mnemonicmonkeys
@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 1 day ago:
So you have nothing to add to the conversation besides negativity and contrarianism? You can be safely ignored then.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Except not. There’s currently a resurgence of people buying and using Blu-Ray movies, just like vinyl records
- Comment on Copper 1 day ago:
It has higher conduction but it’s specific heat capacity is worse, at least per mol
- Comment on Copper 1 day ago:
Numerical methods is cheating! Real men use PDE’s!
/s of course, though I was kinda hoping you’d use PDE’s
- Comment on 2 days ago:
When the PS2 released, it was a cheaper blueray player than the current iteration of retail blueray players. People would buy the console just to watch movies.
Tbh, I think Valve needs to design an addon for the Steam Machine that’s a blu-ray player that hooks onto the side or bottom, and add support for running blu-rays from Game Mode. It wouldn’t require any extra ram or storage, so it wouldn’t fluctuate in price but add value
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I foresee a future of jail broken PlayStations
To be fair, that future is now. People are already hacking PS5’s to turn them into Linux machines
- Comment on Also literally known as the Horror Frog 2 days ago:
Fyi, I’m pretty sure the duck rape thing is specific to mallards. But I’m not an ornithologist
- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 2 days ago:
Except it doesn’t work you knob
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 2 days ago:
This is such a boring thing that people say all the time.
What a boring response to an argument.
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 2 days ago:
I’m “militant” enough to wish that all religions would be prohibited as they’re nothing but tools for control, but I won’t beat someone over the head for believing in fairytales
I agree. Hate religion, not the practitioner. Unless that particular believer is a dick.
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 2 days ago:
The engine overhaul for Starfield definitely took a lot of time. I still want to see what they could do with it in an ES game, or even porting older games into the new version.
I think it’d be cool if they used some procedural generation to place trees in forests, so you could cut or burn some down and have the forest naturally grow back over time. Or officially add in seasons
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 2 days ago:
I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think that was a risk. Bethesda-style games take awhile to make, and they only have gotten longer. They used to be 3 years between releases between Arena, Daggerfall, and Morrowind. Then it was 5 years between Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. And now it’s been over 15 years since Skyrim. And Fallout hasn’t been much better, with Fallout 4 releasing 10 years ago.
And there’s 2 main reasons for the dearth of Bethesda releases: Bethesda really needed to split into 5 teams: 3 creative teams for their main franchises (Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Starfield), 1 for programming (Creation Engine updates, bug fixes, etc.), and 1 for finishing (Q/A, clutter). Right now, almost everything needs to go through Todd Howard. They need to instead have Todd be in charge of 1-2 creative teams, and have other people take the reigns of the others because Todd only has so many hours in the day.
They could probably get back to releases every 3-5 years for each franchise and have enough wiggle room to take chances with delegation
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 3 days ago:
Something to consider: do you want to normalize lying to your kid? I realize that’s an antagonistic way to phrase it, but that’s pretty much what’s happening
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 3 days ago:
Granted when we have a kid, we don’t think we’ll be telling them that “Santa is just a famous character of Christmas, and some people have fun believing he’s real, so don’t ruin their fun either”
Sorry if I’m misreading this, but personally I don’t see a problem in telling your own kids that Santa isn’t real.
You can still give gifts if you want, and having them be addressed from people you care about makes it more meaningful tbh. Plus, it’s kinda fucked up to normalize lying to your kids
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 3 days ago:
A bad ending can absolutely restrospectively destroy the experience of an otherwise good story.
Don’t forget The Witcher 3, where bad end is on par with Mass Effect 3 and the logic to get it is really dumb and poorly telegraphed
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 3 days ago:
but this is the same way of thinking that has led to big budget, story focused games getting padded with repetitive fetch quests and annoying collectibles that unlock progression.
There are literally orders of magnitudes of difference between making an indie game last 3-4 hours vs a bloated AAA 100+ hour collectathon. Comparing the 2 isn’t an honest arguement
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 days ago:
Krafton can eat a bag of dicks
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 days ago:
Unfortunately, Bethesda decided to spend all their time working on Starfield. The only thing they had when they revealed the ES6 trailer, was the video. And that’s because they knew they’d get lynched if they didn’t annoubce ES6
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 days ago:
Fuck no, not that. UE5 looks horrible, and most of the NPC’s in the Oblivion remaster look lile skinwalkers
- Comment on Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure 4 days ago:
You clearly know nothing about manufacturing
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 4 days ago:
Really?
Go reread it. You’re the one who didn’t understand it.
Also go reread the Adam and Eve story. They’re rewarded for being ignorant sheep, and punished for gaining knowledge. That’s not the behavior of a benevolent ruler, it’s the behavior of a power-hungry dictator
- Comment on Fingies 4 days ago:
I’m not trying to invalidate your experience. Just pointing out it’s apparently really rare. It’s theorized to be one of the pressures that results in all mammals having only 7 neck vertebrae, including guraffes
- Comment on Fingies 5 days ago:
I choose to believe this is why horses originally went extinct in the Americas
- Comment on Fingies 5 days ago:
* my aunt has a long neck, 3 vertebras more.
Apparently it’s really rare for mammals to evolve that without getting somthing else that’s really nasty like cancer. There was a recent video about it on SciShow or HanksChannel
- Comment on "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue": Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken 5 days ago:
Plus there are multiple storefronts on PC. Marketplaces (including Steam) have to compete. It’s just that most of Steam’s competitors are masters at shooting themselves in the foot at every turn
- Comment on They published Interstellar?!? 6 days ago:
The story is a complete mess that hinges on every scientist involved being extremely incompetent
- Comment on They published Interstellar?!? 6 days ago:
No, it’s really not.
Christopher Nolan’s screenplays tend to be hit or miss, and Interstellar is deep in the “miss” category
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
What about a grill?
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
Heathens
- Comment on Limited Run's Co-Founder Once Had Aspirations To Make A "Physically-Focused Platform" 6 days ago:
Plus you’d need Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher to get games running.
But if it was a BluRay drive, you should still be able to watch movies without issue