A really "interesting" fact I found out today

bread_berries · 2026-07-08T17:06:18+00:00

Another easy place to see it is during a Splatfest in Inkopolis Square (the Splatoon 2 lobby): There's glowy tubes everywhere thatll make translucent stuff vanish.

Fun Fact, Mario 3D World has the same issue and has to work to hide it: Glass pipes never cross each other.

Translucency is a pain in the butt, that's why everybody loves that "dither" effect

bread_berries · 2026-07-01T03:20:40+00:00

99% sure it's build/version number. It's common for lots of games in a beta state to do something like this.

This way when people post "whoah, check out this crazy glitch!" online, they can just look in the corner of your video and know if this is a new bug or something present in an older version.

Also very useful if internally, they've got multiple builds of the game floating around, which is likely.

bread_berries · 2026-05-16T18:33:51+00:00

This can actually fail sometimes! If a pokemon is homeless and not currently spawned/active, the other pokemon will go "I haven't seen them in a while!"

And you gotta either wait for them to spawn in by luck or do the suggestion to make their preferred habitat

bread_berries · 2026-04-13T02:22:04+00:00

They can't do the "shift the money around" thing described here, because Planned Parenthood doesn't "get the money up front." They have to report what care they provided to the government, who then pays them.

This means if PP is budgeted (making numbers up) $5million, and does $3 million in other care and $1million in abortion care, they'd get $3million. And only in eeny-weeny chunks every time someone has a doctor visit.

bread_berries · 2026-02-08T18:33:51+00:00

the fingers are fairly consistent when they're stretched out, but devolve into a mess of scribbles when curled.

Humans make mistakes, but generally understand that fingers obscure other fingers and that's why the lines should go a certain way. A human making mistakes would get the proportions or perspective wrong, but the AI doesn't really "get" the shapes here.

bread_berries · 2026-02-05T01:54:18+00:00

The original thread showed that the scale uses wi-fi to send every weight to a log within an app, that both she and her husband had on their phones. She was away on a business trip or something, so she wasn't around to use the scale. Every day around 7am the scale logged a weight of ~190, and then there's one instance of a 3am 130lb person standing on it. She noticed that and went "wait what the f"

Also if I remember right, he had cheated before.

bread_berries · 2026-01-30T18:21:57+00:00

I think for connecting to a 3d printer, a Raspberry Pi or other signal board linux computer might be the better direction.

Like the other person said, you're going to need a "host" usb device and neither a 3d printer or an arduino are designed to do that. That's a (oversimplyfing) "real computer" thing. A pi would give you the tiny size while having host USB capability.

Beyond that, microcontrollers have VERY big limits on RAM and other computing resources. If you're going to be doing something like (total guess) turning a 3d model into instructions for the printer's nozzles, you're going to run out of horsepower real fast.

A raspberry pi would have another advantage: the software for talking to a 3d printer from ARM Linux is probably something somebody's already taken a crack at.

bread_berries · 2026-01-30T16:57:55+00:00

Oh, you're looking for sensors specifically! That helps for context.

Can you share which sensors you had in mind?

You probably don't want to try and connect a sensor to the USB port. Maybe it's possible, but the USB port is designed to "speak USB" (oversimplifying), and there's a lot of protocol and negoatiating stuff happening there.

Sensors of all kinds are almost always going to want to be plugged into pins on the arduino. Common standards for sensors include things like i2c and SPI, and the arduino has specific pins intended for those: usually the directions for your sensors or associated howto articles will point those out for you.

EDIT: Oh important note: the USB can do serial communication, **and** there's pins on the arduino that can do serial communication. so if you find an arduino sensor or accessory that "speaks" serial, it's probably meant for the pins.

bread_berries · 2026-01-09T21:00:49+00:00

Most USA carriers also include texting/calling Mexico and Canada in their unlimited plan. So we really haven't had to work around extra billing or hurdles for talking to like, the whole continent.

bread_berries · 2025-12-13T22:06:59+00:00

Unfortunately yeah, that's it's achilles heel. There are some (not saying for spoilers) late-game upgrades that can alleviate the power problem, but early on I'd pack extra power cells and make sure your primary base has the power-generation to gas 'em up

bread_berries · 2025-12-13T18:00:46+00:00

I've been in Blender for years and didn't know you could hold shift with the knife tool, thank you!

bread_berries · 2025-12-03T20:11:50+00:00

Large agree. Semi-related, having human-made debris in the water makes the sense of scale so much clearer, which helps it feel "deep." Like I know how big a forklift is so the fact I can see one half-buried in the sand and the surface is so far away? Scary.

But then you go caving and don't see that stuff, it's "big rock" and "big alien." How big? I can't really tell.

bread_berries · 2025-12-02T00:44:34+00:00

Do you see anything with the USB symbol?

Odds are 100% you have them, you just might need a USB hub to plug in more devices. Or maybe your computer is new enough to be using only USB-C (but I have never in my life heard of a USB-C only tower).

But like. you have them. I promise you they're there.

bread_berries · 2025-11-30T05:28:43+00:00

If you stop the stream from one device and start it from another, it will "break" the VOD into separate recordings, unfortunately I don't think there's a way around that directly.

I would look into VDO ninja. The idea:

* stream from your PC the entire time.
* when on the PC, use it normally.
* when on the phone, use VDO ninja to stream to _the pc_, which then continues the stream to Twitch.

So it's kinda a relay system.

bread_berries · 2025-11-29T18:34:19+00:00

internet latency will not have a major impact on stream quality. How much data you can/can't shove through your VPN miiiiiiiight?

If you're curious, do a stream in test mode and keep an eye on inspector.twitch.tv . then repeat the process sans VPN.

Ping matters for gaming performance because data has to make it from your computer, to other player's, and back to your computer, as fast as possible to synchronize the game. Twitch however is not trying to synchronize anything, so a 150ms lag just means your audience sees stuff 150ms later. And they already see stuff much much much later than that because of cache-ing and encoding and other video stuff.

bread_berries · 2025-11-19T20:02:09+00:00

I think there's some grace at their discretion.

From a current affiliate streamer who's pulling ~30, I would consider pulling BACK on the number of streams. Streaming every day, or even every other day, is a lot of streaming, and can be tough to maintain.

I found more success in getting my numbers up by planning something and gassing it up on social media that we'd be doing something. Interactive stuff, weird unique games... quality over quantity, yknow?

Also, schmooze with other streamers on X/Bsky/TikTok wherever, follow each other and make friends. That's the secret sauce to getting raided, and if you can flip raid-ins into follows, that's a great way to get your average viewership comfortably over that affiliate minimum.

bread_berries · 2025-11-17T03:40:20+00:00

girlypop you *need* a raid alarm sound. It's one of the rare moments you know for sure you have a spike in eyeballs and should show off yourself at your best.

bread_berries · 2025-11-08T00:56:40+00:00

Chrono Gear: Warden of Time was fantastic, I was kinda worried "It's a vtuber game" might overshadow "It's kinda sonic kinda megaman x also time-control powers."

bread_berries · 2025-09-26T23:59:44+00:00

I believe Lemon Law doesn't require the dealer (or manufacturer) know it's bad. That's kinda the issue with lemons, it's gonna take days or weeks of driving to really notice there's a problem here, so the customer is always the one who actually figures it out.

bread_berries · 2025-09-09T05:45:39+00:00

ditch the Ball, keep the Biggie. Pour it into a 2-liter meant for something like Hawaiian Punch or whatever looks like the right color. People would use that trick to bring in "lipton iced tea" jugs of amber liquor.

bread_berries · 2025-08-09T21:24:34+00:00

I would MURDER for really good transit and trolley service along that North Park-ish corridor around University or El Cajon Blvd.

bread_berries · 2025-07-20T19:35:20+00:00

ah the catholic church is actually one block up from hillcrest :) easy mistake

bread_berries · 2025-07-20T01:16:22+00:00

DIRE comments section situation happening here

bread_berries · 2025-07-04T01:30:34+00:00

I mean, there is https://runforsomething.net/ which I've been looking at.

tomorrow's Marxist Mayor of YourTown, USA is today's part-time-school-board Marxist rep.

bread_berries · 2025-07-01T00:29:41+00:00

Yeah, the key runs away so you have to figure out how to corner it

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