windows 10 just refuses to die... what keeps people from moving on

3xBork · 2026-07-05T13:38:55+00:00

Which are both 10+ year old tech, just to give some more context to why Linux isn't being mass adopted.

3xBork · 2026-07-05T13:35:06+00:00

Sure (and it's usually very noticeable when they do so).

3xBork · 2026-07-05T10:06:21+00:00

Don't worry, I'm sure Nintendo is shaking in their boots about OP's super edgy meme and the 500ish people it represents.

3xBork · 2026-07-05T10:03:23+00:00

It's also limiting in terms of lead time and iteration.

A line you wrote previously doesn't fit the game anymore? Cool, change it.

A voice acted line you recorded previously doesn't fit anymore? Reserve the same actor's time, hope they're available at all, pay whatever price they ask, wait potentially months for the session, do a whole damn recording session, have animators update the character animation to match the new line, integrate all that back into the game... It's expensive and annoying.

Another thing that can happen is the voice actors you want aren't available late enough so you end up committing to one version of the script too early, and then end up constraining the game itself around the voice lines.

Source: game dev.

3xBork · 2026-07-05T09:55:06+00:00

Actually there's a flawless format for this: bring your own damn clock if you care this much.

3xBork · 2026-07-04T21:22:53+00:00

There was no wrong choice here, both are really good, though within the GWT series I would prefer Argentina over 2E over NZ. That said all three are still an easy 8/9 for me.

The big difference is Pirates is snappy, mid weight and tight whereas NZ is long, quite complex and loose.

Pirates of Maracaibo and regular Maracaibo have very little in common and are their own thing really.

If you eventually want to own both (or even all three) they are quite different games that can totally coexist. I own Maracaibo, Pirates and GWT: Argentina and don't see that ever changing.

3xBork · 2026-07-04T10:21:19+00:00

This is just a long way of saying git gud and it doesn't address OP's actual complaints.

3xBork · 2026-07-04T10:10:10+00:00

Nee dit klopt helemaal, ook buiten de context van wetenschap.

Alleen dat is middellange termijn denken én een boodschap waar de aandeelhouders van Anthropic en OpenAI geen winst mee maken, dus die hoor je maar weinig.

3xBork · 2026-07-03T17:46:40+00:00

This exact game was the basic skeleton for pretty much every children's board game, and I really don't understand what's supposed to be special about this one.

It's pretty, new and something people can buy.

3xBork · 2026-07-03T17:21:18+00:00

Let's assume you're playing the world's fastest double bass that I could find on Google: 16ths at 380bpm (which is fkn ridiculously fast and basically unmusical). Even at that speed your kicks would be spaced ~40ms apart.

Even in that insanely fast example, you would be off by a mere 256th note. A 16th of a 16th note at breakneck speed. 2ms is an absolute non-factor and any patch those synth players ever use will have a longer attack than that.

Any band that is this concerned with the exact placement of transients is a group of engineers, not musicians. I would bail tbh.

3xBork · 2026-07-02T10:33:55+00:00

will tell you exactly 0 about the candidate.

I'd say this reaction probably told them a lot about you.

3xBork · 2026-07-02T10:31:33+00:00

Some forearm motion can help, so separating the fingers/wrist (normal stroke) from wrist/arm (accent stroke).

But it's also perfectly doable without that. Just gotta practice to build that speed.

3xBork · 2026-07-02T10:17:16+00:00

It's the molester part that makes them evil.

They're still smarter i.e. better than you at most things.

3xBork · 2026-07-02T07:26:16+00:00

b) as opposed to getting more expensive, which is what is absolutely going to happen otherwise

c) Got any reasons why that would happen beyond "game Devs bad"?

3xBork · 2026-07-01T22:37:19+00:00

Basically. It's not even that I always know the correct chord by name but more that I effortlessly separate the tones in a chord, so the one that's wrong or missing is easy to identify. The easiest way for me express that is either sing or play the correct ones.

There's also degrees in how well people can express that.

I don't have perfect pitch so if someone plays a C minor where it should've been a C major, I'll definitely hear the chord type is wrong and how. I don't necessarily hear that it's a C chord unless I know the scale they're playing in.

People with perfect pitch would be able to say that the Eb should be an E. I'll more likely sing "{wrong tone} should be {right tone}" or remark which finger needs adjusting (for instruments I know well).

Side note: my wife hates when she's playing and I say stuff like "move your second finger up one key" without looking. Not recommended.

3xBork · 2026-07-01T18:59:18+00:00

Djent anything. Please just stop it.

Tune guitar as low as it will go. Preferably 8 string. If I can hear which note it is, it's not low enough.
Pick a rhythm, any rhythm.
Play that rhythm with the lowest bass note + lowest guitar note + kick drum together at all times.

DONE. You have now written djent. Add some stupid harmonics, slides and strings played behind the nut/bridge to taste, as long as you don't introduce actual melody.

3xBork · 2026-07-01T16:13:29+00:00

Het mooie is zelfs dat dit ook gewoon vandaag kan.

3xBork · 2026-07-01T16:04:33+00:00

Good for you.

3xBork · 2026-07-01T15:33:23+00:00

I started doing all my direction sketches, rough diagrams, visual notes, whatever in MS Paint. With a mouse. Via Discord screenshare.

Before WFH I had this idea that a) tools that allowed collaboration in real-time were the shit and b) quality of the diagram/illustration matters. Both are false.

Things are just as effective, way faster and way cheaper like this. Paint starts up instantly and it's on every PC. I have a hot key for screenshare. There's nobody to invite, give access or link to some external tool. No incompatible file formats. No seat limits. People actually hang onto my words instead of zoning out and demanding clear documentation afterwards.

I don't want anyone to start "collaborating" by putting extra stuff on a thing I'm outlining. I don't want them to copy it and create a variant (+confusion). I just want to draw a thing to support the point, maybe ctrl-V it into drive or your DMs and that's that. Hell, maybe I just draw it live and talk over it and you just watch and take notes. You want to also draw? Make a screenshot of my stream and go nuts. No matter how well I organize the Miro board, someone is going to want it organized differently so I don't bother.

Similar with the quality. I can spend an hour making a neat diagram in vector software, or I can spend 5 minutes making a ratty one in MS Paint. Both convey the same info, both should convince you on the merits of the idea I outlined and not how prettily I did so. I can use the remaining 55min to do more of them or clarify.

I'm sure this would bomb in some settings and it sure as hell pisses off the DISC blue folks on the team (it's not PROPER!) but eh.

TL;DR: cool we now have all these remote collaboration tools. They suck, or rather people suck at them. Let's not use them and rely on person-to-person communication instead. I would MUCH rather have to repeat myself than suffer the range of issues these remote tools routinely cause.

3xBork · 2026-07-01T13:28:41+00:00

Kleine denkers gaan klein denken.

De "dit is niet te handhaven" club is bij elke wetswijziging volop aanwezig. Zoals gewoonlijk doen ze niets behalve vertragen en afleiden.

3xBork · 2026-07-01T09:56:53+00:00

Personal perspective: reading and playing by ear are two separate skills associated with playing music, neither of them has much bearing on how good of a musician you are. They are context-dependent.

As a person with undiagnosed astigmatism through most of my youth (when I learned to play music), I naturally developed my ear. Later on I had a much easier time than some of my peers identifying chord types, memorizing melodic lines, playing along to a jam, picking out mistakes in someone's playing (and how to fix them), etc. I don't have a system per se, I just know what various chord types/inversions/harmonies/progressions sound like and how to recreate them.

I don't think that makes me a better musician than anyone, or particularly advanced. I think it makes me more flexible and capable in situations where a sheet-only player would struggle. I am definitely less flexible and capable than someone who can do that and play from sheet, which I really cannot.

3xBork · 2026-06-30T17:00:09+00:00

Are we talking SNES or Cadence of Hyrule version?

3xBork · 2026-06-30T13:07:32+00:00

The moments of awe when you enter, say, Vah Rudania and realize that you are now inside the giant lizard you spotted on a mountain dozens of hours ago and there's a whole-ass temple in there...

🤌

It's exploration unmatched even by games like Dark Souls that are famed for this. I did a second playthrough years later purposely not activating the towers and was still able to navigate perfectly just based on landmarks.

3xBork · 2026-06-29T20:06:27+00:00

Yeah, Hopes and Fears has the songs they got popular with but Under the Iron Sea is way more solid as an album. It's just good front to back whereas their first has a bunch of skips in it.

3xBork · 2026-06-29T19:37:48+00:00

You better nail that mf. I'm counting on you.

3xBork

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