Sunsofold

@Sunsofold@lemmings.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking knew it, Cassandra!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  1 Dumbass = 299 792 458 m/s

  Thanks, God. We’ll spend the next 3000 years obsessing over that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snail lyfe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know rats were… aficionados of the struggle-snuggle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snail lyfe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it snails where ‘male’ and ‘female’ is decided by who wins the slow-motion penis-knife fight?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ending a sentence with two spaces differentiates the end of the sentence, full stop. Kerned, monospace, serif, sans, heavy weight, light weight, double spaced lines, single spaced lines, whatever. Two spaces at the end of the sentence helps make the end of a sentence clearer in every case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hanlon’s Razor. Which is more likely, someone not understanding AI? Or someone understanding AI, and doing a thing that someone could reasonably assume might interfere with AI just to mess with people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I understand it’s a way to subtly screw with AI. Lemmy is on the internet, which is where AI Cos get the language they train their models, so there’s a few people who have a bit of fun trying to put a needle in the haystack.

  I always liked the thorn though, ever since I learned about it on QI. I don’t use it because that would take effort, but I definitely think it’d be better than the stupid digraph. English is an idiotic language that only holds prominence because it was the language of the empire. Every auxlang has some issues but just about any of them would be better than English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I’ve never used it and probably never will’: Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says he won’t use AI to make music [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This just in: God feels no need to consult I Ching on the laws of physics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aww, poor soyjak, are you upset nature doesn’t adhere to your imaginary grouping made up before you had as much knowledge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a minute but i think i know what might be bugging you about the controls. If it’s the having to move and look with the same control, check the settings. There might be a way to adjust it.

  As for other options…

  -The Farming Simulator games are great for controller.

  • Story of Seasons is on sale on Steam right now.
  • Out of Ore
  • Mini Metro
  • Jalopy
  • Shipbreaker
  • the My Time At … series
  • No Mans Sky
  • Never Alone
  • Hokko Life
  • Staxel
  • Rebel Galaxy
  • Olli Olli
  • Arctico

  Looking on steam cross-referencing ‘casual’ and ‘good for steam deck’ is probably a good way to find some more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Öxxö Xööx makes all of his stuff in his own language

  The movie Incubus is entirely in a constructed language.

  The game Chants of Senaar is built around languages you slowly translate/‘learn.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shops for diamonds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the ideas I had years ago was to get an uncut puck of lab diamond, (at the time this was ~$1500 from one place, probably cheaper now) find a lapidary and get them to cut out a literal diamond ring, a ring made entirely of solid diamond, and then my spouse could say ‘That’s not a diamond ring. This is a diamond ring.’ in a cheesy Aussie accent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to share your details but could I ask what yph mean more specifically by ‘wearing certain clothes and helping people?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  State capitalism is closer to communism than crony capitalism seen elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, manipulating people is technically a ‘function’ to which one can apply clothing. It’s not a good one, but it is a function.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of why I think ‘country’ and ‘communist’ are not really compatible. I don’t think it is possible to have a faithful execution of communism at the scale of an area like China. They’re obviously closer to communism than some places but also just as obviously not there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One way to look at this is the concepts ‘communism’ and ‘country’ don’t really work together. The modern nation-state requires a level of bureaucracy and scaling that is not really compatible with communistic ideals of egalite. It should also be noted that there isn’t really a completely anything country. China calls itself communist but uses capitalist elements. America is arguably the most anti-communist country but uses plenty of centralized regulation and subsidies. And each has a subset that is deeply in favour of more or less of each of these elements. The idea of having anything ideologically pure is the real childish notion here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wear your seatbelt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Asks for favor, but then says fuck you… No, fuck you, sir. Get out of my car and walk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨22 months later⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not wrong. The color of the background is important to how you see an object. Using the same month would highlight the effects of the war instead of washing them out in the seasonal change. Using this practically is asking people to point out the obvious problem and hurts the point being made in the eyes of anyone looking at it with less than 100% uncritical support, which is the exact group something like this could be used to convince.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How deep do you want to go down the rabbit hole?

  Do you trust your memory? Is how you remember it really how it happened? If someone else tells you it happened another way, is there any way to tell which one, or even if either, is correct?

  If the memory happened long ago, how much of the body that was there then is still here now? Is any of it?

  How much of your knowledge can be trusted? Do you still believe thunder is the sound of clouds bumping together, or some other old story from your childhood?

  If you have a memory of a dream, or a hallucination, is it a memory of a real event? If you don’t remember that it was a hallucination, does it become real for you?

  Step out of self-focus for a moment. What is a memory? The resonance between a perceived pattern and the stored pattern in the pattern-recognition system in your head. If the pattern isn’t perceived to trigger the memory, do you still remember? If the connection is malformed, and the smell of chocolate reminds you of the taste of cheese, what does chocolate taste like when it isn’t in your mouth? If the connection is fully broken, and you forget your name, who do you become? Who are you if, after living longer as this new self than as the old self, your brain heals and restores your memory of who you were?

  Is the body that holds this memory you? Where are the edges of that object? Materials move constantly in and out of the visible bounds thought of as your flesh, through lung tissue, through skin, through disgestive tissues, eyes, teeth, all of it to varying degrees. Nothing is impermeable. When oxygen is absorbed by your skin, carried to a neuron that forms part of the pattern that tells you you had a chicken sandwich last night, is chemically bonded to another molecule and expelled again, when it is part of you? Is it part of the memory?

  Research shows ones personality can be changed by as little as how long it has been since lunch. Are you a different person when you are hangry?

  How much of you is your memory? If your memories go away, how much of you remains? Does any?

  Is there even a you? The you you are now is clearly almost nothing like the you you were as a child. Are you still the same person? If yes, how? If no, when did the transition happen from one to the other? If information is part of what makes you you, are you even the same person you were when you started reading this comment?

  If there is no real separation between you and the things that move in and out of you, is memory anything more than a cycle of reactions, matter and energy triggering chemical changes triggering chemosyntesis, chemotaxis, osmosis. Do even those things exist, or are they merely more patterns of information found to assist the pattern of matter that stores them in the function of preserving that information?

  WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, PHILOSOPHY RABBIT HOLE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outsiders, studio behind Metal: Hellsinger, is being closed by Funcom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always preferred BPM to Hellsinger but that’s depressing. I was just listening to a discussion of the EA stuff from someone who has worked in the industry and he’s thinking the outlook is bleak going forward, that EA is likely to get the ToysRUs treatment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll recommend Kinetica. It’s a one-of-a-kind racing game where you race through gravity-defying tracks as a person in a kind of iron-man negligee with wheels while listening to old-school techno.

  Shadow of the Colossus is one of my favorite games ever, battling entities big enough that you run around on top of them, subtle storytelling, an enormous map for the time it was made, and fairly large even by modern standards.

  The Tenchu games are also good: ninja stealth assassination.

  Dark Cloud 2 is a kind of fun game. Smack your way through dungeons with a wrench and use the bits to build villages for your allies.

  Bloody Roar is a favorite for fighting games. Fight to BIOS energy then transform into a wilder form, like a mole, a bear, etc. and you can kick people through the edges of the arenas into new areas to fight.

  Devil May Cry is a classic.

  Ratchet and Clank, classic.

  Time Splitters is reminiscent of even older games.

  Red Faction 2 wasn’t a bad little shooter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds an awful lot like someone looking to arrange a containment breach. Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I ignore the question and go to the IT and maintenance teams to put a series of blocks, physical and communication-system-based, between the maths and philosophy departments. Attempts to breach containment will be met with deadly force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, because it broadly displays a bad approach. If a thing should be in the game, it should just be in the game. There is no reason the developer has to gate things behind a payment. Terraria, Minecraft, Stardew, and so many others, all managed to keep adding content without pretending that DLC was anything more than a way to pay out for shareholders. The invasion of microtransactions into gaming has been nothing but harmful, deceptive, and malignant, and I refuse to participate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rhythm Doctor - Official Release Date Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of cool, I guess. Good luck to them. I didn’t bother getting that far because I haven’t burned out my attention span badly enough to desire anything approaching that level of pointless visual noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone I know wanted a recommendation for a multiplayer game recently. One of the games I remembered existing was Payday 2. DLC and subscriptions involved? Never-fuckin-mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rhythm Doctor - Official Release Date Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from not looking like a game I would play, I kind of doubt the words about it being a trailer are in the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m unsure weather to recommend it because it sometimes seems like a kill-or-cure solution, but maybe read into philosophical nihilism. (Not the popular notion of nihilism, which is as connected to philosophical nihilism as popular conceptions of anarchy are to philosophical concepts of anarchy, which is to say almost not at all. Also, read the books, don’t try to watch youtuber attempts to interpret them.) Nietzsche and Henri Bergson are, for the most part, said to be approachable reading for a competent reader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t try to align to an external orientation. A word won’t help you have good relationships. Just get on with loving who you love. The only thing you need to express to someone else is your feelings about them as an individual, and none of those orientation words will help there.