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acosmichippo , 13 hours ago

the article says they wanted the moon to be an area in the base game.

acosmichippo , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

I disagree with the author. It’s not like scientists today are robots who only study in their field and have no interest in arts at all. With the quantity of scientists in existence you’re going to get a vast array of varying interests outside their fields. I fact I would say many people are inspired to become scientists by arts such as science fiction; we don’t need formal education as priests or monks to have “mystery and wonder” as she puts it. Likewise with artists, there are lots of artists who are interested in and inspired by science.

Secondly, as knowledge progresses it’s necessary that we specialize more, or at least some of us do. It takes an entire lifetime to get to the root of today’s scientific mysteries, which was not the case 200 years ago. All the low hanging fruit has been picked. So again, dedicating a significant portion of a scientist’s life to religious “magic” is only going to be detrimental to that cause.

acosmichippo , 2 days ago

and burying ukrainians in dirt.

acosmichippo , 2 days ago

some things are run locally.

acosmichippo , 2 days ago

also excited for hands free unlock of smart door locks. not sure if android/google home does that.

acosmichippo , 2 days ago

no because that implies there is a player character.

acosmichippo , 4 days ago

as long as they don’t have space travel between every objective and hundreds of barren procedurally generated planets it will be fine.

acosmichippo , 4 days ago

they were working on starfield?

acosmichippo , 4 days ago

this bethesda anti circlejerk has gotten way out of hand. i hated starfield too but that doesn’t change how awesome oblivion and skyrim were.

acosmichippo , 4 days ago

Don’t even need to get into ranking them, it’s just completely asinine to say Oblivion and Skyrim are not even good at all. Circlejerk nonsense from someone who probably hasn’t played any of them.

acosmichippo , 2 days ago

i agree that skyrim is not as good as oblivion, but that isn’t what we were talking about.

Do you stand by the statement that Morrowind was the last “good” elder scrolls game? In other words, you think Oblivion and Skyrim are not good at all?

acosmichippo , 4 days ago

unfortunately the only thing that’ll be reset is the middle and lower classes. The 1% will survive and be the ones to reshape whatever happens after.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago

cyberpunk was buggy but fundamentally sound. starfield is flawed in its core, no amount of bug fixing or system tweaking is going to fix it. they’d have to cut out space and planets entirely.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago

EA didn’t have time to fuck up DAO after buying BioWare.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago

holy shit it has really been ten years.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago

they’re about 10 years too late on this. can’t even blame the pandemic.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago

but then you can’t promote george clooney in all the marketing to draw people in.

acosmichippo , 7 days ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Cold_War

acosmichippo , 6 days ago

I suspect the future of gaming laptops may very well lie in external GPUs.

idunno, we’ve been saying that for years and it just isn’t catching on. I think it’s just too complicated to support, market, etc.

acosmichippo , 7 days ago

It’s the best way to follow breaking sports news.

acosmichippo , 8 days ago

oh. ubisoft.

acosmichippo , 9 days ago

say goodbye to motorsports without being able to greenwash oil.

acosmichippo , 13 days ago

hybrids might be a PART of the way, but there’s absolutely no reason they need to be the only way. For many many use cases BEVs already work better than hybrids and those cases are only going to grow in number as the charging infrastructure is built out and energy storage tech improves. Maybe there will always be fringe cases where hybrids are practical, maybe not.

acosmichippo , 13 days ago

could also just be as simple as getting people’s feet in the door to their marketplace. if you already have an account maybe you’ll be fractionally more likely to buy other stuff in the store. multiply that by a few million or whatever… it’s not nothing.

acosmichippo , 19 days ago

the infrastructure cost required to host the quantity of video YouTube has is insane.

acosmichippo , 19 days ago

that’s a lot different than just running a video clip.

acosmichippo , 18 days ago

I said infrastructure, not just storage. and yes there is even more involved like the user base, as we have seen with social media time and time again. Even if Microsoft built an even better YouTube (lol), it’s still very likely no one would use it. It’s a massive investment with a lot of risk.

acosmichippo , 19 days ago

The redundancy is already there since we have 32 teeth to begin with. If you lose one or two it’s not really a big deal.

And there’s a fine line between helpful regrowth and cancer. the more regrowth there is, the more likelihood there is of cancer.

acosmichippo , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

hm forced labor sounds quite socialist to me. mr conservative, why don’t you let these kids explore the open market for their labor?

acosmichippo , 22 days ago

no problem, boiling starts at 100C.

acosmichippo , 23 days ago

They are getting hit with the consequences of a century of industrialization while we reap the benefits in the US and Europe. We owe it to them to at least let them take refuge.

acosmichippo , 23 days ago

This is when the whole “if all you find are assholes, you must be one yourself” rhetoric does not apply when it comes to multiplayer games.

it’s the internet in general.

acosmichippo , 23 days ago

on average night on the moon is 15 earth days. it’s not trivial to store 15 days worth of solar energy. nothing to do with elitism whatsoever.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

nah he probably stole that as well.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

Tesla FSD™

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

they got the IP, that’s all they wanted.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

also your personal subjective vision. some people legitimately can’t see the differences where others can.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

not “features” per se, but consoles have a better performance-to-price ratio compared to handhelds. In the bill of materials for a handheld you’re paying for a screen and battery that are unnecessary expenses if you just need a console. in a console, that money will go towards higher powered hardware to run games, and maybe some other ancillary things. Also in a console you can have a better cooling system since you’re not constrained to a mobile form factor. Also in a console you can use higher power since performance is not being balanced with batter life.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

if those nintendos had to build in a screen or battery they’d have even worse performance for the price.

yes, PC has some commonalities with consoles, but there are other aspects that make a PC a PC rather than a console.

This is not an arbitrary discussion, it’s a semantic discussion. these terms have non-arbitrary meanings.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

i would say the wiiu is a special case console. they tried adding a screen to a typical console design and it didn’t really work. that’s why they pivoted to the switch which is much more like a portable than a console.

the vast, vast majority of consoles don’t have screens built into their controllers.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

The person I was responding to was citing costs accrued for screen and battery as a reasoning for why steam deck is not a console

No, i was answering your question “what features is steam deck missing compared to consoles”.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

I liked it as much as the others ASIDE from the tank missions. they leaned on the tank WAY too much. There are two or three tank battles where you will be pulling your hair out for sure. Definitely focus on upgrading the tank as much as you can because you will need all the help you can get.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

they’re right though. it has nothing to do with “defending” anyone, that’s just what AAA means.

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/AAA_(video_game_industry)

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

it’s all informal marketing jargon in every industry bro. this is not a hill to die on.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

if only we had some kind of wind powered boat technology.

acosmichippo , 1 month ago

and make better games.

acosmichippo , 2 months ago

it would be interesting to compare results with adopting parents, but it doesn’t look like that’s something they did.

acosmichippo , 2 months ago

so what if it isn’t as good as w3? it doesn’t ruin w3.