Thrashy

@Thrashy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Working on it, but for the overwhelming majority of people emigrating is a hell of a lot harder than just showing up in another country and saying “my place sucks, can I come in?”

• It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum!lemmy.world ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are peole hating on .world?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are sophisticated and nuanced critiques to be made of Western power projection, soft and hard. “Nuanced” and “sophisticated” are not words appropriate to the average hexbear or lemmygrad denizen’s take on geopolitics, and for those of us who live in the real world rather than living to argue over how many Maos can dance on the tip of the icepick that killed Trotsky, the loud and unrelenting naysaying of anything less extreme than “armed proletarian revolution now!” got to be incredibly tiresome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assetto Corsa EVO Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Please be moddable…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record Scratch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m bleeding, making me the victor!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 52 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had quite a bit of fun with it for a few weekends with my friends, but ultimately the lack of a system for mechanical progression left it feeling a bit shallow (ha!). As a primarily PvE game with optional PvP it’s in a weird place where it doesn’t have quite enough RPG-like elements to hold my interest on the PvE side, or enough player-on-player combat to make it a gripping contest of skill.

  It’s still a fun game to hop into from time to time, but it’s never been appointment gaming for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the industry journal I limited in another comment – it’s literally just an off-the-shelf Mireo Plus B. That’s it. The only thing Tesla about it is that it’s serving a spur line connecting Tesla’s factory to the existing Berlin light rail network, and was presumably financed by them for the PR benefit of not having the workers at an electric car factory arrive by diesel train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a little digging and it seems like there’s a tiny kernel of fact at the core of this giant turd of a hype-piece, and that is the fact that they electrified this little spur line from Berlin to the new German Tesla factory by using a battery-electric trainset. Which is not a terrible solution for electrifying a very short branch line that presumably doesn’t need frequent all-day service, even if it’s a bit of a janky approach compared to overhead lines. But hand that off to the overworked, underpaid twenty-two-year old gig worker they’ve got doing “editing” at Yahoo for two bucks an article, and I guess it turns into “world-first electric wonder train amazes!”

  For a second, though, I read the headline and wondered if Musk and co. had finally looped all the way around to reinventing commuter rail from first principles after all these years of trying to “disrupt” it with bullshit ideas like Hyperloop and Tunnels, But Dumber, And With A Marketing Department.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s at least more cultured than my brain shouting “MULATTO BUTTS! (Mulatto butts!)” at me

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elf om a Shelf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rotovap on a flytrap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The old one and the new one are literally side by side on my desktop, don’t know what to tell you…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At launch the 360 was on par graphically with contemporary high-end GPUs, you’re right. By even the midpoint of its seven year lifespan, though, it was getting outclassed by midrange PC hardware. You’ve got to factor in the insanely long refresh cycles of consoles starting with the six and seventh generations of consoles when you talk about processing power. Sony and Microsoft have tried to fix this with mid-cycle refresh consoles, but I think this has honestly hurt more than helped since it breaks the basic promise of console gaming – that you buy the hardware and you’re promised a consistent experience with it for the whole lifecycle. Making multiple performance targets for developers to aim for complicates development and takes away from the consumer appeal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh… Consoles used to be horribly crippled compared to a dedicated gaming PC of similar era, but people were more lenient about it because TVs were low-res and the hardware was vastly cheaper. Do you remember Perfect Dark multiplayer on N64, for instance? I do, and it was a slideshow – didn’t stop the game from being lauded as the apex of console shooters at the time. I remember Xbox 360 flagship titles upscaling from sub-720p resolutions in order to maintain a consistent 30fps.

  The console model has always been cheap hardware masked by lenient output resolutions and a less discerning player base. Only in the era of 4K televisions and ubiquitous crossplay with PC has that become a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might just be my middle-aged eyes, but I recently went from a 75Hz monitor to a 160Hz one and I’ll be damned if I can see the difference in action. Granted that don’t much in the way of twitch-style shooters anymore, but for me the threshold of visual smoothness is closer to 60Hz than whatever bonkers 240Hz+ refresh rates that current OLEDs are pushing.

  I’ll agree that 30fps is pretty marginal for any sort of action gameplay, though historically console players have been More forgiving of mediocre performance in service of more eye candy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate, Atheists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there a lot of people who individually hold chaotic, mutually-incompatible political opinions? Sure! I don’t think you can boil their ultimate decision-making process down to a box-ticking exercise, where if a candidate represents sufficient number of demographics they hold bigoted views about they automatically vote for Default Old White Guy. For example –

  I can’t even tell you how many people had both Bernie and Trump as their top two candidates in the 2016 and 2020 elections.

  – that’s very clearly low-information voters dissatisfied with the status quo, who would happily glom onto anybody promising to sufficiently shake things up. Sure, Trump and Bernie had wildly-divergent platforms, but Joe Sixpack – who probably doesn’t feel like he has a dog in the fight on any of the particulars like abortion or finance law and assumes anybody sticking it to the broader political class is a net positive for him – doesn’t see much practical difference, and is so little affected by the bigotry of the right that none of it bothers him, so of course the two candidates presenting themselves as outsiders with a plan to shake up Washington are basically interchangeable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate, Atheists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t think that’s a very big demo. Anybody who’d suddenly motivated to keep the White House white and estrogen-free are, more than likely, already foaming-at-the-mouth MAGAts who were already motivated to put their guy back in office. There will of course be a few people who fit that description, and probably many more diet racists and sexists who will just stay home if their options are Trump or a “left-coast liberal woman,” but I don’t think they make up a significant-enough proportion of the voting public to outweigh that latter group you mention, who couldn’t muster much enthusiasm for Biden but are amped-up to vote for somebody younger, healthier, and more dynamic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate, Atheists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obama won by healthy margins in '08 and '12, and Hillary – the least likeable candidate that’s made it to the top of the Democratic ticket since Dukakis – still won the popular vote. I think the people who would vote against a black woman for President were never going to vote for a Democrat in the first place, and given the general aura of relief and enthusiasm I’ve seen in left wing spaces since the announcement I think Harris is going to be riding a wave of support from the left, even if half of it is just from people who are glad they don’t have to hold their noses to support a doddering octogenarian because the alternative is fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The play-by-email mode was broken to the point of uselessness in Civ5 and I don’t think they fixed in it in 6 (you had to have an always-on Windows desktop system running the server, and because the game logic was integrated into the graphics engine you couldn’t run it headless, and then on top of that there was basically no working system to coordinate active DLCs between players so most of the time people couldn’t join even if you did get the damn thing running) so my friends and I tried once and gave up. I would love for 7 to have a robust PBEM system so that we can play together without needing to spend hours a week watching paint dry while everybody else plots their turns, but I’m not holding my breath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve averaged about a 4 year tenure at my previous employers – some a bit more, some a bit less – but usually with a competing offer or two in that time period that I’ve used as a lever for a pay raise. Nobody’s complained about me being a job-hopper or short-timer.

  I have noticed that my two last employers, both large national firms, have moved towards a model of career-tracking with a defined pay structure, similar to government work where different positions and experience levels have a pay range attached to them and you’re not able to negotiate out of that range. This has been framed as a protective move against wage inequality suits, but I suspect it’s more about preventing employees from negotiating especially high compensation packages. I haven’t had it cut against me yet – in both cases I got a very minor pay bump when my employers actually went out and compared their pay scales to what the market was demanding – but if enough employers start benchmarking against each other and using that to cap pay, it will functionally become like a wage-fixing cartel similar to what’s happened to rent in the last 5-10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fellow millennials, how do you prevent your child from yearning for the mines?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid, Dad would bring home these little foam airplanes that the FedEx office in his building handed out as swag for people who used their services. I loved those things, and I’d be lying if that childhood positive association with FedEx didn’t have some small effect on my preferences as an adult – but it was free.. I think that’s a bit less insidious than paying for the privilege of giving my kid merch pushing a particular brand association on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedication⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Wikipedia article for these little monsters describes the males aggressively fighting over females, to the point of killing some, and then squeezing the eggs out of their dead bodies to fertilize them… Gonna guess it’s the same one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the old ball and chain amirite⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a lab planner, and sometimes getting researchers to describe what sort of containment device they need for a given process is like pulling teeth.

  • Chemical fume hood? That’s a hood.
  • Class II, Type B2 BSC? Also a hood.
  • Class II, Type A2 BSC? Believe it not, hood.
  • Laminar flow bench? Yep, that’s a hood too.
  • PCR dead air box? Somehow also a hood.

  Like, surely you’re not doing BSL-2 work in a LAF? Please tell me you’re not doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey kid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …and that, son, is why at some point in the distant future the universe will be an undifferentiated soup of unvarying temperature, full of depleted and inert mass slowly evaporating into photons. In the end, everything you’ve ever been, ever done, and ever seen will be nothing more than a diffuse haze of light, racing unobserved and unobservable through a dead and infinite void. Any questions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can do all three things at once⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like that Russia is using the ZNPP as more-or-less a dirty bomb threat against Europe, but at the end of the day the VVER-1000 reactors there are relatively modern GenIII pressurized water reactors. An intentional or accidental meltdown there would not create a Chernobyl-like event. It’d probably end up being more like Fukushima, which if I remember correctly lead to a couple orders of magnitude more deaths due to the stress of evacuation than it’s anticipated to create from radiation exposure.

  Bottom line, when you’re talking about reactors that aren’t pants-on-head stupid designs like the RBMK the actual health risk of radiation exposure due to accident is lower than the health risks of most other forms of power, including some non-fossil-fuel alternatives. Long term storage of spent fuel is another issue, but one that’s reasonably solvable as long as we treat fission as a transitional base load power source as other alternatives like storage and/or fusion power become more viable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medieval Doomsday Weapon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of those cases where nuclear disasters end up being both completely horrifying and a lot less deadly than you think they ought to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always CYA⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The heyday of the Eve Online subreddit was great for this shit, and it was always good for a laugh when something that made complete sense in-game hit r/all and started freaking people out. Some bangers were:

  • How do I sell a hanger full of corpses?
  • I just killed someone for the first time! I’m so excited!
  • Does anyone know if drug production is a good source of income?
  • I want to kill someone, I need help.
  • Did you ever regret killing someone?
  • Industry Question: Drug Labs
  • Assasination Request
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bees⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bees are basically an introduced domesticated animal outside of Europe. Other parts of the world have their own native pollinators that are at significantly greater risk than bees, which are heavily managed and extensively studied due to their agricultural importance. For all the popular alarm over Colony Collapse Disorder, bee colony populations have been basically stable for decades and certainly haven’t seen any measurable decline in recent years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RTX 40090⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For those of you who recognized the Transport Tycoon graphics, enjoy this magnificent recreation of the soundtrack with live instruments that the original composer put together several years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Studies have shown that in most cases that you’d care most about, extreme punishment does not serve as an effective deterrent to bad behavior. Creating the Torment Nexus as a way to enhance prison sentences serves only to increase the degree of cruelty involved in our already vengeance-oriented justice system.