yozul

@yozul@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no world in which anyone ever designed a game for anything more powerful than a Gameboy where they expected people to see it as a seemless grid of squares so big you can see them from across the room. That’s just not a real thing outside of badly designed modern “retro” graphics. There’s a reason for that. Seemless square grid is ugly. Like, disgustingly hideous. I do not understand why anyone would ever want to subject their eyeballs to the atrocity that is giant square pixels. If you want to do that to yourself then I can’t stop you. There’s no accounting for taste and all that, but just know that I think less of you for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite ROM hacks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Metroid VARIA Randomizer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨feral naming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roly-poly is correct, but I’ll also accept potato bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Right Has a Bluesky Problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. Those people all have Facebook accounts too. It can’t just be that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Right Has a Bluesky Problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter has always had an entire order of magnitude less users than other social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok. Heck, it’s barely bigger than Reddit. I’ve honestly never understood why anyone has ever paid any attention to that cesspool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren't involved⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a big team that made that game. I know there were 6 full time writers for most of the development, and a pretty substantial art team as well. I don’t expect them to be able to fully recapture that lightning in a bottle that was Disco Elysium, but there was some pretty substantial talent working there. It’s certainly not a given, but it’s pretty reasonable to hope they can do something great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blood Meal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the pesky detail that if minerals in the soil are taken up into plants, and plants are then eaten by animals, then animals need to go back into the soil we grow our crops in or the the soils get depleted of minerals. That’s why most salt is iodized, because we’ve leached all the iodine out of our croplands and never put it back. There is only so much fossil fertilizer in the world. Eventually we are going to have to accept that we are part of nature instead of separate beings above it and doing things to it. Factory farming sucks and needs to end, but we can’t “Just fucking leave animals in peace.” we are not separate from them. They are us and we are them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also P!=NP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “!” in math is the factorial symbol, and 2 factorial is just 2 times 1, which is 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨answer = sum(n) / len(n)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a guarantee, no. A very, very strong predictor though. You have to have some kind of evidence beyond just vibes to start making claims that this time is totally different from all the others before anyone should take you seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨answer = sum(n) / len(n)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At every step of modern computing people have thought that the human brain looks like the latest new thing. This is no different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👩‍🦰💔⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, he can be the most important founding father of modern psychology and also have been wrong about everything he said. Let’s be real. Modern psychology is still very, very wrong about a lot of things. It’s a science in its infancy. Alchemists were wrong about everything, but their work made chemistry possible. Standing on the shoulders of giants doesn’t always mean those giants were right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blaps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I understand most can’t spray, except in the west of North America, where the most common ones can. Even here it’s not all of them, and yeah, they are pretty chill. They don’t spray when they’re confused, just when they think something is about to eat them. Dogs are pretty famous for investigating things by shoving their faces into them though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blaps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not particularly trigger happy with their spray, so it mostly happens if you have a pet that finds them before you do. If you just take them outside in a jar or shoo them out the door with a broom you’re usually fine. A dog with stank face is no fun though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blaps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ones where I’m from are often over an inch long, and can spray kinda like a skunk. They’re good for the local ecosystem and they’re mostly harmless, but you definitely don’t want them in your house. If you want to look them up I think the most common name is desert stink beetle.