chillhelm

@chillhelm@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do kids of rich people feel loved, or are their rich parents toxic?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can generalize to the degree you are implying here.

  There are significant differences between how we (as in humans) act outside the family and inside the family. Somebody may be toxic, have substance abuse issues, or display sociopathic traits outwardly but be a kind, loving and caring person towards their children. This discrepancy would of course create conflict, but parents not being perfect is also perfectly normal and happens in middle class families too.

  I personally know a couple of people from fairly rich families. And while some of them definitely had toxic parents, some did not. Most of them are just people. In a lot of cases its just a case of ignorance. How they react to being confronted with their ignorance is IMHO more relevant for character judgement and that is also a trait instilled by their parents.

  For what it’s worth, the absolutely worst parents I know are thoroughly middle class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, the only hardware component you can actually download is RAM. And increased hardware prices are going to be the primary cost factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The explosive was inside the battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Openblack is a an attempt to recreate lost god game Black & White in a modern, open source game engine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Step 1. Think of a game that you loved 10+ years ago and you can’t buy anymore (like Black & White, Need For Speed: Underground,…)

  Step 2. Go to myabandonware.com and use the search function.

  Step 3. Use Lutris to manage the installation process.

  You won’t get everything. But you will get a lot of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Openblack is a an attempt to recreate lost god game Black & White in a modern, open source game engine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not lost if you are capable of going to myabandonware.com and using Kurtis.

  Good effort, regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Boys — Season Four⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. He is bad and he should feel bad. He was sad because his evil plans didn’t work out the way he had hoped. He is alone because he abuses the people around him because he considers himself a superior being for whom others are just play things.

  His backstory of abuse goes a way to explain why he is the way he is, but it does not excuse it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨suck it, math nerds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct answer. Pi is known. What it’s decimal expansion looks like is irrelevant. It’s 1 in base Pi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patagonia’s Profits Are Funding Conservation — and Politics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While I like the focus of Holdfasts spending, it’s still a bad precedent to set.

  Not only is this fuel for all the pizzagate-bezos-conspiracy nuts, it is also just green washed corporate control over public policy.

  In the end, better Holdfasts and the Choutiers than the Kochs, but at the end of the day, we’ll have the Choutiers too.