Semjaza
@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on A Viral Game Targeting ‘Gold Diggers’ Has China Arguing Over Gender 7 hours ago:
Released in the PRC, so no. Nothing sexy.
Just misogyny (and maybe some homophobia for good measure).
- Comment on A Viral Game Targeting ‘Gold Diggers’ Has China Arguing Over Gender 7 hours ago:
Sixth Tone is not a “no name magazine”, it’s the English language publication of one of the largest online news publications in Shanghai.
Its a contender for best English language publication in China, and a good source of investigative (well, as much as you can get in the PRC now 财新 has been nutuered) journalism. It still gets to do more critical stories when they’re small scale and frame it as a problem government will find a way to solve.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 6 days ago:
Libre (and ethnic cleansing of Palestine supporting Microsoft) Office does, too.
- Comment on Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
That’s fair, I have respect for rules like that and also know that camping out for a rare quick animation would kinda ruin the effect when you want to be playing.
- Comment on Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Nice write up.
Must admit I’m kinda disappointed the screen shot of Kaepy G isn’t one where the head is twisted nearly upside down.
But it also made me come in and read your thoughts on it. It’s a comfy game to play. Good luck with the project.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 week ago:
You’re right, and I was being facetious.
You responded well and explained it for all. Thank you.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 week ago:
So a museum in Western Europe or the US is better, or just as bad?
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
With books and older non-unique registration code games it is explicitly legal to sell them second, third, etc hand.
At least in the EU and UK where those overly restrictive licenses have been declared ineffective. Maybe in the US it’s just another personal freedom sacrificed for freedom of capital.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
UK law allows for making and duplication of digital copies of a product you own that version of, provided you don’t share them with others.
At least it did 15 years ago, not 100% certain today off the top of my head.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 2 weeks ago:
My fave part was the expired crispr kits, arbitrarily cut off at desired date.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 2 weeks ago:
Only a few bites because people, understandably, aren’t biting that headline.
Share a screenshot of the article instead and they’ll be all over it.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, they enjoy and will happily play me at Mario Kart for exactly the same reasons they won't play me at F-Zero.
Presence of catch up mechanics role of luck.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 2 weeks ago:
OK, that’s my ignorance. I didn’t realise toruses were usually hollow.
Thank you for letting me know, you’re right and I’ve learnt something.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 2 weeks ago:
A CD is clearly homotopic to a torus, though…
And the walls of a straw do have thickness…
A straw goes:Gas - solid - gas - solid - gas
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 3 weeks ago:
An individual doesn’t truly understand and apply the scientific approach and method if they baselessly believe that certain phenomenon are caused by supernatural forces/entities. Ergo, the individual’s credibility in their established field is called into question since they may have applied similar illogic and pretenses to their work and understanding there.
That’s not what you said elsewhere.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 3 weeks ago:
If more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I’m all for it.
Better late than never.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 3 weeks ago:
Might maroon me for fucking up the FOSS though.
- Comment on thicc 🌈 3 weeks ago:
I think fairly confirmed as not interested in women, but unsure as to what flavour of not into women.
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 4 weeks ago:
That didn’t help (Dodo as friendly inquisitive bird makes me sadder than many other extinct animals), but the primary factor was the introduction of rats to the island, iirc.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 4 weeks ago:
True, but we also tested many other materials across thousands of years and the death rate of contact with dihydrogen monoxide only exceeds the baseline death rate with immersion of the oral and respiratory sections of the visage. A property shared with most other substances, especially in liquid forms.
- Comment on What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week? 4 weeks ago:
Finished series 1 of Bad Sisters, it was a very good, entertaining dramedy.
Hogan great. Claes Bang also continues to be amazing in everything I see him in.
Melodrama reveals went far in the end, and I don’t know what future series that I’ve seen exist are gonna do except probably be less well written and put together. I’ve also not seen the original Belgian show, Clan, maybe one day.
- Comment on science never ends 4 weeks ago:
You know a lot more Maths than I do, and I agree with you (even if my thoughts in it all are more about having a fancy name to get people who claim both Positivism and “Maybe it’s all a simulation man” to recognise the hypocrisy of that).
My whole life-data-mismatch thing is from similar discussions with positivists, as I think life and consciousness is a pretty easy area to show that it doesn’t hold all the answers.
Back to the main point:
The idea that Maths is countable is pretty wild, and I’m gonna need to mull on it. Thanks for sharing. - Comment on science never ends 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and those are rare cases and so far apart from “corrolates with time” it is hard to impossible to know for sure when someone is outside that window.
I was also under the illusion that we’d done a lot of experiments trying to reelecrifiy frogs’ brains we have failed to get anywhere beyond muscle spasms off of the data and measurements we’ve been able to make.
- Comment on science never ends 4 weeks ago:
We haven’t yet been able to ressurect anything by recreating vital signs in a corpse so there’s something we can’t measure or detect of life so far.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 4 weeks ago:
UB are getting all up in my standard and pioneer formats and killing my interest for them/Magic as a whole outside of “limited” precons.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 4 weeks ago:
Doom
Tetris
Chrono Trigger
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 5 weeks ago:
Still the second largest CO~2~ emitter, so it’d make sense to put it on for the comparison.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 5 weeks ago:
I see the sympathy for the Dalek style episodes more as tolerance paradox and highlighting paralles with the Doctor.
I find that daleks also suffer from the inverse ninja law, and generally the more daleks in an episode the less compelling and engaging they are.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 5 weeks ago:
Could you add the US to the graphs, as EU and West are hardly synonymous - even as it descends into Trumpgardia.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 5 weeks ago:
Worst parts of Whittaker’s run were:
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- Chibnal told her to stay in the dark about Doctor Who, and she wasn’t allowed to research the role and watch older episodes, etc.
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- The writers for the series being much more capitalism is fine, actually. Most bizarre is The Doctor thinking that Space Amazon is cool and based, and not being very working-folk supporting, and I think there were other less blatant occurrences in other eps. too, where Whitaker’s Doctor acted in very undoctery ways (the spiders episode).
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