VindictiveJudge

@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wat⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Costing…how much?

  $1139

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon started hiding ratings for some products⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t matter much in relation to reputational damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon teaches you about their culture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays a game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Tiberian Sun’s Nod ending is a story ender, what with the world altering missile. And Tiberium Wars switched to a sequential series of campaigns that are all canon, like Blizzard’s games.

  However, there is Twisted Insurrection, a mod for Tiberian Sun with a campaign that functions as a sequel to Tiberian Dawn’s Nod victory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No u 🫵⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The shadow thing could also be from a disk. I mean, it’s not, but disks also make round shadows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Connery’s character is Lithuanian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I know how that one happened. A rooster is also called a cock, though we don’t much use that word anymore, for obvious reasons. Probably didn’t know the word and checked Google Translate or something similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remembering having a crush on Hermione. Emma Watson was also older than me, though, and I remember thinking that adults perving on her was gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a long distance relationship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My personal example is identical twins. If they’ve had the same experiences, then knowing what one looks like tells you what the other looks like, but ripping the arm off of one doesn’t magically rip the arm off the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your teenager AND your husband⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.