Deconceptualist
@Deconceptualist@leminal.space
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 18 hours ago:
Unless you’re a diehard hardware collector I would say no. As others have mentioned, there are great alternatives now that will cost maybe 10-20% as much, and possibly give you additional features or flexibility.
I’m surprised how many people are saying yes. Y’all got that much money to burn?
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 18 hours ago:
Price. At least one person here says the official hardware is going for like US$1200 on eBay.
Maybe features too. I generally prefer to emulate older games because of instant save states, fast-forward, slow or rewind, rendering improvements, that sort of thing. Not sure how much of that is possible with jailbreaking.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
This image is portraying not the cut that every group gets, but the wealth that the average individual in that group gets.
I think that’s the whole point. It’s not trying to paint an overview of the economy, but rather to show what portion a typical member of each class gets to live off of.
Images like you describe that show the breakdown for each entire class? Those are not hard to find.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Must Cover Basics 2 weeks ago:
There’s more than enough wealth in this world to do it too. We just let greedy parasites hoard it for no good reason.
- Comment on The Zelda Switch 2 (console) is going to be ¥62,980 (£298 / 350€ / $407) upon release. 5 weeks ago:
Oh you’re right, we shouldn’t talk about things like right to repair, ownership of your purchases, and game preservation because someone else in history has gotten screwed over even harder. 😛
- Comment on The Zelda Switch 2 (console) is going to be ¥62,980 (£298 / 350€ / $407) upon release. 5 weeks ago:
No, the others don’t playtest their games nearly as thoroughly :p
Seriously though Nintendo is a bit special for being particularly nasty and litigious, and doing shit like claiming emulation is piracy while literally selling emulation of their old devices.
- Comment on Valheim: Deep North 1.0 5 weeks ago:
IGN gave it a full 10/10 so clearly some people think it’s great.
- Comment on Valheim: Deep North 1.0 5 weeks ago:
He didn’t say Valheim developer, or even game developer 🤷
- Comment on Valheim: Deep North 1.0 5 weeks ago:
This video explains the mechanics of enemy spawns. youtu.be/i6JS5ouuJ-I
- Comment on America’s Decline in 1 graph 5 weeks ago:
Thanks. So… dollars I guess?
- Comment on The Zelda Switch 2 (console) is going to be ¥62,980 (£298 / 350€ / $407) upon release. 5 weeks ago:
Don’t give Nintendo your money. As a company they have nothing but contempt for gamer freedoms. Yes I understand they playtest the fuck out of their titles so they’re genuinely bug-free and frictionless, but as a former fanboy that doesn’t give them the right to rip off customers and overcharge for everything and make more stupid walled gardens to hold you captive.
- Comment on America’s Decline in 1 graph 5 weeks ago:
Percentage is a ratio, i.e. X units per 100 units. I’m asking what those units are in the first place.
- Comment on America’s Decline in 1 graph 5 weeks ago:
What are the units for productivity? 🤔
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 1 month ago:
I suspect a whole lot of people don’t know this.
- Comment on Poetry 1 month ago:
Oh we can spoil it further.
Roses aren’t inherently any color. Color is a perceptual phenomenon created in your mind based on which cone cells are triggered in what quantity and how your brain interprets the signal. If you’re red-green colorblind, they might legitimately appear grey in normal sunlight.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
Great Lakes rust belt. Okay well maybe rent is actually $2200 and utilities are $450, but the others aren’t too far off if you put in the work to find deals. That only leaves you what, $600 in debt each month? Not so bad for one of the most affordable major urbanized regions, right? /s
- Comment on Fun Minecraft-esque chemistry game 2 months ago:
I tried the game demo last night. It’s way more like Sandustry than Minecraft. Or since that’s a newer/obscure game, a bit like Terraria without the weapons.
There’s an addictive quality to wanting to discover the next element or compound after each prior one. But at least in the demo, that seems like all there is to do. Collect materials, research how to react them, and fill in the periodic table to fix your ship.
- Comment on Fun Minecraft-esque chemistry game 2 months ago:
Compounds with several elements won’t work - only compounds that consist of a particular element are eligible.
What? Don’t compounds have at least two elements by definition?
- Comment on So true 2 months ago:
scowls Ugh, take my upvote before I stroke out from trying to read this.
- Comment on I Can't Stop Thinking About Majora's Mask 2 months ago:
Oof, that’s some feels.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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' 3 months 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 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Ah drats, I par-boiled mine and then put it on a kebab spit