Zephorah
@Zephorah@discuss.online
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 1 day ago:
They want your data, and if you don’t give it to them by logging in, they’re cutting you off. Probably.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 2 days ago:
Not easy, you’ve done well.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 days ago:
That’s not a bad idea. It is addictive. Tax it like alcohol and tobacco. I’ve watched a subset of diabetics scream that they need sugar no matter what healthcare tries to say about it. Tears. More often, anger and spiteful overconsumption in reaction to being told no. (A subset, not all.)
- Comment on I need an adult 4 days ago:
Red cabbage.
Purple carrots get to be purple, but, that may be because there are literal red carrots.
Purple peppers get called black or some such, but again, red peppers exist.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 1 week ago:
While what you say is true it is also true that this administration is a train wreck, talks often of deregulation, and gives no fucks about working class citizens.
It’s difficult to trust in coincidence with these self serving leeches.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 1 week ago:
And enough regulation that we can eat fruits and veggies without fear of explosive diarrhea. And the capacity to afford said fruits and vegetables.
- Comment on "It's not work" - Austrian Chancellor Stocker declares that in his view caring for children isn't work 1 week ago:
Either that or he’s taking the stance that stay at home moms and dads are lazy bastards who do no work
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If it’s starlings, that’s fair.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I do such that my cats would probably be terrified of the outside. Even so, there are ferals hunting the fields.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They eat cats.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 1 week ago:
Hey, I went back and played both NWN and NWN2 base campaigns. I don’t care. But others will emit a never ending keening wail and possibly break their own bank accounts on it.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 1 week ago:
Sure, but even with all that, what are the odds? Given the amount of “dated engine” and such in review commentary.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
That game was such a bleached out, thin piece of repetitive garbage. Every character, and their dialogue, was about as deep as a guard NPC in Skyrim.
Season 8 of GoT had better production value.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
ME manages to incorporate just about every SciFi trope in a good way, have punchy dialogue and characters, offer chills at some points, and have a great overarching plot. More importantly, they give it an ending.
BioWare really fucked themselves with that EA deal. I don’t see them saving themselves like Amplitude did. I suppose there’s DDO, it’s still around, love of D&D being what it is within D&D communities The devs made a deal with Warner Brothers and now it’s Standing Stone, but how often has that happened? Mostly, studios just die.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
I grew up with a card catalog and had Netscape navigator at college right out of high school. Stellar graphics are great, preferred, but not necessary. Would I care if graphics/engine quality went back to Dragon age origins or II? Mass effect the original? Even FO:NV? No. But I want the story level, complexity, and total game time to be completionist about it. Witcher 3 is lovely but it’s the quality of darkness in it that makes it so compelling.
Even without the hardware limitations, good, immersive stories that keep you as involved as GoT before the writers stopped writing are already in short supply.
I’m presently replaying the Dishonored games. There’s only so much of that a person can do. Games worth the time sink are already in short supply.
Candy crush and similar bullshit can’t replace good games.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
Well, there goes the last remnant of possibility for a dragon age or mass effect revival.
Replaying Dishonored 2, still mad about Arkane.
It’s like the long game is to kill gaming from two directions. Game Studio deaths and making PC components unaffordable for working class.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 5 weeks ago:
I was fortunate. We were considered poor but not so poor that mom wasn’t home with us. Thrift clothes and homemade clothes (a very cheap option in the 80s) got us teased mercilessly, but the parents were present.
There have been articles lately about the young generations aging faster. It’s always been noteworthy in medicine. People, on the worst case scenarios, looking 60 when they’re 40. Not from outdoor life but just hard life. Given the overt stress the younger gen’s are under on all sides it fits.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 5 weeks ago:
The time theft has a far reach. I’ve worked with kids who’ve gone inpatient for mental health, acting out in school, etc. Why? Because mom isn’t there. It’s not willful neglect. It’s neglect through not neglecting her motherly duties by working 2-3 jobs to keep the lights on and shoes on her child’s feet.
Time is a key reason we need to be paid more, have a much higher minimum wage, though it isn’t often mentioned.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 5 weeks ago:
I’ve not voted for a conservative president, ever. Xennial.
Cities have more jobs by the numbers, yes, but do they have more job openings able to accommodate all the people in those cities?
The main point is location matters with degrees.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, jobs and degree value is 90% regional. There are states with less degrees and states with more degrees. The PNW, for example, has a glut of Bachelors degrees, meaning your Bachelors will give you very little if any traction for jobs. Why would it when there’s double digits in those degrees applying for every 1 job requiring one? Many Midwest, flyover states do not. When there’s no one applying to those degrees positions and then That One Guy shows up, he’s almost guaranteed at least a try in that position.
Sometimes you have to take your degree and move or it will hold little value. People don’t like to hear that, and that’s fair, but it’s also the reality.
You’ll have a cheaper house, cheaper COL, and be very competitive in a job in a flyover state, but because you don’t want to leave the city of Seattle or its surrounding beauty, you stay and bitch about it instead. Or San Francisco. Or [next high COL/housing place]. No one really likes Ohio or the ass end of Illinois but there are both job openings and cheaper housing there.
An in-law earned a safety degree. They could stay in there state for $80k or move to a degree bereft state, with cheaper houses even, for $125k. They moved, and on the company’s dime.
Some of what’s happening here is based in the human principle of: I don’t wanna.. “Don’t wanna” rules the day most of the time.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 5 weeks ago:
Not you. All the people posting with a shrug saying it’s just a piece of paper that doesn’t mean/do much except help getting a job. Like there’s no useful information there they can’t learn all by themselves & that they have the personal discipline of a 4 year dedicated college curriculum in conjunction with using AI to complete everything.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 5 weeks ago:
The amount of scorn for degrees here is spectacular.
Medicine happens, in part, by experience. Even so, would you want your doctor or nurse working on you either of those roles without their degree(s)?
Psychologist?
Your lawyer?
The engineer designing that bridge you cross every day?
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 5 weeks ago:
What is the point of paying for college when you squander it this way?
- Comment on Satan's Ballsack 1 month ago:
Post pics. Share your imagery.
- Comment on Satan's Ballsack 1 month ago:
They’re the ones driving past the mutilated White House on their day to day. The reminders of his awfulness likely hits harder for them because they get the full visual on his lack of respect for American things.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
They’re DRM free, so why not burn it to physical media with a label? Even so, I’m ok with GOG downloads. What’s fun is you can share your account with your partner or your kids and no one will care.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 month ago:
The internal optical drives for PC used to cost under $30, and then you just need the right case.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 1 month ago:
She participated in the greatest movie fight scene ever. Crouching Tiger.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 1 month ago:
Mulgrew. Flemeth. (Kidding).
Levar Burton will always be reading rainbow guy, no matter what he does.
Zachary Quinto. Silar. One of the better villains, until the writers went on strike and the show fell off the rails. Granted, this likely just marks the man’s range as an actor.
John Cho. The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Koening. Bester.
You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 month ago:
They sell it to a third of the population, and those people rabidly vote for corporate USA every year.