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- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 17 hours ago:
I think most gamers would have been perfectly happy with a trip to the Borealis just for the closure of the thing, even if the gameplay brought little to nothing new to the table other than some nice new visuals and arctic setpieces.
Instead we got Half Life: Alyx which was a stunning albeit niche experience in the same old City 17, which retconned Episode 2’s cliffhanger with another, different cliffhanger. For fuck’s sake, Gabe.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
My account is so old I have (or had, before they normalized the format) a four digit steam ID. I “owned” Half Life 2 for like four months before it released thanks to getting a code free in the box with my Radeon 9800 Pro back in the day. For a short and glorious flash of time in the summer of 2004, I was guaranteed a copy of the most hotly anticipated game ever, even though nobody could play it yet, and also owned an example of the fastest video card on the planet. Damned if I didn’t mow a fuckton of lawns and reinstall Windows and Outlook an a horde of septuagenarians’ computers to afford that card.
And no, they do not stop asking about your age.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
Neat, but.
Even HL: Alyx left us with just as much of a cliffhanger as the end of HL2 Episode 2…
- Comment on Update on Menippus planter 2 days ago:
Dem overhangs, tho. Did you print this upside down, with the open end on the print bed? It looks quite good.
I think PETG is probably a good choice for this application. PLA, especially if it’s thin walled as I suspect it is here, will disintegrate pretty quickly with continued exposure to temperature variations, moisture, and sunlight.
ABS is infamously pretty vulnerable to UV, also. You could protect it (or any of the others, really) with a coat of paint.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
As for why: I have no idea! Maybe just for user familiarity reasons, since a lot of people grew up with that kind of analog feedback that the antenna wasn’t getting a signal.
This is exactly why. Preventing screen burn-in may be a tiny peripheral reason also, but providing a familiar experience to chronically myopic and cranky users (i.e. boomers) is probably the bigger one.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
The trope of video/audio breaking down into static is an easy shorthand that is unlikely to be forgotten, probably even well after all the devices capable of doing so have long since been buried in the landfill.
It’s especially hilarious in media depicting the far-flung future, where apparently all technologically advanced space men and their communications devices – not to mention high powered central supercomputers and so on and so forth – apparently still work over NTSC television signals. Even by the early 1980’s it should have been entirely predictable that in “the future” anything like that would be digital, considering we already had widespread digital audio media (CD’s), and digital video was already making inroads into the computing industry.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
Tube TV’s remained in common service well into the 2010’s. The changeover from analog to fully digital TV transmission did not happen until 2009, with many delays in between, and the government ultimately had to give away digital-to-analog tuner boxes because so many people still refused to let go of their old CRT’s.
Millions of analog TV’s are still languishing in basements and attics in perfect working order to this very day, still able to show you the cosmic background, if only anyone would dust them off or plug them in. Or in many retro gaming nerds’ setups. I have one, and it’ll show me static any time I ask. (I used it to make this gif, for instance.)
In fact, with no one transmitting analog television anymore (probably with some very low scale hobbyist exceptions), the cosmic background radiation is all they can show you now. Unless you have one of those dopey models that detects a no-signal situation and shows a blue screen instead. Those are lame.
- Comment on Glow Filament Quickshot 2 days ago:
From a chemical composition standpoint I couldn’t tell you, but my off-the-cuff testing indicates that the glow remains visible for quite a few hours – All night, in fact, though obviously tailing off in brightness considerably as time goes on.
- Comment on Glow Filament Quickshot 2 days ago:
I have a diamond nozzle installed already.
PETG’s issue in this particular application is layer strength, wherein it’s difficult to top PLA except with some semi-exotic and rather hard to print materials like polycarbonate. Both the screws and the blade carrier in my design rely on layer adhesion not failing for durability. Otherwise honestly the parts are all pretty low stress other than I guess potentially the pocket clip.
- Comment on Glow Filament Quickshot 2 days ago:
For a short time in total darkness it actually is pretty bright. Obviously my phone’s camera automatically wound the exposure up quite I bit when I took that picture in the dark, though. That was without any special charge-up, just an hour or so of exposure to the largely LED based lighting in my office with it lying face up on my desk.
This is the Overture brand glow PLA.
I whacked it with my little Lumintop single AA flashlight last night and left it sitting on my bedstand, and found that it was still quite visibly (albeit dimly) glowing by dawn the next morning.
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- Comment on Westloki – 3D printed bicycle belt drive conversion (solid continuous loop belt on an unbroken bike frame) 2 weeks ago:
Weight is really the only reason, but even then I think that’s self-defeating on a bicycle.
Believe it or not, a chain and sprocket drive is actually the most efficient method in terms of energy transmission losses. And when it’s you physically pedaling your bicycle, that’s kind of important. Turning any significant fraction of your pedaling input into heat rather than forward locomotion is kind of a raw deal, which is why even fancy high end bicycles are still chain driven even to this day. A chain drive loses 1-4% of energy in the driveline whereas as comparable belt drive is more in the order of 9-15%.
- Comment on Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color 2 weeks ago:
From squinting at it, all the blocks appear to be 8x8.
- Comment on Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color 2 weeks ago:
I already have it, and the source code. It’s too late for Nintendo.
- Comment on Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color 2 weeks ago:
This port scales the graphics down to the GB’s resolution. I imagine it takes a lot of CPU cycles just to rearrange the graphics data into the Game Boy’s 8x8 tile structure in display RAM. Either that, or it’s precomputed and the ROM is huge.
What would make anyone think they’re downscaling graphics in real time on the Gameboy of all things? The graphics have been flat out redrawn to better fit the Gameboy’s lower screen resolution.
For anyone wondering, here’s the first little bit of what 1-1 looks like:
Look at that doofy goomba.
- Comment on Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color 2 weeks ago:
INB4 “But Mario Bros. DX already exists.”
I dig how the graphics have been reworked and tile size reduced to provide roughly the same field of view as on the NES.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
CIVIVI knives are generally pretty legit. Trust me, I can go much more mall ninja if you like.
This leaps to mind.
- Comment on AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test 3 weeks ago:
Knives are prohibited
Tru fax, I am never working where you do, ever, so long as I live. I’d melt like the Wicked Witch of the West, I’m sure.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
Gee, for the same money… a digital brontosaurus for Orc Game that you need to pay a recurring subscription to actually use, can be taken away from you at any time, or one day the servers may simply be turned off erasing not only your “investments” but also your years of “work.” Or, I don’t know, a CIVIVI Hyperpulse with a groovy pattern welded blade that also happens to be a physical object you can actually hold in your hands and keep forever. Just to pick something out of a hat.
What a tough choice!
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
You can just send 'em back and buy something else. Amazon will take any damn fool thing back.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
Shout out to B&H. I bought my drone from them, and they offered the same model bundle at a slightly lower price than Amazon and also offered next-day shipping for no charge.
They also have a physical retail store and real live people you can call if you have a question, unlike either winding up talking to a chatbot or being redirected to Mumbai after a 45 minute hold.
- Comment on 3D printing on the move: UW device can map a room and print custom items in desired space 3 weeks ago:
Print time: 10 minutes. Time for 2048x2048 point “bed” auto mesh: four hours.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 weeks ago:
Nah. Even if it’s local, I’ll burn my CPU cycles on what I want to, thanks. That’s like installing a bitcoin miner in your PC and claiming, “But it only runs in the background.” Fuck off and buy your own hardware, Microsoft.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
Nope.
Back in the box and straight back to the store.
- Comment on Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them 4 weeks ago:
I’m interested to hear what the deal is now with all those damn “EcoATM” cell phone buying kiosks now, because to my knowledge those were operated by the same outfit (Outerwall) as Redbox is/was. Are they bankrupt, too? My local Dollar General has had one squatting in their foyer for over a year with an out of order sign taped to it and apparently nobody from the mothership has noticed or cares.
Those damn things are theoretically full of cash.
- Comment on Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them 4 weeks ago:
But it’s abandoned on their property. If you abandoned something on a commercial property and never came to reclaim it, eventually (probably quite quickly) the store management would dispose of it. They’re not going to keep it around stinking up the place forever “just in case.”
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
This is in fact precisely what happens. LLM output becomes increasingly incoherent with each subsequent generation trained off of previously AI generated data.
- Comment on Explain why the US bail system is not insane 1 month ago:
And since bail is generally set at the discretion of a judge (I’m sure some jurisdictions have limitations, and others just “guidelines”), it can be increased based on the perceived heinousness of the crime or in some cases outright denied entirely.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Uh-huh. Which uses Mozilla’s renderer. So, all those upstream commits in Libewolf’s code base are coming from where, exactly?
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
There’s no need to wait. Just switch to Firefox now. All the cool kids have already done it.
