John_Coomsumer 9 months ago • 100%
Good game. Weak in the item and gameplay, strong in the story and character choice impact. Fun environments too. Not too long, not much exploration.
John_Coomsumer 9 months ago • 100%
ARM offers, in the best case and ideal situation, a vastly more power efficient package that offers pretty good and modern performance. Peak performance with x86 is much higher, but at a very disproportionate cost in power. Something like 2x performance for 20x the power. (Measurements are not exact, direct comparison is impossible and there are many chips of each architecture)
So for any device with a battery, ARM is generally superior. That's why basically all mobile phones are ARM and have been for 10+ years.
The move for windows for arm is largely about the future of laptops and not so much desktop, however, as performance increases for ARM chips and complexity In design improves, there is a good argument for ARM becoming a rough standard even for desktop, over the next 10 years.
There are similar architectures to ARM that are even more efficient, and open source (cheaper for manufacturers) such as RISC-V, that offer even more promise in the very long term, but they are much much much earlier in development. The first RISC-V chips that are actually for users are just now hitting the market.
John_Coomsumer 9 months ago • 100%
Similar to mine!
-Fuckface
-Facejam
-Serious Trouble
-MBMBAM
-ANMA
John_Coomsumer 10 months ago • 100%
Watchman is a franchise with an intense blessing when so many seem cursed. The movie was made by someone who didn't understand the comic at all and it turned out fantastically, despite that. Easily the best Snyder product, and I do generally like his goofy ass.
Then, over a decade later, it has a weird HBO TV show, made by the creator/writer of Lost, someone who did at least understand very well the comics. But someone with a controversial track record, and making a show entirely out of original material. And it SLAPS. I tend to market it as "what if lost was rated R, 1 season long, and perfect". Still got my fingers crossed for another season, but it doesn't need it at all.
John_Coomsumer 11 months ago • 100%
There like 56 versions of MJ and some have wildly different character traits, visual features, and relationships with Peter, to claim that MJ is "supposed to be" anything just betrays ignorance of the franchise
John_Coomsumer 11 months ago • 100%
An alternative universe where the Economist turned out to actually practice introspection
John_Coomsumer 11 months ago • 100%
It's actually useful for drinking on the beach. In my area the cops are supremely dickish about any type of mixed drink or alcohol on beaches.
John_Coomsumer 11 months ago • 90%
I'm going to be honest, this is a huge nothingburger. How often do you pause and look at a crowd that's shown for a few seconds at most? Does this actually affect your viewing experience?
John_Coomsumer 11 months ago • 89%
Apple. Not the most evil, for certain, but they have the highest percentage of high level business choices that piss me off. Just so antithetical to my philosophy and consumer preferences. All closed, all hyper controlled, low customization, anti-repairable.
Do it their way or go fuck yourself. Something break? Fuck you, it's your fault, buy another one. Want to play games on their very capable hardware? Grow up, no compatibility. Want to make their OS work on other machines? How dare you. Thief.
John_Coomsumer 12 months ago • 100%
The only thing happening in the industry is the same thing happening in every industry and most of the first world:
The wealthy owners and executive leader roles have learned that COVID, COVID supply lines, interest rates, 'consumer sentiment', and inflation, are all very easy scapegoats that both the public and investors will easily buy as reasons for lowering product quality and availability, while also firing employees, squeezing the non-fired ones to death, and raising prices. This has lead to almost 2 straight years of corporations showing record profits (even adjusting for the inflation that they are largely responsible for in the first place).
This downward spiral will continue until some force with nearly as much power pushes back.
This is typically and ideally a representative government in the form of regulation or taxation. But the US government has suffered decades of regulatory capture and congressional gridlock.
So the only other potential option is a large amount of highly populated unions. Which have to fight against nearly 100 years of media and political demonization and nearly 150 years of 'american independent attitude'.
The perfect modern system has all 3 parties; unions, government, and corporations, equally strong and antagonistic. Just as the perfect modern government would have the executive, legislative, and judicial branches equally strong and antagonistic. Neither could be much farther from the case here.
Stronger bigger unions. Weaker smaller corporations. And a government that actually functions. All are necessary to fix our current shit show.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
As with most mobile games, I feel like it will live or die on the level of predatory behavior, which usually reveals itself later on. I hope this one stays reasonable
Just got it today. Seems pretty good so far, for a Niantic game. A bit annoyed that weapons besides S&S are locked behind chapter 2.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
VRchat is similar to second life in terms of what it provides to the player, and is very popular with VR users. Second life is still around but it looks like puke and has an impenetrable culture.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah VR is a good thing to point at as a message for "this is where we are heading and it will make the problem worse" but the current problems stem from the broad internet (the big apps) taking away real socialization time without giving much in return, and also cultural identity problems that are vast and complex.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Luckily mods have already addressed the menu problems for PC. StarUI and Undelayed Menus.
Shouldn't even remotely be necessary for a studio this size. But whatever.
The only other actual negative I feel for the game at this point (20ish hours) is the skill points/system feeling like 5% good choices and 95% pointless garbage.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
The fact that it's Chinese really isn't even a blip on the radar imo. The censorship sucks and a lot of US platforms do it too ( I mean shit look at YouTubes content rules).
Their content algorithm being really good at showing you what your brain craves in an endless stream is the real big problem. It's creating such strange micro cultures. Live streams of people slowly filling balloons with food coloring and water, on a bunch of white printer paper. Teasing the water. Like an hour before it pops. 1,200,000 views. It feels insidious in such a weird way.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Brb, putting "suckfull software developer - 12 years" on my resume.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
The country people of the 1890s are not the country people of today. Big city folk were a significantly smaller part of the population then, and the college educated population was miniscule. The ability to become educated is the largest relevant metric here. Now you can hit up khan academy and stanfords YouTube channel and get a world class education for free. Back then you had to be straight white wealthy connected. The excuses for ignorance are gone, for current country people.
But yes, these problems can and should be reversed, and done best communicating outside of the specific "lie-beral pedo demonrat vs racist Jesus warrior firearm creep" paradigm; placing things in terms of labor vs ownership class.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Extreme gridlock and, sadly, bigger fish to fry with a complete Inability to pass core-function bills like budgets due to that gridlock. Why gridlock? Ask McConnell and McCarthy
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 97%
Fucking roosterteeth all over again. 12 years there as a follower, 9 here. Dropped both forever, now. Never getting my view or my money again.
These tech/YouTube companies need to be fucking stacked union or employee owned businesses for me to give them money at this point. There's no other way I can trust them.
My only remaining sliver of hope is that Luke is not involved, and if he isn't, that floatplane can break off and go their own way.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
2221, and 2310, both look like they had some info redacted. Both have a transparency gradient at the bottom that others don't.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
This is not true, the used market was still great pre-covid. COVID obliterated new vehicle pricing and availability, and naturally the used market followed
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Have fun! it really does fix such a ridiculous amount of annoyances. I agree that making private co-op and running the server itself on another computer are the two things i want most from it, both of those may be possible with little work but AKI has to be very careful to avoid any ire from BSG
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
"Massachusetts one of very few states to acknowledge that first amendment exists" fixed. Forcing a paywall for the ability to speak with the outside world as an incarcerated person is unconstitutional no matter how many conservative judicial mental-gymnists want to pretend it isnt.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Outer Wilds would 100% be on my list but i played it close to release, so more than 365 days lol
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Its actually really easy to set up.
-install the bsg launcher, update, install the base game
use this, following its instructions >
https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/672-spt-aki-installer/
IF there is a version mismatch with live, which happens, this is a really easy patcher that downgrades https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/204-aki-patcher/
thats it, really easy. As for the mods and changes ive listed, here
KMC server value tool. read instructions, you have to run it first to make it work right. This is the main tool for tweaking the games settings, and there are a lot of options. Be sure to make your own profile and save and load it, its a bit of a weird set up. Here are my current settings.
https://pixelfed.social/p/BDBoris/593146651199822769
If a tab isnt shown then i probably havent changed anything in it.
https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/379-kmc-server-value-modifier-svm/
Amands graphics, unfucks the game visually. defog, makes it less grey. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/813-amands-s-graphics/
More checkmarks. gives you way more on the fly info about what items you need, what they barter for, etc. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1159-morecheckmarks/
SAIN, AI rework. Has two dependencies, be sure to get them. This is my prefered AI option, there are others but this one makes the most sense with the least problems imo. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1062-sain-2-0-solarint-s-ai-modifications-full-ai-combat-system-replacement/
Amands hitmarkers. nice to have, not necessary at all, but i like it for the immediate feedback. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/798-amands-s-hitmarker/
Visceral dismemberment. Really over the top and gross but fun. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1092-visceral-dismemberment/
ammo stats in description. shows you what the actual fuck ammo is without sitting on eft monster or wiki. color coded too. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/284-ammo-stats-in-description/
gunsmith, not technically up to date with SPT but it works anyway. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1022-gunsmith/?highlight=gunsmith
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
I freed myself from these chains years ago now, It was definitely worth it. understandable if you are locked in for work though.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
This is a big one for me, I currently have NVIDIA gpus on all my machines, (i am going to avoid them in the future, the corporate price gouging is unacceptable) but at the moment that makes switching to linux for my gaming pc quite a bit more obnoxious.
I think the most common answer is going to be *Tears of the Kingdom*, and that is one for me that stands out for sure, but I will try to add some more unique inputs as well. Many are games that came out longer than a year ago, but i didnt get around to playing until more recently. -*Escape From Tarkov*, **Single Player**. Okay look, I have 3000 hours in EFT Live/regular. There is nothing that competes with it, nothing like the experience. But there are so many excessive and unlikely to be changed negatives to the experience that I simply cant put more time into it anymore, much less recommend it to others. LUCKILY the SPT version exists, and it is so fucking fun and refreshing. No cheater, no long load times, no disgusting server desync. No busted ass rogue and boss AI. Hate the stupid base exp rates? change them. Hate the ridiculous hideout install times that only exist to keep people from bullrushing high tier ammo in week 1? change them. I have mods installed that vastly improve the enemy AI, that fix the truly deranged shooting/recoil physics, that show you more data on different ammunition in game so you dont need a wiki open constantly, sell you gunsmith compatible guns so i dont have to build that shit for the 1000th time. Shit I even turned off fall damage so i could yeet myself off cliffs and chase down gun shots. It is simply much much much more **fun**. Its really the only Tarkov experience i can recommend these days. -*Mechabellum*. This game is what ive wanted from the auto battle genre since it first popped up. Its got the perfect blend of conceptual strategy (think chess, the first game in the genre was auto-chess after all), randomness (the starting loadouts and perks on each round work as a very effective randomizing seed) and **LACK** of high APM micro bullshit that makes traditional multiplayer RTS a nightmare to pick up and learn. Its wonderful and im going to be playing so much of it as they are adding more coop modes and maps. 150 hours already. -*Monster Hunter Rise*. This last year was the year that monster hunter really clicked for me, after like 5 years of on and off trying and failing to get into it. I think what changed was finally understanding that the game is just pushing you to improve on a purely mechanical perspective, constantly. In the same way that dark souls combat rewards you for 'getting good' (learning the movesets, knowing when to push and pull back, etc) Monster Hunter just wants you to be a goddamn badass, but youll have to work for it. Go slap that dragon with a big fish. 250 hours (yeesh) -*Hades*. This is one of maybe 3 games ever that i could actually describe as 'perfect'. Im sure a lot of people have read this sentiment online, but here's the thing; I tried Hades 3 times previously and, while i did enjoy the experience and got like 2-5 successful patricides, it never **really** clicked into place. Until this time. The entire reason i got back into it was getting a steam deck, which i cannot recommend enough (if the price is right, be wary that a steam deck 2 in late 2024 is quite possible). but that was just a trigger. What actually made the difference was me slowing down a bit to appreciate the absolutely unparalleled and breathtaking **attention to detail** that the game constantly fulfills. 21000 voicelines, and ive never heard a repeat in 80 hours. Still unlocking new things like 30 or 40 successful runs in. Even the most supremely minor things: There is a decoration you can buy for your room, a big harp. you can run up to it and pluck some gross discordant notes. Neat, this kind of thing is in a lot of games, but still neat. **EXCEPT** plucking this thing enough gives you unique dialogues with a certain character. plucking it enough in between different runs shows you actually improving, making some less gross notes, then gross chords, then less gross chords, all with unique dialogue unlocks as you go. and eventually you pluck it and produce some real music. I cannot emphasize enough, this is a silly little decoration in your room that is totally optional and it wouldnt shock me if 95% of players completely miss it. THIS is the level of detail the game is constantly operating on. Super rare niche legendary boon from Demeter that kills stuff with a certain condition when its at 10% hp? bam, unique demeter voiceline for using it to beat the final boss. shit like that, is why this game is special, and what makes it next-level. -*Project Wingman **VR***. I love PW, i put like 30-40 hours in the regular game and it stands out to me as the best arcade flying game(ily AC7 but AC8 has to step up). But I recently got my VR headset working properly and tried PW in VR using my modest T.16000M throttle and stick, and oh my sweet lord there is something so transcendent about the experience. So rarely do i feel goosebumps when i play a game anymore (getting old) but this was like 2 straight hours of goosebumps. I also literally, actually, shit my pants a little when i collided with another plane, so thats nice.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
This entire topic, and the scientific data surrounding it, is truly pretty complex and nuanced.
https://youtu.be/K4Ze-Sp6aUE?t=7914
This links to a 10 minute or so section of the (very long in total) Huberman Labs podcast with Layne Norton going over processed food, sugar, and the obesity epidemic, and how we haven't really done a good job educating people on the way sugar is interacting with CICO and the epidemic.
I think a lot of people curious about the subject can learn a lot from just that segment.
For me its honestly a ton of my work software (digital forensics), shit is too niche to be replaced by good FOSS options. Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, etc. Autopsy is great and free **and** has a linux version but it simply cannot get the same level of data without a pretty nutty level of custom code. And the biggest side effect of this is FUCKING WINDOWS. God I would replace this nightmare OS in a heartbeat if the aforementioned work software would make linux compatible versions. We have legitimately wasted 10k hours dealing with windows bullshit that would not be a problem in linux. Though im sure linux would take a different 10k for its own problems. What about you guys? Doesn't have to be work related, thats just the thorn in my side right now.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 82%
there are real actions Biden can take today
Well let's look at the two you just said.
1:elimate via 1965 higher education act. Mechanistically, this would be done via executive order, then the court challenges, and rules on whether or not the action itself or the 1965 act is constitutional. And what do you know! We are in luck! Because that's literally what just fucking happened with the 10k cancellation last year. And it turns out our supreme court is full of shit bags, so it got squashed.
2: stack the court, or, excuse me, "expand to 13". This is blatantly and laughably unconstitutional. The amount of justices is explicitly set Article III, Section 1, by congress. Judiciary Act of 1789 set it to 6. Passed by congress. Judiciary Act of 1801 set it to 5. Congress. 1807 to 7. Congress. 1869 set to 9. Congress. Jackson tried and got overturned. FDR tried, via congressional bill and didn't get the votes. Now tell me where in that timeline do you see the authority to do this without congressional approval? So what you are asking for is a literal goddamn executive coup, a blatant authoritarian power grab for the executive, what we just narrowly avoided with Trump. Any support online you see for this movement, that even dares to cite a legal explanation for why Biden could do this, is made by liars and grifters who thinks they can sneakily interpret the constitution with some backdoor logic to ignore all judicial precedent. They are just rebranding sovereign citizen logic, straight up.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 73%
if he can do that, they could figure something out
Learn how the government works. Please. An executive order was what Biden did previously, in attempting to cancel a smaller amount of debt for less people. It was rejected by the supreme court. There is no next step, there is no other way that isn't an explicitly authoritarian unconstitutional Andrew Jackson style attack on the supreme court. Biden would have an approval rating of 10% within a week, whether or not anyone on Lemmy thinks it's a good idea.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 71%
if the supreme court accept it, then it's cancelled
They clearly, obviously, blatantly will not accept it. They shut him down on cancelling a smaller amount. They won't just allow him to cancel a larger amount. All sending it to them does is create more precedent limiting the power of the executive, there is no reason to do that. There's zero upside.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 87%
They literally fucking can't. They tried within a more limited scope and the supreme court slapped it down, there is a zero percent chance they could cancel a more broad selection. Dogshit meme
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Long overdue, another great Biden admin change that will probably fly under the radar for most. I have quite a few friends in the military and this system was BEYOND fucked.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 80%
This is literally worse than the lowest Facebook garbage. Why does this even have a single up vote?
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
ice sheets form as snow builds up, with each year's snowfall preserved as a single, visible layer. There are measurable chemical differences in snow formed at different temperatures, so ice cores provide a record of polar temperature going back around 250,000 years for Greenland and 800,000 years for Antarctica.
Yearly banding is also found in fossilised corals and lake sediment deposits, and each band has a specific chemistry that reflects the temperature when it formed. Growth rings in tree trunks can be wider or thinner depending on the climate at the time of growth, so fossilised trees can reveal the length of growing seasons. And fossilised or frozen pollen grains allow scientists to determine what plants were growing in the past, which can give us a good idea of the climate at the time.
Marine sediment cores provide temperature records spanning millions of years. They contain the fossilised shells of tiny marine creatures that preserve a chemical record of the sea temperature when they lived.
-the guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/07/past-climate-temperature-proxies
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
They are not perfect and foolproof but they are very effective when you consider how easy they are to implement
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
Been really annoyed by all of the beehaw brown outs, but I’m trying to be understanding about the difficulties of a growing platform.
Also been getting back into VR gaming which has been fun and made me pretty sore
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
I really dont understand how anyone can look at the modern era of politics without a consideration for game theory, it is so useful for resolving these more nebulous or philosophical idea when it comes to thought conflicts. If your 'opponent' is constantly escalating and you arent responding, you are functionally forfeiting. and we all know the fascists are escalating as often and as hard as they can. if you seek peace or de-escalation you have to negotiate, and they wont do that. if you seek neutral ground you have to respond with equal escalation. and if you want to win you have to apply overwhelming force.
most conflicts in politics are not zero sum like this so its not a useful tool most of the time, but fascists are literally out for the destruction of democracy by definition, its existential by nature.
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
In case anyone is unfamiliar:
https://mashable.com/article/rick-and-morty-season-7-justin-roiland-replacement
'Rick and Morty' is recasting Justin Roiland for Season 7
Justin Roiland's term as the titular offbeat pairing of Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith is truly over, with the show officially on the hunt for a new replacement voice actor(opens in a new tab). The co-creator and star of Adult Swim phenom Rick and Morty was booted from the show earlier this year, following the public unveiling of felony domestic violence charges and a widespread denouncement of inappropriate and abusive behavior among cast and crew. On Jan. 24, the show announced Roiland's departure and reassured fans that the show would continue. The charges against Roiland have since been dismissed. <(at least this one has, good legal ass covering mashable lmao)
John_Coomsumer 1 year ago • 100%
The laws are the problem here, the FTC's legal case and legal argument was dogshit. The moral one isnt, but that solution lies with congress and they are gridlocked on actual anti competitive laws by corpo-suckers that are only 75% republican
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