Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon tries being social 1 week ago:
So I decided I would approach girls same as I would a male peer and damn did that work!
Turns out the big secret to meeting people of the other gender is to focus on the “people” part.
- Comment on Anon tries being social 1 week ago:
Welp, one down, only 4.1 billion more tries left.
- Comment on Anon tries being social 1 week ago:
That’s just humans grasping the slightest bit of authority and going crazy.
- Comment on Anon hates new slang 2 weeks ago:
I have a friend in urology, who will occasionally talk about clogged… systems, and how much urine a person can hold. It’s a surprisingly large amount, to the degree where they can’t remove it all in one go because the drop of internal pressure will lead to a drop in bloodpressure.
So yes, you CAN pee yourself to death.
- Comment on Anon plays an RPG 5 weeks ago:
In competitive Pokemon, buffs and debuffs are absolutely critical.
In a single player run, they’re useless.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 month ago:
Those extremists would be very upset if they could recognize reality
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 1 month ago:
They are the norm in most of europe.
- Comment on 2027 gonna be like... 1 month ago:
I’m not American, but I do work in safety, and the massive system failure after Katrina and how it only got worse since then is a pretty popular topic in the literature.
surely you still own the land and have permission to live on it? So worst case just stick a caravan there and live in that
The thing is, how? It’s kinda like homesteading at that point, but worse. Having a place to live isn’t about the square of dirt, it’s about all the stuff around it. You need food, water, power and plumbing. If all that is gone, you can’t really live there longterm. The kind of cascade failure is what makes the area worse than wilderness, because wilderness has at least some capacity to support people, where flattened suburbia doesn’t.
Here the majority of the cost is land that you have permission to live on.
Right, but that land is valuable for reasons. Some of those reasons might include facilities, access to roads and trains, the very appealing property that it doesn’t randomly flood, the community and other things.
And that’s the problem. You bought the plot, and the house, for say 500k. The house the gone, and the plot is in Schrodinger’s suburb, which is potentially valuable, but only if everyone rebuilds. And you already know they won’t, because even if you can afford it, not everyone can. And you can’t sell it, because who in their right mind would buy land that floods every few years?
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 month ago:
Anyone working with AI-other-than-llm is now constantly getting weird looks and stupid comments from LLM bros
- Comment on 2027 gonna be like... 1 month ago:
I keep thinking that the next Katrina or Andrew or Helene scale hurricane is going to just make whatever part of the US it hits uninhabitable. Its going to be bad enough that nobody rebuilds in that area, and we have our first refugees.
It doesn’t even have to be THAT bad. People living in floodplanes are largely uninsurable in more and more of the US, and because it’s the US, there is no state-level fallback like more sensible places have. There is no real emergency aid anymore, since the conservatives have basically destroyed FEMA. There are no protective works anymore, because conservatives are stripping flood mitigation and resilient communities are now Woke and thus bad.
The US has never been less ready to deal with another big disaster, and the likelyhood of one is only increasing.
- Comment on Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC devs faced “diametrically opposed” feedback from players in the West and Japan 1 month ago:
“Friction” implies some form of challenge.
If you’re just putting literal speedbumbs in my way like random NPCs who have the magical ability to stop me and engage me in dialog, that’s not “friction” that just dumb.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 2 months ago:
Managing a collection is not a data-entry job, it requires you to know about stuff. Which book on, say, the middle-saharan 17th century tribes do you get, and which ones don’t you get? Is the new one better than the old one? Which old works are to be digitized and which ones aren’t?
Also included is actually running the library itself, helping people use it (from little bobby who wants that book about a mole who wants to know who pooped on its head, to a PhD student researching said 17th century tribes and what art they produced). It includes copyright law, information ethics, conservation, etc etc etc.
It’s really much more broad than “Someone who works at the local library”
Source: me, someone who once worked at the local library, and seriously considered doing it for a living… untill I saw the effort required and the pay.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 2 months ago:
Because most people who work at the library aren’t librarians. Librarians maintain and manage a collection, set up the database, etc etc.
- Comment on tbh as a Canadian, I deplore the current US federal administration and basically the entire GOP, but I still admire the US Constitution and those who fight for it 2 months ago:
My dude, the US constitution specifically permits slavery.
- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
The music is amazing as well
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 2 months ago:
Is stationeers actually done yet? Last time I played the best station was a single cube with as few features as possible.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
It’s almost as if faster vehicles need to be kept away from vulnerable travellers… Hmmm…
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
Yeah I think the main problem isn’t the cyclists themselves, it’s that cyclists don’t have a safe place ride without getting ran over.
Meaning that, as usual, cars are the problem.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
Dutch people: “both of those are dumb and dangerous”
- Comment on MORE PICTURES OF SPIDER-WOMAN! 2 months ago:
You can’t fire a freelancer…
- Comment on culture 2 months ago:
One man, one jar
- Comment on Guess The Game (#013) 2 months ago:
This plane definitely isn’t in Crimson Skies. Those all look way more WW2-style…
- Comment on Unregulated Capitalism would kill the planet. 2 months ago:
Human nature rewards socializing up to the Dunbar number, eating, fucking, working as little as possible, and doing unspeakable violence to your distant neighbors and vulnerable peers.
Exactly. Human nature isn’t that much different from cat nature. It takes us tremendous effort to NOT follow human nature.
- Comment on Unregulated Capitalism would kill the planet. 2 months ago:
Ah, now you’re thinking with guillotines.
- Comment on 'Sanctuary: Shattered Sun' Demo & Kickstarter 2 months ago:
Have they added control groups yet? It wasn’t in the demo when I played, and that was an immediate turn off for me.
- Comment on Anon dates a gymnast 2 months ago:
Mat, flex and still (rings).
Rhyming with “chill” is hard, especially if you did gymnastics in a non-english country.
- Comment on Anon follows the rules 2 months ago:
This is why we invented condoms.
The other two are a lot more difficult to do without damage or risk
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 2 months ago:
Those AI datacenters are pretty much single use. If you want to use them for anything else, you need to strip out everything down to the concrete and power leads, and install a new set of equipment.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 months ago:
I’m failing to see why you seem to be implying that low level exposure is dangerous then
I’m not?
I’m complaining about people who can only go “LNT bad, waaaah”. Put up something better to use.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 months ago:
You get arrested for animal cruelty