VindictiveJudge
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- Comment on Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered 7 hours ago:
Oblivion and Skyrim are 200 years apart, but geographically border each other. Classic Oblivion didn’t render Skyrim, but that was more for technical reasons than anything else. If you get high enough up in Skyrim on a clear day you can see the entire continent.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 1 day ago:
Yes, but you have to shake the cow pretty vigorously.
- Comment on Oblivion Remaster Rockets Past 100K Players on Steam Hours After Launch - Insider Gaming 3 days ago:
I like to describe classic Oblivion characters as looking like they were all carved from the same potato.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
It’s also from the era when people were expected to read the manual while the game installed, so the game never has tutorials for certain things, most prominent being fatigue. New players tend to run everywhere, drain their fatigue meter, and struggle to hit anything or cast a spell. Just reading the manual, as the devs originally expected, solves a lot.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
I’m fine with almost any changes to the combat. Oblivion’s combat felt worse than both Morrowind’s and Skyrim’s to me.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
Also, Skyblivion will, at worst, only cut into their PC sales. The official remake will be the only option available on consoles due to the nature of the mod.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 1 week ago:
Kingmaker also has the problem of every encounter being designed for a full party but not actually having access to a full party until late in Act 1, after many mandatory combat encounters. The RNG also seems to hate me.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 1 week ago:
Also note that Owlcat’s other Pathfinder game, Kingmaker, is absurdly punishing. Start with Wrath.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 1 week ago:
Uh, enemies are actually less bullet spongey on high difficulties, just like the player. Some humans have armor that you have to either spend bullets shooting off or shoot around by aiming at unarmored portions, but enemies typically go down really quick.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
I thought they made that a subscription now.
- Comment on When did movie credits move from the beginning to the end? 3 weeks ago:
Credits followed by the opening crawl also would have been tedious.
- Comment on When did movie credits move from the beginning to the end? 3 weeks ago:
Rules were changed. Lucas actually left the directors guild to have closing credits instead of opening credits. Not sure if he ever rejoined.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 3 weeks ago:
Judging by the bit of Prime 4 they showed, I think their first party titles will just skip ray tracing and use relatively low-poly models.
- Comment on Batman has an awful lot of villains with doctorates. 3 weeks ago:
There are also multiple lazarus pits under the city contaminating the drinking water, the pits are known to cause mental instability, and the city might be cursed.
- Comment on Important information about compatibility of Nintendo Switch games with Nintendo Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Even then, it’s not a full stop on incompatibility, it just means that you need to own Switch 1 joycons to pair to the system instead of using the new ones. So you can play Ringfit on Switch 2, if you have the old joycons and a way to charge them.
- Comment on Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today 3 weeks ago:
IIRC, someone got with the author of that bit of code to ask how they came up with it, but they had simply learned it from someone else. So they tracked them down and found that they had also learned it from someone else. They eventually landed on Greg Walsh as the original author, but for a bit the code had no known origin.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 4 weeks ago:
Same with Paradox games. 4X in general is just really hard to get right on release because of how many interlinking systems there are, so waiting for balance updates at a minimum is never a bad idea.
- Comment on Video game characters should swear when they get hurt 4 weeks ago:
It’s a reference to the first level of Halo 1.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 5 weeks ago:
It was on an episode of Home Improvement. Not sure if the show started it or if it was just referencing the existing fad.
- Comment on Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN? 1 month ago:
Your job in the military is to risk your life to save the lives of others. Refusing to follow illegal orders is part of that. If you think your superior will kill you and then commit war crimes literally over your dead body, arrest them so they can be tried in military court or die trying. I know, we’re human and this is easier said than done, but it is what should be done.
- Comment on xkcd #3060: Omniroll 1 month ago:
Logically, we now have to add the Wikipedia Omniroll to the list, which will make preparing one very complicated.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
No. The repo has Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert 1, Generals with Zero Hour, Renegade, and components for the HD ports of TD and RA1 they put out a few years ago.
- Comment on Bawitdaba 1 month ago:
*steel
That’s Bon Jovi, not Kid Rock.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
At least some of the remaster source code is in the repo, too. If the TS or RA2 source code is found, people will be immediately able to do that graphics switch for them, too.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
IIRC, a few years ago EA hired some of the original devs, put them in charge of the franchise, and then went very hands-off, but with very little budget. So far they’ve done this, and a very reasonably priced 4K remaster of TD and RA1.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
That’s only the HD remaster of TD and RA1.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
Though do also note that of these four, TD and RA1 were already made freeware years ago.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 2 months ago:
This kind of thing could actually be really beneficial for prosthetics. If we can make a robot that functions as close as possible to a human body at human size, then we can chunk it up to make prosthetics that work like your original limbs and are easy to adapt to.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 2 months ago:
Which is weird because BOTW’s UI is the worst part of the game. Soooo much scrollingthrough item lists.
- Comment on Day 215 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Unity’s gameplay was a glorious return to form. Unity’s writing… not so much.