Hudell

@Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to answer Xenogears because of all of its story and storytelling, but the worldbuilding itself is kinda standard, if not for the scope of it. You do end up learning about pretty much everything there is to learn - the world and its history, the characters and what moves them, the politics, the conflicts, the geography, the physics, the religions, the supernatural, the origins of mankind - not to mention a full class on philosophy. And then whatever question you still have left, there’s a book about it in addition to the game.

  And you start with a classic amnesiac character in a small village.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just new ones. Last month my mom asked for help because she could no longer turn off her phone. I checked the settings and the power button had been assigned to the assistant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michael⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My rule for considering it a sport is: anyone should be able to play it if they have everything needed. It’s impossible to be banned from a sport (banned from tournaments is not the same thing) - if you want to play, you play. If you want to make custom rules just for you and your friends, you make them and then play. Nobody can own the rights to a sport (again, not the same as that sport’s tournament). No company can ever stop others from making money with a specific sport.

  If you have any kind of ball you can play soccer. If you have anything that can represent chess pieces, you can play chess. If you have a kart you can have a race…

  So can videogames be considered sport? Perhaps some can, but anything that requires access to a specific company’s private servers is out of the question. I’m not even gonna argue that the game should be open source, but at the very least it should have a way for anyone to spin up their own server for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I shouldn’t ask, but what are scalies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Brazilian. For the first time ever, this month I started seeing ads from the US’ tourism department or something. I used to see ads from Brazilian traveling agencies that take people there, never ads directly from the US. I thought it was quite absurd to think anyone would be going there for leisure purposes any time soon, but turns out the idioms school a block from my house is taking people there every year and the 2026 group is apparently larger than usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the folks who bring out a guitar in every gathering they participate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that because we exist within a nut?

  Or something like that, I don’t know. I don’t remember anything from the “the universe in a nutshell” book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was nurses for me. Not necessarily attracted them, but like a third of my matches on dating apps were nurses. And I remember one of them mentioning that it seemed like every other guy she matched with was in IT (at the time I thought it was simply because dating apps were still kinda new around here and IT people were more likely to be trying it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a girl ask if it was OK to bring a friend once, I said it was fine. She ended up coming alone anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It happened to me once. Then I started giving LLMs more chances afterwards and it made me waste a lot more than the time it had saved me with that one single initial success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, 99% Mint is only for old computers. If you have a good pc the recommendations change a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨redwoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how I was able to get the pun even though I was not familiar with “je ne sais quoi”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The recovery time is based on how well you’re playing. The better you play, the harder it hits (you).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MKW made it much more annoying to recover if you fall behind for any reason, but if you’re in first place ahead of everyone else it’s mostly the same game as always.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always put handling on the minimum as I feel like I don’t need it due to drifting through anything. Speed is good for long straight stretches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares a family moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Go fishing but come back with a full bucket of fish within an hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working Overtime at the Disease Factory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yesterday I heard someone was a “psychologist specialized in disasters” and I was ready to sign up, but turns out they meant she works with victims of natural disasters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The virus she told you not to worry about.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sir, that’s a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks I hate it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone went through all the trouble of carefully making everything match, only for others to not care enough to put in 0.1% of that effort and keep it in order when they work on it.

  Seems like a great analogy for my work experience these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “everything after the ? Symbol can be removed without issue” is a bold statement to make. Reminds me when the TV news had a specialist telling people to look at urls before clicking and check if it ends with “.php” as that would mean it is a virus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’d rather stick to the ground, where you can’t dive to avoid an oncoming vehicle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did I get so old⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll trust you and pick it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.