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- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 10 hours ago:
Many urinals do have dividers. But also it’s just not an issue, everyone is there for the same thing and no one is looking anywhere other than in front anyway. I very much like them because thet mean I don’t have to touch a public toilet seat, plus they’re the reason there’s rarely a line on the men’s bathroom.
- Comment on No one could have seen this coming 1 day ago:
That really depends on how much is stolen.
If margin is idk 30% then losing 3 sales to prevent 1 stolen item loses you money, assuming you account for the stolen item at what you paid for it rather than the selling price (which makes sense unless you expect it to sell out, i guess you can add a bit for storage+set up cost but that’ll be near nothing for a single item).
- Comment on You don’t realize how bad it smells till you quit 2 days ago:
It’s a far cry from the average smoker that can’t go 2 hours without tho
- Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job 4 days ago:
It’s a common practice, twitch does the same. It probably just scales with a very large amount of payments that would be needed otherwise, especially with all the shovelware steam gets these days.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 4 days ago:
I’m saying that currently running ones are rather pointless, not the new one. Both the one in japan and china are pretty great applications.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 week ago:
Japan has been building a long distance one for a while now. It got held up in one prefecture because of environmental and political reasons though. Currently running maglevs anywhere are all kinda gimmicky (really no point in going super fast when the distance is very short anyway, waste of money).
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 week ago:
A web frontend for lemmy that silently included a blacklist that blocked users for just about everything the dev didn’t like.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, to my knowledge lolicon is very specifically about the attraction aspect without any accusations beyond that, while paedophile has different connotations (in spite of originally having that same meaning). But then the word lolicon in english has that specific meaning about drawn children which is also not what the word means in japanese. So there’s not really a 100% right way to translate it, but going by the context that anime characters tend to say lolicon in, translating it as paedophile seems more likely to be misleading about the actual situation portrayed.
Whether it should be treated as lightly as it often is in anime is a whole different discussion and I’d say it shouldn’t but it’s completely valid to question the translation imo
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
Recycling is about more than just plastics. It is a bit funny to me how that has always been the main focus though given how afaik it’s a lot less viable and/or useful than aluminium, cardboard, glass recycling.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
800 million people (so just the population of US, CA, and EU) doing small things can absolutely have a larger impact though. Rich bastards do have a vastly larger impact than individual normal people but using that to say “I don’t have to do anything, the others are more at fault” is not helping anyone.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
Guess OP should just go homeless lol
Imagine reading the post before leaving a judgemental comment
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
I see 0 reason to buy a used game over pirating it so I don’t really see what was lost. In both cases the devs get nothing, and buying from someone else is a hassle, and having large physical media instead of just some files is also annoying.
If we didn’t have steam we’d instead have the fucking epic games store or EA origin (or whatever they renamed it to). Just because valve isn’t perfect doesn’t mean any publically traded company wouldn’t have been so much worse. And they also did plenty of actual positives with SteamOS, Steam Deck, being the first to push consumer VR with the Vive…
- Comment on Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam? 3 weeks ago:
Kinguin is more of a mediator, the keys are from other sellers. To my knowledge they’re usually bought with stolen credit cards. So it’s just money laundering. Don’t buy from there or similar sites unless you want to actively hurt the developer (since they end up paying chargeback fees).
- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 3 weeks ago:
100ms more is absolutely enough to be massive because it just subtracts from however long you need to recognize the other player after they become visible. Not to mention that in slower paced shooters, people might just remain stationary near a corner for very long, and you can’t magically know when they start to move. Also in games where you can die with one well placed shot it could be 10ms and still be a significant advantage because you just need to be faster than your opponent.
Afaik valorant does try to not send any info that won’t be needed, that doesn’t mean it’s immune to wallhacks, it just limits their effectiveness.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 4 weeks ago:
A lot of the individuals aren’t in there entirely of their own will though. Particularly with BYU, the institution itself is a cancer, but the individual students are really not at fault (at least certainly not all of them). The university portrays itself very differently than it actually is, and you effectively cannot leave the mormon church while you attend (unless you want to get kicked out and have all your time there completely wasted).
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
Reading comprehension, how does it work?
I literally said that in this case it’s almost certainly just because they know they can get away with it and make more money
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
If game prices had adjusted for inflation, we’d be paying 250-300 for one now.
That doesn’t mean it isn’t just greed especially in this case (from what I heard some pretty basic features like car customization are locked behind the “ultimate edition”), but in general it’s more of a miracle (and result of the massive market growth combined with no unit cost) that game prices have ignored inflation for this long.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
Even with an announcement ahead of time it’s so much better imo. Doesn’t penalize people for having to work or just living in a timezone where it’s the middle of the night.
Sure it feels like you have less agency over when you get it but it’s so much fairer.
- Comment on Always with the hidden fees. 1 month ago:
Norovirus is resistant to alcohol. That’s part of what makes it so infectious. Not sure about bleach though.
- Comment on NO BITCHES? 1 month ago:
Iirc they removed the “women have to message first” requirement some time last month.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 1 month ago:
I don’t have a single peripheral that uses USB-C. I have a lot of USB-A and some micro-USB.
My phone is USB-C and that’s about it. Given that my 2 year old PC case has 8 USB-A connectors and 1 USB-C connector, I’d also wager keyboards and mice won’t stop being USB-A anytime soon. There’s just no reason for them to be anything else.
- Comment on how much money is there in total? 2 months ago:
Money is fundamentally made up. It’s whatever the other party is willing to accept as a token that they trust will in turn be accepted by someone else they want a service or item from. Fiat currency just has its backing from being used in transactions with the state.
It also follows that the total value of global money is entirely dependent on people’s trust in it. The nominal value of global money supply, whether it is 1 quintillion USD or 100 trillion USD, doesn’t directly affect the worth I, or anyone else, ascribe to having 1 USD myself. It’s the things that I perceive myself to be able to trade that 1 USD for that do.
What I’m trying to say is that the philosophical idea you’re looking for might be more along the lines of “how much of their own resources (time and belongings) is the combined global populace willing to trade for a promise of trading it for someone else’s resources in the future”.
- Comment on How to sexualize males for a female audience? 2 months ago:
Seconding the otome comment, and a link to a relevant tag on vndb - you can probably find anything from not very sexualized to pure smut on that list, and there’s often screenshots. vndb.org/g542
- Comment on DNAddy 2 months ago:
If no one is missing those children, that’s not good reason to believe she kidnapped them at all. I want the children to be happy, and regardless of genetics taking them from the parents that raised them into a foster home will just damage them (unless parents are just very abusive)
- Comment on load bearing worm 2 months ago:
I mean the relation between those isn’t wrong but like… we can’t simulate complicated physics. At least not at any reasonable speed.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 months ago:
Especially at the start of words, see also e.g. pterodactyl
- Comment on I'm 29 and my partner is only 28 am I exploiting her? 3 months ago:
You can even have a child be the abuser. One community I’m in had a case of a 13 year old lying about their age and manipulating MULTIPLE older teenagers. People are just complex.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 3 months ago:
Because it is, somehow, an actually very well made game. One of those things where I first just learned about the anime and just thought that sounds dumb, but man the game is actually fun. Also the recent spinoff anime series (cinderella gray) was actually just a very good sports anime.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
I’d also be willing to bet that the actual amount of calories someone gets from different kinds of food is dependent on their gut biome, and thus variable between people. Ime you really need to experiment on yourself to get a good idea of what will make you lose weight. Same probably applies if you’re underweight and trying to gain.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 4 months ago:
Not how that works. Not how any of that works.