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| Topic | What's a good monitor? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/19 3:11:49 AM #19 | Lokarin posted... That's also not what I mean, that's really old schoolok, that makes what you were talking about make more sense. so modern displays have "motion smoothing" where they generate intermediate frames to avoid motion blur. sounds like this is exclusively a feature of modern TVs, where it's intended as a sort of artificial 60fps (hence causing the soap-opera effect). --- |
| Topic | What's a good monitor? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/19 2:05:28 AM #17 | Lokarin posted... like when you're watching TV and it makes predictive frames between the frames of what you're watching to give it a fake 60fps effectyou mean interlacing, and it's not "predictive". interlacing is when only every other line is drawn on a frame with half the lines drawn one frame and the other half the next. interpolation is an effect on CRTs where there's a tendency for the phosphors to blend together. a CRT doesn't really have discreet pixels like an LED/LCD display does. interpolation makes older games look a lot smoother than they do on modern displays. it blends all the pixels together so it doesn't look as blocky as it otherwise would. --- |
| Topic | Today at work |
| Sahuagin 08/22/19 1:49:21 AM #6 | probably not about you unless you have reason to think so. just be careful since if you give them reason, you will quickly become the subject of their gossip, and not in a good way. --- |
| Topic | What's a good monitor? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/19 1:46:34 AM #15 | Lokarin posted... Like, I can run Borderlands at like 250fps, but I still see stutter. How is that possible?I guess something else is bottlenecking the game besides rendering 3d graphics. likely either your hard drive or cpu. Lokarin posted... Is there a way to tell my video card to do image interpolation?you mean interpolation similar to what occurs on a CRT, with pixels slightly blending together? the graphics driver would have to have that specific feature, which I've never heard of. you'd probably have to inject a pixel shader somehow. I think there are ways to do it, but not something I know a lot about. (seems like it might have something to do with d3dx.ini). --- |
| Topic | What game have you beaten the most, which takes you 10+ hours to beat? |
| Sahuagin 08/21/19 9:37:16 PM #35 | What game have you beaten the most, which takes you 10+ hours to beat impossible to say for sure. some candidates include (these are all complete playthroughs): Baldur's Gate 1 (original and EE) (10+ times) Dark Souls 1 (10+ times) Descent 1 (5+ times at least) Civilization 2: Test of Time (countless times; not sure if it takes 10 hours though) Deus Ex 1 (~5 times?) Factorio (5-10 times or so) --- |
| Topic | How are lootboxes any different from those overpriced TCG booster packs of yore? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 11:02:13 PM #36 | Ogurisama posted... Not sure if you read what I said, but the fanfare with lootboxes vs cards so "fanfare" is enough to turn something that isn't gambling into gambling? are you basically saying that to qualify as gambling it has to be addictive "enough" (whatever "enough" is), and that fanfare pushes something that's below the threshold for gambling (trading cards) to something that's above the threshold (loot boxes)? it sure seems like a really blurry gray area to me. personally I think I'm leaning towards saying that trading cards are a form of gambling. chance is involved, and you're paying money for something of unknown value. and when you don't get what you want, your only option is to pay more money for more chances. it's a misuse of the whole system. that's not a proper way to conduct business; it's more like a scam. --- |
| Topic | How are lootboxes any different from those overpriced TCG booster packs of yore? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 4:27:21 PM #26 | AllstarSniper32 posted... There's already been posts in this topic explaining how they are different so go read those.well, let's see. lots of people said they were the same, and one guy said being physical VS being electronic is a difference, which is pretty weak, and then someone else said you can still trade electronic loot in some cases. so, what's the difference? really, they're the same thing: buying a 'grab bag' of goodies without knowing what's in it, with the possibility of getting something great VS getting nothing interesting so you want to try again. I'm looking for a really significant difference: something that would make one gambling and the other not gambling. (not really sold on it either way at the moment, but I do think that if loot boxes are gambling then so are trading card packs, and if trading card packs are not gambling, then neither are loot boxes.) --- |
| Topic | How are lootboxes any different from those overpriced TCG booster packs of yore? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 5:02:09 AM #15 | LeetCheet posted... People and especially children can develop gambling-like addictive behaviours from them though.well, I just mean that if loot boxes are bad, then so are trading card packs. or, at least I'd like to hear a solid argument as to why they're not the same thing. --- |
| Topic | What's a good monitor? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 3:57:18 AM #11 | Lokarin posted... a number like 3000:1 or 10000:1 contrast ratio sounds impressive, and maybe that means one pixel can be 10000x brighter than a neighbouring pixel... but in my head I translated that as "wait, shouldn't 1:1 be the best contrast ratio? one pure white pixel next to one pure black pixel?"1:1 is (I guess) like on an image editor if you turn contrast to zero, where everything becomes the same shade of gray. contrast is non-existent; (like, even numerically what's the "contrast" between the number 1 and itself? nothing.) --- |
| Topic | How are lootboxes any different from those overpriced TCG booster packs of yore? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 2:28:57 AM #13 | yeah, they keep being compared to gambling, but they're really a lot more like buying packs of trading cards (game or otherwise). --- |
| Topic | What's a good monitor? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 2:26:48 AM #9 | Lokarin posted... I thought maybe technology didn't suck as much as 30 years ago, but I guess it still does when it comes to displayskind of the opposite (tech is better, just too much overhead has been added for lots of fancy features). as he explains, old CRTs had maybe about 8ms latency. but the sony head-mounted display he was testing has a latency of over 70ms average. --- |
| Topic | What gmes are 10/10 in your opinion? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 2:20:57 AM #45 | Essentially Perfect Link to the Past Baldur's Gate 1 Close to Perfect Factorio Death Road to Canada Super Metroid Flawed Masterpiece Dark Souls 1-3 --- |
| Topic | What's a good monitor? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 1:58:41 AM #7 | Lokarin posted... Is there any monitor that does, like, post-processing and is in and of itself like a second video card? not sure you would want that. John Carmack already laments the fact that you can send a packet from USA to Europe faster than you can activate a pixel on your monitor from a button-press, and this is already caused by some post-processing like you say. https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-faster-than-sending-a-pixel-to-the-screen/ (unrelated: why the hell can I have only 0 or 2 blank lines after the quote, and not 1?) --- |
| Topic | Chewy Topic |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 1:48:22 AM #7 | are you really chewy? --- |
| Topic | What was your longest daily commute? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/19 1:46:22 AM #20 | right now is the worst commute I've had, I think. it's about 30 mins, +/- 5 depending on construction, slow drivers, and red lights. the longest it's taken to get home is I think about 1 hour and 45 minutes thanks to construction. (whatever dick contractor the city hired had the main freeway reduced to a single lane in rush hour traffic (or for all I know it was completely blocked off since once I hit the jam it took me over an hour to travel ~1 km.)) --- |
| Topic | Post funny video game stuff |
| Sahuagin 08/19/19 1:16:43 AM #4 | Here Comes the Pain Train - Broken Sword Duels (Dark Souls 2)  The Ballad of Todd Howard (Skyrim)  --- |
| Topic | How do I get the Paladin Shield? |
| Sahuagin 08/17/19 3:13:47 AM #6 | Lokarin posted... Hold the Cursed shield for 256 battlessomething like this; I think I did it once a very long time ago --- |
| Topic | What's the best ammo of these (list is from a game, so some may not be real)) |
| Sahuagin 08/17/19 2:21:56 AM #2 | if you're genuinely interested in ammunition, this is a great channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6QH13V2o68zynSa0hZy9uQ answer will depend what you're looking for. range, accuracy, penetration, damage, etc. higher caliber will do more damage. rifle rounds will have more penetration, range, and accuracy. hollow tip will do more damage. etc. --- |
| Topic | Do you engine brake? |
| Sahuagin 08/17/19 2:14:33 AM #3 | in games yes, but not in real life --- |
| Topic | so the little blue dot indicating new posts in a thread is now gone? |
| Sahuagin 08/17/19 1:25:27 AM #33 | the icons come from this image: https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/images/default/board_sprite_fader.png there should be a "board_icon_topic_unread" class on the element that says to offset the image by -32 pixels (effectively moving 2 icons in from the left and 0 down from the top) I guess this is useless information, but if you inspect an icon that should have the dot, and it doesn't have that class, then that's why it's the wrong icon. --- |
| Topic | The machine gun was invented before milk chocolate. |
| Sahuagin 08/17/19 1:04:22 AM #39 | captpackrat posted... Tritanopia (or lack of blue cones):I don't think that's right exactly. here's a version with no blue, and with yellow reduced a bit. (I think you might have actually turned green off in your picture instead of blue.) (well no, without green it becomes ridiculously purple/pink. I guess you turned almost all color completely off (very close to B&W), leaving only a slight amount of red and slight amount of green.)  --- |
| Topic | Just training my neural net, AMA |
| Sahuagin 08/16/19 1:46:17 AM #14 | Yellow posted... The reason they give is that the compiler wouldn't be able to figure out which overrides to use, which is silly, because you can just give the classes you want to inherit from highest priority to lowest in a list, like every other modern language.the main reason I think they give (might be what you mean here) is "the diamond problem", which is if B and C inherit from A, and then D inherits from B and C, what if B and C have conflicting/colliding members? and even if you have a workaround rule, you've still violated LSP for either B or C. (a D should be able to be treated both as if it was a B, and as if it was a C). really, though, they could just give an error when a conflicting member exists or something else like that. I kind of agree that that's a weak reason, since other languages have already done it. I think another better reason they don't implement it is because "multiple inheritance is bad". C# is a language designed in a lot of ways to be the anti-C++ and to avoid as many of the problems with C++ as possible, and one of those problems is multiple-inheritance. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/406081/why-should-i-avoid-multiple-inheritance-in-c a problem with inheritance, and using base classes rather than interfaces, is that it makes your code dependent on a particular implementation (or, particular set of implementations). inheritance is best used sparingly, and in situations where you want to treat a bunch of related objects as the same kind-of-thing, pushing common members into the base. (the idea of having a bunch of classes ready to be inherited from and inheriting from combinations of them does not work out as great as it sounds and leads to big messes. (inheritance is a tight coupling, whereas what we really want is loosely coupled code.)) for example, maybe your function uses only a single property of the object it asks for. asking for a ThingBase instead of a ConcreteThing is slightly better, but way better still is asking for an IHaveThatOnePropertyYouWant reference instead. (basically, while MI can be useful, most of the time it's really just a way to make your code worse.) Soon C# will have default interface implementations (though I think they're slightly controversial), which is very similar to multiple inheritance. and eventually there will be mixins, which are also similar but not exactly the same. (IIRC mixins allow you to auto-implement an interface by accepting a reference to something else that has already implemented it; calls made to your object for that interface just get forwarded to the other object.) --- |
| Topic | Have you visited the COUNTRY where your FAMILY came from yet??? |
| Sahuagin 08/15/19 3:12:49 AM #20 | I'm french I guess, but I don't feel any relation to france at all. have no desire to visit there and don't find it particularly interesting or relevant. --- |
| Topic | The machine gun was invented before milk chocolate. |
| Sahuagin 08/15/19 1:53:49 AM #30 | Revelation34 posted... Were they blind?it seems like they didn't have as concrete a concept as we have of "color" or "hue" (possibly conflating the material/substrate with color, so their color words were more similar in meaning to words like "metallic" or "fluidic"), and that they didn't have a mental concept of what "blue" was, and so never really noticed that there was such a thing as blue. or it's also possible that they couldn't even see blue at all. https://serendipstudio.org/exchange/ananda-triulzi/ancient-greek-color-vision --- |
| Topic | Just training my neural net, AMA |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 11:37:04 PM #5 | Yellow posted... You're a programmer, so you probably know why this is funny.I guess you lost 2 hours of processing because a path didn't exist? Yellow posted... Oh, I didn't answer your question. I'm using Python, Anaconda, VSCode (with Intellisense plugin), and Keras (a Tensorflow wrapper)yeah, I'd rather implement it from scratch, not install a half-dozen libraries. maybe it doesn't work that way. --- |
| Topic | The machine gun was invented before milk chocolate. |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 11:33:29 PM #25 | Lokarin posted... They saw the sky, it just looked more grey-like. It's because trichromia wasn't prevalent (or whatever rod/cone is responsible for "blue")that sounds interesting, but that's not at all what the article you posted said. the article said only that blue tends not to show up in nature very often (for some reason they're ignoring water and the sky), so many cultures don't really think of it as a color and don't have words for it. as I quoted above, the article ends with them admitting that our ancestors would have seen blue just as we do, it just wasn't very important to them. --- |
| Topic | You ever get addicted to a game you don't like? |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 10:58:23 PM #21 | dunno if I was "addicted" but Skyrim definitely takes the prize of being the game I like the least yet played the most. --- |
| Topic | Just training my neural net, AMA |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 10:46:42 PM #2 | what do you use for that? I've always wanted to try going through a "your first neural net" tutorial or something and get something that can badly add two numbers, but doesn't seem to be that straight forward. --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 7:55:12 PM #62 | Mead posted... Literally the thing that makes America great is that people can come from different places and backgrounds but share the same dream of liberty and freedom to better oneself.exactly, so people can have some differing beliefs while also not having such differing beliefs that they're culturally incompatible. --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 7:48:03 PM #59 | EvilMegas posted... The bare minimum is still acceptable criteria. Or else it wouldn't be accepted.ok, use a different phrase then. it's a "starting point", but there's other things to look at. --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 7:33:34 PM #57 | Mead posted... Whatever dude, you tried to say that it probably referred to only Europeans without even bothering to read itthe implication would be people of similar (western) ideals. "Europeans" is a very rough way of saying that; (and then "Europeans" can mean "people who live in Europe", or "people of European ancestry" as well. If you're hearing it as the latter, that could be why you so easily jump to racism. I'm reading it as the former.) we won't be able to say definitively one way or another who the poem would have or would not have referred to. even if it would have had no preference of any kind whatsoever, it wouldn't make it a good idea. Mead posted... If somebody wants the opportunity to work and make a better life for them and their family, those are 100% American ideals. Deal with it.you must know that that's not the only criteria worth looking at. that's like a bare minimum. --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 7:13:55 PM #55 | Mead posted... That really doesnt mean anything. At all. If someone is being mistreated and they declare that its wrong, that shouldnt be interpreted as them saying that it is only wrong to mistreat people like them but anyone else is fair game.so? she had jewish refugees in mind when writing the poem. that's all I've said. I didn't say "the person who wrote this poem would never in a million years consider it applicable to people from <place I don't like>, how disgraceful." you're jumping between two black and white extremes, as if the only two options are blatantly racist "only whites in muh country!" VS blatantly stupid "we want everyone, no matter how genocidal!". all I'm attempting to say here is that it's a *valid* concern to not want peoples of incompatible beliefs/ideals into your country. not only is it valid, it's a right of the citizens of any sovereign country. --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 7:06:00 PM #52 | Mead posted... citation neededit doesn't take much reading to see all kinds of references to her advocating for jewish refugees. that doesn't mean she wouldn't advocate for someone else of a different culture, but she definitely had "jewish refugees" in mind at the time. --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 6:48:37 PM #49 | darkknight109 posted... Can you point me to somewhere in America where people are advocating for people to be executed for adultery or for rape victims to marry their rapists?muslims will happily tell you how much they support sharia law. whether that's an actual problem in USA or not I don't know, it's just an example of incompatible ideals. Mead posted... Nothing in the original poem talks about race or preferring people from a certain region. You can tell by fucking reading it.I didn't say it was racist, I said maybe it is and I don't know it. you're right that I should read it. the poem uses the phrase "from her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome", so that does seem to indicate maybe there's no preference in the poem. however, the poem definitely *was* written with westerners in mind. keyblader1985 posted... A) there's no law saying you can't be a citizen because of something you believe in.not sure if that's true or not, but it is a good point and gets to the core of the issue. "should beliefs be a criteria for immigration". in at least extreme cases I would definitely have to say something approaching "yes". a capitalist democratic country should not import huge amounts of anti-capitalist anti-democracy immigrants. (or vice-versa). keyblader1985 posted... 2) just because your home country has certain laws doesn't mean every individual believes in them. In fact those laws are probably why they're leaving in the first place, in search of a better place.yes, it's about the individual's beliefs not the country's necessarily, though the culture of the area is going to be a very strong indicator of the general ideals held by the average person. keyblader1985 posted... iii) denying entry because of the beliefs of one's country is pretty fucking racist in itself.aside from that it's the beliefs of the individual that matter not the country, that's literally not racist. race and country are at most slightly correlated. race has nothing to do with anything, it's ideals (beliefs) that matter. thanks for the reply --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 8:29:26 AM #8 | EvilMegas posted... I'm actually too flabbergasted to respond at how off base you are.k, thanks for nothing I guess --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 8:24:35 AM #6 | EvilMegas posted... What ideals are you referring to? Living a better life?the specifics don't actually matter. more compatible ideals are preferable to less compatible ideals, for any country's immigration system, and for any particular set of ideals. if you want some examples for USA, off the top of my head, maybe things like they don't execute people for adultery, and they don't force rape victims to marry their rapists, those kinds of things. --- |
| Topic | I'm going back to my warm bed - The ongoing topic that disgusts normal people! |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 8:14:08 AM #87 | AllstarSniper32 posted... I played 3 for like less than an hour. I think I'll be good never playing it again.I had a few false starts with Fallout 3 and pretty much felt the same way. But once I got outside and really started to look around and finally the gameplay clicked... wow, what an experience. --- |
| Topic | Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 8:08:50 AM #4 | it is probably true that the poem is referring to people with western ideals. for all I know the original poem is racist, but preferring immigrants with compatible ideals over immigrants with incompatible ideals is not racist. --- |
| Topic | The machine gun was invented before milk chocolate. |
| Sahuagin 08/14/19 4:49:17 AM #17 | Lokarin posted... https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-evidence-science more accurately, they probably saw it as we do now, but they never really noticed it --- |
| Topic | List Your Affordable SNES Games In 2019 |
| Sahuagin 08/13/19 8:42:49 AM #8 | some ones from that list that are pretty cheap but good (going by the "loose" column): Mario Paint Super Black Bass (best fishing game I've ever played (but most fishing games are lousy)) NBA Jam Smartball (good but didn't age all that well I don't think) SimEarth (as far as I know this is vastly superior to the PC version) Jurassic Park (*way* better than you'd expect) Super Putty (seemed like a good game at the time but was very hard and I never really got very far) Ka-blooey (good puzzle game about detonating bombs without blowing yourself up) Yoshi's Cookie (good puzzle game about cookies) Pilotwings Buster Busts Loose Cool Spot (good platform/action game; Tommy Tallarico soundtrack) King Arthur's World (fantastic medieval puzzle/strategy game; sort of like lemmings with soldiers archers and mages) --- |
| Topic | Does anyone need anymore evidence that the mods are biased against me? |
| Sahuagin 08/13/19 2:08:17 AM #3 | why do you think they would be "biased against you"? all you really are to them is a username (I guess not counting all the times you've doxxed yourself...). all they really do is something like read marked posts in a queue and hit approve/reject. (could even be that usernames are hidden during this process so that they're just going by the posted content.) --- |
| Topic | Dissociation |
| Sahuagin 08/13/19 2:04:03 AM #7 | not sure if it's exactly the same, but sort of. I can "black out" where it's basically like day dreaming. generally happens while driving or in the shower. can make me late for work if I do it too much before leaving. I definitely don't get the actual "dissociation" feeling though, of not being in my body or whatever. It's just basically a part of my brain going to sleep leaving the rest of my brain running my body without me in conscious control. --- |
| Topic | I'm tired of being fat. Lifestyle change time. Help me out? |
| Sahuagin 08/12/19 6:25:09 AM #44 | drink lots of water. it's calorie-free and helps fill you up. (even try to program your mind to consider it a "snack" when you have the munchies.) eat lots of meat and if possible vegetables. sausages, deli meat, steak, broccoli, green beans, etc. you can microwave frozen veggies in a few minutes. if you do weight training, always eat lots of protein and drink lots of water afterward. you should feel like you're glowing as your muscles regenerate. (your muscles will be putting out tons of heat.) also remember, you can't both lose weight AND gain mass. weight training will either minimize muscle-loss when on a caloric deficit, or else will minimize fat-gain when on a caloric surplus, but you can't do both at the same time. you get buff by switching back and forth. supposed to be that you should bulk first, because you can end up really really weak if you lose a ton of weight and didn't start out with much muscle to begin with. gaining muscle is the most important thing (though you can end up like me (moderately muscular but fat) if you never really do any proper cutting). --- |
| Topic | Answer these questions to determine if your normal! |
| Sahuagin 08/11/19 5:33:06 AM #31 | wolfy42 posted... Do you like pizza? Yes --- |
| Topic | Random Continuity Question About The Dark Knight ***SPOILERS*** |
| Sahuagin 08/09/19 4:19:47 AM #15 | aDirtyShisno posted... you are using the compressed audio and not the actual audiomy image is from netflix, not youtube aDirtyShisno posted... You are also claiming that her tongue forms a Th shape when if it did it would be under the teeth and yet it is clearly behind the teeth where it would make an H shape.when she says "that they'd" you can clearly see her tongue stay in the same place for both words, making two consecutive "th" sounds. "that he'd" would look and sound completely different. you're obviously reaching for some reason here, not sure why. --- |
| Topic | Random Continuity Question About The Dark Knight ***SPOILERS*** |
| Sahuagin 08/09/19 4:11:37 AM #13 | aDirtyShisno posted... Vudu doesnt let the video part get screenshotted, but it still catches the subtitles.subtitles are not necessarily accurate. it is also possible to have multiple versions of the same scene. but at this point my evidence outweighs your evidence and there isn't really anything more to say. --- |
| Topic | Random Continuity Question About The Dark Knight ***SPOILERS*** |
| Sahuagin 08/09/19 4:06:08 AM #11 | the subtitles say "they", the script says "they", you can distinctly hear the word "they", and you can even see her touch her tongue to her teeth when she says "they"  (in fairness, in the above image she is saying the word "that") --- |
| Topic | Random Continuity Question About The Dark Knight ***SPOILERS*** |
| Sahuagin 08/09/19 3:55:20 AM #7 | aDirtyShisno posted... Its he. I just watched it and noticed that after many times letting it slip by. I rewound the video and put in the subtitles to make sure. it's "they". I just watched the clip to confirm, and can see "they" written in the script. The chair JAMS against a ridge in the floor. Dent STRAINS --- |
| Topic | Would you rather live Bill or Dale's life in KotH? |
| Sahuagin 08/09/19 3:44:16 AM #13 | I thought you meant Hank or Dale at first, which might take some thought, but who the hell would want to be Bill...? --- |
| Topic | Random Continuity Question About The Dark Knight ***SPOILERS*** |
| Sahuagin 08/09/19 3:42:17 AM #4 | the line doesn't use the word "he", the line is actually: "They said only one of us was going to make it. That they'd let our friends choose..." --- |
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