PonyOfWar
@PonyOfWar@pawb.social
- Comment on FreeCAD 1.1 is out 2 weeks ago:
Looking forward to trying it out. I’ve been teaching myself Freecad for a while and I’ll be honest, it has been a mildly infuriating experience at times. Still seems like the best option for a free CAD tool without ridiculous licensing terms though. This looks like quite an improvement in any case. Hopefully it’ll even fix the regular crashes I’ve been getting.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 weeks ago:
Keep in mind though that US prices don’t include VAT, whereas in most countries they do.
- Comment on Console Commands and Mods Shouldn’t Disable Achievements — Consoles Are Holding Players Back for No Good Reason 2 weeks ago:
A ton of PC games do this as well.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
You probably had a faulty DVD burner then. I did it within the last year, using my modern computer and a cheap external drive.
- Comment on What kinds of public buildings have solariums? 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re looking for a conservatory or sunroom, not a Solarium. Maybe check for a nearby botanical garden?
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 3 weeks ago:
Nothing’s stopping you from burning a CD right now. But ultimately, these kinds of nostalgic memories are less about the tech itself and more about remembering the happy times of youth. Bringing back the burned CD won’t bring those back I’m afraid.
- Comment on Peak 3d game. Nothing can beat this 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if I want to play a non-gay racing game.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Eh, DLSS maybe, but they’ve been quite critical of UE5, especially its stutter issues. They’re always happy when something isn’t UE5.
- Comment on Retro yet? 3 weeks ago:
That’s GBA/PS2 era, definitely retro.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably gonna turn all characters into AI Anime Waifus.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Can’t believe DF is so positive about this, just looks horrible. I’ve actually been quite positive about technologies like DLSS and FSR but this… no thanks.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 4 weeks ago:
For me, they’re just a nice to have. I don’t actively chase them or anything, but it’s sometimes neat to see when I did a thing that only 1% of players managed to do. I personally don’t care that they’re public. If I did, I imagine I’d have a private Steam profile anyway, so the achievements would be a moot point. I don’t see a meaningful difference between publishing my achievements and my other game activity like play times.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Well, it comes from Spain. Even if all your American ancestors came from Norway (which is unlikely), people in Europe have been intermixing for millennia. “Pure blooded” people don’t exist.
- Comment on The highs and lows of AI in the tattoo industry 5 weeks ago:
Maybe so, but getting neither kind of terrible tattoo is always an option, isn’t it?
- Comment on The highs and lows of AI in the tattoo industry 5 weeks ago:
Imagine wearing some AI slop on your skin for the rest of your life…
- Comment on Why is Iran attacking Dubai and Kuwait? 5 weeks ago:
Kuwait and UAE have US military bases. Iran doesn’t really have the ability to attack the US directly. Pretty sure they did also target Israel.
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 5 weeks ago:
Finally, hardware is powerful enough that even Gamefreak can make a decent looking 3d game!
In all seriousness though, it looks pretty nice. Looking forward to the return of diving. South-east Asia is an interesting setting for a new region. I have a feeling IGN isn’t going to like it though…
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 1 month ago:
The most trustworthy reviews are always those where the reviewers just bought the products. Even when it’s not as blatant as it is here, there’s always a motivation to not anger the company too much when you get their products early and for free.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, so what’s your point? The meme is talking about the “most successful of last 25 years”, so a 22 year old game fits perfectly within that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Pretty sure WoW and Overwatch were way bigger commercial successes.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 1 month ago:
I’ve only played the first remake so far, but I do prefer the original game. The remake is gorgeous and definitely not bad by any means, but it adds so much unnecessary padding to what was originally a perfectly well-paced game. And the story beats they added mostly don’t improve on the writing of the original. Feels almost mean to say it, but it reminds me a bit of the Hobbit movie trilogy in that regard.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Ashes of the Rug-Pull it looks like. Released on Steam less than 2 months ago. Looks like they just waited long enough so nobody who bought in can refund it.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 months ago:
“A Hat in Time” is an excellent 3d-platformer with local co-op.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 3 months ago:
My heart stopped at reading “GoG is getting acquired”, but that doesn’t sound so bad.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 3 months ago:
In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.
Nah, that’s just not the case for Pokemon. In the Japanese version he says 「たんパンうごきやすくっていいぜ」or “It’s nice that shorts are easy to move in”. Same meaning basically, dude just likes shorts in any version.
- Comment on Dying Light 3 months ago:
When Steam had its outage recently, I decided to go through my GOG library instead to find something to play. Noticed I had the Thief Trilogy, which I had never played, so I gave the first game a try. I wouldn’t have thought that a 3d-game from 1998 would hold up so well! It pretty much does stealth as good or even better than modern games. Sound design is brilliant as well. I’m 10 hours in and quite hooked on it right now.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 3 months ago:
So what conclusion do you draw from this? If humans can’t be trusted to make any judgement, literally anything should be considered to be capable of suffering, including pebbles, rainbows and paper bags? Seems like an impractical way of living.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 3 months ago:
Where do we draw the line though? Humans assign emotions to all kinds of inanimate things: plush animals, the sky, dead people, fictional characters etc. We can’t give all of those the rights of a conscious being, so we need to have some kind of objective way to look at it.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 3 months ago:
Fundamentally impossible to know. I’m not sure how you’d even find a definition for “suffering” that would apply to non-living entities. I don’t think the comparison to animals really holds up though. Humans are animals and can feel pain, so of course the base assumption for other animals should be that they do as well. To claim otherwise, the burden should be to prove that they don’t. Meanwhile, Humans are fundamentally nothing like an LLM, a program running on silicon predicting text responses based on a massive dataset.
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