No person can make a locked door 100% secure. It either is a locked door waiting to be unlocked, or its a welded shut wall which defeats the whole point of a door.
Privacy is a tradeoff with illegal activity. While unfortunate, a person cannot have full privacy ona VPN without giving criminals that same privacy. Some may consider this assisting criminals, some may not. But you can’t have full privacy and be able to catch criminals too, you have to pick one or the other.
I’m a bit concerned about how much my husband has been watching his videos, but he’s a hard man to argue with. I want to understand what it is Joe Rogan is saying, but I don’t want to give the man my viewership. How/where do I get the info I can use to debate my husband?
Even if it does, thats still too much money. How much money did Hollow Knight spend on marketing? Or what about Terraria? Or Minecraft pre-buyout? How much was spent on marketing for games like Deep Rock Galactic? I can guess probably less than $100 million each. Maybe even less than $10 million.
Well I don’t know how long the GTAV script is, but A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound Of This World: YU-NO came out in like, 1996 and its script has ~1,300,000 words in it.
That’s more words than Mass Effect 1-3’s scripts combined.
That’s about 100,000 words less than the combined scripts of the entire Metal Gear Solid series excluding MGS5.
And YUNO was made by like, 25 or less people I think. At a time when making computer games was not so easy. They didn’t have the tools that make game development easy like we do these days, they mostly had to write their own software and had to deal with a lot of hardware limitations.
Effort to make good games these days has actually gone down a lot. There is really no excuse to have such a massive budget and still release a bug ridden, unfinished mess.
I mean, he could have just created 200% more resources as well. Or he could have equally redistributed all the resources. The problem he was trying to solve would still eventually happen again, because solving the problem relies on everyone working unselfishly, which is simply not possible when humans are involved.
Bikes sound like a great idea until you decide to live in the hills/mountains, or a place where it rains/snows often, or you need to buy more than 4 bags of groceries, or you live in a desert, or you are moving furniture.
E-bikes still have a massive carbon footprint compared to regular bicycles, and the battery efficiency is very adversely effected by high heat (deserts) and low heat (snow) .
Either way, a car, even if its an EV, will be the better pick for every situation I stated above.
Yes, that would help, but that would require major reworking of large areas. Additionally, having a large density of population all living on top of each other presents its own unique problems.
Really, its a situation where different people and places need different solutions. Some can use public transport and bicycles, and some cannot. And unless the Earths population becomes so large that every square inch of the planet is as dense as a place like Kowloon, cars will continue to fill a use that bicycles and public transport can never fill.
Nearly every person in South California, which is an incredibly high density of population? The entire bottom half of California is practically a desert, literally home to one of the hottest deserts in the entire planet the Mojave which contains the appropriately named Death Valley.
How about the people that live in parts of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, much of southern Texas, and New Mexico? And thats just in the United States. What about people in other continents like Africa and Asia? Large areas of those continents contain entire countries whose borders never leave desert or hills and mountains. Nearly the entire Middle East and top half of Africa is desert. A large part of Australia is desert, its like more than 50% of the continent. 1/5 of the entire land area of Earth is a desert.
i have a specific niche question about a sensitive topic, i write up a post, i go to the sub for it, and whenever i post it gets autoremoved, no PM no nothing, i don’t believe it’s breaking any rules, no help from the mods...
That or the responses get incredibly hostile. Which is honestly no different here on Lemmy.
Leaving Reddit for Lemmy is kinda like leaving one job for another. Its got the same problems, just a different flavor. I miss how Lemmy was like from 2 months ago.
My vote is monk from age of empires 2. These dudes can walk up and stare at your friend chanting for a bit, then suddenly they turn around and attack you. That’s horrifying.
It depends. AoE2 Organ Guns, in a group of at least 10, will obliterate basically everything in their path, but alone theyre not too menacing to anything other than vils.
Any Scrin unit from C&C Tiberium Wars, because that faction was overpowered.
I am not an expert, only a user, so take my remark eith a grain of salt.
To my knowledge a banned account is only banned on the instance that bans the account. Federated accounts would not automatically ban the account unless they have a bot or some similar function specifically for that.
Obviously, automatic federated banning would be a huge, massive problem for Lemmy. If a small, tiny instance decided to start banning accounts for whatever reason, the accounts being automatically banned on all federated instances would be a major design flaw.
I believe its more that OP is posting a meme communicating that they are not happy with Lemmy’s recent flooding of users that post mostly politically charged content. They see themselves among the people.having fun just posting and laughing at silly memes. The person behind yelling is the Lemmy users that post politically charged content, through comments, posts, and perhaps voting. They may not be referring directly to American politics, but other types of politics such as Social Politics.
It’s weird, I see a lot of people saying they dont see this content, but they must have a lot of filters turned on that filter out that content. Because I see a lot of content posted that is politically charged and I don’t typically want to engage in that content here. Lemmy wasn’t like it is now until sometime around the end of August. Not sure where this particular spike came from exactly but its tiring being constantly hounded by it. It doesn’t have to be in everything, you know?
I don’t know exactly the correlation, since it seems to be all over. News, entertainment, and other even niche communities have a lot of politically motivated content that gets posted that is not just silly memes or factual reporting, or on-topic discussion.
Yeah, I saw the communist stuff too. But I set filters early on that hide content by keyword in Connect for Lemmy, which is what I typically use for browsing. I filter all content mentioning pretty much anything political and a few other subjects, but a lot of content still gets through because it doesnt trigger the keyword detection. The filters really helped to hide all that stuff early on, so it hasnt been as bad as when I first joined, but things still get through pretty often. So now I just block users that post that stuff, since users will typically post more similar content.
Every day is another chance that a person can choose to change their mind.
I’d much rather a person live their full life knowingly making the wrong choice every day than cutting their life short the day before they chose to do the right thing.
The only people that say a person can’t or won’t change their mind are idiots. Because only an idiot can claim to know the future decisions of another person.
Please join me in this nostalgia-induced discussion on a particular characteristic of older games that I feel like is missing on modern titles… Though I do ultimately recognize it’s I who grew up and changed, not the games themselves....
Well, gaming now just showers its players with awards and achievements. Back then we had to earn it by using our brain, fine motor skills, and patience. People just want instant gratification these days, and mainstream games mostly cater to that. They take away all obstacles to the player:
Real survival horror games don’t exist anymore, they’re all action shooters with elements of horror now. The fixed cameras and intentionally discouraged combat were “too frustrating” and the slow pacing made squirrel-brained new-age players lose interest too quickly. Rule of Rose, Haunting Ground, Kuon, all in a genre that is basically gone forever. Even Silent Hill 2 Remake is changing into an action shooter.
Puzzle solutions are told directly to the player, because using your brain is too hard and delays the reward. God of War literally tells you the answer before you barely even look at the puzzle. Zelda got rid of massive dungeons and temples in favor of tiny one room puzzles that are all rather simple to solve, and 3 room “temples” whose only mechanic is pressing 5 buttons. No more temple-wide puzzles like the Water Temple in Twilight Princess. No more YU-NO obfusicated nonogram puzzle.
Games now include rewards for completing the tutorial. Remember what the reward was for completing the tutorial, if the game even had one? Yeah, we got to play the rest of the game. It wasn’t some Ultra Sword or 500 Useless Coins, it was the knowledge necessary to completing the game. I mean, most games used to include a manual that you could read that would teach you all that you needed to know, modern games don’t really have those either. Because reading is slow and doesnt give you a reward.
The only games that are really still keeping any of this from completely dying are a few indie games here and there, and FromSoftware games. Even Elden Ring is by far the easiest of all the Souls-like games by From.
The journal in Morrowind is the best solution to “What was I just doing yesterday/last week/last year?” Its not even hard to program something like that. It might take one person a week at most to create it with all the text data necessary.
Its not to encourage better content. It’s to min-max the amount of time and variety of ads that are on your screen. Business is never about making good content these days, because there is no longer a financial incentive to do so. People will consume regardless of its quality.
You are supposed to get out of the way. Stop if you can, if you can’t because you’re in an intersection, go through and pull over at the nearest available curb. If you are at a red light and the emergency vehicle is behind you, slowly pull out into the intersection as soon as it is safe to do so and drive through and pull over when you leave the intersection to allow the emergency vehicle through. This is the only time you may legally run a red light, but you cannot just blow through the intersection. Basically try not to wait for the emergency vehicle to tell you to go through, but also don’t drive like a BMW driver.
Blocking an emergency vehicle, or refusing to let it pass, is a crime in basically every state.
Typically, do not keep driving. Pull to the right, stop, and wait until the emergency vehicle has passed you. This is supposed to be done even if the emergency vehicle is on the other side of the road. The exception to this is if there is a divider in the middle of the road, for example a curb or island. However, if there is no physical divider in the road, you must pull over in case the emergency vehicle needs to make a u-turn or enter oncoming traffic lanes for any reason.
Look, I might have switched to Godot if all the people recommending it weren’t so annoying about it. Effort or not, the vast majority of those people did not contribute to the software, so it wasn’t even their fight. They just adopted a weird oppression fetish into their personality and decided to make FOSS into their god.
If someone was wronged by “Big GameDev” or whatever and developed their own FOSS replacement, then good on them, I am happy to listen about it. But the large majority of these users didn’t do that, but act like they did. Just be normal, please. Being so overly annoying about it isn’t going to attract more people, existing users being annoying are going to push away potential new users.
I am not complaining about FOSS, or even saying its bad. I am saying the people that look at FOSS as if it was their god are annoying. The people that just cannot shut up and have to shove it in your face. The people that start conversations with “I use Arch” or “Godot is the best.” Thats what I am talking about.
At the same time, there are a lot of people, especially in my line of work as a mechanic, where they somehow expect to be able to sit around and not do much actual work and still collect a paycheck at double minimum wage.
Like yes, workers should be paid fairly for their time. But also, workers should be trying to do a good job. Employment is a give and take, and its really hard to find that balance. Working for yourself is a good solution, but you have to deal with a lot more such as taxes and marketing your business and such. Being hired at a bigger business takes all that pressure away to let you just focus on your job.
There is no perfect system, because it relies on both the employer and the employee to not be greedy.
My point still remains, for $30/hr especially (which is a legal minimum here for mechanics with their own tools), an employee definitely should be showing up to work ready to actually do work and not sit around and collect a paycheck for doing nothing.
In case anyone can’t tell this is sarcasm, this (intentionally causing damage to private property belonging to someone else) would be considered vandalism, which is a crime. Please do not commit crimes.
Honestly, thats probably a better alternative to the current CEO, formerly from EA, who sold 2000 shares just prior to this announcement and has never purchased any additional shares in Unity.
Do you think VPN companies will start to feel pressure from legal/corporate powers to crackdown on pirating?
With the resurgence of pirating, do you think there will be a “response” from the powers that be?...
Pizza time (pawb.social)
Wedding pricing makes so much sense. (lemmy.ml)
How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos.
I’m a bit concerned about how much my husband has been watching his videos, but he’s a hard man to argue with. I want to understand what it is Joe Rogan is saying, but I don’t want to give the man my viewership. How/where do I get the info I can use to debate my husband?
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Leaked Xbox Boss Email Perfectly Explains Why Game Publishers Are Eating Themselves Alive (kotaku.com)
If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?
Would they have all still fought against him?
EVs (feddit.de)
It's so so hard to get a post through on reddit sometimes, it's incredibly frustrating
i have a specific niche question about a sensitive topic, i write up a post, i go to the sub for it, and whenever i post it gets autoremoved, no PM no nothing, i don’t believe it’s breaking any rules, no help from the mods...
What is the most terrifying RTS game unit to be up against?
My vote is monk from age of empires 2. These dudes can walk up and stare at your friend chanting for a bit, then suddenly they turn around and attack you. That’s horrifying.
When a user is banned on one Lemmy federated instance, are they banned on all federated instances?
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Nvidia Says Native Resolution Gaming is Out, DLSS is Here to Stay (www.tomshardware.com)
Tough choice (lemmy.world)
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[Chivalry 2] It's only a flesh wound! (youtu.be)
I miss the magical "mystery" of childhood games
Please join me in this nostalgia-induced discussion on a particular characteristic of older games that I feel like is missing on modern titles… Though I do ultimately recognize it’s I who grew up and changed, not the games themselves....
Reddit implements hidden "credit scores" only visible to admins (old.reddit.com)
In the U.S., what exactly are we supposed to do when an ambulance, with its sirens on, approaches from behind?
Let’s assume we’re not stopped at a traffic signal....
"First remove the closed source vendor lock in from your own codebase before checking for license issues in your neighbor's codebase" Engineerings 5:33 (lemmy.world)
Capitalism guilt-tripping overload (lemmygrad.ml)
My friend and I discussing how long memes will last (lemmy.world)
My reaction to "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates" (feddit.uk)
For Free! (lemmy.ml)
Apple event as a consumer vs. investor (lemmy.world)
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Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume (www.axios.com)
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Right wing MFs when they hear COVID is coming back (lemmy.world)
The Civilization series is a hell of a drug (i.imgur.com)
Lockheed Martin Launches Fashion line (www.nytimes.com)