Stovetop

@Stovetop@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go ahead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia, more like. There was a huge amount of Russian-sponsored disinfo found to be circulating during the Brexit referendum.

  The main link between the US and Brexit is only that the US is currently following Russian masters as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s not on the primary list, however, they get sorted alphabetically when scrolling through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point! Grass is always greener, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I only wish that was the case in my area. The average price for a house in my state is $660,000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only £300,000?

  Shit, I should move to the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who would appeal? The case was started by the DOJ and the DOJ made this decision. Google apparently paid the requisite tribute to the Trump admin to make all of this go away, and so it has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it would be a better look⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell if it were the gallows, wearing a necklace with a knot might have become prescribed religious attire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, even the juggernauts of Microsoft and Amazon tried, and they got crushed out of the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨InfernoPlus - I ported Morrowind to Elden Ring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  InfernoPlus may be one of the greatest game modders of our generation, and I am glad he uses his powers for evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deep fried memes from before covid dump (open post)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Love me some good deep fried memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Switch 2 is actually decently beefy for what it is—give or take certain specs, it’s about comparable to the PS4, which Elden Ring launched on and ran fine on. But Elden Ring is simply a poorly optimized game overall. It ran like shit on PC after it launched, they eventually got it into a mostly good state years later (or maybe people just upgraded hardware to the point they could brute force it to be stable).

  But I guess trying to port it from x86 to Tegra for Switch 2 is another thing entirely that they apparently weren’t prepared for. If all they did was shove it behind an emulation layer or something (yikes if so), I can see why it’d suck. But given just how held together by duct tape the game is in general, I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply lack the resources or expertise to really optimize for a different architecture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just have your AI assistant attend the meeting and take notes for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil Requiem Trailer - GAMESCOM 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not much “gameplay” but honesty I’d watch this movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Direct Announced for Tomorrow Focused on Kirby Air Riders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. Switch 2 at this point is mainly just worth it if you have a backlog of Switch 1 games that you want to play in better quality.

  Donkey Kong is the first true “must buy” (MKW is good too but it’s mainly just for people who have played MK8 to death and want something new). It’s gonna be a bit for another tentpole franchise to carry the console further towards being a compelling purchase.

  I’m not sure Air Riders will be that game either. I love the original Air Ride to death and I’m really looking forward to Air Riders, but I don’t think it carries a console. Metroid Prime 4 is probably the next big decider for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not blocking you because I believe in doing what anyone else should do when they see someone else being harassed, which is to intervene.

  Stop stalking OP. I don’t care if you think your reasons are justified, this is not okay to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me be clear:

  Everything you are talking about is not an OP problem. It’s also everyone else in this thread’s problem despite your insistence that it should be.

  This is a you problem, and the easiest way to fix it is if you do what literally everyone else here is recommending: block them and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s called cross posting, it’s an incredibly widespread practice, and it’s a common courtesy to share content between multiple applicable communities where there may be different people to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see in their comments is that you’re apparently stalking this person? The fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 396 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say it’s “slow” per se but it does feel different, and in some ways I believe it’s not as good as its predecessors.

  One consideration is that it does not have the 200cc mode that MK8 added after the fact. It’s currently (maybe permanently?) at the default max speed of 150cc.

  Another consideration are the courses. Previous MK games use circuit courses, where you start at the finish line and you race in 3 or more laps in a circle that goes back to the same finish line. MK8 fleshed out a bit more by incorporating lengthy straightaway courses where you start at point A and race to point B with laps being more like checkpoints along the way, but the majority were still circuits. Mario Kart World, on the other hand, is primarily straightaway style tracks with only a small smattering of circuits, because it’s attempting to integrate everything with the open world map they made. So the majority of races feel harder to pace because most of them do not repeat themselves.

  There’s also the fact that they doubled the number of characters in each race compared to MK8. MK8 had 12 racers per course, MKW has 24. All of those racers are still picking up items, still tossing red shells and blue shells everywhere, still spamming lightning, etc., so it feels a lot more chaotic.

  Accommodating that aspect is the fact that it now takes 20 coins to hit max speed instead of 10, because they assume you’re going to get hit by more things that you can’t avoid, so it can take longer to ramp up your speed from the beginning of the race.

  Final consideration off the top of my head is that you no longer choose parts of a kart like you did in MK8, you simply choose a racer and choose a cart, and your stars are based only on a combination of those two factors. It is more difficult to optimize for things like acceleration, max speed, and turning because you can no longer mix and match parts that exactly fit your stat preferences.

  So my opinion at least is that MK8 is still the better Mario Kart game, and just considering how huge it is and the fact that it still runs well on Switch 2 tells me that it’s still worth keeping it around. MKW is still a fun game and I’d recommend it for Mario Kart fans looking to change things up a bit, but it tried a lot of new things, not all of which work as well as I think they could have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking this recently when watching footage of Dread Delusion, a 2024 game that looks like something out of 1999.

  It’s a visually interesting game, maybe not profoundly so, but it gave me a passing thought about what makes a game more “artistic”. I was looking at a rocky wall texture, low res enough to count the individual pixels, but I still recognized it as rock. And then I asked myself what takes more skill: a high fidelity AAA game that just megascans a real rock surface to capture as much detail as possible, or a game like Dread Delusion trying to convey the idea of a rock in as little detail as possible.

  Developers back in the day would have absolutely killed to have the hardware capabilities we have today. No longer needing to worry about fitting games on a tiny disc or cartridge measured only in MB, not even in GB. Even Dread Delusion, despite looking like a PS1 game, could not have fit on even 3 PS1 discs. But it was those very limitations that made developers really have to think carefully about their content, the total scope of the games they wanted to make, how much detail they could afford to include, etc.

  I don’t think those limitations necessarily made games inherently better, because there were still a lot of bad games back in the day. But it meant that everything had more deliberation to it, where a developer would create a game that was one really good idea instead of a game made of 20 just “okay” ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I'm playing 🐭📖 Moss: Book II | You can high-five the mouse!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it works best sitting down. The scenes are generally a fixed perspective, but you do at least want to give your head a bit of room to look around because sometimes there’s small details hiding behind parts of the environment you can peek around, and honestly it’s just a beautiful game to take in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beamed poop...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it moves us all, from surface to ship!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beamed poop...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can get beamed up, shit and all, but rematerialized from the pattern buffer without shit.

  And then the extra matter from the unrestored shit will get repurposed by the replicators for tonight’s dinner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm, I think to know for sure, we’ll have to throw your device into a lake. Apples float, so if it’s a genuine Designed By Apple in California™ computer that supports that option, it won’t sink and then we’ll know you’re telling the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fine, LLMs use mainly em dashes so there would be less suspicion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All good! I imagine you’ll probably have a healthier outlook on life that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure what the user above is thinking, but to play devil’s advocate:

  One thing that modern AI does well is pattern recognition. An AI trained on player behavior, from beginner level all the way up to professional play, would be able to acquire a thorough understanding of what human performance looks like (which is something that games have been developing for a long time now, to try to have bots more accurately simulate player behavior).

  I remember someone setting up their own litmus test using cheats in Tarkov where their main goal was just to observe the patterns of other players who are cheating. There are a lot of tells, a big one being reacting to other players who are obscured by walls. Another one could be the way in which aimbots immediately snap and lock on to headshots.

  It could be possible to implement a system designed to flag players whose behavior is seen as too unlike normal humans, maybe cross-referencing with other metadata (account age/region/sudden performance anomalies/etc) to make a more educated determination about whether or not someone is likely cheating, without having to go into kernel-level spying or other privacy-invasive methods.

  But then…this method runs the risk of eventually being outmatched by the model facilitating it: an AI trained on professional human behavior that can accurately simulate human input and behave like a high performing player, without requiring the same tools a human needs to cheat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US secretary of homeland security and the public face of ICE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw them into a lake, I guess. If they sink and drown, they’re innocent. If they float, you know they’re full of (buoyant) shit (and can then safely burn them at the stake if you want to).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always one good litmus test, if you can ask someone live before they have a chance to do a Google search: ask what the alt code is for an em dash.

  If they don’t immediately answer 0151, they’re full of shit.