makr_alland

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[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No quantum mechanics. Things have concrete properties even when no one's watching, and they can all be observed at the same time. The universe is complex but understandable.

Also, P=NP and π is 3.33 repeating, just for the lols.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How is "being bad" decided?

If it's decided internally ("bad" is what you believe is bad), then all the objectivists get a free pass for being assholes. Hitler is a supermodel, etc.

If it's decided externally (there's an universal definition of "bad"), how far into the future does it propagate? If I rescue from drowning someone who will genocide all the Dutch in the future, when do I go bald?

That said, beauty pageants would be much funnier, with trolley problems instead of talent competitions.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Spacewar! was a F2P PvP game with no microtransactions and no battle pass. Although it's hard to quantify exact player numbers (it precedes Steam charts), for a while it was the most played videogame in the world.

Its real-time graphics and multiplayer combat were very influential, and widely copied by many other games.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That sounds very interesting, do you remember the name or the author?

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

If you're referring to the US' Video Privacy Protection Act, it was passed only because it slightly embarrassed a Supreme Court nominee.

So for there to be half-decent online privacy laws in the US, first someone will have to leak Clarence Thomas' Pornhub search history or something like that.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The TV UI is horrible and has negative development: Less features and more bugs every release.

Do you want to go to a video's channel? Well, that depends on where you are:

  • Go to Home.

  • Long-press on a video.

  • Press "Go to channel".

  • Go to Subscriptions.

  • Long-press on a video.

  • Fewer options because fuck you.

  • Start the video, press down, up, right, select.

  • Oh, it was a short video? You fell into the trap! Down goes to another video. Go back, select the video again, press right, right, select.

And that's just one example.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That's how politics work in the US.

Not really, unfortunately. All these "if you don't vote for A you're voting for B" arguments would be a little more applicable if the US presidential election was a simple majority vote, but anyone with the most basic of US politics knowledge has heard of the Electoral College. Hillary Clinton wasn't elected president in 2016, but not because more people voted for Trump.

And that's without taking into the account voting suppression. Would you tell someone who can't vote because of racist laws that they are "voting for Trump"?

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like the ideas behind PRQL, although I've never used it in an actual project. It compiles down to SQL but has a clearer model based on pipeline and a much better suntax.

Malloy is a similar project but I haven't look into it yet.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Look up the Everburn Blade in Baldur's Gate 3.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, you can manually assign each wheel slot, but when you have a few dozen spells and actions it's really long and boring. I'd like it more if it behaved like the hotbar, with things sorted automatically and space for personal favorites.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't multiclass on Explorer, but I think you can change the difficulty while at camp, level up or respec to multiclass, and change it back again.

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I love playing from my couch with a controller! I work in front of my computer all day and afterwards I really don't want to spend more time there.

The only problem I've found (besides minor bugs) is that after you go up a few levels the action wheels are a complete unorganized mess. I hope Larian adds some way of auto-arranging them into actions, bonus actions, spells, etc. like the hotbar does.

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