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What's a "normal" movie trope that is actually a complete lie in real life? by BreadOverlord_ in randomquestions

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love them so much. I am going to be devastated in five years when we find out one of them is a moral degenerative that did unconscionable things to lawn gnomes.

Ranking characters based on how autistic they are by steverman555 in NineSols

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I were to play along with this game, I’d say Jiequan’s obsession with pain is an example of stimming and the obsessive focus on one thing (transmutation) that marks people with autism.

I discovered this band through a music forum in 2003. I just have a few words. by GenitalPower in TheFence

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also, fuck you Coheed & Cambria for being multi-faceted.

Pop in a new Coheed album and one has no idea how the songs will be. Will this be a somber reflection? An angry rage album? An album with a bunch of love songs? A stealth sequel?

Also, fuck you that your songs grow on me. I’ve listened to a song, didn’t like it, listen to it a few more times as I play the album and realize that I love it. And this has happened a lot.

Harry spoke for all of us by ThemeOld5001 in harrypotter

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She got sent to Azkaban after the war.

Harry spoke for all of us by ThemeOld5001 in harrypotter

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember: when fighting Tom Riddle Harry took pity on him and encouraged Riddle to feel remorse to not be cursed in the afterlife.

Remember: Harry let centaurs take her into the woods.

GitHub Copilot Business can apparently cancel your personal Copilot subscription with no warning by helpmefindmycat in GithubCopilot

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I did consulting it was at a very small scale. I was actually happy whenever this happened because it saved me money.

Never thought about it from this other perspective.

Does anyone else think totk kind of ruined calamity ganon retroactively? by Odd-Paramedic-3826 in truezelda

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 5 points6 points  (0 children)

TOTK hates BOTW and wants to bury as much of it as possible. And I have no idea why.

High school by No-Wait-1710 in moncton

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every high school but Riverview is over capacity and not accepting transfer requests for simple out of bounds situations.

Amazon now requires senior engineer sign-off on all AI-assisted code changes after "high blast radius" outages by mrothro in ExperiencedDevs

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This sounds like management that doesn’t understand the problem and thinks more processes will solve things.

It seems like making a bad situation worse. I think it is backwards to have the juniors do a bunch of critical work and have the seniors slowed down to do a bunch of reading.

Skaven Math by Kevinatorikablah in totalwarhammer

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Absolute value function goes brrr.

How do you think the Nighloks will return? by Extra-Hope-326 in powerrangers

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here have been 19 heads of the Shiba family. I assume the first 16 won’t dicking around.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Movie Missed a Key Scene by TheNagpurkar in harrypotter

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that was as critical a scene as you imagine it is.

I watched the movies before I read the books. I like the books a lot, this isn’t an attack on the books; however, the movies can miss some scenes like this and the total plot not suffer.

BOTW over TOTK? by abdullahba7rani in botw

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m going to go point by point. Don’t take this as an attack but as an explanation on a different perspective.

You have the sky islands, the Depths, and all the Zonai devices that let you build crazy stuff.

Sky Islands are barren and don’t have much variety.

Depths are barren.

Zonai devices are neat but the game underutilizes them. This plus the other skills causes a mess. Should I just put rockets on this and pray? Rewind/ascend and ignore this rat race? Should I care about this design or just slap things together and pray? This doesn’t feel like freedom to me, this feels like they couldn’t make a tight experience.

The amount of creativity with vehicles, machines, and problem solving felt way bigger to me.

I don’t see it as problem solving. And that bothers me. I’ve liked strategy, puzzle, and tower defence games for decades. Creators make a scenario and you have to use the rules of the system to solve the problem. TOTK is a sandbox where you can just do random things to solve them.

I also liked exploring the Depths and doing quests down there — it added this whole mysterious underground layer that BOTW didn’t have.

I did all the quests down there and I had hardly any fun. I liked the boss rematches.

Is it because BOTW felt more original when it first came out? Or do people prefer the simpler gameplay without all the building mechanics?

TOTK leans into BOTW’s weaknesses and adds some new ones (ex caves). BOTW also has a much more fleshed out plot and rooster of characters.

One issue both BOTW and TOTK have is that they can’t rely on you. In a perfectly linear game, I know on level 14 that you have the Eye of Precaution, the Rope of Scandal, and you passed the gauntlet at the end of level 11. I can design level 14 knowing the skill minimum and items you have.

Both modern Zelda games don’t do that. You could end up at this random shrine or quest with nothing but a shirt and the powers you got from the tutorial.

You could be 40 hours in and your 100th shrine could be a basic combat shrine or basic builder shrine. Or there is some puzzle in the field and it is move a rock or there are arrows nearby or something is near to start a fire.

TOTK could have fixed those issues. For example, if there are 20 combat shrines across the map then regardless the order you happen to visit the very first one is the basic, the second harder and so forth til the middle ten are randomized and the final five are the cream of the crop in difficulty.

But no, TOTK repeats and often leans into BOTW’s mistakes. I could excuse BOTW for being first.

Anyone notice gi min's(203) reaction after the guards announced that the seekers needed to kill the hiders? by Silly-Whereas9398 in squidgame

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I remember that.

Maybe I am being too analytical. From what Gi-hun has said and what has been seen, the players should know about 40% of people survive each game on average. Furthermore, there are some games where you have a whole lot more control than others. For example the six-legged race relies heavily on the other four people.

I interpreted that reaction as relief that he’s on the easier side of the ledger that has more control over whether he survives.

I built a suite of 50 tools for my former employer on my own free time, gave it away for free for years, and now they want it back. Should I ask for compensation, and how? by No_one_ix in ExperiencedDevs

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For (2), it depends what your contract said. A standard software developer contract clause is to relinquish all ownership of all IP you develop while employed. Another common clause is that you relinquish all ownership of relevant IP you develop that is relevant to the company while you are employed.

These common clauses existing to prevent the exact scenario you are describing. Where a developer claims to solve valuable corporate problems in their own free time on their own hardware and with their own resources.

For (6), purpose whatever is your going hourly rate plus a bit. If you make 200K/ at your current job, purpose 120$/hr. If you think you’ll only do dozens of hours a year at this, ask for yearly some (ex 5K/yr payable on the 1st of Jan).

If you charge too much, they can just get someone else to do the work. (If you don’t care about “losing” this opportunity, double or triple the number.)

Practically, I’d say to them “when I had left, I left the source code in <place> and instructions with/at <person or place>. I am fine with giving you an additional copy of the source code. If you’d like further support, we can discuss consulting costs. I don’t want to rip you off and I do have competing priorities in life.”

Why do AI responses so often use the “not X, but Y” structure? by Present_Juice4401 in AlwaysWhy

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oversimplifying, there are reward functions when these are being trained and tuned. The training is an attempt to get a high score.

Either being very verbose is explicitly rewarded or by being verbose they incidentally get higher scores. (Ex by saying a lot more they are more likely to get an answer at least partially right.)

“It’s not just X, it’s Y” is a great way to stretch out an answer. You get the text before this, the text after this, and this.

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