SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
7d ago
It's a collection of ridiculously short stories. Designing for open-world play maximizing player freedom means having lots of independent quest lines
The first doesn't follow from the second. Oblivion had open world play and was somewhat infamous for having better side quests (notably the guild storylines) than the main quest.
SkoomaDentist
7d ago
He also doesn't explain how come those movies were getting made before DVDs ever became a thing. It's funny how he talks about the 90s when the DVD only became a thing in 1997 and took 2-3 years to really get popular.
SkoomaDentist
7d ago
And it was a big deal (on Mac) because back then Mac was basically shit tier for gaming if you wanted anything that wasn't educational, adventure or multimedia.
SkoomaDentist
7d ago
The kind of mature industry that can churn out one Total War game per year, and a Modern Warfare every two years, and two Superhero games per year, and another Hero Shooter or Current-Thing-Clone so often they all just blend together...didn't exist in 2000.
Both Sierra Entertainment and Lucasarts Games produced new games more or less yearly in the late 80s and early 90s. The difference is that many are considered all time classics and often feature on best of all time lists.
Eg. Lucasarts made Maniac Mansion (1987), Zac McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Loom (1990), The Secret of Monkey Island (1990), Monkey Island 2 (1991), Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992), Star Wars: X-Wing (1993), Day of the Tentacle (1993), Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993), Star Wars: Tie Fighter (1994) and that list is leaving out a lot of other games from them.
SkoomaDentist
7d ago
Overall I'd say, "game writing was never good."
Ahem
Ever heard of Sierra Entertainment or Lucasarts classic games? Star Control 2? Ultima IV? Fallout? Baldur's Gate?
SkoomaDentist
8d ago
Ban federal funds from supporting university education for anyone without an associates degree from a community college first, including by guaranteeing debt
What's the general quality and deviance of community colleges when it comes to hard sciences and engineering? If this isn't good enough, I could easily see it becoming a problem.
SkoomaDentist
9d ago
That wouldn't surprise me. Neither side wants to escalate too far but the Iranian leadership has to be seen to do something and also wants to make a point that they could do the same anytime without warning if they really wanted to.
SkoomaDentist
10d ago
How do you not have an Indian accent?
I mean there's Indian accent and then there's Indian Accent. Think someone born in India but educated in western university vs stereotypical Indian tech support. I have a couple of friends who fit the first. Like yeah, you can hear they're probably from India but it's not a thing that strikes you the first moment you talk with them.
you know, from after Bluetooth codecs became decent
Decent Bluetooth codecs have been on the market for 15+ years (ever since APTx and AAC got added as options). The problem has always been that the codec makers charge $1-2 / device license fee and receiver manufacturers have been often too cheap to incorporate them outside "high end" devices.
For car use even the default SBC will be decent enough since the audio quality will be far more limited by the poor frequency response and distortion of typical car audio systems as well as the background noise from the engine and the tires.
Source: I used to work as a BT stack dev in previous life.
SkoomaDentist
13d ago
Obviously no.
India is easier to call the worst place since people in the west have at least some notion of what things are like there. Pakistan? Nobody knows... or cares (other than when it comes to Islamism).
SkoomaDentist
15d ago
I would have but they aren't sold new anymore. My old iPhone SE 1 broke a while ago and I needed a new phone ASAP so hunting for a 2nd hand mini wasn't really an option.
SkoomaDentist
15d ago
Get an SE since the others are noticeably larger (and even the current SE is larger than the good old iphones used to be).
SkoomaDentist
23d ago
The operative word there is ”theory”. No buyer expects the real estate agent to be impartial beyond handling the official stuff properly. You can hire an agent (who obviously works for you) when buying a house but it’s rare.
SkoomaDentist
27d ago
SkoomaDentist
27d ago
Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range, obviously.
SkoomaDentist
29d ago
For literally the rest of the planet, voter ID is a uncontroversial requirement.
Nobody even thinks of it as voter ID. It's just some ID (passport, drivers license, dedicated ID card etc) that you use in any situation where your identity must be verified.
Presumably because the paper includes an experiment and experimental results that are presented accurately, and allow you to learn something new about the field.
There are a whole lot of important and insightful scientific papers (in hard sciences) that don’t deal with experiments at all. Eg. This seminal paper that forms the basis of the entire field of digital signal processing and all modern long (and many not so long) distance communications.
When I’ve had to read papers (some hundreds of them) because of my studies or career, only a small minority have dealt with experiments and almost none with experiments that would have been feasible to reproduce without major investment in time and / or resources.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
more 'AI' than 'PS'
Photoshop has AI generative fill nowadays. I can easily imagine someone not particularly competent with it just circling those areas and hitting generate.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
Are they a thing? Yes.
Are they as common as kids on reddit like to pretend? Not even remotely. It's a tiny scene gets brought up only because it's so juicy and so easy to rile up the leftist online troops.
The reason it's always Varg who keeps being brought up is that he's pretty much the only one in the tiny scene who actually did something. Even that something had nothing to do with being far right but was "just" killing his ex-bandmate and burning some churches.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
Also great for hand tremor and general "body on overdrive" symptoms.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
I think the critical factor is drinking high strength alcohol much too quickly.
From the few news clips I've read about the topic, I recall that how fast you got drunk is usually more important than how drunk you end up being when it comes to alcohol induced memory loss. Too fast and your brain can't keep up with the result that new memories aren't properly transferred from short term memory to longer term memory.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
It really differs hugely on a person to person basis. I used to get blackouts quite easily but they would never last all that long - at the very least I'd have memory of finding myself at the entrance to my home. I've passed out exactly once in my life (some 20 years ago). I'd always puke my guts out much before I got that drunk (except for that one time). OTOH, I've never once felt drinker's remorse. Like sure, sometimes I felt slight embarrassed afterwards but that was always a rational reaction, never the kind of "OMG I want to kill myself because I was such an idiot" neurotransmitter imbalance that some people get from drinking (it probably helped that I learned in my late teens that no matter how much I drank, I never started acting much out of character).
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
Even as a (too) experienced drinker, I have had mornings where I woke up and thought, "what the fuck, this hangover is bullshit, I didn't even drink that much"
This is the worst, particularly when you know for a fact that you were never even above the legal limit at any point the previous night.
I do, however, lean towards it being hysteria that so many women confuse being "blackout drunk" with being roofied. Like, drink enough alcohol and that just happens, including waking up in an unfamiliar place feeling like shit.
I've always been confused by the American tendency to conflate being blackout drunk with being passed out, completely helpless or doing things you'd otherwise never do even while drunk. All it means is that you drank enough for your brain to not store new memories (or store them very poorly) during that time (which could range anywhere from 30 minutes to many hours). There are many factors that can influence getting a blackout, such as how fast you get drunk (even if the level of drunkenness is the same), whether you ate anything, how tired you are, genetic factors etc, all without implying that you've lost control, are helpless or will pass out.
When I was much younger it wasn't that unusual for me to get blackouts when going out with friends to get properly drunk. It never worried me since I knew that my behavior didn't change all that much when drunk (other than being more talkative than usual and starting to tell really shitty jokes at some point) nor would I be any more helpless than normal. These days I skip the "getting very drunk" part and just progress to feeling like shit if I drink much. I guess that's age for you.
If you want to complain some weird random app, you should complain about that app (at the very least name it!), not Windows 11 when Windows itself has nothing to do with your app.
And no, even Windows 11 notepad doesn't do that. If you close a file without saving and open it again, the original contents remain. It's only when you go to the original restored tab in Notepad that the changes remain - clearly marked as unsaved!
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