codexarcanum
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- Comment on Something to think about 4 days ago:
Seems I’ve been dup’d
- Comment on Something to think about 5 days ago:
Slowly sliding a switch labeled “Dubstep” towards on and checking the crowd reaction at each step like a DJ at a corporate event.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 6 days ago:
Alright, so here’s my case for Thief, the Looking Glass Studios game.
Thief, on its own, is a great game and basically shares the claim to originating a lot of ideas behind stealth in games along with MGS, which came out the same year.
What many don’t know is how incredibly innovative what they were doing with their engine tech was. In another timeline, id software were mildly successful action game makers while LGS became the industry defining mega success. The Dark Engine refines a lot of ideas present in Ultima Underworld and marries them to tech that was decades ahead of its time.
Check out the opening and closing of this long talk: youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI
Thief had, probably, the first ECS in gaming. They also had their own rendering technique using “portals” that was a bit slower than id’s BSP trees but allowed for insane geometry. They also had an incredible system for events called stimulus-response that was doing things like Breath of the Wild’s “chemistry engine” again, decades before it would be rediscovered.
They weren’t just making games, these were really simulations of a limited world with complex interactions. If the rest of the industry had caught onto their good practices, who knows what the landscape would look like today!
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 6 days ago:
Doom
I could write an essay significantly larger than the game itself and it wouldn’t be as powerful of an argument as just saying the name with the weight of legacy it commands.
- Comment on Hot birds in your area ifykyk 1 week ago:
- Comment on Polonium 1 week ago:
Meh! Call me a wet blanket but I’ve been on the internet since before 4chan, so I’m pretty familiar with the Nazi bar problem and I’m long past accepting “just jokes.”
- Comment on Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests 1 week ago:
There are other privacy issues with having an indelible marker as to the origin and chain of custody of every digital artifact. And other non-privacy issues.
So the idea here is that my phone camera attaches a crypro token to the metadata of every photo it takes? (Or worse, embeds it into the image steganographically like printer dots.) Then if I send that photo to a friend in signal, that app attaches a token indicating the transfer? And so on?
If that’s a video of say, police murdering someone, maybe I don’t want a perfect trail pointing back to me just to prove I didnt deep fake it. And if that’s where we are, then every video of power being abused is going to “be fake” because no sane person would sacrifice their privacy, possibly their life, to “prove” a video isnt AI generated.
And those in power, the mainstream media say, aren’t going to demonstrate the crypto chain of custody on every video they show on the news. They’re going to show whatever they want, then say “its legit, trust us!” and most people will.
These are the fundamental issues with crypto that people actually don’t understand: too much of it is actually opt-in, it’s unclear to most people what’s actually proved or protected, and it doesn’t actually address or understsnd where trust, authority, and power actually come from.
- Comment on How it started... 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Actually I see something completely different 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Its like losing your identity 2 weeks ago:
Voyager for Android doesn’t show them, so I have no idea what any of you look like anyway!
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like this guy was also relying on the AI to self-report status. Did any of this happen? Like is the replit AI really hooked up to a CLI, did it even make a DB to start with, was there anything useful in it, and did it actually delete it!
Or is this all just a long roleplaying session where this guy pretends to run a business and the AI pretends to do employee stuff for him?
Because 90% of this article is “I asked the AI and it said:” which is not a reliable source for information.
- Comment on It's the truth 2 weeks ago:
Stern Asian Grandma is most displeased with how spicy my dish was yet again, and demands i add a heaping spoonful of chilli crunch to fix it!
- Comment on Some stephen king type shit 2 weeks ago:
There’s a few actual versions of the pin pulling games now. I liked this one for Android called “How to Loot”, pretty fun little time waster.
- Comment on Deserved honestly 2 weeks ago:
I love 😬 that we’re now at the point where “is this real?” is ambiguous between:
- did the story factually occur in our shared reality?
- was this story actually posted to 4chan?
- did a human even make this image?
And at this juncture with the common addition of “chat, is this real?” we can further add:
- does the audience exist?
- does the person sharing the image exist?
- do I exist?
- Comment on Gourmet chocolate 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on how did he do that? 3 weeks ago:
Is this gain?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The spoken language of the native people of the Philippines; still one of the country’s official languages and spoken by a majority of the population.
- Comment on [DJ Khaled voice] Anotha one 3 weeks ago:
Ive never seen these before and I’m enthralled! The music and visual style reminds me a lot of Cruelty Squad. Is there an accepted name for this “genre”? It’s almost like pre-AI slop but with a pedal-to-the-floor surrealism that elevates it tremendously.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 3 weeks ago:
It gets worse actually. You can define a number system using any power of 2 amount of i-like units in a similar relationship to quaternions using the Cayley-Dickson construction
Fascinatingly, you lose some property of the algebra at each step. Quaternions aren’t commutative: ABC != CBA. Octonians aren’t associative: (AB)C != A(BC). Once you get into 16 i’s with subscripts, it really gets crazy.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 3 weeks ago:
The GBA SP really was a great portable. I carried my black\silver “executive” model everywhere and felt cool as shit at the time.
Those PS2 ads though, holy shit, what was Sony smoking back then?
- Comment on M'ananas 4 weeks ago:
Tangerdarin’
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 4 weeks ago:
People are ragging on the AI art, but the message is also bland pseudo-mystic instagram-motivational word spew. Many religions and philosophies teach things like this, but even real quotes are reduced to pithy candy aphorisms when taken out of context like this.
Like it definitely is trying to riff on the genre of Zen Pencils.
And funny enough, that Thoreau quote is more in line with global views on happiness: the pursuit of it is in some ways the root of it’s nonexistence. When we focus on making a better and simpler world for all, happiness often follows.
- Comment on Krafton suddenly replace three Subnautica 2 leads with one of the execs behind Callisto Protocol 5 weeks ago:
Is this another Disco Elysium situation? I really like Unknown World’s and their games. This is a real letdown; guess Natural Selection 3 or any new titles won’t be announced any time soon.
- Comment on Hidden hands and smoke filled rooms 5 weeks ago:
Xenu makes a dollar
Don’t trust the birds or limes
Thats why I shit
In liminal spaces and times
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 1 month ago:
Nostalgia marketing operates on roughly 20 to 30 year cycles, so we’re dead center of 90s nostalgia. As the current decade wears on, there should be a gradual shift to 2000s era nostalgia (and another revival of the 80s, the most marketable decade). I can’t say that looming war in the middle east doesn’t give me those warm Bush 2 era vibes, though we are a bit early for it.
- Comment on i'm old graeg 1 month ago:
MAKE AN ASSESSMENT
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 month ago:
Commandos to me is the start of a different lineage of real-time tactical stealth games, which goes on to include Desperados, Shadow Tactics, and Shadow Gambit (yes, most of those were made by the same team).
Outside of the OGRE-alikes (FO Tactics, FF Tactics, Disgea, and so on) some other options for tactical games that are a little different:
- Nexus: The Jupiter Incident - sort of a 4X game mixed with tactics, or like Homeworld with a lot fewer units
- Myth: The Fallen Lords (and sequels) - classic pre-Halo Bungie titles that mix RPG and strategy. Somewhat defining for the RTS genre too.
- UFO: Aftershock and sequels - a series that tried to revive XCom before Firaxis rebooted it. Not as good, but pretty interesting and fun, a little easier than old school xcom but not as polished as the newer ones.
- Cannon Fodder - a UK classic, very arcadey but very fun and lighter than all these other “serious” games
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 month ago:
This is a good idea, but also working remote frees up time to meet new affinity groups.
Not to dump on people’s relaxation strategies, but even the most introverted person can’t survive on video games and gooning alone.
If you don’t want or like hanging with coworkers, find a local bar to hang out at and meet some folks, go to a community board game night, join a choir, attend an anime viewing night, just do something to take initiative and meet some folks that like what you like.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is entirely apocryphal, but my friends who are very into blind items and celebrity gossip tell me about “yacht girls.” Famous (but not too famous) women are often invited to rich guy’s yachts as soft escorts. Sometimes there’s sex, often they’re just there to be pretty and flattering. Apparently Zach Effron is frequently a yacht “girl.”
So yes, I think a fairly significant portion of minor celebrity income is from private appearances (of one kind or another). Speaking engagements for businesses or clubs are another big (legitimate) arm of this trade.
- Comment on Being Kyle Katarn - Interview with Jason Court 1 month ago:
I sometimes still have nightmares about those aqueducts and fuel tubes!
