If ther’s on thing I hat, it’s words ending with silent e’s. And whil we’r at it, we ned to get rid of doubl e’s as well.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Water will reach its own level so to speak, if a developer releases a game that is far too much for a majority of gamers to run, those gamers won’t buy the game and it won’t sell. Obviously that also isn’t always necessarily true, but enough terribly optimized games have released recently to be met with 40% rating on Steam that I’d like to think this is the case. Are some developers going to do it anyway? Absolutely, but that’s true regardless. I think that no matter what, indie developers will always tend to keep their games lightweight either by principle or by design necessity, and bigger game studios would also sorta get the message and keep their games reasonable. With obvious exceptions… goddamn 400 GB games these days.

I’ve noticed it too. Their articles seem almost formulaic or algorithmic. I’m not saying they’re AI generated, although they may be, but I’ve noticed that almost every single Onion article in recent history ended with the last sentence being, “at press time…”. I’m not sure if they’ve always ended with a “at press time” joke and I’m going crazy, or if it’s a new development.

I always love how Bijou can say the most questionable shit and her model is just always

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Fun fact: if you were to drink a cup of gasoline, it would have enough calories to sustain you for the rest of your life!

The cutscenes were rendered using certain graphics settings that you could exceed if you maxed out your own settings. Plus, because it was a pre-rendered video, there must have been some compression or something, as you could just tell when you’re in a cutscene-- it was grainier and there was a smidge of artifacting. Don’t quote me on this, but I believe the cutscenes were rendered at, like, 1080p, and if you were playing at 4K it would be a very noticeable downgrade. (Note that I did not and still do not have a 4K monitor)

Although thinking about it again, I do vividly remember some in-game-engine cutscenes in Arkham Knight. I’ll have to replay that game again sometime to jog my memory.

On a similar vein, Arkham Knight (and in some cases Arkham City) looked worse in cutscenes if you maxed out the graphics settings. Obviously not if you ran it on a potato, but the games are somewhat well optimized these days*.

*At launch, Arkham Knight was an unoptimized, buggy mess. It has since gotten much better.

upvote for VA-11 HALL-A

the one with the robots

Mind Goblin is 3/3 but Deez Nuts is 7.9/49? Fair and balanced

Proctoring a physics 1 exam and seeing students do both these and curling their fingers around (thumb in direction of current, curl fingers around direction of magnetic field) was always very humerous to see.

average sims save

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Then the arm could slide the magnet upwards to detach, reposition it, and repeat.

This would work, but this is the point where you’d need to involve an external energy source. If you move the truck-magnet-arm system such that the whole system reaches a steady state and the truck has “moved” (relative to an outside observer), to continue any motion, you need to disturb the steady state to reposition the arm and create a new resting point. Doing so would require energy. From a battery, or an engine, or whatever, but you need energy from an external source. And so we’re right back to where we started: instead of all this jazz, why not just spend energy to spin the wheels instead?

Daily VA-11 HALL-A coming up soon and I’m so excited

Just do a fourier transformation, should clear up those mixed signals nicely.

Sucks for you, the geoguessr scene there is crazy!

A mug has one hole, as do a donut or staw. Topologically speaking, the “hole” you put your liquids in is not a hole, as it does not go all the way through to the other side. The handle is the only hole.

Demonstration gif: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Mug_and_Torus_morph.gif

I’ve always long believed that this is the single most interesting video on YouTube. It’s so well written and well explained, and every time it pops up, I watch it in its entirety. Such a fantastic channel.

https://youtu.be/4ZK8Z8hulFg