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 After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo is in a very envious spot in general. Hell, I think Nintendo makes some great games, I just wish they wouldn’t force me to buy yet another computer solely for the purpose of playing their games. I haven’t owned a Mario Kart or Zelda game in years but I’d love to play if I could do so on PC/Linux.
- Comment on After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe I’m just wrong in general … The above doesn’t look that different from say black ops 6 footage.
I definitely wish for a return to the linear format (or simi linear where there are a few concurrent linear quests going on). I think straight up open world just lends itself to making a lot of walking simulators.
Halo Infinity was one of the most boring games I ever played between the weapons sounding like toys and the spread out objectives with no clear central mission.
- Comment on After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller 2 weeks ago:
Because graphics still sell games. You can do simplified graphics like Nintendo and still sell games, but lots of people want the photo realistic experience and the bar for that has gone way way up incrementally over the years.
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 2 weeks ago:
To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
The one thing I will say is this isn’t a human… Deer probably aren’t in their training data at near the rates humans are.
It’s definitely still concerning, but also still maybe more trustworthy than some human drivers. We seriously give licenses to too many people. Within the last week I’ve seen a guy that went into the other lane by like 4’ multiple times and I also saw a lady who blocked 2 lanes of traffic so she could make an illegal U turn on a 4 lane city street (rather than you know turning off on a side street/one of many nearby parking lots and turning around).
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Some Linux bad Windows good troll
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
There is a difference there in that these are digital copies (easy to make more copies) vs physical books (hard to make more copies).
That said, the only reason this is an issue is copyright lasts too long on relatively short lived games.
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 3 weeks ago:
I think you should pick up a civics book and/or lookup what a monarch is.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 3 weeks ago:
I do not trust bitwarden to encrypt my data anymore than anyone trusts keypass to encrypt my data.
They’re both open source, you’re plainly mistaken.
- Comment on You could probably measure someone's age how hanging his balls is. 3 weeks ago:
No, we’re really not…
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- Comment on Apple Could Reportedly Stop Vision Pro Production Soon 3 weeks ago:
Maybe for traveling. However, how many people really are going to buy an expensive electronic device for a few hours on a plane?
That’s a pretty “upper class” luxury at best. Then, there’s nobody developing apps for it outside of a few streaming providers (maybe).
Also, I work with multiple monitors all day and play games on those monitors at night, but I still appreciate that I can look away from the content and just “get up and get a drink” or look out the window and watch the birds outside of my office at the feeder.
Also think about all this effort people put in to try and reduce their screen time… A VR headset is the antithesis of that objective.
- Comment on Apple Could Reportedly Stop Vision Pro Production Soon 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t think head sets will ever be absolutely insane products.
Lots of people just don’t want to strap a display to their face.
- Comment on Google Will Pause Ads Related To Elections After Polls Close On November 5th. 3 weeks ago:
To tell people it was rigged
- Comment on Are there any apps or sites that collate all the patch notes for games? 3 weeks ago:
I’m happy to say, IMO, you’re still using the meta RSS client haha
- Comment on Are there any apps or sites that collate all the patch notes for games? 3 weeks ago:
I use Inoreader on both desktop and mobile (they have a very feature rich app, synchronize your experience up, and have a generous free plan).
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What would a negatively full cup look like?
- Comment on SimpleX Chat - Next Level Private Messaging 1 month ago:
I didn’t watch it, I’ve used simplex… Yeah that’s an awful argument, but the tool is interesting.
What I find most interesting about it is, it’s kind of like signal but with a random and rotatable phone number. If you hypothetically had your “phone number” leaked or started getting spammed on it, you just regenerate it, your existing conversations get the updated phone number and continue to work while new conversations can’t be started with the number you just threw out.
You can also create different profiles for different situations, e.g. you could have one for people you meet online vs in person vs in your job.
- Comment on Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog 1 month ago:
There was another model of sorts in “scroll” but they got acquired by Twitter and … Who knows if that technology will ever get used again.
The scroll model was that you pay $5/mo or so and the Internet becomes ad free (at least for sites that had a relationship with scroll).
- Comment on Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog 1 month ago:
Consider this: every website where you block ads is now inaccessible to you. How did that belief work out?
- Comment on If you already know Docker CLI, is there a reason to use Portainer? 1 month ago:
This is why you use fish shell and just type something vaguely similar to what you remember and hit the up arrow key.
- Comment on Foundation crack 1 month ago:
You don’t need an epoxy of any sort for this … just a grinder, some more mortar, and a joiner.
- Comment on Foundation crack 1 month ago:
One thing I’ve learned since becoming a home owner ~5 years ago… There’s a lot of stuff on the Internet that tries to get you to a point of hysteria.
premiumwaterproofing.com/…/stairstep-cracks.jpg
www.du-west.com/wp-content/…/bulog1-1920w.jpg
This is the kind of stair step crack you need to worry about. It’s a big gap, many blocks, etc. It’s a sign part of your foundation is sinking.
What you have is a block missing some mortar and a crack below (which can happen if water gets into the block … which happens when you’re missing mortar). You can have someone look at it, but I think an honest contractor would tell you “get it repointed or do it yourself, keep an eye on it.”
- Comment on Foundation crack 1 month ago:
That just looks like weathering. I have some similar cracks (… that I really do need to get to sooner or later…), it just needs repointed to prevent further water intrusion (take out the old mortar and put new mortar in).
I would not bother your insurance company with this.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
FYI as someone that’s colorblind these captcha’s don’t seem to have anything specially relevant to being colorblind in them.
Now if they start showing me a dozen traffic cones and asking me to pick the green one, we might have a problem.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
Indeed
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
For me it’s a mix of what you said and how they treat their employees/where they’re making the product.
I spend extra time trying to find higher priced, higher quality, more fairly manufactured products.
- Comment on ClamAV setup 1 month ago:
ClamAV is mostly for filtering things on mail servers or uploads to a shared resource like a wiki.
You can also use it as a system virus scanner, but most viruses it detects are Windows viruses.
- Comment on Kaspersky removes itself and installs UltraAV without permission 1 month ago:
What companies use Kaspersky?
Isn’t this mostly a consumer level issue?
