VindictiveJudge

@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seagate drives are like crows - if you don’t get along with one, they tell their friends and harass you. For any given user, either Seagate drives are perfectly fine and last ages no matter what is done to them, or every single one they touch will self destruct with the lightest use for no reason. That it really does seem to vary by user rather than specific models or production runs is the baffling part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As in a mine or as in a sword?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See, I don’t really want full AR. I want a HUD, a very small number of rudimentary AR features, like floating windows for text documents or videos, physical buttons on the arms of the glasses, small drivers by the ears for audio, and battery life that will last most of the day. I already have to wear glasses and if I’m paying more for extra features I want ones that will last the whole time I might want them, not just the six or so hours a day that the current offerings have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drop the cameras and microphones and replace them with a couple accelerometers and gyros. Paired with your phone’s GPS tracking, the glasses can tell where you’re looking without actually seeing anything. You can get handy features like a floating ‘turn here’ sign over your exit while driving with GPS navigation without recording anyone or anything at any time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3209: Plums⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, sometimes they denote different people. They also sometimes represent recurring characters.

  Beret Guy, Black Hat, and Danish are the same character each time.

  At the other end of the spectrum, Ponytail and White Hat are just whoever the comic needs at the time. Sometimes they show signs they’re a recurring character, but usually probably just a one-off.

  In the middle of the spectrum are Cueball and Megan. These are the generic male and female designs and the most frequently seen. They’re usually probably just one-offs, but both have two distinct recurring roles as well. The first is Cueball as an unnamed male character and Megan as Megan, with the two of them being a couple. The second is Cueball as the comic’s author and Megan as his wife, with this being most apparent in the cancer strips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you’re thinking of Sprite, specifically the bottle caps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Connery’s character is Lithuanian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I know how that one happened. A rooster is also called a cock, though we don’t much use that word anymore, for obvious reasons. Probably didn’t know the word and checked Google Translate or something similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a long distance relationship⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My personal example is identical twins. If they’ve had the same experiences, then knowing what one looks like tells you what the other looks like, but ripping the arm off of one doesn’t magically rip the arm off the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your teenager AND your husband⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something something torment nexus something something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which makes sense because even 1080p streaming is garbage compared to blu-ray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk also has a censorship setting in all versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Either that, or he’s AFK, and will come back to see how we’ve developed over the past 2000 years.

  Fun fact: that’s pretty much exactly what the bible says is happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It varies a lot from woman to woman and from one pregnancy to another. Anywhere from, “That’s it? That wasn’t so bad,” to, “Oh, god! Kill me to make the pain stop!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable - Gameplay Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also get really good at Lute Hero, but it takes longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable - Gameplay Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The money grind in 3 is easy, too. You just need to buy a house, rent it out, use that to buy another house, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alleged Fable concept art seems to point towards a return to Fable 2's rogueish hive of scum and pub islands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And changing yourself. Frequent magic users would get old and spindly, I believe occasionally glowing. Axe swingers would get ripped. Your character would be a literal representation of your playstyle and that was cool as hell.

  It was both more and less involved than that. Putting XP into the Strength stats made your character buff, Skill stats made them tall, and Will stats gave you glowing patterns on your body, except in 3 where they made your tattoos glow instead. What you actually did was irrelevant, just how you spent your XP. In Fable 1, buying levels also made your character older, but age became connected to plot in 2 and was dropped as a morph in 3. Moral alignment in all three and ethical alignment in 2 and 3 also affected character appearance, but the specifics varied a lot between games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Vista was good eventually, but certainly not on launch. It launched with absurdly aggressive popups about for User Account Control and backwards compatibility was somewhat spotty, largely due to the security changes. By the end, though, it was actually really solid, to the point that Win7 essentially launched as Vista Service Pack 2 with a new taskbar skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 548 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My problem with the Forerunner stuff in Halo 4 is the same problem I have with all the aesthetic changes in 4 and 5 - it’s extremely busy. 1, 2, and 3 have a sleek and simple design language that makes it very easy to tell what’s happening in chaotic combat. The vibrant colors and shiny materials even give Halo 3 an almost heroic fantasy vibe. They deliberately went the other direction with Reach to enhance the grim tone of the game, but environments are still relatively simple so that enemies stand out. 4 and 5 put excessive lines and greeblies on absolutely everything. It’s all so packed with details that you sometimes lose enemies in the background and it can be difficult to tell what you’re looking at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo is consistently terrible about not having solid launch titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or who absolutely must use Windows for work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also seen volume settings not kick in until you loaded a save file. Also, PS1 era Final Fantasy games that don’t acknowledge your button mappings until the save has been loaded, so that B is select and A is cancel on the main menu, but the other way in-game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RPGs are absolutely terrible about giving you the ability to inflict status effects on enemies, but not giving random encounter enemies enough HP to justify inflicting statuses, and then also making the bosses immune to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the point I’m making is that only a handful of games are keys; the vast majority are still on the cart, same as the last system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.

  Generally agree with your post, but a large majority of games really are games. If they’re a download key, it’s very clearly labelled on the box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And so do the people inside the big helicopter!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The phrase "my world is brighter with you" is literally true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We also have stripes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaschko's_lines

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give one. Despite Sheridan and Delenn giving that speech about rejecting the Shadows and Vorlons and making their own way, the Vorlons won. The Army of Light, the Rangers, and the Interstellar Alliance are all in line with Vorlon philosophy, they run on Vorlon tech, most members were Vorlon allies, and they still oppose former Shadow allies and destroy Shadow tech when they find it.

  Another is that the Shadows should have had their own Kosh, a character who was still comitted to the original goal and hadn’t succumbed to motive decay. Shadows believe in strength through adversity, so one setting up obstacles with the expectation that the cast would overcome them and grow stronger cpuld have been interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Er, no. A Linux program from five years ago probably won’t run on a current distro if it hasn’t been maintained in four years. A Windows program released twenty years ago and never patched has pretty good odds of running on Win10 without even needing to touch the compatibility tab.