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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I got a school zone ticket at 1:30 AM, not only would I take it to court, the judge would 100% throw it out because those rules would never be applicable in the dead of night. Seems strange to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are your school zones active 24/7? In some states, they’re only active for like 1-2 hours leading up to and just after school starts, then again from just before school lets out and active for another 1-2 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He saved the world.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It ain’t that kid’s first time lying to the cops. He’s done it enough to be confident this will be fine. I mean, even if he gets caught, what are they going to do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The 3DS was a solid console. It had homebrew on top of its game library. If you want the authentic original experience, it’s hard to argue with. If you want the actual 3D effect, I think this is your only option.

  If you don’t care so much about authenticity, though, there are some amazing emulator handhelds these days that even include a second touch screen for DS and 3DS games. They don’t do the 3D effect as far as I know, but they’ll emulate DS and 3DS as well as every handheld that came before them and many couch consoles. If you just want to be able to portably play 3DS games, get one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just give it a minute to warm up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you know the somatic component, you can cast Discombobulate.

  If you’re casting it on someone else, verbal components can heighten the spell, but the exact incantation varies by target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont get the “someone elses problem” though. If the item is still perfectly usable then why would the next owner not also just want to use it? I personally value a hand me down that “served” my family for ages over “new thing”

  Because eventually, inevitably, there can’t be a next owner and it becomes garbage. Then, you’re right back to contributing to plastics pollution because while you can say that

  If it is broken then it can get a new life by getting recycled

  The reality is that a huge portion of plastic doesn’t get recycled.

  If items where durable, reliable, repairable. People will be more capable to perceive their value and be more concious about what happens to it after it breaks because losing it will hurt. Not quite like but somewhat similar to how we care about what happens to remains after death.

  I think you’d need a massive cultural shift to make it plausible, not just different stuff. And while we should be recycling, I don’t think it’s the right emphasis right now because recycling is largely an attempt by the oil and plastics companies to put the onus on us for the environmental harm caused by their product. It’s an attempt to fabricate an excuse to produce things out of plastic that really don’t need to be, and we’ve fallen for it. Of course we should recycle all the plastic we use, but we still shouldn’t be using plastic anywhere we don’t have to. There’s a reason the saying is “reduce, reuse, recycle”. They’re in order of priority, and recycling is the last defense. We need to start by significantly reducing the amount of plastic we use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally i think plastics are fine if the product is actually durable

  My problem is this just kicks the can down the road. Some day, no matter what, that plastic is becoming waste. Maybe it gets recycled, but most likely, it doesn’t. If it doesn’t need to be plastic, it should not be plastic. Questioning if it’ll last long enough is just asking if it can last long enough to be someone else’s problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove top⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’d cost an extra 3 cents to use other packaging!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenFront, QuakeWorld, Duke Nukem 3D, and Xonotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The N-company be like:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Need is probably a strong word. Why bother working through a proper port when you can port a single emulator and sell dozens of your own pirated games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just get an emulation handheld. With Steam offering ARM support through a translation layer, a strong one can even run a surprising array of PC games these days. My Retroid Pocket Flip 2 isn’t even that nice as far as these things go, and it plays just about any 2D game I’ve tried and a lot of 3D from the '00s and early '10s, later if they don’t press limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody who actually made the game is gonna see a dime of the money from your sale. Why the fuck do I give the slightest shit about contributing to some Ubisoft exec’s yacht?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Throwback to a simpler time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing through this and collecting the RetroAchievements for it. I keep picking up my handheld for other games before deciding to tackle a few more puzzles instead. I’ll be both relieved and a little disappointed to finish it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s no relief on hardware, the odds go up. Game devs have been able to constantly chase higher highs because consumer hardware has constantly evolved. There’s been zero pressure to optimize or to rein in the graphics because a ton of people can still play day 1, and a bunch more will become able to play them soon as they yearn for it and strive to upgrade.

  But if users can’t upgrade because hardware is obscenely expensive or rare? That stops being the case. They have to cater to the average consumer in AAA because they desperately need to recoup the obscenely massive investment in development. If they refuse to optimize, if they insist on pushing graphics to ever new heights, they won’t sell shit because nobody will be able to run it. The market will demand that they start working within some limitations.

  Or the AI bubble pops, hardware goes back to being affordable, and the idea of limitations becomes little more than a bad dream to execs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All those things you want are divorced from the hardware for the most part, though. A gripping story has virtually no bearing on hardware requirements. Map complexity could be maintained by simply scaling down the graphical polish. Total game time is also almost totally decoupled from hardware strength.

  If anything, I would argue that AAA’s constant emphasis on graphics detracts from those. Maps can be more complex if they have less polygons and processing. They could spend more time fixing up the stories if they weren’t hemorrhaging money on art that’s way more detailed than it needs to be, and they would be more free to pivot if they need to because it’s not as expensive to edit whatever needs it. It’s way easier to make more content to extend the game time when it doesn’t cost the moon and stars to add more fresh art to flesh it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the long game is to kill gaming from two directions. Game Studio deaths and making PC components unaffordable for working class.

  They can kill AAA gaming, but devs will just learn to adapt to the hardware limitations of their time. If you’ve got a device you can install stuff on, devs will figure out how to make it run games. They may not be as shiny, which is practically sacrilege to the AAA player community, but so long as we have hardware, we’ll have games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is my 25th birthday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if getting old sucks ass, it beats the hell out of the alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this absolute bullshit from reddit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can even get RSS feeds for channels. I use Miniflux, and it’ll make a feed just from the channel URL, but I think there might technically be a “proper” URL for the feed that other clients might need instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holding sex⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably already censored when people find it, and uncensoring it would probably be a pain to do well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did he died yet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, don’t worry. We’ll 25th Trump once Vance doesn’t have to count his promotion towards term limits. Hope you’re ready for up to ten years of Vance!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But in the former, the 6 dividend would be over the entire 2(3) divisor.

  I have never heard of or seen an example of anyone using / and ÷ in different ways. If you want multiple terms in your divisor, either write it as a large fraction with all relevant terms in the dividend or divisor, or use parentheses. This just seems like sloppy notation to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, I’d say the answer is 1. Top and bottom are each resolved to the fullest extent possible before dividing top by bottom. It’s equivalent to (top)÷(bottom), but it’s clearer and preferable if you can easily format that way in my opinion, just harder on a computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a little different when you’re working with variables. A variable with a coefficient is generally treated more as a single unit compared to two plain constants being operated on in some way. It’s an incomplete operation since there’s missing information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you forget that multiplication happens left to right and that a(b) is simply a different way to write a×b with no other extra steps or considerations. The P in PEMDAS just means resolve what’s INSIDE the parentheses first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The P in PEMDAS just means resolve what’s inside the parentheses first. After that, it’s just simple multiplication with adjacent terms, and multiplication and division happen together left to right.

  6÷2(1+2)

  6÷2(3)

  3(3)

  9

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The decrees are basically glorified memos. They hold little to no legal weight in and of themselves, except that they direct the agencies that work under the president’s control, so it’s less legally binding document and more written order from your boss. The problem is that he writes ones directing them to do illegal shit, and they just do it because they know Trump and the rest of the Republicans spent decades packing the courts to protect them when this day came, and if they packed the courts, they’re sure as hell not gonna ruin all that work by properly using their congressional powers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He is de facto incredibly powerful, but he is de jure not. He’s only capable of doing those things because the checks and balances failed through the coordinated efforts of hundreds of Republican congressmen. Every heinous act that goes unchecked bears the implicit seal of approval of the entire Republican party. He could do many of the things you claim he’s powerless to do, too, but he doesn’t want to, and all the mechanisms meant to force him to have failed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, in many ways the president doesn’t have the power. But Republicans in congress are complicit, so when he does incredibly illegal, batshit crazy stuff, none of the mechanisms to keep him in check function. Him being president is a big problem, but the real problem here is the complete abdication of responsibility by those meant to check him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been technically possible, but I think we’re only now getting to the point where it’s economically feasible to do on a large scale to a whole society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God dammit, we can be tracked by the fucking tire sensors? Fucking hate this timeline…