MossyFeathers
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 3 weeks ago:
Riiiiiight. They can’t afford a car and can barely pay rent despite being split between three of them, so they can definitely afford to move to Ohio.
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 3 weeks ago:
I know several people who work at Walmart. I wouldn’t say they are stupid, but they’re trapped in a shitty situation where they all rely on public transportation (in Texas) to get to work, which means Walmart is one of the only options.
- Comment on True love 3 weeks ago:
That. That’s a human paw. That’s not a hand. That’s a fucking human paw. Where do I find someone with motherfucking human pawbs.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 4 weeks ago:
They had smoking/non-smoking sections into the 90s and early 2000s in Texas. I remember very clearly that my parents would have to ask for seats away from the bar if the restaurant had one, because they almost always allowed smoking. Also hotel rooms being smoking/non-smoking, and you could tell when a hotel was cheap and just swapped the door sign.
- Comment on Humble Choice for December 2024 has Old World, The Invincible, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and more gems 1 month ago:
- Comment on P E A K 1 month ago:
What a fucking chad. That dude has his priorities straight.
- Comment on Huawei’s Mate 70 smartphones will run its new Android-free OS 2 months ago:
Yeah, uh, have fun with that. Microsoft tried that with the Windows Phone but it sucked because of the lack of apps. From what I remember, they weren’t terrible phones per se, they just had no third-party support. Granted, it sounds like they’re being proactive in trying to get app developers on their OS, but for me personally, it’s usually the small, niche things that can make or break a device for me.
I actually kinda wish Microsoft would bring back the Windows phone now that phones have gotten significantly more powerful and Microsoft has their universal windows platform thingy alongside their cisc compatibility layer (I could be wrong, but I’m almost certain I remember reading that ARM windows has a compatibility layer for x86_64 programs). I probably wouldn’t buy one, but it’d be cool to see what kinda competition would come from having a phone platform that has compatibility with most windows programs.
- Comment on ‘Royalties for everyone’: Suriname president plans to share oil wealth 2 months ago:
While drilling for more oil sucks, the fact that they’re sharing the profit with their citizens is kinda fucking sexy. Damn.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 2 months ago:
Maybe the community has gotten better, but back when I played it wasn’t uncommon for mid to get salty because they fed early game and start feeding couriers to the enemy team.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 2 months ago:
Factorio, Warframe, Minecraft, Dota 2. However, the only two I’d still recommend are Factorio and Minecraft. Warframe’s grind seems to have finally burned me out for good, Dota 2 is bad. You’re not gonna have fun with Dota 2. The game concept is good, but like most competitive online games, the community fucking sucks.
In addition to Factorio and Minecraft, try Voices of the Void, The Long Drive, WEBFISHING, and Balatro.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 months ago:
I only see people as an enemy if they’ve declared themselves as such. I’m not gonna make the first move, life is too short to make enemies with everyone I meet. That said, if you’ve got a swastika tattooed on your forehead then I’m gonna take that as a declaration that you’re my enemy.
- Comment on Marine Scientists 2 months ago:
The gun isn’t for what’s outside.
- Comment on aerodynamics 2 months ago:
Even though you already got your answer, yes. Yes they are lmao. All I was trying to say, however, was that it’s not exactly fair to compare “creatures” that exist in two different mediums.
- Comment on aerodynamics 2 months ago:
Well… duh? A fairer comparison would be the cow vs jeep. A sea creature vs something designed for land isn’t that great of a comparison because water is thick enough that you’re going to need some kind of aerodynamic (fluodynamic?) adaptation to survive. Air is thin enough that evolution can sacrifice some aerodynamics for other traits.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 months ago:
Bro. I like the idea of introducing non-latin characters into the English alphabet, but holy shit that’s basically unreadable lmao.
- Comment on The great outdoors 2 months ago:
I’m confused, I only see supports for two lower limbs; but what’re you supposed to do with your tail? Just let it drag on the ground? Nah, hammocks are supposed to keep you off the ground. What a shitty hammock.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 months ago:
I don’t have much to add; I don’t watch a lot of anime and when I do it tends to be ~pirated~ downloaded. However,
High Guardian Spice is the biggest piece of trash to come out of anime in the last 10 years. It was marketed as anime for diverse groups, most notably highlighting their LGBTQ+ representation. Well, you know you messed up when even people in the LGBTQ+ community hate this show to death—like, no one likes this; this is terrible.
I looked it up and damn. Yeah. I don’t even need to watch an episode, the art style has the “we’re trying to pander as hard as we can” look to it. I dunno if it’s just that it looks like Steven Universe (which I’ve heard is a good show about inclusivity, albeit with a shitty fandom) or something else; but something about it screams “look at how gay and diverse we are! Give us money!”
- Comment on After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft. 2 months ago:
Imo it has less to do with photorealism vs non-photorealism and more to do with pbr (physically based rendering) vs non-pbr. The former attempts to recreate photorealistic graphics by adding additional texture maps (typically metallic/smooth or specular/roughness) to allow for things ranging from glossiness and reflectivity, to refraction and sub-surface scattering. The result is that PBR materials tend to have little to no noticeable difference between PBR enabled renderers so long as they share the same maps.
Non-pbr renderers, however, tend to be more inaccurate and tend to have visual quirks or “signatures”. For an example, to me everything made in UE3 tends to have a weird plastic-y look to it, while metals in Skyrim tend to look like foam cosplay weapons. These games can significantly benefit from raytracing because it’d involve replacing the non-pbr renderer with a PBR renderer, resulting in a significant upgrade in visual quality by itself. Throw in raytracing and you get beautiful shadows, speculars, reflections, and so on in a game previously incapable of it.
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 2 months ago:
Not really, Genesis was one of my favorite bands growing up, and they still have some of my favorite albums. I knew it was just a meme, but I couldn’t pass up a chance to share my opinion on the Gabriel vs Collins debate lol
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 2 months ago:
People like to split Genesis into Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins eras, but the truth is that Genesis should be split into Steve Hackett vs Tony Banks. Hackett’s departure from Genesis was the final nail in the Genesis prog-coffin and it’s when the band started shifting from prog to pop.
The composition shift becomes obvious when you compare The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering with albums like …And Then There Were Three, ABACAB and Duke. The former group, consisting of a “Gabriel” album + the first two “Collins” albums, sound very similar; enough so that I’ve seen people mistakenly associate Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering with Gabriel despite being voiced by Phil Collins. This is because Hackett’s guitar was still present and Gabriel, planning for the possibility of his departure, had been singing with Collins backing him, so the vocal shift wasn’t as obvious.
Meanwhile, the latter group (…and Then There Were Three, ABACAB and Duke) came after Hackett’s departure and are much more synth driven. Furthermore, they begin to shift to a more pop-driven sound as Tony Banks’ synths take over and no longer need to share the soundstage with Hackett’s guitar.
As such, the Gabriel-Collins debate is misframed and should instead be Hackett-Banks.
That said, I thoroughly enjoy most of Genesis’ releases, even including Invisible Touch and We Can’t Dance (though I’ve never tried to listen to From Genesis to Revelation or Calling All Stations). Treat Hackett and Banks’ albums like separate bands that just coincidentally happen to share the same name and band members, and you’ll enjoy them way more.
- Comment on An increasing number of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, BofA says 2 months ago:
BofA deez nuts
- Comment on damn, must've just missed him 3 months ago:
Fun fact, if I’m not mistaken many octopuses can not just change color, but also change shape to mimic their environment. In other words, an octopus trying to mimic a brick would not just take on the texture of the brick, but also the shape.
- Comment on If you hoard video games and aren’t selfhosting GameVault yet, you’re missing out! 3 months ago:
Does this run on a raspberry pi 1 or 2? I can’t remember which one I have, but I barely use it so it’d be cool to have something to use it for.
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 3 months ago:
People = bad?
People = bad!
- Comment on Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals 3 months ago:
Literally Hypnospace Outlaw.
- Comment on Man who won art competition with AI-generated image now says people are stealing his work 3 months ago:
If you want to copyright the prompt, go right ahead. As far as I’m concerned that’s fair game; though I still think you’re a dumbass for getting mad about it.
As for the image? Fuck off. You can convince people that AI is capable of original works, or you can convince people that AI is nothing but a tool to remix and mashup other people’s artwork.
If you do the former, then the AI is the one that should receive copyright, not you. If the AI wants to then sell or transfer the copyright to you, then it’s free to do that… Except AI can’t hold copyright because there’s no evidence that it is intelligent enough to do so.
As for the latter? You’d better start going through your training set to make sure none of the trained images exist in the final image in a large enough capacity to be considered infringing. Otherwise, you may be liable for copyright infringement.
Either way, go fuck yourself.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 3 months ago:
Probably. If you’ve ever been under anesthesia then you’ve probably noticed the difference between sleeping under anesthesia and sleeping under normal conditions. Personally, I normally get the feeling that time has passed when I sleep, I didn’t have that feeling when I had my wisdom teeth removed; and anesthesia still doesn’t turn your brain all the way off. I’m pretty sure if your brain actually turned off all the way and then turned back on again, then you’d probably feel like you’re a different person.
- Comment on Mr. Steal Your Girl 3 months ago:
“cowboy scoots”
I love this.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 3 months ago:
Except our brains are still functioning. If they didn’t keep functioning, we’d be brain dead. The point is that there’s a common thread that connects every waking moment together.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 3 months ago:
Your brain is still functioning while you’re asleep. If it turned off all the way then you’d become brain-dead.