chonglibloodsport
@chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 day ago:
There are varieties of rice that don’t require flooded fields. They’re called upland rice. They have issues with weeds and pest control that regular rice doesn’t have, but these varieties still manage to feed about a hundred million people.
- Comment on Evidence 4 days ago:
For being a science meme group, I’m seeing a distinct lack of understanding of how psychology, especially cognitive bias, works.
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 4 days ago:
Those kinds of arguments fail if someone believes that God created logic as well.
- Comment on I hacked mars! 1 week ago:
Ahhh. I thought that was just the haze of the red planet!
- Comment on I hacked mars! 1 week ago:
There isn’t enough CO2 for that either. Mars’s total atmospheric pressure is like 1% of Earth’s. Mars is closer to the Moon in terms of atmosphere than it is to Earth!
- Comment on You nomster! 2 weeks ago:
Jokes on you! I cracked open the keyboard and rewired the circuit so the scancodes are swapped!
- Comment on Birbs & Dinos 2 weeks ago:
Which is especially weird if you’ve ever held a bird in your hands and looked at its feet up close: birds are scaly!
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 weeks ago:
Right but part of identity is our relationships to other people. If I get Alzheimer’s disease and forget who my mother is, she’s still my mother even though I no longer remember her.
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 weeks ago:
What happens when a person has a brain injury causing retrograde amnesia, or dementia, or Alzheimer’s disease and forget the details of their lives? Are those forgotten aspects of their identity just gone? Or can they live on through their loved ones? What happens when we die and lose all possible sense of self? Is it like we never existed in the first place?
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 weeks ago:
Every person who knows you has a concept of you in their minds. This is a part of your identity which you don’t have direct control over, you can only negotiate with them over that.
This concept is intuitively known by everyone. It’s why people are negatively affected when others misgender them.
It’s also true in a formal sense. Part of your identity exists in the formal documents and information about you. This is the part that is vulnerable to identity theft which is painful in ways beyond the financial losses people incur as victims of this crime. Having to prove you are who you say you are is extremely exhausting and traumatizing to deal with despite essentially consisting of a bunch of paperwork and phone calls.
- Comment on Chop 💥 Chop 3 weeks ago:
I must be out of the loop. What’s going to cause all plants to go extinct?
- Comment on YOLO 3 weeks ago:
Surprised he didn’t win a Darwin Award for this one!
- Comment on How i meet your mother 3 weeks ago:
Brutal? The male bites her in order to merge with her! He connects to her circulatory system and takes all his sustenance from her.
He has found his sugar momma and he’s never gonna give her up!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Slop falls to the bottom but I bet a lot of hidden gems do too. The greater volume of games coming out, the harder it’ll be for individual developers to get recognized!
Old school indie developer Jeff Vogel has a whole talk about how difficult it is.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
Valve doesn’t set the prices but they provide the venue. Just like how Vegas provides the venue but doesn’t run the casinos.
Lots of other places have casinos but Vegas is the one everyone blames for the epidemic of gambling addictions. Vegas creates the conditions for problematic gambling that are much more powerful than a single casino.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
It’s not sales specifically that I have an issue with, it’s a business model based on selling people tons of games they don’t play. Is GOG doing that too? Well I don’t like that either, but at least I can take my games with me when I leave GOG because they’re DRM free downloads from a web browser.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
I’m not a compulsive gambler either, but I have friends who are. Am I not allowed to be opposed to gambling?
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think Steam is unreasonable, I just think they get way more goodwill from their customers than they probably deserve. It’s like with Apple or the Catholic Church. A lot of people love them but they do have ugly sides.
I think convincing people to buy games they never play is a scuzzy thing to do. Is it as scuzzy as gambling? No. But it’s not up there with something like a co-op bakery or coffee shop that sells products (and a cozy environment) at a reasonable price that people actually enjoy.
People have been saying “well they support indie game developers” and sure, yes indie game developers sell a lot of games during Steam sales. But there’s a problem there too: if loads of people are buying indie games but not playing them then that distorts the indie game market. It takes revenue away from less-well-known developers and gives it to popular/viral flash sale developers whose games people aren’t playing. That’s bad for anyone who wants to reward developers for making better games that we actually want to play but otherwise haven’t heard about.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s not the same as gambling, but it does exploit weaknesses in human psychology to get people to buy things they don’t need.
If you’re buying a game that you’ll never play just because it’s on sale, you’re not saving money.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
Proton is built on the open source project Wine and private products from CodeWeavers. Yes, Valve has contributed a tremendous amount to the project but they aren’t deserving of sole credit for it.
I own neither an Xbox nor a PlayStation (nor a Switch, for that matter).
There are LOADS of other options besides AAA games on the big platforms. There are countless vintage games, freeware, shareware, and abandonware that can all be played on the Internet Archive. There are countless indie developers out there to support, including some that have been in business for more than 30 years.
It really bothers me when gamers act like the big publishers are the only game in town (while also complaining about how bad AAA games are now). I mean if you like AAA games, fine, no argument there from me. But if you also like games for their stories and gameplay and don’t need AAA graphics to have a good time then there are thousands and thousands of options out there. I just think most people are unaware of them.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t give my position.
I don’t participate in steam sales anymore. I don’t buy anything on steam because I’ve already got way more games than I’ll ever be able to play. If there’s a new game that I really want to play I’ll try to get it from outside steam if I can, or at the very least make sure it’s DRM-free so I can play it without launching the steam client (I hate the steam client but that’s just my opinion and I won’t tell anyone else what to feel about it).
Do I think they should be banned from having sales? No. I also don’t think gambling should be made illegal even though I’ll continue trying to warn people away from gambling.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
I mean you can blame gamblers for losing all their money to Las Vegas too but that’s not a common opinion on Lemmy!
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
Done about what? I stopped using steam. I buy games directly from developers or from GOG or humble bundle as well as just supporting open source games.
Nothing I can do about GabeN’s yachts though!
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
It isn’t better though? GOG is a better service. DRM-free, web based downloads (galaxy is completely optional). They even invest development resources to get old games working better.
Steam is mostly the dominant platform due to first-mover advantage. They aren’t the best and most of the games on Steam aren’t even exclusives.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 4 weeks ago:
To get YouTube to work you need to curate your watch history. Any video you regret watching should be deleted from history so that it won’t be used for recommendations.
If your history is filled with these bad videos then you’re better off wiping your history entirely. Then start from scratch watching only videos that really interest you and your recommendations will all be based on those.
Like the internet itself, there is a TON of great content on YouTube. The trouble is finding it! For me, the internet has been gradually reverting to the situation I remember from the mid-90s (before Google existed). There were lots of search engines but they were pretty much all bad. I relied a lot on word of mouth (and site-to-site links) to find things.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 4 weeks ago:
Never thought I’d see the day when Lemmy has nice things to say about a billionaire who owns multiple yachts!
There’s a story recently about how a huge percentage of people’s steam libraries are never played. People just spending money on steam sales and amassing huge backlogs of games they’ll never get to. Valve has mastered the art of using sales to create FOMO and drive unnecessary spending!
- Comment on Soup 4 weeks ago:
So if I just pour enough water on my salad it becomes a broth? Awesome!
- Comment on Anon is eyemaxxing 5 weeks ago:
Too much eye contact can be threatening (predatory animals are really good at staring). There’s a fine line between eye contact with romantic/sexual overtones and aggressive/scary/creepy eye contact. If they’re avoiding your gaze then it might be the latter.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 5 weeks ago:
Just get Maxwell’s demon to separate the plasma into positive and negative charges, effectively creating a capacitor, then discharge it directly over some HVDC lines!
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 5 weeks ago:
I love VtM:B but I never had high hopes for this one. Direct sequels made by unrelated developers rarely work out.