Carnelian
@Carnelian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Final Fantasy 14 braces for Dawntrail login queues with plans to limit travel and crack down on AFK players 1 week ago:
Hopefully things go more smoothly than for Endwalker’s launch! The login issues were so bad they ended up giving all players some free subscription time.
Supposedly their systems are better prepared now, but we’re still expecting massive queues no matter what. Probably will be impossible to get in if you only have a few hours to play and you work normal hours
- Comment on Happiness 1 month ago:
So what you gotta do is say “it” in this sentence like you would say the word “ass”, and suddenly it all snaps into focus
- Comment on I finally got access to the catholic AI 1 month ago:
He was recently defrocked for telling people to baptize their baby in gatorade
- Comment on Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE 1 month ago:
This is “announcing I will be stepping down” material for sure, dear lord. Never seen a more ridiculous or predictable disaster
- Comment on food science 2 months ago:
ohhh I see it now thank you
- Comment on food science 2 months ago:
I’m not an expert but I’m pretty sure that is a lasagna?
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 2 months ago:
Absolute tragedy tbh, discord won’t be around forever. I weep for all the game knowledge that will be lost
- Comment on somewhere a postdoc is crying 2 months ago:
molecules be getting freaky with it fr fr
- Comment on Men over 30, what contributes to weight gain besides slower metabolism when you get older? Is it really hard to stay in shape? 3 months ago:
Hi, sorry for responding to a week old post,
This is called “Sarcopenia”, or, the age-related loss of muscle mass.
The good news is that it can be nearly entirely mitigated by strength training. To be clear, you can’t be an 80 year old with the same strength as a 30 year old powerlifter, but you can as an 80 year old maintain the strength of an average 30 year old. It’s been demonstrated very consistently, even if you only start training in your 70s
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I do use it. I press it with my right pinky when I want to capitalize letters that I type with my left hand, which is a convention of touch-typing
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
So, sure, you may not currently know the procedure. But you could easily boil an egg if you had 60s to google it first.
Some people wouldn’t be able to figure it out. Stupidity isn’t really accurate though in my experience, I think it’s more being overwhelmed and sometimes just having an aversion in general to change and learning. People can often have really bad experiences early in life (ironically, at the hands of people like OP who categorize them as morons for their honest ignorance) that set them up to want to never leave their comfort zone, which is itself again seen as “stupid” by the same people, thus perpetuating the cycle forever.
- Comment on More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’ 6 months ago:
Lemmy is for 16-25, but not 26-28 year olds, but then 29+. It’s the darnedest thing
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 6 months ago:
This
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 6 months ago:
The update just came out pretty much, you’ll know when you get it
- Comment on Final Fantasy XVI Is Getting Two DLCs And One Of Them Is Available Now 6 months ago:
The game itself is also a ps5 exclusive currently I believe, with plans to eventually come to other platforms. So maybe just some weird technical disclaimer?
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 6 months ago:
If lemmy has 100 users I’m one of them
If lemmy has 1 user it’s me
If lemmy has no users I’m dead
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Skyrim is even topping Starfield’s player numbers now lol, at least on steam
- Comment on Graphically updating the decade-old MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV 7 months ago:
Well I’ll be darned, they are different.
I found the original keynote from the event, relevant slide is toward the bottom
It’s all a bit tangled up now, but the second set of pictures in the article shows the current in-game models and then the remade models, where you can clearly see the difference in the hair. The first set (the one in question here) shows the remade one, and then the remade-remade one with the muted horn texture.
I remembered this particular Au Ra from the slideshow about 4 months ago, so when I noticed the distinct hair being the same in both and found the original slides I tunnel visioned on that. But in truth, what we are seeing is a second pass after player feedback from the event I incorrectly believed the shots were from.
I apologize for not being as in-tune with the game’s news as I had assumed. I do not play an Au Ra myself so I had been kind of tuning out the drama around the scales and their luster. But it (and the changing of the glowing eye rings) has been an ongoing pain point for many. People get really attached to their look
- Comment on Graphically updating the decade-old MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV 7 months ago:
Ah, I do see what you mean upon closer inspection. You have a keen eye
However, this is most likely due to the author grabbing the two images from a different source which subjected them to different compression artifacts. They definitely both are the same model, even if the actual image files are not 1:1
I play the game and have followed these updates as they came out, so I was able to tell very quickly from looking at the hair and eyes. But don’t take my word for it: I quickly tracked down the actual before/after shots. Sorry for reddit link
- Comment on Graphically updating the decade-old MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV 7 months ago:
That’s because it actually is the exact same image
Whoever wrote this article messed up and pasted the same image twice for the Au Ra race, which is the first one shown here. The actual before and after shots are pretty obvious
- Comment on Bedpanjo 7 months ago:
Shitty
- Comment on Is jogging on sidewalks harder on joints than if one jogged on dirt? 7 months ago:
Beach jogging is actually pretty bad in the long term, as one leg is always going to be uphill compared to the other. Leads to injury. Same thing happens if you run on the side of a crowned road instead of on a flat sidewalk
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’ve noticed a common trend among people with laughably bad opinions, which is that they are also incapable of presenting coherent arguments to defend their point of view when called out. Do you care to comment on this phenomena?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Close! It’s a literal equivalence, which is why your take is so bad.
Oh but since we’re talking fallacies, refresh my memory, which is the one where you call everyone who disagrees with you a pedophile? It’s on the tip of my tongue…an abdominal attack or something right?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Correct, OP does not engage with any form of technology that facilitates crime.
Thank god for OP’s grandchildren, who run his accounts by occasionally asking his opinions and posting them without his knowledge, thereby allowing us these glimpses into his perfectly moral mind
- Comment on I'm not the only one with youtube problems then 😂 8 months ago:
He a little confused but he got the spirit
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
If you aren’t willing to eat ads, and you aren’t willing to be the product, and you aren’t willing to pay a subscription, then why do you think you’re entitled to content?
You’re overthinking things. I click one button once and I never see ads, for years at a time without needing to tweak it at all. This is also completely free to set up and completely legal.
The fact of the matter is that this technology exists, and they can do nothing to stop it. Despite this, they continue to rely on the ad supported model. Curious, no?
then why would they want to spend money serving you for free?
Because if I post a link to a video and as a result someone sees an ad —or better, signs up for premium—then boom, they just made a profit. There is of course a critical threshold of adblockers where this no longer works but we’re not near it yet so they won’t change their revenue model.
Note: I am not taking a moral high ground here, just pointing out how it works. Yes, you are subsidizing me, thanks for that.
- Comment on I would like to enjoy Zelda BOTW but … 9 months ago:
Well, it kind of is, but in a roundabout way.
It doubles in strength and I think is unbreakable inside the final dungeon and possibly against guardians as well. Can tell for sure because it starts glowing
- Comment on I would like to enjoy Zelda BOTW but … 9 months ago:
The weapons breaking and stuff is whatever, eventually you just tune it out. They shower you with new stuff constantly, so the idea is to use a little of everything. No comment on whether that’s a good or bad thing, it’s probably the most divisive part of the game. Just is what it is.
You do get permanent loot in the form of clothing (which can have interesting special properties) and powers and such
- Comment on Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away 9 months ago:
I want one! Just not from Zuck