scutiger
@scutiger@lemmy.world
- Comment on vultures 1 day ago:
I don’t need you to tell me how good my bones taste.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 week ago:
A lot of the jankiness is gone in the later games. DS1 feels really clunky after having played DS2 and DS3.
- Comment on To deter predators... 1 week ago:
Same here. Evolution doesn’t work that way. It’s basically the opposite. Species don’t evolve to solve a problem, they evolve randomly and sometimes that solves a problem for them. Or sometimes, it pushes the species into a very narrow niche where its survival is ensured as long as the current extremely precarious situation they find themselves in doesn’t change.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
Your math is wrong.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 3 weeks ago:
That was the Arecibo observatory
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 3 weeks ago:
Which is kind of funny because of miscommunication, they thought they were naming a grisly bear.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 5 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting they’re not good with cheese?
- Comment on Do you have what it takes to become a geologist? 5 weeks ago:
You think you’ve got the stones to become a geologist?
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
They’re suing because Microsoft got an exclusion from the Digital Markets Act. Google did not.
- Comment on What do allergies feel like for you? 1 month ago:
Mine are similar to yours, but only two relatively short periods per year. It hits me mid-spring, and end of summer.
As for your allergy testing, it’s likely you’re not really allergic to all of the allergens you were tested for. In many cases for those tests, if a few of the allergens trigger a reaction, then all or most of the injection sites will react rather than just the ones you’re allergic to. It helps when you can tell in the moment which one started it, since reactions happen quite quickly.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Rockstar has apparently bought FiveM.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Rockstar have already mentioned that they are working to get the game working on Steam Deck, and by extension Linux in general.
Shouldn’t be too hard since BattlEye is supposed to be compatible and there’s a BattlEye Proton runtime.
- Comment on New Cheat Code Discovered in Sega Saturn Doom After 27 Years 2 months ago:
IIRC Doom didn’t have a skybox per se, just parallax ceiling textures. You could put that texture on floors or ceilings and it would show the sky texture that would not be attached to the walls.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
uBlock Origin and similar ad blockers stop YouTube ads. Occasionally YouTube changes something and ads sneak through until someone updates the filters.
Now that Chrome has essentially neutered its ad blockers, the only option for many people is Firefox on desktop and mobile, which still has a working version of uBO.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
At that point, what even is the purpose of defining it? It’s such a specific term that was designed to only apply to their hardware. It’s like creating a new word for a car because you added air conditioning to it.
Sure, they had the first GPU because they coined a term that only applied to one specific product.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
The first PC that I bought myself has a TNT2 with 8mb of memory. I upgraded it some time later with a GeForce 2 and the difference was shocking.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
And also the concept of your collection of souls being recoverable from your last point of death.
I know the “death bag” mechanic had been done before, but the disappearing cache is a core element of Soulslike gameplay that has been repeated so many times since then. It adds a sense of urgency and FOMO to the recovery of your stuff. If you die again, it’s gone for good.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999
3dfx cards like the Voodoo and Voodoo2 were 3d accelerators that predated nVidia’s offerings.
And even from nVidia themselves, the Riva TNT was a GPU released before the GeForce models.
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 3 months ago:
Ignorance is not stupidity.
Despite this being reported on tech news, most people won’t even be aware that it’s a thing because most people won’t actually read about it. And the majority of gamers probably don’t even know what a kernel is or why an anti-cheat with elevated privileges would be a bad thing.
Most people buy their computers with Windows preinstalled and probably couldn’t tell you if the CPU is Intel or AMD.
- Comment on On Bears 3 months ago:
You could try, but odds are it would run away before you could get close enough.
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
I’m full of plasma, bur they never stopped me from flying.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
Cellulose can come from just about any type of plant. Cotton is almost entirely cellulose, for example.
I don’t know what their cellulose comes from, but saying cellulose is trees is like saying milk is cheese.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
Not yet.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
Celery shouldn’t be eaten.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
Many shredded cheeses are mixed with corn and/or potato starches rather than cellulose (which is not wood either)
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
If you consider cellulose to be wood, sure. They don’t put actual wood in there.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
He died doing what he loved. Drugs.
- Comment on Nintendo has DMCA’ed Sudachi’s GitHub 4 months ago:
A company like Nintendo definitely has a law firm on retainer. They’re paying them whether or not they’re being used. There’s no waste of money happening by going after “IP violations.”
A waste of time and energy, perhaps. But the lawyers are getting the same money whether they do this or nothing at all.
- Comment on Most Precise Atomic Clock Ever Built Will Only Lose a Second Every 30 Billion Years 4 months ago:
Surely in 30 billion years nothing could possibly happen to the supercooled strontium to throw that off, right?
- Comment on 3D technology has gone too far 4 months ago:
Only during the winter months.