pishadoot
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- Comment on What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations) 2 hours ago:
The Hook Up YouTube channel has a ton of awesome non sponsored reviews of tech that you might be interested in. Projectors, sound equipment, etc. I’ve honestly never seen better consumer review content.
www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gyzKcHbYfqoXA5xbyGXtQ
Personally I don’t care for home theater so often I skip videos about projectors, but there’s a ton of stuff there that might help you make some decisions - at the very least you’ll walk away better educated about what makes a quality piece of kit.
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 3 days ago:
My theory at this point is that it’s the equivalent of an audio editing meme. I think they just want to see how often they can get it into a final cut, for the lulz.
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 week ago:
I haven’t, but it’s easier to divide things cleanly and quickly into 3rds when you don’t have to go down to 1/10000 of the whole length to translate it effectively.
It’s why standard metric sheets of plywood (that I’ve seen - probably varies from country to country but when I was in Southeast Asia and Europe) come in 1200mm x 2400mm, because 12 and 24 are more easily divisible into equal sections than 10.
This is the same advantage that the foot/yard have over the meter.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 1 week ago:
Isn’t that because a driver will instinctively pull left (instinct to protect their own body) when facing a head on collision in many cases? Also the rate of being thrown from the vehicle, being pierced by objects from outside the vehicle, and the risk of unsecured things (including passengers not belted in - wear your goddamn seatbelt!) flying forward from the back all being higher?
Not sure how the saying still works if those types of things are the main causes for passengers riding shotgun being statistically higher to get fatally injured
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 week ago:
Sure, but that doesn’t translate into real world as well, it doesn’t cleanly divide on a tape/calculator, which is what I was saying is an advantage.
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 week ago:
I’ve done years of construction with metric. I’m very familiar with it.
I would counter your point that you are the one who is unfamiliar with imperial measures if it sounds like goobledigook to you. Yeah, it’s weird if you’re unfamiliar with it. But in practice it is easier to work with for many day to day applications for humans.
You have to get used to it, same as folks that are familiar with imperial have to get used to metric. I would never say that metric is bad and if I had to choose one until I die I would probably choose metric due to the ways the different volume/length/mass measures align together, but they’re both fine. Even the advantage of the alignment in different areas practically never affects anyone in day to day living, even if it’s more elegant.
This is a dumb hill for you to die on when you haven’t demonstrated actual experience to back your opinion, and I attribute it more to a superiority complex of some sort than a good argument.
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 week ago:
Metric has its advantages but imperial does as well, primarily that the units of measure that humans generally interact with have more whole number factors than in metric, making it very easy to “work with.”
A foot is 12 inches, which has whole number factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. A yard is three feet.
So, it’s really easy to divide things into half, quarters, thirds, etc. Great for construction math, great for a lot of stuff.
I’m not saying that you can’t achieve the same end with metric. I’ve lived in many countries and I’m very familiar with both, and I know 333mm is pretty dang accurate if you want to divide a meter in thirds, but it’s not an exact measurement.
For most use I don’t think it really matters. Metric is a much “cleaner” system but imperial does have its advantages.
They both work. Nobody quibbles about which version of an oz you’re using in daily life. I bet most people don’t even know there’s different versions because it doesn’t make a difference in 99.9% of situations, and in situations where it does people know the differences.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Yeah, I read a couple books a month. Not interested in playing one disguised as a video game. They serve different purposes.
Reading goes at my pace which is way, way faster than a game. Story-based games are way too slow and not nearly rich enough to replace a book.
Cool if people like it, obviously there’s something there that clicks with people. But I think it’s boring AF.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Definitely neither.
I put down choose your own adventure stories a long time ago, and a digital one doesn’t hold me no matter how well it’s put together.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Yeah, it wasn’t for me either. I really tried to give it a shot, gone back to it a couple times but I really just don’t get it.
Great art/style? Definitely. But the gameplay itself is SO boring.
I’m trying to play a game here, and the game part is lacking. RNG+ text? No thanks, not much to keep me.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Another commenter already posted about steam saving card info, but I’ll make a nod to a password manager if you’re not already using one.
First of all, if you aren’t you should be, there’s plenty of awesome free ones. I like keepass or keepassXC. They’re cross platform and you can sync them across devices or use some form of cloud sync (not recommended by me but plenty of people do it).
Anyways. Within a password manager you can save card info (anything actually) and so you don’t have to pull out your physical wallet, just input your manager password and copy/paste over the card details. For me it’s just about as fast as using PayPal anyways with all the extra windows, redirects, loading times, and me using a 2fa token etc.
- Comment on Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content 2 weeks ago:
Yeah man my first sentence was about game devs, not itch.
Like, seriously, read what you fucking posted.
You first? Bye
- Comment on Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content 2 weeks ago:
I empathize with the developers because unannounced interruptions to their revenue streams are not good. I don’t know why itch made the initial decision to implement their changes the way they did, but my guess is they got a series of strongly worded letters out of the blue from payment processors and were given a timeline of “IMMEDIATELY OR ELSE” and had to shut off the tap and adjust or risk their own ability to receive ANY payments.
Even if they handled it badly, which maybe they did, it’s a better measure of a company/person in how they address mistakes or bad moves. They aren’t perfect but they seem to be trying to address concerns and be transparent, at least as transparent as they feel they can be in an uncertain situation where they have to protect themselves legally and operate from a position where every official statement they make will be blown up by media. So they need to be very, very careful how they communicate to risk further damage.
Remember, itch IS NOT the bad guy here, it’s the payment processors. Do not lose sight of that.
I can absolutely understand why people who have had their livelihoods disrupted are unhappy but I empathize with the position that itch is in and I care a lot more about how they course correct and manage fallout, even if they make bad decisions when faced with requirement to take immediate action (and I can’t even say whether they did or not, nobody can, because nobody but them has the facts), than I care about whether they made a bad decision in the moment.
People, good people, fuck up all the time. How they manage the mistake matters more than the mistake itself.
If they keep doing the same shit over and over it’s a different story.
PS: I have no dog in this fight except I think what the payment processors are doing is wrong, but it doesn’t explicitly affect me at all. I’m also not particularly educated on this except for what I read in the news, I’ve never used itch at all. I just don’t think payment processors should be in the business of casting moral judgments on legal transactions. IMO it should be ILLEGAL for them to deny services for LEGAL goods and services.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, the model was first developed in the 70s so maybe not that specific guy
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 4 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group
…wikipedia.org/…/North_Korean_remote_worker_infil…
Willful ignorance or willful misinformation, not sure which one I find more distasteful.
Bye
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 4 weeks ago:
NK is one of the most exceptionally successful aggressors in cyber crime. They perform heists in the 10s or 100s of millions of USD at a time, about 2 billion in the past two years. Their targets are global and indiscriminate, and their scope and skill set is growing at an alarming pace.
If it helps you sleep better at night that they’re only physically terrible to their local neighborhood, then whatever - I would argue that their reach is only limited by their lack of wealth, but that still has a radius that can reach nations as far away as Japan and they constantly threaten them, and would do so to others if they had the means, but again, if that doesn’t bother you then ok I guess.
But to say that they don’t affect anyone outside their borders is at best ignorance and at worst willful misinformation.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Wish I could downvote you more than once.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s not!
Anyone that feels like it crossed a boundary is themselves a victim of the exact same mentality you are trying (and achieving to) overcome.
Pragmatically you can’t really teach your son how to shave his nethers until he’s growing there, so any hesitation around age boundaries really don’t make sense in this case.
On top of that the request was from your son, not initiated by you. He wanted help from a male role model in personal grooming, and you helped.
This kind of thing can be so hard for men. As a society we talk about barriers between fathers and sons and it should be celebrated when we can overcome them to help young men navigate adolescence in healthy ways while feeling like they have support.
Your mental misgivings about what people might think are echoes of your own upbringing. You don’t have to tell people anyways, it’s between you and your son, if you have concerns about what people might think. Honestly some would think it crossed a line, but it didn’t, and you know better than anyone that it was healthy and innocent. So if you want to you can keep it to yourself, but personally I wouldn’t hide it. Not saying to bring it up randomly unprompted, but imo it should be something that you shouldn’t worry about discussing in the correct contexts BECAUSE we need more people to vocalize and hear that it’s ok, to continue breaking down those barriers. Caveat that with all recognition of respect for your son’s privacy, which again falls back on what I mentioned about context.
Bravo, sir.
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 2 months ago:
Wow, really?
Can you explain more?
My experience is anecdotal for sure, but it spans a few cities/ regions of the USA. And it aligns with what my formal teachers/hearing friends in deaf families have told me.
I won’t live and die by that but from my experience deaf people are super welcoming.
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 2 months ago:
A few ways
Easiest is to find a class in your area for beginners - colleges and hospitals are the best place to start (hospitals not because they teach them but because they generally know from referring newly deaf patients, or family members of newly deaf patients).
You really only get so much from a class though - some cultural introduction, basic vocabulary/structure, facial movements. If you actually want to really learn you need to get into the local deaf community, which depending on where you live will be huge or small.
The other way to learn is harder, but still doable. Seek out the local deaf community and go hang out at meetups (Pizza and bowling are common everywhere). Immerse yourself and self teach using online resources. Deaf people LOVE when hearing folks try to communicate so they’ll do anything they can to help you out generally.
They’re so, so isolated in normal society. Any person that demonstrates interest in communicating will be welcomed with open arms. You’ll probably run into translators and families of deaf folks that hear and speak English just fine as well.
Keep in mind that many people who are deaf from birth do not know English very well, if at all. Trying to write back and forth in English will have mixed results, but until you’re faster at finger spelling that is a good crutch, but try to shake it as fast as you can. When you first go to hang out with deaf folks bring a small whiteboard or notepad if you can’t finger spell.
- Comment on Palworld had to remove game features because of Nintendo lawsuit 3 months ago:
You’re a fool.
- Comment on Palworld had to remove game features because of Nintendo lawsuit 3 months ago:
“Allowing bullying”
You walk up to kids that got their face punched in on a playground and tell them to quit being a little bitch, too?
- Comment on Don't be Evil 3 months ago:
Haters on here but yeah, it’s lame.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 3 months ago:
Oh dang I remember that
- Comment on Suggestions for a top down game that is genuinely different to all the others? 4 months ago:
The game defined the factory builder genre. Everything that followed (Dyson sphere project, satisfactory, shapez, etc etc etc) came after factorio (nicknamed cracktorio because of its addictive qualities) was released.
Gameplay wise it’s a top down with some vehicles and weapons, which is not unique at all, but the core of the gameplay loop was unique and spawned an entire sub genre of build games.
For the akshuallys in the room, it is possible that there were factory line builders before factorio that I’m not aware of, but none had the depth and breadth and definitely none were as popular/iconic.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 months ago:
There are countries where this is culturally how litter is managed. Japan is a fully developed example - bins are hard to come by, everyone brings their trash with them.
It can be done.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 5 months ago:
The Princess Bride
… Sorry. It’s just not good.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 5 months ago:
Thank you so much!
I hadn’t really considered how much of the knowledge is local. That makes sense though, in a duh why didn’t I already think of that kind of way.
I’m not ready to get started yet but I like reading about potential future hobbies or things I just find generally interesting, such as bee keeping, so the general knowledge will be fine for now.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 5 months ago:
Hello! I have considered getting into bee keeping as a retirement thing but I don’t know a good resource to start learning.
Are there any good online communities you can recommend, forums, etc?
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 6 months ago:
You need zero poker experience to play it. It’s not a poker game at all, just uses poker hands for scoring, and if you don’t know them they’re all displayed if you hit esc.