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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
One thing that always jumps out to me with each of these is that these videos are all just a sequence of 3 second clips stitched together.
I know all film consists of discrete shots edited into a larger piece but there’s something mechanical about these. Like I’m watching a slide show that’s just been placed in chronological order.
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 1 month ago:
Abrasives. Same thing as charcoal. Tiny hard particles help remove gunk when you brush them against something.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 2 months ago:
No they do it for free. These aren’t paid assets they’re angsty disaffected teens.
- Comment on It's kinda wild that zombo.com still exists 3 months ago:
The only limit is yourself
- Comment on I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting 4 months ago:
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri would vocalise “Please don’t go. The drones will miss you. They look up to you” when you go to quit.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 4 months ago:
There’s also the simplicity. I enjoy my PC for sure but for some people the ease of popping in a disc or downloading the title and it running perfectly on the first try is a major selling point. Troubleshooting my Ex’s PC for 2 hours only to realise I didn’t install the standoffs is an experience I can’t get on console.
- Comment on What were some of your favourite Australian TV shos?w 4 months ago:
Round the Twist was 4 seasons of straight bangers
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 5 months ago:
What pisses me off about the whole Unity thing is that if Unity makes itself eat shit then it just further consolidates engines into fewer hands. Godot is great and all but it doesn’t have everything Unreal has (I’m not throwing shade it’ll get there dw) and I really really don’t want Epic to have a bigger stranglehold on the games industry than it already does.
Unity had its niche and if the executives could stop fucking around it would be lovely to have as a competitor in the landscape.
Also to everyone saying “just don’t use Unity”: there are a lot of people who have put a lot of time and money and effort into learning Unity and it’s not exactly as easy as you think to just switch to an entirely new workflow. You also have to consider how impractical it is to switch engines mid-development. There’s a reason why Unreal 5 has been out for multiple years and we’re only just seeing games developed with it now. Developers (especially ones with big budgets and all the caveats they come with) don’t want to ship a game with the latest and greatest engine if there’s kinks to be worked out. This is why you still see Unreal 4 in games released today.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 6 months ago:
These little epiphanies are always fun. Like when you realise how many maths and astronomy terms are just romanised Arabic words like Algebra and Algorithm.
Another fun one that I wasn’t smart enough to notice on my own is that the Hindu-Arabic numerals have the same number of angles in the symbols as the number they represent.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
You are the embodiment of Dunning-Kruger.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
I choose to believe Agent K came up with it.
- Comment on Rating down at 77% 9 months ago:
I love that 0 is to heal but O is to repair my ship. I’m constantly just mashing both because I can’t remember which is which when my shields are down and I’m trying to dodge a missile.