VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls | TechCrunch 22 hours ago:
I tried explaining to a nice elderly woman that the person texting her asking to buy Steam cards wasn’t actually Jason Momoa, but she couldn’t be convinced. Fortunately, the manager at that store forbid anyone from selling her any gift cards of any kind.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 3 days ago:
According to the video, game logic is still opperating at 20hz and the GPU uses frame interpolation to tripple the FPS.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 3 days ago:
Battle for Naboo actually had an official PC version all the way back in 2001. No idea if it works on modern PCs, though.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 4 days ago:
We’re only post-scarcity for certain things in certain geopolitical regions, and even then, logistics of distributing those things is a problem. Computers, for example, will always be scarce in their current form because the raw materials to build them are naturally scarce, can only be extracted so fast, and have a limited ability to be recycled. We have a shit-ton of them, but they’re still scarce.
- Comment on Favourite controllers 6 days ago:
It was old Assassin’s Creed games that made me appreciate the triggers. The A button on right trigger second stage made parkour much better.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m American and have no idea what a conker is unless it’s having a bad fur day.
- Comment on Favourite controllers 1 week ago:
I really liked the Steam Controller, but the lack of a right stick was sometimes an issue. Being able to switch between mouse-like and joystick-like input in certain games on the fly was important and not always easy to set up. No issues with the stick itself going bad, but the rubber cap on the stick for both the ones I bought was worn smooth pretty fast. In shooters, I generally had a harder time tracking targets with the touch pad, but an easier time snapping to targets. Quick headshots were easier than with a stick, but sustained full auto fire was oddly tricky. Touch pad makes it shockingly good for N64 emulation since you can put A and B on the ABXY buttons and then the C buttons on the pad without the weirdness of having ‘buttons’ on a stick that you have to resort to with other controllers. The touch pad is also useful for DS emulation. Dual stage triggers also came in handy way more than I expected them to. Really neat, and I’ll definitely try a v2 if they ever make one, but it’s a pretty divisive device and there’s a steep learning curve to using the pad to aim.
Tried a Razer Wolverine Pro, and I loved the extra buttons, but stick drift was a serious problem. Four back buttons and two extra shoulder buttons meant my thumbs almost never left the sticks. The controller was basically unusable after a point, though, and I really didn’t feel like spending that much on another one. Steam also wouldn’t recognize the extra buttons, so I had to use Razer’s proprietary app to configure it, which wasn’t great.
Was gifted a Dualsense Edge and it’s so far been really nice. Haven’t had much use for the touchpad yet, but that’s mostly because of the games I’ve been playing. Sticks are pretty cheaply replaceable, but I haven’t had any issues with them after about a year of heavy use. Steam also recognizes all the extra buttons and lets me map them all I want, unlike the Wolverine. Battery life is much worse than a standard Dualsense, though. Apparently they cut into the battery area to make room for the removable stick units. That battery life issue is my only problem so far, however. Well, that, and I doubt I would have paid $200 for it. Again, it was a gift.
What I would really like to see is a controller with six face buttons, similar to how the original Xbox controllers or even the N64 controller have them. I wouldn’t always use the extra buttons, but there are times when they’d really come in handy.
- Comment on Metal is made from refined rocks, therefore Metal music is refined Rock music 1 week ago:
Actually not. Just not as funny as it sounded in my head.
- Comment on Metal is made from refined rocks, therefore Metal music is refined Rock music 1 week ago:
That would check out. Have you seen how many heavy metal bands are composed of nazis?
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 week ago:
Vista was actually shockingly solid by the end. 7 on release was essentially just Vista Service Pack 3 with a new taskbar skin, because Vista was completely unmarketable by that point and nobody could be convinced to jump to Vista anymore.
- Comment on Batman: Arkham Shadow - Official Teaser Trailer 1 week ago:
Why not just expand on the winning formula for the original Arkham games? Do a forty year time skip and have the player as Terry instead of Bruce. Call it Beyond Arkham. It would probably print money if it’s as good as Knight or Origins, to say nothing of how much they would get if it was as good as Asylum or City.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
I have a coworker who I discovered a few weeks ago had no idea internal monologues were a thing. I had to explain that it’s a real documented phenomena and that it’s actually a minority of people that don’t have one. She’s pretty damn smart, too. I also play D&D with a guy who has aphantasia. He’s also pretty damn smart and you would have no idea he was incapable of visualizing things if he didn’t tell you. Him casually mentioning it in conversation surprised people who had known him for years. So, yeah, absolutely no correlation between intelligence and how your thoughts may or may not produce phantom sensory input.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
No, they haven’t. lemmy.world/post/14770183
First off, that’s not Nintendo. That’s a third party controller manufacturer. Secondly, they’re basing that entirely off the specs they got for new controllers and docks. All that’s really confirmed by the article is that the next system will have a similar form factor with iteratively improved controllers and docks. Which is in the ‘fucking obvious’ category. Their speculation about the actual internal hardware specs was pulled straight from their ass.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
(because nine is evil for some reason)
Keeps support for poorly coded programs working. In the old days, a quick and hacky way to determine which Windows version the system was on was to have the program check the OS name. If the name started with the characters “Windows 9” you knew it was either Win95 or Win98 and ran in one mode, but if it was something else it ran in the other mode. If the new OS was named Windows 9, then certain old programs would break when run on it. Yes, the people who would have coded that way are idiots, and sure, the number of people running those programs may be in the single digits, but Microsoft has been pretty serious about maintaining backwards compatibility, even if that means ever more cruft and jank.
The other reason is marketing. “See? It’s not anything like that awful Windows 8! We skipped all the way to 10 to demonstrate how different it is! Please come back!”
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
Or if you want to plug in a mouse and keyboard. Or they could support controller mapping, like Steam. Or they could just let you install Steam on it.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
I’ll probably get the Switch 2 when they do their mid-gen refresh model, but I think I’ll skip the PS6. Sony ports their stuff to PC after a few years now and I’m a patient gamer type anyway.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
The only thing I will concede is that being able to shorten Xbox One X to XbOX was clever. Naming it the Xbox One in the first place was mind numbingly stupid, though.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
I have seen people very confused about which games will run on their system, though. Most are still cross compatible with XB1 and Series X, but some are Series X only now and the boxes aren’t marked clearly enough for some people to tell the difference.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
It feels significantly more omnipresent over here, though.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
It’s also part of the ‘wealthy people bad’ circlejerk. I mean, I get it, and I tend to agree, but fucking hell, people. Does it really have to be every fucking thread in the fediverse?
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
Bruce actually does know some magic, but he doesn’t trust it to not backfire somehow.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Batman deals with immediate problems, like someone being mugged, and Bruce deals with long term problems, like governmental corruption. And Bruce actually is fairly consistently depicted as having made progress there. Supervillains and the Court of Owls continue to be problems, but he’s usually dismantled the local mafias and cut down on police corruption inside of a few years.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 2 weeks ago:
The central point that Pluto and Charon orbit about is also outside of Pluto. All other planets have the center point located within the planet.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
I paid for 7 and upgraded it to 10. I may go to 12 later on (Windows alternates between solid and awful, so 12 may be fine) but it’s also quite likely I’ll wind up moving to a Linux distro as my primary and keeping Win10 as a fallback.
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 3 weeks ago:
Best to remember that certain sensitivities, like lactose intolerance, are actually the rule rather than the exception. Lactose tolerance is only the majority in certain populations of European or Middle Eastern origin. A bunch of them are also mostly harmless and just cause indigestion rather than anything serious. I am lactose intolerant and eating cheese just means I’ll be gassy and spend more time on the toilet later, so long as I’m not eating to excess. Since they don’t actually kill you most of the time, they get selected out at a very slow rate.
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 3 weeks ago:
Seriously, everyone points to our brains and thumbs as to why we’re the dominant species on the planet, but our ability to eat damn near everything is also a major factor. We can eat a wide range of plants and animals native to every region of every continent. Wolves/dogs are our closest competition there and they can only eat a fraction of what we can eat.
- Comment on New best friend for life! 3 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to get Charlie Bit My Finger on bluray.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 3 weeks ago:
And definitely not worth the $2500 a year they’re asking for the feature.
- Comment on Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it 3 weeks ago:
Your original comment is still oddly accurate. The PS3 version was buggier than the 360 version and more prone to memory issues.
But, yeah, definitely get the PC versions of Bethesda stuff, wait for the complete edition to go on sale, then grab the unofficial patch before so much as starting the launcher the first time.
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 3 weeks ago:
‘Dogfighting’ mostly just means air-to-air combat now. They do still make fighter jets that have guns or can mount guns, but I think they’re primarily intended for surface targets rather than air targets.