VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on When did movie credits move from the beginning to the end? 1 day 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? 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
It’s a reference to the first level of Halo 1.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 2 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
*steel
That’s Bon Jovi, not Kid Rock.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
That’s only the HD remaster of TD and RA1.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 5 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Unity’s gameplay was a glorious return to form. Unity’s writing… not so much.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
Generals also took the base construction and resource harvesting systems from Blizzard’s games. The entire game feels like it should have been named ModernCraft or something instead of C&C.
Going the other way, Warcraft 1 and 2 used used a left-justified UI that was very similar to the one C&C used, but with elements that would evolve into the StarCraft and Warcraft 3 UI.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
Guy couldn’t handle the sudden fame, iirc.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
I still play games with look inversion because controls were so unstandardized in the '90s that what we currently consider inverted was the default on a good number of games and that was what I learned. I didn’t even go to the modern stick layout until Halo 3 was out, and that mostly worked because I thought of it as WASD + mouse mapped to sticks.
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 1 month ago:
I still haven’t played Part 2, but I’m pretty sure the remake trilogy is a stealth sequel.
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 1 month ago:
FF8 didn’t do it for me, mostly because the gameplay was a terribly broken mess. I loved 12, though; the story is like the love child of Final Fantasy, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars, and the gameplay felt like a logical evolution of the ATB system for a fully 3D world.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 1 month ago:
Possibly to differentiate from the trans women, who were mentioned immediately prior?
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 month ago:
Even 2077 didn’t have ads in your car.
- Comment on Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode 1 month ago:
I hope the next Fire Emblem uses this. Of course, they didn’t use the Switch’s touch screen, so I’m not holding my breath.
- Comment on Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode 1 month ago:
TOTK makes me wish 3D TVs caught on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Out of morbid curiosity, what movie is it?