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- Comment on el tigre 6 days ago:
This is AI slop
- Comment on "I don't read my replies" 1 week ago:
It’s a reference to a glorious image, not sure if it’s real, but it’s been around for a while:
- Comment on "I don't read my replies" 1 week ago:
My bios/similar are either empty or whatever I put there as a teen… Except for one where I put “Green Is My Pepper”, I should use that more.
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 2 weeks ago:
Ahh, is it Not Quite Almost Christmas Time already?
- Comment on i hate ai i hate ai i hate ai 4 weeks ago:
Are supposed to, and generally are, but there is a risk of somebody making unsourced changes and you seeing the article before it’s caught. Not a big deal for popular articles, but there are a lot of niche topics.
- Comment on Is this true? 4 weeks ago:
They said cool dungeons, which I understand, BotW shrines all have the same visual style, same enemy types, they can be boring.
- Comment on Buying new trends is a choice 5 weeks ago:
Technically vanilla RimWorld already has “Lovin’”, which colonists sharing a bed can do, and the DLC has colonist pregnancy, IUDs, babies, and I think even artificial insemination (though it’s been a long time since I played without mods, so I could be mixing something up)
But really, given sufficient time, any sufficiently moddable game will have a horny mod made.
- Comment on Google Maps Reviews in Germany are utterly pointless 1 month ago:
But the removed count only includes a one year period and caps out at 250, how would you find the new average?
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 1 month ago:
Regarding osu’s source code, I think the original osu (osu!stable) is closed-source, and I think the servers might be closed-source, but I believe osu!lazer, the new reimplementation in C#, is fully opensource. It’s an ongoing effort and a long-term migration it’s in the middle of, but lazer looks great and I think it’s already meant to be the main version now.
- Comment on onions 1 month ago:
As a person that generally dislikes onions, it’s different - I’m not a fan of onion flavor and don’t like the texture, but I know it can positively contribute to a dish for me, primarily if it’s not overly prominent.
It’s like seasoning, eating some seasoning alone might make it taste bad, you might dislike dishes that use it as a main flavor, but if it’s just a small component of a dish it might be a good thing. I haven’t had marmite, but from what I’ve seen it seems kinda like that, very strong offputting flavor that complements other things very well.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’ve played a bunch of medical in SS13, so CMO immediately makes me think Chief Medical Officer
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 1 month 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 2 months ago:
What about the fact that light bends around corners? Notably the interference pattern when shining light through a slit?
- Comment on national anthem 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 ?? 2 months 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" 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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. 3 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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.
