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- Comment on Didn’t take long at all 12 hours ago:
Some cans have TAURINE on the rim there, but it doesn’t really look like that. This image is so confusing. My first instinct was that it looks a lot more like a shop than a slop. But now I’m thinking it might be both. The rubber band, cig and lighter are identical on 4 cans. But the other 2 seem to be unique and small.
- Comment on Didn’t take long at all 12 hours ago:
Some cans have TAURINE on the rim there, but it doesn’t really look like that. This image is so confusing. My first instinct was that it looks a lot more like a shop than a slop. But now I’m thinking it might be both. The rubber band, cig and lighter are identical on 4 cans. But the other 2 seem to be unique and small.
- Comment on Do you cheat in games? 3 days ago:
You’re kind of twisting the definition of single player. In a colloquial sense, it’s an adjective that describes whether game modes are played alone or concurrently with others. Not literally related to the number of players that have played the game.
The label exists to give people a sense of what the game is like to play. A game can have both single player and multiplayer modes.
- Comment on Do you cheat in games? 4 days ago:
It doesn’t matter if its single player or multiplayer, if you are competing against other people, cheating is not okay.
If you cheat to get a highscore on a leaderboard in a single player game, thats not cool. If you cheat a speedrun in a single player game, you lose all my respect. If you use cheats to beat near impossible challenges in single player games to get clout on social media, that’s despicable.
It’s not always ok to cheat in single player games.
- Comment on Do you cheat in games? 4 days ago:
The point of games is to have fun, so you should play the game in the way that is most fun for you. Whether that involves cheating or modding the game is up to your own preferences.
Cheating only becomes a problem in competitive contexts because at that point you are being dishonest and ruining the fun for others.
There are some cases where cheating is not okay in singleplayer games and some cases where it is okay in multiplayer games. It all circles back to whether everyone is having a good time.
- Comment on Apple’s engineers carefully designing the last 60 Hz OLED screens on the planet 1 week ago:
You might be talking about the same thing.
If you are talking about how much time it takes to render an image, that is frame lag. It’s the hard limiting factor of frame rate. A computer can’t display images faster than it can draw them.
If you are talking about time between a change in the world state, and the display showing that change, that is latency. Latency is affected by a few factors including frame rate. A frame rate of 24 adds an average latency of 21ms, and a frame rate of 60 adds an average latency of 8ms. This is because as frames linger for longer, they become increasingly outdated from the actual world state.
- Comment on The 2048 world record was just beaten by P-shiyi592 2 weeks ago:
Dang, I thought where place the new tile spawns was deterministic. May as well add an infinite re-roll button to the game if that is allowed.
- Comment on A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago 4 weeks ago:
Its way cheaper for them to buy the politicians, and these people will never miss an opportunity to optimize the number in their bank account. The system won’t change without some serious turbulence.
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 1 month ago:
Im seeing a lot of hate, but these are both good songs. Happy:
- upbeat and celebratory
- fun to dance to
- a nice contrast to pomp and circumstance Africa:
- cool instruments
- fun to sing along to
- a classic rock song from the 80s
- Comment on Royalty be like 1 month ago:
Thats an interesting qualifier. How about “No permanent residency”
- Comment on What makes a tower-defense loss useful rather than frustrating? 1 month ago:
Not OP, but I remember I when I was a kid I enjoyed playing Vector TD, so I tried playing Vector TDX, but it was way harder. I couldn’t figure out how to beat the first couple waves.
- Comment on The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement 1 month ago:
I thought that was exactly how copyright works. It is infeasible to keep track of every infringement, so a policy like that is unenforceable.
Also its not out of the question that those myriad of tetris clones each secured some sort of agreement with the tetris company.
- Comment on Miami wants to turn parts of the city into a real-life GTA Vice City, but sheriff opposes the plan 1 month ago:
Theres a few differences between GTA and movies, but to focus on a big one, in GTA you have agency over your character. In a movie, its always a 3rd person perspective of somebody else breaking laws. In games, you are the one calling the shots.
I believe most people are rational enough to separate the fictional game world from reality, but by bringing reality closer to the game, I think it’s a valid concern that it will influence those who struggle with that to behave more like their avatar in the game.
I don’t think it’s a bad idea, it would be rather cool. but there is a bit of risk associated with it.
- Comment on SBA #227 Sins and Virtues 2 months ago:
I need the other 6 of these
- Comment on Total eclipse 2 months ago:
This is so close to being a loss edit
- Comment on 2048 2 months ago:
They beat the game. Theres not enough space on the board to make the next bigger tile afterwards.
They have taken between 32k and 64k moves to get to this point. At 1 move per second, thats 9-18 hours.
- Comment on shipping available 2 months ago:
I’d pay any price to keep this guy employed at taking apart wasps.
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 3 months ago:
Quaternions are useful, but no means necessary or intrinsic to 3d graphics.
They are useful for describing rotations in 3d space, but the same can be done with a matrix, or even Euler angles. It’s just a more calculations.
That said, basically all the major game engines use quaternions, so unless you are creating your own 3d renderer, you have to learn at least the basics about them.
Quaternions really shine at spherical interpolation (Slerp - yes thats the real terminology) between two rotations.
- Comment on What's the rarest Steam achievement you got? 3 months ago:
Seconding this, all of my rarest achievements come from that game.
- Comment on don't worry 3 months ago:
My identity matrix is so strong it has identities of its own! A string of the multiplicative identity along the diagonal and additive identities everywhere else.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 months ago:
Moving the orange portal kinda does ‘drag the whole surroundings’. It moves an entire universe.
The cube is stationary relative to the universe of the platform it’s on, but it has momentum relative to the universe through the portal. The question is which universe is the cube in? What is the boundary of the portal surface?
- Comment on Shoutout To My Boy 3 months ago:
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 3 months ago:
1,500,000,000,000 16,000,000 3,300,000,000
Zillions of dollars!
- Comment on yes 4 months ago:
Worth noting here that correlation does not imply causation and political identity is mutable.
It could be the case that people near the end of their lives are more likely to align with conservative values.
- Comment on Possession is 9/10 of the law! 4 months ago:
I can’t think of a more worthless thing to steal. What’s this guy gonna try to take next? The judges gavel?
- Comment on Find Cow 5 months ago:
What I would have done is started filling in letters randomly and every time a C or W ends up next to an O, choose the same letter or an O to put on the opposite side of the O.
Its hard to prove, but I’m pretty sure there isn’t a situation where a space can’t be filled in with this algorithm.
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 5 months ago:
In my experience, it’s much better to watch and listen to your playtesters as they interact with the game rather than listen to what they have to say afterwards. Always try to get a recording of them playing the game.
- Comment on How many Americans think they could beat Donald Trump in a fight? 5 months ago:
Is the eight-year-old bloodlusted?
- Comment on What genre is Towerfall Ascension, and do you have any favorite examples? 7 months ago:
If OP wanted an AI answer, they would have gone to chatGPT. Stop wasting water, electricity, and our time.
- Comment on On This Problem Rational People Do Worse— Two boxes, one choice, and $1,000,000. 7 months ago:
I guess refusing to engage with the hypothetical is a choice. Personally I think hypotheticals are most interesting and revealing specifically when they are about impossible situations.
Like the question: if you could have any superpower, what would it be?
I would choose the ability to see the future with 99% accuracy just to mess with people by running this box experiment.
