UndercoverUlrikHD
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- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 3 days ago:
I’m the same with 1. I’d recommend trying out Black Mesa, it might be the best game remake ever made.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 6 days ago:
Better visuals and much faster/cheaper for the developer to make.
We are still in the infancy of the technology and the vast majority of games with ray tracing doesn’t fully utilise it as they must compromise to support normal raster, leading to half baked implementations on engines not designed with ray tracing in mind.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 1 month ago:
Pathfinder also has fairly detailed difficulty settings panel, you can tailor the difficulty to your liking. Story mode difficulty and auto level up presets makes the game beatable for even your grandma, so you can ease into the system.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 1 month ago:
Graphics and voice acting, but only because they randomly stop speaking and go to pure text during dialogue. BG3 also doesn’t have Blackwater…
100% agree with the rest. I really hope Owlcat gets inspired by the more dynamic elements/environments from Larian’s games though.
- Comment on 5 pin connector recommendations that have both male and female sockets available 1 month ago:
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One of a kind hobby project. I want to experiment with time of day controlled LEDs, and see how they work as a light based wake up alarm.
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I’d rather not break the bank for needlessly overkill connectors, the total for the project so far is only ~220$, and I only sporadically work on it.
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portability isn’t all that important, but the chassis the connectors would connect to should preferably be as small as possible. The PWM circuitry without connectors are ~8cmx3cm.
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I wouldn’t mind using connectors with more pins. The primary challenge is just finding a connector with both male and female socket plugs that seems to easy to plug in and out, within specs.
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- Comment on 5 pin connector recommendations that have both male and female sockets available 1 month ago:
The connectors needs to be gendered so that input and output can’t be mixed up by mistake.
- Comment on 5 pin connector recommendations that have both male and female sockets available 1 month ago:
Sorry, my original comment was poorly written. While they do lead to earth, there is a mosfet in between each that receives a unique PWM signal. See the edit for more details.
- Comment on 5 pin connector recommendations that have both male and female sockets available 1 month ago:
By soldering the ends of the LED, do you mean the 4 earth connections? I should probably have clarified that the 4 “earth” connection only lead to earth when the mosfets connected to the LED is open. Each connection leading to earth is for either, R, G, B or W so they can’t be soldered together.
- Comment on 5 pin connector recommendations that have both male and female sockets available 1 month ago:
I haven’t noticed any difference in brightness between the first and last LED. Since the power is sent via PWM controlled mosfets, splitting the power wouldn’t work all that well since it inevitably have to connect the box (with the connectors) with the PWM circuitry.
- Comment on 5 pin connector recommendations that have both male and female sockets available 1 month ago:
I don’t know how aging affects the LED power draw, according to the manufacturer I shouldn’t expect more than 7.5A. When measuring peak power output, I get only get ~6A total though.
4 pins are for earth with each (measured) having ~1.5A going through them at peak brightness. The fifth pin must bear the total load of the four other pins.
Having 5 pins is of course not a strict requirement, it’s just the LED strip that has 5 connections.
- Comment on 5 pin connector recommendations that have both male and female sockets available 1 month ago:
A few meters LED strips.
According to the spec sheet only 7.5A should be necessary with a recommended 25% margin for a total 9.4A for the power supply. I rounded up to 10 for simplicity, and that’s the spec of the power supply I have.
Measuring max current at peak brightness is only at ~6A though, so 10A isn’t strictly necessary.
IP rating isn’t necessary, it should all fit into a small box with some circuitry for PWM signaling used inside a normal room.
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- Comment on Horse archers ruin every game they are in. 1 month ago:
Which in turn reposted it from a Roman source
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
Once operational, the energy generated is cheap and will still be in demand
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 1 month ago:
And then the other half of the Internet cries about how all they do are lazy remasters.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Preview - IGN 1 month ago:
No. Different genre at this point
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
It’s a genuine concern though. If you want one centralised server hosting all the content, just use reddit.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
I don’t think you become the best tech CEO in the world by having a healthy approach to work. He is just wired differently, some people are just all about work.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
Children probably
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
It’s just a research paper, not a product. It’s about discovering and learning new possible methods and applications.
- Comment on Dutch government to ban ASML from servicing installed wafer tools in China 2 months ago:
They are probably the most complex machines ever created by humanity though, and requires expertise across the whole world to build. Even if they had blueprints, it would take years just to get the manufacturing right.
- Comment on Norway inaugurates Europe’s first LFP gigafactory 2 months ago:
Don’t get high on your own supply, as the saying goes.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
Just a heads up that I think you replied to the wrong comment in the chain
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
But now you’re cherry picking food. Fish and chicken is good and healthy food, why didn’t mention those instead. Pure sugar is both vegan and gluten free, but you wouldn’t call that healthy would you?
There is nothing unhealthy about gluten if your body can tolerate it. So vegan, gluten free and the opposite are all perfectly valid options for a healthy diet. You could also have an unhealthy diet within those 3 categories as well.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
Neither vegan nor gluten free food is “healthier” than other food. It’s a question of scale and target demographic.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
It started long before that, I think ubisoft in general was hugely influential in that trend.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
I think Spyro was the first mainstream game to standardise achievements, you could do random stuff in-game and it gave you a little pop up
Which one did that?
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Someone can easily host a website to leak this information
Anyone with a kbin account see them by default, no need to create a special website for it
- Comment on Close call 2 months ago:
Damn, never a lemmy thread this weird before. People need to grow up and shed those game insecurities, let people enjoy their hobbies.
- Comment on Disaster strikes 3 months ago:
Just buy the correct size…