MossyFeathers
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 days 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? 3 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago:
The gun isn’t for what’s outside.
- Comment on aerodynamics 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
BofA deez nuts
- Comment on damn, must've just missed him 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
People = bad?
People = bad!
- Comment on Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals 5 weeks ago:
Literally Hypnospace Outlaw.
- Comment on Man who won art competition with AI-generated image now says people are stealing his work 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
Your brain is still functioning while you’re asleep. If it turned off all the way then you’d become brain-dead.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
The Elder Scrolls. It’s not explicitly stated, but iirc it’s highly suggested it’s post-apocalyptic. That said, it’s still fantasy, there’s still magic, spellcasting and so forth; it’s just that the lore highly suggests it may be post-apocalyptic.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
I haven’t tried to use Qobuz’ customer support, so I can’t comment on that. As for paying the musicians directly vs paying the label; that’s good to know. I hadn’t thought about the fact that labels like to take massive cuts; so even if the cut is larger, the fact that it’s being filtered through the label means the artist themselves gets a smaller cut.
As far as MQA, I’ve heard that’s kinda half-true? Iirc, if a song had an MQA version, then Tidal played the MQA version when you asked for lossless. However, if it didn’t have an MQA version, then you got true lossless. I was looking at streaming services a few years ago when the MQA controversy erupted, and the MQA thing took Tidal off my list of services I was interested in so I never actually tried it out. I might check it out again at some point and see what the library is like.
- Comment on After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all 1 month ago:
I couldn’t get through Halo 4’s campaign when it was released as part of the MCC, nor was I able to get though Halo Infinite’s (it wasn’t bad, just… meh; nowhere near as good as the Bungie campaigns but not trash either, just not as good). I would still like the option to play Halo 5 on PC just so I have the ability to play the main campaign, plus I’ve heard it’s the best multiplayer Halo? But yeah. Even if I never actually play it, it’s nice to have the option.
On a tangential note, I think 343’s Halo games would have been considered good if it wasn’t for Bungie’s Halo. I don’t think their campaigns are honestly bad, per se (though again, haven’t tried to play H5), they’re just bad in comparison to the “OG” games.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure I’ve read Qobuz has the highest payout of any streaming service, plus you can actually buy music. Also afaik Qobuz never jumped on the mqa scam train. Tidal wasn’t even giving you lossless music when you asked for lossless music for the longest time.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
No one’s mentioned Qobuz either. It’s like Spotify+iTunes except lossless.
- Comment on "English" 1 month ago:
Yeah, well. Listen, we might need it simplified, but we make up for it by constantly adding to our vocabulary. Quantity over quality, as they say. Just like everything else in this country.
- Comment on "English" 1 month ago:
Especially with America’s history of large and successful inventions spawning from garages much like in the UK coming from small garden sheds all starting from barely-working prototypes.
It’s funny you’ve mentioned this, because I’ve also heard that American tourists have a reputation for not only enjoying queues like y’all in the UK, but will also form queues where one doesn’t exist. I fully believe this too, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen Americans form a mob except when we’re protesting, rioting, or it’s Black Friday. Otherwise, people will just automatically form lines. They’ll even join lines when they have no idea what the line is for. I honestly question whether queues are even necessary in this country because we seem to just do it automatically lol.
Anyway, as for the slang terms,
I like “Mithering”.
“Naff” - may be a bit difficult to adapt; something about it feels off in my mouth. It’d probably end up mangled if adopted.
“Bodge”/“Bodged” - I think this is where the term “botch-job” came from, which refers to something thrown together sloppily or carelessly in the US. As such, it’d have to buck its reputation first. Otherwise it’d probably be pretty popular as a “classy” way of saying “jerry-rigged” (basically anything from the UK tends to be viewed as being “classy” in the US, except for when it isn’t; don’t ask me why, I don’t know lol).
- Comment on "English" 1 month ago:
Yeah, well, y’all’rn’t doin’ anything interesting with it, so we made it better.