wetbeardhairs
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- Comment on Net.Attack() is a very unique take on survivor-like roguelikes with programming your abilities 14 hours ago:
Hmm… could be either a fun take or a one trick pony.
I like roguelikes where you have to make difficult choices while only an inch from death. Vampire survivors was a bit too brainless for me to consider it a roguelike and that’s what they compare this against.
- Comment on Fear No Peer (FNP) is Open Signup 1 day ago:
Dang missed it too. I wish Lemmy would let you get notified if certain communities have new posts instead of them getting buried
- Comment on Minecraft is rolling out its first glow up in years tomorrow 4 days ago:
Sounds like the bedrock-only part is just a visual update. If you’re on Java you already have access to shaders.
But still - fuck MS for making bedrock a totally separate game so they could avoid giving alpha buyers free in app purchases.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 4 days ago:
You missed the pokedex entries too!
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 1 week ago:
Wow… even a finger nail ruins that screen. Shamefully bad design decisions went into making those things if they’re THAT fragile.
- Comment on Alternatively 1 week ago:
Throw these out in nature and it’ll make for some very interesting bear encounters.
- Comment on Alternatively 1 week ago:
Machomp does
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
Oh nice new avatar
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 1 week ago:
Only places that have those foggers have produce bags.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 1 week ago:
OK that was a bit much. I thought you were saying you went and licked your fingers each time you opened the bag just before squeezing the store tomatoes to find the right one.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 1 week ago:
The produce is all wet. Just touch the thing youre going to buy to get your fingers wet - not lick it you foul fuck
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
No he just got lucky a few times. Then he flagrantly broke the law because he realized the SEC would never hold him accountable and that let him turn Tesla into the first memestock. That’s why he is megawealthy. Luck and fraud.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
Yeah I really hope he goes after Vought and the truly evil people next. It’d be glorious to watch them all fight and get ripped apart so they can’t harm anyone else.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
possedong
I’d like to know how your autocorrect learned this word
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 2 weeks ago:
can still run all streaming apps
So can it run them at full resolution instead of the penalty-box resolution that they all force on the PC?
- Comment on Damn Led Zeppelin and their Stairway to Heaven! 2 weeks ago:
There are those weird flat airport escalators to Nirvana, though.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
This would make CFL much more entertaining
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Like a gun!
- Comment on I think we've all been there. 3 weeks ago:
I wonder what kind of conditions might allow that state chart to have a transition from Death back to Diarrhea.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 3 weeks ago:
And we will let you because no one cares.
Hey look Neatnit’s corpse is getting eaten by birds. Well… they’ve got to eat something. What was it he died for again?
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but all of the other Wall-Es were left broken by a mandatory Tuesday Windows Update
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 3 weeks ago:
Usually just words here and there. It’s the principle. I don’t need Disney’s censors to decide what is OK for me/China to hear.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 3 weeks ago:
“well the military was ultimately responsible for holding those contractors accountable,”
This is arguably one of the worst aspects of contracting any kind of service. The contractors act like they don’t have a duty to listen nor are they willing to be held accountable. Once the contractor and the signor shake hands then the contractors just go and do the worst fucking job possible with no one to steer the ship. The money has been spent, and accountability is nowhere to be found.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 3 weeks ago:
I see what you did there.
For real though it’s going to be hard to undo all of this. The political process for all public services is being hung by a noose made by contractors and GOP voters.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 3 weeks ago:
I’m torrenting it. One thing I always hated was the needless censorship by BBCA.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know the new season was out!
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 weeks ago:
No my point is they offload too much to corporations and thus are beholden to the same concerns of those corporations by proxy.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 weeks ago:
Honestly I didn’t even realize until now how good the cropping is on lemmy compared to redd*t. holy shit the number of memes that came from screenshots of twitter screenshotted on insta screenshotted on whatever the fuck but this one was profile.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been in PTA fights over this and yelled at superintendents in multiple school district meetings now. The real answer of where the money is going? Contractors.
Everything is done by contractors now because it’s easy to sever and it allows organizations to focus on one thing they’re good at. Do you need janitorial staff or do you need to keep things clean? Well the answer is you need to keep things clean - so how? Just pay the contractors because the school board got bribed. Sure, it turns out the contractors cost 3x the cost of a dedicated janitorial staff in the long run, but they were quicker to set up and the board wanted a turnkey solution.
That’s the approach that every school board uses to answer that question. Need X - ok well we don’t want to hire anyone because that makes people mad about how we use money… so we’ll spend MORE money on Y over the long run for something that will be a permanently reoccurring cost. Anyone go to a school cafeteria recently? Did you get food served on disposable styrofoam treys or were you given a melamine tray and plate with reusable utensils? Just kidding I know the answer to that already. Do we provide school supplies to students at the district level? No, every man for themselves go to walmart and pay $60 for school supplies for each child with all the markup instead of letting the district buy them by the pallet and distribute at the cost of wholesale for 15% the total price of everyone wastefully purchasing their own.
Don’t forget that school boards are notoriously easy to corrupt. Usually it’s something relatively benign like a board member has a family member that owns a company that does contract work and they were recommended to the rest of the board. But often it is outright bribes.
But this short sighted view of how to run things is making everything expensive in America. Everything has ten fucking middlemen between you and what you want. And they’re all goddamn contractors now. Cheap in the immediate but far more expensive over time. Why? Because we aren’t allowed to have honest conversations about government expenses anymore. We aren’t allowed to ask for real services for our children because of the short term demands of the bottom line.
