svtdragon

@svtdragon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can Pokemon consent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A good currency serves two purposes: a good medium of exchange (easy to transact, easy to find someone willing to accept it in exchange for goods and services) and a stable store of value (worth ~the same yesterday as today). They are distinct purposes.

  You’re describing the former (finding someone to trade with) but actually talking about the latter in your point about “imaginary value” of money (as distinct from stocks). So I’d offer a small addendum about the value of money being imaginary: the guarantor of a currency plays a huge role in making the value real, in the sense that they are obligated to accept it when you use it to pay taxes.

  Likewise commodities like gold are a somewhat stable store of value (disregarding supply shocks for the moment) in the sense that if everything goes to shit you can use them to make shiny baubles (or semiconductors).

  Notably this is not the case for stocks, which is why stocks aren’t a good currency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨first state btw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So same as today?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s funny is that we’ve actually incorrectly regulated headlights in the US. It’s the only example I can think of off the top of my head where deregulation might help.

  We’ve banned euro-style dynamic lights that can carve out dim spots for oncoming traffic on the fly.

  (Of course this doesn’t preclude other additional regulation that we do need about angle and things of that nature.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I follow “Whataboutbunny” on socials. She’s a sheepdog doodle that communicates with buttons for words, and they (she and her humans) talk about dreams.

  She dreams about “stranger animal”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got like 10k hours in the game and I play for the combat and, for the past few years, the “joy of movement” (their words) with mounts. And the story has ups and downs but there are definitely some ups. The telling thereof has certainly gotten pretty good. (Early stuff… isn’t.) It peaked in the content between the 2nd and 3rd xpac.

  But having tried to get my gf into the game relatively recently, I was frustrated that the sense of progression and story doesn’t really line up with the difficulty curve – first expansion is still the most brutal place in the world, prior to mounts, and we’re on what, the 6th now? So as a new player to play the most fun mechanical parts you’ve got to go to from the vanilla story, skip the first xpac, hit the second (most mounts) and fourth (flying mount)… making for a really disjointed experience. Which is sad because once you have all the bits (or if you played it all along) it’s fantastic. Or alternatively to play the story in order (and the way it was paced along the way) you basically play a ten year old game as it evolves in front of you, where some parts don’t hold up super well.

  Far and away my favorite MMO combat. And some of my favorite movement; definitely for the genre. But I get the frustration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly not a thing developers do. It’s a thing the tools themselves do when asked to make a commit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had better luck with using it in a TDD style. “Write a test for this issue, watch it fail, then make it pass.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bastion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches The Whale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a scene in Scrubs about this.

  youtu.be/0RGCWPtKIhM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet pardoning the 1/6ers qualifies as giving aid and comfort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s setting the context for the claims they make, not a claim in itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  The Darkness.

  Also, Prototype, but someone already mentioned that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram app no longer lets you post stories without allowing camera and mic access on ios⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably compressing or resizing before upload.