VindictiveJudge

VindictiveJudge , 14 hours ago

People punish because we’re fucking animals, we feel jealousy and rage and bloodlust. An AI would not. It would do the cold calculations and see no potential benefit to harming anyone on that scale, at least not for those reasons.

That’s a hell of a lot of assumptions about the thought processes of a being that doesn’t exist. For all we know, emotions could arise as emergent behavior from simple directives, similar to how our own emotions are byproducts of base instincts. Even if we design it to be emotionless, which seems unlikely given that we’ve been aiming for human-like AIs for a while now, we don’t know that it would stay that way.

VindictiveJudge , 1 day ago

Speaking of chess, you might be able to argue that some old RTS games are puzzle games when playing campaign, such as the first Command & Conquer. You often have very limited resources, the AI will do specific things at specific times or with specific triggers, and you’re often given specific constraints, like a time limit or keeping a specific thing alive. In this case, though, it’s mostly because the AI is so primitive that almost every action is scripted in advance for that specific map.

VindictiveJudge , 5 days ago

“I bring you these fifteen-” smash “Ten! Ten commandments!”

VindictiveJudge , 5 days ago

They’re technically real tits, it’s just that they’re someone else’s memory of said tits.

VindictiveJudge , 5 days ago

Nowadays I mostly think of it in regards to how much control you have over the hardware. If you can Ship of Theseus your way to a completely different machine with completely different specs, that’s a PC to me. If you’re stuck with what you paid for, then it’s something else. A Mac Mini is not a PC in my book, but a Hackintosh is even though it’s the same OS and general hardware architecture.

But that’s just how I use the term.

VindictiveJudge , 6 days ago

I’m guessing a single release, and the game being used to show off the backwards compatibility features of the next system. Probably the usual 800p-900p 30fps on Switch and something higher when slotted into a Switch 2.

VindictiveJudge , 5 days ago

The Wiimote worked with a pair of IR blasters to locate your screen. Joycons have no idea where your screen is. In that light, that they work as pointing devices at all is actually rather impressive.

VindictiveJudge , 5 days ago

Devs tend to go with simplified or cartoony graphics for legibility on the small integrated screen, but that’s just an art style choice. Doesn’t look too far off from Xenoblade 3, especially given polygons will be saved by not having to render a mile out. Or consider that Doom 2016 runs decently on the Switch.

VindictiveJudge , 8 days ago

That’s about the extent of her French, though.

VindictiveJudge , 7 days ago

The headline is misleading. They want to rename the US Exclusive Economic Zone, which is essentially the region between the US coast and international waters, to be the Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States. It’s still super fucking stupid, though.

VindictiveJudge , 9 days ago

It does get less hyper as it goes on, but only to a point.

VindictiveJudge , 9 days ago

Try Beyond. He had basically no involvement.

VindictiveJudge , 9 days ago

It helps to think of your hair as essentially being a mane. Remember, lion manes also expose their forehead.

VindictiveJudge , 9 days ago

I’m running a 4090 on PCIe 3. Apparently I’m only losing about 5% off the potential frame rate, which is barely noticeable.

VindictiveJudge , 9 days ago

I’m hoping that advances in 3D printers will make this a reality in my lifetime.

VindictiveJudge , 12 days ago

I don’t think you can wind up pantsless in a desert in Denmark, though.

VindictiveJudge , 16 days ago

I love Technology Connections, especially the series on the CED. It’s just fascinating technology.

VindictiveJudge , 16 days ago

Nah, too much punctuation and not enough random capitalization.

VindictiveJudge , 16 days ago

Relevant Wikipedia?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast-shaped_hill

VindictiveJudge , 16 days ago

I love hex grids and wish more games used them.

VindictiveJudge , 17 days ago

They did. It was based on the PC version that Gearbox fucked up and it took ten years for the classic mode graphics to be fixed. The remastered graphics were a lazy mishmash of Halo 3 and Reach models haphazardly thrown together. The remastered level geometry also didn’t match the actual geometry, which resulted in things like invisible trees blocking your bullets.

VindictiveJudge , 17 days ago

It was also based on Gearbox’s shoddy PC port, so the classic graphics were broken on release and stayed that way for about ten years.

VindictiveJudge , 17 days ago

Honestly, 3 doesn’t really need it. The art direction is excellent and just inceasing the render resolution works great. Same with ODST and Reach.

VindictiveJudge , 17 days ago

512 shared on the 360, 256 dedicated RAM and 256 dedicated VRAM on the PS3.

VindictiveJudge , 18 days ago

I thought that was just the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

VindictiveJudge , 19 days ago

Do you know if Nvidia Surround works? I’ve been gaming with a tripple monitor setup and would really like to keep it.

VindictiveJudge , 19 days ago

Holy crap, I actually think I understand some of what happened here. It sounds like someone learned about the Byzantine Empire and got very confused.

The western half of the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century, but the eastern half didn’t collapse until the 15th century. The surviving eastern half has been retroactively named the Byzantine Empire, but when it existed was just called the Roman Empire or the Empire of the Greeks, depending on the year and where you were at. The eastern capital (and Rome had two for a while for administrative purposes, along with two emperors) was Constantinople and it was specifically designed and advertised as a second Rome to justify having a capital there.

I think this guy learned about the Byzantine Empire / Eastern Roman Empire, but not how it relates to the Western Roman Empire. Throw in some assumptions, some logical fallacies, a poor understanding of linguistics and transliteration, and then serve with some conspiratorial thinking on the side and you get the above post.

VindictiveJudge , 20 days ago

Being attracted to anthropomorphized whatevers isn’t even all that odd. I mean, have you ever played an RPG and romanced a non-human character? If you think Karlach or Garrus are hot, then what’s the problem with thinking Lola Bunny or The Beast is hot? I don’t really get the fursonas or the suits, but I also don’t get the appeal of mashed potatoes, so…

VindictiveJudge , 23 days ago

Like if your computer got a glitch that caused it to burn CDs that, when inserted into another computer, gave it a glitch that caused it to burn CDs that, when inserted into another computer, etc.

VindictiveJudge , 24 days ago

I thought it might have been a poorly spelled reference to Jizya.

VindictiveJudge , 23 days ago

Bert as Gus’s dead boyfriend.

VindictiveJudge , 24 days ago

Better - replace all the ads with porn.

VindictiveJudge , 24 days ago

No, he’s right. Watch the biopic Weird: The Al Yankovich Story.

VindictiveJudge , 24 days ago

Madonna had Weird Al assassinated at the 1985 Grammys. It’s all covered in Weird: The Al Yankovich Story.

VindictiveJudge , 23 days ago

If it’s illegal, then the ruling party starts throwing everything at their political opponents until something sticks, even if that was smoking pot once in college.

VindictiveJudge , 25 days ago

If felonies prevented people from holding government positions just imagine how many bogus charges would be leveled at the GOP’s enemies just to see if anything stuck. Just look at how Russia throws bogus charges at people to prevent them from running against Putin.

VindictiveJudge , 24 days ago

Or just flat out dangerous because it’s two cliffs, a big river, and some caves.

VindictiveJudge , 24 days ago

How far do they go with that, anyway? The classic flavor was kinky.

VindictiveJudge , 26 days ago

What about the pigeon poop?

VindictiveJudge , 29 days ago

Fun fact: The Catholic Church, of all things, officially says the ‘let the earth bring forth’ bit of one of the bible’s two creation stories is a poetic way to reference evolution.

VindictiveJudge , 29 days ago

Now I’m wondering what high surface tension oceans would look like.

VindictiveJudge , 29 days ago

I’m thinking where you could lay down next to the water on the beach and have the surface of the ocean slightly higher than the tip of your nose.

VindictiveJudge , 30 days ago

I’m sure there are some countries that could be wiped out by that. Maybe Liechtenstein.

VindictiveJudge , 1 month ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if the poison and the psychoactive part are the same thing in different doses, or just function similarly.

VindictiveJudge , 1 month ago

And then proving that it’s round and refusing to believe their own findings.

VindictiveJudge , 1 month ago

Well, the documentary said he was going to come back with a zombie army after Madonna had him assassinated.

VindictiveJudge , 1 month ago

But the 28.2 million cows in America only need about an acre of land each; meaning that the 124.7 million acres of land they roam is about five times bigger than what they actually need.

Wouldn’t we want cattle using at least a bit more land than they strictly need? Overgrazing was one of the contributing factors to the Dust Bowl.

VindictiveJudge , 1 month ago

That was in New Vegas, actually.