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I always love how Bijou can say the most questionable shit and her model is just always

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Hey OP you forgot to include the Silksong announcement that definitely totally happened 🤡

That's generally true, but you can't be 100% like each other. I get along with my partner really well, we share a lot of similar hobbies and interests. But she goes to bed at 9 and I go to bed at like.... 2 AM. Sometimes that's just how it is.

Fun fact: if you were to drink a cup of gasoline, it would have enough calories to sustain you for the rest of your life!

one Bad Touch then please

The cutscenes were rendered using certain graphics settings that you could exceed if you maxed out your own settings. Plus, because it was a pre-rendered video, there must have been some compression or something, as you could just tell when you're in a cutscene-- it was grainier and there was a smidge of artifacting. Don't quote me on this, but I believe the cutscenes were rendered at, like, 1080p, and if you were playing at 4K it would be a very noticeable downgrade. (Note that I did not and still do not have a 4K monitor)

Although thinking about it again, I do vividly remember some in-game-engine cutscenes in Arkham Knight. I'll have to replay that game again sometime to jog my memory.

On a similar vein, Arkham Knight (and in some cases Arkham City) looked worse in cutscenes if you maxed out the graphics settings. Obviously not if you ran it on a potato, but the games are somewhat well optimized these days*.

At launch, Arkham Knight was an unoptimized, buggy mess. It has since gotten much better.

What if it happened at night? Then we'd be fine, right?

upvote for VA-11 HALL-A

Eh, somewhat disagree. I think some series have big potentials for spinoffs or side stories. The Disney Star Wars movies were terrible, agreed, but some of the shows are fantastic.

Marvel (and DC for that matter) is finicky. Comic books are, by their nature, extremely continuous, so there will always be more content to adapt. Whether or not it's good or worth adapting is dependent on both the comic series and the producers' capabilities, but that's another issue.

I mean, I'll give an example. The Last Airbender, fantastic show. It could have ended there and we'd all be satisfied. But The Legend of Korra, while not as great as TLA, was still (imo) very good. But the Last Airbender movie? Yeah, we all know it sucked hard.

I wouldn't say writers should never ever look to make spinoffs or side stories to existing content, but obviously it should be good, and it's demonstrably possible. Star Wars gave us The Clone Wars, Breaking Bad gave us Better Call Saul, and I mean on a somewhat relevant note, LotR gave us Shadow of Mordor, which I really liked. New, original content [edit: as a sequel to already existing content] can be good... but obviously, not always.

Whenever people ask me what engineering work is like, I always tell them I have no idea. I'm not an engineer; engineers drive trains, I'm just a poser.

(am computer hardware engineer)

this is canon in paper mario: the thousand year door

Kinda similarly, I pick up eggs out of the carton to not disturb the center of mass so much. If you only take eggs out of one side, when you go to pick up the carton, it could flop to one side. But if you take eggs from all sides equally, you won't have that problem!

the one with the robots

my absolute dumb ass, eating a bunch of those, enjoying the coffee flavored chocolates at 9 PM, wondering why my heart was racing and being unable to sleep at 3 AM

K-On is one of my favorite guilty pleasure shows, and for some reason saying that now makes people suspect I'm a Nazi.

I ain't letting them have this one. It's a stupid show about high schoolers drinking tea and playing music, dammit.

I have no idea why, but convention. And not a thing where nerds like me gather to dork out about something, but a scientific standard. Whenever I'm explaining something, and someone asks why it operates that way, I'm always like, "it's that way by.... uh... y'know, it's always been that way." No clue why I always blank on that word specifically.

Mind Goblin is 3/3 but Deez Nuts is 7.9/49? Fair and balanced

FPGAs are where it's at, and the job market is surprisingly pretty open right now. Everybody's sleeping on them, everyone wants study CUDA cores or architecture or... ML hardware accelerators or whatever. If you can transition to RTL design or even silicon engineering, it's a good industry to be in.

Now, me personally, I've never made the funny magic smoke come out from one of my FPGAs, but I can't tell you how many times I've fucked up an entire pipeline because I thought a series of logic would take 3 cycles but really it took 2 and now my entire data path is wrong and somehow I missed it in simulation and now I've gotta rearchitect everything and running synthesis/P&R takes a goddamn century to run and this is like my 5th time programming my board and...

As a computer engineer who works with FPGAs, thank you. I can't tell you how many times someone comes to me with a CS question and I'm like, I dunno! Ask a CS person! I hardly know Python. [Admittedly, I really should learn.]