ZoteTheMighty
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- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 days ago:
And rent. My last rental had a special offer though: pay an extra fee every month and they’ll report your rent to the credit bureaus, raising your score through the roof.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 days ago:
We can sustain everybody on Earth right now if we all eat beans and rice, give up all meat, stop plane travel, and limit your commutes to ones you can do without a personal car. Even if we get rid of billionaires, the rest of western life is unsustainable at this population.
If you are reading this message on a smart phone, it’s already too late, you don’t meet this criteria. The only solution for us to sustain your lifestyle is to reduce the population.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 3 days ago:
For hotels, I’m wondering if this is a trick to meet a government rate.
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 1 week ago:
The free part is actually the harder thing to deliver on here. Free to play games are more recent than this hardware can handle since it’s a newer trend.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
You can’t reliably detect all steroids. The Olympics has a long history of under detecting novel steroids. A lot of sporting competitions below the Olympics level have a tendency to undertest as well and underdetect. You could have a long and successful career as an athlete from doping.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
It’s highly likely that EVERY video game dev team has at least one person who is using cursor, whether it violates their AI policy or not. It’s massively popular, looks just like VSCode, and can be hard to detect.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 1 week ago:
Excuse me while I get mauled by a polar bear to get in the Christmas spirit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The job offer would read “Let us use your voice to train an AI to replace you, and if you say no, we’ll hire someone else who will.” Most actors are highly replaceable, so they have very little bargaining power. This is why actors have unions and why they’ve been fighting AI hard.
- Comment on Who? 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like the most unenforceable law in the history of laws.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 weeks ago:
Let me go ask my dog if they’re autistic. They’re right over here, screaming about how it’s already 5:31 and I haven’t given them their 5:30 treat yet.
- Comment on why 3 weeks ago:
There was a whole battle about whether covid was masculine or feminine. I think feminine won, probably because it sucked.
- Comment on WHY??? 3 weeks ago:
It’s less weird when you realize it’s not a hexagon, it’s a sine wave in cylindrical coordinates. There are a lot of negative feedback loops such that a sine wave can turn into a standing wave. You just have to get a little lucky with a couple important things like your rossby number et voila, hexagon.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
As someone who works in the field, that sounds like something I’d pitch to shareholders when I’m trying to steal their money, not when I’m trying to fuse particles.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
I played Saint’s Row 4, does that count?
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 4 weeks ago:
Fusion releases a daughter particle and a neutron. Thr daughter particle is much larger and will deposit its energy back into the plasma, the neutron will travel much further until it hits a collector outside the chamber, heating it up, which will heat water. You don’t get to decide which direction the neutron goes, so you have to build this absorber around the entire thing.
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 4 weeks ago:
Was it a blue elanta? Just turned mine back into enterprise for tire leaks. Maybe they didn’t fix it and sent it back out.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 4 weeks ago:
This is literally why people spend $500 on a switch 2; it has the only arcade racer on the market worth playing. If you don’t want a single-game console or Mark Kart isn’t whst you’re looking for, tough luck.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
If you asked me to name a major gameplay innovation in the last 5 years, I literally couldn’t. Clair Obscur won a fuck load of awards for doing basically what Final Fantasy did 15 years ago, but not completely losing the plot. Hollow Knight blew everyone’s mind for making a decent Metroidvania game. Balatro made a game where you make a series of combos that people have been making for over 200 years. You don’t need fancy gimmicks anymore to be considered good, you just need to be good. Major publishers waste their time because they don’t know how to put “be good” on a spreadsheet.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 5 weeks ago:
P@ssw0rd is ahead of Password. Times they are a changin
- Comment on Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III 5 weeks ago:
As the readme states, you can’t actually compile the source code. The compilers are lost to time and it’s from a very obscure, proprietary fork of an obscure language. Essentially, this headline should read “Microsoft owns code not even their engineers could comprehend, so they released it for free since they couldn’t possibly make money from it”.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 1 month ago:
Stalin disappeared thousands of people. Tiger Stalin “disappeared” a few, but there was no hiding it, the pile of intestines and bones was a dead giveaway.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 1 month ago:
Intelligent people are worried about the blackmail context of the emails, but intelligent people never supported Trump, so this is just another reason to hate him and a new reason to be worried. Among Trump’s core supporters, homophobia is a critical issue, it has always been a major topic for the Trump admin. Previously the Epstein files were just about pedophilia, and conservative states have always taken a softer stance on the topic with things like child marriage.
There may be more important things to the story, but where voters can be swayed, the big story is “Trump did something gay.”
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 month ago:
Half Life 2 was about 5 years too early to be considered “basically beyond imptovement”. The graphics are a little dated now, and maybe the gameplay is a little simpler than a modern FPS, but ultimately it’s pretty close to the mark. I haven’t been surprised by FPS mechanics or graphics in 10 years, so there’s basically no way for Half Life 3 to surprise us. Dishonored 1 and 2 were basically identical. If you told me the second one came out immediately after, I’d believe you.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 month ago:
Dishonored nailed a neat trick: If every game dev stops innovating immediately after you release an innovative game, your game will always be considered highly innovative.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 month ago:
If you killed patient 0, then it wasn’t a world ending disease either.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 1 month ago:
“This franchise will never have a meaningful conclusion, but I hope you gave up on that nonsense by the end of Black Flag”
- Comment on Anon thinks Silksong is problematic 1 month ago:
Remember that Hornet’s journal is filled out after a dozen or so of the creature in question attempting to kill her.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 1 month ago:
I like how this approach gets called “okay on the privacy side” and just assumes you’re logged in to everything. In case you missed it, the subject matter here is browsing porn, a vast majority of people aren’t logging in at all with any service when they watch porn.
- Comment on Discuss: 1 month ago:
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
Nothing would be a great brand name if they were dedicated to making good phones without any bloatware.