Khrux

@Khrux@ttrpg.network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly I’m always unfairly judgemental when I see someone in very I door wear in public. Unless it’s somewhere lawless like an airport, pajamas or super comfort sports wear in public always irks me. But on the other hand, it literally makes more sense to be as comfortable as possible and for some pointless reason, I feel very beholden to the fashion standards that make it feel weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in 2013, I bought an old PS3 + GTA5 for £150 or so just to play the game, then once I had it, picked up two more exclusives, before never touching it again pretty quickly.

  Getting a console for GTA6, plus the game, this time may set me back more than my expendable income after rent and bills. It will absolutely sell consoles but I’d wager people are actually able to buy a console much less than in 2013.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had it from release and honestly, even day 1 it smoked the competition in the city sim genre, releasing with features and scale than Sim City ever had.

  The DLC often introduced more systems, but they did feel ‘extra’, the game was perfectly functional before parks or tourism or natural disasters etc.

  The reason CS:2 felt so necessary is because the first was bloated and had underlying issues in it’s simulation logic, like unrealistically inefficient driving, or a large expansion to residential areas causing all the new residents to die of old age at the same time, crippling the city. Every part of the GUI and logic just felt clunky compared to modern, polished games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if basically every person with over 1k hours in a game isn’t seeking some sort of escapism, not counting the anomalies like people leaving servers running etc.

  I suppose every minute in a game is escapism of some sort, but escapism from dysphoria or something else significant, I think would be common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon encounters magic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or anyone can tell anon is alone in one glance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what the US have encouraged Taiwan to do. Taiwan wanted to purchase a few incredibly expensive fighters and ship from the USA, but basically all war simulations just had China target these and secure a fast win. The USA instead encourage Taiwan to take the “porcupine” technique, spreading many small weapons, particularly handheld anti-aircraft type weaponry across the country. The plan is to make invasion too inconvenient. The flip side is that without a reliable way to show a display of strength, anywhere the larger aggressor does pick on (USA to UK China to Taiwan) can focus on one part of the country and reliably cause massive damage there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The chances of a future where the UK and USA go to war where those military bases aren’t long since gone is nearly impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was Steve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are actually 0 OSHA incidents every year, but Workplace Incident Georg has 10,000 workplace incidents each day and is an outlier and shouldn’t be counted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨crazy to think about⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so lucky to be born in '98 and just dodged the great aging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been told by literal Brewdog barstaff that if they know he’s coming, they need to encourage their female staff to either dress moderately or not come in, to minimise his sexual harassment.

  I don’t know how true that is, but the city I’m based in, which is pretty happy to boycott assholes is filled with people who boycott Brewdog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's PC works⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I built an overkill PC in February 2016, it was rocking a GTX 980ti a little before the 1080 came out, and it was probably the best GPU out there, factory overclocked and water cooled by EVGA. My CPU was an i5-4690k, which was solidly mid range then, but I overclocked it myself from 3.5GHz to 5.3Ghz with no issue, and only stopped there because I was so suspicious of how well it was handling that massive increase. I had 2TB of SSD spaceand like 8TB of regular hard drives and 16GB of ram.

  Because I have never needed to think about space, and so many of my parts were really overpowered for their generation, I have always been hesitant to upgrade. I don’t play the newest games either, I still get max settings on Doom Eternal and Read Dead 2 which I forget are half a decade old. The only game where it’s struggled in low settings is Baldurs Gate 3 unfortunately, which is made me realise it’s ready to upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough The Witcher 3 is one of the games I always think of for the trope of not following the plot. Often I think of the ludonarrative dissonance specifically between Gestalt’s paternal drive to find and protect Ciri Vs Gwent.

  For large scale, AAA open world games, I mostly think of Breath of the Wild, which transparently sets itself up as being about taking as long as you need to get strong enough to save the world and Red Dead Redemption 2, which doesn’t care about the stakes of the world.

  I sometimes can’t wrap my head around the fact that Witcher 3, BotW and RDR2 were each two years apart. I don’t feel any open world game has occupied the cultural space those games did since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Disco Elysium successor studio has been announced for the second time today, meaning there are now 4 companies battling for the title of ZA/UM's true inheritor⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Long before ZA/UM closed, I was certain that we’d never see a new game of that quality again from the same studio.

  I’m not confident any of these new teams will pull it off, but I’d rather have four attempts than one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the fact it’s called a small moon is slightly deceptive to us because our moon is absolutely huge as far as moons go. The natives of the SW universe would be used to much much smaller moons.

  For reference, our moon is 3475km across and the death star is 150km across, so it’s diameter is 23 smaller. It’s also weighed at about 900million tonnes or 9*10^14kg.

  If I’m right (which I’m likely not). g=(GM)/r² or g=(6.66710^-119*10^13)/75².

  That’s a gravity of 1.086x10^-5m/s² or if I round with pure disrespect for physics, 100,000 times weaker than earth’s gravity. Essentially it’s totally negligible compared to their artificial gravity. Hell, I don’t even think a marble on the floor would overcome it’s own grip and roll towards the center of the space station.

  My maths is almost certainly wrong somewhere here, I failed it badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god, that can't be good...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think the back legs look too weird. One of the things I’ve found when trying to spot AI is that often actual images look weird like this just because of the angle / compression etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we don't talk about powerpoint⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t like Microsoft but like Office, I just run offline pirated version of their main programs. It’s like how I avoid Google for 70% of options but absolutely love Google Maps and Google Translate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started regularly using Reddit in 2013 and r/funny was general low quality spam from there sites, with A LOT of reposts, basically all content was the same content on loop. r/adviceanimals was huge and was basically a mashup of shower thoughts, jokes, off my chest and general opinionated statements, and it was huge. r/f7u12 was big but already seen as declining and cringe.

  The humour here isn’t just Reddit style, the enormous amount of shitpost humour here is reflected in basically all “taking to chronically online strangers” community on the internet, from twitter to discord etc. I’d say shitpost humour outweighs all the other humour in this site.

  What Lemmy absolutely does have in common with old Reddit is the userbase being a bunch of trekie programmers. It used to be tech support on their office computers and now it’s software developers on their home Linux machines but the way people talk and act is really similar. In old Reddit days, it was so easy to assume that whoever you spoke to was in work that it was the normal assumption, and you’d see a massive uptick in porn on r/all when evening hit in America. Summer Reddit was a name given to the school kids who’d suddenly swarm the sites in the summer holidays during office hours, and the average age and humour had a noticeable shift.

  Lemmy now feels like a site of similar in their 30s but they don’t have 9-5 desk jobs where they browse Lemmy all day, so the hourly and daily trends don’t really align like they used to, now it’s all the classic trends at once as teenagers use Lemmy on their phones in school and work from home means people are shitposting and jerking off all day and night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every base is base 10⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume I’d ever remember this counting technique. Hell I’m shocked I remember counting my fingers for base 10…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every base is base 10⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people argue that it would be harder to count on your fingers but we could just surgically give everyone more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think Tobey planned this?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the compression has made the lighting feel unnaturally soft. It reminds me of shitty HDR or mid 2010s video game cutscene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh noooo, I hate this art and design style:(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Furiosa’ First Reactions Say It’s a Stunning Powerhouse (But No ‘Fury Road’)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wrote an essay on this exact thing back in college. Basically every backdrop, including every mountain range the action actually took place in was totally digitally created, furthermore many of the explosions were beefed up in post production. Some obvious stuff like the sandstorm were of course CGI too. Sometimes the ground would just be reshaped a little for the aesthetics of the final shot when it’s basically just changing desert to desert.

  The thing is, practically every vehicle and person you saw was real, and most of the special effects like the explosions were real and looked incredible on the day, with things like shrapnel and the like being added in post.

  Fury Road barely used CGI for the content people care about, the stuff that’s exciting to know was done for real on location. But beyond that, it was used liberally.

  I’m happy with this approach and I’m curious to see how much the new film adheres to this choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love sync and it’s been my go to app for a decade across reddit and Lemmy, but I find it’s advertising and pro features far more frustrating now than ever before.

  The dev also takes long breaks but I don’t mind this as his work while he’s active is really really good and fast.

  If you already use revanced manager for YouTube or other apps, there is an ad free patch for an older version of sync which has an easy APK to seek out, which is recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I absolutely adored the concept and would love.to see it picked up. I discovered it after pitching to a friend Tony Hawk’s Borderlands 4 and gradually realising the proof of concept existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah is bet this is it. Born in 1785 is the right time to easily still live off the inherited wealth of a founded city, and even more than now, law is a particularly favourable career for members of that class to retain their wealth and enter politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely that would be more of a Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rizzler⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect this is a partner of some kind considering they have access to nudes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social acceptability⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people have mentioned that some people with foot fetishes have a habit of trying to get people they find attractive to talk about their feet which makes everyone uncomfortable, to the point that it’s kinda of the main reason I think a stigma has formed against it.

  If I met someone who for some reason I suspected was into feet, I’d be a little wary until I felt they weren’t gonna be weird about people’s feet, but I think if i met a knee fetish person, I’d be so surprised they exist that i wouldn’t think about this aspect even though it’s just as likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy updated to 19.2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed TTRPG.network was down for a couple of days because I hadn’t tried to log out and back in on my app. I wonder who else was in the same boat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam will now accept "the vast majority" of games using "AI" generation, but only with disclosures⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I agree. Steam is a distribution service and it’s up to the publisher to decide if they’re going to use AI in their design. The use of AI content is so wide and applicable to gaming from the code to art to marketing etc that it’s absolutely unavoidable that large publishers will decide to use it.

  Starting in 5 years today, every major game studio will be looking to use AI to cut costs, and if steam blocks this content, they’ll be left behind quickly. What happens when Unreal, Unity and even GameMaker or Godot are utilising AI generation (or aren’t but Adobe already is and their programs are used in many parts of game design already). Do steam block 90% of major and minor developers? What happens when a game is made without AI in an engine that was made with it, or marketed with buzzwords from a language model.

  Any distributor who blocks AI generated content is embracing rapid obsolescence. Hell, any publisher who makes a lot of money from independent developers such as Sony will be risking becoming obselete by outlawing AI, as many of their developers would likely end up using AI and moving to other publisher’s as contracts ended. P

  Sadly these companies are competing with other companies who are willing to do whatever it takes to make the most money. As a distributor, if the publishers is using AI, they need to permit it or die, as the publisher, the same goes for the developers, for the developer, the same goes for them to the game engine developers, or the art software, or the presentation software in their development strategy briefings. If remaining competitive is part of your companies goal, which it probably is, then you basically need to let AI into your production wherever it shows itself as more convenient or die.