CheeseNoodle

@CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Clover is honestly fine, its short so even if it spreads into your flowerbeds its not going to do any damage, in fact since its a nitrogen fixer it might even help, and insects like clover a lot more than grass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fun part about shitty people as they can be really good at pretending not to be shitty if it means they can be extra shitty down the line. Its a trope for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that Unreal is a garbage engine for optimization at face value, it has a lot of useful tools and a lot of incorrect/dated documentation for those tools some of which are also just kind of configured wrong as their default settings. If effort is put into optimization to configure things correctly and only use the various tools like nanite or lumen in their actual use cases (rather than just throwing them on everything) you can get some pretty fantastic optimization.

  TLDR: Good but complex tools marketed as low effort with bad defaults and exagerated marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found 1 and 2 were games I could both replay at least once. With 2 the only bad bit to replay is bricks area where the devs just spammed a ton of very spongy enemies in a big map. 3 had more fun vault hunters mechanically but even during the first playthrough so much of it feels like filler content (like literally ALL of Hammerlocks area) and the final boss is somehow even more dissapointing than BL1, trying to play through a second time is at least 2/3 “Oh god not this bit again”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this the 1 letter typo where removing it makes the game massively better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the UK government proposed to increase tax by 1% and make trains free would you be in favour?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I get a magical garauntee that it would happen? Because otherwise no given the state of governance; they would absoloutely raise taxes then talk about making trains free until everyones forgotten and then maybe make trains cheaper for a specific age group for a while with that reduction being completely eaten by ticket price rises within 2 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 arrests for violent fascists attacking police - 900 for grannies and disabled people holding placards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the takeaway is that violent protest is 100x more legal than peaceful protest right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got some cherry wood and linseed oil laying around as well as access to lathe, could make a real nice stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And finally, when they employ zero people, and no one has any money to buy their product they will have finally hit infinite profits. Seriously though it doesn’t look like we’re doing UBI any time soon and I doubt the ultra rich would kill off everyone on purpose because half the point seems to be to have people they can feel superior too. Are we just going to wipe ourselves out in a weird paperclip maximizer scenario where we pile up a ton of shit no one can actually buy but has to keep being made to make a line go up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like 1 had the best vibe, 2 had the best story (but also the worst balance) and 3 had the most fun vault hunter designs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox issues Bloodlines 2 refunds after backlash over paywalled clans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also often updates to prior DLC content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While pay has also functionally gone down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still not entierly mass dependant, the point is at a distance based on a ratio between the two masses, if Jupiter were closer to the sun then the point would be inside the sun. Its still impressively massive to pull the point outside of the sun at any functional distance but so could a grain of dust with sufficient distance and a big empty universe to prevent anything else from interupting things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, We created an increasingly awful world to live in, its no wonder people want to try and live in a different one as much as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority of British citizens would not pass a british citizenship test or even those same customs checks. The customs checks are so broad everyones going to ding at least one flag and the citizenship test has stupid innane stuff like sports questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They could always use a poster…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair even our attempts at describing a technically possible but implausably simple version of a blackhole are essentially educated speculation. Although worth noting that black hole like objects did appear in fiction before they were discovered IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meat from EU set to be cheaper as UK axes new border checks in Brexit reset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations to the meat sellers on their new increase in profit margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And cybernetics that won’t play adds in your brain until you have a seizure!. Seriously settings like cyberpunk and shadowrun are starting to look good by the standards of what we’re heading for. (Shadowrun is also old enough that you could actually just barely survive on a part time job without sharing an appartment even in the dystopia)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For $1000 you could get a small furnace for cintering, a regular 3D printer and some of that special PLA that has metal powder in it that you can print and then cinter into a solid metal piece (The PLA bakes off) and just make the fucking thing yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Byeeeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could probably gradually get it moving across the surface fast enough to escape though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget the game development is increasingly shoving the hardware burden onto the consumer by using poorly made tools to streamline development with garbage optimization which is why a gaming rig now has to be powerful enough to simulate a gaming rig from 10 years ago down to the atomic level but the graphics haven’t gotten appreciably better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Banished⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why you just shoot the fucker and don’t try and do a one liner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it feels like such an obvious regulation, any unused roof space should by law have one of the following:

  • Heat reflective paint (This is mostly there for particularly fragile roof structures or people who can’t afford the others)
  • Solar pannels
  • Artifical meadow
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Today:

  • Super mario world
  • Shadowrun Dragonfall
  • Mechwarrior 4 mercenaries
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh you can watch at lower volume with subtitles because even if you don’t conciously look at them it still helps your brain interpret the sounds and make up for anything you miss due to the reduced volume.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have this smart lightbulb that I got for halloween last year because I thought it’d be cool to make the porch glow purple for trick or treaters. Now I have to replace it because the app that controls it has decided to try and blackmail me for camera and location access and the bulbs default state without the app is to flash on and off in a way seemingly deliberately designed to cause headaches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK announces £30 million funding package and tax breaks as it aims to be the 'best place in the world to make games'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Consdiering the PPE, the Ferries, HS2… Spending immense amounts of money on projects that never get finished seems to perfectly align with british culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying its a good reason, just a reason. We could easily afford it if we took some of that magic money that goes into military funding blackholes or magical infastructure projects that never get built yet somehow break records on cost. Sadly the decision is being made by people with no sense of empathy or value for human life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc one of the issues is that even if things go perfectly on a military front no one is quite sure how to handle and de-program/rehabilitate 25.5 million people a large quantity of which likely lack any skills that would be useful in western economies.