JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 hours ago:
Honestly I think it’s just sticker shock. I would say that as soon as we get some people would be more willing to get more, but no, because people are hesitant to expand existing rail. MARTA please expand, I beg you. Oh great spirits of public transit, I pray that you soften the NIMBYs’ hearts.
It’s so upsetting that every small town in my state has an old historic train stop but none of them are actually passenger train stops anymore. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. I am 15 minutes from my town’s historic train stop which is a steak house now. My parents are about the same distance from theirs, probably even closer, but it’s a museum or something. Can I just take a walk to the train, ride down, and see them? Nope. Gotta deal with the hellscape that is metro Atlanta traffic.
- Comment on Suggestion 2 days ago:
I like me-mes and may-mays
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 days ago:
They have bills to pay even if I’m not a customer.
- Comment on Interesting way to deal with people who have had enough 2 days ago:
That’s true, but it depends on the location. Plenty of places you can sit at the bar and you don’t pay until the end.
- Comment on A true horror 3 days ago:
Then each room contains information about you from 2009 that Facebook collected in 2009. Which is honestly scarier I think.
- Comment on A true horror 3 days ago:
Ughhhhhhh. So many of my posts from the end of my highschool years are so cringe. Like, big important events worthy of celebrating like winning state championships. “WE OWNT THEMZ”. 😭
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 3 days ago:
Thanks for all you do Ada, you continue to be an inspiration.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 3 days ago:
I genuinely don’t know enough about what people who claim to be trans racial are even saying and why they’re saying it to form an opinion on it. My gut feeling is that it isn’t valid and they’re bad actors, but my gut has been wrong before.
So if someone told me “trans racial is just as valid as trans gender” I’d either not respond or just say “I don’t know about that.” and leave it at that.
Gentle reminder that if you believe someone is a bad actor and using dog whistles there isn’t a point in responding to things like this because you aren’t going to change their mind.
- Comment on Interesting way to deal with people who have had enough 3 days ago:
I’ve seen this reposted everywhere for like a year. It’s annoying to me that it doesn’t say if you’re expected to close your tab or not.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 3 days ago:
If they make it $1 a month and it doesn’t charge you for .months you don’t download anything I’d be fine.
- Comment on we are not the same 3 days ago:
I’ve never dreamt of this bathroom but I do have weird architecture dreams like this. So many of the liminal dream scape memes where people are like “I’ve had this exact dream” I’ve never had, but I definitely have similar ones. There’s a lot of just odd angular and excessive things like this. Sometimes there are explicitly non euclidian elements involved, but not often.
- Comment on Most time travelers probably have investments in Apple and Micosoft 4 days ago:
Open savings account. Travel to future. Withdraw. Travel to past. Deposit. Repeat as necessary.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 4 days ago:
Refusing to acknowledge that queer people exist is “political” and queer people engaging in escapism deserve to feel seem and included.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 4 days ago:
Huh??? How do you figure poor people aren’t empathetic???
- Comment on Basically 5 days ago:
Can’t wait to see the “pro choice” and “pro life” debates about forcibly resurrecting people.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You did not say might you said it would.
- Comment on Basically 5 days ago:
I’d be concerned that I was brought back to life.
- Comment on Basically 5 days ago:
The idea that he might use slave as a slur while understanding he was a free black man isn’t that crazy though.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You’re saying if we didn’t have the Switch we would’ve had the Steam Deck earlier but you’re also saying the Steam Deck is something totally independent of the Switch. But if it was totally independent, why do you think it would’ve come earlier if the Switch didn’t exist? That’s why I’m saying you’re contradicting yourself.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I don’t get this line of thinking… If you’re using arguments like “you can run past them but it’s safer to kill them so they stop attacking” how does that not apply to BotW/TotK? Obviously some eneny camps you ignore because they’re irrelevant, it is an open world game after all, all open world games are like that (many learned the hard way why you should ignore giants in Skyrim lol). But in areas where you’re trying to accomplish something, you “need” to kill them because they’re attacking. That’s still true.
You can’t say “I dislike the game because it doesn’t give me a reason to kill enemies” while saying “in Doom you don’t need to kill enemies but it’s easier if you do” when BotW/TotK are both easier if you kill enemies.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
You only think a game is fun if you’re willing to 100% it?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
There’s not a reason to fight most enemies in most video games to be honest. TotK mostly fixed the weapon breaking mechanic in my eyes. They’re much more durable now and last longer when fused (there is generally no reason to not do fusion). The only thing that’s more fun in BotW than TotK is riding a horse through Hyrule field while dodging tons of guardian lasers.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
TotK didn’t have real dungeons? Huh? I disagree with that criticism for BotW, but I can at least understand why people say it.
But I’m not gonna get into this. I like them. They’re very popular. A certain vocal subset of the Zelda fandom hate them. A certain vocal subset of the Zelda fandom has hated a lot of more opinionated Zelda games on release only to view them more favorably later. People loathed Wind Waker on release, but now tons of people love it. I think these games will be viewed more favorably by fans long term. Yes, they’re different from the others, but not all of them need to follow the same formula. Variety is the spice of life.
For example, I really enjoyed Link’s Awakening HD.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 6 days ago:
It’s okay, I couldn’t name all 50 states on a map.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
You’re contradicting yourself. If you believe the Steam Deck exists purely independently from the Switch and that we would’ve had the Steam Deck before the Switch if the Switch never existed, but we didn’t, it came after.
And no, I don’t think it invented some sort of magic technology, obviously I don’t think that. I’m saying the Steam Deck was good competition for the Switch in the portable/docked market (whatever we wanna call those).
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Competition is good. If the Switch didn’t exist then I don’t think we would’ve gotten the Steam Deck.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
BotW and TotK were both really good. Don’t mistake this as me saying “Nintendo is good actually”, more like a broken clock is right twice a day sort of statement.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 6 days ago:
I feel like the default is that you aren’t allowed to kill animals. Not as in most laws outlaw killing any animal, just that there are probably a lot of laws about randomly killing animals that aren’t like tiny bugs and stuff. Like you can’t just kill a deer unless you have a hunting permit. You can’t catch fish without a fishing license. Sure, you’re probably allowed to kill animals on your property that are a nuisance or anywhere in defense, but I wouldn’t just assume I can kill a random animal.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 6 days ago:
You might break something!
I got a 2 in literary metaphors.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 6 days ago:
all of North America, Mexico
Hmmm. I mean I guess I get mentioning UK separate from the EU, but idk about Ireland, isn’t it part of the EU?
To be very clear, I’m not trying to contradict that it’s illegal to kill seagulls in a lot of places.