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helpImTrappedOnline , to Technology in Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024

Seems we're both right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Touch

The 6 and 6s had 3d touch, while 10 has Force Touch

helpImTrappedOnline , to Ask Lemmy in What's the most fucked up movie you ever watched?

I'm not going to ask you to go into personal details, but I will attempt to understand by competly guessing.

You said most movies bother you and its something to do with sensitivity, so I'm guessing its a visual sensitivity that makes the constant flickering or movement on screen terrible for you???

If thats the case, I could see how The Incredibles 2003 CG, many bright and dark scene, unstable movment in pretty much evety scense from the fire, underwater, everything in the jungle, and the robots fights can be unsettling.

That or you're actually a villain. Most movies bother you because the villains loose. Incredibles was particually hard because the villan lost big time. Just a guess.

helpImTrappedOnline , to Technology in Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024

Was the 6 the one with 3D Touch? If so, you actually lost a feature.

helpImTrappedOnline , to Android in Google Play Store is rolling out a new badge for government-made apps

The point is you know its an official app and not some scam or independently ran group posing as an official government app

Who cares if they outsourced the development? The point is they have an app, and the badge tells you its legit (assuming we can trust the badge and its not trivial to trick google into giving any app the badge).

helpImTrappedOnline , to Ask Lemmy in How does Lemmy deal with bots?

Those bots are misclanious tools people have developed, such as the one for YouTube to Piped links.

OP is talking about spam bots that won't be kind enough to tell us they are bots.

helpImTrappedOnline , to Technology in Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling

Too bad win 12 is on track to break the streak.

helpImTrappedOnline , to Technology in Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

Seems like they're on track to break the streak with Windows 12.

helpImTrappedOnline , to Ask Lemmy in How could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?

Make it so we can walk the streets without getting mugged.

helpImTrappedOnline , to Privacy in Ask: How do you handle your résumés?

Maybe they are pretentious and applying to a pretentious inistute of prestige. Any resume without an é is immediately burnt in a fancy fireplace and the applicant is shunned from the pretentious society forever.
Its possible, right?

helpImTrappedOnline , to Android in Are there any adb commands to block specific apps from accessing mobile data/wifi or in general network acesss?

Netgaurd does not require root.

It can run as a VPN, to funel and block unwanted WiFi or data usage from apps. Lots of settings and options per app to block WiFi and/or data. You can also set it so an app will allowed only if the screen is on (good for weather, lemmy or email updates)

As for gmail, it sounds like that would be setting within gmail, however I just briefly looked and did not see it. Personally I switched to K-9 email, it works great for me.
I wonder if gmail follows the system data saver or something stupid (If you happen to have that on)?

helpImTrappedOnline , to Ask Lemmy in What is a bad writing trope you hate in fantasy fiction ?

Pretty much, yes, but infinate isn't quite true.

(The magic system isn't DnD, so I'm spending way too much time making up a lot of shit here to give a general idea that no one really asked for. (And because its fun to brutely mash one magic system into another)).

Let's say your average mid to high level mage has 100x spell slots (and for now assume all other stats are also equal). In this system, there are no spell levels. Instead, more complex spells require more slots to be used at once.

The basic defence and attack spell are 1 to 10. 1 defence spell blocks 10 basic attacks. However, you can't attack and defend at the same time, and 1 defence is only for a small area. Full 360° coverage would cost a lot of slots per second. You conserve slots by precicly blocking the opponents spells as they come.

To break the defence you need to to be able to hit it really hard and follow up before they can cast more defence or counter attack. To do more damage in a spell, it costs more slots.
This is where things like the other stats, skills, refelx time, unique spells, and combat stratagy become deciding factors in fights. Slot count also varies, a young mage might start of with one slot, but can become a very high level mage with 300 slots.

MC has 200 slots to start with and trained to get a very fast cast per second rate for both basic attack and defence. They are so proficient in the spell, it's the equivelent effort of you or me walking.

While MC's magic mistle does little damage, they can cast the spell 20 times in a second from multiple directions. This forces opponents to use up all their slots to defend until they run out or get overwhelmed by the numbers. The only defence is to do 360 defence, which can't be maintained for long. (For simplicity sake, assume all the magic is a one shot kill. If you don't defend or dodge, you die).

To make things more fun, MC has no idea they are insanly strong because their only reference growing up was their mentor who has the 5000 slot cheat code.

Yes, I am over thinking this. And yes, I should be sleeping right now.

helpImTrappedOnline , to Ask Lemmy in What is a bad writing trope you hate in fantasy fiction ?

I think the other person doesn't word it well.
First, the fighting isn't the main plot of the story, its more about everything in between.
The MCs are powerful, but still need to be careful in their fights. or they will die.

The story doesn't want dragon ball fights that are 20 chapters long, or have an impassible monster that de-rail the goal for 20 more chapters. Their obsticals are more about the world and people they interact with.

The magic combat system is pretty well thought out, but not complex.

The MC basically has lots of mana. That's their "op" trait. They developed a stragedy to spam cast the basic damage spell.

I'm making up some numbers here to kind of paint a picture of how this "basic spell" work.

Attack spell =

  • 1 second cast time
  • 1 damage to defence spell
  • 10/10 damage to unprotected person. (Can do 9/10 depending on what the plot needs)
  • Can be cast in a variety of directions. (I.e it's not a gun, its a targeted missle)
  • cost more mana than the defence spell.

Defence spell =

  • .5 second cast
  • Can absorb 100 hits
  • low mana cost for small area over a short period of time, high cost to do "full coverege". Its essentially a sheild they move around and resize to block attacks as they come. Fully protecting yourself burns too much mana and you'd lose.

For most hitting the defence spell a hundred times is a stupid stratagy, so everyone came up with different spells that break through it in a few hits.

Out MC instead trained the basic spell so much, they can cast it 20 times a second over a long period of time. This forces the opponent to burn mana trying to maintain defence. The opponent is overwhelmed and get hit. However the stratagy only works if they back the openent into a postion where they can't counterattack or have a buddy attack MC from behind.

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