Abnorc

@Abnorc@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Duskbloods [Nintendo Direct | Nintendo Switch 2]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When I saw the trailer, I thought Nintendo had pulled the craziest power move. Now I’m less disappointed since I probably won’t have much interest in this anyways. I probably will watch some streamers play it for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I can believe is that AAA games have gotten really expensive to make, so it’s not surprising that ompanjes have broken that sort of soft $60 limit that we had for a while. I’m not even against paying more for a good game. When an indie game for $20 can provide over 100 hours of enjoyment, it’s just getting to be a tough sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo has been pushing the limits of how far it can make things worse for their customers, and people are still locked in because of some of the first party franchises. (Zelda, Mario, Pokémon, etc.)

  Frankly, I’m surprised that Nintendo fans aren’t more mad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as games go, it’s still a lot. I’ve played some $20 games for hundreds of hours. Not a dealbreaker, and I’ll gladly buy the game if it looks fun. On the other hand, the games generally being expensive is not a selling point for the console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom: The Dark Ages - Previews Thread⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You could argue that Doom was always more fantasy focused than sci if, but it doesn’t really matter. Doom doesn’t need to be about the same thing forever. They already had some fantasy/medieval vibes with enemies like marauders, those awesome swords, and some of the visual designs of the areas. I think they saw that it worked and decided to expand on it.

  IMO, it probably always needs to be about high-octane demon killing. If it stays true to that, it can still be called Doom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silksong announced for 2025 on the Nintendo Direct⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s why I doubt this. It’s the same thing we heard before. I’d love to be wrong though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silksong announced for 2025 on the Nintendo Direct⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  On April 2? I’m suspicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m not at all against the idea of throwing a few bucks at them per month for something, but I just don’t see anything that fits in the context of why I use GOG in the first place. Voting rights doesn’t seem like a bad idea. Ideas like earlier versions of games, tools that help with backup, etc should be offered for free or sold for a one-time cost IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A guy in Australia built a Nintendo Playstation for way cheaper than the cost of buying one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lpTfVxwwSU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satire is dead 👌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t doubt Signal per se, but I am surprised that government officials would use it to discuss military plans. I would have thought the government would use something developed by the military just to be sure that it’s safe.

  Sure, they can vet the source code, but it seems more straightforward for the government to develop their own app than create a team to vet the security if something that they didn’t write. Signal is also relatively new, and they had to have a way to discuss these things beforehand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One-handed games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypt of the Necrodancer is great fun if they don’t have it already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The lack of communication from Team Cherry is the only issue, and it’s the primary thing that makes me skeptical about the game ever releasing. If they were working on the game for this long, they’d at least have enough material to give us some kind of an update. It could be as small as a blog post.

  Not to imply that they owe us that or anything. They possibly are just completely disinterested in marketing. It’s a little hard to believe given the amazing trailer that they put together years ago, but it’s still possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pebble Has Been Brought Back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Making a new OS isn’t easy as others have said, but it’s also helpful that Pebble OS has a bit of a following. There are still people who are very vocal about how much they love/loved their pebble watches. Making a new OS that’s inspired by PebbleOS would be met with more skepticism than just releasing a watch with an OS that people already know that they like.

  Assuming that he made no major changes to the software, pebble fans almost already know what they’ll be getting out of this product. You couldn’t say the same for a watch with a new OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if I agree about new games. This is a bit of a problem with some AAA games though. The indie game scene is still thriving as far as I can tell, in some genres more than others. (E.g now is a great time to be into FPS games.)

  A good old game can occupy you for many hours though, and it’s hard to make good games period. I’m not surprised that a few older games dominate the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll never tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Hotel Paradox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No it isn’t.

  Stay tuned for the next episode of internet argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s about staying focused on what you’re doing. Pushing out irrelevant thoughts and focusing on what’s going on is a skill you can work on. In my mind, when something like that is making me giggle, the only thing that helps is not thinking about it. I’m bad at dealing with this too though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncanny sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really know about this stuff, but maybe this is the work of some kind of convolutional neural network. Computerphile on YouTube had a couple of videos about them with Mike Pound. That or this was handmade by someone, but I doubt it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess switching to an alternative OS is a matter of keeping your device alive then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like it’s to lower activity for the holidays, which is a good move. Hopefully they don’t need all hands on deck for some kind of urgent issue until after the holidays are over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse denier⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re going to be in for a rude awakening when horses start eating people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mineral⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that some day someone may have to work on your home, even if it’s just getting demolished decades or more from now. I don’t know how difficult it is to work with if you know that it’s there in advance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Driverless cars can work if enough vehicles are replaced with them. I agree that a few driverless cars in a sea of regular drivers is not optimal though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather a simpler phone at this point. I don’t think I’ve ever looked at my phone and felt that it’s too small. I can think of other ways that I’d want phones to be more functional, like connecting to external external peripherals and a keyboard.

  Lots of people are excited about folding phones too though, so more power to them if companies are willing to go that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reDUcTIon iS gAIn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Benjamin Franklin’s experiments, he came up with the convention that we use today to define a “positive” charge. As it turns out, electrons, discovered much later, are negatively charged according to the convention. Lots of chemical and physical reactions involve electrons as charge carriers, so lots of physical phenomena have this weird opposite thing going on. E.g. electric current or “conventional current” flows in the opposite direction of electron current. Chemical reactions are also weird. Reduction reactions involve a reduction in electric charge, but gaining an electron. The model works just fine, but it can be tricky and/or annoying at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End nuclear fusion!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a balloon full of uranium hexafluoride.