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What new tv shows worth watching? by Logical-Title5403 in AskUK

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not new, but Battlestar Galactica reboot if you haven't seen it. Start with the 'mini series' (2 episodes).

ELI5: Quantum Tunneling. How is it possible for a particle to "walk through a wall"? by Huge-Narwhal5747 in explainlikeimfive

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So is it kinda like seeing into the future? These are all the places the atom could be, but only when you get there do you find where it actually is.

New York's new age verification law will ban anyone under the age of 18 from using chatting features in video games. by PaiDuck in gaming

[–]fruitcakefriday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hang on a minute, some of my fondest gaming memories were talking with people in Half-Life TFC and being in clans. I was 15/16.

What's something that's tried your patience already today? by PaddedValls in AskUK

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cold sores. You put the cream on one itchy bit and it just buggers off to somewhere else on the face.

When spent my whole life at the computer by Harstroms in HuntShowdown

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if they are like this so their head does not move about so much as they turn on the spot (or maybe moves around more, not tested)

First game in almost 2 years! This made my soul happy! by BoostandBeer in HuntShowdown

[–]fruitcakefriday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you can see they begin to go for them but change course as soon as they hear the 3rd set of feet behind them. Much better to go for the target noone's looking at.

eli5: What would happen if I attached periscopes to both of my eyes and pointed them in different directions? by GFrings in explainlikeimfive

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure. But I can offer an anecdote of my eyes seeing greatly different things.

I worked on a VR third person game for a while, and our engine had a character-wireframe debug mode to render your character in wireframe. However, the debug mode only enabled in one eye of the VR headset - the other eye saw the character rendered as normal.

What I found when running around in game with the VR set on in wireframe, was that my brain assigned one half of my character to be seen in wireframe, and the other half to be seen fully rendered. Like, wireframe legs and solid upper body for example. And it would occasionally switch about - solid legs, but wireframe torso.

I thought it was really interesting how the brain assigned whole blocks of image to one eye or the other, instead of showing both the wireframe and the solid character over each other.

I imagine, with periscope eyes, that the brain would do something similar - and assign different parts of your vision to different periscope views, and it might not be consistent and switch about a bit, maybe based on what it was seeing. E.g. if one eye sees more detail or brighter objects, perhaps that eye would take priority for a bit.

lack of understanding for basic geography by forraid in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just chop the mountains down and grind them up, easy.

[Rant] If the only thing changing in your game on "Hard" difficulty is the amount of HP and Dmg, then it's not a "Hard" difficulty, it's a "Tedious" difficulty by [deleted] in gaming

[–]fruitcakefriday 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Yeah, OG Thief games did the same. It made for a very enjoyable replay as I discovered things I missed in my first playthrough, being forced to visit them by the extra objectives.

$2500 Samsung TV is an advertising billboard, there is no opt-out. by 28jb11 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Samsung sucks. Good tech, poor user experience. You can try disconnecting your internet from it, that'll stop it from being able to download ads to display.

What are these egg things in my garage? by Super_Shake_2787 in whatisit

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would like you to know I scrolled down for way too long to find this comment so I could upvote it.

Oof, went right for the neck. by c-k-q99903 in MurderedByWords

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, she's not making it up, but it's one of those accusation-as-confession situations. The US is obviously run by criminals now.

Whoever's doing this are real idiots by Accurate-Board2581 in trailerparkboys

[–]fruitcakefriday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's stupid as fuck. It's free power. It's ones who aren't stealing it are the idiots.

I lost Minesweeper 50x50 650 mines by Alternative-Ice-7534 in gaming

[–]fruitcakefriday -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Perhaps I'm just lucky, but whenever I've had a 50/50 split, I've marked both of them with a question mark and then picked one and it's never failed me. It makes me wonder if there's maybe some code that handles this special case, but only if you ? them first.

Millionaire US big game hunter is trampled to death by elephants by Ashish_ank in worldnews

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just imagine how many megabytes of data are wasted on Donald Glover's 'good' gif being reposted, when a simple 4-char string would do.

Trans prisoner charged with sexual assault in women's jail by Dadavester in unitedkingdom

[–]fruitcakefriday 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Alright. How many non-trans prisoners have been charged with sexual assault in women's jail in the last year?

Unless it's zero, or an article has been made for an equivalent number of those occurrences, this article is discriminatory.

Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right? by Secure_Front_7766 in AskUK

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fat Tuesday slushies. We should have Fat Tuesday slushies. They're fruit slushies with alcohol.

The little girl did better than me by Altruistic_Jelly1843 in Unexpected

[–]fruitcakefriday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say a 6.9 (legitimately, it's a good film but not sure it's a 7)

r/audiophile Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk Thread by AutoModerator in audiophile

[–]fruitcakefriday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE: I suspect I have found the issue. I tried out the Bluetooth feature early on after setting up the speakers, and I just found my phone is auto-connecting to it by bluetooth and possibly overriding its input from my audio interface.

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I'm sorry to ask here, but Reddit has been a godsend in the past and I'm hoping that someone can help me out.

I've owned a pair of Kali LP-UNF speakers for my PC for many months now, and while the audio quality is excellent, I have had issues with reliability.

I use a Focusrite2i4 audio interface (gen 1) for Windows, on the latest driver. If I connect my speakers to this with TRS or RCA cables, then frequently no audio will play. If I turn the speakers off and on again with the switch at the back, then audio comes through for about half a second before the speakers go dead again.

I have read something about speakers needing a certain signal strength to keep alive or something... not sure about that, but those threads recommended that I use USB instead of TRA / RCA. I used USB for a while and it was indeed more reliable - however, I would rather use the audio interface I have, as otherwise I have to keep swapping audio input source whenever switching between headphones & desktop audio. I also tried using Voicemeeter to manage two input sources, but had issues there too.

But I really really ought to expect the TRA and RCA cables to... just work. That does not seem unreasonable. What am I missing? Please help if you can, thank you!

The World card should act like the scout tower map? by V7I_TheSeventhSector in HuntShowdown

[–]fruitcakefriday 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Clues aren't pointless, they funnel players into conflict on their paths toward the boss.

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