daniskarma

@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never hurts to check though⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let my write on LinkedIn that circumcized people cannot play gta VI and enjoy the AIshitshow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot of people who try to start a religion are seen as mentally ill. Like Jim Jones, David Koresh, the UFO guy, and L Ron Hubbard. Then could it be a safe bet that Jesus was mentally ill?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus was 50% terrorist, 50% delusional.

  Jesus was Jewish as we all know. But he was not the main Jewish faith. He was part of the Baptist cult. As his friend/family John the Baptist. When John gets executed, Jesus radicalized.

  It’s a story old as time, someone in a movement gets killed and the movement becomes far more radical. That happened with the Baptist cult which were opposed to the mainstream Jewish faith of the moment. Jesus took the leadership role with his friends, and was probably delusional about the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone doesn’t want to pay for your game they would just pirate it.

  I get that’s a disappointment for the publisher seeing a sale and then seeing that sale dissapear. But AFAIK they do not have to do anything, Steam manages the refund for them, so it’s harmless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips for Surviving the Heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried.

  But my country said Nuclear is scary and that we should burn fossil fuels instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure about that. Each time there’s conflict between Romani gangs and Muslim gangs the fascists always cheer for the Romani.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entombed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern Hinduism precisely changed a lot to compete and stay relevant when other faiths starting to show up in India.

  It became much less focused on the polytheism and much more focused on philosophy like Buddhism.

  Their own polytheistic beliefs has been shaped to be more similar to the Christian trinity. And many gods are seen as part of one supreme God.

  It’s just natural evolution of religions. In ancient times religions where about explaining natural phenomena. Thus we had the god of the sea, the god of the sun, the god of the rain, etc.

  As those things got explained by science the gods needed to become more philosophical and vague.

  Also societies got bigger. You used to have the god of your tribe, and rhe tribe next to you had another god, a d you fight one against the other. Then people lived in empires, with millions of people under an unique faith. To keep them all united a single good and a well structured religion is more useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entombed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think monotheistic messianic religions were kind of unavoidable seeing how in every part of the world they have been the most successful religions once societies become more complex and interconnected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entombed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also human race has committed atrocities against the environment since our earliest days.

  Back in prehistoric times hunter parties used to create wildfires to hunt animals, completely disregarding the environmental damage of burning great amount of lands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they came with manual, posters, artwork and all the goodies of old game boxes could be a win.

  Also better done with completed games that are no longer to be updated.

  For an empty box with a cd that once installed you need to download a 50Gb patch for it to be playable would make no sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Retro games and indie games, the golden combo.

  They all run in potatoes, are fun, unique, doesn’t have anti-consumer practices built in. It’s all golden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep a copy of the generic steam crack on my computer. It’s very well tested. So as long as I had the files on my computer I would only lost access to the very few games I have that use a different drm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t we swap our minds today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the difference between trying to stitch together a pipe and trying to stitch together perfectly one by one all the threads of a cord.

  We cannot even reattach those cords within the same person when part of them break (spinal damage) much less do a transplant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12 years later, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth hits new steam peak player count⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Love the gate.

  Hate how it used to work flawlessly in linux, plug and play, even had native versions. And since repentance we have to use proton and do some fixings because controller related bugs that years and tons of updates afters they seem unable to solve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing about climate change.

  One place can do everything right…if the other countries in the world doesn’t do the same everyone is fucked regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me_irl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some old games could use a patch. I think there were some regional versions of Digimon World for the ps1 that could not be beaten due to a bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuckem do you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even ironic.

  I don’t care about what other people think about me because I know how most of them are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last game I bought were 10€ and could be run on a potato.

  If a person in their home can do a cheap fun game in their spare time so can you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love houses that trap heat! /s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a European I’m with you.

  There isn’t even AC in schools. Children are let there to boil practically.

  Hilariously enough we have legislation that says that schools shouldn’t be above 27°C but there isn’t any real solutions to avoid that, unless they would put a tax on the sun for overheating the classrooms or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably get a ton of drug addicts asking for narcotics. And probably had made a lot of involuntary drug addicts over prescribing narcotics.

  Some drugs are quite dangerous and it should be understood why doctors are wary of just prescribing it so easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like they carefully manufactured a low supply situation to keep price and expectations up.

  It’s not like a controller uses ddr5 ram or any high demand components. They didn’t make more simply because they didn’t want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t get people into their store by literally giving up free games.

  They are not getting people in with q UI redesign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EU institutions are for the lobbyist, not for the people. We already knew that.

  I wrote all my EU representatives in the parliaments about the chat control topic, and NONE of them answered. They are an elite above normal citizens, they do not care about us. They are aristocrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To cosmic shreds, I say!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want one random atom to be one plank unit shifted to the left at the beginning of the universe.

  🦋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then is different by country. In spain they used to be sent by the national post agency, taking advantage of the subsidization of third world countries.

  But that aid ended years ago. Now packages from china have to pay full commercial price of delivery.

  Since them in spain they moved from the national post agency towards cheap delivery companies, usually with bikers.

  Idk if in Austria they are still subsidized or they pay full commercial price to the Austrian post agency. But surely there’s no european legislation that makes them not pay full price.

  And once they pay full price, commercial companies tend to be more expensive or straight up not working in small towns compared with big cities where delivery is cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is more expensive.

  As letters to towns are sent by public services which are expensive and work at a loss because they need to guarantee 100% population coverage. And have stricter delivery routes.

  Commercial parcel delivery doesn’t work like that. They use cheap delivery companies, that can and will organize deliveries in a more efficient manner, plus they don’t give 100% coverage. If you live in a remote ares these delivery services are not available and it’s up to the customer to go to a pickup post.

  Also you don’t even have to receive at home. Pick up post are common, so all deliveries doesn’t need to go to each person home. They are go to the same shop and them people walk there to retrieve products.

  Like it or not, it’s cheaper. There’s a thing called economic scaling here, that means that the more products are moved the cheaper it becomes to move it.

  It’s also non sensical in the sense that the tax is not made by product. But by category of product. I could order 150€ in the same product and only get 3€ tax. But if I get 150€ in 150 products of different categories I get a 450€ tax. It’s illogical if the objective would be what you think it is.

  It’s a logical tax from the explanation I gave. They european union was lobbied by scalpers, local resellers and dropshippers, that would indeed buy tremendous amounts of the same article to resell it more expensive to you.

  Making the product also travel more and less efficiency. The product no longe will go in a efficient route from china to my house. Now It will go to chine to some warehouse, sit there some time and them from that warehouse to my house. If anything it would me more polluting.

  They EU have failed us again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Materially speaking is more expensive to send a letter next town than a packet from something like aliexpress.

  From sending a letter next town you’ll have to pay the salary of a postmen for going to take the card from your town to the next town, probably only for that item or a very small number of items.

  From china millions of packages move by ship. The cost per package is negligible. Most of the cost again comes from when the package is in your city and the postman has to get it to your house.

  Also I think you got some things wrong. There use to be some subsidised loophole, where national postal agencies delivered chinese packets for free as they were considered third world postal service. That loophole closed long ago. Now all the cost is paid. From the logistic warehouse to the ship/plane, to your doorstep, all that cost is covered on what you pay.

  What they are doing is not ending subsidies, I would be ok with that. What they are doing is putting up tariffs. Putting up an artificial price increase via tax jsut because an item came from outside the country. It doesn’t cover or offset any loigistic cost. It’s just a tariff. They change it not for anything fair, it was just that european dropshippers couldn’t compete with chinese shops, so they lobbied the EU into killing chinese shops so people wanting those items has to get them through the european dropshipper. That’s all. No a single millilitre of oil will be saved on the process. The parcel will do the exact same travel at the exact same cost, but you will pay more, and that money will end up either in the EU Comission hands or in a dropshipper hands.

  The orders will not be more aggregated, that’s nonsense. They already aggregated the orders to send them as cheap as possible, as that’s in best interest from all parties. They don’t send near empty containers, every container is already filled to the brim.

  We may just may see just a reduction in the number of orders, just because we won’t be able to afford as much because they effectively made us poorer. With the same money we’ll be able to afford less things. Which is just the them of the EU in the later years, make its citizens poorer and poorer via increasing the cost of everything year after year. “You’ll own nothing and be happy”, except I won’t be happy. I feel far from happy with the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most country specific/regional programs are far more exhaustive and concrete than european election programa. Just read them.

  Lack of accountability by the chambers and the commission lead to lack of democracy in the european institution, it’s just what’s happening.

  They don’t get audited like national parliaments are, but they have greater power, that’s just wrong.

  I don’t know where you live but 3 euros tariff for a 1€ item is killing a business. Trump did it and the european union, after criticize it, just did the same. Bad when trump did it and bad they europe did it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t see that explicit tariff on any program.

  Their programa tend to be vague “supporting local industry” “protection from harmful foreign products”. But under those vague umbrellas they do whatever they want and then they job becomes to convince the people that what they decided to do is the good thing.

  And in a democracy that’s not what should happen. In a democracy the people tells the politicians what to do. When the politicians tell by their own to the people what’s good from them it’s called enlightened despotism.

  Also I do not see how it’s reasonable to ask for a 3€ tariff for each product category on any order. That tariff is obviously aimed to cut people from buying directly from china and just to buy the exact same product to a middleman paying way more. Products are still the same, guarantees are still the same, taxes are quite similar as this products were subject to vat. The only thing that change is you pay the extra tariff or you pay the middleman. Zero benefits for the consumer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did your representatives had in their program tariffs for AliExpress or Shein?

  Mine didn’t, they voted in favor of it regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They may have done you a favour. The name just being the name of a famous experiment is not very SEO friendly. The less of your troubles is another game having the same name, you have thousands of references to that experiment to compete with for name placement.