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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a brand new Dreamcast game that's out, called Mute Crimson, and it's free⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s looking like I’m going to have to dust off my CD burner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  materially supporting state violence

  Dingdingdingdingding.

  Here’s the winner, right here. Fascist fucks want to go around pretending that only billy clubs and bullets and bombs count as “violence.” Inflicting mass starvation on people, withholding medical care, stealing workers’ wages they depend upon to survive, and brutalizing minorities and marginalized groups (oftentimes with actual up front physical attacks) is “just doing business.”

  So news flash to the chucklefucks: That’s not how it works. State sponsored violence is still violence, and so it follows the oppressed have a right to defend themselves. It sure sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, don’t it?

  But it turns out there’s an easy way to defend yourself from that sort of thing. All you have to do is not be a hateful fuck whose policies and actions threaten the lives of others, nor their right to exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the updates and content expansions and so on and so forth have really made Isaac unmanageable in that regard. Throw in the fact that there are quite a few item drops that are objectively detrimental in basically every situation so that a not insignificant fraction of the item pool is just trash drops that nobody in their right mind would ever pick up, and it gets ridiculous quickly. Once you have enough unlocked that you’re regularly getting runs down into the lower sub-basements of hell, unless you’re an absolute guru the meta is literally just to meta. Know a couple of the game-breaking combinations off the top of your head and cross your fingers that you’ll run across all of the components.

  This is in stark contrast to e.g. Dead Cells, which is why I’ve got such an immense respect for the latter. If you’re willing to adjust your play style slightly, every single drop in Dead Cells is a viable weapon that can be deadly in the right hands. You could be wielding a legendary golden abyssal trident, sure, but you can also just as well beat the shit out of all the boss monsters with a pair of frying pans tied together with some rope. It must have taken an immense amount of work to get all of that even vaguely balanced and ensure that there were no duds, wheras Isaac’s strategy seems to be more just throwing shit at the wall (probably literally…) to see what sticks, with a salting of deliberately adding things to troll the player for the lulz.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Binding of Isaac items are explicitly in that vein, in fact, given that its version of potions (pills) are indeed randomized on every run. I haven’t checked out the new update yet but insofar as I’m aware those still are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe initially this was supposed to be part of the appeal. Any item may or may not screw you over if you don’t know what it does which is in keeping with Isaac’s theme of being beat down by your circumstances. Part of gutting gud was intended to be memorizing what the often idiosyncratic items actually did. Except now with years of updates and content expansions there are so many items it’s unrealistic to keep track of it all anymore. In the early days I might have disagreed with this but now it makes sense.

  At least according to the patch notes you still have to collect an item the first time to get its full description, and the new descriptions don’t show at all until you beat Mom for the first time (i.e. you clear at least one basic run), so new players still get to experience the Fun and excitement of potentially getting hosed by an unfamiliar pickup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like how Hydrox are just knockoff Oreos!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s a valid assessment of the yard as well if you’re looking at it from a comedy perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 416 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, hey, hey. Watch the penguin-bashing, bud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That talk about substitutes happened when it was initially handed over to said data miner, and anybody concerned should have switched back then. I did, moving to Lawnchair, and never looked back. Oodles of other options are doubtlessly available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a client who wound up with one of those not realizing what it was, which caused him no end of problems until I ultimately figured it out confiscated it from him. He got a regular US inch one in exchange. I had to look it up at the time, too, because the notion of there being a Chinese knockoff inch that’s subtly inaccurate is one of those things that just seems so ridiculous on its face that it simply can’t be true, right? Except it totally is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  None of the above is true, or at least isn’t the answer for why today a “2x4” is missing an entire half an inch all the way around. The shrinkage due to drying is around 5% (the real answer is more complicated, and wood shrinks different amounts in different directions relative to the grain), which would only account for 1/10" of difference in the thickness of a 2x4. With some species of pine it’s as low as 2%.

  No, the lumber industry has consistently shaved boards in order to fit more into rail cars for transport and make more money and spend less per plank on transportation costs. Various lumber consortiums determined via internal testing that the smaller board sizes are still “sufficient” for their intended purpose vis-a-vis structural integrity of stick framed residential buildings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Tinpaw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take an 8k computer monitor though. In fact, send two. Kthnx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also just use Edge Blocker:

  www.sordum.org/9312/edge-blocker-v2-0/

  …And if you do any of those things (like ye gods forbid, press F1 in a File Explorer window) it simply won’t work. Depending on the object in question either nothing happens at all, or you get a sad easily dismissable dialog box complaining that Windows couldn’t open Edge.

  You can also block the Edge webview component if e.g. you would like Steam not to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …And have them able to run on zero consumer devices if the bootloaders are locked, and the manufacturers refuse to sign their ROMs for them. (Hint: they will refuse to sign their ROMs for them.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D printing sites should require a printed model when uploading a design.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And also weed out models that are clearly impossible to print.

  FWIW I always make my headline image a printed instance of whatever it is. I figure nobody’s interested in anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made Duality, a Game Boy Color game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neato. Kudos not only for doing this, but also documenting it so thoroughly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I saw what you did there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  harborfreight.com/momentary-power-foot-switch-571…

  I have one of these on my big “real” table saw as well, because the location of its power switch is deeply inconvenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Re: Lemmings.

  How about Magpies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But there will be an actual NES version. Hot damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something about psychological warfare idk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychology aside, when I was a wee waddler working my first retail job, my boss told me that the reason they priced items ending in 99 cents specifically at his store was because the change from a dollar left over was a shortcut to telling the cashier how many items had been rung up. “Rung up” itself being very apt in this case, because when he started his business back in the Lower Cretaceous period, they used mechanical cash registers that went ding and everything, but didn’t have fancy electronic readouts of the running total and items registered so far. If the customer handed you seven items you knew that the pennies end of the change if you rounded up to a dollar should be $XX.93, and you could use that to tell handily if you missed anything or double-rung something.

  It seems that the prospect of “losing” a penny in the sense of making a $1 item 99 cents instead was probably a better proposition versus having cashiers let un-rung items walk out the door all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s still fun to shake the jar and watch 'em fight!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you go anywhere with your shiny new flash, also carry a floppy disk around with you with the damn driver on it. Because you can’t trust anyone else’s computer to already have it installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upgrading from Bambu Lab A1 Mini⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s another vote for the X-Max 3. Mine has been quite solid.

  If anyone is interested in multi color support, though, it seems that the Qidi “Box” filament changer thingy will never be made compatible with the Max series, and will only work with the new/current Plus 4. There is at least one third party solution for this in the CoPrint ChromaSet thingy, but this engenders some pretty significant compromises and also locks you into using their nozzles, in addition to reducing the print volume significantly which kind of defeats the purpose of the X-Max 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Windows 2000 was the high water mark. Compared to the NT based operating systems, the 9x versions were pretty rinky-dink in retrospect and not terribly reliable. 2000 was the best truly modern Windows that supported all the stuff we expect: NTFS, real user accounts, actual security, group policy management, the modern disk management utility that’s still in use today, the management console, native USB support (including 2.0 as of Service Pack 4), native ACPI hibernation support without reliance on janky vendor bullshit, etc.

  Yeah, USB support. Everyone forgets that Windows 95 didn’t support USB at all out of the box and 98 barely accomplished it. 95 required the “OSR2 USB Supplement,” and 98 didn’t even support mass storage devices without third party drivers until the “SE” second edition. Those days really were that terrible.

  XP was where the bloat really started setting in, but since XP was basically 2000 with extra shit duct taped to it you could still do all the same stuff with it vis-a-vis gaming and DirectX support, and by and large it could still use the same hardware drivers as XP even if vendors didn’t bother to officially support it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you include the fuel port in the glovebox in case you need to install any Liquid Schwartz?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have brought a few expeditions back for replay a couple of times. However, another user here alerted me a while back to the presence of this:

  cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/

  On select platforms (PC and strangely also the Switch) you can replay the expeditions and get their rewards payouts any time you like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too, pretty much, but I’m fine with that. Every couple of months we get a new content drop (for free!) and I go experience the new stuff, max out everything new there is to be maxed out, and then I can put it down and play something else. I appreciate that NMS doesn’t try to make itself my full time job or require such an asinine time investment that it forces you not to play anything else.

  I think the only FOMO aspect built in to NMS at all is the expeditions, and even then you can replay them any time you want with a third party tool (on PC, anyway).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you just don’t understand. Sean Murray personally lied to me nine years ago!!! Boycotted forevar!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really says something that like the first mod that was ever published after release was the one that eliminates the damn hold-to-confirm mechanic that is on every. Single. Stupid. Interaction. (At least this became an official feature and you can natively disable it on most interaction prompts now.)

  The fact that basically none of the inventory and crafting screens are consistent with each other is one of the main things that still bugs the hell out of me with NMS. Especially when you’re using refiners and so forth, because the dumb popup they give you that only shows you like four options at a time doesn’t even arrange the items within it in the same order as they are in your main inventory. They should have just stolen the paradigm from Minecraft and used it for everything.