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- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 2 days ago:
It’s likely not that this attitude results from his politics, but that his politics result from the same views that result in this attitude. It’s a narrow world view, perpetuated by propaganda and the american civil religion (not that this is exclusive to the US, but it sure seems prevalent there).
Ignore him best you can, and do what makes you happy. Not sure if there’s a way to convince him to help you save for it, but if he thinks that murica is the greatest country on earth, it seems unlikely he’d ever support you wanting to leave that - temporarily or permanently.
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 week ago:
HOA plus calling a priest to have the house blessed certainly point in that direction though. But I don’t think that would be legal everywhere even there. Isn’t much use to you though if the neighbour is the kind of psycho to shoot someone over this.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 2 weeks ago:
I should’ve clarified, with “this” i mean more the general sentiment about regulation of these lootboxes that I’ve seen in other contexts as well - other than the general topic I don’t really have an opinion on this other than it seeming a bit ridicous to reimburse every customer in full.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 2 weeks ago:
There is one core difference to most other lootboxes, and it’s that the skins you get from them have a tangible real world value. It is actually, in every way, resemblant of a slot machine. Put in money, receive an amount of money that is less than what you put in on average (though I guess it’s never 0).
I’d have far more support for this if we didn’t have something matching this entirely for decades, completely legal for kids, with the only difference being that you get a physical item instead of something digital. Of course, I’m referring to trading cards. By all means regulate both, but regulating the digital version while not touching the physical one is insane.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 2 weeks ago:
I am nervous walking in the dark by myself. I simultaneously am relatively tall and will be perceived as male by anyone, so I also try to be wary of how I might make anyone else nervous.
The actual experience that most women have of smaller aggressions even in safer contexts probably also plays a role. I’m probably nervous walking alone at night because of a combination of being physically quite weak in spite of my looks, having experienced bullying throughout my childhood so “unpleasant random encounters” is a concept engraved into my brain, and because I’m affected by reading/hearing about any kind of assault happening to people walking alone.
Replace the bullying with “random men being assholes/threatening/worse” and most women have all 3 of those factors as well.
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 3 weeks ago:
With the amount of random attention from men women get, the rate doesn’t have to be very high for it to be regular, particularly when you add selection bias that people who react like that are probably more likely to approach someone in the first place.
And while I would agree it’s probably higher than 1%, 1% really sounds lower than it is - that would be 40 million people globally.
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 3 weeks ago:
I get it though, even if only 1% of men react violently to direct rejection, it makes sense to be careful. Not a lottery you want to play.
So much of dating dynamic feels like it’s just been ruined by a few assholes, and the internet giving those assholes more reach only exacerbates it.
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 3 weeks ago:
Women’s breasts are far more sensitive. Also the part where usually they’re in a bra all day probably matters.
- Comment on Brand new bag 1 month ago:
Easily, if it’s a large enough backpack. For 3 days of clothing, it doesn’t even need to be large. I mean what do you need, some assortment of care products (available in small packs, usually, so don’t take a ton of space), maybe a razor and hairbrush, toothbrush (negligibly tiny anyway) and then 3 days of clothing don’t take that much space unless you change your pants (not the british kind) or sweatshirt every day. And even then a large-ish backpack could fit it.
I went on a 5 day trip with just an average size backpack and laptop bag, and that included bringing the laptop. And headphones. Clothing doesn’t take that much space if you fold it and compress a bit.
- Comment on ai generated logo 1 month ago:
That’s not even artistic ability, that’s just basic tool use.
…but yea that still applies
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 1 month ago:
It depends on the project, I think. If you require hundreds of pieces to make the concept work (and such concepts have floated in my mind) even hiring an amateur would get pretty expensive. If it’s just small scope art (and for most games it will be) I agree, it can be relatively cheap. Though I’m still privileged in being able to afford that, some people couldn’t even really spare 200€ for a project that, statistically, is unlikely to make even half of that back.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 month ago:
Great way to make sure your kid gets bullied and socially excluded, resulting in lifelong trauma.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 1 month ago:
I would never judge anyone for using AI to fill in the parts they need to realize their project vision that they otherwise simpy couldn’t (without putting in a lot more effort into a thing they probably don’t really enjoy), but doing this is still a statement and pretty cool to do.
Not that I’ll ever be motivated enough to actually finish a project, but I’ve thought about the art aspect of making a game, and eventually figured if I’d need to commission more than I can afford, I’d be morally fine with genAI if the game is either free or I use a large portion of profits (if there are any lol) to hire artists to gradually replace the art.
Though I also refuse to give a single cent to all the companies profiting off this so any image gen I’ll ever do will be local on my pc (or for free on some service, I guess).
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 2 months ago:
Is there anything at all surprising about teenagers using what might be their only computer outside of their phone to access porn?
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 2 months ago:
I think it’s relative change and not percentage points, from quick mental math that seems to add up. Very weird choice, maybe trying to inflate the perceived increase in linux users. So it would be a change of a bit more than +1 percentage point for linux.
- Comment on I've always thought THIS was unfair 2 months ago:
Interesting that it’s that low, the hotels I went to in japan were all above 10k jpy (~600€) for cleaning fee if you smoke in the room. It makes sense though with how persistent smoke smell can be.
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 months ago:
Not so fun fact: the microscopic bits of poop just spray to different places if you close the lid, but there’s just as many.
Second not so fun fact: mythbusters tested this as well and found that there’s microscopic poop bits everywhere anyway, and they will get on everything.
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 months ago:
Some old ones do. And yes the smell before you flush is as horrible as you’d expect. The combination of diarrhea and one of those toilets made me almost throw up once.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 2 months ago:
Many herbivore species are also opporturnistic omnivores, so it could be argued just as much that it’s about biological specialization.
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
Still mostly only good as a guessing guideline because there’s no real system, just etymological patterns, but yea you can guess more than 33% for sure.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 3 months ago:
Visual snow is when you see it with eyes open afaik. But yea, still not terribly abnormal on its own. Visual snow syndrome is a thing though, but it’s more than just seeing an abnormal amount of visual snow (the normal amount seems to be when looking at unicolored surfaces and in dim light).
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 3 months ago:
Physical retailers have been taking 30% before steam was even a thing. And no, the physical storage does not mean they should be paid more, because steam provides hosting capabilities that also cost money.
Epic takes less because they operate the store at a loss in a desperate attempt to gain market share.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 3 months ago:
Complaining about the 30% is insanity, that’s how retailers work, it’s not an unusual cut for an online store.
I fail to see how steam is anti-consumer, or how it ever actively tried to monopolize anything.
Selling broken, unfinishedband shovelware games was just them giving in to the demand to let everything on the store, after people (rightfully imo) hated greenlight.
Fuck the gambling though
- Comment on What 4 months ago:
I do this so much at work with random german words, because we have so many specific names for our features, some of which I didn’t even know in german before working here. Others I’d know how to translate but it would be ambiguous. And our non-german speaking devs also use the software in german, so they understand.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 4 months ago:
New right click context menu for files is one example. Not sure about others bc I’ve changed just about everything I can to be like win 10, and in 10 I already changed a lot from the defaults.
- Comment on Abdul 4 months ago:
I thought the blob was their hands.
Also the image is very clearly made by mirroring a single image in the center. So at most the original image was AI generated because AI would not mirror that cleanly.
- Comment on Girls 5 months ago:
The order thing is very debatable tbh, I generally agree that going in origin culture order is better (easier to keep consistent imo), but there are at least a lot of japanese artists that swap the name order when romanized. (And I don’t think I’d care if someone swapped my name order when speaking chinese).
Missing the “Sau” (no idea if Sau Lan is one name romanized as two words or two names) feels like a product of ignorance and pretty disrespectful though, yea.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 5 months ago:
How popular is non-american football in the US? I know its been getting more popular recently, but unlike most of europe and south america, it’s far from the #1 sport.
I have no doubt the canadian and mexican games (and the finals) will be sold out, but with these prices, the state of the US economy, and no sane person wanting to travel there, I wouldn’t be super surprised if some games in the US weren’t. After all, if you’re not from NA, you can just go to the next one 4 years later and it’s probably much cheaper.
Sadly it won’t be the ghost stadiums it would deserve though.
- Comment on True staple of the format 5 months ago:
I do both. When it’s not something I pull from memory I’ll say how I found it and also provide what I found. Which isn’t about telling people that they shouldn’t ask, but rather to teach them for when they can’t.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 5 months ago:
I use s-ul.eu for my occasional filesharing needs, downloads are no bullshit you click the link you have the file and never had issues with it. Not sure if storage limits on the free tier are lower than dropbox though.