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- Comment on [Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest 21 hours ago:
Cool, I’m gonna check it out!
- Comment on If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score? 1 week ago:
:(
- Comment on Who started this shitposting?! 1 week ago:
Well Jimmy Carter won’t be exactly aligned with me on a Foreign affairs issue so I think we might as well just support Putin
^Average pre US election .ml poster
- Comment on Change my Mind 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I mean, Trump is just the marketing of a president. All sizzle, no steak. He has appeared in debates but it’s a huge stretch to say he’s shown up well in them.
In fact, a lot of politics are purely a popularity contest these days, aren’t they?
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 1 week ago:
Or kpop? Maybe against demon hunting?
Sounds a little demon-esque to be anti demon hunting
- Comment on Soup 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s like if you get a water flask at a restaurant and they have some lemon or something in it. It’s still water not soup.
Same idea but vegetables and noodles
- Comment on Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method' 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how I feel about AI chatbots as NPCs. On one hand, it does add near infinite dialogue options and flexibility to adapt to what a player does. That’s super cool and immersive.
On the other hand, it feels so damn lazy. Like I want to play games with dialogue/story as an art form, not as a “how much time can I spend here”
- Comment on Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method' 2 weeks ago:
The Solid Snake method of conversation has taken on meme status in recent years, as players noticed the Metal Gear icon simply repeated the last few words of anything anyone said to him as a question. As was discovered by ‘Hakkix’ on Reddit, you can do the same to game the NPCs in Where Winds Meet. If someone asked you, say, to “Find the buried treasure chest,” you’d respond by saying, “The buried treasure chest?” and so on. Eventually, the NPC gets so confused that they express their gratitude and end the conversation. Whether that’s due to confusion or exasperation is unclear, but the effect is the same.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 2 weeks ago:
I mean this is probably fake ragebait for the 4chan crowd
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 2 weeks ago:
The original Shapez is vertical. I don’t love how it plays on mobile in terms of controls but it works
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 4 weeks ago:
Tunic is so damn good.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 5 weeks ago:
I hope for Steamie Boi
- Comment on Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC] 5 weeks ago:
I would guess and kinda hope so? And then merge the steam machine/deck verified status together later in life?
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 5 weeks ago:
So that’s a great picture I think for the difference between the loan durations.
I of course think the real problem is that average people might need a 50 year loan to barely pay for a house these days. But it isn’t “nothing” between the terms, it does help in the super short term
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 5 weeks ago:
Fair, but it also shouldn’t affect the relative prices from 30 and 50 year
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 5 weeks ago:
The calc I used for that number put $3k property tax annually amortized, good call
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 5 weeks ago:
What?
Some random numbers that are of course VERY variable, but I just ran the calcs with 400k, 5% down, 6% APR for 30 and 50 years
$2648 for 30 years $2369 for 50
Now that is of course not a great deal, presumably you’d also get a little better rate for the longer loan (more points) but it’s not a dollar.
- Comment on Learning to drive 5 weeks ago:
Yup, exactly this.
Coached race cars (and bikes) at tracks for years, and amateur raced for more than a decade.
Try just pushing (not pulling). You have a LOT more range and more comfortable control from 9/3 than 10/2
- Comment on ...will continue until... 5 weeks ago:
It always gets there
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 month ago:
Surely this comes from the American, not European point of view, yeah?
- Comment on My AYN Thor 1 month ago:
Super super cool. I don’t have a need for this since I have a nice modded 3ds lite, but the youtube on one screen and gaming on the other is absolutely sick. The screen size and color depth looks great too.
Does it have an SD card slot? I didn’t see it on their site but I assume so.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 2 months ago:
That’s fair, Shor’s algorithm would probably break a bunch of older encryption. It’s a little further out of reach, in terms of feasibility but who knows how fast it could speed up
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 2 months ago:
That’s how it’s been explained to me by laymen many many times. Just casually (ish, I have a math degree) looking at the math, chatting with a friend who is a quantum physicist, being involved with computers, etc I find that Grover’s Algorithm is not at all capable of something like that. I’m not sure there’s anything better in terms of breaking encryption
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover's_algorithm
Grover’s algorithm could brute-force a 128-bit symmetric cryptographic key in roughly 264 iterations, or a 256-bit key in roughly 2128 iterations. It may not be the case that Grover’s algorithm poses a significantly increased risk to encryption over existing classical algorithms, however.[4]
I am stoked for what it could do for protein folding, or other heavy simulation work, but in terms of proper encryption I don’t believe it actually will change much.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 2 months ago:
Nah I’d put money on it being quantum computing. I think quantum has some neat applications, and the tech is cool as hell. But I think it’ll be sold like “this is gonna instantly transform business overnight” and people will try to sell quantum computing power
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Terraria 2 months ago:
I’ve had a lot of trouble getting started with this. I have 4 figures of hours into Factorio, I LOVE 2D side scrollers. Any advice? Maybe it’s like starting build problems or something
- Comment on Trivago 2 months ago:
Can anyone explain for someone really out of the loop? I don’t know this person or what trivago is
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wow this looks cool. Wish listing it now!
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
I was working in pure software engineering and we had to attend a meeting/presentation about some use cases for it.
It’s one of things that any useful tech would never need. Do you think the airplane, the cell phone, the internet, any other useful tech you can think of needed brainstorming sessions for use cases? Hell no, they couldn’t implement their ideas as fast as they wanted because the uses are so obvious
- Comment on International travel 2 months ago:
US ex pat living in Europe: 100% agree. I’ve actually not had a single person be mean or negative about where I’m from. Either jokes about how it’s going or more likely, curiosity about how things actually are.
It’s just like if you meet a Russian who left. I would hope you’d have the nuance to think “oh, they escaped, fantastic for them and I’m so sorry about their country” not “oh they must love Putin”