mnemonicmonkeys

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Making a reply this confrontational is probably doing more harm than good. Cookie-cutter replies don’t help, you need to actually tailor the response to people’s needs.

  Also, sometimes parents are completely terrible people. I have a grandmother that only sees people as things to manipulate. She doesn’t care about her kids apart from how they affect her image, because she’s a Trump-level narcissist. Making claims that could easily be wrong also hurts your case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to try that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they may have meant that you don’t get to decide on how other victims of depression feel about suicide. Nobody else shares your life, experiences, and values so iyou shouldn’t assert what they should do with their lives.

  If that’s the case they were trying to make, then they didn’t do the best job explaining themselves. Or I could have completely misunderstood their comment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, this take often reads like conservative pundits that only “care” about fetuses until they’re born, at which point they’re considered a drain on society.

  A lot of the quotes people repeat when trying to help someone ends up backfiring. You can’t just repeat plattitudes. People suffering from mental illness aren’t stupid or deaf, they’ve already heard the lines before. Mimicry doesn’t help.

  The only generalized thing I can recommend people to say when trying to help someone with mental issues is to just ask: “What do you need?”. If they need space, give it. If they need to talk, listen. If they need something else, be honest about whether that’s in your ability to help with.

  Another important thing to note is to not view them as something that needs to be fixed. And you need to be very honest with yourself about that. Most people will try to “help” because it makes them feel better, not the person they’re trying to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s survivorship bias. People with fubctional relationships with the parents (my self included) probably don’t feel much need to weigh in.

  People’s families are complicated, and sometimes they need to vent. I (generally) don’t see a problem with giving them space to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading the rest of this article, it’s crap journalism. About half of it is just rumors and speculation off of social media. Do better, BBC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could always replace the battery. There’s guides and parts on iFixIt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices realism in GTA6⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The games developed on oscilloscope (also the first games) would beg to differ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an introvert⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insomnia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Until they flatten all the buildings and make the survivors fight through a murder dungeon for their entertainment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads horror⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the “train position” you’re referring to. It’s different from “running a train”.

  Why? I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  beyond…you know…every door is a loading screen

  What’s even weirder is that it’s not even required by Creation Engine. You can get everywhere in New Alexandria without loading screens, the level designers just fucked up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works out the question to the final solution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to go on a tangent, Hitler was actually a product of incest. His dad/uncle had a habit of raping “marrying” underage girls, including nieces.

  Also, there’s plenty of records of Hitler being fucked up as a kid, even before WW1. By that point he was particularly anti-semitic, even by the standard of early 1900’s Germany. He was also effectively “that kid” that was in everyone’s high school that wrote fanfic where they go on a rape/murder spree.

  Tbh, Hitler had 0 chance of growing up as a normal, well-adjusted person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works out the question to the final solution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No media justifies the idea of molesting someone because they’re a bad guy.

  I think One Punch Man has done that as a joke with the character Puri Puri Prisoner being both a high ranking hero and going to prison for raping me .

  That being said, one example doesn’t mean it’s common, just that it happened at least once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a video essay that covers this topic: Where are all the Skyrim Killers

  The big takeaway is that it’s really expensive to do, and it’s only gotten more expensive since Morrowind with the expectation of fully voice acted dialogue and complex schedules. Not even Skyrim has full schedules for all NPC’s tbh.

  Ok, tangent time: I have to wonder if another factor is public perception. Look at discussions on Starfield that pop up and you inevitably get people with… interesting takes.

  I’ve seem people argue that Bethesda’s formula is outdated, which is ridiculous. There’s plenty of people who still enjoy going back to old games or renewing old formulas. Just look at boomer shooters, which also rely on an “antiquated formula”.

  Then there’s people that haven’t picked up a Bethesda game since Skyrim, and complain about how the Creation Engine is outdated. They don’t realize that it’s gotten a lot of improvements over the years, such as updating it to a 64-bit instruction set for Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition, which has drastically increased stability. Or creating ESL and ESP-FE plugins that effectively add 4095 plugin slots since the original 255 was too restrictive. Or the improvements in gunplay with Fallout 4 and Starfield. Or all the modifications they did to make Starfield even possible.

  That being said, I think Bethesda should look into releasing the Creation Engine into open source. There’s some impressive work the modding community has done to add in features they care about using SKSE plugins or Community Shaders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While your teacher most likely acted out for entirely wrong reasons, there’s some logic to picking a preferred side and sticking with it, especially while. It allows you to devote more resources to develop better fine motors skills than you could get if you trained both hands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Just read the story of Job to see how big of a bastard God is in The Bible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first one was terrible; not willing to play the 2nd. Hard pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus oil prices going up due to blocking the Straight of Hormuz, which in turn increases transportation costs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, people aren’t going to want 1000+fps in games. As someone else pointed out in the thread, 4k 60fps is <5% of builds in Steam hardware surveys. Going even higher framerates just adds more and more cost, with reduced returns.

  If you could build a system that goes from 500fps to 1000fps, you’re theoretically reducing latency by 1ms (it’ll most certainly be less though). But how much more expensive is the 1000fps build? Based on tech trends the past few years, that’s probably going to be a lot more expensive, since architectural improvements of chips has slowed down over the past few years. Right now, Nvidia’s just pushing more and more power into their cards to get more performance, because efficiency has plateau’d

  Add to that, the human eye only sees up to 500fps in ideal conditions. Why would you pay a bunch of money for extra framea that you physicall can’t see?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And toxic in large amounts!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually potato starch.

  Sawdust isn’t just cellulose. Wood is a matrix of cellulose fibers bound together by a tougher compound called lignin. While lignin isn’t particularly toxic, you wouldn’t want to eat it.

  Fun fact, a lot of the process of making paper is for removing the lignin, only the cellulose is useful for making paper. And grasses like bamboo have a higher ratio of cellolose to lignin, so it’s better for making paper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays PRAGMATA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. I’m confused why you’re singling me out when it’s the other comments that are borderline spoilers.

  Your comment was the easiest to reply to, not wholly sure why. And to be honest, I wasn’t planning on making it an entire conversation, just a one-off. It’s when you pushed back on the spoiler claim that made me reply again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just claiming that something that was once more common will become less common.

  Eh… “Anachronism” more suggests that they’ll be considered “out of place”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We know there’s a growing number of people who use their phone as their primary and only computing device

  There’s also some people moving in the other direction, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that grows. My parents only had their smartphones for years, but recently had me pick out a laptop for them because trying to use their phones for everything was a headache.

  I think one thing to consider is that cost of living has been going up in the US with wages not keeping up. So budgets are getting tighter, and if you can only afford a single device to buy, you’re going to buy the phone, even if a PC makes a lot of things significantly easier.

  None of that will change the fact that gaming will always push technology forward with the need for faster CPUs and GPUs

  Tbh, I think we’ve reached a point of diminishing returns on video game graphics. Do we really need games to be any more photorealistic and power hungry than they are now?

  That being said, I don’t think android phones are going to usurp this domain any time soon. Power requirements for 4k 60fps are way too high, and mobile devices simply can’t distribute enough heat to handle it unless there’s enormous bumps in efficiency. And advancements in chip design have seriously slowed down the past few years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Advances in computation have slowed significantly the past few years. Moore’s Law is generally considered to have been dead for the last decade. There’s a reason Nvidia keeps adding a higher and higher power requirement on their top-end cards the past 2 generations. They’re running out of potential for optimizations, and the main route for higher compute is to now throw tons of power at it.

  A better way to look at it is the Steam Deck. It only works because the TDP is 15W. If you wanted to make it more powerful, you’ll need to figure out how to dissipate the extra thermal load. If instead you tried switching to ARM for increased efficiency, the extra layers of translation and emulation puts you about where you started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, but I don’t think that threshold will be passed by smartphones for at minimum a decade. If you want 4k resolution for games you need 10-12GB of VRAM minimum. By claiming that high-end PC’s will become pointless in 5 years suggests that the interviewee thinks that mobile chips will surpass those requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to push the narrative to focus on 2010 games feels a bit like moving the goalposts, but I’ll bite

  Trying to run anything in 4k 60fps native still is challenging for a lot of systems today, even older titles. Anything with high fidelity like the Last of Us would be a problem.

  Plus anything with a lot of characters on screen at the same time would likely be a struggle. I’ve done 4-person couch co-op of CoD: Black Ops Zombies on XBox 360 (the system it was designed for) and it got choppy due to the number of zombies and perspectives the CPU had to handle. Open world games could potentially end up in a similar situation.

  Then you get games that usually end up modded a lot like Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas that would likely be trouble from the start, and modern graphics mods still require fairly powerful systems to handle well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and in the medium-long term make expensive, bulky gaming PCs an anachronism.

  This claim is a ridiculous overreach. There’s only so much computing power you can fit in a small space due to heat dissipation. You can’t beat thermodynamics. You can get a lot of games to run on lower end systems, but only if you’re willing to make a ton of compromises.

  In no way are you going to be running something like Cyberpunk at 4k 60fps on a phone within the next 10 years. Thats what the “expensive, bulky gaming PCs” are for.

  And I don’t get why they’re painting a target on the back of high end gaming hardware or even the Steam Deck. There’s another target that would be more beneficial to society to take out: consoles, particularly their locked-in ecosystems. Democratize gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays PRAGMATA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check the other comments. There’s some that get entirely too close to spoiler territory.

  Hobestly, it’s a recurring problem with DDLC. A lot of people who are willing to play it are weebs (myself included), and as a demographic they’re famously lacking in moderation in discussion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays PRAGMATA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to do multiple playthroughs. You’ll understand more later.

  For me, one playthrough lasted somewhere between 1-2 hous, but it’s been years since I last played