Talarian

SOMEBODY ELSE IS DOING THE EON ALTAR THING WITH PHONES AS CONTROLLERS!!!! arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/10…

@0utofBeta This is probably a technical limitation, since duty finder parties are cross-server by default, and when you leave you’re no longer in a cross-server group/state making it harder to grant you a currency (like reputation). Certainly would be nicer if you could though.

It is weird to me that FFXIV cuts off your ability to commend when the person leaves; it might not be much but I always feel bad if the person I wanted to give a nod to disappears before I can

@DevteamL The Vancouver Aquarium at Stanley Park is fantastic

Tuesday morning flight back delayed to the evening. What's something cool I can do in Downtown Vancouver for a day? Open for coffee as well 😁

@calligraphymmo Oof :(

@Talarianjs Yah one of my ps5 controllers is already having issues. And it’s the newer one :(

My only complaint with dawn trail so far is that I’m getting used to controller and the wxhb is kind of annoying to activate. Does this mean I need to increase its sensitivity, for you controller users? And also, I’m pretty sure I walk faster than my mounts. Lol

@calligraphymmo Sounds like a controller issue, unless Squeenix introduced a bug but I honestly couldn’t tell you. 50 should be plenty

@Talarianjs Well the good news is then that after I’m done moving and can use my Elite controller, that that’ll fix itself. Lol. I upped it to 50 but L2 is still unreliable so that’s annoying

@calligraphymmo Alternatively you can use the expanded one instead (where you press L2->R2, or R2->L2) if the double taps aren’t working out, but frankly I use the expanded ones for things like teleport, saddlebag, inventory, etc. because I am terrible at remembering if I should L2 first or R2

@calligraphymmo Yeah, up the trigger time. The default of (25?) is a tad low, especially if you’re using something with deep triggers. You pretty much need the WXHB for all the buttons classes throw at you, and you’re pretty unlikely to accidentally trigger it still even if you loosen the value.

Short reminder that I’m significantly more active on Bluesky, under talarian @ bsky .dot. social, strip the spaces and the dot. Hoping maybe a scraper doesn’t pick this up with my sad obfuscation attempt.

@pedrothedagger Beyond Compare is just better than P4’s built in diffing tool set period. It’s really quite good.

FYI if you work with data tables in unreal in any capacity, this is much better than p4's diffing stuff. It takes a little doing and it's not perfect but it's pretty darn good.

Aurora! Drove out of the city a good hour to get these. iPhone over saturated the colours a bit with the long exposure versus naked eye but still highly visible for us.

@dougtrio87 @ZenOfDesign The Gulf War? 1990? Iraq vs. US?

@ZenOfDesign The Iraq war was not 90s

Two key 90s events shaped news media in the 90s. The iraq war, which demonstrated the value of 24 hour news in a particularly newsworthy event, and the oj trial which resulted in these channels trying to fill air time during an event with a lot of interest but not much new info.

@pedrothedagger I like using “we’re in violent agreement”, very similar

i always call this vehement agreement

@0utofBeta Naw. Experience means you cost more. So therefore the “logic” goes that you save the company more money by axing your seniors. There’s no actual calculus for how much you lose down the road by losing all that institutional and general knowledge.

Shocking to see people with 10+ years at Blizzard laid off; it's tragic even if the person is new, but you tend to think that a decade tends to buy someone some level of security

@BrandywineFred I mean, good news, North American wheat bread has so much sugar in it that it probably should be classified as cake.

Foster son: "Why is cornbread so good?" Me: "Because it's not really bread, it's cake." Foster son: "Oh. I wish wheat bread was really cake, too."

@lepas “What machine did you think they were raging against, Gerry? The fax machine?”

"But why did Rage Against the Machine have to rage against the machine?"

If you start scheduling your next D&D campaign with your friends at 11:45:56 pm on New Years Eve that game will take place approximately on October 5th, 2025. #dnd #dnd5e

@pedrothedagger Steam does 0 curation of tags.

@pedrothedagger Some of it is user based. Once enough people tag a game something, that tag sticks. The other half is the person who owns the Steam page itself. The page owner can also add whatever tags they like. Lots of them will add vaguely tangential tags to show up in more searches.

i don't know who is in charge of steam's genre categorization but it is extrmely unreliable lol. was looking for fps games and nova drift came up. games looks sick but... uh...

@matticus Super Mario RPG has a song in 13/8: youtu.be/Inr2Tru50oQ?si…

sometimes I wonder why 6/8 time exists then I remember there’s crazier time signatures.