Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on Not Looking for a recipe or a how to guide. But when meth rolled thru my town they called it either redneck speed or bathtub speed. With all chemicals did people really do it in a bathtub?? 6 days ago:
Given how durable and versatile bathtubs are, I wouldn't be surprised.
- Comment on Due to Federal Government Shutdown, SNAP Benefits Suspended Beginning November 1, 2025 6 days ago:
Most likely, yes. I wonder how they'll spin it into being the fault of Democrats.
- Comment on Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s? 1 week ago:
Have you ever read "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"? It's a very different work from the movie, but also gets into the dark cartoon tone. And I think it's very well done.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 1 week ago:
If the way someone goes to war with the US is by freeing us from the overly-centralized landlords of the Internet, maybe whoever they are isn't so bad.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 1 week ago:
Yup. Most of our core electrical infrastructure is over 100 years old now. And thanks to a combination of NIMBYism, profiteering, and the anti-nuclear brigades, we're not likely to see that change any time soon.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 1 week ago:
I just want AWS, Azure, Google, & Cloudflare to go down at the same time.
And maybe stay down.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
F-droid and my (example) personal-site-turned-app-store rejoice!
Until Google kills them soon.
- Comment on LINCOLN! LIIINCOOOLNNN!!!!! 1 week ago:
Lincoln didn't really give a damn about the rights of black people. He cared about getting elected, and that was what he needed to say to get votes.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
Well, too bad, because I'm right!
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
As a platform grows, you tend to get more diversity of voices. As voices become diverse, conflict becomes inevitable.
- Comment on So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A 2 weeks ago:
Wait, you mean they don't just ring a bell for the wounded? Seems like an easier plan than actually doing anything to prevent people getting injured. And it's easier on your back and knees than kneeling to pray.
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 2 weeks ago:
Did someone say Corrupted Blood?
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
So I guess I'm going to have to learn to use ADB.
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 3 weeks ago:
Okay, but more important than the question of whether they've done it is the question of whether it matters. Canada's got a history of seeing what we now call war crimes as "the Geneva to-do lists", but we seemingly don't hold it against them.
So - does it matter? And why should it matter in this case and not others?
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 3 weeks ago:
I honestly hope that the fediverse is mostly free of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Might be interesting. Disney would literally hire a PMC to shoot pirates.
- Comment on James should have used his money 4 weeks ago:
I do love that James and Meowth let Jesse be the one not getting her head squished.
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 4 weeks ago:
Romhacking has 3 total hacks for the game, and 2 that are meaningful.
Still, I suggest if you're looking at ROMs, try using VICE and a .d64 of both Ghostbusters and Autoduel. But I will say, please read the manuals.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 4 weeks ago:
I believe that was their intention, then.
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 4 weeks ago:
The NES version specifically, I can't defend. But the DOS, C64, and SMS versions are interesting, because they're really proof of what would be codified as the Covert Action Rule, or the simple adage of programming, "do one thing, well". Note that in the NES port, none of the minigames are done well. But I think David Crane created a pretty solid concept, hampered by a number of unfortunate factors.
The start of the game is a business simulation. The game doesn't want you to actually think about the business side of things, but wants to make money important. This ends up contributing to a bad idea, because rather than looking at the economy as a core element, it ends up getting shoved to the side. Frankly, it would be better if you started off like, say, Animal Crossing, or SimCity, where you have a loan you must pay off, but you're given the tools you need to do so. The PC versions feel less clunky in this respect, because the business side is more front-and-center.
There's a lack of real clarity about what's going on in the map minigame. There's a lot of moving parts, but not a lot of rhyme or reason behind them. The PKE doesn't really react to player actions, but nor is it a steady timer. Central Park West (the Zuul building) doesn't really have any significance. And frankly the driving minigame is pointless if you don't have the vacuum. It'd be better to just have to buy gasoline.
The ghost-catching minigames are short and annoying, but are actually the only part of the game worth any time investment.
Then you have the dreaded tower climb. On the NES, the controls for that section of the game are simply inexcusable.
The big fight at the end doesn't feel conclusive, and the ending is... well, it's awful, let's be blunt. That's why it became a meme.
And yet! It's stuck with people because it's so awful a game but so near the edge of being good if it was made with more focus. I haven't played any version of the game in several years, but I remember every step of it. I remember the Ecto-1: traps, proton packs, ghost vacuum. Vacuum for money, grab free-floaters to stop them from forming Stay-Puft until you're in the black. Then Stay-Puft, the stairs, and Zuul.
Consider that Crane went from Pitfall to all of that. Seriously, in terms of game design, it's a huge leap forward, and yes it stumbled hard. Oh, and if you want a fair comparison, look at Autoduel for the C64 (one of Lord British's pre-Ultima games), since the Ghostbusters game was built on the bones of a Car Wars game.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 4 weeks ago:
There wee several house-party focused cookbooks that suggested to just fry off a pan of decoy onions as your guests enter the house. Doesn't matter if they get used in a dish or not, just cook the onions.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 4 weeks ago:
The adblocking will continue until transparency of content delivery improves.
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 4 weeks ago:
I understand where you're coming from, but that means they care about making sure that the number goes up, rather than fluctuating wildly. And they absolutely don't want rugpulls (unless they're the ones holding the rug). That's the kind of stability I'm talking about. No tycoon actually wants a free market, they want the regulations to make sure that they have a chance to corner the market and protect them against their enemies.
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, this is a huge step forward. I know it sounds dumb, but regulating the crypto market as securities will help provide stability to crypto and help classic securities become more adaptable. I've been waiting since day 1 for the SEC to step in here.
- Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors 4 weeks ago:
Scaring the daylights out of abusers?
- Comment on oh the consequences of allergies 1 month ago:
It's treif, yeah?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Rachel deserved better.
- Comment on ClockBench: Even the best AI models can't reliably read the clock 1 month ago:
So LLMs operate like blind people - like every other web scraper and chatbot to exist.
- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 1 month ago:
Mayday would prefer against that, since it causes hassles with her existence.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 month ago:
Anyone who's a fan of mecha anime or games already knew this. The human body is a comedy of errors masquerading as a marvel of bioengineering. We're just fish who forgot how to swim and learned how about economics.