BleakBluets

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[–] BleakBluets 6 points 11 months ago

It is insane to me that people defend this game. Ten years ago this game would have been dismissed as survival-crafting shovelware (although GameFreak's lastest entries haven't been much more polished).

Palworld is only superficially similar to Pokémon, but people treat it like it's a logical evolution to Pokémon's game design. I thought I was going insane, but I think I am now realizing that I am old and out of touch.

P.S. There is nothing wrong with liking survival-crafting as a genre (I adore Minecraft myself), I just think this game overly relies on addictive design and isn't particularly deep or unique mechanically.

[–] BleakBluets 14 points 11 months ago

My dryer has a couple different presets which all adjust the remaining time dynamically according to a predetermind dryness level. To get around this, I just use the "custom" setting and change the temperature and timer manually.

[–] BleakBluets 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this PS4 gift opening. And of course, this classic.

[–] BleakBluets 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On mobile, Android. I'm signed in and agreed to the warning, but the video is just black with Firefox Nightly. I hear the audio and see the preview images when I scrub the timeline. I can't view it in newpipe because it's age restricted, I can't search the video in revanced because it's unlisted. I had to view it in my browser's "Desktop Mode" for it to finally work. Not your fault, just the expected enshitification of YouTube.

[–] BleakBluets 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Here's an example in the wild that I remember. Anime reviewer Glass Reflection (13:39) talking about an anime/gaming convention in California that he attended. He's Canadian so he gets a pass. No hate, just a funny mistake.

[–] BleakBluets 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think they were being sarcastic. What you provided was genuinely important context. It changed my perspective of the headline and OP's ammendment. I would also consider it essential knowledge. Thanks

[–] BleakBluets 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I fail to see how the Soylent meal-replacements are relavent to the story of the lead-contaminated children's fruit pouch purees. The Soylent meals potentially being labeled as unhealthy is related to the fact that they might not have enough nutrients to be used as a person's sole source of food (just like every other food in existence). Readers that don't click the link to research the Soylent claim will leave this article thinking that these kinds of meal replacements are also contaminated.

[–] BleakBluets 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I think they might be confusing Karl with RWhiteGoose (now Goose's Gaming Folklore), who is another Goldeneye speedrunner that does videos featuring speedruning accomplishments across the community. Goose is a neo-nazi.

[–] BleakBluets 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Flipping a coin two times and reading the result as binary gang. (Don't actually do this, coins aren't as fair)

[–] BleakBluets 5 points 1 year ago

I thought decompiling with Ghidra was okay too, I may have just misunderstood the wiki article when I double checked post-commenting and crossed out my comment. I'm not entirely sure what comprises "proprietary techniques". But I'm pretty sure that documentation needs to be provided in order to keep it on the legal side. Hopefully this project can come back and recieve continued support ala similar decomp projects.

[–] BleakBluets 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think the binary they distributed still included the art and sound assets; the users didn't have to provide their own. And "clean-room" design is more than just providing source code. ~~You need to provide a "paper trial" / commit history and documentation of how the final code was derived from the original code.~~ My mistake, clean room is when you recreate the project without reading the original/compiled code at all. Specifications are written based on observed behaviors of the original user-facing program and new code is written according to that.

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