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- Comment on A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Thats an interesting qualifier. How about “No permanent residency”
- Comment on What makes a tower-defense loss useful rather than frustrating? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
I need the other 6 of these
- Comment on Total eclipse 1 month 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. 2 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? 2 months ago:
Seconding this, all of my rarest achievements come from that game.
- Comment on don't worry 2 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? 2 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 2 months ago:
1,500,000,000,000 16,000,000 3,300,000,000
Zillions of dollars!
- Comment on yes 3 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! 3 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 4 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? 6 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.
- Comment on Sorry to disappoint you 8 months ago:
I wonder how much power we’re wasting from people using LLMs to figure out typos
- Comment on Give me some good ones 9 months ago:
I must have used up all my luck before meeting you
- Comment on True staple of the format 1 year ago:
Obviously context matters here. I’m usually happy to answer most questions. I reserve those types of ‘just google it’ responses for the people who skip FAQs, ping me when they know I’m focused/busy and generally don’t respect my time.
- Comment on How about I just find a bush outside? 1 year ago:
The duality of man
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 year ago:
I tried Minetest a while ago and was never really able to get into it. The new player experience was rough, a lot of decision paralysis. The texture style can vary between mods and servers. It didn’t feel very cohesive. I don’t know if that has changed since I last played, but to me it didn’t feel like a minecraft killer then.
From what I can tell, Hytale was supposed to be a bit like Terreria in 3D, as well as a platform for minigames. The gameplay and graphics from the trailers looked really good. I’m sure it would have been a Minecraft killer for some. (Ex. players who primarily play for the minigames like bedwars)
- Comment on AI boomer trait 1 year ago:
“boomer” in this is just being used as slang for “old people”.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 year ago:
Show me the fucking feather
