They won’t have sharpened edges. There are too many events that don’t allow sharps.
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I am a historic reenactment nerd, and both the halberd and sword I ordered from two different smiths should be done this spring. FYI it takes a long time to get quality reproduction pieces made.
hypna@lemmy.worldto Music@lemmy.world•Snoop Dogg Ditches Spotify After Getting Paltry Royalty CheckEnglish61·2 months agoAny alternatives you like?
hypna@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why are you personally against lemmy allowing users to see who upvoted/downvoted?1·3 months agoI don’t see the interest in who voted what on my stuff, but it could be interesting to do some analysis of system-wide voting behaviors. The bigger Lemmy gets the more of a problem it’s going to have with bots. People will need to create tools to identify these bots, and voting behavior seems like the primary data source.
hypna@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Spanish PM calls to end social media anonymity, force digital IDEnglish91·3 months agoI think there’s a place for both. So long as none of it becomes mandatory, and online communities can freely choose to offer anonymous or verified identities, it’s an idea worth trying.
hypna@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Amplitude announce Endless Legend 2, an oceanic 4X with Manor Lords outfit Hooded Horse as publisherEnglish1·3 months agoI played this so long ago, and every game has flaws, but I don’t recall any big issues. What are the flaws you remember these eleven years later?
hypna@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•On Reddit, you had the "fake internet points". On Lemmy the points are totally real, but still worthless.3·3 months agoI’ve been thinking recently that Lemmy would simply be better off without any comment votes. I’ve heard some instances disable them, but it still seems to be the norm. Group think already has enough pull given human nature. It doesn’t need a boost.
hypna@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•'I got death threats when men thought I put feminist gesture in video game'English83·4 months agoPerhaps he’s objecting to having the alleged hand gesture referred to as feminist. A bit of a quibble, but not completely baseless.
Then again it may not be fair to claim that whenever feminists do hurtful things in the name of feminism, that it’s not real feminism. Feminism can do bad things too. Any philosophy can.
hypna@lemmy.worldto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins the rush to kiss Trump's ring: 'I'd be delighted to go see him and congratulate him'English101·4 months agoTIL Lemmy zeitgeist says investment portfolios should be acts of passion.
hypna@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are real output from solar panels? [Solved]1·4 months agoThat’s a neat tool. But it’s giving me a slightly confusing result. I have a solar installation and I’ve plugged in the details so far as I know them, just to see if I’m producing about what I “should” be. The peak production month is about right, but the minimal production month is only estimated to be like 25% less than that. My system has more like 50-60% drop, and some quick googling suggests that’s about normal.
Any thoughts on why this tool suggests a much smaller drop?
hypna@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are we going to have evidence in trials when deep fakes and AI is getting so perfect at "being real"?81·6 months agoIt becomes useless as evidence unless you can establish authenticity. It just makes audio recordings more in a class with text documents; perfectly fakeable, but admissible with the right supporting information. So I agree it’s a change, but it’s not the end of audio evidence, and it’s a change in a direction which courts already have experience.
hypna@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their ProjectsEnglish41·7 months agoIf the argument is that SM2 is successful because it limited it’s scope to execute a smaller number of features well, I don’t think that holds up. It took on three different types of games and (imho) executed merely okay. What more could they have added? Open world? MMO?
I think the more plausible explanation for the sales is that it’s Warhammer, it’s pretty, and SM1 was good.
hypna@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their ProjectsEnglish34·7 months agoWho praised them? But I don’t know what measure we’d use to determine the general reception of this particular feature. Particularly given that almost all video game journalism is mere marketing. So that’s probably not a fruitful point to argue over.
Instead I’ll offer the things that I think earn the competitive multiplayer a poor rating.
- No skill or even experience based match making. Too many games are blowouts because all of the level 1 players were put on one team.
- Teams are static once a match lobby has formed. If the teams are poorly balanced they will continue to be forever. Players can’t even switch voluntarily. The only remedy is to bail on the lobby and hop into a different random one.
- Classes and weapons are poorly balanced. The Bulwark is a key example of a too strong and not fun design. The Assault class, and melee in general is in a pretty poor state (unless you have an infinite defense shield that lets you walk up to people). Many of the weapon options for the classes are almost unusably weak, so class loadouts tend to be very samey. Grenades are spammy and the shock grenade blind duration is not fun.
- Players are randomly assigned Imperial or Chaos marines. But there is basically no character customization for the Chaos marines, while the Imperial marines have 5 or 6 different sets. Either the enemy team should always appear to be Chaos with their NPC style, or they should have included equivalent Chaos customization.
- Players have minimal control over which game modes they play. It’s either 100% random or selecting a single mode. A configurable selection is a common multiplayer feature.
- Map design is bland. This is perhaps a more personal preference, but I find the symmetrical, arcade arenas with no narrative character boring.
hypna@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their ProjectsEnglish1510·7 months agoSpace marine 2 seems like a good example of this.
Single player campaign: mediocre
CoOp missions: mediocre
Competitive multiplayer: poor
Seems like dropping one of those might have allowed the remaining two to earn a “pretty good”
Honestly what are you talking about?