Hudell

@Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did I get so old⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably just forgot about all the bad music you used to listen to and now compares all the new stuff to the best from your time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming back after a week to share what I thought of it:

  • I loved the app itself and all the different ways to input values
  • the different game modes are quite creative
  • all the extra restrictions added by the different game modes make the puzzles a bit too easy for my taste
  • miracle mode is fun until you get a few numbers in, but then it becomes quite straight forward again.
  • all of the puzzles (at least as far as I played) follow the same pattern and when you notice it you can skip the whole sudoku part and answer it just by pattern recognition.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10 introduced a bunch of cool stuff that made it seem like it was going places: WSL, the new terminal, multiple desktops. If you’re able to ignore the sad state of the control panel and settings apps, 10 was peak windows experience (feature-wise).

  Then 11 came around and fucked everything up. As someone who subscribed to MD Insider to run beta builds of windows and get updates earlier, win 11 was the first iteration that really felt like there was just no upside to it. It was exactly the same as win10, but with some features removed and a much heavier hardware requirement. Even Vista had some cool stuff going for it back in the day, but win11 was nothing but one disappointment after another. Shit it wouldn’t even let you keep a clock on the second screen until like a year after release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t put it past them to still use other people’s self driving cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does happen, but it’s once in a blue moon and not something that can keep a whole business model going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not exactly the same, but similar: when working with sprites for games, I often run into situations where I realize way too late that I need the size of each frame to be slightly larger than what I had been working with it. You’d think that having the ability to resize an image by adding extra padding to each individual frame would be a pretty common feature in image editing software these days, but nope. I ended up writing a small tool specifically for that just so I wouldn’t have to adjust frame by frame ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll trust you and pick it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dare say that all of the main FOSS chat systems are better than any of the proprietary ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even want to imagine what is going to be the price for it here in Brazil. After the ps4 launched for nearly $2000 I haven’t even looked at any console retail prices here again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If every game had patented everything that they came up with, we probably wouldn’t have reached 1000 total games by now.

  Some early game would probably patent “revealing more of the world as you move horizontally/verrically” and we would probably be confined to a single screen for every other game for decade.

  Then some other game would patent “using an input source to move a gun’s aim/targetting on the screen” and we would never have had any fps. A “first person view” would probably be patented soon too. Leveling up? What a cool concept that I wish more than one game ever used.

  At best, companies would all be paying licenses to each other for all of those mechanics - just like it works on hardware today where Samsung (for example) for a long time made a ton of money out of their main competitor’s sales. And games would probably be so expensive that a lot of them could even have their own dedicated hardware made specifically for them, without affecting the final price that much.

  Modern day Nintendo would surely enjoy that. They could make gimmicky hardware for specific games and simply call it a toy. Games like Guitar Hero would probably only be playable on toy guitars (as some other game would’ve already patented translating basic inputs into something rhythm related).

  In a way I could see some pretty cool games being invented for a while in this parallel reality, with the patent restrictions forcing people to think of new stuff like the hardware restrictions used to do last century - but we would never had Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Rimworld, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress and 99% of the most beloved games out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you in my head in my ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Best option on Latin America on pretty much any standard. Progressive laws, good weather - main negative thing I can think of is that rent can be quite expensive. I’ve considered moving there in the past but my Spanish is awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shrimp colour drama⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people see numbers instead/along with colors, and different people see different numbers, so I guess the colors might be different between people too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • Never listened to music on a CD;
  • never listened to a vynil record;
  • never listened to a walkman
  • never listened to a boombox (had to search what this was)
  • never sent a postcard

  36 years old. Just grew up mostly without access to music until I got my first PC. But I did have the opportunity to use a radio with a cassete tape player a few times as a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONE OF US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You think it’s too little because you’re not keen on the idea of killing someone in the first place. Would you take the money if instead of murder you just had to go attend a work meeting? Some people treat crimes just as casually as that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays a prank⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once somehow convinced my girlfriend that we didn’t have a dog and she had just imagined it. I stopped making jokes like that afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would do this for just 1.99⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just last week we found a bug in our system in that if an user accepts a meet on pc while also having the phone app open, the meet is opened in both devices, - that alone could end very badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you approach it with a standard videogame attitude (get the strongest weapons and most powerful skills, steal everything that is worth good money and so on), then it is a solid game.

  If you approach it as a simulated tabletop rpg game, it is fantastic. You can experiment with all sorts of things. For example: in one fight I was outnumbered and cornered in a small room, with enemies coming from outside. I pulled some furniture in front of the door to block the passage, threw some oil on the ground in the other side and lit it with a torch, then hid my characters behind the walls out of any projectile’s path until I could fully heal them.

  Unlike other games those weren’t things that the devs put there specifically for this fight. There was no button prompt suggesting the furniture could be moved or anything like that. They just put a bunch of stuff in the world that can be interacted with in many ways depending on what sort of skill you have and leave it up to you to find a way to use them, or not. You can still min-max your stats and ignore all that. You won’t even know you’re missing anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I realized I had overdone it when two weeks in they were going to send me a free hoodie shipped from a different continent.

  At least I ran out of things to buy there.