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MentalEdge

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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The Lodge griddle I have really isn’t usable for pizza… But for setting atop my induction stove to turn into a big hot metal surface for bacon, burger patties, and toasting the buns, all at the same time? Perfect.

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!foxes

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Oh we know it’s there. Finding it isn’t the problem, giving epic any money, is.

I’m happy Epic spent their v-bucks on Remedy and let them use it to fund a masterpiece. But when it comes to distributing it, I think a quick visit to the pirate bay is a lot easier to stomach for a lot of people.

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Fallout 7: Metro S.T.A.L.K.E.R

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Oh! That’s why I’ve been finding tiny channels with oddly well made videos lately.

A personal argument for a benefit of gaming

I grew up hearing all the talking heads (media), religious groups and parents strongly criticizing video games. You’ve, probably, heard some of this. For example, video games involving any type of violence causing people to become more violent, etc. As far as I know, the academic community has failed to produce any negative...

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I agree so much. Compared to the highs and lows of a good game, TV series and movies feel like background noise at times.

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Fedora apparently has some functionality.

There is also an arch wiki page on the subject.

Linux systems are used all over for enterprise use cases, which means there is a robust user permission system. Usage won’t be Googleable with stuff like “parental control” but more likely keywords like “user restriction”.

Not sure if you mention your wife because she knows Linux and thinks it’s a bad idea, or because doesn’t know Linux, and still thinks it’s a bad idea.

Of course, when your kid one day learns to flash an iso onto a usb, and install an OS, any and all parental control will be symbolic. Hopefully you’ve successfully taught your kid how to use tech safely by then.

You’ll want to look into browser extensions and blocking websites on your router, as well.

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Yes. And using restricting application access doesn’t really work with normal package managers, but is easy with flatpak.

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Now watch 505 launch Control 2 on steam and just roll in money.

Epic is literally taking a shotgun to their own leg.

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!trippinthroughtime

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No.

But why would you want to?

All “virtual surround” solutions for headphones are absolute crap. You have two ears. The headphones have two speakers. Any modern game is already processing the 3D position of sounds and creating the appropriate stereo signal.

All any additional processing does is make it sound worse. At best these programs are just an audio equaliser that makes footsteps louder, that’s not some fancy processing, and is arguably cheating.

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That’s what I said.

If someone else turns up footstep audio with additional software, you have to do it too.

But just use a damn equaliser then. Not some “surround gaming audio” processor that at worst does way more to hurt audio quality than help it.

These programs don’t help you hear other players by using some magic 3d audio. They literally just make footsteps louder, because the audio is already 3d.

You can also get the same result by just lowering all the audio sliders in the game, except SFX, and then using a louder volume.

These “audio processing” programs are fake garbage.

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Yes they do. They use the word “surround”. That’s a lie. They claim to improve audio across the board, for music movies and anything else. That’s a lie. They claim to enhance immersion by making it sound more real. That’s a lie.

Everything all of these programs do around achieving “surround” is fake garbage.

I said the only REAL thing some of them do is let you hear better in games, and thats arguably cheating.

It has more in common with wallhacks than turning graphics down.

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Do you not know what the word “arguably” means?

They cannot magically make new information.

That’s literally what I’m saying. They don’t actually do anything useful.

These programs don’t “enhance” anything. They just make some parts louder and some parts quieter, which “ARGUABLY” means you’re using a third party application to modify the game to work differently than designed (allowing you to hear things sooner than their set loudness was intended to allow).

HRTF will do a lot more for you than an equalizer or compressor could.

No shit. Just turn up the relevant game audio, dump these POS audio processors that pretend to be magic.

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Yes. That random android tablet with the atmos logo on it definitely does some totally real processing to actually improve the audio coming out of its lil tinny speakers.

If you have a stereo headset, the absolute best audio signal you can feed them, is stereo. Any and all spatial processing can and should already be in there, because no, you can’t just “process” it in there afterwards.

Games and movies that support complex audio standards only work right when used on multi-speaker setups. You can’t just “process” it down to a stereo signal in a way that recreates that. At best, the result is as good as a correctly created stereo signal would have been in the first place.

We’re talking about stereo headphones here. Feeding them anything other than a stereo audio signal was never an option. No matter what processing you do, it’s still just two speakers slapped onto your ears. If you have a stereo audio source that didn’t generate the signal with spatial processing, you can’t just add it back in. And if it did create the signal with spatial audio, no additional processing makes it more better.

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No fucking shit.

That’s not what I’m saying. These programs don’t do virtual surround. If they do, they do it badly.

Game engines DO use virtual surround, and do so much better, using it to produce the stereo signal directly.

These programs, at worst, pretend to accept a 5.1 or 7.1 audio source, and then downmix it, badly, to stereo. They might slap on a shitty room effect for good measure.

At best, they just take the stereo audio from the game, which is either already in virtual surround, or a stereo stream without positional data, and muck about with the levels a bit.

That’s all they can do. Because what they claim to do, which is add surround when it isn’t there, or improve it when it’s already there, isn’t a thing.

These programs don’t “enable” virtual surround. The real thing is already in every modern game engine ever.

And if a game engine isn’t already doing HRTF, some random program isn’t gonna add it by “processing” the stereo signal the game IS producing.

To do that, the game engine would need to be providing all the sounds and source locations, walls that the sound is to interact with, etc. But guess what, if it supports doing all that, IT’S PROBABLY ALREADY DOING HRTF.

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I’ve never heard an implementation that sounded better than just a basic downmix to stereo that any old media player can do. Which is the other option.

And certainly not something that was better than using stereo audio to begin with. All the magic of hearing things from different directions can be fit right there, into the two stereo channels.

There are so many of these programs that claim all kinds of things, but even when they do just do HRTF based on actual surround sound signals, it’s maddening how often they just fuck it up with some bs room filter on top.

These software application come with almost every gaming headset and it’s the only context I ever see anyone use this stuff. And not once have I tried it and thought that using a headset in “plain” stereo sounded worse.

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“I can’t have fun unless it’s ruining someone’s day somewhere” is a depressingly common outlook on life.

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Except that Facebook is spending a lot of it on getting their screen in front of as many eyeballs as they can.

Watching the Zuck salivate at the advertising implications of the pseudo mind reading capabilities that gaze tracking might bring is creepy as fuck.

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It’s so frustrating that some of the best RnD is locked behind a subsidized purchase pushed by a company that ethically just… doesn’t pass. And no amount of money can get you that tech without all the strings attached.

They’d rather leak money like a siv than lose out on data-mining your eyeballs.

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Watch out. If the kid starts doing weight training, he might be a muggle.

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No, I’m willing to bet you have plenty of energy. Society has simply deemed that all of it must be spent on being productive for the sake of everyone except yourself.

“If your employees have energy to spend on meaningful activities during their own time, you’re leaving money on the table. Squeeze them harder while they are on the clock.”

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Because if good games from a decade ago are freely available, they can’t shove a new overexploiting live service game down our throats when it pales in comparison to the entertainment that’s available for free.

They can only sell less for more, by taking the previous option off the table.

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I don’t think I’ve ever said something like this as a thinly veiled form of screaming “I AM HORNY, SOMEONE DO ME”. If that’s what I’m feeling and want someone to know, I might go with something like “dude I need a wingman tonight” which essentially reveals the same information.

I make sex related jokes, engage in wordplay, and puns, because it’s funny.

And yes, you can include that stuff in the process of courtship, but if sex is the goal, sooner or later you’re gonna have to make your intentions clear and ask. But no part of sex-humor requires the people making the joke or laughing at it, be horny.

Beyond that… People just like telling other people how they feel? We broadcast literally every emotion we experience, how repressed do you have to be to consider doing the same with arousal to be in bad taste?

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So if I joke about sometimes eating too much, am I now promoting the mistreatment of the obese?

While people everywhere have to deal with BS they shouldn’t need to, women among them, I can’t see how this particular sex-joke is one of those things.

Humans are sexual, it drives us and fascinates us. That’s a biological fact. It’s as intrinsic to most of us as hunger and sleepyness.

We all get to joke about it. When we look at something, and our brain goes “lol sex”, we say it out loud because it’s really damn funny how often the human brains of the people we are with did the same thing. And even if it didn’t, saying it makes it do it and it’s still funny.

Fine, you didn’t think it was funny. That’s ok.

Getting mad at everyone who does, without serious evidence of how the particular instance does damage to someone, isn’t.

Yes. The jokes that demean people’s personhoods exist, and they should be put down. But I don’t see how “person attracted to gender enjoys seeing arousal in organs of that gender” is one of those.

We do not. Not all the time, not in every situation.

Obviously. But we can. Since when is it ok to tell others they don’t get to do that?

Of course, no one’s taking their clothes off to have sex in public, but you don’t get to having sex in private, either, without the process of finding someone to do it with. Which to a greater or lesser extent, has to take place in public.

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It’s a constant drumbeat, an ever-present thing around every corner. Even in a mildly amusing picture of a cat posted to a “funny” forum.

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I know it wasn’t intentional. But this is a sex joke. I can’t stop laughing at how spot-on this is as a description of the human sex drive.

On a more serious note, it sounds like you simply don’t find this stuff funny. There’s nothing wrong with that. But unless you can explain how a particular joke contributes to the hardships of someone, you can’t just denounce it for simply not being your kind of funny.

If your argument for why this type of humour is harmful, is simply that it’s everywhere, perhaps re-think why that is? You’re not even making a point about this particular joke, you’re simply claiming that the ubiquity of the subject of sex itself is bad? How does that make sense?

Are sex jokes making people think about it all the time?

Or is the omnipresence of sex in the human experience making people joke about it all the time?

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what

Even more homeworld? In VR!?

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The Heroes of Might and Magic III, 25 years old and still awesome. I honestly think it’s the most replayable game ever (at least for me). Plenty of maps out of the box. Most of them can be played with a different town each time. If you’re done with that, you can change the difficulty. If you’re done with that, you can...

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Studies like this have me confused.

How do we know they use the magnetic field, and don’t just like… Look at the sun, or the shadows it casts.

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I think it’s just more difficult to set up than most self-hosted services?

But like, if you learn to do that yourself any old VPS will work.

You don’t have to self host to have bridges. Some instances provide them, I know pikaviestin.fi does, but they only accept Finnish citizens.

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Matrix’s most feature complete server is synapse, which is written in python. Hence not very efficient and scalable.

It’s mostly fine, but to really go big, one of the other server implementations will need to be used, but none of them achieve feature-parity with synapse as far as I know.

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This is true if you run Synapse, the matrix server written in python.

There is also Dendrite, written in Go, and Conduit, written in Rust. They run better but are behind in terms of implementing the spec.

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Agreed. The main advantage of something more efficient will be the ability to run instances on cheaper potato hardware.

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I run a system with an i5-4670.

My situation is much like yours, except I wrote a script which will suspend services when transcodes or game servers cause the system to approach resource capacity, to prevent more users from joining games and deteriorating the experience for everyone.

I know for a fact people using pies or old laptops can’t do what my system does, because I personally know people who have tried. They can’t even get a basic media server going that performs anywhere near mine, in the menus.

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It’s kind of hit or miss. Depending on how full the partition is and how exactly the data is arranged, windows may not be able to shrink even a non-boot partition.

The built-in partition manager doesn’t seem to be capable of rearranging anything, so you kind of just have to rely on luck for the shrink operation to be possible.

Hence why third party tools like easus are still in business on the windows side.

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Depends on the task and the hardware. Disk operations can be anywhere between instant and hours.

In some cases, days. When I last retired some drives in my NAS, the task of moving the partitions onto new drives was a 48 hour process.

Like already said, unless you’re sure something has gone wrong, don’t interrupt. As long as it’s still doing its thing, it’ll get there.

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I basically don’t watch trailers anymore. I’ll read a synopsis and look at some aggregate scores.

Ideally though I’ll just ask someone I know for what they’ve seen that’s good.

The only time I watch trailers anymore is when I trust the people involved to leave me with nothing but confusion and questions. Like the Death Stranding trailers that Kojima puts together.

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Lemmy doesn’t support mentions in post bodies yet. Only comments.

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Activision*

And also yes. Actiblizz needs fixing, bad. That the acquisition might provoke some changes in that direction was the sole reason to be a little happy about it.

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Helsinki has the laserskater.

Considered a local superhero.

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TFW your healthcare system is so fucked it creates an exploitable niche market for a country you don’t even share a border with.

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Opening the pause menu will cause the traveler to immediately sit down, according to my sister who played the game religiously for a while, this is the equivalent to “BRB” among people who play a lot.

Each secret you find will add embroidery to the clothing of the traveller, meaning players can tell which one should likely be showing the other around, as well whether someone is a first-timer.

Sticking together is also not that important. The game will match you with a new player if you get separated.

People who play it more than once typically do it to show new players around, that’s where the value of repeat playthroughs comes from.

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I am so fucking jealous you’ve heard the ost live.

An orchestral performance cannot be captured by any kind of recording in a way that does it justice.

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You’re right, I recalled the pattern being more complex and showing the progress towards the white robe, but I’m misremembering. The patter simply show how many times someone has completed the game, up to three times.

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That post will only exist on your instance. Federation out to other instances would have to happen via the instance that community is on.

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Sorry, the metacritic only hit 89, we will not be awarding you the 10 million dollar pool of tips the game has collected.

If the game made more money than expected, then fucking hand out some bonuses.

“Tips” are just going to be an excuse to reduce base pay below a living wage./Pay a microtransaction where you get nothing.

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