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- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 1 hour ago:
I think Titanfall 2 is still on sale on steam for uh… 5 dollars.
Its got Northstar, a custom client that allows for private multiplayer servers… also works on linux, literally has its own custom proton version.
Oh and there are mods as well, guided installers, mod managers, etc, for windows and linux.
Runs great on a steam deck!
… and looks … basically the same as a shooter from 10 years later, at least at 1280 x 800?
(its built on a custom forked version of the portal 2 source engine, so it actually runs efficiently and looks good =D)
Doesn’t have a huge playerbase, but it is decent enough that you can probably find a few well populated servers, at least in NA region.
… looks like titanfall 3 got turned into an extraction shooter and then cancelled.
So anyway yeah, hilariously its time to return to tradition for enthusiasts of many old school competetive games from before the bullshit of endless battlepasses and MTX kicked into high gear… and as others have pointed out, the indie scene is full of gems.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 1 day ago:
$100 minimum.
My guess would be they’ll do some kind of tiered release strucructure, and/or have already finished or mostly finished 2 years+ worth of major updates, including new ‘chapters’ of the main single player story… and basically, you’ll have to subscribe.
Like … $160 for whole game, major expansion 1, 2 and 3, $120 for game + 1st expansion… Or your baseline $100, and then a subscription battlepass mmo monthly charge, or you can pay more for expansions in chunks, seperately.
Something like that.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 1 day ago:
… Untill Florida gets absolutely wiped out by a combo of its housing market and tourism economy simultaneously eating shit (this is currently occuring), and then also gets slammed a oh i dunno, a series of near record breaking hurricanes … in a record breaking short amount of time, and then can’t rebuild because FEMA either doesn’t exist or is massively underfunded.
Oh and way more people will die, and there will be way more property damage than there otherwise would be… becauase all the agencies and funding that went into tracking hurricanes just got cut to almoat nothing.
Its been … what, over a decade, between GTA V and 6’s planned releaae date?
I’d say that chances are actually quite good that within 10 years after 2026, Florida becomes essentially a mostly destroyed disaster zone, with maybe a few parts of semi-civilization… like a swampy version of the first Mad Max movie.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 2 days ago:
… No?
She had different kinds of cleaning routines/phobias/rituals.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 3 days ago:
… Set up firefox for windows via wine, if its a webapp?
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 3 days ago:
Knowing Randall, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns… or lack thereof.
That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing…
But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 3 days ago:
Chaotic good here.
Yep, I’m an Autist.
… Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that ‘good enough is good enough’, in scenarios like this.
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 5 days ago:
… Sadly, the first thing that comes to mind, upon reading your comment…
First, we take Manhattan… then we take Berlin.
… I am hopeful that I can make it either to, or at least nearer to Canada, into a blue state, within the next year…
I am fully expecting shit to get very bad, very fast now.
… At least I am white… as sickening as that is for me to say… it does make me less of a target.
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Spent the better part of two decades telling my friends and family that what is happening now … is the trajectory we are on, and we must enact change now, while we still can, to avert this path.
… I don’t talk to any of them any more, as they all thought I was insane…
They didn’t believe ‘it could happen here.’
And now, it has.
And most of them would either entirely deny that it ‘has happened’, as they are neck deep in QAnon/MAGA insanity…
…or they would tell me that simultaneously they don’t remember me explaining how and why this could happen, how it became more and more likely as the years went by… and also, at the same time, just remember me being hysterical, about something, vaguely, for no reason they can remember.
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 5 days ago:
Welp we’ve got farm labor, cold turkey, no cell phones, communal bunks type rehab camps for… everyone on either hard drugs, or any kind of medically prescribed anti depressant or anti psychotic.
Thats still on the bingo cars from RFK, to my knowledge, that hasn’t happened yet.
We’ve also got concentration camps guarded by I guess Blackwater (whatever they’re calling themselves now) for all homeless people, a few miles outside of major cities, and of course a 0 tolerance policy for existing in a major city while homeless.
That hasn’t happened yet, but Trump has outlined that idea a couple of times.
… that one will be super-fun as the economy crashes.
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 5 days ago:
Yeeee-up.
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 5 days ago:
Because we do not live in a Democracy with regular election seasons.
We live in a fascist oligarchy, which must constantly beam propoganda into the minds of its citizens.
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Trump basically never stopped campaigning during the entirety of the Biden term, nor even for his fist term… despite being the President
US political ad seasons are notorious for being … way too long, up to a year… compared to most functional demcracies, where this ad season is often several weeks, not several, or many months.
Trump ratcheted this lengthy American political ad season into just literally all the time.
Before him, a sitting President running ads… during the middle of their own term… I think its literally unprecedented. Sure they’d give addresses and speeches to the public in extraordinary situations… but not run what amount to campaign ads… just all the time.
This is the power of money and media in the digital age.
It truly now just is cult reaffirming propoganda, in the derogatory 1984/dictator sense of propoganda.
- Comment on It must tremble 5 days ago:
Well, on one hand, I am Autistic, I default to literal concrete meanings without fairly explicitly clear context indicating otherwise.
On the other hand… seems to me that just sort of broadly, generally, everyone is kind of… a combination of losing their minds and becoming hyperbolic as a default (due to massive stress of hypercapitalism collapsing living standards)…
…while also there is a massive trend that… basically the post-irony language/humor style of Zoomers has imploded, and nobody can really tell who is or is not joking any more, everything is a Schrödinger’s shitpost whose ‘true’ meaning is nebulous until it is observed and commented on.
I used to be able to tell what were jokes, irony, satire… took me a long time to learn all the nuances.
And then basically that all just collapsed in the last couple of years.
- Comment on It must tremble 5 days ago:
I mean… I have had a cat, and played with it in the manner I described till he got too old for that sort of thing.
It did not to me seem at all that I was putting in 900x the effort, either in physical energy terms, or mental effort / discipline and dedication terms, or both those combined.
Maybe… a roughly equivalent amount of combined mental and physical energy?
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And yes, my cat would also wait hidden for periods of time… its part of their hunting strategy. Just pretend you aren’t there, and then when a sense of safety has come about… strike swiftly with the element of surprise.
Cats… are generally solo, stealthy predators, after all. A … stealth, glass cannon, low durability berserker build, to try to mangle it into video game terms. Capable of intense bursts of extreme athleticism, but also requiring significant down time to recharge.
Sort of the opposite of the human hunting strategy of using pure raw stamina to chase down prey over long periods of time, in group coordination with other humans, and then basically just finish off an animal as it is basically having a heart attack from redlining itself for too long.
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To me, I made it into a game: learn my kitty’s strategy, bait it and goad it accordingly… leaving some grace for him to enjoy actually catching and monching on it, but also challenging him with new patterns and movements, introduced gradually.
If kitty is either utterly uninterested… or just waiting for you to rope-a-dope yourself into exhaustion, and then he grabs it when you are tired… congratulations, you have been tactically outsmarted by a cat lol.
The cat has managed its stamina levels and recharge rates better than you have managed your own.
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I just set aside a few 30 minute blocks each day, or at least most days, to just set up some music, and do nothing other than play with kitty.
Like how a dog owner might set up an hour or so every couple of days to take a dog on a walk.
- Comment on It must tremble 6 days ago:
Also, vibes based math aside…
I don’t get how this … makes sense, from an energy expenditure level.
You have a 3 feet long stick, with a 4 foot long string, with a fuzzy mouse on the end.
You… flick your wrist, in various motions, such that the toy seems to be … hiding… then evading! the running, then hiding, then somewhere hard to reach.
Sure, your arm is moving too, maybe you are also turning somewhat, or even walking a bit to certain areas of your place with more cat obstscles.
… The cat is literally bouncing off the walls, running at 15 mph, climbing up the cat tower, shimmying under the couch or a table, suddenly executing snap turns, sometimes literally in midair…
… How on earth does that work out to you expeding more caloric energy than the cat?
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 6 days ago:
Damn, that’s… quite the line up of Steam Deck related devs, shit.
Welp, I’m convinced.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 6 days ago:
Wha… do you get some kind of reddit currency if you make a post that breaks 1000 upvotes, with a multiplier based on your log in streak length?
Jesus Christ, these fucking dark pattern, microtransaction shit just needs to be universally banned.
- Comment on SLAYYY 1 week ago:
… I had this start happening around the time I hit 30.
Fortunately, yes, it is basically as simple as ‘get an ear/nose trimmer’, but also yes, it is annoying.
I have yet to approach ‘nosestache’ levels though, lol.
- Comment on SLAYYY 1 week ago:
Horrible anti-idea this made me think of:
Mustaches… but grown out of wildly prolific nose hairs.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
It is an American thing that arose from, and persists because of how Americans ‘do’ Christianity.
As I said in another post, start with Max Weber, and then explore more of the history of how Christianity and Christian Denominations, cults, sects, revival movements, etc, have shaped the country as a whole, in ways that are distinct from how other kinds of Christianity have shaped other countries in the last 300 or so years.
Like… the whole reason we have the First Amendment, the freedom of religion part… was mainly to make it so that none of the varying Christian Denominations would be able to use the government to censor or outright oppress or murder each other.
Read the journals of the founding fathers, federalist papers, etc, if you doubt that.
America was largely initially founded by populations of varying kinds of extreme Christian Sects fleeing persecution in Europe… and a lot of our early history is… those sects persecuting and mistreating, or at best, barely tolerating and competetively trying to proselytize, other sects that just over here now, on a different continent… as well as all the indigenous populations… and the imported slaves.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
Glad you left your reddit trauma at the door to lemmy and certainly aren’t making any personal judgements based entirely on vibes rofl.
I will never stop speaking out that this whole thing is a bullshit non issue.
Not obsessive in any way at all, nope, that’s me apparently.
Hahahahaha
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
Discussing it isn’t an obsession, an obsession would be making your whole personality about it, or basically having that be a primary hobby or something.
You are doing a less extreme version of the thing that politcal news pundits do against protests:
Protesting as a concept is fine, but it turns out any protest with views I disagree with? Well they’re protesting wrong.
If you are reading this as an obsession, I dunno what to tell you, check my comment history and you’ll see this is the first thread I’ve ever mentioned it in, and my older, nearly year old account? Don’t think I ever mentioned it.
Finally: Yes, female genital mutilation is very often much, much worse, in that it usually entails total removal of the clitoris, which is… basically fundamental to the ability of a woman to experience pleasure and orgasm.
But that doesn’t mean male genital mutilation is not also bad. The male hood also generally has a much higher concentration of nerve endings than… basically everywhere other than the head.
And both of these practices fundamentally remove bodily autonomy from a baby/child, and are culturally/religiously done for reasons that ultimately or directly arise from a very paternalistic and authoritarian approach to children as property of parents, and intending to diminish and control their sexual characteristics without consent.
… But if you don’t wanna have this discussion, feel free to block me, or just… not discuss… this…?
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
… It is an unchallenged remnant of many things, a large chunk of those things having puritanical religious origins.
And almost all those religions happen to be Jesus-centric.
Kellogg was just a more recent large scale eh… reinforcment of the norm. He was inspired by his particular Christian views… 7th Day Adventist.
Like, yes, its not as direct as many modern preachers constantly doing sermons about the virtuosity of circumcision… but even still, I can easily say that the reason the practice is unchallenged is that American Protestant Christians of many, many different Denominations… well they strongly promote traditionalism for the sake of tradition, not questioning authority figures, actively rejecting modern science and medicine.
Like uh… Max Weber’s christian protestant work ethic explanation of the peculiarities of American culture in regards to attitudes toward work and politics and many other cultural features… isn’t 100% perfect… but it is a very good starting point to understand why American Protestantism is sociologically distinct to other societies.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
Good vid!
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
… are you saying you don’t want pics…
/s /s /s lol
I edited in a bit more info… yet another wonderful amazing lie I had to figure out entirely on my own that my fundie parents told me with utter confidence.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
… Unless you’re in Protestant dominated USAmerica, where male genital mutilation remains a widespread a common practice.
Roughly 80% of American boys/men are circumcized.
I can provide either statistics or pics as proof, your choice.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 week ago:
Nah, doesn’t matter, the point of the rule is to dissuade phone use in class, because it disrupts learning.
Would this lead to potentially confiscating the ‘wrong’ phone?
Sure, but it doesn’t matter.
If the kid wants to bring a totally new phone to school, every single day, then each phone they bring would be confiscated.
The idea is to impose a cost, a penalty, to disruptive behavior, as well as actually remove the thing that is the source/cause of the disruptive behavior.
If the kid is stealing other kid’s phones and getting them confiscated, now we are into another ruleset of ‘you can’t fucking steal things, that’s a crime actually.’
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Also you are assuming the student is correctly characterizing the rule via its construction as a question.
Could be a leading question from a false premise.
‘Why do you hate puppies and kick kittens?’
They’ve already demonstrated other rhetorical sophistry, none of the other comments imply that this is actually the rule, the rule itself is not actually provided, we don’t actually know what the actual rule is.
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But, you’re right that this could actually be an accurate characterization of the rule, teachers and schools do often implement ridiculous or poorly thought out, inefficient, easily gamed or difficult to enforce rules.
Back when I was in school, as cell phones were just becoming a widely available thing…
You set your phone on vibrate, and if it keeps going off, over and over, presumably this means someone or multiple people are urgently trying to contact you for some very important reason.
At that point you excuse yourself from the class, and look at your call log or texts or your voicemails.
If it actually is serious, tell your teacher what is going on, and they’ll send you to the office to either wait for someone to arrive or get you to the school therapist or whatever is appropriate.
Pretty much anything other than that is disruptive behavior.
Use something like a 3 strike rule before you confiscate a phone on the 3rd strike, and you get your phone back at the end of the school day.
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Ok, so I went diving into the actual reddit thread, and as best I can tell, this is the actual full source document of questions and answers.
docs.google.com/document/d/…/mobilebasic
Going off of many other questions and answers, it appears the policy does confiscate a phone at the moment it is being used outside of permitted times and settings, and is then returned to the student at the end of the day for infraction 1, and all subsequent infractions require the parent to pick up the phone after confiscation.
A 2 strike rule set, I guess.
… However:
Anytime an official response is ‘Technically, yes’… yeah, they fucked up in the construction of their rule set.
… It would seem to me that a straightforward resolution to this problem would be that… in the event that infraction 2 occurs at the end of the day, just… confiscate the phone, and require a parent to pick it up, either at the end of that same school day, or after a 24 hour period if they really want to have a mandatory confiscation time as part of the punishment.
Part of the point of requiring a parent to pick up the phone is to basically mandate actual parental awareness of the issue, and they are already doing that…
So, infraction 2 escalates by now requiring the parent to pick up the phone, wheras infraction 1 does not.
I would think the escalation to getting a parent to pick it up would be a sufficient punishment, and the idea of some kind of… mandated minimum confiscation time scheme for the phone seems stupid, so long as the parent can pick up the phone after school has ended for the day.
But at the same time, there does appear to be some kind of admin acknowledged idea that… a phone would have to be essentially volunteered to be reconfiscated when a student returns on a subsequent day… which seems to me to be nonsensical and unenforceable without a mandated search of the kid… they could always just not bring the phone on day 2, and then you’d have to verify they are not lying… which is ass backwards presumption of guilt untill proved innocent that results in an unwarranted violation of their rights, even though they are complying with the general intent, the spirit of the rules.
I cannot reverse engineer the actual precise ruleset from this alone lol.
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Finally, as an aside … much of the reddit thread this is from make the arguement that cell phones shouldn’t be banned because what if school shooting.
So… 1, … all public schools… have… landline phones. They can dial out.
Ah, but what if the lines are all cut, or people can’t reach them?
2, … then just mandate that phones are not 100% literally physically banned… you just keep them off, or on silent, or on vibrate, and don’t use them during class.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 week ago:
… i am going to stick fork 1 in our friendship status, cuz its done.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 week ago:
It’ll ruin the finish, but you could just use some sand paper… maybe 80 or 100 grit?
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 week ago:
… thork?
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 week ago:
Damn, that is the most perfect fork I’ve seen, wow.
Yeah I was gonna say 2’s prong/head with 5’s handle would probably be the best out of what’s available in the OP image, but yours is… sublime, hah.
