korazail

@korazail@lemmy.myserv.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Another thing you can do is to separate the grease from any residual solids.

  If you have a jar of bacon grease with brown bits floating around in it, you can put it in a pot with a similar amount of water and bring it all up to a boil or just near it for just a moment. The grease will sit on top of the hot water, but anything else will fall down. Then let the pot cool and put it in the fridge to solidify the grease. You can then scoop the now-solid grease in big chunks and put it back in the jar and discard any bits in the water.

  I learned this from people who do at-home soap-making from their rendered fats. They would repeat it a few times before adding lye, as it will leach impurities such as salt, aromatic and favor compounds from the fat, but I find doing it once or twice leaves me with a nice cooking fat that still has bacon-y aroma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 is "ready" for early access says co-founder ousted from studio, but the publishers seem to disagree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey… They have a public contact page that looks like it would be taken somewhat seriously, as it feels legal in nature. I’ll be letting them know that their leadership is engaging in unfair deals shortly. Anyone want to join in?

  Speakup@krafton.com Via krafton.com/en/speakup

  Worst case, we get ignored. Best is that they take notice that the audience they bought isn’t theirs blindly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 is "ready" for early access says co-founder ousted from studio, but the publishers seem to disagree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Fuck greedy publishers/IP holders. I want to see more Subnautica, but also want to ignore anything krafton touches.

  Apropos the setting, I think the high seas is the way to accomplish both, but i fear that will just result in the studio going dark altogether.

  Unknown Worlds has done good work, but will probably be yet another casualty of greedy leadership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the thrust of the song, but I have a question for you and/or anyone else who has insight:

  I make small aggressions, like OP, where I assume I’m costing a corpo and giving to an artist through it, even if minuscule.

  Examples:

  Similar to OP, I have a streaming service ‘downloaded’ playlist of songs I like. I tend to leave my PC playing them in shuffle/repeat during my workday. I might have my volume on or off depending on my level of focus, but I can’t see how that “engagement” doesn’t benefit the artist without costing me anything – maybe a smidge more electricity.

  Since I saw The Spiffing Brit’s runtime video, I no longer close a youtube tab if I decide I want something else. I mute the tab, set the speed to .25 and ignore it for a while. Costs me electricity, not that much bandwidth, and presumably pays the channel more than usual. Maybe fucks with analytics per-video, but probably not enough to bother the creator, and if it fucks with ‘the algorithm’ and pushes people to channels I already like, then that’s a google problem.

  I also have an Epic Games account, where I “buy” every single free game. I assume these have either already paid the developer a fixed fee for supporting development, or are paying based on sales volume. Either way, they presumably paid money to be able to offer these as a loss-leader. Most are games I would not have bought anyway, so I’m not costing the developer a potential sale and I will never buy anything through Epic games, so it should be just a loss. I actually want insight on this one, in case there are devs/publishers here. If this costs you when I buy your free game, there might be others like me who just need to know we’re not helping.

  Aside from the fact that my engagement with these platforms could be used as leverage (’ we have X million active users…'), I can’t see any negative to my attacks on them. It’s possible the artists can’t perceive it, but if the corpos love it, they wouldn’t make me pass a CAPTCHA to buy a game.

  The question, then, is: Am I hurting the artists, or helping them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is potential that this was intended.

  PalWorld was SO on the nose modeled after pokemon plus Breath of the Wild that it couldn’t be anything but a stab at Nintendo. And yet, it seems that (I’m not a lawyer) they skirted around ever actually infringing on copyrights. If you want to build a zoo full of creatures, there are only so many ways you can combine things without making a fire dog or ice dragon, and then comparisons can be made. PalWorld has many creatures that I don’t recognize as being similar to existing pokemon. Given that Nintendo has not gone after PalWorld for copyright infringement, I’d say that means they don’t have a case.

  Patents are another angle, and I’m far from a patent lawyer. Have you ever read one? They are full of jargon and what seem to be nonsense words, especially a software patent for a video game. I found an article that describes how Nintendo can use a ‘new’ patent to attack PalWorld, but near the end he clearly calls out that there is a difference between ‘legal’ and ‘legitimate.’ I can’t seem to find the actual ‘throwing a ball to make a thing happen’ new patent, but I’d assume PalWorld doesn’t infringe the original patent, or Nintendo would have just used that one. The article author also notes how Nintendo applied for a divisional patent near the end of a window for doing so, which presumably extends the total lifetime of the patent protection. A new divisional patent last year probably means we have 40 years of no ‘ball-throwing mechanics.’

  I hope that this whole thing is a stunt. PalWorld was commercially successful, and even if they lose and have to modify the game, it will remain successful. I think that there’s a possibility that the developer and publisher are fighting against software patents kind of in general and used PalWorld as bait that Nintendo fell for.

  If they lose, then there will be a swath of gamers who are at least mildly outraged at software patents. Popular opinion can (occasionally) sway policy.

  If they win, then we have another chink in the armor of software patents as a whole. See Google vs Oracle regarding the ability to patent an API.

  If we can manage to kill software patents for gameplay mechanics, like throwing balls at things, being able to take off and land seamlessly, or having a recurring enemy taunt you, then we get better games that remix things that worked.

  Imagine how terribly different games would be if someone had patented “A action where a user presses a button to swing their weapon, and if that weapon hits an enemy, that enemy takes damage.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Trees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I would hate to lose actual trees, I’m medium on the idea of this on it’s own. People need lots of things and space, which causes the removal of trees. If we can replicate some of their functions, such as CO2 absorption with this tech, then that seems good. If upkeep is the same as a tree, I don’t see a downside to the overall concept.

  My thought would be that this shows up on top of the buildings instead of at ground level, though… Plant real trees and put these on the roof. The real loss would be if we stop making green spaces because these things meet the need for O2. Green spaces in cities do way more than just clean the air, though, so I’m not sure we’re that dystopian yet.

  The photo looks like it doubles as a bench too, so maybe that helps justify its footprint. Make them a mini-light show with varied colors and it can become a functional art installation. How long until it has spikes to prevent someone from taking a nap on it, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The warning on PBS Nova is heartbreaking!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evanescence in my Lemmy? Hell yeah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨after 40 all meals are horror⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind the taste of the “healthy” tortillas. I generally prefer the taste of whole grain bread and pasta over white flour variants. My largest complaint is that they all seem to disintegrate when you look at them – probably a gluten thing, but they all just break or shred instead of hold together, which defeats the purpose of wrapping your food in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does indeed. Thanks for sharing this, and I’m now a fan. Sadly, they seem to have split up after rebranding as ‘Twin Beasts’. I found the album for this on bandcamp: thetoottoottoots.bandcamp.com/album/outlaws ; and the rest of the album is great too after sampling a few tracks.

  That lead vocalist is mostly incomprehensible, but his voice is awesome.