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- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 days ago:
I highly recommend reading this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 2 days ago:
Depends on who gets superpowers, and how such powers are acquired.
The broad strokes of The Boys makes some degree of sense if we start with the premise that some megacorporation controls the manufacture and publicity of all supers. However, if supers can come from other sources, then what limitations are we putting on the premise?
I am of the opinion that most people are inherently good. Most people are also inherently stupid and cowardly, but keep in mind that these circles on the venn diagram are independent of each other despite some overlap. However, if given an opportunity to choose between helping and hurting, without any fear of repercussions either way, most people would choose to help.
There’s a popular quote: “power corrupts”, which is a shortened version of “absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I think this quote misses something fundamental: “power attracts the corruptable”. In a world without gods, no one I’d ever trust to be one would ever actively make the choice to become one unless it was forced on them somehow.
If superpowers were distributed more randomly, then the odds of us getting a superman instead of a homelander improve greatly. Still a dice throw though.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
holy shit that looks bad.
If you have deus ex through steam, you can also get revision through steam and revision looks pretty good in my opinion.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
Something I’ve noticed, and it’s consistent enough that I suspect that microsoft does it on purpose, there’s a 50/50 chance that your windows instal will either be fine forever without problems, or plagued with constant issues that get worse with every update. 2 identical machines with the same install media can produce very different experiences.
I use linux now, and I no longer do tech support, so I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that shit anymore.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
it’s a bad argument, but the people claiming that Tylenol causes autism aren’t using logic to make their claim either.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 weeks ago:
i do like The Hu.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 3 weeks ago:
the fuck is wrong with you
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 weeks ago:
you think people even read it?
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 3 weeks ago:
Nintendo deserves a lot of shit for their business decisions, but not for their art directions. windwaker and sunshine still look good to this day by simply appling higher resolutions and some anti aliasing. No game with “realistic graphics” has ever stood the test of time.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 3 weeks ago:
Weight is in pounds. Only pounds. don’t ask me how much a gram or a ton is.
Volume, though, I still remember “Gallon Man” from 1st grade.
2 cups in a pint
2 pints in a quart
4 quarts in a gallon
What’s after gallons? not a clue.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 3 weeks ago:
yeah, it sucks. There’s no actual case for imperial over metric. it’s just what I’ve spent years getting used to and I’m not changing now.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
The dark side can be a pathway to many abilities some might consider … stupid.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
I know right? it’s such an intuitive system with a convenient unit for every scale you might want to work with.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
If you want to convert between imperial units, going straight from feet to miles is impractical. You’d be better off knowing the chart of survey units, and they’re all small numbers so they’re easy to remember.
12 inches in a foot
3 feet in a yard
22 yards in a chain
10 chains in a furlong
8 furlongs in a mile
Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 weeks ago:
I spent 3 hours stuck on one boss fight.
In most games, finally beating it would have me saying “thank fuck its over”.
In silksong, I’m saying “fuck yeah that was a good boss”. It’s a very different feeling, and one that I haven’t had the pleasure of enjoying in quite some time.
That said.
I think both hollow knight and silksong should have easy modes. It would be fine. It doesn’t hurt me any that someone else can have an easier time. People need to remember that video games are entertainment, and the sweaty “hardcore gamers” can fuck off with their usual judgemental elitism.
- Comment on asked and answered 4 weeks ago:
I’ll tell you when we were great. It’s when I was a kid and didn’t know how fucked shit was.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 4 weeks ago:
Just because a more accurate description exists, doesn’t mean that the less accurate description is fundamentally wrong. Depending on context, the less accurate description may be perfectly suitable for the subject at hand. If your priority is to be the most correct, then by all means go ahead and use the more accurate description.
I think this logic applies to a lot of things.
- Comment on T-Rex Burger 5 weeks ago:
deer fuck I want it
but I know wendy’s sucks and I’m going to a local place to get a better burger soon anyway, but just LOOK AT IT
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
Tesla. let’s talk about the bird.
- Comment on do what you love 1 month ago:
Stupid people are easier to control.
- Comment on Debatable 1 month ago:
not the slur I had in mind
- Comment on Debatable 1 month ago:
As a gay man, I think I can say this without it being controversial, kid looks like a {redacted}.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 month ago:
I’ve recently decided that I’m not spending more than $10 on a game until I’ve cleaned out my backlog.
There’s hundreds of games in my backlog, so it’s going to be a while.
- Comment on Anon gets a new jacket. 1 month ago:
The man is a dipshit, but that coat is dope as fuck.
- Comment on Lemmy.World blocks VPN? 1 month ago:
Does it? I’m using a vpn and I’m on .world and it seems to work just fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
gonna be honest, I don’t read the sidebar for 99% of subs that pop up in the all feed. Hell, I didn’t even check what sub I’m in now until halfway through typing this comment.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 months ago:
I remember. My family was always poor but my parents understood the value of technology. all of us had pcs, and we had a nintendo in the living room.
Granted, we were poor, so the tech we hooked up to the tv was a bit behind. I was hype as fuck to finally have a copy of The Guardian Legend for NES while my best friend was playing mario sunshine.
I think I had the better childhood.
- Comment on Cat > Chat every time 2 months ago:
yes, but you don’t turn my inane rambling into coherent notes.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 months ago:
the only thing worth more than money to these kinds of people is making other people suffer.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 months ago:
but if people are watching porn or having gay sex then they’re not making babies to sacrifice to the capitalist meat grinder.