Iunnrais

@Iunnrais@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do each gaming fraction (pc, consoles, mobile) hating each other?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At some level, it’s because each platform costs a lot of money. If a game is not available for your platform, it’s super expensive to get another platform. So other platforms having fun games your platform doesn’t can mean losing out— either you won’t get to experience the game, or you’re going to have to shell out, and either way hurts. Thus, it is actively in your best interest if the other platforms fail, thus encouraging devs to spend more effort on your chosen platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I support pluto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The emotional flashback against the definition of a planet was probably foreseeable, and I think the framing of it as a “demotion” was what makes people bitter to this day. People’s mental model still has an orrery of 9 objects spinning around the sun, with that last one “cast off” because it’s “too small”. That garners pity.

  But note that mental model… it doesn’t even include Ceres. That got “kicked out of the club” too, and no one cares. Why? Because it’s part of the asteroid belt. That’s not a demotion, it’s a reassignment to something different but just as cool!

  And yet…… that’s EXACTLY THE SAME CASE AS PLUTO. Pluto isn’t just the 9th and smallest object circling the sun far far away, it’s a member of the Kupier Belt! And that’s awesome, there’s a whole second belt! But Kupier is hard to pronounce from the spelling, and Kupier isn’t a sci-fi common word like asteroid…

  Not to mention that using the adjective “dwarf” just sounds insulting.

  Sigh. Pluto is definitely not a planet, but the terminology definition conference definitely screwed up the framing bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This IS the descriptive approach. Trying to wrangle fish out of ghoti is simple not how people read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder that according to the actual rules of English orthography, “ghoti” can never be pronounced as “fish”, because said rules feature “position within a word/syllable” very prominently. An onset g simply can’t be pronounced the same way as a final gh, and in fact, any “gh” followed immediately by a vowel must be pronounced with the hard /g/ sound. “ti” is only ever allowed to fricitize to the “sh” sound if it’s followed by another vowel. Ghoti can only be pronounced the same as “goatee”, and English speakers know this intuitively even if they can’t articulate why they know this, the same as we internalize hundreds of other language rules without knowing that we know them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dawn of enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Enshittification has a very specific definition. It’s a business model the follows exactly these steps:

  Step 1: make a product or service of high quality to users, offered for free, to gather a large user base.

  Step 2: slowly optimize the platform for “business users”, aka advertisers. The service now starts to become worse for the original user base.

  Step 3: make the product worse for both end users and businesses in order to squeeze more short-term profits.

  It’s not a general term for “things getting worse”, it describes exactly these three steps, in this order, exactly as stated. Any variation would need a new term… except we have enough examples of this playbook that no such variations have been spotted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspected as such, that’s why I asked for clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you mistype, employ sarcasm, or were you not aware that the genre is named after Metroid, not the other way around? Metroidvania— games employing similar experiences to Metroid and some of the more notable Castlevania games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it became wildly successful. Success brings notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chirp in Fahrenheit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, except that I think the time system is great. It was deliberately designed to be maximally divisible, and makes a lot of sense in that manner. 12 hours of daylight— a highly divisible number, with 60 small (minuscule, or “minute”) divisions of the hour, which is even MORE divisible than 12. Then when time keeping got more accurate, they added a second division of 60 more parts, and… well, called ‘em seconds.

  Basically, 12 and 60 are just so divisible they make really good bases.