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- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 weeks ago:
the ending of outer wilds, figuring out that the treasure really was the friends we made along the way, will always stand out to me as the most magnificent, joy-filled moment in my 25+ year gaming experience.
that, or getting the cool sunglasses in fez.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse Too Complex? Can It Embrace Simplicity Without Losing Its Identity? 3 weeks ago:
it has the potential to be both. until people running their own instance is commonplace, it won’t be either.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse Too Complex? Can It Embrace Simplicity Without Losing Its Identity? 4 weeks ago:
the main problem is that running an instance of the atproto stack is way complex, so nobody wants to do it.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse Too Complex? Can It Embrace Simplicity Without Losing Its Identity? 4 weeks ago:
bluesky is still not decentralised. just having a protocol does not mean anyone use will use it. if bluesky is down, there’s no bluesky.
- Comment on PS1 Games Now Playable on GameCube 4 weeks ago:
i may just be talking out of my ass but i recall one of the dolphin devlogs saying something about the gamecube not having an fpu either. it got around wobblies by being 64-bit or something. if that’s the case, going 32-bit only would reintroduce them.
- Comment on The future of Android as an Open Source project 5 weeks ago:
yeah but if they’re forced to part with them they may believe it better for their market position to strip all the secret stuff out and just disown the rest.
- Comment on The future of Android as an Open Source project 5 weeks ago:
i think it would probably go the other way. google has closed down so much of the android core system that they would probably respond to the court by opening those parts back up.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 1 month ago:
Elohim DESTROYED with Facts and Logic!
- Comment on fighting the elderly 1 month ago:
i was there this summer! it’s not this particular trunk that’s 9000+ years old, but rather the entire organism. the current largest trunk is like 50 or so years old, but the ground cover is older and the root system is how they figured out the total age.
fun fact, the largest organism ever recorded is also a tree. it’s called (pando)[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)] and has 46000 stems stretching over 40ish hectares. it’s basically a forest of clones.
- Comment on Are there softwares to simulate enough electronics and microcontrollers to learn? 2 months ago:
Depends on what your focus is. If you want to build understanding of electronic components and how they interact through experimentation, Paul Falstad’s circuit simulator is a great start.
If you want to focus on digital logic, Logisim is great.
But here’s the thing: A microcontroller is controlled only through code. You want to learn electronics, you can simulate those. You want to learn about a specific microcontroller, read the manual for that controller.
You want to code on a microcontroller, get a microcontroller.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 2 months ago:
- Comment on But thats all Dan Harmon 2 months ago:
that’s all Mikael Nyqvist tho
- Comment on Covfefe 2 months ago:
60g/l. that’s all you need to remember with coffee.
- Comment on STEAL HIS LOOK 2 months ago:
i used to do IT for a company that isolates and sells antibodies. the amount of money you can charge for what is basically a single drop of liquid is truly staggering.
also, they had freezers that went down to -90C for long-term storage, which was really cool.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
this reads like a teenager wrote it
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 2 months ago:
shit of feceus. it was right there, man…
- Comment on Game of the day - Return of the Obra Dinner - did you enjoy it? 2 months ago:
it’s a standout of its genre, definitely. i thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. i have no nostalgia for the apple ][ style it emulates but it really serves the art direction brilliantly.
i had a discussion with a friend about the obra dinn a few weeks ago. i told him how i enjoyed the “hidden in plain sight” fact that the letter you get with the pocket watch is signed “Henry Evans” and he basically lit up. turns out he had been stuck on the two ladies that were passengers, and he connected in real-time what must have happened to them just because i mentioned the name. i love that it’s the sort of game that gives you epiphanies.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 2 months ago:
no it wasn’t. i backed the kickstarter. it was always an online game, it just had “solo” and “private” modes. and they didn’t get “so much money”, they got like 120% of their target. they were up against the star citizen kickstarter and that got all the hype.
my main issue with ED is that they focused on building a modern Elite rather than a modern Elite 4. Building upon the ideas of Frontier: First Encounters would have made a very different game.
X is more like Freelancer meets Euro Truck Simulator, in my experience.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 2 months ago:
Elite 2: Frontier.
elite dangerous is very close but it doesn’t really capture the seamlessness you get from not having a landing mode or frame shifting. pioneer spaceship sim is a remake in the truest sense of the word, but a remaster would fix the ui issues the original had rather than just rolling with them.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 2 months ago:
there’s always armikrog
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 months ago:
there haven’t been card fees for end users in Sweden for many years. handling cash is a lot more expensive since you need somewhere secure to keep change, you loose time at the till handling the money, and you need to pay for someone to come pick it up. the time gained from just having the customers pay with card means businesses gladly swallow the fees.
and yes, i’m always surprised when going abroad how much more analog everything is. the nordics and Baltic’s are generally at about the same level (with Estonia way ahead), but the rest of the continent feels like it’s 10 years behind. I was once asked if I really wanted to pay with card in a corner shop in Leipzig, since the card fee was €10.
not that i’m a fan of the digitalisation, it makes marginalised groups even more marginalised. i see my elderly relatives struggling with it often.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 2 months ago:
originally? a paid product. now? crypto!
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 2 months ago:
jellyfin is a streaming server. get yourself a domain name and you can connect your apps to it from anywhere.
- Comment on Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished? 2 months ago:
one thing i know it does from GitHub issues is it changes the names of files you download to make them “clearer”, which breaks some tools for flashing firmware and lead to a spike of reports.
- Comment on Me watching mass transit and engineering videos, Youtube suggestions: 3 months ago:
the catholic church exists in the cars universe, which means car jesus was chevy crucified 2000 years ago.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 months ago:
honestly i think it’s an age range thing.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 months ago:
minecraft server binaries are a prime example of a “dedicated server”. tf2 is another. the alternative is a “listen server”, where one player acts as server. note that the term’s use in gaming has very little to do with the concept of a dedicated server in general use, aka a machine dedicated to running a service. in multiplayer games a dedicated server is just the name for a binary that contains no client.
anyway, the important distinction is whether the means for the game to continue existing is in the hands of the players or the company.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 months ago:
the common understanding of “dedicated server” is a server binary you can download and run yourself. a “private server” is usually still hosted on the company’s hardware.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 months ago:
dedicated servers == player-hosted servers, usually
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 months ago:
the wing commander series was famous for inflated development costs, freelancer was repeatedly delayed and eventually released like five years after it’s announcement, and since then… he’s been working on star citizen
