Ephera
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- Comment on Why am I able to edit communities that don't belong to me? 16 hours ago:
Python goes brrr… 🫠
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 20 hours ago:
Yeah, then you should get a mod for that. I can absolutely understand your qualm. Morrowind came out in an era when RPGs were still computerized DnD, and that’s a design decision which aged particularly poorly.
Admittedly, it was also perhaps just a bad design decision in general. In DnD, you don’t either roll a dice for each sword hit. Nor are you able to miss an enemy from just not being near enough. At the very least, they could’ve played a different sound, if your sword connects, but does no damage.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 20 hours ago:
Yeah, it is the green bar. And yes, it drops from attacking.
As has already been said, stamina potions are often quite worth it. But it also helps, if you switch to walking for approaching an enemy, for example (instead of running). If you’re sprinting across the landscape and get ambushed unexpectedly, then yeah, the game punishes you for being exhausted.
In general, Morrowind is much more roleplay than the later parts. You can optimize the fun out, by waiting around until your stamina recovers, every so often. But the game gives you enough opportunities to become filthy rich and overpowered, so that you shouldn’t need it.
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 21 hours ago:
They cause a huge amount of load, deteriorating the service for everyone else. I’m also guessing the time ranges in the graph, where there’s no data, is when OP’s server crashed from the load and had to restart.
That kind of shit can easily trigger alerting and will look like a DDoS attack. I would be pissed, too, if I dropped everything to see why my server is going down and it’s not even proper criminals, but rather just some silicon valley cunts.
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 21 hours ago:
My best guess is that they don’t just index things, but rather download straight from the internet when they need fresh training data. They can’t really cache the whole internet after all…
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
Speaking of the combat, I can’t say i’m a fan. Maybe there’s something i’m missing but it’s definitely a lacking point of it. I just find myself jabbing at the enemies until either one of us drop dead.
One thing that’s perhaps not obvious from today’s viewpoint, is that stamina affects your hit chance quite a bit.
It is also a good idea to be rather skilled in your weapon of choice.
And of course, the real pro tip is to install a mod which changes the hit feedback. 😅
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 2 days ago:
Yeah, indies are thankfully still covering 2D games, and there has been somewhat of a rebound in general, where e.g. Nintendo will also publish 2.5D versions of some of their games.
It just always felt weird that AAA studios treated 3D as mandatory, in the name of profit in particular, despite it locking out customers.
Well, kind of the obvious thing happened: Mobile games. Often fiercely 2D. Often controllable with one finger. And of course, obscenely profitable. - Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 3 days ago:
Here in the Ger of Many, you can buy scouring agents which are branded as “scouring milk” (Scheuermilch), but oat milk is where we draw the line, apparently.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 3 days ago:
Yeah, it’s just wild to me, that we went full-force ahead with the whole 3D thing, when you lock out so many potential players with it.
With 2D games, you can chuck someone a controller and even if they’re just haphazardly pressing buttons, they can still participate in the game. With 3D, no chance.And even those who do have practice still struggle with it. Think of a difficult 3D game and I bet it’s a valid joke that the true end boss is the camera.
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 5 days ago:
I am skeptical how I might use it to start a campfire even though it’s supposed to be a camping tool.
Could probably light some tinder with it, like thin sticks or dry grass…
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 5 days ago:
I’m open for counterarguments, but I always felt this was a silly way of looking at things. You cannot measure stuff at the quantum level without significantly altering what you measured. (You can never measure without altering what you measured, since we typically blast stuff with photons from a light source to be able to look at it, but for stuff that’s significantly larger than photons, the photons are rather insignificant.)
As such, you can look at measuring quanta in two ways:
- Either the quantum had the state that you end up measuring all along. It is only “undetermined”, because strictly nothing can measure it before you do that first measurement.
- Or you can declare it to have some magical “superposition”, from which it jumps into an actual state in the instant that you do the measurement.
Well, and isn’t quantum entanglement evidence for 1.? You entangle these quanta, then you measure one of them. At this point, you already know what the other one will give as a result for its measurement, even though you have not measured/altered it yet.
You can do the measurement quite a bit later and still get the result that you deduced from measuring the entangled quantum. (So long as nothing else altered the property you want to measure, of course…) - Comment on it's a long distance relationship 5 days ago:
The analogy that makes most sense to me so far, is this:
You rip a photograph in half and put both halves into envelopes. Now you send one of the envelopes to your friend in Australia. You open the other envelope. Boom! Instantaneous knowledge of what’s in the envelope in Australia. Faster than light!!!In quantum terms, you “rip a photograph in half” by somehow producing two quanta, which are known to have correlated properties. For example, you can produce two quanta, where one has a positive spin and the other a negative spin, and you know those to be equally strong. If you now measure the spin of the first quantum, you know that the other has the opposite spin.
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 5 days ago:
Hmm, to my knowledge, tx generally means “transmit”, as opposed to rx – “receive”.
I don’t think, there is much logic to it…
- Comment on Taste the flavor 6 days ago:
Capsaicin (the chemical that causes the heat sensation in chilis) is soluble in oil, so it can definitely play a role.
- Comment on Not that limit 6 days ago:
In my experience with maths, there’s a whole bunch of different conventions all over the place, so it might’ve genuinely been how they were taught, even if you were taught differently…
- Comment on Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat 6 days ago:
Oh yeah, that was my assumption, for sure, too. I was just playing devil’s advocate for the trenchcoat theory, because it’s funny.
- Comment on Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat 1 week ago:
I mean, probably happens a lot that the bones of different dinosaurs end up next to each other.
Would it happen for every T-Rex fossil in the same way? Well, less likely…
- Comment on Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week 1 week ago:
Well, there might’ve been some change that made it even more like the original, which could’ve prompted such a title either way…
- Comment on Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week 1 week ago:
I mean, there’s already Starbound…
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
You can do that where I live, but you can also borrow musical instruments in the library here, so no idea, if that’s universal…
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 1 week ago:
I would still call it virtually the same game, especially since they didn’t even bother to fix lots of awful bugs.
But I think, we can both agree that Morrowind would need a significantly larger overhaul, if you wanted to make it feel ‘modern’. You’d need voice acting. Perhaps optional quest markers. Well, and the combat system would basically need reimplementing from scratch.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 1 week ago:
For PC, there’s already OpenMW to do that: openmw.org
Basically, it’s a fan reimplementation of the Morrowind engine, which you feed the original game files into. It also has a number of improvements over the original, like higher resolution, higher view distance and virtually no loading times.
- Comment on Coal is Extremely Dumb (by Hank Green) 1 week ago:
What a confusing video. Halfway through, he starts talking about some online shop and at the end, he plays some online game, neither of which seems to have anything to do with the topic…?
- Comment on Why do onions and chips keep washing up on England’s south coast? Here’s the science 2 weeks ago:
Huh, so that’s how you guys came up with fish & chips…
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Ragebait headline. The guy does say that a proper remake or a new game set in the Morrowind region could be good. Just a remaster like the Oblivion remaster, with modern graphics slapped onto the original gameplay wouldn’t work too well.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 2 weeks ago:
Well, Nintendo gets a share for any game licenses sold through their store, so it does hurt them somewhat.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine the country matters.
Do you just not have the “User Interface…” menu entry?
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, that’s weird. Are you on a semi-recent version of LibreOffice? I believe, it got shipped with version 6.0.
And just to be sure, you are checking here, right?:
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 2 weeks ago:
You can switch to the “Tabbed” interface for something more similar MS Office: …libreoffice.org/…/WG2521-UserInterfaceVariants.h…
- Comment on Poor Jeremy 2 weeks ago:
Damn, so that’s what it feels like to be left-handed…
