Kolanaki

So they finally went and broke the Google Weather app so the widget won't work because it wants location permissions even when the app is not in use.

Homie don't play that shit. You don't need my location except when I am actively needing to use the app; go fuck yourself Google.

Is there anything Lemmy recommends?

I am bouncing around between a few of my favorite space sim games right now and there is something I noticed just now: While you can enter asteroid fields or planetary rings and fly around dodging giant space rocks, all those rocks just sit in place and maybe rotate around. None of them move.

You can't affect their trajectory. They can't collide with each other, and you will never have to adapt to an asteroid coming out of nowhere coming toward you.

In fact the only game I can remember having moving, dynamic asteroids is literally "Asteroids."

I would love to play a game where you can have a space battle that feels like the scene in Star Wars Episode 2 when Jango is trying to take out Obi Wan. Having to dodge weapons, asteroids, and account for the asteroids movement and changing trajectory based on collisions/exploding.

Shit would be badass.

It just kinda makes no sense to me. How can you improve the framerate by predicting how the next frame should be rendered while reducing the overhead and not increasing it more than what it already takes to render the scene normally? Like even the simplistic concept of it sounds like pure magic. And yet... It's real.

I've just discovered this mod and I am questioning how or if it even works. I have a GTX 1660 Super. AFAIK, it does not support DLSS, but this mod allows it to be enabled anyway. But will it actually work properly or would it still be better to just use FSR (which is supported)? I used it to get FSR 4 in a game that only shipped with 3.1 and it definitely works for that; but I turned on DLSS just to see what happen and it is super blurry (like i have totally unfocused my eyes) so I am not sure if it's because of the GPU or just how DLSS looks in this particular game.

Is this weird or have I just never seen it before: I made some fettucini alfredo and some of the noodles are uncooked. And I don't mean I didn't boil them long enough, I mean like they never finished the noodle cooking process at the manufacturing level because a few strands of the fettucini are still straight up raw flour in the middle. 🫩

So I got a bug in my butt to install Mortal Kombat 11 last night and was doing the story mode which is basically like a movie with intermittent fights and it occurred to me that I love Mortal Kombat but just the characters, the worldbuilding, and the lore. I've never been big on fighting games and as I age, I am finding it harder and harder to pull off special combos quick enough to even do much other than slapping buttons and hoping for the best.

My favorite MK game was one of the ones on PS2 where the story mode was basically God of War gameplay turning it from a fighter into an action adventure game.

If Midway were to make a Mortal Kombat title that was like Dark Souls but set on Outworld or something, that would definitely be my jam.

Another would be Warhammer 40k. I am not at all interested in the PnP gameplay nor a lot of the video games. But I love the lore and the game Rogue Trader is fucking dope, playing more like a traditional CRPG in that setting and not an RTS or straight up shooter.

Do y'a have any games like that? Where you like everything about them except the actual gameplay?

Was thinking of rewatching the series, but I only want the episodes where the mysteries haven't been solved to this day otherwise I'd just end up watching Solved Mysteries and what fun is there in that?

Bug Report

Describe the issue:

When coming across a long enough chain of comments that get cut off after a bit of scrolling and see the "Continue Thread" button appear, clicking the button does absolutely nothing and does not load any more comments in the thread.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Press the "Continue Thread" button when it appears

Device Information

• App Version: 1.0.421 (421)
• Platform: android
• OS Version: BP4A.260205.001

Modified Settings

The following settings have been changed from defaults:

• isNotificationEnabled: 1 (default: 0)
• shouldAlwaysOpenInDefaultBrowser: true (default: false)
• isEdgetoEdge: false (default: true)
• shouldLimitCardImages: true (default: false)
• shouldShowReleaseNotes: false (default: true)
• commentTextStyle: bodyMedium (default: bodyLarge)
• customColoursPreset: 4 (default: 0)
• enableCommentNavigator: true (default: false)
• isTopBarFixed: true (default: false)
• isBottomBarFixed: true (default: false)
• showFullVotes: true (default: false)
• shouldAlwaysDisplayAvatars: true (default: false)
• shouldInstanceBlockIncludeUsers: false (default: true)
• shouldOpenYoutube: false (default: true)
• shouldImageConvertWebp: false (default: true)
• shouldStackDuplicatePosts: false (default: true)
• defaultPostSort: NewComments (default: Active)
• defaultCommentSort: New (default: Hot)
• cardType: listReverse (default: card)
• shouldRemembercommentPosition: false (default: true)
• shouldUseProfileBanner: true (default: false)
• shouldFilterUsernameUnicode: false (default: true)
• shouldResolveOpenGraph: false (default: true)
• shouldShowLinkPreviews: false (default: true)
• shouldLoadAllComments: true (default: false)
• shouldDisplayCommunityBanner: false (default: true)
• shouldShowFeedInstanceThumbnail: true (default: false)
• stickySortSettings: true (default: false)
• maxCacheSizeGB: 1 (default: 2)
• displayUserVoteTotals: false (default: true)
• imageDomainRewrites: {} (default: {})

(also I apologize for the quick succession of reports but I keep running into the first, and then I also ran into this one again today which reminded me that it existed)

Bug Report

Describe the issue:

Vote counts on own content does not update until closing the app and manually clearing the cache.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Post something
2. Wait a while
3. Check back and compare what Connect shows vs what the web interface shows

Device Information

• App Version: 1.0.421 (421)
• Platform: android
• OS Version: BP4A.260205.001

Modified Settings

The following settings have been changed from defaults:

• isNotificationEnabled: 1 (default: 0)
• shouldAlwaysOpenInDefaultBrowser: true (default: false)
• isEdgetoEdge: false (default: true)
• shouldLimitCardImages: true (default: false)
• shouldShowReleaseNotes: false (default: true)
• commentTextStyle: bodyMedium (default: bodyLarge)
• customColoursPreset: 4 (default: 0)
• enableCommentNavigator: true (default: false)
• isTopBarFixed: true (default: false)
• isBottomBarFixed: true (default: false)
• showFullVotes: true (default: false)
• shouldAlwaysDisplayAvatars: true (default: false)
• shouldInstanceBlockIncludeUsers: false (default: true)
• shouldOpenYoutube: false (default: true)
• shouldImageConvertWebp: false (default: true)
• shouldStackDuplicatePosts: false (default: true)
• defaultPostSort: NewComments (default: Active)
• defaultCommentSort: New (default: Hot)
• cardType: listReverse (default: card)
• shouldRemembercommentPosition: false (default: true)
• shouldUseProfileBanner: true (default: false)
• shouldFilterUsernameUnicode: false (default: true)
• shouldResolveOpenGraph: false (default: true)
• shouldShowLinkPreviews: false (default: true)
• shouldLoadAllComments: true (default: false)
• shouldDisplayCommunityBanner: false (default: true)
• shouldShowFeedInstanceThumbnail: true (default: false)
• stickySortSettings: true (default: false)
• maxCacheSizeGB: 1 (default: 2)
• displayUserVoteTotals: false (default: true)
• imageDomainRewrites: {} (default: {})