SuperNovaStar
@SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I will say that it isn’t usually like this.
I mean there’s always drama somewhere but this drama is especially big because a LOT of people found out all at once that either:
- their content feeds were being censored/manipulated without their knowledge
Or
- They were being shadowbanned (either as an individual or because their home server was censored)
by a developer who went to some pretty incriminating lengths to obfuscate the censorship he was baking into a tool that lots of people were using.
Most of the time I look at my memes and the drama passes me right by. It’s there if you look for it, of course, but this particular snafu is a bit of an outlier.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 1 week ago:
No, maybe that will activate my trans powers
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 1 week ago:
I’m incredibly mid at chess. Is it because i’m nonbinary? 🤔
- Comment on Mike Johnson Accidentally Creates The Best DSA 1 week ago:
Congress, probably. Or a roomful of republican politicians and lobbyists.
- Comment on Urine Luck 2 weeks ago:
Your nostrils, eyes, and ears are also connected to the inner-outside part of your body via the sinuses. So we’re not doughnuts, we’re something much stranger with 8 holes all connected in the middle.
Urethra and vagina are pockets, not true holes, since they don’t go all the way through.
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 3 weeks ago:
I tend to think if they’re old enough to ask the question they’re old enough to (attempt to) puzzle out the answer. Obviously there can be too much of a good thing, but I think on average most parents hand-hold too much (the ones that aren’t simply neglectful)
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 3 weeks ago:
I mean I think i’ll be a more gentle mom than that, but essentially, yeah. Kids are actually super great at learning. If they already show interest in something, they just need support and guidance, not someone to do it for them.
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 3 weeks ago:
If I were a parent I wouldn’t answer questions like these.
Instead i’d ask “why do you think it is?” and use that as a teaching moment about how to do research and how to test a hypothesis.
- Comment on The red bull guy who jumped from space what was going on with his body when him and his suit broke the sound barrier? 4 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah, the forces are very intense. But it isn’t at all the same as coming to a complete stop - closer to the water hammer effect if anything (since the air becomes incompressable at those speeds). There’s also a lot of turbulence, vibration, and heat from the drastically increased air resistance.
- Comment on The red bull guy who jumped from space what was going on with his body when him and his suit broke the sound barrier? 4 weeks ago:
The “sound barrier” is not a physical barrier, like a wall. You wouldn’t come to a complete stop. It’s just the point at which you’re moving so fast that the air no longer has time to move out of the way, and so it behaves differently.
It would be really rough on your body, to be sure, but not as bad as hitting a magic wall that makes you come to a complete stop.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
And that man? Luigi
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 5 weeks ago:
I’d second this question - I use a lot of bancamp and so far it seems pretty ai-free
- Comment on Rare 1 month ago:
???
You must be somewhere other than the US. “Jelly” is preserves/jam, not gelatin.
- Comment on Damn straight! 1 month ago:
Entertainers are valuable and skilled workers. They don’t want to have to advertise to make ends meet, that’s just how our economy is right now.
- Comment on How does the SCOTUS ruling on presidential powers say what he can or what he can't do? Or can he basically do anything? Like kill a person or multiple people shooting a gun from the whitehouse? 2 months ago:
We tear the whole thing down and start fresh. Outside of that, nothing changes.
- Comment on ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI 4 months ago:
Right? The idea of a natural language user interface isn’t a bad one, and I think it will actually have positive impacts in the long run. We’re just running into a “calculator problem” where people think that if you have a calculator you don’t need to understand math.
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 5 months ago:
A good way to get experience with the subtractive system would be to use watercolors, markers, or dip pens with ink, since those are transparent.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 5 months ago:
I suppose that depends on if you have consent 🤷♀️
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 5 months ago:
One of my all time favorite games is Cultist Simulator, but I’ll admit it’s not for everyone. If you like puzzle type games and don’t mind learning about the world by reading lots of little snippets of flavor text, it’ll be right up your alley.
Also definitely check out Rogue (the og) and the first wave of games inspired by it. The meta-progression stuff is kind of a new wave thing.
As for newer games, Balatro is really popular right now if you’re into more ‘puzzle roguelikes’. Most of the things you unlock make the game harder rather than easier, or give you a different angle from which to play the game. There are a handful of things you have to unlock via meta-progression, but so far they seem pretty unintrusive.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 5 months ago:
aww, too bad, if you were good enough you could have beaten the game, but let’s make it a little easier
Yeah, that’s pretty awful game design. Most of the ones i’ve played didn’t feel like that, usually you’d unlock new classes or something (I.e. sidegrades) or unlock harder difficulties.
And of course my favorite ones don’t have any meta progression whatsoever, the only progression comes from you learning about the game.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 5 months ago:
Most of the roguelikes that I really enjoy had unlocks that made the game harder, not easier. At best, the unlocks offer new builds, making the game easier in one respect but harder in others, giving you a new angle on things.
But then again, most of the ones I play are puzzle/strategy/deckbuilder type games. Kind of a genre of its own these days. (FTL, Slay the Spire, Cultist Simulator, Balatro, etc)
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 5 months ago:
Many salons do men’s and women’s hair, most barbershops only do men’s. So I would think a salon (choose one that does both)
- Comment on Linux just works until it doesn't 5 months ago:
Why would you wish for that
- Comment on Schlip schlop 5 months ago:
Different kinds of quality. Cgi quality, acting quality
- Comment on Aww does someone have a sensitive li'l bummy wummy? 🧻 5 months ago:
Facts! But I also use recycled tp, because I still gotta pat dry.
Will probably switch to towels tho
- Comment on Why there is no clock that displays time 4:20:69 ? 5 months ago:
You should make one. It can’t be that hard to throw together a simple script that displays the time, and then add logic for the specific behavior you want.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 5 months ago:
… and somehow they still get butts in seats and lots of people enjoy them.
People want to see the cutting-edge cgi. In that sense it absolutely is qualityslop.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 5 months ago:
I unironically like shakespeare, but yeah, there is an element of inertia to his popularity.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 5 months ago:
Like that, except you do like them, mostly because you walk away feeling like you experienced a “good film.”
- Comment on Schlip schlop 5 months ago:
Imo It’s good but not worth the hype. But i’ve never had the good stuff (And never will, now that I don’t eat meat)