Kirp123
@Kirp123@lemmy.world
- Comment on hockey team owner selfishly engraves his whole family on the Stanley Cup 2 days ago:
Don’t they remove the strips and add blank ones? Or was that a different trophy.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 6 days ago:
Some beancounter at Sony realized that they could increase margins by a tiny amount if they removed physical disks. I bet they haven’t factored in the reputation loss from doing so and in the end it will come out that the margin gain will be overshadowed by the loss of sales.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 1 week ago:
Bro discovered thinking.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They’re not completely wrong, a lot of gamers will buy anything that has a large company’s name on it then complain they were sold shit.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was honestly surprised Sony paid that much for them when I saw the sale news.
- Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc 2 weeks ago:
Sure but you can get a cheap second hand PC or a laptop or a console to play that 5 dollars game and it’s a one time purchase.
Shit you don’t even have to pay 5 dollars, there are plenty of games that are free. I’ve been playing Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead for hundreds of hours and haven’t paid a cent since it’s a free game, it’s updated daily and it can run on basically any PC since it’s an ASCII game. This is like complaining that it’s too expensive to get into woodworking because you have to buy a hammer.
And if you want to play the latest title with your friends, it’s going to be 1-2k on the hardware before you can even launch the game.
Get friends that don’t ask you to spend 1000 dollars to hang out with them.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Probably because they get fat bonuses from console manufacturers to release there first. Then they can release on PC later for full price and people will still buy it.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
Because at some point expertise is worth less than leadership. One person with expertise is still just one person, they can’t usually achieve anywhere close to the same results as a team of people with good leadership. Leadership is a multiplier of expertise.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 weeks ago:
Something doesn’t have to be an evolutionary advantage to persist in a population. If long hair doesn’t impact fitness then it won’t get selected against.
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 3 weeks ago:
He was smart but emotionally he was a kid. He was prodigiously intelligent for his age but emotionally he was developing at the normal pace for a kid. He was an 11 old kid surrounded by 18 year olds and older. The university faculty even pushed back against him being admitted so young but his father pushed for it until they admitted him.
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 3 weeks ago:
He was a socialist and was arrested during a May day protest. He was tried and convicted of sedition. The media attention and the fact that America was in the middle of the Red Scare made sure that he didn’t get a fair trial. His parents made a deal to have him serve the sentence suspended and also be confined to a sanatorium for a year. This really changed his world view and he became very distrustful of media attention and central authority. Before these events he wasn’t really bothered by the attention and he liked having public intellectual discourse.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 1 month ago:
US fuel is heavily subsidized compared to the rest of the world.
- Comment on Throwback 1 month ago:
Why’d you give the fish nipples and a belly button?
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 1 month ago:
When you go inside you shake the water out of the umbrella so it doesn’t drip inside your house. Yeah, that’s it, no reference or anything.
- Comment on d wha 1 month ago:
Should ask him which day doesn’t end in “y” next time.
- Comment on 😅😅😅 1 month ago:
Damn Malcom in the Middle sure went bald fast.
- Comment on Is Temu leaking the end of the US? 2 months ago:
I would buy one or two of the national parks. Those places are really cool.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It becomes harder and harder to tell reality from memes. We are fucked.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 2 months ago:
They ruined her lawn.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Do vegans even eat that much soy?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Can you photosynthesize? These are reserved for photosynthesizers.
- Comment on Love your neighbor, as long as they're a white conservative Christian 3 months ago:
Empathy is a tool of Satan, keep up with the times bro.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 3 months ago:
Well it would be Dubai and the Saudis that would be irradiated. They should be fine with it right?
- Comment on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe 3 months ago:
Germany has enacted similar measures before the PEGI implemented theirs.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 4 months ago:
Everyone coming up with conspiratorial reasons why this is not the case but it’s much simple than that. It’s not feasible and it’s expensive and the returns aren’t really worth it.
Kids in school have a bunch of other subjects they have to learn besides foreign languages. You can add one or two languages but then at some point you will need to remove other subjects to add more or you need to keep kids in school even more. Both are not really feasible. Then you need to hire teachers for all these new languages which most places won’t do.
Another issue is with the way they teach languages in schools. They expect you to pass a test and not actually learn the language so a lot of the languages will not “stick” as the students lack immersion and practice with that language. I can speak for myself, I have learned two languages besides my native language in school: French and English. I had French since 2nd grade, which is 10 years of French classes and English since 5th grade which is 7 years of English classes. Today I can speak English fluently and like 3 words of French. The difference was that I was always immersed in English, though video games, movies, songs and so on. Not so much with French. I have noticed the same pattern with most of my friends and family members.
- Comment on Double standards 4 months ago:
No. It doesn’t really matter if the animals are wild or in captivity.
Under the ESA, it is unlawful to “take” any endangered or threatened animal species, which is broadly defined to include harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, or killing.
- Comment on Double standards 4 months ago:
People get tigers and lions so I don’t think a peacock is much harder to acquire. Also according to Wikipedia:
The green peafowl is in demand for private and home aviculture and threatened by the pet trade, feather collectors and hunters for meat and targeted.
- Comment on Double standards 4 months ago:
Huh, apparently peacocks are endangered. So probably that’s why?
I honestly thought they were quite common as livestock but I guess I was wrong.
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 4 months ago:
It is an elaborate ruse. But not to reduce competition, it’s to just turn young men into angry unstable individuals which can be used for nefarious purposes. We have literal evidence of it happening with Gamergate and there’s some evidence those young men may have just helped get Donald Trump elected in his first term.
When people are angry and lonely they can be easily coopted for stuff, you just offer them a community and an outlet for their rage and they are yours to do as you want.
- Comment on what a drag 4 months ago:
You know they will never let him live that down.