Sludgehammer

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I'm holding off on buying this until I clear some stuff in my backlog (and hopefully getting the game at a deeper discount).

However from the videos I've watched my only criticism is that some of the games look rather complex and would benefit from supplying more information than a small blurb and a controls page. I wish UFO 50 had taken a page from Retro Game Challenge and had some in-universe game manuals and magazines. Still, since I'm planning on buying it at some point obviously not a deal breaker.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ugh...

A "toxin" is a poisonous substance produced by a living organism. While all toxins are toxic to something, not all things that are toxic are toxins. As an example caffeine would meet the definition of a toxin (poisonous to insects and mammals in sufficient doses), arsenic would not (poisonous to almost all life, but not produced by a living organism).

Sorry for being so pedantic, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead.

Yeah... I'd like to know more about that.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, when I was looking for information about Tears of the Kingdom around 90% of my search results was AI slop. I think was looking for info about how weapon durability and fusion worked and I kept getting a badly reworded version of the explanation of fusion from the gameplay teaser.

Actually.. that reminded me of another TotK search I did, I was looking for where to farm some variety of lizalfos tails and kept getting AI articles that confused BotW locations with TotK. Amusingly, I eventually tried Google's chatbot out of exasperation and it actually proved more accurate than my search results.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Even a turtle realizes when something can threaten its existence.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Hey now, don't worry. I'm sure this will all be cleared up when the bodycam footage is released and it clearly shows the police being menaced with a knife... right?

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 113 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (14 children)

Gee, we've had over a half century of computer graphics at this point. However, suddenly when a technology arises that requires obscene amount of GPU's to generate a results a GPU manufacturer is here to tell us that all computer graphics without that new technology is dead for... reasons. I cannot see any see any connections between these points.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd also like to add she's dumb as a rock, just in case anyone missed that.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Spez is a pretty standard tech bro, so of course he wants to jam "AI" into everything he can.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Trump is a psychopath that should not be allowed to drive a car let alone a country.

Good news then, presidents and former presidents aren't allowed to drive themselves. So at least we won't have to deal with Trump claiming that deep state operatives switched the gas and brake peddles.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's probably better then the days old garbage they usually scavenge. And I cut off the moldy part too.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I bought one of those vegan Spam-a-likes and I have to say I really didn't like it.

I my thought process was "Spam's so heavily processed, how much worse could it be if no meat were involved?" the answer turned out to be "A lot." I don't know how to describe it. It's like... you know how there are all beef hot dogs, but they don't taste anything like beef? It was kinda that but with Spam... but Spam isn't very meat like to begin with.

All that being said, after the plant based Spam sat in my fridge until it started to get fuzzy, I threw it out for the stray cats in my neighborhood. Despite the fact I found it to be quite unappealing, starving alley cats found it to be meat like enough to eat it... which I guess is a mark in it's favor?

 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

 

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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