exocrinous

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

isn't optimising the games extra costly?

These days compilers can optimise it for the hardware mostly on their own.

I can imagine the annoyance of getting bad reviews on steam because some Dingus is trying to play the game on a 10 year old PC.

Yeah, that's the great thing about PC. You don't have to upgrade your hardware more than once a decade, and you can give feedback to games publishers that chasing ever increasing graphics trends is alienating their customers. You console gamers have to take whatever slop you're given, but us PC gamers don't have to worry about a publisher not supporting backwards compatibility, so we have more market power. We can apply greater pressure on the industry to apply pro-consumer business practices.

Also, something like 30% of PC gamers pirate their games

That's definitely not true. I wish it was.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

I'd say the classic example of hard sci-fi is The Martian. There's only one scientifically inaccurate scene in the whole book, and that's when a martian sandstorm strands Watney. Weir did all the math, and indeed was so insightful about NASA's internal politics they demanded to know his source.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

No, consumption is the process of taking in food for nourishment. You're thinking of conscience

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While mundane fire can't burn underwater, the sudden appearance of magically produced fire underwater would cause instant vaporisation, filling the affected area with bubbles of scalding hot steam. The sudden increase in water pressure from the vaporisation would have an impact like a small bomb, increasing the amount of disorientation and potential damage. In engineering, this is called cavitation and is significantly damaging to machinery. It's the reason a mantis shrimp can kill its prey with a punch that doesn't hit.

TL;DR: you can absolutely kill someone with an underwater fireball. Though you might want to convert half the dice to thunder damage.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

You can craft it from bone meal

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wish more games were small. Talos Principle 2 is 70 gigabytes, first one was more like 10. Bigger games is a problem for people in poorer areas.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago

Man, it's just, it dang ol' complicated, you know, man, like a dang ol' Rubik's cube, man. Talkin' like blue, red, man then you get the one side and then like messed, messed up the other side, man.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wow, internet where you live must be great

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wish Steam actually sold those in the real world. I only hear about them on the internet from Americans. I've never seen one in real life. It would be really cool if they were real.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

I think Solo fell flat because they made all the interesting adventures you heard about in the OT happen in a single week. Solo isn't a daring adventurer with a long and storied history, he's a guy who had one exciting week. Also he's supposed to have been a liar when he said he made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, but Solo retconned it so he was telling the truth. Which means Solo's arc in Star Wars from scumbag to hero isn't as steep or dramatic.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ah, no, I meant to say that feminism losing its implication of progress for all gender identities (if it had such an implication in the past), is evidenced by the fact that if someone says they're a feminist, that doesn't tell you whether they support equality for enbies.

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