Sonotsugipaa
@Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 7th 3 days ago:
I’ve been trying to thrive in Vintage Story, so far it’s been kicking my ass the entire time (late bronze age) - I’ve got a friend hyped for Hytale, I’m hoping I can convince him to give VS a try too/instead…
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
Is there anyone who can’t (partially) control their breath?
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
Without rigorously researching the phenomenon, I’d put myself in the 2, edging towards 3 - I can visualize things with however many details I can see with my own eyes if I focus a little, but instinctually I only see vague shapes that serve their purpose in whatever scenario I’m thinking of.
I can rotate objects and remember the back-face details;
I can picture a moment from a story I was reading, where a bipedal nocturnal lizard in a cramped spaceship violently recoils from having a flashlight pointed at its eyes;
I cannot quantify the spacing between its eyes compared to the height between those and the tip of the nose as seen by a front-facing isometric projection, even if it’s all a fiction and I could just make things up.Basically my mind is running Unreal Engine 5 with medium settings, low LOD and AI generated textures - which would also explains a lot of other things now that I think about it.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not as puzzled about the concept of aphantasia (or the opposite) as much as the fact that people here, and two I know IRL, always self report as either 1s or 5s, with a handful of exceptions (ATTOW).
Is there a selection bias, where anyone in-between doesn’t relate to either extreme enough to comment, or do said extremes conflate the ability to “picture” fine details with the ability to remember them in the first place?
- Comment on Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason! 4 weeks ago:
The beatings will continue until the demand for AI improves
- Comment on Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason! 4 weeks ago:
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it has a fucking ✨glitter✨ icon too
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You know I’m talking about the Start & Stop system and not the Keep Rolling Slowly & Stop, right?
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 5 weeks ago:
I’d still like to be able to engage S&S with a button without shutting of the oil pump and whatnot, tbh.
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 5 weeks ago:
I guess the part of Italy I live in stop signs are best described by your second paragraph, but they’re pretty frequent. These roads get wild sometimes.
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 5 weeks ago:
You mention stop signs so that sounds like the US
Wait hold on… why’s that? Is there any juristiction where there are traffic laws, but no stop signs?
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 5 weeks ago:
Sounds insane […]
This is in Italy, it IS insane, and admittedly I don’t know how much my grievances against S&S are mitigated by automatic transmissions (never used in tests).
Tests do not require you to disable S&S, instructors simply tell you not to let out the clutch while in neutral to avoid it, but the strictest examiners see engine shutdowns as “failure to correctly operate the vehicle”, like stalling - if it happens once, we all make mistakes, if it happens twice, come on man, if it happens three times k gg bb, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a feature of the car.Most of the people who turn S&S off do so because they find it annoying, I myself try to use it effectively but I prefer driving responsibly rather than playing chess with a half-metric-ton deadly weapon.
There are arguments that having your engine off on the road is unsafe, I guess those examiners are just being zealous? If they even exist, I’m trusting my instructor’s tales on this factoid, but drivers’ ed here is very strict so I’m inclined to believe him.
I do know that S&S systems require better starters, but that just means they cost more, right? And even if the increased cost is marginal, the increased fuel consumption on short stops is still a problem.
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 5 weeks ago:
As far as I’ve read around, S&S mainly wears out the starter.
I don’t understand how the system could cause problems on slippery roads, but if it works on OP’s car like it does in mine, the way it’s designed to kick in is dumb, infuriating and counterproductive.
I have to disable it every time I start the car, because otherwise it would just stop the engine and restart it immediately whenever I get to a stop sign (which burns more fuel than just staying on).
BUT, if I want S&S to work, I need to re-enable it BEFORE I slow down, otherwise it just doesn’t - but I can’t predict how long I have to wait when I stop before I get to the sign, if I could they wouldn’t have put a stop sign there in the first place!So I either:
- keep S&S enabled and disable it at every busy junction before I put it in neutral, then enable it again;
- forget about it and always keep it on, wasting fuel, increasing emissions, prematurely having my starter replaced to prevent failures in the middle of busy roads;
- forget about it and always keep it off or just never put the car in neutral, which is what all driving schools in my country teach drivers to do by the way (people have failed their tests by not preventing the engine shutdown), and possibly fully shut the engine off at my not-taking-drivers-license-test discretion.
And my car isn’t even a KIA, I can’t imagine how bad the S&S system would be on a KIA!
- Comment on They let me pick, did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever spartan I wanted... 1 month ago:
It’s a verbatim quote from Halo 3, I wouldn’t read too much into it
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 1 month ago:
Hey, to be fair, if Helldivers 2 taught me something is that we’re all a complainy bunch
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 1 month ago:
Following your logic and example, since we can’t individually do much for the homeless we should go around shelters and aggressively try to convince volunteers that destitute people are a lost cause.
- Comment on Sad but true 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Sad but true 1 month ago:
At least þey aren’t writing like þis, which I’ve seen from at least one user on Lemmy
- Comment on If you feel the US has been kind to you, youre probably in the category of people got us into this mess. I dont think its wrong to embrace the chaos. 1 month ago:
It does look AI though.
Both arms have weird proportions, yet the image is full of details; there’s an odd seam on the right arm, the breasts are too high (forgiveable novice painter mistake (although IIRC the real statue of liberty has no visible breasts)) but again the clothes’ folds are below them are oddly detailed, and look wrong. - Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 month ago:
Idk about banana and capers, but salami is a somewhat standard pizza topping
- Comment on Anon plays DOOM 1 month ago:
- me when Timmy makes fun of me
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 1 month ago:
Robin from Iconoclasts:
- Pacifist until the end (depending on the definition of “end”), despite the game’s pixel aesthetic it tries to make it clear that murder is her last option;
- Altruistic, she goes out of her way to help people with complete disregard of her own safety;
- Doesn’t talk much;
- Kind hearted, doesn’t reject a well-intentioned yet spoiled acquaintance even though fucking up is his character arc and everyone hates him;
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Plot spoiler
becomes friends with Jesus and goes with him back to heaven
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Ending spoiler
fucking kills god, then fill him with seeds (tbf all the poor guy did was pull up at the gas station and have strangers harass Him)
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 1 month ago:
Wrex.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
Not OP, but:
- Not indexable (can’t use web search engines on its content, not even forums);
- Like Deep Rock Galactic, Discord is full of cave-dwelling creatures that abduct miners;
- The built-in search feature (the only way you can search things on it, mind you) has less filters than my uncle at thanksgiving;
- @everyone
- @everyone
- @everyone
- @everyone
- @everyone
- @everyone
- @everyone
- @everyone
- @everyone
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- Can’t mute the entire server because you want notifications for mentions on a few specific channels;
- Said server creates a new channel;
- @everyone
- @everyone
- @everyone
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- Can’t use browser bookmarks to manage and enter servers, you have to use THIS fucking thing
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- “but they have to pay for uptime somehow”
confirmsharing, plus they got the monopoly on this type of social services by undermining their competition through venture capital so they could go under tomorrow for all I care
- “but they have to pay for uptime somehow”
- Irrelevant for most people, but the garbage uncollapsible UI makes it painful to make it share screenspace with other windows on a FHD screen (which is a tragedy for tiling WM users);
- The markdown implementation is a bit janky IME
- "By reading the first 9 words of this notice you accept that you may not sue us and have to arbitrate your disputes"
- Third-party clients are against TOS, as you noted below
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 2 months ago:
- Imgur leaves the UK because they’re allegedly uncompliant with data protection laws
- "Legal: Of, relating to, or concerned with law" - wordnik.com
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
It could be valid C++ code within a function, if not for the last colon which isn’t a unary nor binary operator
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
Hey, you can’t say “hell”, that’s a bad word >:c
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
Prepare for trouble!
And make it throuple!
- Comment on Anon makes games 2 months ago:
“tell me X without telling me X”
Insufferably obnoxious too
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 2 months ago:
“Best Linux distro” listicles are notoriously bad for choosing a distro, which doesn’t help at all, but nowadays everyone and their dog recommends Bazzite for people who just want to play games (don’t ask me why, I wouldn’t touch an atomic distro with a 10 foot pole)
