sushibowl

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam’s latest update to user reviews doesn’t find your “jokes, memes, ascii art and other content” as funny as you do⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every website has been like that for a decade or more. But they are required to tell you now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen is free for the next few days, please don't accidentally buy a $300 spaceship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you’re giving them entirely too much credit here. The things in your list are in my opinion either not that outstanding, or they haven’t actually accomplished them yet:

  -They’ve constantly been working on a budget that was only every a fraction of a budget for something like a AAA Star Wars game would get.

  Already discussed in a comment below, but this is just demonstrably not true. Their development costs so far are the second highest of all time. Maybe there were some periods where money was tight, but that’s pretty irrelevant to me. More relevant is what they’ve delivered with all that money.

  -A ton of the core mechanics had to be made from scratch, because the current industry standard would constrain the game

  I’m not 100% sure what this even means. Like, It’s pretty common for games to make their own mechanics, if you’re not Ubisoft. This is not that special.

  -They swapped over to using what is close to a brand new game engine.

  Swapping engines sure is tough to do, but this is generally not a good sign. The only reasons to change engines partway through is either you’re in development so long that the engine is too outdated to deliver an acceptable game, or the scope of the game has changed so much the engine is no longer suitable. I don’t know which one applies here, but either way it’s just a ton of wasted work.

  -They have steadily and slowly rolled out new core game mechanics

  I mean, good I guess but that’s sort of the expected standard for early access? Not what I’d call outstanding

  -They’re working on simulating an entire galaxy’s economy.

  “Working on” is doing an awful lot of lifting in that sentence. So they haven’t actually accomplished this thing yet? Is the asteroid thing you’re describing already in the game? I’m also really sceptical of “an entire galaxy.” How big is the galaxy currently? A real life galaxy is 100 billion stars. They’re not going to have a 100 billion stars, right?

  -You can download the game in its current state, and hop on see what they’ve created at any time.

  Outstanding accomplishment. You can download and play the game, wow. I sure would hope so after all these years.

  Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to shit on Star Citizen. If you paid money and you’re having fun playing it and feel you’re getting your money’s worth, who am I to object?

  Where I do object is, fans of the game seemingly often evaluate the game based on the promises the development team makes, rather than what they have actually delivered. What the team promises is awesomely impressive. What the game currently offers is… not that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Users Account for 10% Of All Players Using Steam Input⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So weird that only 15% of Steam sessions are using controllers. I thought everyone had a controller. Most games are just better with a gamepad.

  Even if that was true, not all games have the same number of players. Counterstrike and dota 2 regularly top the most played list on steam, and are terrible with a controller. It shouldn’t be surprising that most sessions have a kb/m if that’s what people are mostly playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fallout TV show gave the Fallout games a huge player bump, as everyone remembers they like Fallout⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve seen on the internet, the events of NV have been retconned in the show, and some people are upset about that. It seems the more of a fallout purist you are the less likely it is you’ll enjoy the show.

  Most casual fallout enjoyers seem to like it well enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Pleads With Steam Deck Owners to Stop Inhaling Exhaust Fumes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is occasionally amusing to go to Wikipedia’s manual of style “words to watch” page:

  This page in a nutshell: Be cautious with expressions that may introduce bias, lack precision, or include offensive terms. Use clear, direct language. Let facts alone do the talking.

  Then look at some news headlines and see how many of them violate the rules on that page. Headlines are shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing the Color Blind Glasses Scam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I wrote rods once when i clearly meant cones. You are correct that rods do not detect color of course, thank you for noticing the error.

  Here is a pretty nice article on CVD that explores a lot of the genetics. It even mentions the enchroma (not by name of course) in the management section:

  Another strategy—the use of so-called ‘notch filters’ to artificially separate the effective peak sensitivities of the expressed X-chromosome-coded photopigments in red-green anomalous trichromats—has yet to be explored fully.

  This might be an older article as i believe some research on notch filters has since been done. As far as I know, there is some limited evidence that they improve performance specifically in colour discrimination tasks. There’s usually no evidence that they improve overall colour perception.

  Not all cases of CVD are of this kind either (although it’s the most common cause), if you have monochromacy, dichromacy, or generally anything other than anomalous trichromacy, these glasses will do nothing. There are even rare cases where the eye can see colour perfectly fine and the problem is in the brain, although this is usually classified as some sort of aphasia and is not strictly speaking colour blindness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing the Color Blind Glasses Scam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is accurate. Most likely you have a mild form of CVD, where some of the rods in your eyes overlap in their light frequency response. This makes it hard to distinguish colours containing that frequency range, because multiple cones respond to them when only one should.

  The glasses actually work by completely blocking out the light in those overlapping frequency ranges. This will help to avoid the confusion between the cones, and could help you better distinguish colours containing components in those ranges. That’s also why the glasses have this pink hue in the video. By removing some colours from white light, the remaining ones combine into pink-ish light.

  Obviously, you cannot restore normal colour vision by blocking out even more colours. The marketing from enchroma is pretty scummy.