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ramirezmike ,

I always felt like dodging projectiles and not needing to worry about vertical aiming was the best part of doom.

It also translates to controllers well too vs the hit scan skills required with modern fpses along with the ability to aim on the vertical axis

ramirezmike ,

You can’t just hand out 20% raises every time someone threatens to leave.

if you have multiple employees getting job offers that are 20% higher then you’re not paying your employees enough 🤷‍♂️

ramirezmike ,

can’t both be true though?

ramirezmike ,

with stuff like this, usually the objective is to advertise based on patterns across purchase histories

ramirezmike ,

you probably just notice that because it doesn’t make sense from your perspective.

it’s probably more cost efficient for advertisers to just throw relevant ads at potential groups. Determining whether an individual already has the item is a waste of resources, and you probably don’t notice when the ads are things you don’t own.

The Indie Chat & Recommendation Thread (cdn.imgchest.com)

“Inspired” by the Square-Enix putting their foot in their mouth thread, I thought it’d be interesting to make a little thread about indie games. People always talk about wanting to try different, cheaper titles, but with how hard it is to get good gaming news and the state of advertisement/marketing, word of mouth tends to...

ramirezmike ,

Arctic Eggs is a short but neat game about frying eggs

ramirezmike ,

I know this is gonna sound annoying but I just use vim for stuff like this. Even notepad++ has a macro thing too, right? My coworkers keep saying how much of a productivity boost it is but all I see it do is mess up stuff like this that only takes a few seconds in vim to setup and I know it’ll be correct every time

ramirezmike ,

I always wondered if the Norwegian’s love of tacos comes from it sounding kinda like “thank you” in Norwegian

ramirezmike ,

thanks is “takk” which sounds like “taco” without the “o” 🤷‍♂️

ramirezmike ,

I keep seeing clips of this one specific robot and it just seems like it’s an LLM. The comments on the clips are always people seemingly really believing it’s thinking and is alive.

This robot makes me think there is a percentage of the population that believes we already have true general AI and I can see how people like that would think having it do a commencement speech was a good idea.

The university probably got paid for this, right?

ramirezmike ,

but the aspect of it that is most AI-like is the chat which is from LLMs.

It may have started 7 years ago, but it isn’t a new or different technology than LLMs which are impressive but not actual thinking AI despite them presenting it that way and people interpreting it that way

ramirezmike ,

do you think they can taste their brain?

ramirezmike ,

do you know what an analogy is??

ramirezmike ,

how often do you use teams? And do you usually have network issues? I have pretty stable Internet and don’t run into any of these issues but I could see the occurring if teams doesn’t have a stable connection.

Teams opening files in teams is super annoying though.

ramirezmike ,

do you mostly communicate with people in your company or do you talk with external people too?

Don’t get me wrong, I know teams has issues, I have my own list of complaints, I’m just surprised how different your complaints are.

ramirezmike ,

a comment on that site really condescendingly claims this is how he would have handled it and that a script could be written in half a day to do the work.

my understanding is that an emulator effectively recreates the hardware’s different components in software so that from the game’s “perspective” it’s running on a real machine more or less.

This process instead decompiles the game code and recompiles for a new target machine.

I suspect one can’t just pump out a script in an afternoon to do this, but I am curious what is the complexity here?

ramirezmike ,

that makes sense, it’s like only really feasible now that we have enough decompiled, readable n64 games

ramirezmike ,

I suspect it was my age when I first played it but when I play it now I don’t feel the camera pain. I know that’s the biggest complaint but what exactly is the pain? is it hard to articulate exactly other than it feels like a lack of control?

ramirezmike ,

I think the most famous one was the star wars jedi force trainer? Some people say it’s fake but… it’s like a headset you put on that they claim reads your brain waves and it controls a little fan that switches on and off to make a ball in a tube float

ramirezmike ,

goldeneye 64 was pretty innovative even compared to its pc competition at the time. It suffered from performance issues, but the xbla remake or just good emulator settings fix that and really make it shine

ramirezmike ,

I studied news journalism in college and they kinda hammered in that in news journalism it’s more important to communicate information consistently and to target a wide audience than it is to make “good writing.”

There are style guides you have to follow and words like “slammed” end up getting used a lot despite not quite being accurate because they’re words that are used a lot.

The other thing is that usually the person writing the headlines isn’t the journalist… and sometimes they do a lot of versions of the same headline and when people click more because of the word slammed it ends up sticking.

ramirezmike ,

yeah, unfortunately they need to make money to exist. And that creates all sorts of incentives that aren’t great. I still like journalism and think it’s an important part of a working society, but I decided pretty quickly after studying it that I didn’t want to be part of it

ramirezmike ,

I kinda alluded to it but they probably don’t want to ban the word because it’s commonly used and it drives clicks.

ramirezmike ,

I don’t see how it’s backwards, the word drives clicks and is commonly used. It’s unfortunate but most journalism has to be profit-motivated to survive these days.

ramirezmike ,

this is so dystopian. Imagine spending your career honing your skill as an actor, dying and then having a computer replace you with just a photograph as a source. How is that honoring an actor??

An actual, practical example is generating video for VR chats like Apple has somewhat tried to do with their headset. Rather than using the cameras/sensors to generate and animate a 3d model based on you, it could do something more like this, albeit 2d.

ramirezmike ,

of all the things scientists do, making robots that can do dangerous or even tedious labor isn’t that bad.

ramirezmike ,

the scientists build the robots. Society and its corruption will determine how they get used. I don’t think it’s a reason to not build robots or to say they’re not worth making. At some point in the future, society may collectively improve and the robots will be there to use.

ramirezmike ,

From someone who tried making an app that uses NFC, it’s all over the place and inconsistent; might be good to have a bit of a reset.

ramirezmike ,

Sonic & Chill

I can’t stop listening to this specific one, it’s been months and everyday I listen to it at work

ramirezmike ,

it does depend on the ones you have. The cheap ones are just speakers. I have one of the higher end shoks with audio boost and it feels like it has a little speaker on top of the bone conducting.

if you’re in a quiet room and you put them on max and leave it on your desk you’d probably be able to pick out what it’s playing. I think at that point though the desk is somewhat becoming a medium for the sound…

ramirezmike ,

I flew around 26 times domestically last year and most of the flights ran out of space. It’s really common for the airline to ask for volunteers to check their carry-ons. If you aren’t in the first 2/3rds of people on the plane, you’ll likely be forced to check your carry-ons.

This problem has gotten worse over the years because airlines have increased the prices for checking your luggage so many people opt to bring carry-ons instead.

ramirezmike ,

these methods don’t account for all the variables that reality has. People across all boarding groups will be late, there will be people that need assistance from flight attendants, there will be people who want to switch seats to be near their family, there will be people who can’t sit in the exit row, there will be people who need to use the rest room, there will be people who’ve never been on a plane before.

There is no great, full proof way to handle it because people are unpredictable

ramirezmike ,

music players??

ramirezmike ,

why would someone intentionally harm like this

ramirezmike ,

but not everyone wants to buy yet (younger people, people who want flexibility, people who know they are moving [only in that city for school], etc).

People don’t want to buy a house because it’s either unaffordable, unavailable or the process takes too long. If you eliminate those aspects of home ownership, people wouldn’t mind and maybe even prefer owning a home for short periods of time.

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ramirezmike ,

I think you’re confusing not enjoying small talk with isolation

ramirezmike ,

this is a great post. I do think the outer wilds description is a smidge spoilery. I know, people figure that out pretty quickly but it’s still a neat experience if going in blind

ramirezmike ,

Huntsville is actually a really cool area although you could argue it’s because the cool NASA stuff is there.

ramirezmike ,

man, not everyone has an easy life 😔

ramirezmike ,

Kenney the guy that makes assets?

ramirezmike ,

my cat sometimes will leave the room, wail in a seemingly stressed way and if I go up to her and she sees me she meows sweetly and then follows me back to where we were.

I’m always thinking if I find a genie, one of my wishes would be to understand her better.

ramirezmike ,

she’s about 4 or so

ramirezmike ,

I’ve found whenever people complain about rust code they can only point out how it’s different but not why it’s worse and I can usually point to a reason why it’s better.

to be fair, I get sometimes it’s difficult to pinpoint why something is bad and even “being different” can be a legitimate criticism on its own

ramirezmike ,

I was driving my brother in law and he was trying to tell me some news he heard but couldn’t get the specifics so he spent ten minutes searching tiktok for it. I couldn’t believe it

ramirezmike ,

what is this style of meme called?

ramirezmike ,

it’s a beautiful city, but those crosswalks are so annoying

ramirezmike ,

I’ve been mostly making games for fun and am fairly risk adverse so am planning on sticking with a stable job and making games in my free time.

It’s discouraging, but it is reality. I still want to try, but definitely not putting more than one egg in this basket.

I’ll admit I’m knowingly doing the following haha

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/4505ffc5-6f05-4d69-b438-ebb6f3d68175.png

hopefully it’ll at least be a positive experience and I learn something from it

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