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- Comment on Karma 1 week ago:
Then do neither and instead go outside where you don’t annoy people for very long.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 1 week ago:
You’re thinking of net profit margin. Gross profit margin will vary by item but 30% is a pretty normal amt there.
The most specific number I could find is best buy averaging 22-23%. Which is a bit lower but same ballpark.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There are definitely horror movies/stories that will make me scared of whatever boogeyman is in the movie jumping out at me. And those aren’t the jumpscare ones. It even happens with ones that are more on the funny side (fucking the mist did this for a short period of time after and i was kinda just laughing at it all the way even if it was trying to be serious)
That’s why I say I don’t like horror movies far more than the cheap jumpscare ones being annoying. Though also pure gorefests never even registered as horror for me, even if I think they’re kinda boring.
But then I’ve also found that I really like psychological horror actually because it is in fact not scary at all outside of caring for the characters and very easy for me to seperate.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 1 week ago:
Retail stores also take like 30% usually. People don’t give a shit because it’s not unusual and any option that takes less is worse in some way.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t both often relevant? Your hormones are probably the main thing usually, but unless you were lucky enough to only go through one puberty, your body has went through some irrrversible changes. And the duration of HRT would also be very relevant, not to mention that someone could for whatever reason not want HRT and still be trans.
Not to disagree that birth sex isn’t any more medically relevant than gender though, and all of that should be part of your medical record and doesn’t need to be elsewhere for that purpose.
- Comment on What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat 2 weeks ago:
I kinda hate onion. If I don’t taste it it’s fine but any dish that I’ve tried both with and without I heavily prefer without. Fried onions are the exception for me.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 4 weeks ago:
Japanese loves abbreviating english loan words to two syllables (see also: remote control -> remokon, personal computer -> pasokon), so I’d suspect it was called pokemon colloquially very early and then the international branding caused it to become official.
Wikipedia seems to agree but i didn’t check sources
- Comment on Why is Japanese (language) popular than Mandarin for weebs? (Besides Anime) 4 weeks ago:
I started being interested in japan because of anime, vns, and japanese music, so that naturally lead to an interest in the language. Personally I also just like the way japanese sounds, but don’t really like the sound of chinese. And because of those interests, it’s also more immediately useful.
Japanese also seems easier to me but that might just be a result of consuming japanese media for a long time.
And yes, there are chinese anime too, but they’re overall less well known even though there are some pretty good ones.
- Comment on bruh 5 weeks ago:
There might very well still have been something else bad. The discontent was there, if hitler hadn’t been the one to utilize it, it could’ve been someone else. Same with trump. There’s still a good chance that whoever would win the power struggle if the orange suddenly croaked had none of the apparent charisma of trump (not that I think he has any but it clearly works on a lot of people). Fascism is a personality cult, and just replacing that isn’t a given, but the initial rise heavily selects for someone who is able to create one. So if not them, it’d likely have been someone else maybe a little later.
- Comment on Dog Love 1 month ago:
Im not vegan either but artificial semination as well asthe process of getting the sperm is imo just as if not more undoubtedly sexual assault.
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago:
It’s a far cry from the average smoker that can’t go 2 hours without tho
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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! 2 months 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! 2 months 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 2 months 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" ☠️ 3 months 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" 3 months 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" 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 months 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 months 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 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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. 4 months ago:
Norovirus is resistant to alcohol. That’s part of what makes it so infectious. Not sure about bleach though.
- Comment on NO BITCHES? 4 months ago:
Iirc they removed the “women have to message first” requirement some time last month.