supersquirrel
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- Comment on Warning 6 days ago:
you became general because there was a bright light above the generals cabin next to your hole you normally lurk under beneath the stone at the bend in the river, the general leaned too far over peering down at you while out on a smoke break and fell in and tragically drowned, the peculiar thing was as he was sinking and thrashing about his uniform came off and landed on top of you, the alien enveloping of the sinking garments spooked you and you shot clear out of the water and through the still open door of the cabin right into an austere but plush leather chair behind a monsterously large desk. The next moment the guards rushed in having heard a commotion and were relieved to find the general had only went for an imprompto nightime dip in the river after foolishly slipping and falling in…and to hide it the general had quickly leaped out and returned inside putting on a blank neutral expression as if they weren’t slimey and soaking wet.
Since then you have been doing a great job honestly
- Comment on Epic’s holiday sale includes 16 free games this year 1 week ago:
yeah it really is a non-issue, with something like the Heroic Launcher it really isn’t any less convenient than buying from steam.
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 2 weeks ago:
I will never forgive their complicity in the Iraq war and I treat anyone who reads the NYT without simultaneously harboring a constant distaste for it as fundamentally unserious in their practice of educating themselves about reality.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
There is no way this person will be apprehended alive, they could walk up to a police station naked with their hands up get on their knees, every single police officer they could possibly encounter will universally calmly raise their gun and shoot them dead in broad daylight and Corporate America will cheer them on.
If you think the police will do otherwise, you misunderstand the essential function of police especially in the US.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
What makes an act evil or not is a really complicated question unless the action in question is mass murder. In that case, there isn’t a debate, it is evil, there is no slipper slope. The CEO undeniably caused the deaths of countless people and maimed and permanently hurt many more. At least the person who killed the CEO actually carried out the act of taking someone’s life themselves, undertaking the action and witnessing it. The healthcare CEO on the other hand was the most cowardly kind of murderer.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call it cold blooded, the CEO was cold blooded. The shooter presumably only murdered one person, the healthcare CEO was undoubtedly a mass murderer.
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 2 weeks ago:
r is over here feeling betrayed
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 2 weeks ago:
Hot take this is one of the reasons pseudo-code or even sometimes code is easier to parse than formal math expressions.
What do the variables mean? It is often difficult or impossible to google them even if you know the correct name of the symbol and there is very little consistency to give you hints, a symbol in superscript is an exponent? A signifier?
The only math notation I have encountered that I actually think is elegant is set theory and category theory notation.
- Comment on FIGHT 2 weeks ago:
Rand Paul is just mad if scientists keep investigating someone is going to realize the only thing going on in his head is two hampsters boxing.
- Comment on 5x Evolutionary Winner 3 weeks ago:
So what you are saying is alpha men are all cucks to the limitations of whatever masculinity arbitrarily idolizes even at the cost of being defenseless against squaking demons swooping down, plucking you up and giving you a one way ride 200 feet up into the air above the cold hard rocks?
Checks out I guess as a metaphor actually.
- Comment on 5x Evolutionary Winner 3 weeks ago:
Does this mean seagulls are OP?
- Free & Moddable Tactical Shooter, Operation Harshdoorstop, Nears Major 2nd Anniversary Updateyoutu.be ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 3 weeks ago:
Oh they are but they are squished inside mechanical turks in countries you have never heard of doing the most inane or shocking things over and over again for horrendous wages to keep the dream of whatever “smart” “ai” nonsense they are currently selling alive but yes… I don’t disagree with the thrust of your point here, you are right.
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 3 weeks ago:
Definitely but that isn’t something inherent to gaming on a phone.
There are occasional actually good paid games on mobile but they get hopelessly buried, there is no reason it has to be this way though, this is a result of atrocious, catastrophic failure to steward a platform and ecosystem.
- The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...?sopuli.xyz ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 7 comments
- Comment on Driveloop is a mental mixture of Mad Max and Vampire Survivors 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Renegade Ops.
store.steampowered.com/app/99300/Renegade_Ops/
Maybe this game could get co-op someday?
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 4 weeks ago:
I am not trying to argue this isn’t also true too, my argument is that the fediverse doesn’t have a marketing department so the framework of discussion around the fediverse in mass media will always be fit to whatever the most convenient narrative is for the corporate tech world.
That isn’t to say the fediverse doesn’t also have existential accessibility issues on multiple dimensions.
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 4 weeks ago:
In the near term of course bluesky will, it has hype, it has rich tech people on it, it has 10s of millions of investment it can throw at stuff.
This is not how Mastodon or the Fediverse grows, our growth is real, not based on hyped and marketing. People come and stay here because it is a nice place, not because it is a popular or exciting new hangout spot that all the rich cool people are going to.
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 4 weeks ago:
Until Mastedon can appeal to simple minded mainstream basic folk (which is a pretty good size of netizens) it will always be a niche group.
I think the bigger problem is that the press starts from the perspective that Mastodon and the Fediverse is just for techie nerds and then fills out the narrative with supporting details and so unless those narratives are challenged Mastodon and the Fediverse will never be for normal people because the Tech press and the money behind it won’t let that narrative stick in the general public’s minds.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
A bridge is a tool for connecting things don’t connect, it is not federation.
The relay layer/app view forces you under the control of a centralized, the only thing meaningful about that kind of federation is hosting costs for processing and storing post data are offloaded onto the user.
Which when you think about it is actually pretty fucking insulting to the fediverse and what is trying to be when bluesky pretends it is aiming for federation and decentralization.
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 4 weeks ago:
there is a youtube channel that shows all that shit tho
m.youtube.com/user/SchmidtOceanVideos
It is hours and hours of the most powerful non-fiction hallucinogens you can possibly take but also it is very calming and relaxed often with a friendly science narrator.
In a way I guess it is like going on a field trip with Mrs. Frizzle but from the slightly horrifying perspective of actually being on the field trip.
The deep sea dropped so much acid it just got stuck down there, and at this point nobody fucks around down in that neighborhood when it comes to being as absolutely fucking weird as possible.
Scifi movies don’t have shit on the actual real deep sea.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
Try going to the home page of instances of accounts you like (or of instances that seem interesting) and browsing there federated feed, you can discover tons that way.
As a general mastodon instance mas.to looks good and is a nice size with a good stable history.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
bluesky does not have functional federation by any reasonable measure.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
Curation was made by users.
Right, users not corporations make social networks, so the community not for profit corporations should own those social networks.
Can we not all see this as the same old pattern of predatory rent seeking behavior applied to online communities just seasoned with even more jargon and condescending handwaved half explanations?
- Comment on Epic roguelike Caves of Qud now has a proper tutorial 1 month ago:
What an epic game, I haven’t really gotten into it beyond the initial zone but even the world building of the default starter zone is fantastic. I feel like this game transports me to a different place more than any AAA game with gorgeous graphics.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 1 month ago:
Subspace Continuum
- Comment on Radio Station Replaces Journalists With AI 'Presenters' 1 month ago:
Freight trains are thousands of feet long and haul unbelievably large quantities of material, the idea that it is inefficient to have a human (really a pair of humans) oversee and be responsible for a machine that large is laughable honestly.
…so is the idea that there is a genuine shortage of people willing to work as conductors, it is a convenient lie companies tell to rationalize why nobody wants to work for them because they pay shit and respect their employees so little that they won’t even give them unpaid time for necessary doctors appointments.
This point is even more true for passenger trains.
- Comment on Radio Station Replaces Journalists With AI 'Presenters' 1 month ago:
Why do we need to get rid of the job of human radio presenter?
Techbros keep telling me AI frees people up to stop working shitty jobs and pursue their dreams, but the truth is none of these tech evangelists give a shit about anyone’s dreams if they aren’t some lame vision of factorio where the factories pollute the planet churning out ripoffs of human culture.
- Comment on Netflix's "Team Blue" of Halo, Overwatch and God Of War vets close without a single game to their name 1 month ago:
Pathetic showing for a massive waste of talent and money.
- Comment on Arma 4 will release in 2027 2 months ago:
This is good news and between Operation Harsh Doorstop/other unreal engine games in the pipeline with modding support and arma reforger/arma 4 we are finally leaving the era of stagnant big map shooter design where modding options were basically the source engine or sticking to the ancient and abandoned bf2 engine.
Will performance be prioritized in development though? Given bohemias track record I doubt it, and it really heavily limits the potential of their games compared to a game like Easy Red 2 or Operation Harsh Doorstop that can easily simulate large battles on even a mediocre gaming computer with humans and tons of ai.
