Tudsamfa
@Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 1 day ago:
Don’t we already have a similar thing with regional pricing?
Video games (and pretty much everything else) are sold for less in countries where the local currency is “weaker”, to maximize the profits in each market. Selling Slay the Spire for ₱779.00 Philippine Peso means they get this brand new game for half the price Europeans pay for it, only difference to most other goods is that it literally is the same product.
This is justified by claiming gaming is for everyone, it would be unfair to price out entire regions simply because the average worker earns less US $ over there.
Does this not apply within countries, too? Wouldn’t it be fairer if they sold games for less in Kansas compared to New York? I get that we do not trust game publishers with this new tool, and fear they just want to get the most money out of us, but then we also need to make the same fuss about how they use the old tool to do the same thing. I for one am closer to the Japanese median income, can I pay their prices then?
- Comment on cool 2 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel_(linguistics)
“I acknowledge that I could interject my own thoughts here, but choose not to. Please continue with that topic, I am interested.”
Of course, doesn’t work as well in online forums.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 1 week ago:
I think the point is that she’s just a normal women, sharing uncontroversial articles. And there is this other half of the couple you just wonder about how someone could possibly see something in let alone put up with him.
I’m personally reminded of the parents of a childhood acquaintance, with a nice mom and a father that couldn’t even be asked to close the bathroom door when guest were there.
- Comment on CONTACT LEFT! 2 weeks ago:
The other day I too “liberated” chicken from my local walmart.
- Comment on The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that lowers the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 an hour for teen workers 4 weeks ago:
Wtf, only 30% of the minimum wage for being 15? What exactly is the company supposed to do with the other 70% to justify that?
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 4 weeks ago:
The article states that the “Intelligent Speed Assistance devices” are supposed to prevent drivers from driving more than 5 mph over the speed limit. So I’m fairly certain GPS and/or Road Sign Information systems will be used.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 4 weeks ago:
GPS Data. Most dedicated navigation systems have the speed limit data in their maps for the last decade or so. They’re probably also going to add the Road sign information systems that newer cars have.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 4 weeks ago:
And a car that cannot speed can? You might not have thought that one through.
- Comment on spagett 4 weeks ago:
I would literally die if a girl did this to me 😍
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 5 weeks ago:
Although commonly called “Morgenstern” in German, they’re technically called “(Streit-)Flegel”, so “flail” in both English and German.
“Morning star”/“Morgenstern” refers to a spiky ball on a club without any chain.
- Comment on Deep Time 5 weeks ago:
Same way he’s getting around those back plates and thagomizer:
Life, uh… finds a way.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Me, after finding a cool stick with some heft to it:
“Any beasts want to tango with the apex predator and his tools of warfare?”
- Comment on Be careful when choosing your profession 2 months ago:
🎶Cause I’d get 1000 hugs, from 10000 lightning bugs🎶
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- Comment on Daily Affirmation 2 months ago:
That’s definitely an accurate analysis of your troubles, I hope you get worse.
- Submitted 3 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 3 months ago:
75 bees actually, 3 rounds of stinging.
A sting from a honey bee is familiar to many because of its world-wide distribution. The sting can be reliably provoked, and standardized, making it an ideal experimental stimulus. Furthermore, its rating as the center point of the Schmidt pain scale suggests it may be a useful standard. The present study therefore used honey bee stings to determine whether sting location impacts painfulness, and how painfulness varies by location.
Reads as: honey bees are cheap to acquire and I ain’t letting no hornet sting my private parts.
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 3 months ago:
Inspired by the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, Michael L. Smith did us all a favour and answered the obvious follow up question on which body parts hurt the most when stung. He had honey bee guards sting him in 25 locations, multiple times to account for variability, over 38 days.
Results:
The three least painful locations were the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm (all scoring a 2.3). The three most painful locations were the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft (9.0, 8.7, and 7.3, respectively).
He and Schmidt were awarded with a shared Ig Noble Price for their efforts.
- Comment on Pow-- 4 months ago:
What do you mean “what”?
- Comment on Pow-- 4 months ago:
Don’t claim some races are inferior to others, you are only encouraging them.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Because it’s hens and cows that are farmed for their products, veganism is a feminist issue.
Feminism is notoriously concerned with chromosomes rather than personhood. /s
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 months ago:
Interesting what’s written here, I actually saw it more often in some Discord server. As far as I know, there it is just for fun and/or homestuck nostalgia, without any deeper meaning behind it.
Just like calling X “twitter” or “the hellsite”, or annotating everything with parenthesis, or using or refusing to use emoji, there does not need to be more of a reason to do something with written language than “I like it that way”. How much stylisation you can inject into your writing before you stop being comprehensible is another question.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 months ago:
“Vegetable” is a culinary term. It does not mean “plant”, it is not the opposite of the botanical “fruit”. It means “We use this in culinary traditions similarly to other vegetables”.
Pumpkin, Squash and Mushrooms all fit into soup and not into fruit salads, so they’re all vegetables. Cucumbers are veggies for fitting into actual salads, though they’re only like a few good decades of selective breeding away from being full culinary fruits. These are not exact definitions, but, like most things in life, messy definitions are often the most useful ones.
Since “vegetable” only has a definition as a culinary term, I really don’t get why people get so hung up on it. It’s not like “nut” or “berry”, whose culinary a botanical definitions couldn’t be in more of a disagreement.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 months ago:
Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.
Vegetable only has a culinary definition.
Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It’s like saying lobster is red meat using the scientific definition of red.
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, far too sweet to fit nicely into vegetable.
- Comment on paint job 4 months ago:
I could use his services on a car I no longer own.
- Comment on I always hit this button 5 months ago:
Ugh, I bet you people don’t even tip your landlord.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Judging by the comments, reading the article seems to be a lost art. Here’s the image for y’all:
It’s very specifically about 18-24 year olds, compared to last year, with video games seeing the steepest decrease.
You can stop complaining about games being soulless, unless you want to claim that wasn’t a problem last year. Compared to last year, this age group has felt the need to cut back at everything more so than anyone else.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 7 months ago:
Ah yes, the “it’s been 3000 years” guy, genuinely one of the series best moments.
What else was there? The villain? Whack. The champ? Whack. The prof? Whack. The 5 rivals? Whack. I don’t think 2 great scenes make a good story, no matter how elaborate the lore.
Thank you for your input, but I won’t leave my mountain to fight you on your hill.
- Comment on kingdom come 7 months ago:
“Are red pandas carnivores or herbivores?” “They eat like 80% bamboo, so herbivores.” “Wrong! They are taxonomically in the order carnivora, making them carnivores! Please ignore that carnivore also just means meat eater and herbivore isn’t even a taxonomic clade. People only ever talk to me to get mad at this switching between casual and scientific definitions, I am nothing without it.”
- Comment on Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M 7 months ago:
???
What does the US have to do with anything I said?
