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- Comment on Physics ;-; 3 days ago:
Well if you’re ignoring drag, figured you might also just ignore the idea of maybe telling pilots about how their updated aircraft models have entirely new autopilot systems on them… or like training them on said new hardware…
… ah, but Im sure it’ll be fine, no problem at all, barely an inconvenience.
- Comment on Physics ;-; 5 days ago:
Look out folks we got an aerospace engineer over here!
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 5 days ago:
I call this the dinner I most often had as a kid.
Uh yeah we were poor.
- Comment on Where did I go wrong? 5 days ago:
Sometimes, the map monsters are green.
#moderatequalityfacts
- Comment on Where did I go wrong? 5 days ago:
Try dating other autists, normies don’t uh, speak your love language.
- Comment on There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before 1 week ago:
An attack on Privacy Pass would require an attacker to request 243 tokens from Cloudflare, Apple, or another organization.
An attack on Privacy Pass would require an attacker to request tokens from Cloudflare, Apple, or another organization 2^43 times.
… is there a button I can push to summon a copy editor?
- Comment on The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it 2 weeks ago:
“I remember what the TV said about that at the time, I think.”
- Comment on Why, Zeus? Why! 2 weeks ago:
Ain’t no golden shower like stormy with a chance of Zeus spunk.
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 2 weeks ago:
"The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.”
“Some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias.”
“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
… some of us did not need to be told twice to WAKE UP, but most… well, they preferred the blue pill.
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 3 weeks ago:
It’s not ableist to point out the epidemic of ‘TherapySpeak’ on TikTok.
They didn’t actually make any ableist insults.
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 3 weeks ago:
Its one of the filters, of the great filter.
These people have NPC-ified themselves, and they basically have the AI behavior routines of zombies, just ones that can do a slightly more convincing emulation of socializing.
Brain dead by way of vanity and consumerism.
Sorry, turns out that a wide swath of humanity is too dumb to recognize what this stuff does to them, that our technological abilities have evolved way, way faster than our biology has.
We never should have made computers this user friendly. Because, when, you do that, it lowers the barrier of entry/usage down so low that you end up programming the less aware users, moreso than the software.
Not to mention that TikTok, Twitter/X and Facebook are all owned and controlled by delusional narcissist freak anti-social Epstein class people, who openly view normies as dumb cattle who exist to be distracted and surveilled and groomed and conned.
So give them a simulation of socializing, a simulation of culture, a simulation of even rebelling against that culture… so long as they control the black box algorithm, the algo that knows them better than they know themself, the algo that harvests them via either subscription payments or data extraction.
They figured out how to induce drug addiction behavior, without selling an actual drug… they hacked the human brain, via a much more advanced version of basically interactive television.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 4 weeks ago:
A huge part of it is they are literally idiots, dumb stupid assholes who cannot think good.
- Comment on Disgusted 4 weeks ago:
So you’re saying you hate waffles?!?!?!
- Comment on Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit 4 weeks ago:
Yep! In my own history, sometimes they just believe you without proof, but yeah, they do often ask for some kind of proof and usually that is just basically screenshots like this. Might take em a while to process it in the ‘escalated support’ tier, or what not, but yeah it generally does work.
- Comment on When you're pretty full of yourself 5 weeks ago:
Ooops! All HotPockets!
- Comment on Anon is strong 5 weeks ago:
… I’ve known autistic women who would massively unironically agree with that, and others for whom it would be nearly the worst thing that could possibly ever happen.
Either way… unintentional power move by way of autism.
- Comment on I guess we doin UAVs now 5 weeks ago:
Wooo boy does this need to be top comment.
- Comment on Is this true? 5 weeks ago:
I mean like, compare a … hub and spokes style immersive sim game, to any given open world game.
With an ImSim, you often get planted into an area, with a single or multiple main quests, and a whole bunch of essentially discoverable sidequests… and, when done well, those optional sidequests significantly affect how the main quests play out, and may give you different options for how to approach or conclude those main quests.
Then, onto the next hub/spoke section.
ImSims are not typically associated with literal huge spaces… but the spaces they do have tend to be well interwoven.
But also, they’re not strictly linear in the way of like … an FPS campaign/single player mode usually is. Sure you can have the literal levels be maze like, but theres usually only one entrance and exit.
ImSims open up the conceptual field of a given linear sequence of levels, by allowing totally different play styles to yield signifcantly different experiences, and often the additional mechanics they do this with are more than just combat… social and exploratory play can be rewarded or punished by altering the narrative itself.
There are often entirely optional, missable ‘sidequests and submazes’, basically, even in a typically smaller amount of literal space.
- Comment on Is this true? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly a very good example here of ‘open world’ done in a genre that usually doesn’t see it so much.
- Comment on Is this true? 5 weeks ago:
Try Kenshi.
There’s no main quest at all, beyond try not to die.
- Comment on Is this true? 5 weeks ago:
You might like the Dark Future mod, its roughly the equivalent of New Vegas’ hardcore/jsawyer mode.
- Comment on Is this true? 5 weeks ago:
Imagine scaling enemies by actual player skill needed to defeat them, instead of just ‘my number more big than your number’.
- Comment on Is this true? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but the open world has to exist in the game as a meaningful set of gameplay systems/potentialities.
There have to actually be things that could challenge you, cost you, reward you, capture your attention, present you with a secret if investigated, set off an actually meaningful chain of events, etc.
If ‘open world’ is implemented as simply ‘big space with occasional trash mobs wholly disconnected from the rest of the game’… you have a very shitty implementation of an open world.
Open world doesn’t, or I guess shouldn’t simply mean ‘big empty space’.
If your game has a fast travel option that you regularly or often use to skip the open world, your open world sucks.
- Comment on Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit 5 weeks ago:
Call you bank/credit card provider, get a human being on the other end, and calmly tell them any further payments to Xfinity are unauthorized/fraud.
- Comment on Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major 1 month ago:
Yes, one would hope, lol.
I’ve been in charge of my own db and auth systems.
I had to turn the previous uh, ‘hope’, into code.
For a pretty large organization, hahahaha!
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 1 month ago:
It is nontheless a precedent for a massive reworking of the US economy by way of outlawing particular kinds of business activity.
Also ‘constituional disaster’ describes at the very least the last 6 years, so… its apt.
And… an actual serious problem that would happen if we did Universal Healthcare right now is that this would reduce paperwork and bureacracy so much that you’d lose about a million or two million jobs.
That’s how much of a wasteful behemoth our current private system is, that many bullshit jobs, that many consumer incomes in a consumption based economy.
To realistically do a Universal Healthcare switch in the US, to be responsible, you would need something like the CCC or JobCorp or AmeriCorp on steroids, otherwise you’d cause a recession.
We could also maybe ban private prisons, as a business model, but to my knowledge there’s never been a federal / nation wide great push to do that.
Or, maybe we could try to actually fix the car centric nature of the US by doing something like… mandatory full drivers liscense retest every 5 years, every 3 years past 65, every single year past 75, and any time you get any traffic violation of any kind, you must fully retest within 1 year, or your liscense is revoked. If your income is below AMI, testing is free.
If that worked as intended, well, we’d have a lot less cars and car related businesses, which are also a considerable chunk of megacorp and small business activity.
Or you could go further than the … 92? Assault Weapons Ban and actually rework the 2nd Ammendment. If you could somehow do that, well again, megacorps and a considerable number of small businesses would have greatly reduced demand for civillian firearms, thus people lose jobs.
Anytime you massively rework part of an economy, by substantial new policy… you are reworking the economy, society broadly.
My point was that precedent for doing that kind of thing does infact exist.
- Comment on Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major 1 month ago:
… can you do zalgo text / diacritic fuckery with a password?
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 1 month ago:
Right, there’s no precedent in American history for declaring an entire class of business to be illegal.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat…
I think guys have maybe heard about this.
www.nytimes.com/1930/01/02/…/prohibition.html
Oh hey look, yeah, you did!
You can not like it but can… can we not, with he blatant historical revisionism?
You could also just point out the Sherman AntiTrust Act, point at that, maybe.
Oh right we also banned gambling, tons of forms of gambling, back in the day.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Gambling_in_the_United_States
PASPA
I wonder what the kalshi odds are on that happening again…?
Anyway uh, the Old Gray Lady needs to go to fuckin’ bed now, thanks.
- Comment on business is business 1 month ago:
Price transparency != Marketing strategy.
- Comment on business is business 1 month ago:
… did you market yourself as a stuck up prick who can’t budget well?
Or did you maybe save that for some stage of contract negotiations?
There are ways to dance the dance; hers seems to be the equivalent of loudly complain that no one is picking her to dance because no one can afford her.
Just not a good strategy.
