Dojan

@Dojan@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bingo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
  • So if you bomb everything does it get rebuilt over time?

  No. The closest any of the games have to buildings evolving/changing on their own is Sims 4’s Eco Lifestyle world where the neighbourhoods change depending on the neighbourhood’s eco footprint.

  • Is the game worth getting into a recent version? 💰 No 🏴‍☠️ Absolutely

  • I’ve stayed away because it sounded like they started charging for a bunch of crap after buying the game

  That’s always been the model, though. The Sims 1 had several expansions. The Sims 2 added stuff packs. The Sims 3 had the store with digital currency. The Sims 4 removed the store and added kits.

  When Sims 4 launched it was very meagre in terms of content, they’d started development in the middle of the “social networks are cool” era and pivoted when SimCity 5 failed. They tossed together an underwhelming mess, but over the years they’ve fleshed out the base game. There’s a lot of expansions now, to the point that they’re starting to cover similar themes they’ve already covered.

  Given EA’s proclivities I wouldn’t recommend buying the game. In light of their recent acquisition by Trump and the Saudi Arabian government, I would urge against buying the game. But it can be an enjoyable experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God DAMN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep forgetting his name but every time I think of him, I search for “the actor with the eyebrows” and my search engine knows exactly who I’m talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Priorities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how these are equal. Also, they’re clearly both a dinosaur and a person.

  And I think I’d prefer to be turned into a dinosaur, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One I recall that rubbed me the wrong way was one of her videos on “is being trans a social fad?”

  One the one side you have people claiming that it’s a socially contagious fad among the brainwashed woke who want to mutilate your innocent children. On the other side there are those saying that it’s saving the lives of minorities who’ve been forced to stay in the closet for too long. And then there are normal people, like you and I, who think both sides are crazy and could someone please summarise the facts in simple words, which is what I’m here for.

  Not super fond of the “both sides are crazy” idea when one side is arguing “people should have equal access to medical care and be left to live in peace” and the other is trying to legislate the former people out of existence.

  She further goes on to platform ideas like “rapid onset gender dysphoria” which is based on spurious data gathered on a “parents of trans children” forum. None of the actual studies on the subject have supported the idea at all. The science is against it, yet she’s presenting it like it’s some “other side of the coin” nuanced take, and not just utter nonsense. It’s a bit like lending credence to the idea that the Earth is flat because there’s a whole group of flat-earthers out there who believe it is.

  Ultimately though, I think my main reason for avoiding her is that she just doesn’t post sources. They’re all hidden on her Patreon, and I just don’t think that’s how it should work. I know educational videos aren’t exactly scientific papers, but hiding your sources just strikes me as bad manners. If the goal is to educate and nurture an interest in a subject, why obscure the path you took to get it? It just doesn’t make sense to me, and most other channels like hers do publish their sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they call it rule when...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever had a dream where you wanted him to do you so much you could do anything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d not heard of handicapped, but I have heard of Postcode File.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, honestly? Yeah. This isn’t how you should translate if you wish to adhere to the original material. You need to understand meaning and context in both languages. AI doesn’t grasp that on account of not grasping anything at all, and the game of telephone that the image is suggesting is completely obliterating it as well.

  Example; Lipton, in an ice tea advert had an actress dance and sing, and in the middle of it, took a sip of tea and said 「美味ちい」

  If you were to translate that directly, she sips the tea and says “Tasty!” or “Yummy!” which is acceptable. However, you’ve lost the double entendre of how チー (ちい) sounds like the English word tea, which is kind of relevant given what they’re advertising and so you’d lose the opportunity to make the same pun in English; “Tealicious!”

  Now apply it on a larger scale and suddenly characters and stories end up diverging between the versions. Sure the overall picture might be similar but the nuance can be vastly different. I saw it all the time in Final Fantasy XIV. Sure, not all media needs that kind of meticulousness and hell, a lot of media doesn’t even care for it. People can be perfectly happy with basic, but they also don’t necessarily know what they’re missing.

  Granted, sometimes you have to settle for that method of translation, because you can’t easily or appropriately convey the original intent in another language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updates that don't tell me what is being updated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My bank’s app recently went like “We’ve implemented a feature if you use our widget, and also one hidden feature.” Like fucking just tell me what the fuck that’s about? I’m not looking for easter eggs in my fucking bank app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful, you might get wooted on wafrn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s nice. It’s torn the wings off of the Bluesky logo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s what was subtly hinting at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, they’re supposed to be best at letting you cancel their services. They could handle the traffic, I’m just sure they choose not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. Microsoft’s website is struggling. The same Microsoft whose core business model is selling server/cloud infrastructure? Yeah, I definitely believe that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're coming.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crustation? Or maybe crustaceation? A process of periodical molting. Or maybe the act of using a claw-like implement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're coming.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the word aviation. Makes it feel like you can nounify other animal types. Like mammation. Or you could go into subgroups, like cervidation, chiropteration, monotremation, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HÖNKHALT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And means mallard in Swedish. Rum means room or space. Andrum also means “room to breathe” so it has this really fitting double entendre you see in some IKEA names, in the sense that it’s “space for your bird” and also “gives you room to breathe.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HÖNKHALT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ANDRUM is fucking brilliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HÖNKHALT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FÅGELPÅSE or SVANVÄSKA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Lemmy output horribly invalid HTML?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my gods I wish. I was working on a webapp some months ago and was having the weirdest issue with how things were updating. There was a hard to discern pattern to it, but eventually when I really dug into it, I realised that it was generating elements with duplicate IDs, then it all made sense.

  If the browser yelled at me, at least in the dev tools, it would’ve saved me a lot of work trying to figure things out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone find an excuse for how this behaviour is not just extremely short sighted / plain stupid?

  It’s not. It works because he’s always operated like this and keeps getting away with it. People keep sucking up his garbage games so why should he change?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have bugs with Remnant, it just doesn’t perform all that well without all the AI up scaling and whatnot. I think it’s more of an optimisation problem than anything else.

  I’ve a friend who experiences problems after ~40 minutes of play time though, the frame rate just tanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played two games (off the top of my head) that run UE5. Remnant II and Payday 3. Both have performance problems.

  Remnant II is just overall poorly optimised. Payday 3 has weird random hitches. Granted they seem like they might be server side because when I get them my friend does too, almost simultaneously, and vice-versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I respect the dead the same way Hoots and Caelan Conrad do. I wonder if small face man from Toilet Paper USA will get an episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also be his dad’s feet, but then it’s only the toenails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Think it grew popular in the U.S. as an anti-masturbation thing. There were a LOT of those. This Kellog man was super into restricting masturbation and made cornflakes because a bland and unexciting meal would aid in preventing that.

  To be fair, the colonisers were primarily religious puritans whose views were too extreme for Europe, hence why they sought new lands. It’s almost like a cult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empty homes are on the rise. So why aren't they being used to solve the housing shortage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the sound of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dennis Prager in Harlem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’ll pull through, my friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dennis Prager in Harlem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. That was an idea I never needed put in my brain. I think that perhaps I should stop using the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never ever been about the children. Every time someone uses children as a meat shield for their arguments it’s because arguing against it is hard.

  “We need to execute all criminals to protect the children!l”
  “That doesn’t sound like a good idea.”
  “What? You’d support a rapist pedophile over an innocent child? You support pedos??”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I wouldn’t say that a warrant is the same as an invite. Legally it allows them to enter, but I’m not convinced that the laws of magic bend to the laws of man.