Cornelius_Wangenheim
@Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
- Comment on BIOMES 2 days ago:
Heath is another one.
- Comment on Birmingham Travel Guide 4 weeks ago:
In Texas, it’s common knowledge that the best tacos and tortas are from gas stations.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
Skyrim was at least an improvement over Oblivion. It showed they had the ability to course correct and still create interesting worlds.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
The problem is Starfield isn’t a one off. It’s the latest in a line of progressively worse games. Every game since Skyrim has been worse than the one that came before it.
- Comment on stacked 1 month ago:
It’s more due to engineering. Materials have limited strength. Stone has fairly good compressive strength, but it’ll still crack if you put too much weight on it. If you use your stone to make a tower, it won’t get very high before it topples over. If you instead build a pyramid, the weight of the stone on top is dispersed across several stones below it and those stones disperse their weight to multiple stones and so on down to the base, letting you build far taller.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
If you care to learn orbital mechanics, Kerbal Space Program is a great teacher.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
People remember the parody, which is usually modified to be more recognizable. Like Darth Vader never said “Luke, I am your father”, in the movie it’s actually “No, I am your father”.
- Comment on Gearbox's first Risk of Rain 2 expansion gets hammered on Steam as developer admits the PC version 'is in a really bad place' 2 months ago:
At least Gearbox isn’t spending a year+ denying that the problem exists.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t call most of the modern ones real RPGs either.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
The original XCOM is the source of grid based inventories.
Star Control 2 is the first RPG that did the standard dialogue interface where you talk to someone and choose from multiple replies.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
GTA3 is the one that started the trend.
- Comment on YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training 2 months ago:
An artist who rips off other great works are still developing their talent and skills. They can then go on to use to make original works. The machine will never produce anything original. It is only capable of mixing together things it has seen in its training set.
There is a very real danger that of ai eviscerating the ability for artists to make a living, making it where very few people will have the financial ability to practice their craft day in and day out, resulting in a dearth of good original art.
- Comment on Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month 3 months ago:
30h of gameplay seems very reasonable for a $20 game.
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
There’s a reason why every other browser maker has given up and adopted Chromium. It’s not easy to support a browser and rendering engine across half a dozen OSes while keeping it secure, performant and stable.
- Comment on I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. 3 months ago:
- Comment on I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. 3 months ago:
Number of excess deaths from COVID.
- Comment on I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. 3 months ago:
Yeah, he only killed about 1.4 million.
- Comment on Inflation is cooling, yet many Americans say they're living paycheck to paycheck 4 months ago:
There actually was deflation last month. Only -0.1%, but it still counts.
- Comment on *doing my best google impression* Did you mean: turn in up? 4 months ago:
More specifically, Houston.
- Comment on USA | Biden Said He’s Not Sending Israel 2,000-Pound Bombs. He’s Sent 14,000 of Them. 4 months ago:
So he has stopped shipments, but the article writer is mad that he hasn’t gone back in time and stopped shipments that happened in the past?
- Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s what most exploit-based hacks are. A developer makes a dumb mistake and then someone exploits it to do something they shouldn’t be able to do.
- Comment on Youtube stopped working for me today when using uBlock Origin in Firefox or Vivaldi with anti-ad enabled. 4 months ago:
Still works for me with a combination of Firefox, uBlock and a VPN. I assume sharing an IP with thousands of other people screws up their detection algorithm.
- Comment on Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week 4 months ago:
Microsoft has always been like this. They’re a giant company with a bunch of silos that act independently and often undermine what each other are trying to accomplish.
- Comment on Avowed's Creators On Why Romance Was Considered, But Ultimately Not Included And Skyrim Comparisons 4 months ago:
Tons of people. I doubt BG3 would have succeeded if it wasn’t so unabashedly horny.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
Jokes are supposed to be funny.
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 6 months ago:
The guy playing him didn’t own the copyright, since it was originally from an 80s TV show. Once he made the character famous, the copyright owner fucked him over and he had to come up with his own character, thus Count Binface.
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 6 months ago:
A viral infection causing a secondary bacterial infection is incredibly common. The phlegm and various secretions caused by the virus act as a breeding ground for the bacteria.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 6 months ago:
Scientific papers should be timeless. Can you imagine the hell of having to research the pop culture and slang of an era just to understand a paper written in it?
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
Same, but I run a “pro” version that I acquired from work like a decade ago.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 6 months ago:
Regardless, the state government hates the city and works to actively sabotage it. When they tried to reform their police after they murdered several protestors, the state took over the department. Despite being a small city, it has terrible transportation because the state never allocates any funding for it.