Hegar

@Hegar@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US also doesn't label alcohol content effectively - % alone is not helpful.

  In Australia for example, all booze containers tell you how many "standard drinks" they contain. 1 standard drink is the average amount of alcohol a body can process in an hour. If you have no more than 1-2 standard drinks in you, you should still pass a breathalyzer, depending on weight/gender.

  A ~5% beer can is ~1.5 standard drinks. So if you drank 4x beers over the last 3 hours, best spend another hour drinking water before you drive:

  4 beers x 1.5 = 6 standard drinks. - 3 hours = 3 standard drinks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two really strong competitors is called a duopoly and in practise it works like a monopoly in terms of gouging customers and stiffling competition. It promotes collusion, but it tends to look way healthier from the outside than a monopoly. It's not though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yankee Doodle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US it would have 6.3 times more wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole island has less than 10k people. They're not cities, they're villaged with maybe 1-2 towns. I presumed people would realize the bar comments is comedic hyperbole, alas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, firstly, those aren't cities. That's an atoll so those place names are more likely bars. Just so we've got the scale right.

  Specifically, that's christmas island - kiritimati is pronunced "kirismas". So that's probably the name of the island in the middle, then the name of the nation ("kiribas") underneath that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A musician i know with a french name often publishes under QTN so anglos pronunce it properly rather than say que-teen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want it to slap me across the face⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The two are not mutually exclusive. Just drink stovetop espresso made from decent beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not true though, so it doesn't need an explination

  There was never actually any indication that more ships or planes went missing there, because they don't. It was just nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Alex Jones right about anything?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People will sit through 10 minutes of ads between 30 seconds of screaming. I didn't think they would but 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno how many games EA makes set in the past or secondary worlds, but gauranteed it will drop. We may still get scifi games chock full of today's brands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨these eco-facist stickers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shhhhhh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨these eco-facist stickers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say these are slightly irritating. Not mildly infuriating in the way that people who use nonsense terms like "eco-fascist" are.

  Anyone sane understands that "be gay do crime" is not inciting criminality but obviously statement of opposition to unjust cultural norms.

  Similarly "killing people makes nature alive" obviously seeks to highlight the current incompatibility of human goals with the needs of all life on the planet (including humans).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That tracks for me - the female VA gives a lot more emotion, there are some scenes that legit stress me out. Two violent guys vieing for control feela less tense than a guy slowly taking over a woman's mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play about equal m/f characters but i've gotten increasingly bored with male characters.

  I never play as me though, i'm always constructing a headcanon, backstory and playing very writerly.

  Over the last 10+ years or so i've just found boy stories more and more boring. I think the last game i seriously enjoyed as male was ME2, coincidentally with a keanu looking sniper type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You'd think right? But femV has panam romance dialogue in the game that's just locked off unless you're male-bodied. I believe vice-versa is true for judy romance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if a game is really good and i'm on my fifth+ playthrough and i have a really solid concept for a male character, maybe. And i did eventually play a male bodied female voiced V for the panam romance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except this image implies male V, who plays male V?Female voice acting is so much better, jackie seems more heart-of-gold when he's straight with a platonic femme best friend and the johnny silverhand angle is much more emotionally resonant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, that's crazy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You'll sit there and listen to my entire rant about the arzhan 1 archaeological site's spectral cavalcade and how it backs up yet another bonkers unbelievable thing from herodotos' account of non-greeks, dammit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apes smart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Morbo voice] Evolution does not work that way!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you can tell this is not real because a) it's greentext and b) you can't copyright game mechanics.

  If you could we wouldn't have video game genres, or like 99% of board games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's very expensive to make good content that a player can miss is why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6 in 10 workers say they have a toxic boss, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neurologically.

  There are some great studies using brain scans that show when you give people extra privileges, even in limited contexts like games, the empathy centers of the brain are supressed and show weaker activity.

  Higher status individuals regularly fail to read emotions as well as lower status people do. Brain scans also show that power makes your resource reward centers more active and makes you less able to regulate these kind of impulses.

  Power makes humans cruel, selfish, greedy and impulsive. It's how human brains work. Heirarchy and justice are mutually exclusive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working on my politics-free lemmy experience, what words should I add next?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is objectively correct. We are social mammals and everything we do is steeped in politics. We live in a social world and we navigate power, privilege, wealth and ideologies in everything we do - politics.

  Believing you can go politics free just marks you as either naive or callous.

  At least this is in a shitposting forum, the correct venue for such an idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's the best horse name ever! Definitely not something i expected to see while browsing a three day old non-monogamy shitpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It just won't happen. Our institutions are weak and very subject to outside influence. Everyone in the world can see it.

  If our corrupt oligarchs allow an election, the next president will still have to deal with their financial power, the private electronic surveillance state they control, their overwheming control of our very corrupt court system, etc.

  If the dems were interested in fixing the problem it would take focused effort over multiple terms. The dems are not interested in fixing the problem. This is just who we are as a nation-state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that being made aware of my mistakes helps me be more diligent in the future, so i'd want to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Batteries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tabletop rpg design uses the term "fail gracefully" to describe being able to still function when you forget the rules.

  Older games used to regularly stop amd collapse into boring chart-reading and index-looking-up. A lot of modern games are entirely playable if you forget everything except the core mechanic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miss me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always describe gambling as non-alcoholic vodka.

  It just does nothing for me and leaves an awful taste in my mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good protest songs from the past few years?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Billy bragg has a great song about the twin cities. It's a spin on that "first they came for" poem, but instead of the "and i said nothing because..." bit it has "so I got in their face!"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not real. A delivery person wouldn't get to the door of the oval office. And almost certainly an aide grabs the bag, though the fast food delivery obsessions is partly about security paranoia, so maybe he is paranoid enough to grab the bag.