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- Comment on Having Ciri as The Witcher 4 lead will help the game explore the Witcher world's sexism, say CD Projekt 1 day ago:
And that’s going to upset a lot of losers!
Though I believe the scientific term is “low-status males”. But I’m sure some women who are losers would also be upset. A very small minority, but not zero!
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter launches in fall 2025 worldwide for PS5, Switch, and PC 1 day ago:
Thank you! Indeed I am there!
Keep enjoying SC. I loved it. A few people I’ve seen didn’t like the first few chapters, but imo it’s worth it to play through to the end.
My friend who loves the entire series says SC is his second favourite game in the series!
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter launches in fall 2025 worldwide for PS5, Switch, and PC 1 day ago:
I’m playing through the series now. Just finished SC/the second chapter!
It’s always fun to see someone else playing the same old game as you by coincidence.
- Comment on Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all? 2 days ago:
Well, it depends on how much profit across how many companies we’re looking at, along with how many lives we’re comparing to. Also whose lives.
There are people who get paid to make these kinds of decisions…
Cue Zap Brannigan’s quote…
Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make
- Comment on How likely will "Cloud Storage" eventually replace Local Storage? 6 days ago:
In some ways, it already has.
Lots of orgs that used to have file servers and data centres have been moving to things like OneDrive.
On-board storage space used to be a selling point for laptops, phones, and pre-built computers…but now some of them are coming bundled with a few months’ subscription to cloud storage. It’s been easy to find desktops with 0.5 or 1TB of storage space for years, yet the price of HDDs has been decreasing for years.
Plenty of people seem to use things like Google Drive as a way to move files or even to “save space on their devices” the way that we used to use thumbdrives or external drives (and yes, those are still viable methods of moving and backing up files, but it used to be the only way).
I think if your computer has only 0.5TB of storage, then the machine might as well be primarily a cloud storage-backed device. (Unless you’ve got your files elsewhere, etcetcetc). We’ll always need local storage for things like the OS and for more easily running whatever apps or files that were just downloaded off the cloud…so I don’t think it’ll ever go to 0. But 0.5TB is pretty darn close these days! Lol
And if you think that you’re not guilty of using cloud storage…tell me what percentage of your Steam library you have downloaded locally… Lol
(Steam isn’t cloud storage, but the principle is similar – “I don’t need to store my files because they’re available for me to download at any time from someone else’s computer!”)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A tool built by evil to fight evil could be a good thing.
But this is kind of like a tool built by evil to fight neutral in an evil way.
- Comment on Funko gets community noted 1 week ago:
What’s to say that this wasn’t just a combination of stupid actions?
Someone makes a report with the wrong category. Someone takes a way over-the-top action in response to the report.
There are a lot of idiots with a lot of power who do things without thinking them through.
- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 1 week ago:
A public system specifically would mean it’s run by the government. So that would need to be created by the government. Which means you’d need all relevant voting systems to vote in favour of it, which isn’t likely… especially given the last presidential election.
I imagine the biggest challenge of creating a non-profit health insurance thing is one of two things.
Firstly, anyone who has that much money would probably rather open a charity.
Secondly, people actually DO commit fraudulent claims, or try to claim things that they don’t need or that the health insurance company decided that they won’t cover. If the company doesn’t try to filter these out, it’d be losing more money than it expected to…and it’d go out of business.
Another factor is that being in the insurance business is already a losing model if you want to do good in the world. Hospitals will charge jacked up rates because they don’t have to worry about what a person can pay. They try to extract as much as they can out of the big insurance corporation, since the patient doesn’t care what the insurance company has to pay. So this non-profit insurance company would be paying as much as any other insurance company, more than any patient would be paying, and so it’d be losing money even just paying out all of its valid and covered claims, let alone the fake and unnecessary ones.
So, maybe you want to partner with the hospitals because, why should you pay as much as the evil companies, right?
Well, that sounds great from a consumer sense. But from a business perspective, that’d be suicide for the hospital – why would any other insurance company do business with that hospital if they’re giving one company discounts unfairly?
Or…maybe they do give discounts. But then they make less money and can’t pay the doctors as much (who can leave for work elsewhere), or buy the newest equipment, etc.
But if they do want to give discounts and just charge the company what things actually cost…at that point, you might as well be a charity.
And even then, you still need to budget for validating the claims that come in, because how do you choose who gets covered, and within that group, who gets priority?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Your writing style looks very young. I would’ve guessed that you were in high school, maybe on the earlier end.
If it’s friends online, you might want to focus on that. Proper capitalization and periods would help.
If it’s in real life, then you probably act or “feel” younger than you are. It could be something like not having “street smarts”.
- Comment on Does an international porn site like Pornhub take accents into account with their algorithm? Does an Australian watching Pornhub porn tend to get more porn with Australian accents than an American? 2 weeks ago:
Ahaha awesome, thanks.
Looks like it wouldn’t work well in Australia unless the models are not very privacy-conscious…lol
- Comment on Does an international porn site like Pornhub take accents into account with their algorithm? Does an Australian watching Pornhub porn tend to get more porn with Australian accents than an American? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, interesting! I wonder if that blocks the entire country, or just the region. And no, I’m not opening that link at work, lol
- Comment on Does an international porn site like Pornhub take accents into account with their algorithm? Does an Australian watching Pornhub porn tend to get more porn with Australian accents than an American? 2 weeks ago:
I think it goes by IP address of both the viewer and the uploader.
Australians are more likely to upload videos with Australian accents, and those are more likely to be shown to people in Australia. And they watch them, so viewership increases within the Australian market, so the algorithm continues down that line.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how to interpret “liegal”
Lie + legal
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
Sweet deal!!
Limbo was alright for me, but Inside blew my mind. So if Limbo doesn’t float your boat, don’t stop there!
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
Inside. Made by the same company as Limbo, but Inside is much more “don’t look up a single thing”
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes you need to know a bit about a game to know why it’s worth playing
- Comment on Persona vs Main Series 3 weeks ago:
Interesting. I saw Catherine on that chart, but not Jack Bros…
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 3 weeks ago:
Ohhh, thanks for the info!
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 3 weeks ago:
Just don’t use it for mass mailing external addresses. That’ll get you on a blacklist faster than you’d think.
What do you mean by this?
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 3 weeks ago:
Star Control 2
The Ur-Quan Masters
Free Stars
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
Outwordly trans people make up like 1% of the population. So one incident could screw with the stats more than you’d like.
I don’t think it would, especially if you look at it over a period of time.
It could definitely be misrepresented, but anyone with the intellectual curiosity to look at ratios would probably be less likely to misrepresent it.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
Even by population ratios, that’s gotta be really rare.
- Comment on Couldn't governments just remotely disable phones nearby to prevent evidence of police brutality from being recorded? 4 weeks ago:
just the knowledge that cameras were disabled in that area would be as damning as any video.
I wish it worked that way. Logically yes, but not in court (as far as I’m aware). At least not when the offending officer is on the stand
- Comment on Why do people say "quote unquote something" and not "quote something unquote" ? 4 weeks ago:
It’s useful for when you’re quoting someone who happens to use the exact same intonation as you!
- Comment on Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games 4 weeks ago:
Really? I thought their whole thing was that they sell DRM-free stuff
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
He’s a whole lot more than a speck of dust in the grand scheme of a person’s life.
Even just his 8 years is about 10% for most people. Then you have to add on the extra years of trailing effects…
- Comment on Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’ 4 weeks ago:
Especially the half that didn’t vote
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 weeks ago:
Why do you need Nintendo to loose? You wouldn’t rather Nintendo to tight?
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 weeks ago:
I think the problem would be similar. The rich and powerful would be the only ones to profit off of inventions and innovations.
We still have indie game devs today. Imagine if any company could just copy an indie game and scale it up/polish a bit and get all the sales.
- Comment on Nintendo sues streamer for playing pre-release, emulated Switch games 5 weeks ago:
Based on what?