fartsparkles
@fartsparkles@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 12 hours ago:
OpenMW and TES3MP is a great way to enjoy Morrowind in a modern engine and with friends.
There’s plenty of mods available for OpenMW so you can make it look stunning and add loads of new functionality.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 12 hours ago:
They’ve sold between 5 and 8 million copies of that game to date.
I think they’re doing fine without needing a sale and devaluing their product.
- Comment on A story old as time 1 week ago:
I don’t get it
- Comment on ARMA 3 Recieves Surprise Performance Update 1 week ago:
I’ve been on the Profiling branch for a couple of years and these changes are awesome. Tanoa was unplayable for me until I switched.
Kudos for Bohemia’s continued support for A3 while we wait for A4 (Reforger has also been a fantastic glimpse of the future of their engine).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m passing on the Switch 2 for similar reasons.
I can either fund Nintendo to sue open source developers or I can fund Valve who are payrolling open source developers.
- Comment on File collecting program? 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure there’s a decent fork. Read the code; there’s not much to it!
- Comment on File collecting program? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re on the same network, take a look at snapdrop. It’s basically cross platform AirDrop.
- Comment on File collecting program? 3 weeks ago:
What’s the context in which you’re needing to share files?
My first thought is host your own FTP server and send people credentials to log into it with and upload.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 3 weeks ago:
NCSA Mosaic is how old I am…
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 3 weeks ago:
MS-DOS
- Comment on Papers, Please: USA Edition 3 weeks ago:
Sadly not
- Comment on What does “rule” mean on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
My hero!
- Comment on What does “rule” mean on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Why 196? And what’s with “post before you leave”? As in, before you die?
I am oh so very confused.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 5 weeks ago:
The side effect of SteamOS is that Arch Linux totally rocks for gaming.
- Comment on I'm genuinely sad about the Marathon situation 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 5 weeks ago:
I think you’re probably right. Microsoft seems less invested in winning an operating system battle at this point. They’re positioning services and abstractions that care less about the end device’s operating system, more so that they’re at least on that device.
I wouldn’t be surprised we see Microsoft “embrace” Proton and Wine in the next 5 to 10 years as it’s far easier to let “the community” predominantly handle supporting legacy Windows versions that have to handle it themselves.
They can’t suddenly lose that entire OS revenue machine however and would need to transition. But I doubt that Redmond are naive to the disruption Wine and Proton are having and how technical users are starting to jump ship.
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 1 month ago:
I’d say treaties are indeed a technology; they’re frameworks / systems that arose around the time commerce was invented. Since technology is purely the application of knowledge to achieve goals, while they may be somewhat intangible, so is software which I think most would agree is technology.
- Comment on Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version 1 month ago:
Yikes that was written poorly. Author flips back and forth between Deadlock and Deathlock.
- Comment on Why don't Oblivion and Morrowind turn the character model when you run in different directions? 1 month ago:
Bang for buck.
Morrowind was made by a team of about 35 people. Sure they could have put the effort in but then you’ve got all those animations to make and test. How do they tie into stats? Do they look dumb at higher stat levels? Also they’ll use up a little more resources on console which was a big struggle (Morrowind literally had to reboot the Xbox mid game to free up memory).
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 1 month ago:
Personally, these mandates have been a positive. We’ve been hoovering up incredible talent to join our team since we’re a remote-first org (we have offices and co-working spaces for those that want or need it; some don’t have space in their homes to work or want the in-person socialisation).
The stupidity of these orgs with these mandates - their best and critically important talent are the first to leave. Not to mention how some of the best talent have long left the major urban areas and will never be moving back.
I feel incredibly bad for the juniors though, who will be left picking up the pieces of these terrible management decisions.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Recommendations for a TOTL used/new laptop under $1000? 2 months ago:
Depends where you live. Just look up regional PC builders and see if they do laptops. They pretty much all sell Clevo, often unbranded or you can request they don’t brand it.
eBay might be another option. Or a laptop refurbished. I’ve picked up several refurbished Clovos over the years that were ex workstations of some big enterprise.
- Comment on Recommendations for a TOTL used/new laptop under $1000? 2 months ago:
Custom PC builder in a Clevo case or something is my guess. Chomsky but far easier to get better parts in them and since they’re for custom builders, they’re easy to open and upgrade etc.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
Keka is FOSS, supports 7z for both commission and decompression, and is native to macOS.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 2 months ago:
They thought it was because the leather was from a pig…
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 2 months ago:
Chess is mostly a memorisation game for gambits / openers and subsequent sets of follow-on moves.
After that, it’s mentally simulating the board state a few moves ahead, varying pieces and guesstimating probability of what move the opponent will make. A lot of that you start to memorise, especially since other chess enthusiasts will often play well-known gambits / strategies.
Intelligence often correlates with memory but they’re not one and the same. I grew up knowing a competitive chess player and remember the time they referred to their “hambag” (handbag). English was their mother tongue…
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 months ago:
And that’s the bottom line… ‘cause Stone Cold said so!
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 months ago:
That’s because it is. I worked at a place that did this kind of photography for businesses years back. That steak probably got 20 seconds on each side to sear, the grill marks and caramelization painted on, the juice around it some colored glue, the steam some guy’s vape; those sorts of things.
You’d never want to eat the photography subject afterwards.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 months ago:
Repeating old Reddit memes seems to be a bit of a faux pas around here.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 months ago:
That changed on June 27, 2024. You can now have dual citizenship with any other country.
