Underwaterbob
@Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Remember your princiPLEs, he’s your princiPAL.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Having less fun, though!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Hmm. I’ll have to check it out. Not sure I’m willing to give up my current workflow.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
I have not tried Bitwig yet. Reaper is my jam.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Pew pew!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Haha! I refuse to even look at modular. Well. I did once or twice, and got frightened off pretty quickly. So much coolness. So much money.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 weeks ago:
Cries in synthesizers.
At least there are a bunch of great budget options these days. Still not cheap though.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
Do we? I remember watching movies like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels when I was younger and never having a clue what they were talking about.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
AI is trained on the Internet. Look at the bullshit on the Internet. AI will take some random schmoe’s bullshit opinion and present it as hard fact.
That, and it just re-introduced the problem of being able to see search results without visiting any of the resultant websites. The last time, sites ended up burying answers down the page to avoid being able to see results in search previews. Making everything shittier. What kind of response is there going to be to AI summaries? Everything will undoubtedly get even shittier as sites try to get people to visit and not just read the AI summary. Hello even more obfuscation. We’re taking the greatest method of spreading information around the globe ever devised and just absolutely filling it to the brim with bullshit.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 3 weeks ago:
Always? OK, I guess. It’s probably going to make teaching hard, though.
Oh shit, this is that stupid fucking comic again, isn’t it?
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 3 weeks ago:
Haha! I live in Korea and have a daughter who was not-so-briefly completely obsessed with this movie. I know all of the words at this point. English and Korean. I didn’t mind at first. It’s starting to drive me a bit nuts, now. Also, it is some pretty blatant propaganda for the grist mill that is the Kpop industry. Despite the subtle nods to the contrary.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 weeks ago:
Lemon Toss?
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 month ago:
Exactly. AI will take old random slob’s opinion and present it as fact.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 months ago:
Long ago, I’d make a Google search for something, and be able to see the answer in the previews of my search results, so I’d never have to actually click on the links.
Then, websites adapted by burying answers further down the page so you couldn’t see them in the previews and you’d have to give them traffic.
Now, AI just fucking summarizes every result into an answer that has a ~70% of being correct and no one gets traffic anymore and the results are less reliable than ever.
Make it stop!
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
Discord works absolutely fine in Linux. I use “Vesktop” which is a desktop client for Discord. Performance is identical to using the Discord app in Windows AFAIK.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
I’ve five videos deep, now. Thanks! It’s weirdly super refreshing to watch something other than Serral bodying everyone.
You ever watch any bot matches? Tens-of-thousands of APM. They’re pretty entertaining too.
- Comment on Just in time 2 months ago:
In the first pictures, the knight would clearly be of the “upper” class. Your chances of being some peon in a field are much, much higher.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
This is wild. I watch a ton of professional Starcraft on YouTube and had no idea! I’ll look up some matches, tonight.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 2 months ago:
I (horribly inefficiently) figured out a puzzle in Prime Mover last night that took me four hours over two days. It was a real hallelujah moment.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 2 months ago:
Final Fantasy isn’t continuous. Aside from races, the occasional character name, and some thematic elements, the games are not connected at all. PS2 has two of the best: 10 and 12.
Of the two, 10 is a more traditional turn-based experience with notoriously awful-in-a-good-way voice acting and a very typical FF plot. It’s not really a spoiler to say that you end up killing god. It features some of the most egregiously awful mini games to grace the franchise. And if you want some of the best gear in the game, you will be committing a not -insignificant amount of time to frustrating button mashing.
Square tried a whole bunch of new stuff with 12 including realtime, MMO-like combat and a much smaller and focused narrative that is mostly a side story occurring inside a larger narrative. The voice acting is infinitely better than 10’s, and there are no obnoxious mini games.
They’re both still worth playing. The PC ports don’t add all that much to the games over what you can do with them emulated. In fact, I bet save states make some of the mini game awfulness of 10 better.
I did not intend to write an essay…
- Comment on Piegoth Ur 2 months ago:
Bocca Della Verita!!
Stick your hand in there and say something. If it’s a lie, lose your fingers.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 2 months ago:
I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 2 months ago:
That’s cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I’m a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 3 months ago:
I tried to play through it recently. Game was OK, but fuck their stupid launcher. I want nothing to do with GTAO, so why do I have to load into its menu every single time I go to play the game and suffer through a bunch of ads to play a fucking single player game I paid for? I uninstalled about ten hours in. I might pirate it. It’s probably a better experience.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 months ago:
The one reason I have a nice, relatively new phone is that I want a fairly large, OLED screen for reading after dark. Yeah, I use it for a bunch of other stuff, but I wouldn’t really miss any of those. The only thing I really need is the ability to make it look like text is floating in the dark over my head in bed.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 3 months ago:
They won’t because the bullshit is profitable. Yeah, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong are all fantastic games and sold very well, but their numbers don’t even come close to something like Grand Theft Auto or Fortnite. The bullshit will continue as long as “gamers” keep foisting money at it.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 months ago:
I used to play inverted. If it wasn’t inverted, I’d flail around helplessly. Then one day, inverted didn’t feel right, and I had to switch. It’s been that way ever since. Sometime during the PS2 era I think. I played equal numbers of PC and console games up to that point. Dunno why it happened.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 months ago:
Yeah, I remember a few sad runbacks with populations looking pretty sparse…
- Comment on quiet place 3 months ago:
Yeah, and the waterfall blocked their hearing entirely. Might be a good idea to go live there, even. Especially if you’re, y’know, pregnant.
And some random guy in his house discovers the sound that messes them up. Apparently the military failed to try playing loud sounds at aliens with super sensitive hearing. Just never occurred to them to try that I guess.
Annddd, if their hearing is that crazy sensitive, they’d be jumping at every random raccoon fart and bird dropping. There’s no way they could pick humans out over any distance. Sound is just a pressure wave through a medium, and doesn’t actually get that far with an appreciable amount of energy left over. These things would have to be everywhere to be such a threat, yet you hardly see any in the movie.
Maybe entertaining, but it holds up to precisely zero scrutiny.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 months ago:
The run to Blue Smelter nearly gave me a coronary.