raltoid

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a limitation of the (ancient) engine the game is on, as I understand it.

  Old engine isn’t always bad. It is if you do like Todd and just slap more and more plugins and technology on top and call it a new engine, instead of fixing underlying issues or rewriting/updating old parts.

  Which is why Starfield NPCs walk onto tables and become owls when the camera zooms into conversations, etc: It is the same code that is used in Skyrim and partly Oblivion. And Todd Howard doesn’t want devs doing silly things like fixing twenty year old code, he wants new and bigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMERICAN POPE LETS GO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No kuru is just one form of prion disease that was found in one are. And from what I remember, it has never been found in other people, as it most likely developed as a sub-type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, it’s anoychia, the picture went viral a few years ago whe someone posted it on reddit. It’s an extremely rare genetic mutation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That has been debated to death before and it obviously depends on the writer and version of the characters, but in most cases neither are fully immovable or unstoppable. If they were, Juggernaut would probably just be redirected and keep going.

  A little more practically speaking, Juggernaut wins easily:

  • The Blob is a mutant who can basically lock himself to the ground with a short distance around him and become immovable in relation to the ground while being able to absorb most impacts to effectively eliminate the force experience by him and thus the ground.

  • The Juggernaut is not a mutant, but an avatar of Cyttorak the Destroyer, the God/Demon ruler of the Crimson Cosmos dimension. He can tap into more and more of that power to the point where he can fight pretty angry Hulk on almost equal ground.

  Even if you let Blob be immovable and able to ignore all kinetic force, he still has a big weakness. As demonstrated when he tried to go after one of the intelligent versions of Hulk. He realized he couldn’t move or hurt him, so he grabbed his stomach and started pulling. It quickly hurt so much that he instinctively stopped anchoring himself to the ground. At which point he basically became an invincible bouncing ball, which is how Hulk treated him. Until he sent him flying by using a big metal girder as a bat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR: It’s illegal to have publically available or share.

  Making it illegal to make one for research purposes on your own hardware is not illegal. Or if it is, I wouldn’t mind seeing someone challenge that with the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you can easily order okay to decent quality silica beads for $6-15 a pound(~400g). Same colored stuff that is in the satchets, that you can dry in the oven or even microwave.

  You might be good, but thought I’d mention it in case you were going to restock or others wanting a bunch to stay safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't pay rent because devs just don't care⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For my bank the website works fast, but app does not. So an old backend is not always the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying there’s going to be another Stardew Valley update, I don’t even know at this point. Right now I am focused on my next game. So, we’ll see.

  -September, 2021

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There weren’t really any super rich people in the USSR. There were people with a lot of influence and power, who had nicer houses, better food, clothes, etc. but they didn’t have a tons of money stashed away. You have to remember that Stalin viewed capitalism as the root of all evil and would kill rich people.

  And many of those influential people used that power after the fall to become super rich by snapping up former state assets. Which is seemingly part of their current goal in the US: Isolate the country and destroy government assets to privatize them. Literally trying to recreate the situation that created the 90s Russian oligarchs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t silica beads $5 or so a pound? How much do you use?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Illegal to publically serve or distribute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m genuinely confused about the use cases you all seem to have. When are you sitting in a field on your phone trying desperately to convert a .avi to a .mkv?

  I worked IT for a newspaper back when they were more relevant. The satelite offices and in-field work had a surprising amount of problems like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon says displaying tariff cost 'not going to happen' after White House blowback⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly why they got blowback.

  They know that if their voters kept seeing big red numbers with “tariff” next to it every time they ordered something, they might realize that they’re being screwed over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The decision making behind this is incredibly hard for me to understand. Just a very, very nonsensical way to run the project, on paper. I wonder about the circumstances.

  The rights were aquired by Take-Two Interactive, who immediately wanted a sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly taps Nexon to publish Overwatch mobile and a new StarCraft game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it still brings in several million dollars a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Different use cases.

  It’s not like your uploading and downloading gigabytes to it to use ffmpeg. For that you use something local. This is for converting smaller files conveniently. For example from a laptop and you don’t want to use a public converter that might keep the content.

  If you regularly convert certain file types on a computer, dedicated apps tend to be better than these combo ones anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The honours course⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1. There are no species of hornet that produce honey(only bees and some wasp do)

  2. Those aren’t hornets

  3. That’s honeycomb

  4. It’s still mainly after the larvae, although it will probably eat some of the honey and comb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FTC cracks down on an AI content detector that promised 98% accuracy but was only right 53% of the time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations, you just created a generation of children who will never truly trust authority figures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a few years sine youtube stopped making changes designed for desktop. These days it’s they work with a “Made for tablet, compatible for desktop” mindset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei readies new AI chip for mass shipment as China seeks Nvidia alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pessimistically assuming that nvidia is going to try and make up the loss by artifically increasing GPU prices even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I envy you for not having seen KonoSuba(The bottom one).

  It’s a comedy set in a fantasy world and is basically making fun of anime tropes while still being compelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨​Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project​⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the big positives is that the “mounting hardware” is already there and pretty consistent, you don’t need to clear land and build things. So they just drive a custom train over that basically clip in removable panels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what the right is doing, while the DNC is talking about censuring their own members for simply encouraging democrats to run even against their own apathetic incumbents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fishing games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The varied enviroment really helps.

  You can stand on a leafy, forested river bank with deer grazing nearby in the reeds as the sun rises. It can be the dock of a large lake with boats driving by during the day. Or you can be by a tiny rocky mountain lake shore as the sun sets over the distant hills. It’s can be really relaxing(as long as you’ve cleared the are and aren’t attacked by a wild animal)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi checking out another CEO in my feed ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s already made a deal to have it pre-installed on the new Razr phones from Motorola, and has hinted that Samsung is doing the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it’s silly.

  It’s also silly that people get upset at a bunch of Asian countries who still use the swastika. But a lot of people outside the cultures instantly think of Nazis. In the same way that remembrance poppies aren’t really a thing outside the commonwealth. So to some it’s a symbol of racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still shocked at how many seemingly tech-literate people use and defend Brave because of influencers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve partnered with Motorla and probably Samsung to have it pre-installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So is this another tech-bro sniffing his own farts, or does he have some plan to force the browser on people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bingo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America has never cared about “democracy”.

  The election system makes that blatantly obvious. First-past-the-post voting and a two party system is pretty anti-democratic in and of itself, and was derided by George Washington as one of the great evils of history.