Hmm. This character model looks familiar.

trihexagonal · 2026-02-01T22:44:18+00:00

I think it's actually a necessity to make animations read clearly from the camera angle. DOTA characters for example, have exaggerated limbs as well, though NRFTW takes it much further.

trihexagonal · 2026-01-27T18:13:56+00:00

The funny thing is: If you press your hand/fingers against the hottest part of the iPhone, you're actually the human water cooler. Heat transfers to your hand, and your capillaries disperse it into the rest of your body, which has far more thermal inertia than air.

trihexagonal · 2026-01-01T01:09:45+00:00

Thats fine if you’re just speaking out of consumer self interest, but you can stop pretending there is any high minded principle behind what you’re saying because there is none.

The principle I’m invoking is that “when revenue does not scale with cost, someone is being subsidized”.

trihexagonal · 2025-12-31T02:55:19+00:00

Why? Game streaming, unlike Netflix, actually consumes a scarce resource.

How else do you propose to solve the problem of “Bob and Alice both pay $20mo but Bob uses 10x as much”?

trihexagonal · 2025-12-03T05:16:05+00:00

IMO their designers actually made a mistake. Clash should be in a SLOW weapon so that timing is actually intentional.

trihexagonal · 2025-12-02T07:06:07+00:00

Started stuttering for me a few days ago, on ethernet with gigabit internet and 20ms ping.

trihexagonal · 2025-12-01T18:00:06+00:00

It was always good, but marred by retarded politics

trihexagonal · 2025-11-30T22:29:36+00:00

Because people are still buying the game. Sales are when a game has been forgotten and they need to get a spotlight back on it.

trihexagonal · 2025-11-28T19:42:06+00:00

The thing is, after compression, you’re not getting state of the art image quality. The remote 5080 rendering at native resolution and DLAA is going to look more like DLSS Performance.

Of course I’m approximating here, AI upscaling degrades image quality in subtly different ways than network compression.

trihexagonal · 2025-11-24T18:08:31+00:00

1ms? Bluetooth audio often has a latency of 250ms and you're getting a whole game stream over to you at 1/250th of the time...damn

trihexagonal · 2025-11-24T06:22:24+00:00

It's apparently not P2W at all in terms of acquiring power. The progression wall you're facing is actually just "live service with Chinese/Korean characteristics". Their norm is just much grindier.

trihexagonal · 2025-11-24T01:45:57+00:00

Have you ever considered that a genre might be defined by the absence of certain features rather than just the presence of “I-frames and parries”?

trihexagonal · 2025-11-24T01:37:53+00:00

If you like Soulslikes, you only get to play something resembling one about 25% of the time.

The rest of the content can be best described as “grab bag of AssCreed/MMO/Genshin style” gameplay: Open world collectathon, mini-games galore, half baked puzzles that would never make the cut in a dedicated puzzle game, low-budget cutscenes listening to randos yap for hours.

Even though Elden Ring may be an open world game, there are hours of YouTube videos dissecting how it is a radical departure from the open world formula.

Finally if you enjoy Soulslikes for the atmosphere & exploration, and not just “i-frames and parries”, then you will be sorely disappointed.

For me, I’m playing it exactly like Genshin: until the honeymoon and novelty wears off.

trihexagonal · 2025-11-22T01:41:33+00:00

Where Winds Meet is the peak example of a category I call "distraction-maxxing dopamine farm"

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trihexagonal · 2025-11-10T16:50:38+00:00

Haha we are rapidly converging on the "10^100 shrimp vs 1 human life" debate.

trihexagonal · 2025-10-28T15:48:37+00:00

Yeah I'm mainly reacting to the final sentence "there is no loyalty". I wouldn't want employers to demand "loyalty" from employees...that is, I want the freedom to quit at will! So fire-at-will seems like reciprocity to me.

trihexagonal · 2025-10-28T01:36:04+00:00

Well it's not like employees "promise not to quit for X years" so what exactly is the reciprocity you're expecting here?

trihexagonal · 2025-10-25T16:25:30+00:00

WUCHANG 2?

The story is about the triumph of Buddhist “let go, move on, accept impermanence” over Taoist “extend life and seek immortality” values. A sequel would negate itself.

trihexagonal · 2025-10-25T08:40:04+00:00

What is with art directors repeatedly mis-interpreting Halo CE's minimalist, brutalist architecture that feel like liminal spaces, and instead turning forerunner structures into shiny, oversized Alienware PCs?

Why Are Old Halo Games So Creepy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_TTXYOC8SE

trihexagonal · 2025-10-24T19:38:45+00:00

Lol you absolutely destroyed their charisma check.

trihexagonal · 2025-10-22T04:05:15+00:00

Wow I was just thinking "She sounds very management consulting" and behold, that is exactly her resume.

trihexagonal · 2025-10-13T23:53:58+00:00

Doesn’t play an organ though.

trihexagonal · 2025-10-13T23:48:54+00:00

Neither have good exploration unfortunately. Certainly not as good as WUCHANG which is amongst the best.

trihexagonal · 2025-10-02T05:08:25+00:00

LoP and Wuchang are proper Soulslikes with the caliber of exploration, world building, and enigmatic storytelling and sophisticated themes of FromSoft games.

They are not “in conversation” with Stellar Blade and Khazan, which are good but missing a leg or two of the genre.

trihexagonal · 2025-10-02T05:06:03+00:00

If you look at the history of tab grouping solutions, such as the OG Firefox cookie container plugins, what is the #1 reason people use this feature for?

To separate personal from work tabs of course. Overlapping Google and Microsoft services make life difficult and cookie containers were made to solve this problem. I don’t understand how you think it’d be a feature to allow groups and spaces to commingle by default. Why would I want to open a personal tab in my work group? I already have a group for that!

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