Tahl_eN
@Tahl_eN@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
As far as I’m aware, the rule is “if it can easily be pronounced, it should be pronounced. If it can’t, fall back to spelling it.” For example, if it was the Federal Investigation Bureau, we would probably call it the Fib, barring some major marketing campaign to prevent that.
- Comment on Real and True 1 week ago:
Working my way to 8, but I lack the monitor arms. So it’s three across and one-and-a-half above. In my defense, it’s three different computers.
- Comment on Console(s) to TV 2 months ago:
I don’t have all my stuff plugged in right now, but when I did I used an AV switch or an AV receiver. For Dreamcast and Xbox, I recommend using VGA video if you can swing it, significantly improved video quality. But it’s getting difficult to find screens that take it as an input anymore.
- Comment on They Made a Zip Drive.. for your TV?! 2 months ago:
Zip and Jazz drives had some serious data stability issues that would have sunk them anyway. I used them for school work and needed to have duplicates because it was a question of when the disk would fail, not if.
- Comment on We have one at home 2 months ago:
I loved mine! Did exactly what I bought it for, emulation on my TV and playing media from my server. Replaced it with a Shield eventually, but don’t regret backing it on Kickstarter.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 3 months ago:
Half Life 2. Wasn’t a big fan of the first one, but the second had tons of hype, so I gave it a shot. The physics stuff was cool, but the gameplay, story and characters were boring and flat. And the “revolutionary” storytelling method of locking you in a box to talk at you rather than making a proper cutscene still sucks.
- Comment on Facts and minds 7 months ago:
I actually react well to combative. Not right away, but it puts me into a “I’ll show you” mood that drives me down a rabbit hole of research. If you’re right, I come out the other side with the data and admit I was wrong. But I assume I’m not normal.
- Comment on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not 8 months ago:
I would believe that it only currently works in English.
- Comment on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not 8 months ago:
Yahoo did pull this shit. I had to dig through privacy settings in my account, not just the email setting, to turn it off.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 10 months ago:
I use one in my car - it’s more convienet for short trips or trips with multiple stops. I do keep a cable for longer trips though, especially if I need to keep the screen on for GPS - the wireless charger makes the phone warm enough to stop charging over the course of an hour or so.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 10 months ago:
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 11 months ago:
Remember to send them an email and let them know you’re boycotting them. They don’t have to know how long you’ve been doing it.
- Comment on After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft. 1 year ago:
Raytracing is still very computationally intensive, and doesn’t have enough market penetration to make sense on most modern games. Devs need to implement two solutions: a raytraced path and a raster path. The game needs to be fully playable in both, across a wide range on hardware. The largest install base for most games is still console, where RT barely exists. So RT is generally relegated to eye candy for high-end PC. Which makes it a marketing feature, not a game feature.
It’ll be interesting to see if that changes with the PS5 Pro. I expect we’ll see more first-party titles support it, but not much else until the next real console generation.