frezik

@frezik@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's bad man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL Peter Thiel has a Lemmy account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Internet censorship has somehow become wider and less thoughtful than TV and movie censorship ever was. Including Hayes Code shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not too stuck on modern AAA titles, PC gaming is cheap. Possibly the cost of the electricity coming out of the wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always said that about the PS2, or early model PS3s if you can get one for a reasonable price. Backwards compatibility galore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And this coming release will be the first time I’m not going to bother about a new Nintendo console going back to the original. For context, I even like the Virtual Boy. Nintendo has done everything possible to make themselves unlikable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t that imply it’s not a growing market anymore?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rare insults dropped⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hate the game, not the player. Any channel that doesn’t do this shit is doomed to obscurity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP obsolete tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was only a few years ago, when I ran off some Dreamcast games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so much mixed metaphors as throwing the ingredients in a bowl and calling it a cake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The onion writers crying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucille Bluth says she’s friends with her Hispanic servant, “even though she’s an illegal”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The onion writers crying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going a bit meta: has the right wing poisoned this well, too? The way they Capitalize Random Words is bad, but title case in OP is valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve played SMB a fair amount, there is at least one that you’ve almost certainly ran into at random. It is exploited by speedrunners, but you’ve probably hit it just playing the game normally.

  Pirhana plants only check the hitbox every other frame. Obviously, this is a speed optimization. At some point, you’ve probably gone right through a piranha plant that should have hit you. Speedrunners can and do exploit this, as well, of course.

  An extension of this idea in other games is when you have split-screen multiplayer. In games like the OG Mario Kart, player inputs are processed on alternating frames. Which means the game has an average of 0.5 frames of input latency in multiplayer before anything else gets calculated in. (And people say retro games don’t have input lag on CRTs; these people are wrong for a lot of different reasons).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they had bugs that were a direct result of limitations. The Minus World in Super Mario World, for example, comes from a combination of uninitialized values, how data structures are packed, and imperfect collision detection.

  People don’t talk about the problems that result from doing things that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  STOOOPPP, you’re breaking my narrative that Chrome tabs ought to fit in 8KB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things are getting really crazy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been doing a surprisingly good job. Like “Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society”. We can debate if the prison in El Salvador counts as a concentration camp (IMO it very clearly is) or a death camp (IMO it is not, but we’re probably headed there), but the fact that we’re even having that debate is a very bad sign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back in time to see how the fishes and loaves trick was done⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if you’re serious. Splitting the loaves and fishes was an adult Jesus story. There’s not a lot about Jesus’ childhood in the canonical gospels, and the non canonical ones are a bit wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the founders is a hardcore Trump guy, but he’s not part of the company anymore. The company itself splits its donations between Democrats and Republicans. (That’s one of the tricks of a two party system. You can split your donation in half and win either way.)

  They’re not overly Christian the way Jimmy Johns or Chick-fil-A are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tender moments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, doubt that would be better. Among the Ethically Non-Monogmous, couples looking for a third are considered the worst. They’re invariably looking for a woman to play out the guy’s MFF fantasy. She might be OK with it as a birthday present for him or whatever, but it’s not something she’d choose to do otherwise. If they do manage to find someone, it often doesn’t go well.

  I think these couples need to put some cash aside and find an escort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wolf Reboot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PETA is still against it. Adding to the evidence that PETA is not a serious organization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone in a polycule, that could very soon not be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would have come from a time when ancient Judaism was evolving out of its polytheistic roots. The early sections of the Hebrew scriptures tended to treat other gods as existing, but you’re only supposed to worship YHWH.

  Likely, there was some specific ritual that had been used in local polytheistic practices, and it’s specifically telling you not to do that.

  This is an issue for the sort of fundamentalists who insist that absolutely everything in the bible is useful for modern times. You say that, but then what’s this goat milk thing about? How about all the idolatry prohibitions when many modern Christians won’t regularly encounter religions that use idols? Why is there a whole book devoted to Solomon’s horny poetry?

  You can kinda come up with answers to those, but they will invariably involve some kind of “reading between the lines”. That is, reading assumptions into the text that aren’t explicitly stated. Which fundamentalists also say you’re not supposed to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a technicality. Jesus didn’t require any of the old law to be followed unless expressly said otherwise. The only two things that were expressly said otherwise was “love God” and “love your neighbor”. Therefore, baby goat milk boiling is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found Lily and Mitch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I require extraordinary evidence to believe that checks thread again a five year old had a tantrum about a dress in Target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Credit card companies are. USPS doesn’t have data entry people who would open the package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t take those jobs as a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d just be annoying some data entry employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This wouldn’t work, anyway. They only prepay envelope postage, not a box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d just be traumatizing some low level data entry employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft confuses me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best to get them desensitized to dopamine when they’re young. Less disappointment when they’re older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New DnD artifact dropped.