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by ninkendo 1y ago
> First, sometimes they are mandated by the game story writers and backed up by artists wanting to show off How is that possibly an excuse? It reads like you’re agreeing with me. I could give a shit less about the feelings of some artist
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I would be fine if cutscenes were feedback, or reward for gameplay. But that doesn’t explain games where as soon as you start it up for the first time, there’s a minimum of 20 minutes of (often unskippable) cutscenes before you can even con
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The DMCA is from 1998. I don’t think Larry and Sergei were taking a break from inventing google so they could lobby congress from their Stanford dorm room.
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by ninkendo 1y ago
My question: is there a concise theory of game design that properly explains why cutscenes are fucking stupid ? There are a lot of AAA games out there that very clearly seem like the developers wish they were directing a movie instead. Sur
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> The human element is not recorded in the final translation output, but it is important to people that they know something was processed by a human who had heart and the right intentions Not that I entirely disagree with the conclusion
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Also, I’m way too lazy to look it up right now, but I’m quite certain I’ve heard of dishwashers that run the hot water for a little bit before letting it fill the basin. Like, I’m pretty sure this sort of thing is commonplace. It’s not like
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by ninkendo 1y ago
> show that most packages show a slight (around 1%) performance improvement This takes me back to arguing with Gentoo users 20 years ago who insisted that compiling everything from source for their machine made everything faster. The con
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Lol I have no idea why you came away with “… and I never used git again!” from all that. I love git. It’s unironically one of my favorite pieces of software in the world. I’ve used it nearly every day for almost 20 years. Maybe take a break
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> Sell me photogrammetry to build a 3d model of my home that I can redecorate. I’ve wanted this for so long, and every time I’ve looked, I’ve never been able to find something like this. It’s worth the cost of a rather expensive headset
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by ninkendo 1y ago
No, because that would be absurd. You're not "following my example", you're using reductio ad absurdum. Any phrase can sound stupid if you take it out of context like that. To make a non-fallacious analogy: If a ride sha
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by ninkendo 1y ago
I'm not trying to downplay it, it absolutely is a major problem. But it's a very different problem from "outsourcing your brain". In fact, the tendency to hallucinate is the very reason you still need to use your brai
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I remember the first time I tried git, circa 2006, and the first 3 commands I tried were: git init git commit -am Initial\ commit git clone . ssh://server/path/to/repo And it didn’t work. You have t
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Says who?
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I think the answers pretty obvious? A product is free. Then it isn’t free. You can argue all day whether it’s ok to do this, and I’d absolutely say it’s fine, even laudable that they’re trying to make a real business where you have to pay f
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by ninkendo 1y ago
Eh… your complaint describes every single piece of information available on the internet. Let’s try it with other stuff: “Looking at solutions on stack overflow outsources your brain” “Searching arxiv for literature on a subject outsources
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by ninkendo 1y ago
Them saying “we’re going to pull the rug” in advance doesn’t make it not a rug pull, it just means you have advanced notice of the rug pull.
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by ninkendo 1y ago
> I am not so fond of those fsck and lost data we used to have on an occasional basis after an unexpected hard shutdown due to a power cut in the 90's. Yup, still the case today. Currently with an SSD, when there’s a power cut, ther
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I think it’s just a typo for “something”, lol
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When it came out, my first thought was that if was a theme on gnome-look.org or something back in the day, I would’ve totally installed it on my Linux desktop, and would’ve thought it looked really kewl. It’s nice in that “gee whiz” kinda w
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It’s interesting, because if you imagine sites actually using these tags to be maximally compatible with reader mode and other accessibility modes, they’re setting themselves up perfectly to be viewed without ads. I use reader mode by defau
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> Processing is defined in the legislation The whole discussion here is how the legislation's definition is lacking, because it excludes otherwise perfectly healthy foods. You tried to clarify it by saying "it's about proc
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> No, it's about processing What’s “processing”? > The food industry has demonstrated that it doesn't give a crap about producing healthy food if that impacts the bottom line, so they pull every trick they can to increase pr
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The problem I always had with XML is that it's not clear how to properly encode typical data. If I have a structure like this JSON: { "foo": "bar", "nested": { "nested_foo": &qu
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I was at Apple around 15 years ago working as a sysadmin in their hardware engineering org, and everything - and I mean everything - was stored on NFS. We ran a ton of hardware simulation, all the tools and code were on NFS as well as the
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I’d agree with everything you’re saying if the cost of inspecting the car for rejoining the network wasn’t $2000. It should be a relatively simple inspection/test of the relevant systems and should cost 1/10th that. Also, if the v
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This feels like it’s basically the whole web nowadays. At least the subset of the web that is funded by advertising. Reader Mode by default is how I’ve rolled since it was something you could do, and I swear by it. Any site that doesn’t sho
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The actual computation speed isn't as important nowadays but it doesn't really change the conclusion with respect to whether they're underutilized. Because the main reason for the price premiums in AI-class GPUs are the gobs
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I have literally thrown my apple watch on the floor due to slack notifications buzzing my wrist incessantly. It’s a trigger for me at this point.
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Or to make “concatenate” more physical, divide an area into 12, one for each month in order, then in each area, people sort themselves. This is similar to the best design we have for the fastest way to board a plane: take people in a dozen
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That’s probably one of those cases where they use two different statistics to assume a conclusion, e.g. maybe only 30% of students pass a particular profiency test, and then add to the fact that that test is the minimum level where fraction

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