DaddleDew

@DaddleDew@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #45 - Subnautica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is ironically what I loved about Subnautica. The game does not hold your hand throughout. You don’t have a map, you don’t mindlessly navigate waypoints, you are not being given a guided tour through the story like some ride at Disneyland. You have to learn to navigate the area yourself, memorize landmarks, and figure out what you have to do yourself with the clues around you. It is a bit of a whiplash at first when you are so used to being babysitted and guided throughout a game but I’ve found it to be the unbelievably rewarding once the “click” happens. You can absolutely miss important (and dope AF) events if you miss the timings that the game gives you. You are treated like an adult by the game. You really get the feeling of being a lone explorer, planning and going on expeditions to gather what you need whether it is resources or blueprints and it will all be you.

  The risk-reward situation of exploring increasingly complex and disorienting ship fragments, slowly cutting through blocked doors with a ladder while seeing your oxygen levels dwindle and hoping you can find your way out in time were absolutely fantastic to me. The way the gameplay and the way you travel through the world entirely changes the moment you unlock the PRAWN suit, and one again with the Cyclops are absolutely amazing.

  I wish this game clicked with everyone the way it did for me. It is easily my top 5 best single player experiences ever and I only wish I could forget it so I could discover everything again. But The Outer Wilds never clicked for me like that so I can understand why some people might not like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Engage with Trolls⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the word is ragebait

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that is very noticeable is that the sound/music design. The original designer isn’t working at Unknown Worlds anymore after making some very regrettable comments on social media and I’m not expecting him to come back. As a result Below Zer0’s sound design was OK but pales in comparison to the amazing atmosphere that was set in the original game. Unless they manage to find a very talented sound designer it might miss the mark again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the reason why the first one was such a great experience for me is that I got it much later after a lot of the issues with the game and gameplay were fixed and the story line was completed. I’m glad I did so. I might do the same with that one and wait a year before getting it, if reviews are decent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m worried it might be a disappointment. The first one was catching lightning in a bottle. Below Zer0 has put some doubts over their ability to do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artifical Intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You notice AI generated images less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's his DJ name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  DJ Hangedman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jealousy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Before we cut our food in perfectly sized bites with utensils our ancestors used to do it by biting into large pieces of food with their front teeth. That would wear them down evenly to form a nice flat bite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon applies for a job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone is about to have rats let loose in their restaurant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One car accident, endless spam calls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you explain how a car accident lead to this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me to settle on a face design for the character I've just added to my game, called The Humorless Toaster. (It's only here to make toast, not listen to your nonsense.)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One is them is angry, the other is furherious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here you go: reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here are the list of trackers contained in Yelp’s app according to Exodus:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon boots up a game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve stopped buying EA games when they turned Battlefield 2 into a pay-to-win game back in the mid-2000’s. But I remember distinctly how bad EA was with those stupid unskippable splash screens. My guess is that they’ve never improved, from what I can see. What’s the point of those anyway, other than annoy your players and make them hate your company?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. This is how you tell that letting the job market “self-regulate” does NOT work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Cool Guide about 12 myths that movies made us believe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The shooting the lock thing is dependent on how much energy the bullet has. A pistol? It will probably not work. A rifle? It will likely destroy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deficiencies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NGL, I’ve spent a decade wondering why I couldn’t sleep at night and couldn’t concentrate all day, only to realize way too late I was low on electrolytes because of my exercise routine.

  And if anyone is wondering, sports drinks are worthless sugary drinks shrouded in “sporty” marketing. Vitamin C, D and magnesium is what did it for me. Consult a doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bovine Birdy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To eat those wings, you must first know how to kill a mooing bird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Google Photos popup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never had that issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Google Photos popup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be annoyed by this. I’m running GrapheneOS so I denied Google Photos access to the network but it didn’t stop it from asking every few times I started the app. Sometimes it even ignored my response and tried to connect to the network anyway.

  I just uninstalled it and installed Fossify Gallery instead from F-droid. Haven’t looked back since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I get a screw like this out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Carefully dremel a slot and use a flat head screwdriver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA stable driver 560.35.03 released for Linux with Wayland fixes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just waiting for them to move up from 550 for the production branch. And so is anyone else running an Nvidia card with OpenSUSE. Is there any way at all to tell when that will happen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mycology Club⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The robe in the trash can suggests that one of them got away, probably the lady in the red sweater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The badly framed picture and finger in front of the lens are nice touches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marie Curie, such a drama queen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isashi Ouchi just slowly melted alive in a hospital bed for attention.

  (Warning: if you don’t know, it is a very sad google search)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't change controller settings without updating Windows first⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just excuses people make to justify not making the effort of facing change. I just switched earlier this year from being a die-hard Windows user since DOS in the 90’s. It’s no where nearly as bad as you make it sound.

  First of all you can dual boot which means you don’t abandon your current setup and always have the option to go back to it should it not work for you. That being said, I haven’t booted my Windows partition in months and am increasingly considering repurposing the drive for something else now.

  Secondly, what very little problems I encountered were a simple google search away to be fixed. And I am far from being a superuser in that environment. I tried to use Linux 10 years ago before and it was a PITA and I gave up. It isn’t like that anymore. It is much better. Things just work now unless you pick a shitty distro.

  Thirdly, I’ve had a harder time finding the settings in a Windows machine after an update that moved things around than I ever had when I first used Linux. And with Linux, especially if you use KDE Plasma as a desktop environment, if something isn’t where you want it, you can customize it to be exactly how you like it. You can make it mimic Windows if you want. There are even custom themes that make it look exactly the same if you really don’t want to change.

  Finally, the controller not working is only the tip of the iceberg of bullshit Microsoft has been pulling on its users and it has gotten far worse now with Windows 11. Microsoft has turned Windows 11 into a bloated, data mining, ad showing, AI feature-forcing, anti-consumer nightmare of a platform that keeps doing shit you don’t want without asking you permission for. They have been treating their users like captive sources of income to exploit as they please, even though they have already paid for their license.

  And even if you don’t mind that rapidly growing list of major irritants, many people including myself cannot even upgrade to Windows 11 unless they buy a whole new machine even if they wanted to because of the arbitrary DRM chip requirements. And they’re dropping support for Windows 10 next year. So looking down the barrel of having to pay for a new computer while the current one works perfectly well, plus having to pay for another Windows license with which Microsoft will monetize the shit out of my usage of the platform with zero regards to my privacy, making the jump doesn’t sound that bad of a decision anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't change controller settings without updating Windows first⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This thread is weird. People complain about Microsoft doing its Microsoft thing but the moment someone suggests to stop using Microsoft products and switch to an increasingly viable alternative they get downvoted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where the spoon goes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It goes in the square hole!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's painful to not be able to see everything at once.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As sound travels through a water layer where the speed through which it travels varies with depth, the sound will tend to refract towards where it is the slowest.

  A layer where temperature decreases as depth increases will refract sound downwards. A layer that has the inverse temperature properties will do the opposite. A layer that is isothermal (where the temperature remains constant as depth changes), will still tend to refract sound upwards because the increase in pressure also increases velocity, although not as strongly as temperature does, which is why temperature differences can easily overcome this effect.

  If you have a layer that refracts sound downwards on top of a layer that refracts sound upwards, you just created a sound channel, which acts as a wave guide in which sound will remain trapped and travel far longer distances horizontally before dissipating.

  Ultimately you can’t really put a number on the required temperature differences because there are many other factors to take into account like how steeply the speed of sound changes, how tall the layer(s) are, what is the frequency of the sound, or how much of it you want to remain “trapped” in the sound channel.