Dark_Arc
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg
Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.
- Comment on Marathon vs. Arc Raiders - Discussion of the games' opposite opinions 1 week ago:
Yeah for me, it’s the variety of tales that you author. Every game feels a bit like a new adventure, after a while similar to ones you’ve been on before, but still new.
ARC has those elements, but something feels off so far for me…
- Comment on Marathon vs. Arc Raiders - Discussion of the games' opposite opinions 1 week ago:
I haven’t played Marathon, but I did get into the ARC test. This will mostly be some ramblings…
I’m still waiting to play ARC with some friends. I only did some solo stuff.
I’m coming from this as a big Hunt Showdown player (1,200+ hours) and someone that’s played a bit of Forever Winter (~20). I still like Hunt better; I think it’s the only extraction shooter that didn’t take a ton of influence from Tarkov.
I wasn’t crazy about the marathon art style, but I’m not ready to pass judgement on it until I’ve been in the world.
ARC’s art style I found beautiful but also perhaps too sparse. There were so many wide open spaces … I just don’t see that being a good thing for an extraction shooter. The world felt vast and empty … I prefer Hunt’s more cluttered and dense design.
ARC does seem to have a lot of potential in like how it’s designed its AI, Hunt’s is very primitive in a lot of ways and kind of secondary. I think the AI is going to be a bigger deal in ARC.
Third person also feels worse to me than first person. I hope they add a first person mode to ARC, but I kind of doubt they will.
I definitely agree that ARC felt like it was being set up to tell a story and felt very cinematic at times.
The UI also felt like the best extraction shooter UI I’ve ever encountered.
I’m concerned about the long term health of ARC. The progression system seems like it will certainly lead to established players dominating newer players. The lack of a primary objective that’s shared by all the teams on the map … I’m not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, it may lead to a more relaxed experience, on the other hand, it doesn’t curate players towards each other like Hunt does; it seems looting and crafting are the primary motivators instead.
The flights that I did get into, they lacked the complex environment and buildings in Hunt so I didn’t find them nearly as engaging, they were much more straight forward gunfights than leveraging the map to my it my opponents advantage. I think that aspect will ultimately hurt the game as it makes it feel like a bit of a generic shooter.
Overall ARC felt very middle of the road from what I’ve played of it so far. I had a similar feeling about The Finals. Embark seems like a talented studio and I wish them the best as they go up against Bungie and Crytek.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 3 weeks ago:
🤦♂️
- Comment on Google wants to make its 2M-mile fiber network fully autonomous by year’s end 4 weeks ago:
I honestly suspect antitrust is the reason Google hasn’t laid more fiber. They’re dangerously close to being broken up for so many other things adding this would be a very high risk gambit. Especially because ISPs are known for their shitty business practices and leveraging lawyers to maximum pain on any legitimate competition that threatens them.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 4 weeks ago:
Something to implement signing given the key to sign with could almost certainly be created.
I think the biggest reason this stuff hasn’t really happened is … there’s not much motivation and Apple will likely respond to such efforts unkindly so you might need to be a bit of a curious masochist (or at least in strange circumstances) to attempt such an effort 😅
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 4 weeks ago:
You don’t really; a cross compilation with a compiler that can generate the ARM instructions for Apple’s ARM CPUs should largely just work.
However, it’s impossible to test the produced app without using an iPhone or MacOS’s tools to simulate running on an iPhone. You also are just going to have way less of an uphill battle using Apple’s tools and you’re likely to get better optimized binaries.
You also don’t have to build iOS apps with Swift; C++ and things like Qt can be used.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 4 weeks ago:
For MacOS you’re right, for iOS OP is right; you’re being a dick about it though, so maybe that’s the issue.
- Comment on Federated wiki software? 1 month ago:
Yeah, that could definitely be cool.
Cost would be a big factor … Fandom got big by being free and eventually replaced (or heavily customized) mediawiki to the point it’s unrecognizable.
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 1 month ago:
Anything with a server software you can host can be played on LAN (okay probably not some things because they’re being weird but in general this is true).
That means counter strike, Minecraft, supertuxkart, xonotic, enshrouded, pal world, etc
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 2 months ago:
Ugh yeah that’s been an increasing problem too. I had some guy last year just as dusk was starting to set with a bike headlight blinding me on the bike trail.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 2 months ago:
100% this; I’ll see the same make a model go by, with LED lights, and it will be fine one time the next time I’ll be long 🔥 MY EYES 🔥.
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
But I have such a soft spot for how beautiful the console is from a design and hardware standpoint. That boxy gray box is such beauty.
Agree to disagree lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Truthfully the you that’s reading this this second, might have just come into existence with all the memories you have now. There’s no way to know how volatile truth really is in our universe.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 2 months ago:
But they are not the default option. And your new job may not use them.
Who cares if it’s the default? If it’s the best tool, use it.
It’s to have a reason for “going Rust” be the build system, especially in the context of something as new as a WASM context where basically any project is going to be green field or green field adjacent.
Exceptions is a non standard exit point. And by “non standard” I’m not talking about the language but about its surprise appearance not specified in the prototype. Calling double foo(); you don’t know if you should try/catch it, against which exceptions, is it an internal function that may throw 10 level deep ?
And that’s a feature not a bug; it gets incredibly tedious to unwrap or forward manually at every level.
By contrast fn foo() -> Result<f64, Error> in rRst tell you the function may fail. You can inspect the error type if you want to handle it. But the true power of Result in Rust (and Option) is that you have a lot of ergonomic ways to handle the bad case and you are forced to plan for it so you cannot use a bad value thinking it’s good:
You can do this in C++ en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/expected (and as I said, if you feel so inclined, turn off exceptions entirely); it’s just not the “usual” way of doing things.
- Comment on What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you? 2 months ago:
I use Kopia to B2, then on a monthly basis I copy the current Kopia repo to an external drive that’s otherwise kept offline in my house.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 2 months ago:
I mean, maybe it’s not easy because they don’t provide debug information, but a sufficiently motivated person can debug a web assembly binary.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 2 months ago:
- It’s statically compiled and isn’t dependent on system binaries and won’t break if there if the system has the wrong version like C/C++, allowing you to distribute it as a single binary without any other installation steps
You can do that with C++ too.
- Still produces fairly small binaries unlike languages like Java or C# (because of the VM)
I mean, the jars are actually pretty small; but also I really don’t get the storage argument. I mean we live in a world where people happily download a 600 MB discord client.
- Is a modern language with a good build system (It’s like night and day compared to CMake)
Meson exists … as do others.
- And I just like how the language works (errors as values etc.)
Fair enough; though why? What’s wrong with exceptions?
I work in a code base where I can’t use exceptions because certain customers can’t use exceptions, and I regularly wish I could because errors as values is so tedious.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 2 months ago:
The minifiers have long made JavaScript just as indecipherable
- Comment on The best place to get water from a hotel room is the shower head 2 months ago:
In what world is a shower more used than a sink?
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 2 months ago:
They even sued a guy who spent 6 years writting, casting, shooting, and producing a full length live action Zelda movie. They released it online for about a week before it got taken down. Never to be downloaded by anyone who didn’t grab it right away.
Man that would be soul crushing …
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 months ago:
I work in a small company that doesn’t hire hardly at all… Stories like this scare me because I have no way to personally quantify how common that kind of attitude might be.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
I’m in my own house, notice the @social.packetlosss.gg; our “houses” are just talking and that continued conversation is subject to ruud’s and I’s discretion. The way federation works, really nobody “owns” the content, there’s just an agreement on what the primary copy is. There’s no support for this in the software currently, but you could conceptually change which server is the primary copy at any time. The protocol and to some extent the content on it exist in an intangible space.
IMO all Reddit did was strengthen their legal argument; they arguably already had the right to make a “book of reddit poems.” They just wanted to stack the deck on their side. Arguably you have the right to make a book of poems on Reddit.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think the big selling point for me is not the privacy on Lemmy, but control of conversation.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
The law is largely down to who argues better in court. There is precedent for reduced rights in public spaces. e.g. if you go into the town square and talk to someone and it’s caught on the camera of the mother a park bench away that’s recording her child … that’s not an illegal recording and she has the copyright on said recording. You have no legal right to ask the mother to delete the recording or delete your audio from the recording, even in a two party consent space because you have no right to privacy in a public setting like that.
Similarly, when you post on Lemmy … it’s kind of good faith that if you delete something it actually gets deleted from the platform across all instances and that it’s not just visibility deleted but deleted from the databases under the hood.
You do “own your content” but it’s pretty meaningless ownership.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
Yeah but there is a FOSS nature about it. At least ANYONE can do whatever they want with the comments and posts I make public instead of just whichever company pays reddit for API access.
I mean… True; it’s just I wouldn’t characterize Lemmy as superior on privacy. Ideally we’d figure out a way to fix that, but I’m not sure we can really.
And reddit has some legal jargon about co-owning the copyright to whatever you post over there but lemmy doesn’t so you technically have more protection here to your own intellectual property.
This I’m not so sure about. You aren’t handing over ownership rights when you sign up for most (any?) instance, but your ownership right is effectively null and void.
IANAL but arguably in a US court (at least) since Lemmy is effectively a true public place, you effectively lose the right to tell other people what they can do with your interactions.
And privacy is a whole different can of worms as I don’t think ruud is harvesting telemetry to sell to advertisers and whatnot.
That part is arguably true. It is harder to tie this data back to a particular user for the purposes of selling to advertisers.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
No it wouldn’t. People need to understand that open source provides 0 security against intentional abuses when there’s a networking layer involved.
I could be running an analysis on the data your instance handed to my instance just like Reddit is … and you would have absolutely no way of knowing.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
People don’t value their privacy…
Honestly Lemmy is not a great platform for privacy either. Lots of your data is federated to other servers that can do whatever they want with it.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 2 months ago:
Netflix is like the only one on Android I have that ISN’T opt-ed out.
- Comment on Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search | Kagi Blog 2 months ago:
Well it sounds like this is the thing for you! Haha
- Comment on Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search | Kagi Blog 2 months ago:
I installed it, but I’m probably just going to use it periodically. I really appreciate the website prioritization feature of Kagi … so it’s unfortunate that isn’t compatible.