whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 6 days ago:
I prefer to cut the pinky finger off of infants instead. It hasn’t hurt them at all not having a pinky finger, it’s not the whole hand just the tip. And it’s not just cosmetic because I dislike pinky fingers aesthetically, it’s healthier too, do you know how many people get pinky finger infections every year?
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 week ago:
He doesn’t give his kids the same advice
- Comment on You have to be orchidding me! 1 week ago:
There’s multiple species definitions and none of them are very satisfying because it’s trying to impose a clear distinction where one doesn’t really exist.
species categorized by fertile offspring want to describe a situation like this with clear, district boundaries:
abstract picture with rows of distinct colors with clear boundaries
But evolutionary groups tend to be more like gradients & gaps like this:
abstract picture with a few colors overlapping each other and areas with no color
You can try adding specific boundaries to the 2nd, but there’ll always be some weird edges that don’t really fit.
- Comment on You have to be orchidding me! 1 week ago:
No, but the criteria is 1. Interbreeding is possible and 2. Can produce fertile offspring
- Comment on You have to be orchidding me! 1 week ago:
By this categorization llamas and camels are the same species as they can sometimes produce fertile offspring
- Comment on 🐍 🐦 🪹 1 week ago:
Set to away
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 1 week ago:
Sightly chilled, bubbly flower water is good, but what about some hot bush water, or hot seed water.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
It was toys r us for me too, I was able to get a copy a week later but there’s no point to preordering if they don’t honor the reservation & when you’re a kid that week feels like forever so it sticks pretty brightly in memory
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
I pre-ordered ff8, they ran out anyways. Lesson learned.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
Pokemon x Luigi crossover?
- Comment on Beans aswell 3 weeks ago:
Corn pie‽
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 3 weeks ago:
The gamer motivation categories they are selling are not exhaustive categories, and while they publish some graphs and excerpts I don’t see any link to their full survey data or methodology.
My intuition is they are not against AI, they’re against trashy corporate LLMs filling their games with boring, uninteresting, slop instead of a well made directed experience (narrative games, rollercoaster type experience), an engaging open world simulation, or competitive round based games like king of the hill or arena shooter. AI dungeon was fun six years ago, if there’s nothing more advanced than that then the gimmick is already spent.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 4 weeks ago:
I think even that’s getting cheaper over the last couple years. Mid range guitars are getting premium features & qc out of Philippines and Indonesia is pretty solid, modelers are making a big collection of amps and pedals unnecessary for chasing tones. As long as you’re not a collector gathering signature serieses or looking at all the new releases giving yourself fomo it’s not too bad.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 5 weeks ago:
Turn based jrpgs like Final fantasy series games, octopath traveller, dragon warrior
Sam and max beyond space and time, comedy point and click adventure style game
DOOM
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 5 weeks ago:
Looks mostly grey to me
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 5 weeks ago:
All of the old scummVM adventure games; Sam and max hit the road, monkey island, day of the tentacle, etc
For something more cinematic I’d look at platinum games like Bayonetta, god of wars, mass effects, gears, half-lifes, dark souls
I would avoid something really puzzle heavy like professor Layton or tactical like civ or Stellaris I enjoy watching/listening to people play games but those usually can’t hold my interest unless I’m playing
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 5 weeks ago:
Is this the one where devolver digital does something goofy? That’s usually pretty fun
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 5 weeks ago:
Celebrities drum up drama about themselves to try to stay relevant when they shill whatever product they work on. He was talking shit about a couple actors in an interview or whatever and people defended the other person which just proliferated the fake drama further, he’s probably got something coming out in 2026.
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
There are no registration or registry with individuals’ information if guardians use parental controls and adult sites and apps identify themselves as adult for those controls, check what their kids are doing online, and talk with them about dangerous people or content they might see to teach them how to stay safe.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 month ago:
I can’t think of a setting that would university apply to all games, like I’d be hard pressed to say a setting in Tetris that would apply to Minecraft. Vision and auditory accessibility is probably about it, but those settings would look pretty different I think depending on the game or genre of game.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 month ago:
“Economy” is almost always corpo newspeak for wealthy people’s money. If they actually meant the economy as in everyone’s stake in the economic system the phrase “cost the economy” would be meaningless.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 month ago:
I find it gets better with practice to some degree, if I go for a long stretch reading more or less fiction I find it affects my imagination and ability to visualize with more or less detail and memorability. I don’t think it’ll bridge the gap to 5 necessarily, but it might bump a 4 to a 3 or a 2 to a 1.
- Comment on We have one at home 1 month ago:
Sounds like a counter recommendary (anti-recommendist?), whatever they recommend look for the opposite instead
- Comment on We have one at home 1 month ago:
Wow, replied before I saw this. 2 on live references in a single thread, feel like I just spotted a bigfoot or something
- Comment on We have one at home 1 month ago:
- Comment on me_irl_conflict 2 months ago:
Einstein died in 1955. Redshift observations started in 1912 but weren’t clear on what was happening or why, Friedmann etc al’s calculations in 1922 probably raised the question in a serious context, and Hubble’s law was published in 1929. He knew about it, probably at least from the early '20s.
- Comment on 0^n+0^n=0^n 2 months ago:
I like how it kinda looks like ‘oh no no n-’
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 2 months ago:
2d/3d: I want to keep both thumbs on the sticks for 3d so I prefer a controller like this 3rd party Xbox with back buttons and extra shoulder buttons
Xbox style controller with 4 back buttons and 3 buttons per shoulder
Fighting: leverless is a lot of fun, I have a slab mini and a junk food micro lite I prefer the micro it’s way lighter
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 months ago:
Dwarf fortress, chess, crosswords, Nonograms, sudoku
Check out scummVM and ROMs for old point and click adventure games like grim fandango, monkey island, Sam & max, etc
