Tudsamfa
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- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 8 hours ago:
Collumn 1 is Percentage that voted for the Winner (Republican 2024/Democrat 2020), Column 2 the Loser, Column 3 is the percentage of the people polled.
So row Latino men: 55% voted for Trump, 43% Voted for Harris, and 6% of the exit poll said they were Latino men.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 8 hours ago:
I’m not sure I follow. Should this meme’s creator not have been inspired?
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 9 hours ago:
This is only superficially a prisoner’s dilemma. In a true one, you cannot get a better result for yourself no matter what the other person does, but here if you assume the other person pulled the lever, there is no reason to pull the lever yourself.
To fix this, you can have 4 relatives on the trolley, and 5 of the opposite faction way back on the middle track. Both do nothing, 1 relative of each is killed. One guy switches the lever, their relatives are all fine, other guy loses 5. Both switch, crash with all 8 relatives on the trolley dead.
- Comment on I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories? 22 hours ago:
I don’t think I have, but someone has to have watched a different Spiderman than they intended.
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 2 weeks ago:
Apart from them straights not being a Monolith, I feel there is a difference between not being represented and being actively excluded. You know, one is bad and one is worse.
You can and should leave a “Need a ____ tag” at the forum then. Don’t know why the article is so snarky about that, the poster of that seemed reasonable enough on the first 2 pages.
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 2 weeks ago:
Say what you will, but implementing all manners of tags so users can express themselves, just to specifically leave out one is exclusion. “Move aside, heteros, this is our game!”.
You can argue that they deserve it, that the developer has no obligations, that they are represented everywhere else and that they should play those game instead, but it remains exclusion.
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 2 weeks ago:
The human of the future:
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 3 weeks ago:
Before you fantasize how this could be used in humans in the future, producing that single thought cost more energy than leaf sheep produce via photosynthesis in their lifetime - feeding of it requires energy efficiency any warm-blooded animal just isn’t suited for.
Still cute though.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 1 month ago:
“Sheen, this is the 7th week in a row you’ve shown CRISPR modifications to the mosquito genome to curb malaria in class”
Comments are all the same as when they made mosquitos infertile, unable to spread malaria or wingless too.
- Comment on How do I... Do court? I didn't realize my license was expired and got pulled over. Now I have court tomorrow. 1 month ago:
Also works for the other kind of courting.
- Comment on Magic 2 months ago:
Never understood those circumstances, but I choose to believe that all even numbers summed are therefore -2/12 and all odd numbers therefore 1/12.
- Comment on Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this? 2 months ago:
Why would you read this very specific list of games and think I was earnest?
Tomb raider had infinitely many rumours about a nude-cheat because boys were so thirsting about Lara Croft, while Metroid and Shantae reward fast playthroughs with bikini pics.
- Comment on Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this? 2 months ago:
Man, am I glad I grew up with less horny games. Like Tomb raider, Metroid or Shantae.
The real reason is probably that we said comparable stuff, just as whispers and not written in an anonymous forum. And we weren’t even egged on by forum culture or our games to be as horny as possible, the former drives engagement while the ladder drives sales.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
By “read the post”, I assume they mean “read the 2nd sentence”.
The increases range from 20% to 56% in price depending on currency.
Sure, to verify this claim would take a bit more work. But the comment in question was just “14$ is not 50% more”.
The more appropriate thing to point out is that the increase in US $ is just 16%, anyway. - Comment on I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt. 2 months ago:
Me and my 4 tribesmen making meters of twine by funnelling fibers through a mamoth femur: “Isn’t technology amazing?”
Meanwhile in mesopotamia: “Your feedback is highly appreciated, please listen to our lyremen as you wait in line”
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
Underhero is a RPG. There is (bad) 2D platforming and an interesting blend between turn based and real time battles with decent amount of player expression, but I find most interesting the writing and scenarios you will find yourself in during the game. You play as an Underling after the Hero has an unfortunate accident after all, and while technically a silent protagonist, all entries in the journal/hint system/to-do list are just brimming with personality.
I swear I first saw this game in list of “Paper Mario-likes”, but I can’t find a single video with that topic that mentions it, and now I realize that it only has like 600 reviews on steam.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 3 months ago:
Im pretty sure the actual, physical Trading card games like MtG and Pokemon gave us all these games with card mechanics in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Culdcept (1997), Baiten Kaitos (2003), Kingdom Hearts - Chain of Memories (2004). Then the card games weren’t as popular for a bit, then the digital ones died out.
And then Blizzard released Hearthstone in 2014. I haven’t played the other ones to know for sure, but I believe Yu-Gi-Oh Master duels crafting system can directly trace it’s roots to it. Trade cards for dust of a specific rarity, dust from 3 can form a new card, Shiny cards give enough dust on their own for any card, etc. .
- Comment on what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting? 3 months ago:
Are you sure about that? If there are things I know about the solar system, it’s that the distance between planets is massive and earth weighs nothing compared to the outer planets or especially the sun.
That earth like rogue planet needs to be like 1/500th of the distance to the sun to have an comparable gravitational pull (sun is 333000 heavier, sqrt is 577), and I’m not a astronomer but I believe for each planet a random number between 0 and 2 solar distances that the rogue planet passes the orbit is appropriate. So like, 1/1000 chance a planet gets seriously disturbed…
I’m gonna be honest I thought this would be way lower before I calculated.
- Comment on Statistics 3 months ago:
“Who here plans on driving their car today? Show of hands!” … “I recommend getting to know these people, because you are far more likely to die in an car accident caused by a stranger than by someone you know. But also don’t upset them, as you are far more likely to be murdered by someone you know rather than a stranger.”
“Mr Tourguide, aren’t you supposed to talk about sharks?”
- Comment on I'm all of them 3 months ago:
- Comment on Every part of the foxglove is poisonous. It'll literally stop your heart. 3 months ago:
Buddy, if they won’t talk to you after you mentioned your toxic tulips, fear is not the reason.
- Comment on Good game soundtracks? 3 months ago:
Super Meat Boy’s OST slaps. I decided to check it out after realizing it was from the same guy that made Crypt of the Necrodancers OST.
I then spent hours trying to figure out where I’ve heard “Hot Damned” before. It was Siivagunner.
- Comment on Penguins ❤️ 4 months ago:
I never said that. What I meant is that a behaviour, which benefits a species as a whole but reduces one individual’s fitness, is not evolutionary competitive. It’s evolutionary game theory, like the prisoners dilemma from normal game theory.
And to determine if some behaviour is such a dilemma, you have to consider costs and benefits of it, which is not at all clear in natural situations. That’s why I said it needs to be studied.
But I must concede, I sort of assumed what exactly you called an evolutionary advantage. Common homosexuality in penguins or not discriminating against homosexual individuals in penguins have very different analysis here.
- Comment on Penguins ❤️ 4 months ago:
I’d be cautious with saying evolutionary advantage here.
I don’t believe the “Gay Uncle hypothesis” any more than the somewhat debunked “Grandmother Hypothesis”, which aimed to explain menopause with biological altruism. Just because we could think of a way in that it might be advantageous for a species doesn’t mean it’s advantageous for an individuals fitness.
Of course, it can be still an advantage, but we’d only know with more free, uncensored research.
- Comment on Penguins ❤️ 4 months ago:
Yes. During breeding season, males are about 33% larger, as they prepare to hatch the egg without eating for 2 months. That is a difference you as a human can tell.
Penguins on the other hand are evolutionairy incentivised to be able to tell the difference. Just like crows can form social groups while looking the same to humans, so can penguins.
- Comment on Penguins ❤️ 4 months ago:
Contrary to popular belief, Emperor Penguins do not mate for life. They are serially monogamous, only having 1 mate per year, but between years fidelity is at around 15%.
Was looking up something else on Wikipedia and stumbled onto this fact, thought I might as well share it.
- Comment on Penguins ❤️ 4 months ago:
From the penguin documentaries I watched as a kid, I feel like the “leaving eggs behind” might involve relentless bullying.
- Comment on The internet connects people 4 months ago:
Actually, it was the train that has come the long way.
It just looks like you’re moving when you focus on the train, but you are in fact standing still while train spotting.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 5 months ago:
No, there’s barely any physical evidence that anyone a few hundred years ago existed.
But if writing is enough, there are some. Tacitus basically said: “Nero blamed the Christians, followers of that Guy called Jesus that Pilatus executed a few decades ago.”
Wikipedia at least says both his Baptism and crucifixion are not disputed by historians.
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