Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Has anyone here ever bought games on eneba? 5 weeks ago:
Grey market key seller? Yes.
They sell cheap because they get them illegitimately. Leaked press keys, keys bought with stolen credit cards, keys scammed from developers, datamined keys…
What all of these sources have in common is that the actual developer gets nothing at best, and a chargeback fee at worst. All your money goes to middle men.
Just pirate instead. It’s more responsible.
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 5 weeks ago:
They speak what their parents and neighbors speak. This is constant even when borders shift.
The formal language they conform to is the nearest administrative region, usually in the country controlling the town.
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 month ago:
I’d love if it was more popular!
Mighy try and make at home. Parfait ice cream is reasonably uncomplicated. Wonder if I should make it from dried apples.
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 1 month ago:
Yessss, that was an embarrassing omission in my list.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
My bank: “We have a new valuation on your home! Open your app to see it!”
…
“It’s down 2%!”
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 1 month ago:
Fair! But why “Pirates!” but not Sim City?
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 1 month ago:
- Satisfactory
- Starcraft / 2
- Slay the Spire
- Saints Row
- Sam & Max (tons)
- Serious Sam
- Scribblenauts
- Shadowrun
- Shadow Warrior
- Shapez / 2
- Shovel Knight
- Skyrim
- Soma
- Slay the Princess
- Space Engineers
- Spelunky
- Sid Meyer’s Everything
- Stanley Parable, the
- Stardew Valley
- Stronghold Crusaders
- Subnautica
- Sunless Sea
- Sonic (all)
- Super Mario (everything)
- Superhot
- Super Meatboy
- Surviving Mars
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
Can you give an example of a possibility you think of? In its simplest form it’s exactly your house wifi if you disconnect your internet uplink. Anything bigger is also exactly a subset of the current internet disconnected from the rest, plus you having to maintain infrastructure.
- Comment on Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA? 1 month ago:
there are many details in one image, and the chances of some player recognizing one of those details is an instance of the birthday problem?
That would be a valid model. But you are still right that it doesn’t apply: It would give the effect that a different geoguesser would get the picture right every test, while we are seeing consistent results from the top geoguessers.
- Comment on Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA? 1 month ago:
I see your point, but the Birthday Problem would apply differently.
It is the chance of “collision” between randomly picked elements two large enough sets of random data. If I understand correctly, the random data here would be “geographical fact” like bush density and road width. Set A is geoguessers’ geographical knowledge, and set B is pictures’ geographical features.
So if we picked hundreds of random picture and hundreds of geoguessers and asked them, the chance of one guessing one image is high. And the person would be largely dfferent every time.
In this case, we can give one specific geoguesser a large amount of pictures and that same geoguesser would get most of them right.
- Comment on How come roosters crow but crows don't rooster? 2 months ago:
My mind has been shattered.
- Comment on How come roosters crow but crows don't rooster? 2 months ago:
For the same reason cows moo but a moose don’t cow.
- Comment on Closure of exponentiation of real algebraic numbers. 2 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_number
They’re given as algebraic, which are countably infinite since they can be mapped 1-to-1 with integers.
- Comment on Tetris® Forever – Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Skyrim is ported to RealityV3. It is still buggy. Hackers have successfully run Doom on a hydrogen atom. Gamers are shitting and yelling that someone put a Martian as a playable character in Red Dead Redemption MCMVII.
- Comment on How can I recreate my grandfathers voice? 2 months ago:
While tools exist, like people already commented, remember that the result may not be what you expect.
A recreation whether by AI or a skilled voice actor will have slightly different intonations, emphasis, tempo variations, pauses and lack of pauses that are not your granfather’s. It is very likely to feel flat and wrong in an unpleasant way.
- Comment on How come it seems that there are little to no serial killers who are women in the modern age? Are they not caught or is it just the men that make the news? 2 months ago:
Nobody needed to know that
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 2 months ago:
The laws of captialism entropy:
Any organization that sees success will attract profit-driven leadership, and will become such over time. The soul from the original founders will be watered down, dampened, or ejected.
A profit-driven organization will over time become more and more profit-seeking, never less. Once this reaches a certain threshold, we start to use phrases like “enshittification”. Valve hasn’t gone shit yet imho, but their soul and passion doesn’t seem to lie in games anymore.
The next excellent product comes from new, growing organizations or small teams that may grow into such.
It is best to just treat it as any other law of nature and so we move on from Blizzard, Google, EA, Valve, Epic Games, Unity, etc and go swim in the wonderful vibrant indie scene.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
It’s playable and you can enjoy the game, but 30FPS is embarrassing. It makes me feel like I’m a kid playing on a PC assembled out of old leftover components. Which was tolerable when I was a cashless kid playing pirated games on inherited frankenPCs, but it feels so wrong when playing a bought game on its intended spec hardware.
- Comment on Tactical Breach Wizards is out today! 2 months ago:
Been playing it a few hours. So far it the tactical part feels very similar to Fights in Tight Spaces but more forgiving. Puzzly, lots of interactions with environment.
The writing is really well done and the humor and tone are wonderful in the way only brits can do it.
There is something about an out-of-work elite strike team having to rely on public transport and using the lead wizard’s mom’s apartment for HQ while they are still taking everything seriously.
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- Comment on how does a tote bag work? 2 months ago:
It’s suppsed to go like this Image
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I grew up in casette and CD era, so I use that for comparison. It’s a bit of a stretch, but it works for me:
An album or cassette had roughly 10-20 songs and cost (in today’s inflation) roughly £5. Not all songs were bangers so I round it all to £0.5 per song.
How many listens to be “worth it” I think is how much listen I would get out of it before I would happily buy a new one if it wore out or broke. So at least 50.
At price of £0.99, I think a song is worth it at 100 listens.
Though songs bought to support indie artists are worth it immediately. :)
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 2 months ago:
pay-to-stay prison
That sounds utterly evil
- Comment on Dead Rising remaster will make Frank West less of a creep 2 months ago:
Thank fuck. Those parts of the game were grating.
- Comment on Do you agree with my unpopular opinion about height in fencing? 3 months ago:
Having fenced rapier and kendo, I say no.
The bigger guys win. In rapier, reach is king. In kendo, reach plus knocking your opponent off balance is a major advantage.
You focus too much on belly wounds. In general.
- Comment on Is Asmongold an alt-right "entrypoint" influencer? 3 months ago:
Whatever political stance he may hold, or whether he is conscious about it, he is an entrypoint.
His content is uncritical dogpile reactions and no-fact-checks perpetuating drama. Combined with zero effort community weeding.
While theoretically neutral, such hate cesspools are the culture that fuels the alt-right.
- Comment on How do sport shooter bring their gear to international events ? 3 months ago:
Also US law require it to be in a securely locked protective case that can only be opened by the owner.
Also US laws require all luggage to be opened with the universal TSA key that is both as secure as a toddler’s toy safe lock and easily available to the public.
- Comment on I am not promoting death or killing but are the countries where they are freely allowed to kill nazi's? Kind of like in some parts of Africa are allowed to kill poachers? 3 months ago:
For some reason I feel I am going to be banned from this site with this question.
Question is fair enough, but your history is looking weird by now. Slightly paraphrased to illustrate the pattern:
What would a modern day instruction manual to create home-made explosives look like?
Is there any place on the web to brag about terrorist attacks? (deleted?)
Where is it legal to murder people?
- Comment on I am not promoting death or killing but are the countries where they are freely allowed to kill nazi's? Kind of like in some parts of Africa are allowed to kill poachers? 3 months ago:
Your 100 year old dad is not playing video games.
- Comment on if the total fertility rate drops and stays below global replacement rate, will humans disappear? 3 months ago:
I’m a bit surprised that nobody comments on the matriarchal speculation at the end. You’re all fine with that?
Mathematically, I am not fine with that. The only way to have fewer men would be late-stage abortion or to murder newborns. Each woman would need to have 1.1 (surviving) children but still 2.3 born or nearly born children. While this may raise some ethical questions by itself, the greater crime is that it artificially inflates a metric without achieving the stated goal. It is lie by misapplication of statistics.
