Crozekiel

@Crozekiel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but I didn’t say that was the native “frame rate” of the TVs, just a very commonly used frame rate at the time. And, at least in my experience, desync’ed frame rate and refresh rate is less of a problem on CRTs than LCDs - you don’t “feel” it as much generally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, did you have an actual N64 hooked up to a modern TV? A lot of those old games meant to be played on a CRT will look like absolute dog shit on a modern LCD panel. Text is harder to read, it is harder to tell what a shape is supposed to be, it’s really bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of it is about how close you are to the target FPS. They likely made the old N64 games to run somewhere around 24 FPS since that was an extremely common “frame rate” for CRT TVs common at the time. Therefore, the animations of, well, basically everything that moves in the game can be tuned to that frame rate. It would probably look like jank crap if they made the animations have 120 frames for 1 second of animation, but they didn’t.

  On to Fallout 4… Oh boy. Bethesda jank. Creation engine game speed is tied to frame rate. They had several problems with the launch of Fallout76 because if you had a really powerful computer and unlocked your frame rate, you would be moving 2-3 times faster than you should have been. It’s a funny little thing to do in a single-player game, but absolutely devastating in a multi-player game. So, if your machine is chugging a bit and the frame rate slows down, it isn’t just your visual rate of new images appearing that is slowing down, it’s the speed at which the entire game does stuff that slowed down. It feels bad.

  And also, as others have said, frame time, dropped frames, and how stable the frame rate is makes a huge difference too in how it “feels”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reads like it is going to be a generic slash 'em up game, but set in the DnD universe? What the fuck does dnd even bring to the table here besides advertising money? Sounds like it’s going to be a generic ass fantasy game filled to the brim with the micro-transactions that get Chris Cocks hard in the morning. I am unlikely to give it a second notice upon release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually do have that, warm air circulation. The real problem is though that the moisture has to go somewhere for the dishes to actually get dry. It’s why a clothes dryer won’t dry your clothes if the vent is clogged. Some of them have basically something akin to a still inside the door - a path for the warm and moist air to travel through that has a lot of right angle turns giving lots of opportunity for moisture to condense out of the air and then it can drain liquid water out the bottom. Some other models have automatic door openers, so once everything inside gets nice and hot and humid, the door pops open and it all just gets spit out into your kitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ll be waiting forever for that one. Not even sure why you would want that; I seriously doubt it would even work as a shortcut to reactos becoming a viable and mature OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be honest. You guessed ass and not air⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, who bought ALL of the vowels except I?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the last game you played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same! I’ve got over 200 hours in so far. It scratches that itch so well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never a bad time to check your biases⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so rum is a dude??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been shouting from the rooftops for years that this stuff is malware. I’m not the only one. No one listens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I fucking love running updates on garuda. Watching the little ASCII pacmans gobbling up the progress bar… And it doesn’t do it unless I tell it to so I never have the windows experience of “I just wanna play a game,oh look, 10 minutes of updates instead. Guess I’ll go make a sandwich…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y=-x²⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank God for the graph tho, I havnt used math like that in 20 years, and I’ve spent that 20 years getting dumber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New mobile features are sh*t these days⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want one but the price has kept me away… But its about to be time. I’m not one to upgrade often, I’m still on a galaxy s9 plus, which I love, but the battery is showing its age and the screen has some minor burn in after like I think 6 years of constant use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I panicked for a moment and thought you meant like the EA origin or whatever store instead of early access… I was wondering how they got their grubby mitts on it. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technology Connections: MP3 CDs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That all depended on the player though. I had a car stereo that played MP3 CDs that was able to see folder and navigate folder structure on the CDs. It was great, if your music was already organized in folders, by album for example.

  My desktop stereo system, however, only saw the individual .mp3 files and did like you described. It was much more of a pain, but I usually just played from a computer in winamp (rip).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just read the synopsis. Wtf did in just read?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad McQueen, ‘The Karate Kid’ Star and Steve McQueen’s Son, Dies at 63⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Movies typically have more than one “star”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fence⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, Gates is just the kernal. The OS should be called Ox/Gates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like they fucked up with the first one because the poster already looked like a sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mouse brains⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus Pinky can read and Brain can’t, canonically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Bears⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the title as “Oh beans” and somehow it still fits, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tooth Tap is far superior, I'm sorry.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the dice? It definitely made me question reality though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tooth Tap is far superior, I'm sorry.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This just brought me flash-backs of the absolute nut-bar I used to play DnD with that would tap dice on her teeth before rolling them “to check if they were real.”

  This is the closest thing to context I may ever have to that experience. I thought she was checking real vs imaginary, maybe she was checking if they were… ummm… real bones? wait. no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, they probably have that one guy still there from the days creation engine was made that is required to be on staff for any future games to fix whatever archaic code they break. Get him on board with the union and Bethesda is probably held by the short hairs to do whatever they say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨False Dichotomy Rule⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You likely aren’t entirely alone, but I actually dig it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just cited myself.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the best explanation of this I’ve ever seen, thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are expecting dominos to do it for you. That’s literally what you are asking. They aren’t going to do that for you because they make more money if you ignore the “deals”. Even a tiny barrier is going to keep out some number of people that don’t find value in spending 30 seconds to save 25% on a $30 tab because they have the money to not even notice, which increases profitability. Their line goes up. Our system forces all these companies to worry about that line going up.

  That said, they aren’t trying to hide it from you, it is the largest thing on their store page, and their people on the phone will happily tell you about it.

  Someone else made the same analogy, it is just like going to a drive through and ordering a burger, fries, and drink separately and not asking for a combo. Same products, but most places it will cost you more to order them separately than to order the combo.

  If you are still mad about it, you aren’t mad at Dominos, you are mad at the core of our current economic system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude could have saved like $6+tax and gotten more food, and is still arguing that nothing could have been done…

  Lead a horse to water and all that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s mildly infuriating here is OP… People are trying to explain how you could have saved almost 1/3 of your purchase price and you just argue with them and keep shouting from your soapbox.

  Unfortunately, price shopping is a part of every transaction if you are trying to get the best deal. If you aren’t invested enough to read the largest banner on the shop website to save almost 1/3 of your total, then getting the best price was clearly not a concern when you ordered. Yes, you are expected to do that yourself, just like buying anything else in the commerce system we have been using for decades. It’s real boomer/privileged energy expecting that to just be done for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is which?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Find a member of staff and ask where the “human bathrooms” are. Don’t let them leave until they explain. Bonus points if you piss your pants while they are trying to explain.