whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 6 hours ago:
Not even a second, it’s sometimes less than 250-300ms. If I wasn’t already anticipating it to fail and disengage as it went though the 2-lane wide turn I would have gone straight into oncoming traffic
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 day ago:
Tony hawk pro skater 2, played it often when it first came out and hearing about the 3/4 remake coming out soon reminded me of the games and it’s been decades, I wanted to see if it holds up. It’s showing some age in the fighter combo style tricks and arcade style levels, but the soundtrack is still good, and progression with unlocking stats and levels through goals is fun and wanting to beat a goal after failing a couple times keeps me coming back.
- Comment on My dailies 3 days ago:
Good stuff, og Gameboy was my first handheld I have a lot of fond memories of those games like Zelda, WrestleMania, Castlevania, etc
These days I’m less on mobile gaming I have batocera running on a raspberry pi 4 in one of those small acrylic cases and a small fan
- Comment on Do instances exist where you can be 13+? 6 days ago:
I suspect this is going to be true of pretty much any publicly accessible social media in general, parental controls built into the app or browser user access controls for censoring, time limits, or keeping them on a family friendly instance seems to be the right move
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 1 week ago:
Greasybox Software
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 1 week ago:
Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
It’s just a tool, like a search engine or a guillotine
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
The first level of MegaMan x and good springs in fallout: New Vegas are really good examples of how to convey info to the player about how the game works and what you can do without pulling you out of the game itself a separate tutorial
- Comment on France Moves to Classify X as an Adult Site Amid Digital ID Crackdown 1 week ago:
Why use age instead of a knowledge check instead?
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a back door, it’s just a rear entryway
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 3 weeks ago:
It’s been interesting seeing the changes as they happened over time working with java pretty often for a good chunk of that time. The jvm and jit performance improvements, syntax changes and additional jep features added vs what was left out, tools for running and managing jvms, Sun & Oracle shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly, new jvm languages with scala, groovy, clojure, etc and their impact on java. I prefer other languages and tool chains for some cases, but java has been pretty good for building reliable, upgradable, extendable systems that get the job done & have a good large stable library.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 4 weeks ago:
It gets weird in the gaps; kilts, parachute pants, togas
- Comment on On trees... 4 weeks ago:
Not to be confused with Dryococelus aka the “tree lobster”
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 weeks ago:
Second hand coffins, cheap!
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 4 weeks ago:
Easy answer for me, chemical plant zone from Sonic the hedgehog 2
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 4 weeks ago:
Greasy Randy isn’t exactly known for being not gross prior to the comment either
- Comment on 7 for me 5 weeks ago:
5/10 are Donald Duck, 15 is Daisy Duck
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 5 weeks ago:
Strawmanning because they won’t or can’t understand your argument, mistaking the map for the place usually because of equivocating on vaguely understood or multiple definitions, non-sequetor this is where someone just yaps for awhile based on the crap that falls out of their head based on the words they heard but didn’t get the point and is barely tracking
- Comment on WARNING! 5 weeks ago:
A ghost who is also a dick
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 5 weeks ago:
The story just broke on corporate news networks, I heard the president of video games is going to make an address
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 5 weeks ago:
I’m not buying whatever a billionaire nepo baby CEO monopoly owner is pedaling. Let’s hear what some labor leaders have to say about it for a change.
- Comment on i broke 1 month ago:
Right, kick ass. Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 month ago:
Same had a little acer mini laptop in early 2000s I used it for notes, office apps, etc during college and between the battery life and how much more portable it was than the giant laptop I had at the time it was great, it ran BSD without any fuss too.
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 1 month ago:
A person born in 467953 is -465928 years old
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 month ago:
Monster sanctuary (turn based monster collector) and Roboquest (arena shooter) were a couple from recent years that stood out to me
For older games nethack and dwarf fortress are great if you can look past the graphics
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s more run away/chain reaction type events you want to avoid I think rather than a low % inflation or deflation that remains relatively stable, swing too far in either direction and you going to have problems.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 month ago:
A bunch of retro games have good couch co-op support & the steam deck can emulate pretty much all of them
Zombie ate my neighbors, smash TV, 2-d brawlers like TMNT turtles in time, double dragon, and streets of rage, Goldeneye, toejam and Earl, bubble bubble
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Code written by software doesn’t mean AI unless you ignore compilers
Executives lie to boost profits and justify their decisions, I doubt MS execs even know how much of their code is AI generated just like the ad sales company exec they were talking to in the article
- Comment on You never forget your first 1 month ago:
In all it’s shades on green 💚
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 1 month ago:
The command line is an exceptionally useful tool, you may want to spend a little time getting familiar with it and common command line tools that would probably make self hosting almost anything easier.
It’s like wanting to learn to play guitar but not learning how to restring and tune it, sure it’s not necessary but you’re going to be overly dependent on others to do something you could learn for yourself with a little time and patience, and it will probably broaden your perspective on what you can do once you do get familiar with how to pipe commands together and combine basic tools into something more sophisticated and complex.
