yumcake

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[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah this really helps. I sit down when I get tired of standing and that's fine. But when I leave the desk, I raise it to a standing position so I remember to continue standing when I come back.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

2d art and pixel art survive well because of the inherent abstraction being part of it's aesthetician. The greater the graphical fidelity, the less the game leans on abstraction, and instead on fidelity, and then a remaster adds more visual appeal.

A game like slay the spire or katamari damacy gains very little from a visual remaster, but a game like Crysis would get a lot. Its worth noting that katamari damacy did get a remaster anyway...and its aesthetic is still what makes it look good, not the resolution. Crysis on the other hand had low aesthetic emphasis and heavy technical emphasis so refreshing the technical graphics does a lot for the game.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, thanks for the tip, I gotta try this

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Supporting Ukraine IS anti-war.

It's a war of aggression and the fastest and ONLY way to stop such a war is to stop the aggressor. Appeasement simply allows the aggressor to continue perpetuating or expanding their war aims.

The waste is trickling arms to them instead of surging it. We need decisive Ukrainian victory to spare the lives of Ukrainians and Russians from Putin's war.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

All of them intend to vote for Trump in November, regardless of legal court findings, if they have any chance to vote form him, through legal means or otherwise they will all do it.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago

You might want to read about tooth to tail ratio on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth-to-tail_ratio

In a sense, war is mostly logistics. It doesn't matter how strong your unit is, how clever you tactics are, or brilliant your strategy is. None of those things matter if the unit is not where they need to be, with the supplies to be effective.

Most countries have limited ability to project military force outside their country because the logistics become so hard to support. Russian military relies heavily on rail transport, which doesn't extend into Ukraine anymore, and trucks what it can't rail...but the supply depots need to be hundreds of km behind the line because of long range precision missile strikes. With long supply chains supported to heavily stretched trucking, guys at the front won't get everything they want.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Came here to post this one. I saw that movie on the airplane without knowing anything about it, and immediately thought, "This movie was made by the guys who filmed the 'Turn Down for What' music video." I didn't even know their names, had to confirm my guess after landing.

Because the music video and their directorial style are that distinctive and memorable. It was not surprising at all that they got showered in awards, those guys are creative AF.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rapid development has led to stark differences within that country, parts are modern, affluent, well-educated...and they live shoulder to shoulder with tribal, impoverished, and practically primal apes. It's the same issues every country faces when rapid development comes their way. It's going to be incredibly challenging for them to develop a healthy middle-class and egalitarian society.

It's more likely that the rapid modernization just leads to increased concentration of power to an oligarchy, and exploitation of the most vulnerable. Also fascist tendencies are all the rage these days on the international stage, of course those in power are looking on with interest.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Click, it's a good movie. Adam Sandler has made bad movies but this isn't one of them.

I think Citizen Kane is going to be too old for me to relate to its presentation style.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like a good thing. Helps lead towards a more sympathetic and symbiotic relationship and a stepping stone to peaceful relations between the two countries. Anything that gets them further from a hostile invasion is a step in the right direction.