apotheotic
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- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 14 hours ago:
I love an open world game that is done well - Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. But so often it is just done because thats what they think is the hot thing, and it does not work
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 4 days ago:
Most will listen to songs a great many times, and movies get rewatched too, books reread. I get where you’re coming from though.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 5 days ago:
I would agree, yeah. Thankfully you have folks like GOG doing work to preserve older titles
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 5 days ago:
Hard to argue with that. Garçon, I am ready for my next short form video!
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 6 days ago:
I don’t entirely disagree with you but, does every medium not have to compete with a growing backlog of classics?
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 6 days ago:
Yeah, so you end up with a fraction of a fraction of the work time going to actually doing the block chain transaction, and the vast majority going into the artificial difficulty
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 6 days ago:
I always thought it would be ideal to do this to create a powerful distributed computing network that can both serve to process the transactions made with the coin and also to do something useful, like folding@home or seti@home or whatever. But apparently nope, GPU crossword puzzles that do nothing but use electricity to make heat are the best they could think of.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 6 days ago:
There is not useful work being done. They may as well be crossword puzzles. Some coins do use the work to do useful things, but bitcoin does it as a way of “proving your work” to earn coin.
- Comment on When the world connected on Skype 6 days ago:
You dropped this \
And like, I understand the use of emojis in general, I’m no boomer, just using them in this way is so weird. Like this usage of emojis feels boomery.
Its like the difference between
My iphone died mid conversation 🫠
And
My iphone 🍎📱 died mid conversation
The latter fills me with rage, the former feels reasonable
- Comment on When the world connected on Skype 1 week ago:
Am I the only one who is physically repulsed by this use of emojis?
- Comment on Somebodys got a case of the Easter Mondays 2 weeks ago:
Some people will do anything except use SI units
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 20th 2 weeks ago:
I wanted to love La-Mulana a lot. And I do love it for building some of the foundation that some huge greats like Fez and Tunic and Outer Wilds stand upon. But holy shit, the game doesn’t want you to love it. The combat and movement are so punishing in an entirely unfun way. I stopped playing after getting what I understand to be like 70-80% of the way through the content the game has to offer and by the last ~20% of that I was dreading playing.
It is a game I have to thank for making way for the existence of some of my favourite games, but I hate it nonetheless.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 20th 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been digging fucking deep with disco elysium this long weekend, started fresh after having dipped my toes in a tiny bit some years ago. 20 hours logged this weekend with more yo come today.
The writing, worldbuilding, and atmosphere are actually just obnoxiously good.
- Comment on Tigers 🐅 🐯 3 weeks ago:
Presumably yes, but its still down to a roll of the dice whether a mutation like that happens in the first place, and whether the individuals who have that mutation live long enough to breed, and whether that mutation actually gets passed down, etc
- Comment on Mammals Suck 3 weeks ago:
“Mammalogy” yeah you chose the correct wojak that’s a weaksauce name
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 4 weeks ago:
It can indeed be recycled after it degrades into copper, but it will take far longer that you claim for it to do so.
The half life of nickel-63 is 101.2 years which means that after 101.2 years approximately half of the core will have degraded to copper, then after 101.2 more years approximately half of the remaining will have degraded, leaving approximately a quarter, then after 101.2 more years there’ll be approximately one eighth, and so on. This is how radioactive decay works.
The battery, they claim, functions for 50 years or so, which is probably because after 50 years the radioactive decay has slowed by over 25% (can’t be bothered to work out the actual amount but its at least this much). This 50 years doesn’t mean that all the radioactive material has decayed, just that a portion of it significant enough to render the battery dead/less effective/etc.
- Comment on Finally Summited on Celeste Classic and I didn't Throw my Laptop Out of the Window! 5 weeks ago:
Full Celeste is a fucking joy. With experience in kaizo hacks and such you’ll adore the b/c sides and farewell. Maddie is a Mario romhacker, after all
- Comment on Finally Summited on Celeste Classic and I didn't Throw my Laptop Out of the Window! 5 weeks ago:
I played the pico-8 version for the first time after the full game including all the B/C sides and farewell, so it took around 100 deaths, but thats with a significant amount of experience for the type of platforming Celeste offers and the type of level design Maddie and co tend toward.
- Comment on Not the worst offender 1 month ago:
You’re not supposed to use a fork, obviously. eat SALAT with SPON
- Comment on testtomcels 1 month ago:
Rat -------- -
- Comment on Not the worst offender 1 month ago:
I mean, they’re right though
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 1 month ago:
If streaming shows are fair game, Final Space. So much passion poured into such an excellent production and Netflix axed it after 3 seasons.
- Comment on Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union 1 month ago:
They’re not actually allowed to do that, by my understanding. It must be equally simple to accept all cookies as it is to deny cookies.
- Comment on Physicists vs Normal People 1 month ago:
Love this
~ physicist
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 month ago:
Can’t wait for some “buy the dip” dickwads to catch this falling knife
- Comment on WWYD 1 month ago:
I oscillate the lever at a rate such that I cannot know whether the wave-trolley went through while the detectors were on or off, introducing further uncertainty.
- Comment on What’s your best “they must have had a lot of fun making this” movie? 1 month ago:
Any Edgar Wright film, and the John Wick films
- Comment on mystery, you say 1 month ago:
I’m gonna call her
- Comment on Would you rather be trapped in Groundhog Day or the Truman show? 2 months ago:
If the groundhog day loop is infinite - Truman show.
If the groundhog day loop is finite to a degree I wouldn’t run out of media and art in the world, groundhog day.
- Comment on me irl 2 months ago:
Girlboss