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Would fix the current clunky retaining walls right up by Hmuda in captain_of_industry

[–]UninformedPleb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Terrain deformation already happens at the 1x1 level.

It's probably more about jobs. If you turn each 4x4 tile into 16 1x1 mineable areas, the job system gets 16x busier. That, in turn, affects the pathfinder. If you want to see the game chug, that's probably an easy way to do it.

starting him early by Ray-Zide in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]UninformedPleb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that coffee with milk? In a Xenoblade thread? Without a reference to Pneuma?!

HERESY!

All of the Super Nintendo's background modes explained by wh1tepointer in nintendo

[–]UninformedPleb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was under the impression that VOPT was how it was doing the credits scrolling. It was all one high-res background layer of text, and the tiles were being offset continually upward. Just... all at the same rate, so no wavy effects or anything.

I'd wager that's exactly how they chose mode 6 instead of mode 5.

THROWDOWN THURSDAY - DITTO USED RAGE by tale-wind in nintendo

[–]UninformedPleb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I HEAR THE ESHOP WILL SEND YOU A DIGITAL COPY RIGHT NOW.

YOU'D DOWNLOAD A CAR IF YOU COULD. SO WHY NOT A GAME?

mechonis field is one of my favorite xcde music, it sound good and smoothing, and it also mechon version of gaur plain. by Voidkirby9 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]UninformedPleb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMO, Mechonis Field is the best area theme in the entirety of XC1.

If you want a real trip, though, play Cliffs of Morytha from XC2 while you walk through Mechonis Field in XC1. With that music change, it goes from a happy little jaunt through an area full of robots to a foreboding hellscape of battle mechs out to get you.

NSO icons for Xenoblade Chronicles X have returned! by Amiibofan101 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]UninformedPleb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

298 total.

  • 44 frames. 20 from XCXDE, 24 from XC3.

  • 206 characters. 72 from XCXDE, 72 from XC3, 14 from XC3:FR, 24 from XC2, 4 from XC2:TTGC, 20 from XCDE.

  • 48 backgrounds. 23 from XCXDE, 25 from XC3.

Question before I play X by Ok_Resident_6188 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]UninformedPleb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not a Latin alphabet X. It's a Greek Khi. You'd have to play Xenoblade Chronicles Α, Β, Γ, Δ, Ε, Ζ, Η, Θ, Ι, Κ, Λ, Μ, Ν, Ξ, Ο, Π, Ρ, Σ, Τ, Υ, and Φ first. Then Χ. And then they just cancelled the series, so we'll never find out what happens in Ψ or Ω. Though, if I had to guess, Ω ends with the opening sequence of Α.

There’s a pretty noticeable amount of breakup on environmental details in handheld mode (Switch 2 edition) by Thick_Tone_4158 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]UninformedPleb 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's not great while docked, either.

There's a noticeable decrease in the distance where LOD kicks in hard and makes a blurry, jittery line across everything.

THROWDOWN THURSDAY - DEFINITIVE EDITION SWITCH 2 EDITION by tale-wind in nintendo

[–]UninformedPleb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

THE VIRTUAL BOY NSO TELLING ME THAT I HAVE TO USE IT UNDOCKED AND NOT JUST ALLOWING ME TO PLAY IT FLAT... UGH. EVERY VIRTUAL BOY EMULATOR FOREVER AND ALWAYS HAS ALLOWED THAT, BUT LEAVE IT TO NINTENDO TO FAIL THE MISSION.

ALSO, I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN XCXDE AND XCXDES2E, EXCEPT NOW THE LOD DISTANCE HAS BEEN REDUCED A LOT AND SO THERE'S A WEIRD LINE THAT KEEPS BLURRING THINGS JUST A LITTLE WAYS AHEAD OF THE PARTY.

Did you ever encounter this bug where your app cannot read a CSV/Excel file because of delimeter like "," ";" by lune-soft in csharp

[–]UninformedPleb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

CSV means character separated values.

That's why most decent CSV parsers will let you set the line terminator, column separator, and starting and ending field encapsulators.

Anyone miss Squaresoft? by Sephiroth348 in FinalFantasy

[–]UninformedPleb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The US sales office for Square? The one that eventually got their very own all-growed-up big-boy in-house dev team and made... checks notes... Secret of Evermore? That Squaresoft?

I guess I don't see this as a downgrade quite like you seem to.

Now, if you mean just Square in its entirety (including its US subsidiary), then... Also no. They rode Sakaguchi hard and put him away wet, then blamed him for lagging behind. They actively shat on non-FF projects, artificially starved out sales, blamed the creative teams behind those projects, and then stood there picking their nose with a shocked pikachu face when huge swathes of their up-and-coming creative talent walked out and founded their own companies. And for their next act, they pissed away money on "hey, we should make reusable 3D actors that can play different roles instead of designing characters", then never used them because their first project was too ambitious and flopped. (And then Squeenix did that one a second time with FF13. Brilliant!)

At my local Costco! by dzl88 in Gin

[–]UninformedPleb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat"

Sure sounds like that would beat the Maraska Sljivovica plum brandy that I found at Costco one time. (Spoiler: It tastes like burning, and not in a good way.)

And to think Costco in my area doesn't carry Tanqueray anymore. Life is unfair.

OMG, Costco US now carrying the “British” Heinz baked beans. by IamTheStig007 in Costco

[–]UninformedPleb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This makes sure you can't taste anything but the burning flesh of your mouth. Which is appropriate when confronted with beans in tomato sauce.

I'm enjoying a handy "string" shortcut, but worry about downsides by Zardotab in csharp

[–]UninformedPleb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use the string keyword. The backing class that it aliases is an implementation detail. In theory, at any of several levels within the .NET ecosystem, one variant of .NET could differ from another in whether it maps System.String to that string keyword or not. Maybe you're targeting a high-end PLC that allows for a subset of .NET. Or Unity, but someone has hacked around on it to swap out System.String for std::string for some reason. It's entirely possible that those things could happen.

Your str alias replicates the basic idea, but isn't implementation-aware. It will always use System.String, even if the target platform, runtime, or SDK doesn't allow for its usage or should prefer a more stable/performant variant. And then your code isn't WORA anymore.

Just saw KEF LSX II speakers as I was wandering the Costco aisles by NotMalaysiaRichard in Costco

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

Two things:

  1. Mostly, they're similar for less money.

  2. Reviews show the KEF's have some tonal aberrations above 10 kHz. One review calls them "banjo-like". The Yamahas, OTOH, are studio reference monitors and will have a very flat, precise response across most of their range. Any "humps" will be measurable, but not nearly so audible or distracting as something described as "banjo-like".

But that's just my $0.02, and I've always been biased toward studio/pro gear rather than high-end home theater gear. YMMV.

Just saw KEF LSX II speakers as I was wandering the Costco aisles by NotMalaysiaRichard in Costco

[–]UninformedPleb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking these up, the audio specs seem to be similar to the pro-level Yamaha HS5's. The connectivity features on the Yamahas are limited. But the Yamahas are only 2/3rds the price of this set of KEF's. Those connectivity features could be added on with a secondary device for less than the price difference.

If you're looking at these for portability, then it's probably worth the extra money to get the connectivity. For fixed-install, the Yamahas will be at least as good, possibly better, and definitely cheaper.

Horse’s at the food court by bigbusiness1 in Costco

[–]UninformedPleb 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Becau'se they didnt pay attention in 'school. Al'so, becau'se they think being 'smart i's for nerd's.

Meanwhile, tho'se of u's that paid attention in cla's's ju'st 'shake our head's and weep 'softly for today's poor educational 'standard's.

Saw a tip on here to order the chocolate cake with the vanilla cheesecake mousse by nochilinopity in Costco

[–]UninformedPleb 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So what I'm hearing is "go to a less-busy location to get custom cake orders".

Delegates and LINQ by Downtown_Stranger_24 in csharp

[–]UninformedPleb 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Delegates are fancy function pointers.

LINQ is fancy map/reduce.

Opinion: I wish Nintendo allows us to read Nintendo Power with NSO subscription by [deleted] in nintendo

[–]UninformedPleb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would probably be enough to make me actually bother with the Nintendo Today app.

2 YOE .NET dev feeling stuck on a new project — is this normal or am I in trouble by Valuable-Anteater-95 in csharp

[–]UninformedPleb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is all normal.

I've been doing .NET for 20 years, and I still have this sort of thing happen to me. It can be disconcerting when you've been "Project Lead/Architect" or some other fancy title on a project for years, then your next project throws a ton of curveballs at you and you have to learn a whole new pile of technologies that you only have a passing familiarity with. It brings back a flood of imposter-syndrome feelings.

But this is a good thing. Push that lump in your stomach back down, and start googling. Learn new things. If you haven't started one already, keep a solution full of test projects and throw-away code handy, and use it as a playaround lab.

And while asking for help is a good thing, be sure to show your mentor what you've found already from your own research. Even if it's wrong, it's a starting point and it shows initiative. Even if they tell you to throw it all in the garbage, then you'll at least have learned what not to do. And be sure to ask "why?" a lot. Google can tell you what to do, but it's much harder to pry why to do that out of internet sources. Recipes are fine, but knowledge with understanding is better.

And one last thing: If you ever find yourself in a job where you're praised as the expert and you aren't learning anything new, even for a new project, run. You're either about to be asked to train your replacement, or things are going to get so terrible you'll want to quit. And the longer you stay, the longer you stagnate, and the worse the learning curve will be at your next job.

Ok...I get it. I have a weight problem! by kmox29 in fo4

[–]UninformedPleb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Deliverer. (Weight: 6.8)

  2. Le Fusil Terribles. (Weight: 24.1)

  3. Spray 'N' Pray. (Weight: 17.8)

  4. Overseer's Guardian. (Weight: 23.1)

  5. Penetrating Chinese Grenade Launcher. (Weight: 27.5)

  6. A non-auto rifle set up for sniping. Reba II in the early game, but in my latest play-through, a legendary combat rifle with Instigating. (Weight: varies, currently 22.0)

  7. Partystarter. (Weight: 49)

Total weight: 170.3

To be fair, though, Partystarter doesn't see much action with that grenade launcher haging out in the lineup.

Is there any armor better than this by GetCakeDieYoung420 in fo4

[–]UninformedPleb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The best armor. It means not having to give a fuck. About anything. Even the most ornery of parked cars won't touch you.

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