eRac
@eRac@lemmings.world
- Comment on 1 day ago:
IIRC, the Steam releases of those are already using Scumm.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 1 week ago:
Being released at the same time as the significantly more modern (and unpopular) Unity didn’t do Rogue any favors.
- Comment on Day 475 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
No, Rockstar outsourced a ‘remaster’ of the early 3D games that was poorly handled.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 1 week ago:
Outlook’s own reaction handling is terrible. It adds the reaction icon to the email, but it doesn’t mark it as unread or bring it to the top. The next day, I get an email with all the reactions for the day.
“Available for a meeting at 9 tomorrow?” 👍
Then the daily digest shows up at 9 and the meeting was never scheduled.
- Comment on CNC 2 weeks ago:
I always go France or Korea. Base walking Grand Cannons or spamming Black Eagles.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 2 weeks ago:
I really like Mardi Gras Mustard. It has the balls to be mustard, not honey mustard.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 3 weeks ago:
I mean, the guy didn’t know that water and ice are the same thing.
The summaries I find reference him theorizing that water may be spherical, leading to the hexagon pattern. He also related the feathery ends to steam hitting a cold window.
It seems to me that he knew that steam, water, and ice were the same thing.
- Comment on Project Shadowglass channels Thief, Deus Ex and System Shock while dunking on generative AI 4 weeks ago:
The pixelization shader is cool. It compensates for camera rotation and warp to keep objects consistent when looking around. It’s like a pixelized 360 video.
Things still crawl when moving, but it significantly improves issues with distant objects flickering as you turn.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 5 weeks ago:
Ratchet & Clank and Going Commando are great.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 5 weeks ago:
Accountants tally the numbers and hand you the totals. Twisting them is unethical and can lead to them losing their licenses.
Analysts manipulate the numbers to push a message. No ethics allowed.
Signed, an analyst raised by an accountant. Interacting with other analysts is infuriating.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 1 month ago:
According to the article, Oracle made $18b from cloud services this year. They are projecting that to grow to $130b in the next five years, with half that growth being this deal.
Absurd.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I genuinely cried during my first listen to that album when I got to T.I.M.E.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Last night, while brushing our teeth, my wife made a comment about losing all her hair. That required a delay in going to bed until we had listened to I Earn My Life. Unfortunately, that leads into the obligatory Reaganomics dance party. Before we knew it it was 11PM and we were considering the philosophy of logo design.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 months ago:
No, Lingo. Two games, both in the past few years. It’s confusing word puzzles in an equally-confusing world.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 months ago:
- Mirror’s Edge
- Lingo (2?)
- And Yet It Moves
ME has stuck with me as my favorite game for fifteen years now. I love it visually, the soundtrack is incredible, and the gameplay is fantastic.
Lingo and its sequel are a bizzare, unmatched puzzle experience. I don’t know what else to say there.
And Yet It Moves is… something else. An indy platformer from the heyday of Indy platformers. It is an interesting example of how story can influence art style.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 months ago:
Valve also clarified today that it was the processors, not the card management companies, that they talked to. The processors were pointing at MasterCard’s rules, but refusing to provide Valve with someone at MasterCard to talk to.
- Comment on Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue 3 months ago:
All we know is a disclaimer on each photo that AI tech was used. These could be real photos on blank backgrounds with the background generated and composited later. They could be photos of the garments on mannequins with the whole person being generated. They could be face replacements so that future models can’t get famous and demand more money.
No matter what, these still took a lot of editing to get to print. They still needed at least one photo of the garments.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 3 months ago:
There’s a skill tree, equipment (not clothing/weapons like most RPGs, but still equipment), and crafting. That’s enough to make it an RPG mechanically.
There’s also the perspective definition. You are embodying a person separate from yourself and you are expected to make choices as them. Textbook RPG.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 3 months ago:
Dishonored is an RPG. It also adjusts the world based on your body count, with corruption getting worse as you kill people.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 3 months ago:
Yes. Nothing is truly incompressible. The speed of sound can be viewed as a measure of how much a material can squish on the atomic level before the next atoms move.
- Comment on Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network 3 months ago:
They are blind, not obtuse. Norton ≠ Notion.
- Comment on In the cave 3 months ago:
You should look at a set tour for Technology Connections on YouTube.
His backdrop is a wall of cube organizers with interesting objects and artifacts from previous episodes. Each cube is backlit, some with flat colors and some with pictures.
The backlights are actually TV screens displaying an array of images that align with the edges of the cubes.
- Comment on For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box. 4 months ago:
Brotherhood and Revelations are both continuations and upgrades from 2. I would not recommend playing all three back to back, but if you liked 2 they should be high on your list to play next.
- Comment on Buckshot Roulette Creator’s New Game Is A Dark Psychological Hacking Adventure Launching Next Month 4 months ago:
Now for the real question: is it actually IRC or just an in-game IRC-like interface.
The greatest hacking game of all time, Uplink, has an actual IRC client that you can buy and install on your in-game systems.
IRC pops up a lot in less obvious places too. The in-game chat in Warframe is IRC, but it handles all the server and channel connecting, locking you out of connecting to arbitrary servers.
- Comment on Helldivers 2, Spider-Man 2, and more PlayStation titles have been freed from their region lock prison on PC 4 months ago:
Sony wanted the games to require PSN login. They got enough pushback that they stopped, but they left the games locked out for regions that don’t have PSN.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 4 months ago:
The problems start if it can take on a lot of the junior work. If nobody can enter the industry, nobody can get the experience required to do the real engineering.
Open-source and personal work may be the only way to enter the programming field in the next decade.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 5 months ago:
JWO hasn’t shut down. The system got polished enough for them to sell it to other companies, so they don’t need their own test-platform locations anymore.
JWO and similar systems do not reduce labor. The people working cashier become customer service attendants. These systems are valuable when the issue is throughput and sales are being lost at peak times. Airport convenience stores and stadium concession stands, for example, can get significantly higher revenue for the same footprint.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 5 months ago:
On the other hand, the only way to get good training data is to generate data indistinguishable from the real-world scenario and then have humans mark it up the way you want the system to do it. You might as well have the data actually be from the real world and recoup some of the costs with sales.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? 5 months ago:
If your primary usecase is text, don’t get a color e-reader. There are significant downsides to the display quality for very little benefit.
If you are wanting to read comics, manga, or illustrated guides, then you will want the color.
I’m a big fan of the Kobo Libra design. It’s friendly to software mods and has a rail for holding it with a nice big button that sits under the thumb for page turning.
I find that the Kindle-style thin bezel gives no comfortable way to hold an e-reader since the only good place to put your thumb is on the screen, the primary input method. It leads to a bad experience and turns people off from e-readers.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? 5 months ago:
I tossed KOReader on my Kobo Libra 2 recently after a year of thinking it didn’t add anything useful. Oh boy, was I wrong.
It’s so much faster, I can dial in the formatting exactly how I want it, and I can customize the inputs to my liking. Page turn only on buttons, tap a corner to toggle dark mode, etc.