UnspecificGravity
@UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
- Comment on I took a couple of years of Spanish in middle school 5 hours ago:
Go into the kitchen and everyone is still speaking Spanish just like every other kitchen.
- Comment on If vegetarians eat vegetables, and humanitarians eat humans, what do Bavarians eat? 11 hours ago:
Beaver.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 16 hours ago:
Given that what it “does so far” already required the theft of the sum total of human creativity available online and the sacrifice of the survivability of humanity due to climate change, kinda seems like there isn’t much else to wring out of this.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 16 hours ago:
The problem with this, and most other “ai products” isn’t just that they are immortal attacks in human labor and and intellectual property, they also simply don’t work.
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 1 day ago:
In English?
- Comment on Draw! 1 day ago:
I mean, those are both legitimate and normal questions in an interview.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 day ago:
What risk? It worked out great for the regime in China, it would work here too.
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Revenue Has Been Dropping for Two Years Straight - IGN 4 days ago:
20 years of incremental hardware improvements and a big middle finger to the gaming community will do that.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 4 days ago:
That was the nintendid resut.
- Comment on Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS says 4 days ago:
Quick, better get more cops and less rights!
- Comment on Schlip schlop 6 days ago:
Popular might not be the word. Bananas are popular, I can buy the in virtually every store in the country. Caviar is actually pretty hard to get, so it’s clearly not a thing that very many people like.
I would say that it’s “regarded as good” because it’s exclusive, scarce, and expensive. Like, rich people like it (because they can get it) and therefore it’s good.
I’m not disagreeing with you, just trying to contribute some nuance because I think this is what OP was getting at.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 6 days ago:
Nolan is literally telling the audience that the story doesn’t matter by deliberately burying the dialog under the music and sound effects.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 6 days ago:
I liked Tenet, but I also made a conscious decision not to think about the plot too hard and just accept it’s vision of it’s own universe.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 6 days ago:
Caviar is delicious.
- Comment on In multiple shots (no pun intended) it is shown him holding a phone to record. Question is what happened to the phone and why not release his video? 1 week ago:
What they look like and the exact words that were said could potentially be pretty goddamned important to the case.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 week ago:
Because its not good enough.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
Assuming it isn’t intended to return to earth at terminal velocity the station will ALSO need to bear the mass of arresting its descent, so no, that wouldn’t do much.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
My point is that it was a bad analogy because that’s exactly what it is.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
Right, except that a bowling ball weights about 6kg and a tennis ball weighs about sixty grams, so we would only need to build a platform that weighs 1% of the total mass of earth.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
Except that you would drag it out of geostationary orbit every time you used it? Like no matter how heavy it is your still moving it closer every time you pull on the cable. You would need to constantly thrust equivalent to the mass of the cable and whatever the cable is pulling. At that point aren’t you still basically just launching shit?
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
How do you anchor the end in space so that you don’t just retract the cable every time you try to use it?
- Comment on Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc? 1 week ago:
Star citizen is about to cross into a billion dollars in development “costs”. It might genuinely be one of the biggest scams in history.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry that facts make you sad.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 2 weeks ago:
George Washington was a traitor who engaged in an insurrection.
I’m not comparing Trump to George Washington, but I’m pointing out why the American Constitution doesn’t really have a developed concept of treason or any broad exclusions to eligibility for the presidency. The election itself is the qualification.
I didn’t call you shit.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 2 weeks ago:
I wish we could stick to reality because then at least we wouldn’t sound like morons.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 2 weeks ago:
Because he was democratically elected by the deeply stupid people of the United States and a pretty fundamental element of American democracy is that there is very little that can be done to thwart the will of the people, no matter how stupid it is.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, pretty sure that was after he fired his media team and we started seeing what he was really like.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 2 weeks ago:
Who cares about billions of dollars wasted on the last profitless scheme when there is a whole new profitless scheme to dumb money into? Line goes up!
- Comment on How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet? 2 weeks ago:
All radios anywhere have this weakness, including the little radios in all your wifi-enabled devices. If they are shutting down meshtastic they are also shutting down all the local networks.
- Comment on And the cold in particular. 2 weeks ago:
Someone is really good at fingering.