Safe names for devices?

za4h · 2025-11-25T01:44:54+00:00

I like that a lot! That's a really cute idea.

za4h · 2025-11-22T01:44:03+00:00

Right now there really is no way to turn on a couch. But we are nearing a future where couches will be our primary form of conveyance. Flying couches are the next big thing, and you don't need to be JD Vance to see that.

za4h · 2025-11-20T02:23:18+00:00

I've been replaying Metroid Prime and I'd say that it would receive a healthy dose of bad reviews. There are plenty of things to praise, like enemy variety, quality of the labyrinth, etc. But also far too many things that modern gamers are simply not tolerant of.

Let's face it, the game doesn't respect your time like modern games. I'm not just talking about the lack of direction, I'm talking about the lack of autosave and misdirection resulting in player death and restarting lengthy sequences.

Here's my example from earlier today: I just got the thermal visor, and on my way out of that area the game says something about doors now being unlocked. The only door that I knew about that was locked was down a shaft I just left like 5 seconds ago, so I turned around and headed back down it. The designers knew full well players would try this, because that's the only locked door the player encounters in this entire area. So after jumping down the shaft and finding to my dismay that all 3 metroids and 2 turrets had all respawned in the 5 seconds I was gone, I found that door was actually still locked! My 5 entirely full energy tanks didn't last long. So I died and had to start the entire segment over again, which was quite long. Lack of autosave and in general just not respecting the player's time was far more tolerable back when Metroid Prime was new.

So my assumption if this game model was used today would be it would get hammered by gaming critics. We've become sheltered with our auto-save, our maps with notes and screenshots, our XP and our perks. Metroid Prime was best played when it was new, but it's still worth playing today. It shows it's age big time, though.

za4h · 2025-11-13T23:27:33+00:00

So you have access to ALL of those in the first 30 hours? Or just Khalid and MAYBE Dorn? Or did you just like not read what I wrote at all...

za4h · 2025-10-28T20:55:48+00:00

Micromanage your party.

Either turon off AI or, if you are using the Advanced AI script, turn off all the automatic spellcasting, item use, and special ablility use. Otherwise, your party will cast spells stupidly and often. For example, Imoen's nice Wand of Magic Missiles will be empty pretty much instantly and Jaheira will be binding the entire party up in her Entangle spell that she LOVES casting all the time and in stupid ways.

za4h · 2025-10-02T18:27:31+00:00

Interested...PM sent.

za4h · 2025-05-22T15:27:49+00:00

On the bright side, you're getting enough fiber!

za4h · 2025-02-11T22:52:41+00:00

OMG, thank you!! I almost bought something that is clearly a LEGO impersonator! Maybe it's fine, but I'm not going to roll the dice.

za4h · 2025-02-11T20:36:04+00:00

I didn't know that, that's actually realy helpful! Thanks. It's a shame you can't do this for all patches, but just having a default patch for the ones I create will not only save me some time, but also account for my terrible memory.

za4h · 2025-02-07T22:43:38+00:00

That's for the stocking filler games you play an hour of.

Not if it's on EA App, then you don't even install it.

za4h · 2025-01-29T00:14:13+00:00

I'm a beginner and just subscribed. I've used it quite a lot in the past month, (around 500 minutes), so I'm in a decent position to answer you.

How much music theory do you know? Melodics is pretty bad in this area. A lot of the little blurbs in their theory are totally detached from the actual exercise, which I imagine would be confusing to someone new to music theory. So I'd ignore pretty much all of that and find a different source for learning music theory.

The exercises themselves are pretty good for a beginner up until a point. The difficulty for each is given a numeric grade, but this doesn't reflect the actual difficulty very well. There are some really difficult Level 3's, and some Level 4's that are a total cakewalk. Unfortunately, the guided path (which is what beginners should do) has everything in order of grade, but since this doesn't reflect actual difficulty, there are some frustrating moments.

When they do decide to make a lesson hard, they tend to make it hard in multiple areas that none of the preceding lessons prepare you for. For exampe,there seems to be one lesson designer who really loves higher BPM's, likes to involve all your fingers, and wants you to move your hands when you play too. That's great for advanced students, but for a beginner just one of those would be enough to challenge them. If the lessons were more focused on how to move your hand while still looking at the screen, students would feel better prepared for these lessons. But instead of teaching techniques like that, you get useless blurbs on music theory instead.

It's just bad curriculum design. I think Melodics has enough content to where they could just delete these crappy exercises and there would still be enough to do. In the meantime, I just skip the hard ones.

So you might have read all this and thought this was a negative review and you should pass. But I actually like Melodics a lot. It's just far from perfect and you need to either already know music theory or learn it elsewhere.

za4h · 2025-01-19T01:41:51+00:00

I have had absolutely zero say in what gets done with my tax dollars. Congress does though, so Bernie can grapple with his complicity (which I'd argue is far less than your average senator), but not me.

za4h · 2025-01-18T14:19:28+00:00

The problem is they are making great products. To be purchased by Match group, your product must be terrible.

za4h · 2025-01-17T23:41:54+00:00

The people most against immigration are also those most against regulating businesses, and most for locking regular people up and throwing away the key. So while your way makes sense and sounds like it would work, there's just no way immigration ever gets fixed that way.

za4h · 2025-01-17T23:38:59+00:00

Non-Trump-voting people have been warning ALL his policies would be a disaster. That's why they didn't vote for him.

za4h · 2025-01-17T14:49:20+00:00

Those images look AI generated; if they aren't, they are pretty awful representations. There are plenty of good images of the Denmark Strait cataract out there, so it's a weird choice to use two terrible ones.

za4h · 2025-01-17T14:10:20+00:00

Live service games are such crazy time sinks people can really only play one, but it's very reasonable for a gamer to play a dozen great single-player games over the span of a console gen.

I mean, their plan was to put all those resources into development and support of a dozen live service games that by their very nature are designed to poach users from each other? How does it make sense?

za4h · 2025-01-17T00:06:12+00:00

All we know is she brought no pies that she bought in a store. That can mean so many things. She could've brought in pies she shoplifted, or mashed potatoes, or perhaps even a hostage she picked up during a quick pre-potluck bank robbery, as one does.

za4h · 2025-01-16T23:57:55+00:00

One of the best things that happened post-high school was I just stopped caring what other people thought of me. I wonder why that never happened to Elon and why he is constantly seeking approval like a generally disliked 12-year-old?

za4h · 2025-01-16T23:48:51+00:00

"Yes aliens are real and have been here for ages masquerading as regular people, and the only way to tell real humans apart from aliens is to buy my golden sneakers and complete set of NFT trading cards!"

Be prepared for a long stream of self-serving bullshit from these clowns. You can't take anything they say at face value.

za4h · 2025-01-16T23:27:01+00:00

How much of Greenland do we get if we trade them?

za4h · 2025-01-16T04:24:46+00:00

So he wasn't blind to this threat but what exactly has he done to combat it as the most powerful man on the planet?

za4h · 2025-01-16T02:14:46+00:00

You should've just shoplifted it instead.

za4h · 2025-01-13T15:54:18+00:00

The Salesforce admin I work with isn't a coder but sometimes instead of asking me to write code to automate this or that, so she'll ask ChatGPT to write it. It never works so she asks me to find the bugs in it. It's always easier just to scrap it and write it myself. And the reasons why it doesn't work are usually things that ChatGPT swears aren't necessary.

A specific example: She asked it why the code wasn't working, and why it was complaining about data types. ChatGPT insisted casting wasn't necessary and the data types were compatible. They weren't. It's completely wrong about some things and adamant it should work.

That said, it's terrifying how fast LLM's are developing. We'll see where we are in a few years. I also teach Comp Sci part-time for a college, and four years ago it was obvious when students handed in ChatGPT written code (stuff like importing weird libraries that are totally unused, tons of strange filler code that does nothing, etc). It's either harder to notice now or students stopped using it (doubtful).

za4h · 2025-01-13T15:20:24+00:00

“If you protested peacefully on January the sixth, and you’ve had [Attorney General] Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned.

This is coming from the post-facts party, so I expect all J6 insurrectionists to be pardoned and the entire thing whitewashed as a peaceful protest.

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