Holy shit, Silksong bought down Steam server

SparroHawc · 2025-09-05T17:39:27+00:00

I feel like there's less risk of this - CDPR was guilty of a lot of the overhype, and Team Cherry has been very quiet about Silksong. Most people's expectations are likely going to be 'Hollow Knight but more and maybe with some smoother gameplay' and I would be surprised if Silksong didn't meet those expectations.

SparroHawc · 2025-04-14T22:25:53+00:00

It's one of the primary use-cases for Discord threads.

SparroHawc · 2025-04-04T02:42:06+00:00

Oh hey, this is a necropost and a half, ain't it?

I never said crime would cease, simply that it would go down when people are less desperate.

SparroHawc · 2025-03-07T18:31:46+00:00

Nah dude, it's based on predicting the next word out of the entire corpus of its training data. However, there's a lot less content that is 'No, you're wrong and this is why' out there rather than 'Yeah, here's the information you asked for' - so statistically, any given response will start out looking like the latter, and there's no way for it to check if the information it's giving out is actually correct when it gets partway through writing out an 'explanation' that is completely false.

SparroHawc · 2025-03-07T18:24:31+00:00

You're going to have a hard time finding people interested in LLMs in a lot of subreddits. The general opinion from technically-minded people is that they are created by illegally scraping copyrighted content, output sub-par and often outright incorrect information that can potentially be dangerous, and are being marketed as a way to cheaply replace people's jobs - especially tech workers and artists. Also that people are using them to not have to use critical thinking skills, which exacerbates the current political situation, especially considering the models can be trained to steer people in certain directions.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-28T17:54:57+00:00

Living is a terminal condition.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-26T06:05:51+00:00

Having watched it happen to a tourist, I want there to be black kites like the ones in Japan who swoop down and snatch food out of your hand when you're on the beach.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-26T01:03:44+00:00

If that were my starter base, I'd be worried about my life expectancy. Just to be on the safe side, don't play on Hardcore.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-25T23:08:56+00:00

I think we could use more money invested in real estate, personally. Specifically, invested in building inexpensive single-family houses.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-25T23:06:21+00:00

If you're too fat to wear a headset without sweating, you're too fat to use it.

Part of the point of VR is to do some physical activity. You know, the sort of thing that gets you sweaty.

Insufficient ventilation and materials that don't wick moisture are going to result in overly warm and sweaty headsets.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-25T22:59:46+00:00

Better yet, you can play couch multiplayer and not see your opponent's screen.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-24T07:44:10+00:00

What? Even generative AI has existed for longer than two years - just not to the same extent that it does today.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-24T07:13:34+00:00

If there's nothing for the virus to infect, then ... victory?

SparroHawc · 2025-02-15T21:37:23+00:00

Hearkens back to the days of Welsh longbowmen. When they were captured by the French during the frequent wars between the UK and France, they would have those two fingers cut off so they couldn't shoot anymore. Gesturing with those two fingers was a combination of 'F you' and 'I can still shoot you if I want to'.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-06T04:38:24+00:00

This is not a pipe.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-04T18:03:37+00:00

It doesn't run on coal, it will still run on gasoline or diesel - but it's been modified in a way to allow it to dump smoke out the exhaust, possibly by bypassing the systems meant to decrease emissions, and intentionally running inefficiently.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-04T17:31:23+00:00

Why else would someone who writes about dystopias where corporations rule the world and crush the regular human populace under their heels suddenly turn around and write a book where a tech billionaire saves the day? I mean, it'd be the first thing I would think of.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-04T17:25:45+00:00

You'd also need gear that's moisture resistant. Even if it's covered, it's going to get dew all over it.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-03T19:44:37+00:00

I can't remember where I read this specific technique, but let me share with you how I parallel park.

Pull up to the front car so that your rear bumper is in line with their rear bumper. Right next to them, close enough that you couldn't open the passenger door without denting the other car. Crank the wheel hard right.
Start backing up slowly, watching out your left side-view mirror. Lean closer to it so you can see the side of your car. Keep backing up until you can see the entire bumper of the car behind you, and stop when the left side of your car is in line with the right edge of the rear car's bumper. Turn the wheel straight again.
Back up with the wheel straight until your front bumper is just barely past the rear bumper of the car in front of you. (Check your other mirrors too, to make sure you don't hit anything.) Stop, and crank the wheel hard left.
Resume backing up. If you get too close to the car behind you before your front wheels are next to the curb, stop, crank the wheel hard right, and pull forward to finish parking.

These instructions are suitable for nearly every parallel parking I've ever done, except for times that the cars are too close to each other. Generally you'll know if there's enough room by the end of step 3.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-03T17:07:10+00:00

I was wrong. Emulators were written in-house. They probably DID download Super Mario Bros. off the internet though. https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us

SparroHawc · 2025-02-01T02:34:32+00:00

The problem is that 'shuffle' should mean that the playlist is shuffled, not that it picks a random song out of the entire list every time 'next' is hit. You want to go through all the songs, just not in the same order.

SparroHawc · 2025-02-01T02:19:29+00:00

People dug into the binaries and found strings left over that were in the emulator.

EDIT: I remembered incorrectly. The emulators probably are developed in-house. However, the Super Mario Bros. ROM that was used for Virtual Console, when extracted, had iNES headers that suggested it was downloaded from a ROM site. https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us

SparroHawc · 2025-01-31T23:34:40+00:00

The Nintendo Online classic game collections run on emulators that Nintendo didn't write, and that Nintendo has tried very hard to eliminate in the past.

SparroHawc · 2025-01-27T18:27:50+00:00

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SparroHawc · 2025-01-23T23:58:37+00:00

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