chonglibloodsport
@chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
- Comment on NBA Playoffs: West Conf. Finals - May 20, 2026 1 week ago:
SGA agrees with you:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Not at all. We had a company wide town hall at my office recently and there was a huge debate about AI in the chat during a talk from one of the execs about AI strategy. Most people in the debate were staunchly anti-AI, with only a few developers in favour.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 1 week ago:
Where’s the Nu trek equivalent to Code of Honour?
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 2 weeks ago:
Try going to the bathroom before you’re at the point where your bladder feels like it’s going to explode!
- Comment on My shopping list: Coal 5 weeks ago:
Loading up on coal at 4am on the first day of BBQ season! Let’s go!
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 5 weeks ago:
Remastering and remaking an existing game is much easier than making a new game that’s actually good. Why do you think so many AAA companies have become obsessed with remakes and remasters? They’ve lost the creative talent to be able to make brand new hit games. And they’re too risk-averse to even try!
If you want new games that are actually good and innovative, your best bet is indie games. Indie games are more innovative and less risk-averse, operating on a sink-or-swim model (many separate indie game devs all competing).
- Comment on Refuses to work without yellow toner… cats are a pain 5 weeks ago:
Or get a black and white laser printer if you’re mainly printing text and not photos. Laser printed text is much sharper and more readable, plus the toner can’t dry up (it’s already a dry powder) the way ink does (this is why inkjet printers do so many “cleaning” cycles).
- Comment on Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update 5 weeks ago:
That’s a Steam issue with automatic updates. I much prefer games that distribute on their own and let you download any of the old versions you want. I’m not the type of person who plays old versions to exploit bugs in a single player game, but I don’t have any issue with people who want to do that.
- Comment on Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t want to include sports because I live in Canada and sports are so minor they’re basically a non-factor here, yet tuition costs are still insanely high (for international students, which reflects the true cost of education).
- Comment on Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did 5 weeks ago:
I’ve also seen professors who get kickbacks from the sale of textbooks up to and including professors making their own textbook that they authored a required text for the course.
Are you asking why education is so expensive? It’s because the amount of staff (especially non-teaching admin staff) employed by universities has ballooned way out of control. A modern university campus is basically a miniature city at this point. It has its own police force, hospital, doctors offices, therapists, many different restaurants, laundry services, recreation and entertainment facilities, gyms, climbing walls, libraries (had those forever though), residential buildings, academic study (outside class) facilities… On and on and on it goes.
All of that stuff is paid for by the students through tuition, residence fees, meal plans, and miscellaneous fees. Sure, the construction of the buildings is usually paid for by donations, government grants, or the school’s endowment fund, but the day-to-day operating costs and staffing are all paid by students.
You might then ask how we got here, or why we don’t have a “bare bones university” with none of that extra stuff? Simple: competition between universities combined with student demand. Bare Bones University is not going to attract the top students who already have a ton of better options.
- Comment on Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did 5 weeks ago:
Low volume and high costs mainly. The printing costs are dwarfed by all the writing, proofreading, layout, editing etc that goes into them. The $300 ones tend to be these massive books with a thousand pages of instruction, problem sets, images, infographics, etc. None of these books are selling a billion copies like 50 Shades of Grey either. The most famous textbooks maybe, but a lot of them would be lucky to sell a thousand copies.
And of course, yes, greedy giant publishing companies. But those companies publish books for many different courses and professors, plus I think they own academic journals as well (which make them way more money and cost way less to publish than textbooks do).
- Comment on Catch 22 vs. Rosenhan 1 month ago:
Yeah I get that the centre of the distribution is on the bullseye, it just doesn’t fit with the ordinary meaning of the word “accurate.”
It also falls apart with a small sample size. If I fire only a single shot and hit the bullseye, that doesn’t tell you anything. However, in everyday speech most people would describe that as an accurate shot.
- Comment on Catch 22 vs. Rosenhan 1 month ago:
The high accuracy, low precision regime seems so strange to me! I think not many would call that situation “high accuracy” with most of the shots missing the bullseye!
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 month ago:
The AAA game industry wants to leverage FOMO to keep you engaged, keep you buying the newest game, forgetting about your backlog.
If they had their way, older games would no longer be playable, just to force people to keep buying new games.
- Comment on What's in a name? 1 month ago:
That’s really unstable to me. Grows like a weed, needs constant pruning.
Stable is something like a succulent or a slow-growing epiphyte. Barely needs water or really any attention at all. Grows extremely slowly and can survive long droughts.
- Comment on More than a dipper 1 month ago:
Speak for yourself! Last time I went for a walk to get a snack at the local shop, I got scooped up by a giant shark and carried back to the water!
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 month ago:
Sure, though you don’t need a state of the art PC to play 90% of the games ever made. These days I play a lot of my games on an old 3DS (hacked to the gills)!
I also have a huge steam library of games, many of which I bought for next to nothing in huge bundles during past sales. Many of them I still haven’t played!
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 month ago:
Gaming is cheaper than ever. Just don’t buy new games. I haven’t bought a new AAA game in decades. There are thousands and thousands of games you can play for free or nearly free.
It’s like music. You can listen to lifetimes worth of music for free or nearly free. The only expensive thing is going to some fancy concert and giving a ton of money to Ticketmaster.
- Comment on What jobs do people from very upper-class wealthy families get? Or don't they have jobs and live off their families' wealth? 1 month ago:
They get jobs at white shoe law firms!
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 1 month ago:
Yes, though the air pocket is there right from the start. If you pierce the bottom of the shell with a pin before boiling then the egg will have less of a dent at the bottom after boiling, giving a more uniform shape.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 1 month ago:
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 1 month ago:
Works great when the money fire starts burning down!
- Comment on This is what ignoring experts looks like. 1 month ago:
Sadly, there are no rules against politics here, nor are there any rules requiring science content.
- Comment on After opening a jar of pizza sauce, how long would you trust it was still good in the fridge? 1 month ago:
If you have a big jar of sauce and you’re only using small amounts for pizza then definitely freeze after opening. You could even portion the jar out into smaller amounts using ziplock bags or ice cube trays!
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 2 months ago:
Code of Honour also sounds like it was written for TOS and just recycled. I think a lot of TNG season 1 was like that because they didn’t have characters defined well enough to write for yet.
Plot-driven sci-fi has always been quite bad TV. People need characters to identify with and follow. Season 1 TNG was plagued with plot-driven shows.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 2 months ago:
Given how many people are willing to bet their money on far worse odds, I think an 85% chance of winning is a bet a lot of people would be willing to take.
- Comment on Everytime 2 months ago:
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 2 months ago:
They are for marketing but not in the obvious way. Achievements really exist to tell game developers what parts of their game people are actually playing. Sure, some obscure achievements may be very hard to get and thus not tell them anything useful, but a lot of games have support basic checkpoint “achievements” like “start the game for the first time” or “play through the first level.”
With enough of these, a game developer can tell what parts of their game were entertaining and engaging and what parts were not. Sometimes this information can be used to decide how to improve the game. Other times it may only be useful as a lesson for future games (by that developer) to learn from.
- Comment on I just want juice, is that so much to ask? 2 months ago:
Mango is delicious but where I live the fresh stuff is never ripe. I have much better luck with frozen mango chunks!
- Comment on Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance 2 months ago:
Didn’t you know? Billionaires eat hundreds of millions of steaks a year!
