tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on Lil Gator Game: In The Dark | Announcement Trailer 4 days ago:
The nice thing about Gator Game was that movement felt so good and fluid. It really is just a game about jumping and climing and bouncing around like a hyper kid.
Given the game doesn’t have ‘combat’ they really really needed to get traversal right because that’s the main draw, and they succeeded in that.
- Comment on Lil Gator Game: In The Dark | Announcement Trailer 5 days ago:
I got lost a few times too, but I think they did a good job of providing mitigation for that with specific large landmarks you can see at least one of from anywhere, like the big tree, the mountain, the windmill.
I understand what the devs were trying to do by not having one. When a map is there, especially an always-on minimap, I basically spend my whole time with my eyes glued to that tiny corner of the screen rather than actually looking at tbr world. So I can respect the decision to try and do without it.
- Comment on Here goes another week of making money for the worst of us. 2 weeks ago:
The ideal strategy is to not look at your work emails outside work time.
You can neither attend nor be stressed about a meeting that occurs earlier than you start work, if you don’t know it exists.
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 2 weeks ago:
Would be nice to see a graph of inflation-adjusted wages at McDonalds between 2014 and now.
I don’t have the data, but I doubt much of this price increase is going into worker’s pockets.
- Comment on 'Ripped off' caravan owners start compensation fight 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, it’s absolutely disgusting.
For a time my retired father was looking into buying one, but I’m super glad in retrospect now this has all come out that it didn’t go through and he walked away.
These parks and the individuals who run them are intentionally scamming vulnerable people out of their entire retirement by painting a false picture that these holiday caravans are a sound investment just like owning a house, while all the while knowing fully that people will lose almost all the money they put in.
- Comment on What makes a video game triple A (AAA)? 3 weeks ago:
No idea if that specifically is related.
But a lot of fields have convention of ranking A,B,C,D etc with A being better just because it’s the top/first.
- Comment on Initially he thought it would be a great video 3 weeks ago:
He wasn’t wrong, it was a great video
- Comment on What makes a video game triple A (AAA)? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly this, it’s a within-industry term that has leaked out to members of the public. It simply means “we put a lot of money into this, and we expect to make a lot back (for our investors)”
As for where the ‘A’ terminology came from then that itself is likely a reuse of other entertainment industry terms.
In the old days when you released a record album, you’d put the best tracks on the ‘A’ side and the less popular ones on the ‘B’ side.
Similarly, we talk about ‘A-list’ celebrities abs ‘B-list’ celebrities, and use the term ‘B-movies.’ to denote low budget.
And so what happens wben something gets “bigger and better than A?” Well, you just add more A’s!
- Comment on Too soon? 4 weeks ago:
As a kid, like 9 years old, I wasn’t able to get a real Tamagotchi, but I had a cheap knock-off version that had a little dog in it.
A bunch of my classmates were upset because their Tamagotchis ended up dying during the school day, but my fake-ass tamagotch has this weird bug where if you held down all the buttons at once it would freeze up and stay that way until you pushed something else.
So.I basically had a Tamagotchi with a pause button.
My dog never died until the batteries ran out. Nice work, fake-ass Tamagotchi.
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 4 weeks ago:
In the UK where this ticket is from, if you buy a ticket from the machine in the station it will spit it out in potentially multiple parts.
You can see this ticket says “Valid only with Travel Ticket”, which means this is the second of two parts. The " Travel Ticket" (not pictured) is the one that actually allows you to travel on the train, and the reservation part (pictured) is the one that gives you a seat.
So the mystery isn’t that there is no reservation, but that this ticket doesn’t even need to exist without a reservation. The machine could have just not printed this ticket at all.
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 1 month ago:
It’s AIs ans automated systems all the way down at this point. No humans in the loop, just machines talking to machines.
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 1 month ago:
In this image: Anon doesn’t know how to read subtext
What the doctor said: “It seems you’ve done some research. It’s true that medication often has side effects, but this is not always the case and is often outweighed by the benefits. Let’s set that aside for now, and revisit later.”
What anon heard: “Wow, you avoided my dastardly trap! I’m going to have to be careful around you.”
- Comment on The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025 1 month ago:
I use Pop for gaming and it just works.
As a plus, I also love the somewhat mac-ish UX design, although that won’t be to everyone’s taste.
- Comment on Binary search 1 month ago:
It’s not that the cops don’t know how to search a video, they simply don’t want to, because theft of property from you, a working-class nobody, is nothing to them.
- Comment on the council 1 month ago:
Heart of the Sea
- Comment on Sony reportedly prepping PlayStation 5 portable, plans to battle Nintendo's handheld dominance 1 month ago:
Vita was technically impressive, far more capable than the DS. I’ve got an OLED Vita and I’m amazed how nice it still looks.
But the Vita inevietably lost tp Nintendo, because it struggled with popularity, and therefore struggled with number of games available. It’s a catch 22.
If Sony can make a portable that plays all your PS5 library (without needing to buy any of it again) then they might actually be on a winner.
- Comment on oh no 1 month ago:
Ignorance is bliss
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 2 months ago:
There’s also the option of electronic scales which are rechargeable via USB
- Comment on SPOOPY TARDIGRADE 2 months ago:
In English too, the colloquial name for tardigrades is “water bears” :D
- Comment on Anon chooses to live in the moment 2 months ago:
An allegory, perhaps.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 months ago:
I appreciate your point, but here’s why I don’t agree with it.
In fiction writing, the ideal case is that the words themselves slide neatly out of the way and become invisible, leaving only a picture in the reader’s mind. Generally speaking, anything distracting is thefefore counter-productive for fiction. Strange fonts and strange typesetting, while interesting, take the reader out of the prose. There’s a reason almost every fiction book you pick up from the shelf uses Garamond.
In an engineering context, remembering “12 eggs, 6 toast” is probably the most important thing, and numeric digits assist in that. In fiction however it doesn’t matter if, by the next page, the reader has forgotten exactly how many eggs there were; the important aspect is to convey the sense of a large and chaotic family, and the impression is more important than the detail.
Thats why although the numbers are important for setting the scene, we really don’t want them to jump out. We don’t want anything at all to have undue prominence, because the reader needs to process the paragraph as a cohesive whole, and remember the scene not the numbers.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 months ago:
Cooking is just applied chemistry, after all.
- Comment on No excuse 2 months ago:
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 months ago:
Context is everything, IMO.
In engineering work numbers should always be digits. In prose numbers should be spelled out.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; twelve eggs and six rounds of toast for their three sets of boistrous twins.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; 12 eggs and 6 rounds of toast for their 3 sets of boistrous twins.
To me it’s pretty clear which of those reads better and more naturally as prose; digits really ‘jump out’ on the page, and while that is great for engineering texts, it is incongruent and distracting for prose.
- Comment on Vital Statistics 2 months ago:
Proper massive innit
- Comment on The Elder Gods 2 months ago:
Does a male’s eye look substantially different?
- Comment on Probably 2 months ago:
That’s what you get for being indecisive!
- Comment on The Steam Deck Is Officially Releasing In Australia 3 months ago:
Like, why the hell wasn’t it before now already?
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 3 months ago:
It’s pretty ridiculous.
What happens if you go there and Sony have moved their EULA page and it just 404s? Does that mean there is no EULA at all and you can play without terms? Doubt Sony woild see it that way lol.
EULA should be displayed within the same context it is accepted.
- Comment on Dress Codes 3 months ago:
Your spreadsheet will pierce the heavens