Sunsofold
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- Comment on Bonobos can "play pretend" 2 hours ago:
The researchers, desperate for a cleric to support their party, then attempted to teach Kanzi how to play DnD.
Kanzi, being a bonobo, then humped the imaginary object and asked for more snacks.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 4 hours ago:
If you are a surgeon but, in the year 2026, haven’t learned ‘File>Save As…’ or ‘click the little disk icon’ I doubt your competence to have learned anything else. Saving a file requires far less education and adaptability. I mean, it’s not exactly brain surgery.
- Comment on What powers does the Secret Service have and exhibit to protect the POTUS? 1 day ago:
So, not so much ‘powers’ as technologies and strategies. ‘Powers’ in this space would suggest things like ‘power to arrest’ or ‘jurisdiction’ rather than the physical systems and strategies.
- Comment on Everyone Hates Windows Right Now 1 day ago:
There’s no symmetry there. Windows users don’t hate Linux. They hate Windows, and are mostly unaware of Linux. Linux users hate Windows, but also hate Linux, and are usually fully aware of the shortcomings of both.If
If you hate Linux, it’s not a matter of ignorance. It’s because you also love Linux, and use it all the time.
- Comment on What games similar to hardspace shipbreaker can you recommend? 1 day ago:
I love Shipbreaker, so I’m interested in others’ replies as well. It’s the only game I might actually consider breaking my ‘no paid DLC’ rule for if they ever put out more ships.
Some ‘immersive sim’ games have a similar impression of segmented, defined processing tasks:
- Mech Mechanic Simulator (more relaxed)
- Space Mechanic Simulator (more detailed)
- Ship Graveyard Sim (a bit silly)
- Mess Sim (2D Viscera Cleanup)
- Train Station Renovation (not so puzzle-y)
- Leaf It Alone (more linear, not so puzzle-y)
But there are also other games that can have the same ‘little puzzles’ impression.
- Mars First Logistics (build modular bots to deliver stuff over rough martian terrain)
- maybe Quarantine Zone, Contraband Police, and other Papers-Please-likes (non-horror anomaly spotting)
- Tunnet (build a simplified computer network in underground tunnels with just a hint of Lovecraftian horror)
- abstract programming games like Autonauts, Molek Syntez, or Infinite Turtles (You get As. Cut them into /s, \s, and -s, and then make Ws.)
- Comment on Everyone Hates Windows Right Now 1 day ago:
I don’t think anyone who isn’t a dedicated Linux user hates Linux. You have to be familiar with something to hate it, and it has taken a very long time for Linux to even breach into non-computer-nerd consciousness. Linux is probably more hated today than it ever has been previously and, in a way, that’s a good thing.
- Comment on Anon goes to the ball 1 day ago:
Why so insecure?
Upbringing. That’s pretty much always the answer for this kind of thing. People learn what to expect from the world in their formative years. If they are taught by their community to expect pain, they will expect pain, and from there it’s just a question of their coping style, which is usually also taught to them. (Screaming, violence, substance dependency, etc.)
- Comment on Everyone Hates Windows Right Now 3 days ago:
Haha, ‘right now.’ People have hated MS for a long time.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 4 days ago:
Lipo.
- Comment on Unity launches Walmart SDK to "seamlessly integrate products" into games 1 week ago:
Welcome to the future.
- Comment on Unity launches Walmart SDK to "seamlessly integrate products" into games 1 week ago:
So, we’re all agreed, right? Justifiable homicide?
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
That swings too close to conspiracy theory territory. Hanlon’s razor still applies. The powerful didn’t say ‘I want them dumb, so I will defund the schools.’ They said ‘I don’t get anything out of paying for other people’s schooling, so I won’t.’ Then it was ‘just world’ bias combined with PR to bring it into the mainstream.
Defeating the just world bias at scale is probably one of the greatest hurdles to achieving anything really great on a societal level. How do you achieve a sane middle ground between ‘I deserve everything I experience. Luck had nothing to do with it,’ and ‘I have no agency whatsoever.’?
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
Apathy comes from depression and grasping at things that don’t make sense can be read as anxiety. America failed to develop an educational system and now has no clue how to cope with stresses being applied to it.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 week ago:
No. Economics is the child of math, not a sibling. It’s only half math. The other parent is philosophy/creative writing. That’s how you end up with the myth of barter and trickle-down, the stuff based on speculative storytelling, that refuse to listen to math.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 week ago:
That’s not a friend. Friendship is between approximate equals and requires respect and trust. He does not trust or respect you. He looks down on you for your age and ignores your valid arguments because of it. If you have any choice in the matter, get away from this person and find people who, even if they disagree, will do so from a place of reason and respect. Do not be fooled into thinking someone is a ‘friend’ just because you interact with them regularly.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 week ago:
Greentext means it was written by an ignorant person, not necessarily that it is false.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes a pep talk is what you need. Sometimes it’s a harsh reality check. The quality of a therapist is partly determined by their ability to know when one or the other is needed.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks ago:
I have to wonder how many quiet trump voters there are and why they voted the way they did. Trump got 49.8% of the pop vote but it does not seem like 49.8% of Americans are MAGA flag-wavers. The die-hards are zealots, so basically unreachable. But there have to have been a large number who really thought of the Trump/Harris vote as selecting ‘the lesser of two evils.’ If there had been a real alternative, not even a particular affirmative position but some kind of ‘none of the above, find new candidates’ option, I have to wonder what the results could have looked like.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
I think I can see what went wrong here. The therapist is probably trying to disrupt their internal narrative but hasn’t established the baseline trust. Confrontation can be important in therapy. Sometimes, people can get the idea that their agency doesn’t matter, that they are just the sort of person who doesn’t get to (lose weight/have sex/get that job/etc.) and part of a therapist’s job can be to get the patient to break down that belief by questioning it, but if they haven’t established the necessary trust with the patient, it just comes across like a trollish comment on the internet, a random attack from a stranger who might not only not be doing it for your best interest but even to be hurtful for their own amusement.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 3 weeks ago:
If you want to control what your child sees you have to control what your child sees. There is no shortcut. You either shut off the methods for the companies to feed slop to your child or you curate the things that come in via those methods. You cannot automate it.
Personally, I’d shut off basically any social media or algorithmic feeds for the kid. They don’t need that corporate reality-distortion during the years in which you are trying to develop them into a functional human.
- Comment on Wats the legal test for consumation? 3 weeks ago:
A doctor can arrange a sputum test. Basically, you spit into a container and they check it for active tuberculosis. Oh, wait… consumMAtion.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 4 weeks ago:
If you are smart enough to be suspicious, you are not their target audience. They feed on the fact many modern societies expect the mentally ill/handicapped to take care of themselves.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 5 weeks ago:
That’s the sneaky thing about IP based projects. Even if it was a small indie team, even if they were in love with the original book, even if they had incredible respect for the original author and their work, a book and a game, or a movie, or an episodic show, are so inherently different as to make any IP deal simply a lie. They use different techniques, methodologies, and structures such that they can’t produce anything like the same experience, even with the same plotline. It’s a mask to trick people into buying the product, and the wildest part is that the mask can work so well that even the makers don’t realise it’s a mask.
- Comment on Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest? 1 month ago:
The fullest widom is knowing it all depends on your goals and risks. This is not a universal binary.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
Never, ever buy anything based on IP. That is pure familiarity bias, a trick to make you think it will be good. In the particularly susceptible, it can even create self-delusion and confusion. (X is good, therefore this other thing that licensed the name ‘X’ must be good. It doesn’t feel good, though. No, clearly it is my feelings that are wrong. X is good so ‘X’ must be good. It uses the same mouth sounds. How could it not be?)
A change in medium is inherently a different product and can never be the same as the original. As anyone who has seen a movie based on a book can tell you, there is zero guarantee the movie will have anything more than a passing resemblance to the book *coughEarthseacough* and maybe not even that. *coughWorldWarZcough* Oof, pardon my coughing. The bullshit fumes coming out of the marketing and licensing departments are making it hard to see.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 1 month ago:
I just saw something about this the other day. Internet advertising has apparently begun the process of swallowing its own tail. Cory Doctorow was talking to someone about it. I can’t remember who it was though.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type 1 month ago:
He’s still going. This is the kind of person we need in every field.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
Bile
- Comment on Industrial Strength Shitpost 1 month ago:
Never question the customers’ reasons for buying.
