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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I also have to say, I feel like many people don’t realize how much dexterity and skill it takes to constantly crank that camera.

  The twin-stick camera controls are a terrible solution, even if they may be the best we have. They are a major barrier for entry IMHO. With 2D games, you could hand a controller to someone, who doesn’t play games very much and they’d still typically be able to play along. But with 3D games, that’s so much harder, because now you have to press buttons and move the camera at the same time.

  So, I imagine, even when the hardware became available, that various studios still tried to find simpler solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that is crazy to me. I understand them wanting to make other games in between and that making those games takes a few years each. Rationally, I’m on board with the decision-making and the math that leads to this.
  But that the result is a generation who didn’t have an Elder Scrolls part released in their childhood, that still feels like far too grand of a concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yin yang⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “Trignometry” might be my favorite typo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Frameworks 6.18 Lets You Use Your Laptop's Copilot Key for Launching Apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, reading this news made me realize that this key is going to be pretty much objectively less useful on Windows, because Microsoft won’t let you rebind keys.

  I mean, presumably there’s going to be someone who finds it useful – whatever this key is going to do on Windows – and maybe Microsoft puts in more effort to integrate it into the OS than what you can easily replicate on Linux.

  But there’s also going to be lots of users, who will have no use for the functionality – whatever this key is going to do on Windows. And for those users, it’s just a completely useless key on their keyboard…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venn Diagrams⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was expecting Euler diagrams in this…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the sense that “on the spectrum” is often used to say that someone has autistic traits, yeah. But there would still be a spectrum and everyone would be on it, it would just reach from no autistic traits to maximum autism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some franchises with characters that personify countries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Polandball would be another web comic like that. Although the characters are just circles with flags in them, so no idea how useful that is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use bar soap for all of these things. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the joke? That Imgur was basically just infrastructure for Reddit, until people started to live there…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s somewhat of a historical context, where there were forums at first, where people generally used pseudonyms. Then the broad wave of webpages originally dubbed “social media” happened, which wanted users to use their real names. In that context, Lemmy doesn’t feel like social media.

  But the strong distinction for platforms to either be pseudonymous or prefer real identies somewhat seized to exist, because it’s not anymore novel to use your real identity on the internet. For example, TikTok has a mixture of folks showing their face, as well as completely anonymous uploaders.

  Instead, the definition is becoming more about: Do you interact with other humans? Which is a definite yes for Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might fix it on some clients (but probably breaks it on others): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.zip_(top-level_domain)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, this feels in the ballpark of an appropriate punishment, but with how often you see far too low punishments for crimes like this, it also feels like a case of:
  Racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has quantum physics become a religion?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics noob here, but I feel like part of the reason is somewhat unintuitively that quantum physics is so badly understood.

  On a logical level, you’d expect more openness for alternative theories when you don’t understand a field. But in practice, a lack of understanding means that you can’t evaluate alternative theories. You can’t decide whether it makes sense in all the aspects where it would need to get things right. And if you’re not aware of this bias, then it’s easy to point to your bible and dismiss anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What foss MP games are still active?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t checked in on it in a while, but I’d be surprised, if Teeworlds wasn’t still going strong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What foss MP games are still active?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, are you on an up-to-date version? Could also be a timezone thing, though, like maybe there’s an active community in India, which plays when you’re asleep or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairies 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♂️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing, it’s this species: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_thysbe

  (Apparently, this species is also referred to as “hummingbird moth”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear, you have to get married before you’re allowed into the presence of the other gender. And don’t even think about showering without the cone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre v0.90 brings dynamic settings and new fire spreading⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Luanti is moreso the content distribution platform and game engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the big name titles are all headed in a similar direction (realism, large open world, story-driven), because they need to differentiate themselves from the indie titles that cover the other bases for cheaper.

  So, if that direction isn’t your jam, I can certainly see that you’d feel that way, because you need to inform yourself more actively to learn about those indies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the kids are just a pretty good indicator of where this whole boat is headed. Someone who’s been adulting for a while probably has savings and is willing to burn some of those to keep doing the hobby they like, especially when they’re invested with hardware or friendships that exist through gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe, Icecast ticks at least some of your criteria. It’s been around since forever, so it’s probably the most stable option and even a Pi1 is likely overkill for it. No idea how it holds up in terms of UI, app and Docker, though.

  They do have a mirror on GitHub, but the main repo is on a self-hosted GitLab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have to rewrite the Git history to pseudonomize the author, which yes, is pretty bad, but I don’t see why you’d need to remove the code, unless they genuinely checked in their home address or such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to eat after brushing in the night⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard on the radio at some point that it’s not great to eat after brushing, but it’s more important to brush your teeth at all. Unfortunately, they didn’t explain why, but from what I can tell, brushing your teeth with (normal) toothpaste does two things:

  • Removes the plaque from your teeth, which is basically a layer of bacteria, which can damage the enamel, since they can produce acids. Or if you don’t brush for a longer time, they can form into hard layers which cannot be brushed away (so-called calculus/tartar).

  • Repairs the enamel by providing fluoride molecules, which stick into places where the enamel is missing molecules. This is important in particular, since the places with missing molecules are more likely to get further damaged by the acids.

  So, if you eat after brushing, you’re providing new food to the bacteria, which allows them to form into a new layer of plaque.
  But it’s gonna take a few hours to re-form the new plaque, during which your teeth won’t get damaged as much anyways. And the new plaque sits on top of freshly repaired enamel, too.

  This is definitely simplifying it, too, like apparently plaque can also affect the gums and obviously different people have more or less problems with teeth in general, but it still seems plausible to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it was Skyrim. It was one of the first games I bought with my own money and certainly the first where I followed the news before the release. I did not know that Todd Howard was a notorious liar and that ruined the game for me. Like, the game itself was probably fine. It was an upgrade in some ways and a downgrade in various other ways. But having been promised that it would be so much better than Oblivion and Morrowind, when it was simply not, that just robbed me of the fun I could have had with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there’s this whole concept of “Oracles”, which were supposed to be trustable sources for facts, but they can mainly deal well with things like stock prices or weather data.

  It would also have been possible for these Oracles to employ people to fact-check things in case of a dispute. So, user30000004 might claim that the pizza has been delivered and wants their money for it, while user9000005 says nothing got delivered, so then you have someone physically drive out to user9000005 and see if there’s pizza there or not.

  But yeah, you still have the problem that a pizza isn’t hard to hide/eat, so you’d need to do some expensive detective work to try to figure out the truth. And that just isn’t worth the cost…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also heard the theory before that even GPUs went pretty much straight from mining cryptocurrencies to then be used for training LLM models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any free games for two passing one device to each other?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AppleFlinger is somewhat like Angry Birds…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you tie yourself to a commercial platform, it’s gonna take advantage of you. That’s how they make money. So, I would also recommend using an open-source game engine like Godot and then distributing on multiple platforms.

  The closest open-source thing to the Roblox model, that I can think of, is Luanti, which is basically a game engine and distribution platform for Minecraft-like games. Don’t expect to make money off of it, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which of theses games should i play?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Luanti, because it has a more mature community and more extensive mining gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Meat Boy 3D - Official Gameplay Overview Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I wish them all of the luck in the world, but I have never seen a 3D platformer with tight movement and you do need tight movement for a brutally hard game, otherwise it just feels brutally bullshit.