damnedfurry
@damnedfurry@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 week ago:
It’s unfortunate the Viagra and Cialis didn’t do the trick, but we do have an alternate treatment we can try.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
It’s honestly hard to imagine how someone who’s this shit can even attain the title of “therapist”.
- Comment on Sex!? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s hard to know you’re ace before you become aware that sex is a thing most people want and seek, lol.
- Comment on He makes his plans for revenge 3 weeks ago:
Hater Ed
- Comment on Justice should be equal 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t make sense to compare a rate of an outcome (without even knowing how often that outcome was sought) with an individual attempt whose outcome is not even known yet.
When Mangione IS actually given the death penalty, this ‘argument’ will actually amount to something. Dumb until then.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
It’s exactly as long as it needed to be to explain everything it explained, and it is a completely dry comment with no real tone at all, the “rudeness” is of your own invention.
Ironically, “Firstly you could read user names before going off” is by far ruder than anything I wrote. Also, you’re assuming I’m the one who downvoted you–have you considered that maybe your tone earned that from someone else, maybe?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
But it has to be for something. And in Balatro, there simply isn’t any gambling. You never wager anything to win anything based on that wager. All you have are points, and you can neither wager them, nor lose them in any way, chance-based or otherwise.
There is zero gambling in Balatro.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
Minor correction, the three stages in an “ante” are the “blinds”. The game instead uses “stake” to describe its ‘ascension’ system (where going to a higher stake adds difficulty modifiers to the game, for those who don’t know what I mean by that).
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
Going off? Yeah, you asked a question, and I answered it. What are you talking about?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
A game just has to show characters gambling for it to be gambling imagery.
Okay. Well, Balatro doesn’t do that–no gambling of any kind happens in the game.
So, what’s your point, exactly?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
“Antes” are what Balatro calls its levels. Each level consists of 3 stages, which the game calls “blinds” (small/big/boss).
In poker, you don’t “beat” an ante, it’s part of what you bet. You also don’t “reach” blinds, nor is there such a thing as a “boss blind” in poker.
So yes, if you’re familiar with poker, that description should make it obvious that the words have different meanings in the game than they do in poker.
The only actual ‘mechanic’ that’s actually the same in Balatro as in poker is what comprises the different hands, and their relative value. And even then, there are also hands in Balatro that don’t exist in poker at all (five of a kind, flush house, etc.).
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 weeks ago:
Well, now I feel 20 years older, lol
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
Yatzhee is dice.
So is craps, one of the most popular casino games on the planet.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
Also, the simple fact is that there is no reason that any entity promoting their product has to choose any of these platforms over the other–you can just post to all of them, every single one that has enough users to be worth posting to.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
You literally do not make antes in Balatro, in any way.
You should know that you’re talking about before drawing conclusions.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 weeks ago:
There is a massive difference between someone who actively fights against their biases and doesn’t let them dictate the conclusions they reach, and is always open to changing those conclusions and their way of thinking as new information comes to their attention, and someone who clings to those biases, and happily ignores anything that may challenge them.
I only define the latter category as “ideologues”. Sure, technically everyone who is sapient has an ideology, but as the definition says:
an adherent of an ideology, especially one who is uncompromising and dogmatic.
I have a feeling you know very well that’s the kind of person I was talking about. And no, not everyone is like that. On Reddit I was once called a “commie” and a “Nazi” on the same day by different people in different subs, lol, both in reaction to being told a fact that contradicted a bias of theirs. Those are the kind of people I’m talking about.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy is just slower Reddit. Plenty of ideologues here.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 5 weeks ago:
FYI, the supposed “Nuclear Gandhi” bug is not a real thing:
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 5 weeks ago:
This is a myth, no such bug ever existed. There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it:
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 1 month ago:
Dogecoin is also not his. It came into existence in 2013. Elon’s first tweet about it was in 2020.
If anything, you could reasonably argue that both that department name and his interest in that particular cryptocurrency are based on his affinity for the same original meme. But neither the meme nor the currency belong to him.
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 1 month ago:
named after the cryptoscam
“doge” became a meme in 2010, long before cryptocurrency was a thing the mainstream were even aware of, let alone the one named after it.
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 1 month ago:
How mad you are is 10x funnier than the OOP, lol.
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 1 month ago:
I am, because my jokes are actually good, lol.
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 1 month ago:
Struck a nerve, huh?
It’s like writing a joke based on the premise that exercise makes you gain weight. It doesn’t, so any joke based on that is going to fall flat, except for people who think it does, lol.
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 1 month ago:
The premise of the analogy is that the typed characters are random, which is why the animal in it is one that doesn’t understand written English.
OOP doesn’t get it.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 2 months ago:
They’re not employed by me. Wages are between them and their boss. Any extra from anywhere else is a favor and not to be expected.
Hope that helps.
- Comment on anon working as behaviour interventionist 2 months ago:
And which orifice did you pass this take from, exactly?
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 2 months ago:
That’s the majority of them, but ragebait articles aren’t written about them, so you have no idea who they are.
Don’t be so easily manipulated by media.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 3 months ago:
Short answer is: to incentivize investment/entrepreneurship etc., which is good for the economy as a whole.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 3 months ago:
I realize that, and mainly considered the bottom of the range as a result; $18 is still a far cry from $12, after all.