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- Comment on Brand new bag 1 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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.
- Comment on Anon becomes Snake 4 months ago:
Nah, specifically just repeating the last word/bits of their last sentence vs asking a full question. It’s about when the other person is on guard against you, if they want to tell you everything anyway I can’t see it make a difference either.
- Comment on Anon becomes Snake 4 months ago:
I forgot where I heard it but supposedly this an actual psychological trick to get people to reveal more information
- Comment on What even is money at this point 4 months ago:
No, the problem is that having money leads to having more money and having more money also leads to having more power so every system just gets slowly worse for everyone except the rich
- Comment on Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock 4 months ago:
That predates christianity, judaism already had sabbath. I wonder if that was an original feature when judaism first came into existence or if the concept of a regular rest day is even older.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 5 months ago:
Bucatini and linguine are pretty similar tbf
- Comment on Always have a good password 5 months ago:
I have seen at least two different “BND Überwachungswagen 00x” here in germany as well. The BND is our national intelligence agency (and Überwachungswagen just means surveillance van).
Always a fan
- Comment on Private water company increases CEO pay by nearly 100%. This is how Steve Reeds, UK water minister, reacts 5 months ago:
What are you arguing against here? If you think you’re defending yourself then you think you’re defending yourself. If you think you’re helping the people you think you’re helping the people. Neither means the outcome will be good or the actions justified. All the person you’re responding to did was reason about Thatcher’s possible motivations.
Do you actually understand the term strawman because arguing against a strawman is exactly what you did there.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
100%, furries get way too much hate. Especially considering how chill they’re usually are.
Though honestly unless your pfp betrays some insane political affiliation it shouldn’t have relevance on how you see someones reply. I know this is a shitpost but people do that for real. I think my favorite are the xitter boomers dismissing people because their avatar isn’t a selfie and they don’t using their real names.