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- 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 day 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 3 days 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 week ago:
I need the other 6 of these
- Comment on Total eclipse 3 weeks ago:
This is so close to being a loss edit
- Comment on 2048 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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? 1 month ago:
Seconding this, all of my rarest achievements come from that game.
- Comment on don't worry 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 1 month ago:
1,500,000,000,000 16,000,000 3,300,000,000
Zillions of dollars!
- Comment on yes 2 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! 2 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 3 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” 4 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? 4 months ago:
Is the eight-year-old bloodlusted?
- Comment on What genre is Towerfall Ascension, and do you have any favorite examples? 5 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. 5 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 7 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 8 months ago:
I must have used up all my luck before meeting you
- Comment on True staple of the format 11 months 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
- Comment on Didn't believe what I was seeing 1 year ago:
Every turn of the wheel would still twist the strap, pulling it tighter
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do 1 year ago:
There are only 4.29 billion possible values of an int32, so even if you used 2 lines for each case, it’d still be under 10 billion lines of code
bool isOdd(int num) if (num == 1) { return true } if (num ==2) { return false } …
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 1 year ago:
Im think it was designed with a clock in mind. That’s why it starts with north at the 12:00 position and goes clockwise. I learned it as ‘Never Eat Soggy Waffles’ but I’m sure there are a bunch of these.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 1 year ago:
I’m sure it’s going to be “we got isekai’d into a Minecraft world and now we need to defeat [antagonist] before they ruin everything!”
It’s such a shame because I feel like theres a lot of potential. There are so many faces of Minecraft and ways to play the game (even within the relatively narrow area of vanilla survival multiplayer). Perhaps a better plot would revolve around the friction between these different playstyles.
