SmoothOperator
@SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the best political movie? And what is the best apolitical movie? 1 day ago:
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 days ago:
I refuse to butt rust you!
- Comment on Is there a way out? 2 weeks ago:
The Quantum journal is doing a pretty good job.
- Comment on Is there a way out? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a journal though. No editor or peer review process.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 3 weeks ago:
Always? I’m currently playing Control on a 4070 Super, and I honestly can’t tell the difference between ray tracing on and off on FPS.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 3 weeks ago:
Why is that? If it has no significant impact on FPS, and you enjoy the high fidelity light simulation, then why turn it off?
- Comment on *record scratch* 4 weeks ago:
Humans should be sushi, not ravioli, according to their definition. Or perhaps more like a donut?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 4 weeks ago:
The article mentions them as action RPGs
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 4 weeks ago:
Indeed, as the article writes
Even Skyrim—certainly a weird, ambitious, and janky RPG in its own right—refined and streamlined the formula set by Morrowind and Oblivion, rather than expanding on their eccentricities, and that trend only continued in the studio’s following games.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 4 weeks ago:
Hmm, you’re probably going to get a lot of answers assuming you wanted to do secure communication, not secure journaling. Different beasts I would think.
- Comment on gigadee 5 weeks ago:
Or maybe they’re perfectly capable of a stable relationship, they just also enjoy casual sex. Maybe even at the same time in a non-monogamous context.
- Comment on Anon describes the micro-celeb pipeline 1 month ago:
Like who?
- Comment on James Bond Game by IO-Interactive 1 month ago:
I’ve bought each of the three latest Hitman titles on Steam exactly once at regular video game price and gotten all the content of each game, plus freely received the collection of all that content in the “World of Assassination” consolidation. Plus the free and amazing rogue-like expansion taking place across all maps from all games.
Seems like a really good deal to me.
- Comment on Robert Eggers to Direct 13th Century Werewolf Thriller Werwulf 2 months ago:
The VVerewolf
- Comment on 'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI 2 months ago:
Is Civil War a liberal-leaning movie?
- Comment on Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 3 months ago:
Was the same with the first Hitman
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 3 months ago:
They’re also very popular in Denmark.
- Comment on Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape 3 months ago:
Realistically it’s not feasible to set up separate systems for separate levels of tech knowledge and expect it to not be abused.
Yes, it’s more of a hassle to do proper 2FA, but it helps the grannies of the world not be scammed out of their life savings, ultimately enabling greater digitalisation, which I find extremely helpful.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 3 months ago:
Isn’t the point to get bacteria off your hands? Isn’t it better to have them in the air than on your hands?
It’s a lot more likely I’ll eat something I touched than something that’s been sitting in bathroom air.
- Comment on God of the Dead 5 months ago:
Something like this, perhaps: youtu.be/HNMq8XS4LhE?si=XqWX5uZFBWKNbJAb
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #20 - Slay the Princess 5 months ago:
I found the lines poorly written, the narrators not very convincing, and the whole concept limited and simple. It’s likely that something better comes along further into the game, but it really didn’t pull me in.
It always fascinates me that people can have such different experiences. I’m really happy you found your perfect game, wish I could see it like you see it!
- Comment on Mask Quest - A Platformer Where You Have to Manually Breathe. Survive a Pandemic Lockdown, Escape Police Brutality, and Find a Surgical Mask. 5 months ago:
I’m somewhat nostalgic about parts of it. It clearly had a much wider impact on society than the AIDS outbreaks, and many people didn’t end up with anyone close to then dying or with any serious long term effects.
To lots of people it was just a time of staying home and trying to work that out. At least in the parts of the world I was.
- Comment on What? 5 months ago:
I think the bluer bird is younger, not knowing that summer ends, and being even more surprised that this involves immense journeys
- Comment on Steam Families is out of beta, letting you share games with up to five others 6 months ago:
I’ve bee on the beta for a while now, and I still haven’t encountered a game that couldn’t be shared like this. I played Cyberpunk 2077 through Steam Family.
- Comment on Anon misses something 6 months ago:
What on earth are you talking about?
There’s nothing easier than just explicitly checking in whether you’ve read the signals correctly or not before making any creepy moves.
Tip #1 for flirting: Make sure that the other person has a very easy way out of anything they might not like. Then you know they’re enthusiastically consenting for whatever comes next.
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 6 months ago:
I quite liked the vibe, but got frustrated about the artificial progress blocks. If you’re a competent deck builder it’s pretty easy to build a deck that beats the game master, but then you get to a point where he just throws infinite enemies at you and you are forced to lose.
I get it, the gameplay requires you to lose a number of times, but it just turned me off from finishing the game.
- Comment on Peak Fantasy 7 months ago:
I mean, the tags literally say fantasy, so I guess OP is getting what he asked for
- Comment on Electrons are easy 8 months ago:
Quantum mechanics (and spin) isn’t really mysterious or inaccessible, it’s just not intuitive.
- Comment on What is a good starting point for learning about quantum fields 8 months ago:
From its own cover,
It is written by experimental physicists and aimed to provide the interested amateur with a bridge from undergraduate physics to quantum field theory. The imagined reader is a gifted amateur possessing a curious and adaptable mind looking to be told an entertaining and intellectually stimulating story, but who will not feel patronized if a few mathematical niceties are spelled out in detail.
This might sound pretty casual, but it gets into all the math of it, with an aim at practical use.
- Comment on What is a good starting point for learning about quantum fields 8 months ago:
The book “Quantum field theory for the gifted amateur” is really good. It’s helped me understand quantum fields a lot better, and I work with quantum mechanics every day.