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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
And xkcd has a nice commentary on that particular high horse as well:
- Comment on Also literally known as the Horror Frog 2 days ago:
Extermination status: highest concern
- Comment on The deeper argument for cultural diversity | Jonathan Sriranganathan 3 days ago:
While I fully agree with what is said in this text, I do not think it will convince a single right wing person racist.
Having multiple perspectives is a bad thing for them! They do not want another way of looking at things. There is their way, the right way (according to them), and then there is the rest, which is WRONG. To quote Warhammer 40k: “Blessed is the mind too small to doubt.” They do not want to debate and weigh positions, they want one order and that’s it.
You need to first show them that this way is leading into the abyss, every time, with proven examples (and good luck getting them to agree with any sources that portray their failures as inherent failures of their small mindedness instead of some conspiracy of the archnemesis). And then afterwards you can show with examples where we have learned from outsiders perspectives and improved our lives.
- Comment on Sorry 4 days ago:
I am leftist, but I draw the line of interspecies communal property at my bed.
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 4 days ago:
It’s worth mentioning that the Shinku patch was released just 12 hours after Version 1.2 went live on July 2, which is a rather quick response by the devs at Perfect World to “un-nerf” their newest character.
12 hours for the patch to be released, players playing it, complaining about it online, the devs reading it, deciding to act on the complains, change the model and release the new patch?
That sounds a bit too quick to me and more like they already had the model ready. For whatever reason.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on people who say hate speech is free speech? 4 days ago:
Didn’t watch the nearly half hour video, so just answering your question.
Free speech is free,if you limit it, its not free speech anymore, I will not argue against that. If you are for free speech, then government shouldn’t interfere and hate speech is part of that.
And honestly the way especially the UK but also other western countries are handling criticism against Israels actions under the umbrella of hate crimes is exactly what free speech proponents warned about. Hard to argue against that after the current events.
But I am not a free speech proponent, exactly because I think there should be limits to what is allowed to be said regarding lies and AlTeRnAtIvE fAcTs.
Hate speech is something that is regrettable, but nowadays I think it should be socially shamed and judged, not by the government (except if they are government workers). So moderators of social media are free to ban it in their rooms, but not enforced by the government.
- Comment on Sorry 4 days ago:
You stay out of my bed and I stay out of your bed, is the deal. They can take it or get thrown out.
- Comment on Give the People What They Want 5 days ago:
Well, in another comment they mention that he is a far right loonie. So maybe not that satirical after all.
- Comment on Inflation Explained by a Monetary Researcher 5 days ago:
OK, after checking the YouTube comments, I will just leave this exchange of comments here and let you decide for yourself if that sounds like a person you would like to hear more of:
Comment by inchristalone2026
I’m a master at mitigating the effects of inflation so I can continue saving. I mention $5 for greens at the store, I don’t buy it. I go to the store each day when doing errands to get the expiring stuff discounted. And my food costs are low due to this. But you can only mitigate so far - I would make the most miserly person dizzy with my frugality. But it’s poverty, inflation impoverishes us all and diminishes our standard of living. I am at the bottom, I am the poorest of the working poor and receive no money from the state. I don’t have insurance, a family, etc. How do you think inflation effects the working poor? You can mitigate but something will eventually break.
Answer by econ lessons:
You are doing well, in your life. You may see yourself as poor but many people with large income are highly in debt. Do not look at absolute numbers but look at your debt to income. I bet you do not have debt. I bet your income is greater than your expenses. To me your a winner. The only think you have to increase is the income and you will leave the big spenders in the dust because of your frugality and self control. Something they might never have. Income, maybe Youtube 3 times a week on positive up beat entertaining topics and if you make 100k and spend 20k a year and invest in an ETF equity fund, you will be a multimillionaire in less than a decade with some luck
Original comment of mine: Interesting, and the summary I agree with, but I certainly do not agree with the inbetween points he raised.
People can always rationally react to inflation and mitigate the effects by substitution
That is such a “rich person explaining why the poor’s are too stupid” moment. Nice that he has a metric ton of potato in his garage. What are those people meant to do, that don’t have a garage but rent an apartment? And I’m not even talking about the liquidity needed to buy that amount of food as storage in the first place. And not knowing that industrially processed food is often the cheapest available is also prime “what can a banana cost” material.
And also what kind of bullshit economist is he, that he thinks energy prices aren’t effecting farmers who then sell their products at higher prices?? Short of complete subsistence farming your own food, you will always be affected by increase of energy prices, as everyone needs that for their work.
And at a certain point you cannot substitute stuff away. If cake is too expensive, sure you can get bread. If bread is too expensive you can get the cheap bread which isn’t as healthy to you. But at a certain point you cannot substitute more, because you already exist at the minimum.
And interesting to hear that he thinks a little bit of deflation is good. That is certainly counter to all economist thoughts I have heard (admittedly that doesnt mean much, as I didn’t study it). Deflation means you can buy more tomorrow if you don’t buy today. So why should people buy anything and invest their money if its worth more if they wait. He explains the reasoning why inflation is wanted by the governments in the summary, so I’m surprised he doesnt see the benefits.
- Comment on Teachers in England get two-year 6.6% pay rise but schools to foot part of bill 6 days ago:
Am I missing something or does the UK has a different system from other countries where schools get some additional money from some other sources besides the state?
If not, where else is the money supposed to come from? Spending cuts are directly going to decrease the students ability to learn.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Silliest press misstranslation for me is still Eng->Ger where they translated
May the force be with you
into
am vierten Mai sind wir bei euch
which translated back into English would be
on the fourth of May we are with you
Correct translation (and used like that in the movies) would be
Möge die Macht mit dir sein
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 1 week ago:
Thanks for the linked publication. I had the same assumption, not due to in person experience but from what I saw in the online spheres. That felt like 90 % MTF. And I’ve seen multiple online comics in that direction but not the other way around. That’s where my assumption came from.
- Comment on Guess the game (#004) 1 week ago:
Please continue putting better known games from time to time, so that everyone can have a Aha moment. The obscure games are awesome as well, but I haven’t known a single one of them XD
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 week ago:
I agree in principle with you. Technology in every bodies hand is benefitting everybody, while under control of a few only benefits them.
But with LLM as they are currently and in my eyes in the near future as well? I’m not seeing it possible for the average person to make their own model with available hardware. Big data centres are needed and they burn a lot of resources for creating a video that turns a cat into a human, help genociders argue why they needed to bomb that school or destroy our education systems while simultaneously destroyingpublic trust in media.
- Comment on What games meet this criteria? 1 week ago:
Deep Rock Galactic fulfills nearly all your requirements, depending on A) how it runs on your machine, seems Linux works for many and B) if alien bugs count as zombie for you, as they are also mindless hordes that swarm you. I have a lot of fun with DRG, I can recommend it.
Trine Series contain fun coop puzzler for up to 3 people. Don’t know how all of them play on Linux, but 1 & 2 work on the Steam Deck, so should work in general. And 2 is in my opinion the best one. They have a story, but its not really about it, the puzzle and levels are 95% of the focus.
Lara Croft and Tempel of Osiris is up to 4 coop puzzle action adventure. It was fun and the difficulty 9f the puzzles gets adjusted for the player number if I remember correctly. Seems for some it runs on Wine, but as always, mileage may vary.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well the question is why would the difficulty be such a strong point in China but outside it isn’t? The translation thing makes more sense in my opinion. Why would Chinese players be worse than non Chinese ones? The difficulty of Silksong was criticised outside of China as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks again!
And curse you social media! I want my forums back!
And yeah, while it’s negative for the developers, I can understand that people use the options they have seen to work.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ah okay, thanks for explaining the background. Now I can understand it better.
Is it not possible to use the discussion forums on steam for that translation request?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks for that compilation, it’s always interesting to read about different cultures.
my reasons for positive review:
- having fun (or liking the game for singular astonishing positive parts, if the whole game has some.flaws)
- wanting to support smaller studios (I’m more forgiving for a 1 person studio instead of AAA) if I think the game is still worth to be supported
My reasons for negative review:
- shitty behaviour by developer after my buy (removing content, adding shit content like microtransactions, etc.)
- unfun
- technical problems that majorly impact my enjoyment
In general I give most things the benefit of the doubt and can enjoy certain positive parts in a mostly bad game. so my reviews are mostly positive, as I curate already strongly what I buy.
While I can understand why / how most of the reasons you talked about came around, I’m a bit baffled about the missing chinese localisation. Does that mean a significant number of chinese players buy a game simply to give it a negative review on steam? In the steam store it’s shown what languages are supported. So if you can’t speak any of those languages, why would you buy it?
If the localisation is bad, then I can understand buying it and giving it a negative review due to feeling scammed.And I can give you an explanation for the number 1 negative reason: Poland, Czech republic and Turkey are all regionally close(ish for Turkey) to each other and you have it in your mind as European. Similar to probably Chinese having Korean in their mind, which most Europeans likely don’t think about.
Maybe the translation company they asked had those languages and so they ordered it. And yeah, I can understand the developer. If I never intended to support a language due to unfamiliarity and then those language speakers are giving me negative reviews… feels unfair.
Entitlement is the way I would describe it. Again, I can unterstand people wanting to play something and I can unterstand feeling left out for your language not being supported. But then buying the game and giving it negative reviews for that? Just don’t buy it or make community translations like so many others do. - Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 week ago:
They weren’t talking about your internal motivations, but about your results. Important difference.
- Comment on Rate my daily breakfast 2 weeks ago:
Yes! /s
- Comment on Sweet Temptation 2 weeks ago:
That doesnt geht any Reaktion from me, as I dont use it. Its the USA safety sign, right?
- Comment on Sweet Temptation 2 weeks ago:
I mean… with that attitude and behaviour towards safety rules… probably yes.
And yeah, nothing worse for teaching students proper and safe handling of chemicals than old technicians. “we never used gloves to pour THF out of this 10L vessel!” “ah just don’t breath in too strongly and if you feel funny, go to the window and get a quick breath of fresh air”.
- Comment on Sweet Temptation 2 weeks ago:
Man I don’t know if I could eat out of that canister.
Its so ingrained as “CHEMICAL, DO! NOT! EAT!” In my mind.
- Comment on In the US it's Father's Day weekend, so happy Father's Day not just to you American dads but to all you dads wherever you are. 2 weeks ago:
The honest answer is: we don’t know.
The common name and interpretation is as the others already mentioned.
But it is part of the so called black paintings of Goya. He created them at the end of his life when he was depressed, maybe insane and utterly lost all hope in humanity. He painted them inside a house on the walls and never showed them to anyone or talked about them. They were only found after his death, so we literally have no information about them.
But they are all pretty haunting and have dark themes. And this one got memetic usage and was also often referenced and is therefore the best known one of the 14.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale is here! 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I send an email to support asking about it and they said they can’t tell me more than the second apology and quoted it.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale is here! 3 weeks ago:
Depends on your definition of “make good”.
After the first disastrous comment on reddit they issued a second one on Twitter which sounded like the first one should have in the first place.
But that’s all and they didn’t address it inside the newsletter, so for me it’s empty words without really addressing the deeper issue of how much somebody in GOG fucked up.
- Comment on Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car? 3 weeks ago:
Yep. And that is the difference between “not doing wrong” and “doing right”. Because in the latter’s case, you don’t die. Or at least… Its complicated
- Comment on Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car? 3 weeks ago:
Nethack, a very deep and actively obtous game. If you want to figure it out yourself, its complexity is nearly on a level with dwarf fortress.
Outer Wilds does not fit 100 % your description, as it doesnt hate the player. But it is a game all about exploration and figuring stuff out yourself. And if you do things wrong, you die.
- Comment on How far back into the human/mammal family tree does one think we would have to go to find a genetic relative that doesn't give a whit about how good their hair looks ? 4 weeks ago:
Do birds worry about their hair? Well… They dont have hair, so probably not.
But do birds worry about their plumage?
Yeah, probably they do.
Because there are many examples of birds using their plumage to attract mates, best known is probably the peacock.In short, my thinking is that you need sexual procreation and a certain minimum intelligence to care for their outward appearance (e.g. I don’t think ants care for outward looks). So probably all mammals and a lot of birds definitely do care “about their hair”. But insects and fish do not.
