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- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 3 hours ago:
More comprehensive solution:
- Comment on Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds 22 hours ago:
Exquisite.
I absolutely love everything and anything that can make music out of something that isn’t intended to make music.
- Comment on Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds 1 day ago:
Semi-barely-related thing that popped into my brain on imagining the sound of this:
The UNATCO theme from Deus Ex played by an ‘orchestra’ of floppy drives:
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 day ago:
The use case for AI is pumping up the stock market.
- Comment on A sausage is meat in an intestinal casing so when you have anal sex with someone you turn them into a you sausage. 1 day ago:
This is vital lore on how and why Satan has those maggoty cumfarts.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 day ago:
There have been ‘too many games to play all the ones that seem interesting to me’ since the late 90s, at least.
There has always been absurd levels of competiton in video game releases.
What this person is describing has been the broad state of the overall industry as long as I have been alive.
It is not a problem.
It is totally fine that decent games are moderately popular and quite good games are quite popular and occassionally something seemingly simple is actually novel in a fun way, or hits just the right combo of gameplay / art style / narrative elements and is a breakout hit.
It is totally fine that giant evil megapublishers who exploit their employees and then slave drive and mismanage them into producing shiny, but buggy and lackluster garbage… are not making back their marketing budgets.
It is in fact very very good that they are failing.
The only thing different is that video gaming is massively mainstream nowadays and normies struggle with choice paralysis more publically these days.
A real dedicated nerd is capable of seeing through marketing and doing their own research, thats… kinda the whole thing that makes one into a nerd, a seemingly odd obsession and inordinate amount of time spent trying to understand their hobby.
If you are just a consumer who is overwhelmed by choice and marketing, pff i dunno, get gud scrub, capitalism be doin what it do, figure it out or keep crying.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 2 days ago:
Here, pick from various amounts of these 3 options, these have been the explanations for basically every ass tier AAA game in the past couple of years:
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UE5 is very flashy, ‘developer friendly’ garbage that explodes in complexity when you try to do any serious modification/customization of the engine or render pipeline
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None of these AAA devs that are supposed to be experts in UE5 actually are
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Management is beyond incompetent and tells devs to do things that are actively bad/harmful/destructive/broken.
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- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 3 days ago:
Steam basically does this right, imo.
When you launch a game, and… your drivers have changed, or there’s been a substantial update to the game… it just tells you its compiling shaders before properly launching the game.
15 full minutes is pretty terrible though.
I think my worst ever is around 5 to 10, and that is when I am intentionally fucking about with mods and different versions of Proton.
- Comment on dream chat 5 days ago:
Oh god lol.
I mean, if she agrees to let me hose her down from time to time, or take a shower with me or something, ooooohbb noooo lol
- Comment on roblox crashout 5 days ago:
Roblox crashout?
Who gave a Roblox player a 9mm?
This looks like it was closed and took 3 bullets.
- Comment on dream chat 5 days ago:
I lost it at the contact/chat name.
“My Smelly Wife.”
God damnit lol.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 6 days ago:
Ah!
There’s dihydrogen monoxide in my drinking water!
Ahhhhh!
- Comment on Ibuprofen 6 days ago:
hehehe!
- Comment on Ibuprofen 6 days ago:
Friendship lasts forever!
Soon I’ll need ~Depends~!
- Comment on Ibuprofen 1 week ago:
If you wanna be my lover!..
… you gotta bring me my meds.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 week ago:
Wait so… his own brain isn’t antifragile (neuroplastic) enough to consider the idea that some other people his age have brains that actually are antifragile (neuroplastic)?
You could probably make a 5 or 10 minute sketch, for econ nerds, out of how absolutely absurd this is.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 week ago:
Goddamnit Taleb.
What is this, a black swan event you could not have predicted as being within the realm of possibility, and thus have no idea how to react?
God Damnit, Taleb.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Some Pokémon DS cartridges had their own IR port. Madness.
What the fuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean, if they were RF, they would probably actually work, but damn that sounds like they looked goofy, haha!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
All correct details, I’ve got nothing to add other than… the 3DS IR thing… may have been intended for basically pokemon trading without a cable?
I am not really sure lol.
Oh right!
Yeah two candles can work as a wii sensor bar… but flames tend to jump and flicker, and… if you are moving around a lot, with a wii mote… yeah.
Also not a generally reliable or accurate technical situation, but it does technically work, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
LOL, fellow autist here, what a shocking coincidence ahaha!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh I believe you anecdotally lol, not like I’d expect someone to… whip out a full empirical study on the production runs of various body housing styles of VCRs / VHS players, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oddly, I only remember black VCRs…
But fortunately, it is easier than ever to emulate NES games, at least! =P
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hahah I can imagine, but again, dang, I totally did not know that was a thing.
Well, at least some good came out of this AI garbo, now I can go on a nerd binge over researching weird third party NES controllers, woo!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well shit, I’d never heard of an IR NES controller.
Yeah, sounds like that would be awful lol.
I still remember figuring out that you don’t actually technically need the Wii Sensor bar.
Literally, two candles can do the job, rofl!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Beat ya to it lol, but uh yeah, apparently AI must think multitubed rocket launchers are the same as fingers.
… I wonder how much it fuck up something like a multibarrel grenade launcher…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This poor OP has called down the wrath of 80/90s gamers/nerds and retro emulators, oh god they no idea what they’ve done lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Presumably that is supposed to be an NES, a ‘Nintendo’.
It is… closer to looking like a NES than it is to most VCRs of the time… but yeah, not very close lol.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Nintendo_Entertainment_System
Top: NES, mostly exported out of Japan.
Bottom: Famicom, basically the same thing in a different external appearance, mostly for the Japanese market.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah lol this is slop, hahah!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M202_FLASH
The 4 tube, napalm launcher, the M202 FLASH.
You may notice that this image shows essentialpy an MC Escher version of it.
From our pov:
Left side?
two ejection ports… three tubes.
Right side?
two ejection ports… approximately 1/6th of a tube.
You can also find numerous other inaccuracies.
