moody
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- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
The easy way around this is to require passing regular fitness tests. If your obesity isn’t an impediment to the fitness test, then it shouldn’t be an impediment to your job.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 week ago:
That’s a misunderstanding. CRTs technically don’t have refresh rates, outside of the speed of the beam. Standards were settled on based on power frequencies, but CRTs were equally capable of 75, 80, 85, 120Hz, etc.
Essentially, the speed of the beam determined how many lines you could display, and the more lines you tried to display, the slower the screen was able to refresh. So higher resolutions would have lower max refresh rates. Sure, a monitor could do 120 Hz at 800x600, but at 1600x1200, you could probably only do 60 Hz.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
The lack of ammo is solved with the chainsaw. That’s why they give you puny zombies in every battle. They’re easy to kill for a little health, and it only takes one charge of the chainsaw to fill up on ammo.
Doom rewards you for playing aggressively, much more so that the OG game did. They want you to get right up into the thick of it, not corner peek with your shotgun.
Definitely fair if that’s not your type of game though. It’s plays quite different from the original.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
It took me a while to figure out how important higher level pictos are for their stat boost. Your base stats become basically irrelevant at one point when you can give a character 500 defense with one picto.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
Sounds like Satisfactory might be what you’re looking for.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
It’s very particular in its style and pacing. I liked it at first, but wasn’t able to stick to it. I’ll have to give it another go at some point.
- Comment on A Black Eye at the White House: Did Somebody Punch Elon? The list of possible suspects seemed long. 2 weeks ago:
God I fucking hope that’s what happened.
- Comment on Anyone else 2 weeks ago:
Odds are that any aliens sufficiently advanced to come here would be able to tell we have nuclear weapons.
- Comment on ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN | Official Launch Trailer 3 weeks ago:
I watched a stream of it. It looked like a good time with friends in voice chat, but I wouldn’t want to play it with randos.
I also don’t think it would keep me hooked for very long. Probably a session once in a while. I can’t see myself playing dozens of hours of it.
- Comment on Quebec to impose French-language quotas on streaming giants 3 weeks ago:
I can see this backfiring
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 4 weeks ago:
Netflix made a huge dent in piracy in their early streaming days. It was a convenient, and cheap, service with a ton of good content. Then everyone else started pulling their content from Netflix and built their own streaming services, and all of a sudden watching TV and movies got expensive again.
Then Netflix started enshittifying its service by limiting streaming resolution, cracking down on account sharing, putting ads in.
A lot of pirates wouldn’t be pirates if Netflix was as good as it used to be.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 1 month ago:
(Which from my perspective is very silly — what’s the difference between them making a kajillion dollars in the fall and them making a kajillion dollars in May?)
This “article” was written by a moron who doesn’t seem to know anything about the stock market. I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising for Bloomberg.
- Comment on Speedrunner already beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch 2 1 month ago:
I think those glitches work because some menu interactions slow the game down intentionally (for like half a second) and players have found ways of abusing the slowdown’s interaction with game physics. So I don’t think framerates are relevant to that, but I may be wrong about that.
Doom Eternal had similar glitches where the weapon choice menu slows time down to let you make a selection, and you can abuse that slowdown by spamming the jump button to launch yourself really high. I believe speed runners bind the mouse wheel to jump so they can super launch themselves.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 launching early has "literally 0%" to do with GTA 6's release date, Marathon or anything save "confidence", says Gearbox boss 1 month ago:
But on sale for $10 on a monthly basis.
- Comment on EA rebrand and refresh their anti-cheat into EA Javelin Anticheat, still blocks Linux / Steam Deck 1 month ago:
But don’t you want that sense of pride and accomplishment?
- Comment on Hawley reignites 'PELOSI Act' push to ban lawmakers from trading stocks 1 month ago:
Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. But I doubt it will get far, because too many of them profit off the current system as it is.
- Comment on Please Let the Simpsons Die: An Open Letter to Matt Groening 1 month ago:
I went to the live show back in 2000-something, and he made it very clear, in plain words, that he was just in it for the money from the start.
- Comment on Please Let the Simpsons Die: An Open Letter to Matt Groening 1 month ago:
After season 40? He wants the show to keep going for another 4 years after this season? The Simpsons has been dead for years already, barely held together like Weekend at Bernie’s.
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 1 month ago:
If the games you’re looking to play are competitive multiplayer games, those usually actively fight Linux users. Games like Valorant, Apex Legends, and Fortnite are all broken on Linux due to their invasive anti-cheat software. There are exceptions to this, of course. The devs of Marvel Rivals, for example, have said that they don’t have a problem with players on Linux.
For.anything else, odds are it will work fine. You can always check protondb.com to see if, and how well, your games work under Linux.
I’ve been Linux-only for a few years now, and I haven’t had issues playing anything yet, besides maybe some minor tweaks.
Mods can be more complicated, but I don’t have much experience with that. I do believe Nexus Mods are working of a project to simplify game mods under Linux, so hopefully that works out well.
- Comment on Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game 1 month ago:
Jack Black as Solaire would work. I can see the jolly cooperation now
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 1 month ago:
SnapMap is a built-in map editor. It lets you build simple maps made of prefab rooms. It’s clunky and very limited. Really nothing particularly interesting considering the history of OG Doom’s decades-old fan-made map scene.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’ Banned in Lebanon Due to Gal Gadot Being on Country’s ‘Israel Boycott List’ 1 month ago:
Is it at all like that? Or is it like sanctioning a country for its crimes, like sanctions on Russia for the Ukraine invasion?
- Comment on ‘Snow White’ Banned in Lebanon Due to Gal Gadot Being on Country’s ‘Israel Boycott List’ 1 month ago:
Israel has been bombing Lebanon. This doesn’t seem like an issue of difference of opinions.
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 2 months ago:
We don’t see him until Return of the Jedi.
The remaster shoved in a stupid CGI scene of him in A New Hope.
- Comment on Day 270 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 months ago:
This guy makes one of these posts a day. Is that what you call flooding?
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 2 months ago:
Some of them are popular enough to have 100k concurrent viewers. Some have had multiple stalkers and threats on their lives. When they go out and do IRL streams, they have to hire security.
The average person may not know who they are, but all it takes is one coincidence to put their lives at risk.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 2 months ago:
There’s also a difference between some 100 viewer Andy on Twitch, and someone like Kai Cenat or Pokimane or xQc. Those are some recognizable names and faces, and they take precautions about this stuff. They have assistants and other staff that nobody would ever recognize.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 2 months ago:
Streamers often have food dropped off at their door, so even if the delivery driver knew of the streamer they were delivering to, they wouldn’t know that’s who they’re dropping the food off for.
Big streamers are paranoid enough to take extra security measures to prevent anyone from knowing where they live, and usually move away pretty quickly if someone finds out.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 2 months ago:
Perhaps he only ambled in.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 months ago:
More important than who you choose not to give your money to is who you do choose to give it to.