I’m not sure why you feel the need to make such a statement and try to be rude to me when I have meticulously explained, to anybody who with an intelligent mind, specifically why I don’t want to talk about this but you need to push

So how about this, I’ll save the bother and just block you :)

You are literally the type of person that I want to avoid in these kind of conversations, that’s why I go at it things the way I do, but you’re too emotionally confused to get it

Look in the mirror, and realize you haven’t added a single thing here

But the crux of the issue, is that I don’t give a fuck what you think and you CAN’T understand that. IT’S TOO HARD FOR YOU TO ACCEPT THAT I DON’T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK

Bye-bye blocked

Bro that’s just one incident in three decades of madness

I’m not lying when I tell you I was at the top top bro

I changed the world with my technology

And when you know what’s what, you are sick to your stomach

That’s why I refuse to buy anything, I pick things out of dumpsters, I’m friends with homeless people, I go at 3:00 a.m. and bring them soup, I connect to my community, I volunteer, I serve, I fix electronics, I do what I want every day that makes me happy, I don’t need any illusion anymore

But I would be absolutely thrilled to shatter the bubble of anybody that wants to talk about what they think they know about games

I choose my words very deliberately here and I am intentionally portraying hostility so that anybody with two clues to rub together can see where it’s going to go if they start. I want people to know that you’re dealing with a dragon … if you want to know - I’ll tell you.

I’m a nice dragon but I’ve had it with people who want to talk to me about what they think they know about this realm

I have done anyone reading these comments the courtesy of knowing that it’s not going to go the way they think if they whisper word one to me about games okay, that’s a kindness I’m doing you all in advance lol

And in a way I’m saying don’t fucking ask me, I’ve been dealing with these dumb conversations for 30 years on the internet, if you think you have a single thing to say to me in opposition to what has been said here so far, don’t message me, in fact block me right now on Lemmy

Anybody want to take a shot? Let me begin the conversation so you get a flavor: every single gamer is a gullible magical-thinking rube, an infant in their emotional core. These individuals will spend countless hours performing micro tasks which are puzzle-based in nature, but accomplish nothing, simply to satisfy some primitive emotional logic. These people are the equivalent of children that think magic is real, then they want the magician to explain the trick, then they get upset when they learn that it’s a trick and they want to tell the magician no, magic’s actually real. If you like gaming, I hate you. Because I am a gamer but I know what games are and you don’t.

Truthfully, no. I was a really top level fucker in the industry and let me tell you man… It’s a vicious game, and even thinking about things that happened 30 years ago are causing my hairs to stand on end right now even though I’m sitting with a nice warm espresso in a sunbeam smoking a joint.

I’m going to copy and paste from a previous answer. Please do me the courtesy of not asking any questions about my history in the game industry, because I will go off like a f’king neutron bomb. It will be real but it will be ugly. I mean ask if you want, but you’ll get the fuck beaten out of you and you won’t like it and it’ll disabuse you of, in a most vicious way, your incorrect thoughts, perspective, and fee fees RE anything to do with games. If you want to look behind the curtain man we’re going to look but you won’t like what you see, I can absolutely promise you that, and I will not protect feelings. So before you do, think about it for a little bit, then don’t please.

“They were contracted to design the (edit: low-level coin op hardware, etc) API for our new Internet-enabled touchscreen gaming network kiosks (world first at the time) and they were fucking useless. And then had the gall to present the piece of shit at the CGDG 1997, as a half-finished completely non-functional, but presented it like it was their own product and not a massive NDA violation. Presented like their own product which could be generically extended to other platforms. Fuck you Matt. Fuck you Monolith you fucking cunts.”

I will always appear to tell Monolith to go fuck themselves, and dance on their graves.

Fuck you Matt, fuck you Monolith. You fucked our company over, stole our technology, presented it at the game developer conference like it was yours - dealing with you Matt was the worst 2 fucking years of my life you big fat bloated sack of highly-incompetant, completely sleazy and unethical, lazy lying shit.

I was given a smart watch yesterday

I wore it for 20 minutes and immediately gave it to a crack addict

All the fking doodads that exist nowadays are just trash - I literally cannot comprehend why anybody wants them in their life! They do not really seem to add anything, they’re just a meaningless trifling distraction and another shiny toy that ends up in the trash heap, as far as I can see

I truly feel sorry for anybody that is in the not sweet spot I guess the sour spot of not being able to select the vehicle of their choice due to economic factors, and being forced to buy one of these used pieces of shit that is replete with garbage technology that does not serve the user in any meaningful way. Oh my God, I’ve never one from that generation and I never will, and I consider myself blessed. Just operating a microwave nowadays is torture, give me a fucking chunky button and let me press the fucking thing.

I sure as fuck am. I have no problem letting you, the poster, and everybody else know I’m sick of this shit.

OP Who is now blocked, GET A LIFE AND FORGET TO POST A SCREENSHOT. This screenshot stuff is PURE GARBAGE.

I finally learned how to block people

You don’t have a point. You’re in a psychological spin out because you’re wrong. Blocked

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That can be done but the voltage that it receives is variable so that’s causing damage. Which ripples down the chain, it’s not avoidable no matter how much you put in capacitors and diodes

It’s really just an unavoidable aspect of electricity, people think of it as magic fairies floating through wires but really it’s like ropes pulling on things, and just like mechanical things, ripples and vibrations fk things up!

If you’re really want to get down to it, electricity is destroying things by its very flow. But you want to reduce the unwanted harmonics as much as possible and wireless is not the way to go

That’s not a counterpoint, you’re just describing that you had a battery that was okay for 4 years

It doesn’t say anything really I’m sorry friend

I know people love these and I’m not going to go and break anyone’s balls but the reality is, because it is inductive charging you will never get clean voltage

Anything electronic, it really doesn’t matter what it is, is going to suffer basically the equivalent of “mechanical damage” when powered/charged with unstable current

An inductive charging is always going to be highly unstable, there’s no way around that

Anybody who tries to tell you different just doesn’t understand that this is a real thing, and yeah, really nobody should ever use wireless charging unless they’re willing to accept continual device (battery) damage

As an electronics hobbyist and frugal person … you can just literally add CA to any model number and you’ll get the Canadian version. That’s just one thing I’m aware of but I’m sure there’s other ways and I’d love to know

I had to laugh at this. I do a lot of hobby electronics repair and yeah, these pieces of dog shit are all over our local “collector” “vintage” and “retro” boards. Yeah imma give you $80 for your Sears cardboard box that’s also water stained, and even when it was new had incorrect and also non-adjustable platter speed /s

You are wasting your time because you’re correct, the way to make the world a better place to get up and do something.

Truly It’s not my line of work so I’m not going to start randomly recommending products, I don’t think it’s fair to talk out my ass hahaha

What I can say however, is the reason I was so bold in my assertion previously, was that I personally do a lot of hobbyist electronics, and wiring up temperature sensors is very simple. It’s very much a trivial aspect to basic circuitry, because heat is such an aspect. It’s in your most basic things from coffee pots to hair dryers but even down to smaller electronics, bulbs and projectors, everything really in its own way.

And then my father was a highly trained meteorologist with the government of Canada for 43 years and then another 10 of consultancy, they scouted him because he was the 100% in all courses math superstar at his university for his year.

My father taught me a lot about how heat is measured and it’s a huge concern in a way that the average weather watcher doesn’t understand. It’s talked about in Watts per Square Meter. So that could be how much heat a structure may absorb per square meter, or perhaps how much heat is dissipated per second in a certain wind.

That’s a major and primary concern of anyone in the agriculture industry, think for example a farmer that holds a barn full of cattle, he absolutely needs to know how much heat that building’s going to dissipate so he can plan for heating.

But it doesn’t end there, it goes into so many different areas where heat is an issue, and weather is the primary driver of heat transfer.

So I guess in summary, a solution is trivial, I’m not sure if there’s an official product, but we’re not talking rocket science! Edit: I guess in a way it’s pretty cool and it’s pretty complicated, but the thinkings has all been done by people smarter than me I’m just saying it can be put together and lots of people probably do this every day.

Edit2: I guess also my brother-in-law was a graduate of 4-year electronics program and he ended up working at our local eh price where he designed some forms of heating control systems but to what degree I know not. We talked a bit about some of the egghead stuff so I think in summary it’s doable.

You don’t need to go to that level of complication.

Two sensors in combination, one that detects current heat input one that detects absorbed heat. These modules would be placed about the outer walls.

Then calculate how much heat is going to radiate into the building the rest of the day.

And it can compensate.

We don’t need to be more than a fraction of a degree off and a system like that would be amply accurate.

I have to say for me, I know this won’t be everybody, my favorites are going to be the ones that change the way I felt about gaming, not necessarily ones that I would want to play again.

In fact, I have found that going back to some of the seminal games, or the ones that were most impactful to me, hurt my feelings because they were from a time… Where let’s be real, technical limitations made a lot of very basic quality of life things nearly unavailable.

I think the 1st that changed the way I felt about gaming was Ultima 4 - they had flushed out the systems of the earlier three, which were pretty primitive, and made morality, all kinds of wonderful internal game systems, relationships, secrets, optional paths, total exploration. 5 and 6 were games that I explored and played molecularly because they were just a joy for me as well.

Another one I talk about a lot is a game called Squares Deluxe which the developer thankfully changed as freeware a few years ago. So anybody with DOSBox can download it and play it legally, and in my view, it’s the best shape packing game ever made - there are so many amazing mechanics, and if you play Extreme mode and get a great run going, it can be the most thrilling experience!

How can I forget the very first game I played in arcades which was Atari Warlords at Fiesta Foods! I was bedazzled by the cabinet and I had to have a teenager explain to me what it was! I went flying home and explained what I saw to my mother and she was incredulous, and she took me back to play!

Runestone Keeper. I know that really if you distill it down, you’re kind of playing a probability-based card / slot machine game. But play your choice is broad, and I love the fact that the entire playfield changes with every move potentially. Yes you can get screwed over, yes you can have amazing runs, but it’s that unpredictability that keeps me salivating. I can’t actually recommend anybody play this outside of steam version because the app one keeps changing - I’ve bought it a few times and I keep losing my license/progress when they change publisher agreements, to hell with that noise!

No, what is happening is a lot of hot wind is being expelled and the word quantum computing is being thrown around.

There is nothing actually concrete that has been realized, or will be realized.

It’s a huge fucking investment sham.

A wonderful idea that should have been pursued, immediately revealed to be garbage, it’s never going anywhere.