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- Comment on Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch 2 days ago:
So… did he use ChatGPT to write the contract in the first place? If so, that would fucking hilarious.
- Comment on Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in? 1 week ago:
It’s only frustrating if you’re solely focused on winning rather than improving, and especially if you do what I so often see, which is view your chess skill as a proxy for your intelligence (and thus take losses as a personal insult).
Smart people are not automatically great chess players. Chess is a skill you can develop that rewards time, dedication, patience, and lots and lots of practice (and losses).
In fact, losing a game of chess is incredibly valuable, and much more useful than almost any other game. You have a complete record of your game, and since no luck is involved, you can study your game and identify where you can improve. Reviewing your games is one of the best ways to get better at chess, and objectively looking at your game from both players’ perspectives also helps to make it more about improvement rather than personal failure. In fact, it’s fairly standard after an over the board game for both players to review the game together on the board and talk through lines and thoughts on the various positions of the game.
It’s one of the things I really love about the game, because it’s always about getting better rather than punishment for losing. It’s much, much better than video games in this way.
When I play chess, I mostly just want to have a good game of chess, even if I lose. I always take the opportunity to play much higher rated players given the chance, because even though I will almost certainly lose, the game will be a very rich one to review and learn from.
- Comment on Lmao 1 month ago:
I stated an assumption and was contributing to the conversation. Even if that assumption is incorrect, there’s no need to be a dick about it.
It seems like a larger atmosphere would result in a longer duration exposed to atmospheric drag, thus requiring more fuel to overcome it.
- Comment on Lmao 1 month ago:
I assume it’s not just about the gravity, but also the much larger radius of the planet would mean much larger distance from the surface, and thus much more fuel needed.
- Comment on Entrainment Entretainment 1 month ago:
if you sleep at the same time consistently, changing that is a big change for your body. It takes time to adjust a strong routine, and it takes a physical toll to do so.
We have lots of evidence of it causing all kinds of problems: increased numbers of heart attacks, car accidents, and more. It very much is a detriment to society.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 months ago:
Who are these mythical “real chiropractors” that you speak of?
It’s pseudoscience, and always has been.
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 2 months ago:
It’s not actually that hard to get up there. Mechanical keyboard, wired mouse, external drives, headset, webcam, other peripherals, etc. And if you are trying to do anything more involved like music production, you end up needing way more (audio interfaces, midi controllers, etc.).
- Comment on Chart Of Countries That Work The Most Hours Annually - borninspace 2 months ago:
Definitely not for me. That might be the case on a day here or there (say, if one of my kids has a longer doctor’s appointment), but usually I’m working 7-9 hours in a day. I do tend to work a slightly under 40 hours a week, though.
I honestly just wouldn’t be able to get all of my assigned work done in time if I only worked that much, as nice as it might be.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 3 months ago:
I’ve never really understood it, tbh. I’ve always rounded to the nearest whole number. I don’t know why you would do anything but that. The whole “$6.99 is $6” thing makes absolutely no sense to me. I see that and immediately see $7, without even having to think about it really.