be honest.
- Comment on Anon the Hutt 1 week ago:
And in addition to being essentially a narco-state, the Hutt Cartel is also a rump state, being the remnants of the Hutt Empire, which was the largest and most powerful nation before the rise of the Galactic Republic.
- Comment on The 1996 experience 2 weeks 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! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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” 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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' 2 months 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' 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Costing…how much?
$1139
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 2 months 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.
