Deconceptualist
@Deconceptualist@leminal.space
- Comment on I Can't Stop Thinking About Majora's Mask 23 hours ago:
Oof, that’s some feels.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
I’m not disagreeing that there’s an entire category of people with impairments who can overcome most of the barriers through effort and perseverance. That’s absolutely a thing. Please don’t think I’m dismissing that.
I’m saying there is also a category of people who will sadly never overcome their impairment though any amount of effort, or really anything short of a miracle. The simplest illustration is at the extreme end – a person with advanced Alzheimer’s is never going to become a pro athlete nor a Jeopardy champion, at least not without major groundbreaking advancements in medicine.
You seem to be making the argument that only the first category exists but not the second, which is just not true.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
I’m trying to steer this away from subjective topics like motivation and effort here. I’m talking about neural hardware with concrete, quantifiable impediments that lead to poor functionality compared to the general populace. Things like physical brain damage or incomplete cortical development.
This genuinely affects quality of life for real people regardless of their mood or whether they consider themselves a victim or any other non-scientific generalizations.
I don’t know whether your family members were actually tested by a credentialed psychologist or psychiatrist, or if they were merely self-diagnosed. I won’t make any assumptions there but please know there is an huge difference in terms of accuracy.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
You’re dismissing entire categories of cognitive impairment. Not just the varieties of dementia, but also learning disabilities like dyslexia (reading), dysgraphia (writing), and dyscalculia (math) that can affect otherwise smart and capable people. These are measurable impairments, not just a difficulty that can be overcome with effort.
neurolaunch.com/cognitive-disorders-list/
It would be wise to be more careful with your sweeping statements.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
inability to learn is a choice.
Not always. Someone close to me has issues with executive dysfunction and short term memory as a result of brain trauma. She really struggles with algebra and she’ll almost certainly never learn calculus even if she wanted to.
lots of people I met recently, love to tell me how stupid it is because it’s not a ‘useful’ thing to learn.
That’s a different issue entirely. If they think they’re experts at judging what’s useful, that may be the Dunning-Kruger effect.
- Comment on Workers Need a Legal Right to Full-Time Hours 1 week ago:
Normalize 32 hours as full-time with benefits.
Actually, folks should get benefits at 20 hours. People with young kids or something else major going on in their lives would be better able to work then.
- Comment on Do both games & consoles cost more in the US when you factor in both sales tax and minimum wage? 2 weeks ago:
Minimum wage has long fallen into the poverty zone in the US. As the saying goes, everything is expensive when you’re poor. And sales tax doesn’t help one bit. It’s a ‘flat’ tax meaning it doesn’t scale with income; a poor person and a billionaire pay the same sales tax for an identical purchase.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
I’ll confess I did this once – with Duke Nukem Forever. My old best bud and I played the fuck out of Duke3D back in the day (including building our own levels) and 3DRealms cockteased everyone for well over a decade with their supposed ‘ultimate’ title. So when it finally released I HAD to play it. And of course there was no way it could live up to the hype. It was an inconsistent mess and I powered through it in under 2 hours. I guess I’m glad I played it but it wasn’t even remotely revolutionary… At beast or was like a collection of fan mods bundled into an ‘official’ title. Not at all worth the asking price. I have no desire to revisit any of it so overall I don’t feel like I ripped them off; if anything I feel like they disappointed me majorly as a fan.
I played it so others don’t have to. Yeah, that’s how I’ll spin it 😂
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What if we find a compromise? Instead of getting rid of discs entirely, perhaps Sony could make them smaller. Like some kind of… mini-disc?
/s
- Comment on 12 years later, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth hits new steam peak player count 4 weeks ago:
Well they dropped the full set (base + expansions) from $20+ to ~$5.
I played a lot of the original BoI release, but eventually got burnt out on roguelikes and never felt compelled to pay a premium when it was redesigned on a new engine for Rebirth. But at $5, sure, why not. Good Steam Deck title.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Ah drats, I par-boiled mine and then put it on a kebab spit
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 5 weeks ago:
I mean, they are the reason our planet has entire islands made out of bird guano. Pretty gross.
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 5 weeks ago:
Oh most definitely, this species at least was full of personality. They were very well cared-for so they were little divas and had all kinds of interesting relationships with one another (the caretaker told it like a soap opera).
They would also ignore the fish we tossed that they didn’t prefer and wait for their favorite. So the caretaker had to go around and pick up the extra fish when food time was over lol
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 5 weeks ago:
I got to feed endangered African penguins once at an aviary! They just swallow whole fish (whether in the water or tossed to them though the air), no need for prep.
Fun fact, they secrete all that fish oil right onto their feathers (it helps them glide though the water), but that makes them little stink monsters! Seriously, penguins smell rather terrible haha.
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 1 month ago:
Or “Stop Renting Games” since we only get a digital license on most platforms that can be revoked.
- Comment on Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as It Transforms Under New CEO 1 month ago:
Heh,I learned this one the hard way. Thought I was safe because I cooperated and provided them all kinds of info, and I was rising up through management. But nope, they didn’t give a damn about loyalty or anything, they just wanted a fresh slate and cut all kinds of people.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Oh wow I haven’t seen that in aeons haha
- Comment on power generator 2 months ago:
I know it’s a comic but I’m so tired of this. The high heat capacity and abundance of water make it excellent for energy transfer. But it’s not the source of energy. The source is what distinguishes different types of generators, not the engineering logistics of transfer.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Still not my thing but I guess that makes sense, and I haven’t seen one with a story. Thanks.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Sure. But what exactly is that commentary? To me it feels super cynical, like “Look, people are suckers and you don’t need to waste effort on story and gameplay, they’re happy to just mindlessly click buttons”.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Progression and tech trees are my favorite parts of rpg games.
Oh I like those very much too. They serve as a reward for playing the core game and unlock further choices and complexity so your skills and particular playstyle can expand.
Good incremental games distill that part to a fine, highly concentrated progression liquor.
Uh, no I would argue that they boil away everything interesting – narrative, gameplay, choices, skill, problem solving – and what’s left is naught but the kind of task 1960’s neuroscientists would set for rats with electrodes implanted in their crania. How is that appealing whatsoever?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
I can’t really disagree with any of that. But I did enjoy playing back in school, and then women’s Olympic soccer is way better to watch than men’s IMO (they play hard, and don’t fall down and fake injury at the lightest bump).
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Huh? That’s like saying you love a shitty drug. You’re not enjoying a story or developing any kind of skill, you’re just raising your risk of RSI for a dopamine hit. What am I missing?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Basketball. It’s practically the same game as soccer and hockey without the interesting constraints (no hands, or play on skates). I won’t deny that it requires athleticism, but then it has the non-skill requirement to be freakishly tall. If you’re not biologically tall, well too bad, that’s a huge handicap you have basically no hope of overcoming.
And NBA games are the worst, it’s always tied like 100-100 until the last 1-2 minutes which is where all the interesting plays happen (between a half dozen fouls) and the actual outcome is decided. The rest of the game you can often just ignore and not really miss anything important.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Not a single title, but any incremental “clicker” game. What’s the point? Seems like “hurr durr number go up”.
Similarly, any game that’s more than a little grindy, where the grind isn’t a fun gameplay loop in its own right. e.g. I played Warframe for years, and the core gameplay feels great. But if it wasn’t for that I would have likely hated the game due to how repetitive it gets just to upgrade your gear.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Good luck! I couldn’t hold out and I hope I don’t regret it too much. The game is already good but I’m trying to give useful feedback so it’ll be even better for everyone later.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 2 months ago:
That’s all it took to get the song in my head lol
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 months ago:
Go on the Discord, you’ll probably find folks giving away free keys periodically. I don’t know that for certain but it’s common for popular Early Access games.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 months ago:
Why? If you know you’ll play it it’s only $30 now, almost certainly higher at release. The Early Access is running great for me (on Linux no less) and the closest thing to a “bug” I’ve found so far (3 hrs in) is that some of the voiceover doesn’t 100% match the written text.
Seriously, it looks and feels very good already. My understanding is that only a few biomes are finished, and they’ll release more over time. But even the story beginnings are already solidly in place.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 months ago:
What’s the GabeN quote? Piracy is a customer service problem? That seems applicable here.