jaycifer
@jaycifer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 6 days ago:
The Dungeons and Dragons idle game has a champion that is composed of Nerds candy pieces. It’s actually a fun character concept because you can switch the nerds around to different colors, each one with a different class that changes how their mechanics work. But it’s just so weird seeing candy you can eat alongside Drizzt Do’urden that I never use them.
- Comment on How do I unrot my brain from AI, how do I start using ChatGPT less and less, and is improv a good enough way to fix an AI-rotted brain? 6 days ago:
My understanding is that the reason the brain gets rotted by AI is because you do less thinking per question/problem, leading to your mind thinking less in general and getting used to that. So the solution should be to get your brain thinking more to readjust back to where it was (and beyond!).
A day or two ago in another thread someone posted these two daily brain teaser websites:
You could try replacing some time spent scrolling each day with solving these. Minutecryptic especially is requiring me to flex my mind in new ways.
- Comment on 007 First Light sequels will be 'done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,' Amazon exec says 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand, you’re going to not buy a game that you presumably want developed by one studio because a sequel that does not exist and is developed by another studio because that non-existent, effectively unrelated game might be worse? Why not just get the one good game you want and ignore the games Amazon develops?
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 2 weeks ago:
If it was a button you pushed once instead of something you need to download and set up do you think they still wouldn’t use it?
- Comment on [Giveaway] I have some games to share with the world 4 weeks ago:
Man, I still think about that Humble Origin bundle sometimes. Being a broke high schooler at the time, $5 for Mirror’s Edge, Crysis 2, Dead Space, and more was a helluva deal!
- Comment on Day 645 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
This doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but when I first glanced at the thumbnail on my phone, I thought it was the characters Beth and Summer Smith from Rick and Morty looking away from the camera at a cliffside view. The treetops kinda looked like their hair.
- Comment on Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune? 1 month ago:
If he’s been a plumber for 40 years, then he obviously has a track record of not making enough mistakes to lose insurance.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I see what you’re saying as well. I’m coming from the perspective of having worked at a chain pizza place for 6 years in the past and seeing drivers double check orders before leaving and sometimes having to drive back to deliver something they missed. I feel like that should be a reasonable expectation for Doordash drivers, but then the bag is sealed, presumably to keep the driver from messing with/eating the food, which also seems like a negative to me. If they can’t be trusted not to eat my food, how can I trust them to deliver it?
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 1 month ago:
It sounds like if I watch any of his videos it will need to be with a critical mind and an eye toward further paths of research from other sources.
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 1 month ago:
Interesting, this is the first I’ve heard of him or the channel. Thanks!
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 1 month ago:
Who is this guy? Someone else mentioned Man Carrying Thing, but that’s a skit channel, and not in China like another person said.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 1 month ago:
The driver could check that all of the stuff is there before bringing it to you. At the end of the day why should I care more about how the mistake happens than that it happens?
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 1 month ago:
If I used a service that messed up my orders frequently enough to make such a statistic, I’d stop using that service.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 1 month ago:
Spending extra money for generally worse service to save a couple minutes of typing is actually the epitome of laziness.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 months ago:
If you read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein that may give you an idea.
Otherwise, I attended Porcfest, the libertarian Porcupine Freedom Festival, back in 2016. Although it’s labeled libertarian, most folks I talked to discussed anarchy. One of the presentations I remember asserted that 8 is the optimal number of individuals in a decision making group. In his ideal anarchy individual people would assemble in groups of 8, who would then gather their groups or reps from their groups into a higher group of 8, and so on. Effectively higher level group decisions, if needed, would be made by a council that could be traced back to any individual.
I don’t know that that’s a good plan, but it may get your mind going on how to think about the topic.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 2 months ago:
I have a lot of thoughts and feelings related to the book because, while there is a lot of garbage in it, the core thesis spelled out at one point in the last third I think is very worthwhile and came at a time in my life (just turned 21 when I first read it) that it helped shape my political views. As another commenter said Heinlein was never very consistent in the politics portrayed in his stories, which I’ve understood as him exploring various views more than wholeheartedly endorsing any one of them.
First, the garbage. It’s pretty clearly pro military, as the in-book government was established by veterans seizing power and the primary path to having political power (being a voting citizen as opposed to a civilian) is through military service. There’s lip service paid that it’s any kind of civil service (Neil Patrick Harris’s character goes off to a research lab for experimenting in the book), but it’s only a sentence or two. No source on this, but my gut says Heinlein probably wanted to explore the idea more but was hampered by the fact he was writing a space military adventure and needed to focus on that. There’s also a lot of 50’s values espoused for separating genders into different groups and that spanking your kids is good no matter what the “bleeding hearts” might say.
The biggest difference that bothers me between the book and movie is how soldier lives are valued, best displayed through the tactics humanity uses. In the movie humanity uses almost the same strategy as the bugs. Get a lot of troops, equip them about as cheaply as possible, then send swarms of them to deal with bugs. Mass casualties are a given. The book is one of if not the first example of power armor turning a soldier into almost a one man army. It’s stated at one point that a single soldier is about as effective as 1000 bug drones in combat. This, along with statements from multiple officers throughout the book, shows me that individual soldier lives are actually valued in the book, and that while they are spent they are not wasted the way they are in the movie.
But for me, the most important takeaway from the book is a lecture given to Johnny Rico during officer school where the instructor lays out why service is required for citizenship. Essentially the goal is to ensure that the only people making decisions on behalf of society (ie politicians and the people that vote them in) are putting the good of that society over their own personal wellbeing. The service citizens go through is meant to weed out selfish people by putting them through difficult experiences where it would be in their best interest to quit rather than continue. While I doubt the book’s system would actually achieve that, I do think that the value of society-serving rather than self-serving voters and politicians is correct and probably the most important thing that a society could achieve (not that I know how to achieve that). It’s the first thing I ask myself when deciding who to vote for now, “does this person actually care about the people they’ll be representing or are they just interested in having power?”
- Comment on What genre is Towerfall Ascension, and do you have any favorite examples? 2 months ago:
I think I would call it a platform arena fighting game. One similar game I don’t see mentioned is an arcade game called Killer Queen if there’s a cabinet in your area: www.killerqueenarcade.com
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 months ago:
“Usually it’s considered pretty stupid to be proud of things you didn’t have a hand in.” Is it stupid to be proud of a friend when they accomplish something you didn’t help with, just because they are a part of your life and you want to see them succeed? Could that not be extrapolated out to pride in one’s country when it accomplishes something, even if all you directly contributed was your tax money? “Why be proud of where you were born, when it was just random chance?” Because the place I was born creates the circumstances in which I was raised, forming the environment that shapes my values, worldview, and culture. I don’t think I should feel like I deserve credit, but why not have pride in knowing that I have the opportunity to carry on the legacy and work that accomplished pride-worthy things in the past?
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 4 months ago:
There were many decades between the proliferation of home phones and cell phones. During that time many people may be away from home and need to contact someone over the phone. Payphones were installed in public places that anyone could use to meet that need. They took change in exchange for minutes using the phone.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 5 months ago:
Thanks for reminding me Assassins Creed Syndicate came out 10 years ago.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 5 months ago:
I agree, but I think there are enough people who conflate working class with blue collar that making the distinction is justified.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 months ago:
I think a lot of it stems from living in a relatively young, immigration heavy, multicultural country and the little conversations that arise from that.
At least in the city I grew up and still live in I have met a lot of people who either immigrated or whose parents immigrated from other countries. In high school human geography I learned it takes a couple generations for an immigrant family to fully assimilate into a new culture, so a lot of these first/second generation immigrants still have connections and traditions from their family’s old country. The history of those countries (or at least the regions modern countries occupy) stretch back hundreds to thousands of years. I think many caucasian Americans, often raised to be competitive, want that sense of history when comparing to their own family but American culture has “only” developed over the past 300-400 years. To get an older/deeper sense of heritage they have to ask where their ancestors that immigrated to the US immigrated from, and because a sense of superiority is at least some part of American culture that older heritage has to be better than the other older heritages and therefore something to be loud and proud about. Even if it isn’t actually a big part of one’s life.
All that to say yes I think you’re right about it being a matter of ethnic distinction, which I think is brought about by the circumstances of US history. I definitely get how it’s annoying.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 months ago:
Potentially annoying American here with a point of clarification: is it annoying just to be interested in one’s heritage, or is it Americans that make that heritage their entire personality?
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 months ago:
I mean, I could care less, but calculating exactly how little I care would take more effort than I care to give.
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- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 5 months ago:
Why is having employees and especially why is exploiting employees necessary to define something as capitalism?
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4 | Review Thread 6 months ago:
Were you around when it released? There was a somewhat small but steady voice online that disliked the weapon degradation, lack of traditional dungeons, the small scale of what dungeons there were, and the clunkiness of the UI.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 6 months ago:
2-5 times a year I get really into Enlisted. It’s a really grindy free to play game, it feels like 90% of my teammates fail to work toward the objective, and every other round there’s an enemy player that paid for overpowered equipment wiping us out.
But man, it is a thrill to charge through whizzing bullets to get into the midst of the other team before firing round after round from a lee enfield bolt action. And if I am playing with friends there is constant strategic and tactical chatter that makes it so engaging.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 7 months ago:
So am I to assume there was more to the story that didn’t click with you than the optional narrative sub-branch that you chose not to engage with?
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 7 months ago:
Out of curiosity, who did you romance, and why?