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[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

To quote an old RockPaperShotgun comment about Dark Souls, the best decisions are the ones that you don't know you're making. DS definitely has storyline changes depending on where you go first, what you do and who you speak to, which is far more natural than a two-way dialogue option for "blatant RPG decision making".

The tragedy of Elden Ring is that it's far too long for that. I've played through DS several times and would expect to get it finished in about five hours, so can play through the various plot line resolutions in a long evening of gaming. ER has a variety of ways that the DLC can play out, you say? Best book a fortnight off work so that I can get a hundred hours of gaming in.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Scottish Gaelic doesn't have 'yes' or 'no' - you answer with the positive or negative form of the verb used in the question.

http://www.gaidhliggachlatha.com/blog-mios-na-gaidhlig/how-to-say-yes-and-no-in-scottish-gaelic

[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

Well; I was one of the people that bought Minute Of Islands when it came out. Nice game - mournful tone, but beautiful in places. Bit of a "walking simulator" disguised as a platform game, though - not much replay value, I don't think.

What does surprise me is that Fizbin had hundreds of employees to lose, however. MoI had a really "art school indie" feel to it - I'd have guessed at more like ten employees having played through it. Gris (by Nomada) is the kind of *art platformer" that I'd draw as a comparison - Gris has much more action - and they look to be about forty people.

Obviously this is bad for everyone involved, but I suspect that the mismanagement that got them here might have been "dreaming too big" rather than purely "screwed by the publisher".

[–] addie@feddit.uk 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not accurate at all - that portrays him as a trim nazi, when really he's a chubby lad. Needs a few more pounds on him.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Joining up your pentagram clockwise? And that one's not really large enough to stand in the centre of, not you've inscribed your blasphemous sacrament in Enochian anyway. Summoning circle for small children, maybe, not someone in their 30s. Amateurs.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Fanuary" was last month, but I strongly approve of it being every month...

https://old.myjobspace.co.nz/pages/fanuary.php

[–] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago

Where's "surprise power over Ethernet" when you need it? Need to blow up the laptop of any cheeky fucker that unplugs one of my remote wifi repeaters to connect their own stuff up...

[–] addie@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago

You're understating it a bit there - the sun is 99.86% of the mass of the solar system by itself. To the nearest whole percent, the solar system consists of 100% "the sun". To the nearest 0.1%, it's 99.9% the sun and 0.1% Jupiter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_mass

[–] addie@feddit.uk 8 points 5 months ago

Man alive, all that time I wasted learning LaTeX in that case. Supports tables properly, "floats" pictures and figures about without messing up the flow of text, exceptional support for equations, beautiful printed output...

Suffers from a completely insane macro-writing language, and its markup is more intrusive in the text than markdown's is. Also, if you have very specific formatting output requirements (for a receiving publication, for instance) then it can be somewhat painful to whip into shape. Plain-text gang forever, though.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Got me an AMD Tuxedo laptop and some Raspberry Pi's, and my gaming desktop is all AMD too. Fuck Intel and NVidia.

I was avoiding everything made in the States before it was cool

[–] addie@feddit.uk 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So; for $2k upfront, $19 a month in saas fees, you get a bed that you can adjust the temperature of online? And also, opens up your whole house to being remotely hacked? And our guy in the article has chucked his electronics and replaced it with a tropical aquarium heater pump for $180, which suggests that it's just the bog standard kind of waterbed that you could have bought for about $300, with unnecessary tech attached?

There's plenty of "silicon valley tech" that seems to have a ridiculously poor value proposition - this isn't the Juicero, but might challenge for second place. Have to wonder exactly what they're thinking, though. And what the devs were thinking, putting it into production with a live AWS key in the firmware.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Your classic VGA setup will probably be connected to a CRT monitor, which among other things has zero lag, and therefore running your sound separately to your audio setup, which also has zero lag, will be fine. Audio and video are in sync.

HDMI cables will almost certainly be connected to a flatscreen of some kind. Monitors tend to have fairly low lag, but flatscreen TVs can be crazy. Some of them have "game" mode (or similar) but as for the rest, they might have half-a-second or more of image processing before actually displaying anything. Running sound separately will have a noticeable disconnect between audio and video; drives me crazy although some people don't notice it. You would connect your audio setup to the TV rather than directly to source to correct this.

Now, the fact that a lot of cheap TVs only have a 3.5mm headphone jack to "send on the sound" is annoying to me, too. A lot of people just don't care about how things sound and therefore it's not a commercial priority. Optical digital audio output would be ideal, in that cheap audio circuitry inside the television won't degrade the sound being passed over HDMI and you can use your own choice of DAC, but they can be both expensive and add a bit of lag as well.

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