AlolanYoda
@AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
- Comment on Futures 2 days ago:
It’s not like this makes up for everything else, but there is gravity on Mars
- Comment on Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence! 3 days ago:
I was not expecting giveaways on Lemmy!
Honestly I haven’t seen much of this game (having a PhD to finish and all, I haven’t allowed myself to hahaha), but I am hopeful that it will allow me to try to solve conflicts with diplomatic and out of the box thinking instead of just combat, and having it feel like I haven’t cheated myself out of content: it bothers me that I can’t avoid conflict in most games without feeling like I’m missing out, and Star Trek is the perfect IP to make it work.
Thank you for the giveaway! Best of luck!
- Comment on How can I create an alter ego for publishing stories? 6 days ago:
Yes. That implies you are on the same level as Stephen King.
You should publish as Steven Emperor ;)
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
Trust me. We’re never gonna let you down.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad life ends but I’d rather have a few more centuries before it does! The two ideas are not mutually exclusive
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
“Where is Eris? Is it safe? Is it all right?”
“It appears that, in your anger… You classified it as a dwarf planet.”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
- Comment on World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true 4 weeks ago:
And to their employees
- Comment on uno!! 5 weeks ago:
How DARE you show me this meme when I should be writing my thesis
- Comment on PROOF 5 weeks ago:
I once saw a website that claimed that the moon was a hologram. I guess it can still be that.
One of the theories was that the Moon was not always a hologram, but that it was destroyed (maybe in WW2?) and now the government keeps a projection of the moon to keep people from finding out.
Also all of the space exploration propaganda was faked. Here’s an amazing sentence that will never leave my mind: "Occam’s razor says the simplest explanation is most often the correct one. And what’s simpler: that the government spent millions of dollars, spent years doing research, with international collaborations on rocket science and astronomy, and then managed to get a manned rocket onto the moon… Or that it is all a conspiracy? ;) "
- Comment on Could a bird propel a skateboard by flapping its wings? 5 weeks ago:
Someone has been playing Skatebird!
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 5 weeks ago:
I have been rewatching Friends and it drives me nuts. They regularly jump on top of the couch and the coffee table with their outside shoes on…
- Comment on Sorry about the downtime last night! 1 month ago:
Thank you! I used to have more accounts on other instances for these cases but recently I have been loving this instance so much that I’d rather just wait instead of using my alts. So thanks for all your hard work!
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 1 month ago:
To be honest I naively assumed Nintendo not to be the type of company (… Or even competent enough) to implement the type of data mining that would impact performance lol
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 1 month ago:
Sure, this makes sense for Minecraft, and the video itself only compared Minecraft (for fear of being struck by the Nintendo Ninjas, which is an interesting fear considering everything else in the video). I’d love to see if other games, like BoTW or Pokémon S/V, have similar performance enhancements.
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 1 month ago:
Ah, yes, this makes a lot of sense and is something I had not considered. Great point.
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 1 month ago:
That’s so weird. This isn’t about Nintendo hardware sucking: it’s running on an actual Nintendo Switch, except instead of it using the Switch’s OS and it running the game, it goes Linux -> Emulator (yusu) -> game (running from an actual cart through a dumper) and somehow that’s faster.
It’s a software issue.
Is it the Nintendo Switch OS which is needlessly bloated? It does nothing, how can it be heavier than an actual Linux Distribution?
I’m not familiar with how the Switch works, but the dumper has a FPGA for decoding the cartridge. Is this something that the Switch has to do in real time in software, and maybe that’s where the performance loss comes from? It seems unlikely but I know nothing of the Switch’s internals or software. In fact let’s just say I know nothing at all, I’m just an idiot.
PS: Everyone who buys used Switch games should see this until the end. The dumper allows you to extract a certificate file from a cartridge. Basically, someone malicious could buy a new game, dump it including the certificate file, clone it, and resell the game. Then they would be able to play online with it. If you buy the original copy afterwards and play online, you are likely going to be the one whose certificate is flagged as fake, leading to you being banned.
Also, they could just sell multiple copies of cloned games and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference… Except for the certificate, which would be the same and would signal Nintendo that you (and like 10 other people) are playing a fake game, unbeknownst to you.
- Comment on Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use? 1 month ago:
OK, so you have the opinion of people with flagship or even midrange phones, now here I come with my budget phone, a Redmi Note 8.
I’ve used budget phones all my life since, well, they’re cheaper. The truth is that yes, you do notice some animation stuttering and some delayed responses, especially as the years go by and you have more apps installed (probably doing stuff in the background) and the apps you do have keep updating to be more bloated.
This phone in particular makes it very hard to multi-task, as it’s very liberal with killing apps in the background to save RAM. This is annoying. But I’m using MI UI instead of stock android, and I’m sure I could change this.
Honestly, I do feel like I’m being left behind and that I’m going to have to switch phones more often than if I had a more expensive model. But so far I haven’t encountered any apps I could not run (or even that I could run but only with too much stutter, making for a terrible user experience). So I’ll keep using it until I truly feel left behind, which can take a surprisingly long time. My usage time tends to rival that of people with flagship android phones and iPhones (maybe I even come out ahead)
But you specifically asked about animation stutter. It does happen but it simply doesn’t bother me at all. It’s not constant, only happening when the phone is doing something else at the same time, and even when it does I can wait a few seconds and it’ll be fine. You also mentioned lag when opening an app, so much that you thought it didn’t register your input. It doesn’t happen to me since, while the app itself can take some time to open, the icon has feedback so I know I pressed it.
Overall, I don’t think any of these issues are enough to bother me significantly for a good few years.
- Comment on Math and Physics Majors 1 month ago:
My superiority is purely real, with no imaginary components
- Comment on What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on? 4 months ago:
Minecraft, I tried summoning and defeating the Wither and was woefully unprepared. The entire world near the fight was filled with craters from the explosions. I was getting ready to throw the entire world away. Then I decided to just cheat and turn Creative Mode on for 1 second, the Wither disappeared and I was able to continue playing, now with PTSD.
It didn’t help that I was playing on Bedrock (switch), which apparently has a much more difficult fight than in the Java edition.
- Comment on Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad 6 months ago:
You say “stupid”, but I’m kind of worried it’ll have a positive impact in their sales, making these types of ads the new standard… I hope not, but my expectations are getting worse and worse
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 04-09-2023 8 months ago:
Finally finished a few things that were keeping me working at home after work and was able to dive back into Mass Effect 2 (in the remastered trilogy). I’m enjoying it a lot, I just recruited the final squad member.
Before that, I did the missions on the Krogan homeworld and really enjoyed seeing how my companion from ME 1 is doing. I also like my Krogan squad member a lot, so it was nice.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [2] 9 months ago:
Try doing something else for a while, go see other planets, other leads you’ve been following. A lot of places I thought I was stuck in I later realized it was a part of a different puzzle elsewhere in the game.
Where are you stuck?
Last piece of advice, don’t give up on the game. It’s one of those games where you’ll be glad you finished it.