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- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 days ago:
Mostly this is an issue with .ml and .world.
The others will often tell you their bias before you join, often in the name itself.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 days ago:
Biggest issue is that said admins are the lemmy devs. .ml is their test instance.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 4 days ago:
Sure, but that’s usually much less poetic, North by Northwest notwithstanding.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 4 days ago:
Most Mediterranean cultures used to have names for at least eight winds, each at 45 degrees from each other. Greeks (and therefore Romans) used twelve, at 30 degrees.
Here’s a classic navigator’s wind rose, for instance, with 32 different named winds / directions (might be a bit hard to read on dark backgrounds, here’s the original SVG):
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 4 days ago:
without being too many to remember
People used to have no problem remembering the names of at least eight winds, depending on the direction…
Here are the ones used in Catalonia, for instance; we were taught them at school:
Though, to be fair, llevant means where the sun rises and ponent where it sets, migjorn means midday, which makes sense given the other two, and everyone already knew tramuntana, cause it’s a headache when it blows, so it’s mostly the other four we have to remember… the Greek one seems quite harder, though, then again, I’m not Greek…:
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 4 days ago:
If the four cardinal points bother you, better not look up wind roses or rhumbline networks…
- Comment on Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers? 4 days ago:
There’s also an intelligence test, where you need to score below a certain level.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 6 days ago:
I don’t get it.
I’ve tried McDonalds food.
It’s more expensive than much better alternatives, it doesn’t look good, and it tastes worse, like the cheapest ultraprocessed crap you can find in the kind of budget supermarket that only carries foreign brands you’ve never heard of.
I can find better and cheaper food in seedy bars I’d never willingly go to, or by buying the cheapest brands (even the good brands, or buying natural ingredients, wouldn’t be significantly more expensive) and cooking at home.
It really boggles my mind. Is it like smoking? Do people start eating it due to peer pressure and never stop because they get addicted?
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 week ago:
I know it’s bad for me.
I’m just too tired to care.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Zip disks ain’t that old!
Fixing computers on location I once saw a word processor (as in, a very limited specialised computer for writing text, not the software for general purpose computers that killed 'em) on display. Now that was old.
(Not as old as the completely mechanical typewriter I wrote my school essays with, though.)
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
It’d probably let you. They’re pretty chill cats.
Don’t have a lot of energy, and have to save it for sprinting.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
Fun fact: cheetahs can purr and meow.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
It’s a cheetah, not a leopard.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
We’re too big and too dangerous.
A cheetah would need to be very desperate to attack a human.
- Comment on I respect choice for the name of the game 2 weeks ago:
Don’t underestimate man’s urge to dig a hole.
- Comment on Trump suggests Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was a cover-up 3 weeks ago:
They’re not doing a very good job…
- Comment on Trump suggests Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was a cover-up 3 weeks ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 weeks ago:
To be fair style over substance is one of cyberpunk’s (the style, not specifically the game) main design philosophies…
But yeah, sure, the game could stand some more fleshing up. Most games could.
That said, there’s a lot of stories going on in Night City that you won’t get through quests, but are told bit by bit through messages, notes, minor encounters, and world design… more than in most similar games I’ve played.
Would it be nice to be able to enter every building, take a job at any random hot dog stand, ignore the quests and, I don’t know, infiltrate Biotechnica and leak all their ugly business to the world…? Sure, but that’s not something V would do (without getting paid), especially once they’re on a timer, the engine probably wouldn’t be able to support, and, most importantly, we’d still be waiting for the game to come out.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 weeks ago:
He was a professional detective. You know, before he erased his brain with massive quantities of alcohol and drugs.
It’s up to you to decide who he is now.
Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau, reincarnation of Kras Mazov and art cop, is one of the many possibilities where gathering and putting information together would be… secondary, to say the least.
Just put your points in Drama or Inland Empire, and dull concepts like “reality” will be quite irrelevant for our good detective (much to Kim’s stoic chagrin). 🤷♂️
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 weeks ago:
You’re playing a middle aged detective (though he looks older, or at least more worn down) who just woke up from an alcoholic coma after taking all the drugs, unable to remember anything about himself or the world he lives in, except for the fact that there might have been a woman, which was somehow both the best and the worst, and possibly some trivia about disco.
I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to remember or understand everything the game throws at you, at least on a first playthrough. That’s what Kim is for.
Just go with the flow, and remember that in this game failure often leads to more enjoyable outcomes than success.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 weeks ago:
Why am i spending so much time wandering at the street level where everywhere just looks and feels the same.
What game are you fucking playing?
“Looks and feels he same”!?
What are you even going on about? Every neighborhood, every nook and cranny, feels different and has a story to tell!Night City is the real protagonist of the game! I could spend hours upon hours just walking those streets, experiencing the city (and have), and I’m far from the only one…
And the voice acting of V (I played female) is so overreacted, it’s one of the cringiest performances in gaming
I’m sorry, what? Cherami Leigh got a well deserved BAFTA nomination for that performance!
(Lost to Laura Bailey for her work as Abby on The Last of Us Part II.)What, were you playing with your eyes closed while listening to something else…?
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 5 weeks ago:
Also a certain obsession with containers, if I recall correctly.
- Comment on Is that a fucking threat 1 month ago:
Correlation doesn’t imply causation… but in this case it probably does, let’s be frank.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 1 month ago:
Turn it into a pigsty.
Use the pigs to feed the hungry.
Also, breed the pigs to look like Trump.
(I mean, if the Danes could get a pig breed to look like their flag, I’m sure Americans can get a pig breed to look like Trump. I mean, they’re already almost there!)
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 1 month ago:
Actually, it’s about the teeth.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
The lack of perspective from leftist that say that.
Those ain’t leftists. They’re enlightened centrists. I.e., poorly disguised fascists trolling and sowing dissent.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
Sure, they would do that, if good moderators were a thing that could exist. Which they most evidently aren’t, as demonstrated by every single example to have ever cursed the world with their existence.
What we get instead are the same old powermods from reddit, arbitrarily ruling as unelected tyrants over dozens of unrelated communities, often across multiple instances, banning users across all of them for misinterpreted comments (can’t seemingly be a moderator without having skin as thin as rice paper, and without lacking any semblance of reading comprehension) or for not agreeing with their own personal lunacies. And the worst of them are admins to boot, or even the developers themselves.
Anyone who wants to be a moderator will inevitably lack any ability to be one, and will almost certainly be acting in bad faith, if not at first then the second they’ve had a taste of their power over their petty little kingdom, and should immediately be permabanned from all instances for the safety of the users.
But obviously we can’t force anyone who doesn’t want to be one to take the position, lest they end up becoming even worse out of spite.
The point of being able to upvote and downvote, and block if necessary, is to make moderators unnecessary (not that they don’t do a good job of that themselves, of course, but this removes any possible excuse that they might be a necessary evil). That’s the lesson we should have learned from reddit: moderators are unnecessary, obsolete, and extremely harmful; they will ruin any social network they infest, and if they’re admins on top of that they’ll be several orders of magnitude worse, and enshittify the platform as much as possible.
At least here we can block their communities and instances infested by the worst of them, I suppose, cut away the worst of the cancer, but that just makes this a least worst situation, not a good or even tolerable one.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
good moderator
When it comes to social media, that’s an oxymoron.
- Comment on Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed 2 months ago:
Same reason fax is still a thing you need if you want to do anything official or business related, why PC-98 was a thing, why their smartphones are weird, why they invented the term Galapagos syndrome, or why they use laptops that still have compact disk drives and look like this:
No, really, this is a 2025 model.
Japan innovates early. They innovate fast. And then they sort of… stop.
Technology in Japan looks futuristic for a while, then the rest of the world catches up, but, since Japan has already been there for a decade and made different decisions their technology looks… odd, and then the world carries on, while Japan seems stuck in some kind of retrofuturistic limbo.
Of course this is happening with different innovations at different times and paces, so from an outside perspective Japan is always a weird combination of futuristic, weird old alternate future, and just plain weird.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Monstrous is what it is.
The very concept of earning one’s living, as if we didn’t deserve to be alive without sacrificing said life for the privilege.
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