Replies to scribus, page 17
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@scribus Shooting with a Game Boy Camera is super hard. Because of the 2 bit depth you need to exploit natural strong contrasts. Also the resolution is so bad that you need to have a recognizable big shape in the foreground. Anything in the distance gets fuzzy. In that picture the pond and the trees are unrecognizable.
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@scribus Yeah. I don't know how it has a nickname in Germany. I think it hasn't one. We just call it "Impfung" (vaccination).
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@scribus imagine if every disaster movie or something had the President just living in a nondescript mansion between two skyscrapers with a statue of Bill Clinton instead of the Washington Monument, that's what the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is asking me to do.
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@scribus Right at the beginning of the pandemic bike ownership spiked hugely here. I think that the long wait times are a result of the massive demand that roll over the available personnel. The more people using their (old) bikes the higher the probability something needs to be fixed, as in my case. I haven't used my bike for over 14 years because I had a car or I could use the bus and tram for "free" (paid with tuition costs for the uni).
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@scribus I’ve always excelled at workplace leadership, which is strange considering how incompetent I am at producing, but some days I really wish I was still sitting at a seafood counter.
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@scribus We live in a liberal area compared to the rest of Virginia outside of Richmond and Newport News, but like, that’s like saying Georgia is liberal compared to the rest of the Deep South if you know what I mean. So she talks about how she voted foe Biden to customers then gets upset with me when they yell at her. I tell her to stop talking politics at work then, and tells me she has a right to free speech. And I tell her “yes you do, but so do they” and she just… can’t grasp that. Then she complains to corporate because I “discriminated” against her over her politics. She’s genuinely incomprehensible.
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@scribus i don’t work at this store anymore, I just fill in on the weekends because my replacement “fell” (I think she took a dive because when I worked with her she was always annoyed at having to do any work that I would normally do - now she’s always doing it) so I’ve been thinking about really gaying it up because of how many homophobes I apparently used to work with. Would like to see how they react to their “cool” manager being, like, a bigass gayzilla.
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@scribus yeah,maybe i can even get vaccinated when i go to france again in september xD
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@scribus I was incredibly worried about this when Virginia re-opened, and granted I don't know what vaccination statistics are like over there, but over here despite my worries we're only seeing, like, five new cases a day in Fairfax County, which is the most populous county in the state, so I'm a lot less worried now than I was at the time
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@scribus Don't they come here to read brainfarts from three blokes who watched a children's show?...
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@scribus Sure! It'll save me a trip to the dentist. I was watching Adam Savage's Tool Tip and couldn't resist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWxCvMzvxlQ I wanted a vacuform for quite some time but I'm too lazy building one myself or it was too expensive. 130 Eurobucks I can spend for an all-in-one device that looks solidly built (better than I could do).
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@scribus very much unintentionally! if I realized at the booth that my vote was a curse I woulda voted for our rapist LG to kill his campaign
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@scribus am currently in the process of a) DMing ALL of her social medias, on the off chance that she still checks any of them, and b) emailing the administrator for the forum we met on, on the off chance that he 1) still reads his emails, and 2) has any of her contact information.
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@scribus if you’re so vain you think the song is about you, then the song is, in fact, about you
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@scribus Yeah. I'm just imagining how a phone/portable musik player with XLR plugs would look like.
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@scribus Oof. I guess opening the case in order to repair it will probably result in a catastrophy.
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@scribus Nothing, now that I’ve (hypothetically) gotten the emulator working (in Minecraft), but basically I wanna start streaming some older console games like Zelda and such and I was trying to get the most convenient setup going. A Wii U can play Nintendo’s entire library excluding the GameCube and Switch, so it seems like the most convenient option.
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@scribus I should probably mention that The Sims 2 runs on a pretty much identical game engine to The Sims 3, with the big differences being that create-a-sim is more detailed in 3 and, of course, the interconnected neighborhood with no load screens. If you’re used to 3’s clutter it’s PROBABLY the better game, I’m just not.
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@scribus Generally I think people fall into one of two camps - people whose first game was The Sims 3 or 4 prefer those games as a whole, while the the people whose first game was 1 or 2 prefer 2. I had 2 back when it first came out, but a lot of my friends started with, and prefer, 3.
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@scribus With all expansion packs, it’s IMO the easiest one to actually enjoy. The sequels are so cluttered with extra BS, and the UI gets more and more unintuitive over time, which should not be the case in a game whose primary input function is a mouse, that I feel like it ruins the simplicity that I think should be the focus in a game like this.
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@scribus I would even take that a step further and say that Sims 2 > 3, simply because the reputation system in 3 - which you can’t opt out of past a certain update - makes some parts completely unplayable.
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@scribus I think it really varies on what kind of game it is too. Shooters you obviously need the fluidity a higher frame rate can offer, but more cinematic, story-driven games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Uncharted 4 or The Last Of Us or really anything that was on the PS4 in the last five or so years, I don’t really care if my rate is a little lower if that’s the trade off for getting the most crisp, detailed-looking image. But of course, I dedicated my life to studying a craft that involves working in 12 FPS environments, so maybe I’m a little biased.
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@scribus for reasons that I think should be somewhat obvious, I’ve always preferred visual fidelity to higher frame rates, so while I’m currently invested in 4K rendering, I’ve never in my life owned a monitor that could exceed 60fps, which works out to be a pretty good deal because I end up spending less money on everything from monitors to graphics hardware.
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@scribus He does not, but that actor, Greg Eagles, ALSO voices the DARPA Chief in that same game, and another character in the sequel, and both of them basically sound like what I imagine Grim would sound like without the accent.
