insomniac_lemon
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- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 6 months ago:
When that older DX game port was released, I think it took like 3 or 4 days for them to take it down. Probably even like a
patchstomp tuesday situation when the interns hand off the script detections off to the lawyers.It might take a bit longer if people stopped using sites like Youtube and Github, and tried not to include trademarked terms (or super-identifiable audiovisual content) anywhere.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 6 months ago:
Huh, I'm using technology as an escape from woodworking. (lack of space/tools and the a few times when I tried to do something the wood was too seasoned) Well not fully true on the escape part, I just drop things really easy when I run into issues like that.
- Comment on It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men. 6 months ago:
ME: "Wow I can't exist with how hot and sunny it is today. A-" <disappears>
The man cycle.
- Comment on Wanting nothing and being grateful for everything is true freedom 6 months ago:
To quote the decimal system:
I expect nothing, and I'm still let down.
- Comment on Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible 7 months ago:
My /newest/ (new-to-old):
This
Forcasting
Sumo wrestlers in a field of sunflowers
Tesla’s Cybertrucks were ‘rushed out,’ are malfunctioning at astounding rate - Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I plugged it into Google Lens (top-left corner, with some of the blurred bit in it): https://store.steampowered.com/app/18700/And_Yet_It_Moves/
- Comment on Regressing Emotionally with James Bond | TibsTV 7 months ago:
I've had similar thoughts here, but I'd add also that the remasters also bloat the data of a game massively while also completely cutting out some really smart rendering tech. Like vertex colors in general, but specifically Spyro's vertex color skyboxes.
Similarly was watching reviews on the Medievil remaster and hearing a few people say that they left some glaring design issues in.
- Comment on Men over 30, what contributes to weight gain besides slower metabolism when you get older? Is it really hard to stay in shape? 8 months ago:
I don't really keep track of it (I am a mostly-stable skinnyfat), but the most recent thing is the local trail closed for maintenance (after I bought a cheap+geared ebike and rode 131 miles) 6 months ago. Just the section I'm near, blocking the village I'm in off from both directions and no clear set end date. Feels like some real Truman show shit. Before that happened I was at least doing something and did notice bike riding became significantly easier after the longest trip I made, probably gone now.
I also have untreated health issues (that is not new, and it's mostly not things that are likely to be fixed easily/at all except maybe some of the symptoms after long deliberation/trial-and-error) such as not sweating enough to stay cool, POTS (heart rate easily climbs, putting me out-of breath), lack of energy etc. (I'm also in a semi-rural area, shut-in)
Also poor sleep and probably cortisol, and I need to eat more vegetables though that varies a lot. And yeah I often eat too much (some of it is garbage frozen/canned stuff) and even occasional carbs/sugars probably stay for a while since I'm not burning them. I'd go for meal replacement for at least some meals if it wasn't so expensive (also online purchases/shipping), I liked the flavor of original Soylent when I tried it a while ago (I tried DIY powder for lower cost, I wasn't good at it).
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 8 months ago:
As a fun aside, unauthorized sharing is the only reason I tried and bought the game back in early beta days before there was a demo (friend A owned, friend B didn't, I tried it from friend B's unauthorized copy and got the copy too, later gave friend A $20 and info to activate my account because I didn't have internet at home).
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 8 months ago:
I backed up all of my own files except the jars apparently (because when you download every one they added up, and I didn't do that when the servers were at stake). I even had a launcher still logged in but none of the files will download now. Prism is lame in that it just says "contact microsoft support if you didn't migrate" or something like that, but you can just copy over
accounts.jsonfrom polymc to use an offline acct. Though I a few mods I've tried don't work (and I feel like mod discoverability might not be the best?). - Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 8 months ago:
I stopped playing around release 1.8, the Minetest games I've tried mimic the features/style that I disliked (annoyance of hunger and inventory clutter at least). Nothing close enough that makes me want to refine it into my own vision.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 8 months ago:
Sometimes you'll see a landscape video letterboxed into a portrait video, just to make sure it's terrible no matter which way you view it (but extra bad watching on a landscape monitor). So I don't see this as a badge of anything.
On a sidenote, I've noticed video cropping is pretty nice on a phone (widescreen+landscape) depending on the content (I got an OLED phone free because the screen is cracked). Like Wall-e is pretty good like that. Also the music video for Long-Legged Larry (some things are cut off but not enough that it detracts from understanding)
- Comment on All of the 90s cats are dead. 8 months ago:
Now playing: Them Bones by Alice In Chains. (not linking it because of the iconic AAH! intro, adjust your speakers and if you can hear the flies clearly it's probably too loud)
- Comment on Anti-doom-and-gloom post 9 months ago:
Hey, I got stuff working, updated my original comment.
- Comment on Anti-doom-and-gloom post 9 months ago:
Doom ports are a meme at this point, which is a motivation for a straightforward task (for someone who knows what they're doing, at least). A flexible engine, less likely.
I assume these types of scenarios/features fare better:
- newer hardware
- open (SDK and sideloading OOTB)
- bespoke engine (limited capability)
- WASM or similar universal shim layer (I assume)
Likely meaning money (and healthy homebrew scenes in some cases might be sunk cost, like the Playdate which I'm sure is great if cost isn't an issue). Though honestly the main reason I care at all is just to use hardware that I already have*. I don't really need a handheld console even though I expect that will likely have a better homebrew scene.
I guess some older consoles have options now but those also usually need some sort of extra buy (mostly the step itself being an issue) plus I don't have most of my old consoles.
*=especially if semi-unique features. Like sixaxis for the PS3 (analog triggers if comparing to KB+M)... though I do wonder if someone could make accelerometer controls work for the steam controller rather than just gyro. Then again, on top of my other PS3 issues I don't even know if my controllers are still alive.
- Comment on Anti-doom-and-gloom post 9 months ago:
Yeah, sorry. I could probably do something, it's just tedious especially now. Maybe eventually, though I remember stuff (like a cheap laser puzzle game from the PSN, also some old animations sold on the PSN though I did remember Stickman Exodus) that I probably won't ever find again.
On a very similar note I really like the idea of creating some sort of content, not sure if things will ever align there either. I'd like to create minimalist stuff (that could run on the PS1 even, so it's a shame that it'll never be as simple as clicking export from Godot (it could happen 3rd-party maybe, but might be too niche) and copying a file over.
- Comment on Anti-doom-and-gloom post 9 months ago:
I don't think I played the story co-op, but I played versus maybe 3 times. Splitscreen isn't good for that because screen-peeking.
Resistance 2 had some interesting co-op/online stuff (XP system with unlocks, different stuff than story mode) that I mostly played solo IIRC (janky, still need 2 controllers). No broadband available until mid-2016, but I was able to play online via a distant neighor's wifi (they knew) at midnight for a few games and was probably the worst player thanks to high ping (rubberbanding).
- Comment on Anti-doom-and-gloom post 9 months ago:
I've got 2 already:
my orginal 60GB version (YLoD, heatgun fixed until I gave up)
one with a broken disc-drive I traded for, put my old drive (with its daughterboard) in and eventually it stopped reading discs (not sure if it burned out or firmware DRM timeout thing, cleaner disc didn't work)I could probably fix either but I don't want to spend money on it, plus given the situation I'd probably need to fix both.
Can't rip my own disc (I have a blu-ray drive but not the right kind for PS3 ripping). Emu is a hassle esp. w/big files (and I have a 1050Ti). Bookmarks are dead (or need acct?) and I can't seem to find a demo image to see if it'd run.
- Comment on Anti-doom-and-gloom post 9 months ago:
I was just wanting to re-play one of my old games (Resistance: FoM), but that only brought up PS3 gloom because I can't easily run them.
I mean free games are nice, pretty much all I play now aside from things I bought on sale many years ago.
- Comment on How do you tell the difference between dream and reality? 9 months ago:
Probably unhelpful, but I do not dream with enough clarity for that to be an issue. The more vivid ones I've had seem to be shorter (I've had a dream once that was basically just a still picture with moving colors), everything else is usually just weird and at-best might be mistaken for a cheesy movie.
That's probably related to aphantasia, but it also might be an issue with REM sleep due to health issues particularly if I don't remember having a dream even long before I've woken up.
- Comment on A billionaire could finance some UFO-looking drones to swarm a town, then invest in the real estate and tourism in that town and profit. 9 months ago:
Nah that'd scare all the locals away and then some kids and their dog would come and get you arrested, possibly harming you (with a makeshift device and/or accidental high-speed tackle) in the process.
- Comment on I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess. 9 months ago:
I need a lady to try to fix me, only to put my head in a freezer because the technology doesn't exist.
That doesn't have much to do with anime, but I suppose it does make sense that being hit by a truck is a common vehicle (pun intended) for escapism plots.
Also I imagine a yandere would get bored with a shut-in and dump them when there's no separation and no reason for them to be jealous.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 10 months ago:
I don't know, I think a lot of modern life things have broken the capacity/effectiveness for solidarity in a lot of ways. Infrastructure, cost-of-living, surveillance state/police brutality, corporate money/efforts, underhanded politics etc. The worst part is that wins were made in the past but were undone systemically... and without fixing the broken political system first (if that even happens), some things won't change for generations.
At least that's how I feel as a broke shut-in in semi-rural USA... I'm just stuck.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 10 months ago:
I was reminded of one of my favourite paintings: 'Young Woman on her Deathbed.' There’s a striking contrast between the opulence of the bed and her physical deterioration. While she lies amidst luxury, her life ebbs away in her youth. This image serves as a metaphor for our civilisation
The only information I can see says she's dead in the painting:
The first is in the very originality of its subject: the portrait of a dead young woman. A short text in Latin found in the top right-hand corner on the back of the picture even specifies that it is the portrait of a young woman who died at 25 years of age, and that is was painted two hours after her death in 1621
Following the metaphor, is civilization already dead too but some of us just don't know it yet while we're being painted in a much less opulent existence?
Also, More risk! More Risk!
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 10 months ago:
Just to add, I would argue that by definition of prefixes it is 1000.
However there are other terms to use, in this case Kibibyte (kilo binary byte, KiB instead of just KB) that way you are being clear on what you actually mean (particularly a big difference with modern storage/file sizes)
- Comment on This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is so cool I can't believe Nintendo hasn't taken it down yet 11 months ago:
12 hours ago: https://itch.io/takedowns/2402026
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I don't really care (especially when it's older than 2 decades), but when a company (this company especially) issues hundreds of takedowns in 1 batch (and they do this multiple times) I don't think they're evaluating each one at all let alone for any sort of merit/exemption. They have no real reason to do so, that's why I'm saying don't put the target on your back (especially scaling with how much work was put into it).
If anything I'd say I'm at the point where fan content kind of seems too good for companies that treat their users like dirt (and not just those who make fan content). Like that is inevitably going to be someone's introduction into a series, can this giant company not do better than free-time fan efforts? Well, I guess what I'd really like to see is a game that's simultaneously a love-letter to a game/genre yet a hate-letter (diss letter?) to the current owner.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
It also doesn't matter how by-the-law they do that if they're still using trademarked terms so will easily show up as a search result when they use a script to do another batch of DMCA takedowns.
I mean unless they have the willingness+time+money to fight a highly-paid team of lawyers in court. (which could happen either way, but it much more likely when it's so easy to find even if it gets 3 downloads)
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Easier: Stop using trademarked terms (particularly in this case where it's the original game name) and screenshots of the logo.
It's a multiplier to being caught, and can still result in a takedown even with original assets (for example, DMCA's sky which originally used the M name in the title). The further you distance yourself from trademarks/IP the better.
- Comment on This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is so cool I can't believe Nintendo hasn't taken it down yet 11 months ago:
Including a trademarked term right in the title is the thing that gets most fan projects. It's a multiplier for takedowns, it can't get any easier for companies than running a simple script that just searches Itch/Gamejolt/Github for terms and then doing a mass takedown of the results.
Sure user-added* or redone assets could help, but just distancing the name would help a lot more. Having 100% new assets won't stop a takedown if you use trademarked terms (see DMCA's Sky), and the DMCA system doesn't really discourage overstepping unless somebody has the willingness/money/time to take it to court.
*=image detection could be a thing as well though, so be careful with screenshots especially with a logo