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- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 week ago:
OMG, a Pokemon All Stars would be amazing. But I do want them to get fancy with it: with every new game that starts, make me start with a starter as usual, but once I get access to trading, let me pull Pokemon that are below the soft level cap out of my boxes.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 1 week ago:
As for the “Constantly being wrong.” At somepoint, these people forgot that “having an idea” does not mean “Having a useful idea.”
Absolutely. They can’t fathom anymore that, just because they want something, it doesn’t mean that anyone else does. Or that they’re not already getting it, even if they do.
You hear arguments about all these flash in the pan bull shit concepts like “People said the same thing about the internet or the iPhone.”
Right, and I always think, “both of those solved actual problems that hadn’t been solved before.” Problems that I remember feeling, as a person who was conscious in the 90s: the need for quick, efficient, long-distance information transfer, and the problem that computers were stuck in your house when a lot of what you needed them for was while you were walking around.
Cryptocurrency didn’t solve a problem that most people feel (and, I would argue, it didn’t efficiently solve a problem that anyone actually has). The metaverse didn’t solve any new problems at all (as you noted, the one thing it could do that anyone wanted was something that was already being done). And AI was already being used for anything it was good for long before Sam Altman convinced a dozen billionaires to give him multiple small-countries’-GDPs.
And since being a good businessman really means finding a solution and offering a product that solves it, they’re just proving how bad they are at business.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 1 week ago:
The tech bros have been disastrously wrong about the future of technology twice since Moore’s Law broke and the endless treadmill of computer upgrades stopped: about crypto and about the metaverse. They’re desperate to not be wrong again, and they think that by spending enough money they can generate a reality distortion field that actually makes overhyped AI financially feasible. So they’re going to keep pumping the money in as long as they’ve got it. But even their wallets are finite.
- Comment on I want to know more of the breen. 2 weeks ago:
I look some clips of Star Trek Discovery but I didn’t like the first episode of the series
It changed so much in between episode one and the season featuring the Breen that I’m honestly not sure you’d recognize it.
Your mileage may vary about whether it’s better, but it’s absolutely different.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
I think I buy this worldwide, honestly. Case in point: one of the most popular video game series for young people recently has been Five Nights at Freddy’s, and that series dropped its first four games in eleven months, and its next four games in four years. Minecraft remains one of the most popular games in the world, and it’s releasing full free content drops every few months. Pokemon is still insanely popular among kids, and there hasn’t been a year without a new Pokemon game release since 2015.
So, yeah. Hey, kids like novelty. Who knew?
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 2 weeks ago:
Y’all… they were doing this to Millie Bobby Brown as recently as 2020.
- Comment on Hits you where it matters 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s because they’re designed to look like big ol’ dogs. Their characterizations are also “gentle giants,” which is always an emotional gut-punch when they get weepy or show tenderness.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 5 weeks ago:
Because Microsoft owned Skype at the beginning of the pandemic, had 100% mindshare, a practically genericized trademark, and an install base of a gazillion users, and yet still managed to somehow fumble the ball to Zoom.
- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 5 weeks ago:
"It’s called socialism. I need a society to do it. You like baseball? Why aren’t you playing it right now?
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 5 weeks ago:
Strong Badia. There’s probably lots of chocolate.
- Comment on Nazis Have the Dumbest Star Trek Opinions | Jessie Gender 5 weeks ago:
It could be a terrible indicator of your actual performance, if five of your coworkers rated you a ten honestly, but the other five rated you a zero because they hated the Black Lives Matter sign in your cubicle.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 5 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s going to be super chill this weekend, too. Extra super chill, even.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 5 weeks ago:
It’s also worth noting, if you’re not familiar with the US map, that the city of Minneapolis (where the anti-ICE protests are happening right now) is right about where the bottom of the “R” in “TREE” is on this map.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 5 weeks ago:
The United States is very big. If you’re from a smaller country (particularly if it’s smaller east-to-west), it can be a little bit hard to comprehend how different the weather can be from one part of the country to another. While the weather does typically travel from West to East, it can change significantly along the way, and it usually takes several days to get from one coast to the other.
The highlighted area on the map is a massive region, wider than France and Germany put together (though much less populated). In fact, it’s quite rare for even this much of the country to have the same weather pattern. The simplest answer to why trees to the east and west are safe is that it’s not as cold there.
There are some other factors, too: just past the Western edge of the highlighted region are the Rocky Mountains, which significantly change weather patterns. The highlighted region consists of remarkably flat land (leveled by glacial action), meaning that there’s not much to break the wind as it sucks away the heat from the trees. To the East if this highlighted region are the Great Lakes, which also change weather patterns.
But the biggest answer is, it’s just not as cold there. Cleveland, OH (at a similar latitude, but further to the East) is going to be almost 20°F warmer than this (which is still bone-chilling, but not tree-exploding), and Boise, ID (similar latitude but to the West) is going to be almost 40°F warmer (practically tropical! /s).
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 5 weeks ago:
There’s no appreciable drag up there, so if it’s in orbit it’s going to be in orbit for a while, regardless of how big or small it is. Is the amount of energy lost to ripping the debris apart enough to eventually de-orbit the object? I honestly don’t know. My immediate thought is no, barring outside factors, because if it did spacecraft would be torn apart during their de-orbit burns; but I honestly can’t get my brain around that well enough to be certain (maybe the longer time a spacecraft takes de-orbiting reduces the stresses that a piece of space junk suffers instantly).
The kind of crazy thing is that, if a 1,000kg satellite orbiting at an altitude of 36km and a speed of 11,000kph breaks into a thousand pieces, each of those 1kg pieces are still traveling at an altitude of 36km and a speed of 11,000kph.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 month ago:
Kessler Syndrome. The worst part is that, at some point, the risk of collision becomes so great that the problem becomes self-perpetuating, further increasing the risk until we can’t leave Earth anymore.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 1 month ago:
In this case, the service is the same thing. Both the Minecraft client and the Hytale client are connecting to a Hytale server. So I guess you could say it’s like if Lemmy had an official app, and you used that and the Boost app to connect to a Lemmy backend: the hypothetical Lemmy app would be the Hytale client, connecting the way it’s meant to to the service it was designed for; and the Boost app would be the Minecraft client, designed to connect to a different type of server but modified to work because the workloads are similar enough that they can be translated pretty simply.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 1 month ago:
Probably not. This is more akin to using different apps to access the same service, like one person using Ivory and the other using Tusky to access Mastodon. Multiple clients accessing the same API endpoints is kind of how the internet operates, or at least was before big tech decided to shut out third-party apps.
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 2 months ago:
It’s just not as useful as the rear-facing camera on a phone or tablet. You can’t aim it easily, so it’s stuck pointing slightly downward at the surface it’s sitting on, unless you’re interested in making your screen harder to see.
Plus it’s more expensive for a feature that few people would find useful.
- Comment on bumper sticker 2 months ago:
If the sticker is blue, one or the other of you is about to cease being biology and start being physics.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 months ago:
Well, currently Ball doesn’t make any jars, as I understand it. And I don’t think it’s in Muncie anymore either. So the term is just a holdover.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 months ago:
Those do look really nice, for sure. They’d make great snack cups.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 months ago:
Oof. I think I lean more toward her side, to be honest. I don’t like having cold hands.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
Ok.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
Believe what you like. Including that all mathematics communication and education is flawless and incapable of any ambiguity, apparently.
But for your own growth as a person, I recommend you chew on this: the people who write these “questions” to put on Facebook are exploiting the exact same mindset that made you decide that insulting my intelligence was the best way to have this conversation, and using it to get a massive amount of rage-baity engagement. They’re not teachers trying to educate. They’re scammers trying to build up a following so that they can execute a scam.
Actual math educators, on the other hand, are moving away from using the “PEMDAS” (or “BEDMAS”) acronyms because of the ambiguity inherent in them, and using “GEMS” (or “GEMA”) instead. Partially because, if even smart people who know PEMDAS can get confused, the acronym must not be all that useful.
Anyway. You’re trying to make me mad, and for a minute it worked. But I’m over it. Again–have a good one.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 months ago:
Yeah, for sure. Though if you drink it fast enough, it won’t warm the drink noticeably before it’s gone.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 months ago:
See also: the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM), the humble US Postal Truck (LLV), and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, all made by the Grumman Corporation.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 months ago:
Great at conduction, but with not a lot of thermal mass, meaning that actually your drink will usually just make whatever it’s touching (your hand, often) super cold or hot.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 months ago:
Muncie, Indiana is the home of the Ball Corporation, which is the company referenced in this meme. Also of Ball State University, founded by his endowment. Like “Mason jar” before it, “Ball jar” has become a genericized trademark for the object itself, especially in the Midwest.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
I don’t take homework from insufferably smug jerks on the Internet. Have a good one.