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- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 4 hours ago:
Ehh, pretty sure they know what they’re talking about, they just have what I consider a really bad take about it, and present it as absolute fact. Because yes, you need a connection to steam to “install” a game from steam, whereas you can predownload a GOG game and then not need a connection to install. Which doesn’t really matter to most people, since they don’t care about having the game use an official installer, as opposed to either an unofficial one or just archived game files, but it is a difference.
- Comment on national anthem 1 week ago:
Yup, seems like netflix started me at the latest season at the time or something, watched three episodes from the first season…
Not terribly impressed, still, seems like every episode revolves around sex, which is fair, considering humanity, but if every episode is going to be like this it’ll tire me out real soon.
Either way, glad to have checked it out properly from the start, thanks for shouting out the episode name!
- Comment on Please, call my Moth... 2 weeks ago:
Random fun fact about “ćma”, it’s related to “zaćmić”/“zaćmienie” (“to eclipse”/“eclipse”).
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 2 weeks ago:
Ah, sorry for the confusion, I was referring to the single-slit experiment, I wasn’t giving light a choice.
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 3 weeks ago:
What about the fact that light bends around corners? Notably the interference pattern when shining light through a slit?
- Comment on national anthem 3 weeks ago:
The first episode for me was the VR fighting game (to avoid more spoilers), which didn’t exactly motivate me to watch more
- Comment on friendslob 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call those games objectively shit, but rather low effort. Often involving janky physics, rough models, bad game balance and friendly fire, all elements that can be funny in the right scenario.
- Comment on It’s always too little or too much. There is no in between 3 weeks ago:
One reason I’ve heard is that oiling up the pasta sort of saturates the surface making sauce stick less to it. But I also don’t think that matters much for leftovers, you’re already losing some “quality” compared to eating it fresh, and it sounds like a way to mitigate that.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 4 weeks ago:
Heck, there’s at least one opensource generic steam emulator that you just drop into the game files. I used it before when messing around with modding a multiplayer game, to run multiple copies at once.
- Comment on "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" 4 weeks ago:
Are people seriously going to buy a console that doesn’t even read a disk, just to download a game from the internet?
Are you seriously asking? Because I’ve seen time and time again, the answer to those kinds of questions seems to be yes. I think most people just don’t care, and they don’t need to, they’ll only buy a few games in a console’s lifespan to play for multiple years, and they’ll either just pick up what’s popular, or whichever one has a game they want to play.
- Comment on Doing it now 4 weeks ago:
That’s interesting, it doesn’t creep me out but I can certainly see it, maybe something about the unknown of what the seemingly homogenous sand truly is. A world beyond what we can see, that we are ignorant to but that always has, and always will be there. Almost eldritch in a way.
- Comment on This is why we have two-factor authentication. 4 weeks ago:
Router doesn’t matter if the device is trusted and the service you’re using doesn’t have shite security, with things like HTTPS.
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 5 weeks ago:
Well, yes and no. If you’re using any graphical utility to install software, you’re already using something similar, since the actual package manager in a distro is usually a commandline utility, and you’re using a wrapper around it. Those unofficial package managers don’t actually mess with your system files (at least for the most part), they just look at package lists, dependencies, and automatically build AUR packages as necessary before handing everything off to the actual package manager.
The scary bit isn’t the package manager being unofficial, it’s how it puts untrusted packages on the same level as trusted packages, letting you install it unknowingly.
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 5 weeks ago:
The screenshot looks like it might be a cloudflare verification page, which would put another layer of separation between the site owner and the QR system.
- Comment on In the US it's Father's Day weekend, so happy Father's Day not just to you American dads but to all you dads wherever you are. 5 weeks ago:
His brother, Iroh, was a better dad…and he got his son killed!
You know, I didn’t think about this and don’t remember if it’s been talked about, but was Iroh a good dad? He was a fierce general (or something) and a great warrior, until his son died, after which he changed. He’s an amazing uncle, of course, but that’s after his son’s death.
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 5 weeks ago:
I suspect Mint might just not have anything like the AUR.
AUR stands for Arch User Repository, and it’s a place where anybody can create a package. But those packages aren’t going into a regular repository, instead they’re kept as build scripts, simple code that describes how to make a package.
This is useful for two reasons - it allows users to share packages that aren’t making it into the official repositories (because not everything will, there’s just too much stuff out there), but it can also have things which can’t go into the repos due to licensing (because the AUR doesn’t distribute the software, just instructions on how to automatically get it)
There’s no official utility to install packages from the AUR - you have to find a package you want on the site, clone the repository, and run
makepkgto build and install it. And for updates you have to pull changes and rebuild it manually. And you’re supposed to check yourself to make sure what you’re installing is safe. But there are popular unofficial utilities that are intended to replace Arch’s built-in package management, automatically finding packages both in the trusted repositories and the untrusted AUR, with no separation. - Comment on Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 1 month ago:
In defense of preorders, even if they can’t run out of stock, servers can get overwhelmed. If they also do preloading and don’t fuck up a day 0 patch, you can ensure you can play the game immediately.
I still wouldn’t preorder this kind of game, I wouldn’t trust them not to botch it every way imaginable, but I’m reminded of the Silksong release, which I would’ve trusted with a preorder and could’ve avoided dealing with Steam going down when trying to buy it ;D
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 1 month ago:
Dumpster fires? Do you mean the untrusted repository of user-submitted build scripts getting malicious user-submitted content? :P
Keep your official packages and AUR separate, if nothing else at least don’t pull from both sources with the same command
- Comment on Funni video 1 month ago:
Also someone sent me a two hour long video on exploiting goomba behavior in Super Mario 64 for glitches
Pancake man strikes again! I think part of what makes pannenkoek’s videos so enthralling is how they all build together towards the ABC - it’s not just random bugs in an old game, it’s bugs that are being found for a cause by a community of enthusiasts.
- Comment on Motherfucker trying to 100% life 1 month ago:
Bro’s trying the genocide route now
- Comment on The speed of light 1 month ago:
It’s complicated (and don’t trust me too much, I’m not qualified), but if you’ve heard of time dilation and whatnot, if you start traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, spacetime distorts in such a way that from your point of view all light coming from any direction travels at the same speed.
This is also why (or one of the reasons) according to science you cannot travel faster than the speed of light, since light would still need to be traveling away from you at the speed of light and you’d need to occupy negative space in that direction, or something like that.
- Comment on The speed of light 1 month ago:
I love this because this feels like something the 10th doctor would say to confused daleks while stalling
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 1 month ago:
We never needed more.
I might be wrong, but I think that’s too early for me - I’d like 120fps at 1440p in a game like Portal 2 as a regular mid-to-high end experience, and I’d like to have room for funky stuff (portals will already have some funky cost).
The issue to me is that it’s a nonsensical competition for better graphics, without considering the actual experience, and instead of solving the root causes people are treating performance as the issue to attack by reducing fidelity, framerate and resolution, and filling in the gaps.
It’s funny, thinking about it. Back when hardware was weak game developers figured out they can keep textures at low resolution and layer them with differently scaled textures, or straight up noise, to make them look more detailed up close. Now we’re basically doing the equivalent of that on the whole screen, cutting down on the image and filling in the gaps, and it’s become a competition of who can do it better.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 2 months ago:
if it didn’t invent grip buttons it was my first exposure to them
Ironically, I think it was those very buttons that infringed on a preexisting patent and led to Valve getting sued
- Comment on Deluxe poppy seed cake 3 months ago:
It’s just a shame I hate raisins and most of them have those. Absolutely do recommend though.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 3 months ago:
Worth noting is that you can also get factorio DRM-free on the website, and then downloading mods is locked behind logging in with your account - same as playing multiplayer on online-mode servers. But mods are also just zip files that you can also download from the website (still need to log in and own the game), so same as games with steam workshop, people will share mods same as they share game files.
If that’s too inconvenient for you to pirate, well, “piracy is a service issue” ;)
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
*sweaty
Opinionated sweater is when somebody offers to refund the sweater they gave you as a gift
- Comment on 4 months ago:
If you mean molten salt reactors, guess what they do with the molten salt to make electricity…
- Comment on SBA #54 4 months ago:
As far as I know, if you go that way, you’ll find yourself fighting the engine as all the other tools are being adjusted to fit nanite+lumen+TAA, and you’ll still get bad results. That’s on top of them just not developing solutions that work without that whole stack.
- Comment on SBA #54 4 months ago:
Unreal, latest and greatest? Hah, good one! It might be latest, but Lumen can go die a hole, and fuck every single technology forcing more reliance on temporal accumulation. Also fuck screenspace reflections, those are basically designed to look good in specific cinematic shots while causing artifacts all over the place while actually playing.
Unreal these days is more like making the game run 10x worse and take up more space while looking better in specific cases.
I definitely agree with having more people try Godot, especially if they’re willing to contribute when they run into roadblocks they have to fix.