eRac
@eRac@lemmings.world
- Comment on If you had to pick only one Opening for Bleach, what would it be? 1 week ago:
I’d have to go with the ubiquitous plastic bottle cap. A metal cap doesn’t reseal properly and just punching a hole in the side of the packaging is a no-go for obvious reasons.
- Comment on 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" 1 week ago:
And a 3! (Extreme Stunts)
I remember both fondly. I should spoil that memory some day…
- Comment on 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" 1 week ago:
It has very little gameplay. It’s a few mini games spread across a janky early-3D scene.
Lego Island 2 is much more game.
- Comment on Mouse pointers with drop shadows have their visual click zones and actual ones misaligned. 2 weeks ago:
A drop shadow implies that the object is floating above a plane. If you have an object floating above a plane, it would need to drop to the plane to interact with it, so the interaction point should be the tip of the shadow, not the tip of the cursor.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 weeks ago:
This was comments, not posts. They were using a model to approximate the demographics of a poster, then using an LLM to generate a response counter to the posted view tailored to the demographics of the poster.
- Comment on Speedrunner already beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
Many modern games have a separate physics frame rate to avoid that issue, but tend to always have the physics process a fixed amount of ‘time’ regardless of how long the frame takes so that the physics is more consistent. If that lags, the whole game will pretty much play in slow motion.
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 2 weeks ago:
Nobody can make a successful browser that is simpler. The moment a user hits a website that no longer works, they are going back to their old browser.
All these new features exist because websites replaced every single program most people used. Web browser now have to be capable of doing anything pretty well. It’s not some grand conspiracy to take over the internet, it’s providing the features devs want so they can deliver the things they want in the modern multiplatform no-install world.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 4 weeks ago:
Do you have an example that does first person melee combat well while rolling for accuracy?
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 4 weeks ago:
The problem with combat in Morrowind is that it simultaneously measures player skill and character skill. Chance-to-hit works when the character does the aiming and gap-closing for you. When you have to handle that with poor depth perception and you have chance-to-hit on top of that, it’s always going to feel like garbage.
- Comment on Light switches should be glow in the dark 4 weeks ago:
You can get clear switches with an LED in them that is lit when the light switch is off. I swapped out the switches in my windowless kitchen. They look pretty industrial though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“Recently” being one Reddit post three years ago about needing to manually index the color nozzles on their third-party ink.
A YouTuber hyped it up as Brother turning to the dark side so that he could profit off clicks.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 month ago:
Giant: Citizen Kabuto
Deep cut. Such a strange game.
I remember playing 3-person multiplayer with no router in that game. A friend had two Ethernet ports but couldn’t bridge them, so he’d host and the other two of us would join. Some stuff worked smoothly, but other stuff was super broken.
- Comment on Brother has now succumbed to temptation, and is starting to fuck up your printer on purpose if you use third party ink 2 months ago:
Please note that this is based on a Reddit post from three years ago. It’s a YouTuber that stokes drama for money doing what he does best.
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 2 months ago:
Scare us away? Some of us are on instances that make the connection more obvious.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 2 months ago:
Want a fun piece of trivia? Epic Pinball launched Digital Extremes, the developer behind Warframe.
- Comment on How is Arcane the series based upon League of Legends, a tower defense game? 2 months ago:
The game prints enough money that they could afford to have a writing staff and illustration team. I think the idea is that building character depth will make a subset of players more connected to them. This keeps them playing and also increases the odds of them buying a skin for the character.
It’s similar to the Meet The ______ videos from TF2 and the comics that built on them.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 months ago:
Google removed “Don’t be evil”
Still parading that lie around? It’s easily verified as false. Their code of conduct ends with:
And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 4 months ago:
Labeling it the beginning of winter is a cultural thing.
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 5 months ago:
Notch worked at King before, so MC is directly related to one of the companies on the list.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 6 months ago:
Part of the issue is that modern games are usually getting fixes right up to release. Pre-release reviews tend to focus on things that aren’t likely to ever change significantly, like design and writing.
It would be nice if they gave a summary of issues they saw with a disclaimer that they may get fixed instead of omitting that information entirely.
- Comment on 75 sickened as McDonald's severe E. Coli outbreak expands 6 months ago:
Gotta love the McD hate in this case.
The problem item is onions from a major processor. Burger King had a SKU recalled too, along with most of the processed onions from both Sysco and US Foods, which supply most restaurants. It goes way beyond McD.
- Comment on How do I plug this in? Old Black & Decker Hedge Trimmer. 7 months ago:
Isn’t that just a normal North America plug? Most lawn equipment was set up to use standard extension cords so that cables didn’t have to be unique.
- Comment on Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first 7 months ago:
Expanse does too, though it isn’t common in that world.