TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on If a child went into a coma and woke up as an adult what would happen ? 2 days ago:
But nobody clapped and no atheist tried to abort him and the holy spirit did not enter her at her weakest moment
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
Why would this need “deliver ads over HDMI”. It’s on the telly, ie the HDMI signal has already been transmitted and now the TV itself is overlaying web-derived images in one corner, the same way it will overlay the guide or whatever when you open it.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 weeks ago:
My friend why are you acting like 5 years old is old. That’s pretty much the same console generation, never mind a serviceable age for PC hardware.
- Comment on Switching teams in middle of a match!? 3 weeks ago:
You said this so confidently but just to ruin your day: not everyone’s sex partners die afterwards.
- Comment on My VPN on Android fails to reconnect automatically any time the connection is interupted. Why? 3 weeks ago:
Terrible advice. Did you even read what he asked, about having to reconnect manually? Or did you just see “VPN” and had a story to tell?
- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 4 weeks ago:
The general trend of the behaviour of the userbase when it first began appearing. I’m pretty block-happy. I’m sure it’s an over-generalisation but I’ve learned over the years that I’d rather miss out than feel constantly annoyed.
- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 4 weeks ago:
I pronounce it “this post hidden due to instance block settings”.
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 4 weeks ago:
The only way to understand their comment is that they think it’s a ticket that they only printed as many as they have seats. Otherwise its a non sequitur as it doesn’t explain the purpose of printing a second slip that days you don’t have an assigned seat.
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 4 weeks ago:
Read the full text. This, despite appearances, is not in itself a ticket.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 1 month ago:
It sounds like he joined (sat down into) an existing game, which if this story was true, which it isn’t, because it’s 4chan, would be pretty different?
- Comment on Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast after sales fell 31% 2 months ago:
I love my Steam Deck. It’s literally beside my hotel bed right now, while the Switch is at home with two kids under 10. But:
- the docking and detaching experience is frustrating as hell
- it is significantly heavier and yet feels more fragile.
- it has profiles but not comparably to the Switch in terms of use and UX
- and the controller experience is very hit and miss. ** It spent 2 months just literally randomly shutting off bluetooth - you had to go into desktop mode and re-enable with a Linux command until they patched it - but that’s not even it - whenever it did that, it also disabled the sticks!. ** I have multiple entries in the controllers screen - none of which can be renamed or show indicators as to which controller they are - where every now and again the Deck decides sorry, I don’t recognise that controller anymore. Please come walk across the living room and awkwardly stand in front of the telly pressing buttons on the switch to re-pair things. ** Oh and controller layout schemes are a cool and powerful feature but way too complicated for me to explain to an 8 year old.
If “I just want to pick up a controller after work and forget what Philip in Marketing said he thought the project was going to look like”, or “I want to buy games once and share them with my kids” or even “I’ll throw this in my bag to kill 20 minutes at the waiting room” are factors, the Steam Deck is very much not superior in every way.
Again. Love my Deck. Almost exclusively buy “Verified” games now. Halfway through a Nintendo game that somehow is easier for me, a software dev to find ajd emulate on Deck than on a Nintendo console. But the Switch has been a remarkable console to have in my living room. The first console I bought (actually now that I think of it, that my wife bought for me) since Wii and before that since PlayStation 2. I’m not really a console player. I have 1000+ games on Steam. Still Switch excels at many things and the sales figures should make that obvious.
- Comment on What is the current best smart TV software/brand/ecosystem option? 3 months ago:
Get the android app “Unified Remote”. Works perfectly, and you’ll have several options, from cursor control to buttons programmed with hotkeys.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 3 months ago:
There’s a height on your driving license?
I’ve never seen one on a passport.
- Comment on stars & sharks 3 months ago:
He’s thinking of penguins
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 3 months ago:
At a Limp Bizkit concert, possibly
- Comment on Anon tries to impress a girl 3 months ago:
Well the more appropriate term is “gravid”.
Although there are many species of fish that give live birth and therefore are usually described as pregnant.
- Comment on Anon quits their job 3 months ago:
No, why you got fired does not in fact affect your need to eat food and house your family, so it’s not a factor.
And if you are “laid off”, ie the company says they don’t need your job anymore, you are usually entitled to a pretty nice redundancy payment too - plus the usual.
- Comment on Vance Says He Will Keep Calling Haitians Legally in Springfield ‘Illegal’ 3 months ago:
Something many Americans don’t seem to be educated about properly is asylum/refugee status. It used to be considered a good thing that a first world country would provide asylum for those in danger.
Both require the first entry to be an illegal entry, or to have an overstay. If you can enter or stay in a country legally, you don’t need asylum there. You can just, y’know, stay.
America even recognises this by having asylum application stations some way but not very far inside the border, because if you have a massive continent sized country and expect people to go to an immigration office or something, they may not find it or may just not apply even if they have valid reason to.
This deliberate lack of education feels very like how some Americans were never properly educated on the actual purpose of the UN, or how taxes work, or uow “we’re a republic not a democracy” is nonsense, or even what your president does. And they all feel like very deliberate political decisions to make this so.
- Comment on Anon has a special request 4 months ago:
Also… what awesome displays? Does he think knight armour in museums has bones inside it?
- Comment on 'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike 4 months ago:
Do one maleshep run. I promise he has some great deliveries too.
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 5 months ago:
The issue is taking a broad concept and making it mean a very specific one instead.
(Please note I am an atheist that lived for years in a “Muslim country”. I don’t actually agree with any of the below, but understanding what words are intended to mean is important when you are surrounded by their use in 2 different contexts).
Fatwa: a Sharia law ruling by an imam Fatwa (western): a ruling by an imam that a person is not protected by the law and therefore a target for assassination
Hijab: men and women of Islam should maintain a sense of visual propriety in order to avoid devaluing what can be seen in private. Hijab (western): that cloth Islamic women wear on their head.
Jihad: the righteous struggles that each human faces to choose a difficult path for good reasons. Jihad (western): a holy war of aggression against infidels
- Comment on They did the math. 6 months ago:
Well someone cropped the part of this image where this maths experiment was inspired by trying to figure out how a small dinosaur died in a stranger crater.
That image is an outline of the fossil millions of years later, not a drawing of puke containing bones or a dinosaur getting instantly defleshed
- Comment on They did the math. 6 months ago:
The idea is that the impact would have killed a little dromaeosaur
- Comment on Anon tries to be witty 6 months ago:
A calorie is a unit of measurement. In terms of how much energy you are consuming, which is what matters for weight gain, there is literally no difference between one calorie and another.
“Empty calories” does have a meaning and it’s that something is ‘just’ calories with no additional nutrients. Not eating any nutrients will make you sick, but not obese.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases City Update VII: European Cities 2 7 months ago:
Oh I’m sure it’s not wasted work. But any content delivered now, for free, is in direct competition with buying a whole new game, probably for >=$70. I guess they’re very confident in the new game modes or something.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases City Update VII: European Cities 2 7 months ago:
I’m surprised to see this update- I thought MS were making a “new” Flight Simulator for this year. I’m aware that content creation and game creation are usually quite separate but odd that they’d be release stuff to “keep” you on the “old”/current FS iteration.
- Comment on Don't let your dreams be memes ✨️ 7 months ago:
(finally getting dandelions!!)
My friend they grow in the film of construction dust that has built up in the gutter of my shed
- Comment on Girl power 8 months ago:
Scientress*
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 8 months ago:
You know that’s not the LLM’s ‘source’ right? It’s still output. Do you mean the training data? Is that what you mean by CoPilot should be open source? If CoPilot has learned from something GPL then everything else it outputs, or perhaps specifically its training data - should be GPL?
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 8 months ago:
Yeah that’s not the source, that’s still output. You don’t seem to understand how LLMs work and yet have taken a bizarre stance on it anyway.
