Folstar
@Folstar@lemmus.org
- Comment on I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game) 2 hours ago:
we shall watch your career with great interest
- Comment on modern classic 3 hours ago:
I like the height and thickness of the couch back pillows on the right. End of list of positive changes. Replacing the carpet was probably a good move too, but they did it wrong.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Our bold, brilliant leaders and innovators once again doing what everyone else is doing, even when it is stupid.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 5 days ago:
It was nothing compared to the horrors of MTG
- Comment on POV: You just said something the Tesseract Developer didn't like 5 days ago:
“Disagree. Agree. Agree again. Agree with the tacit point being made.” -you for some reason
- Comment on POV: You just said something the Tesseract Developer didn't like 5 days ago:
Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals corruption. For some people, it takes shockingly little power to go full mask off. This guy will probably go on to make some HOA legendary.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Is this the stupid bitch who decided to try to shadow censor other people’s experience? That’s some insane projection. Bonus points for including the DDOS just to leave no doubts.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 1 week ago:
Indeed. Commuter costs is a funny one because people will move here thinking they can share a car with a spouse. That lasts about a week, less if they have children. Suddenly the lower mortgage or higher wages don’t look so great when the average new car is $49k.
No wait, what I meant to say is living in TX is great. Everyone should buy a house here. Drive up the market, then buy mine.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 1 week ago:
No rationale argument works on the irrational. The goal is to plant the seeds of rational thought. To appeal to people who aren’t completely gone, yet. The meme works perfectly fine.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 1 week ago:
You will most likely need help making those things happen.
- Comment on No Vaccines. No Weakness. Only Testosterone 1 week ago:
I thought real men made their own?
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 1 week ago:
If you’re not even 50 yet and already falling into nostalgia traps seek help.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 1 week ago:
This is true. As someone trapped in TX, I know lots of people who moved here excited that they sold their [insert civilized place] house and can buy a mansion in TX. Golly geez, people sure are nice here. Then they realize why the house was comparatively so inexpensive. Then they learn the difference between nice and kind. Then they leave or wish they could.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 1 week ago:
Because they said city, not parking lot built on a bog.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 week ago:
It seems like one of the few upsides of the planet killing plagiarism machine is that it is bringing back forms of unnatural selection we could probably use before hitting full idiocracy.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 5 weeks ago:
It turns out there are more than zero options between “do nothing” and “become what you hate”. Many in fact.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 5 weeks ago:
Also, just a plain old idiot. Imagine having the magical power to kill anyone undetected and you’re like “hooray, I can go after local crooks!”. Had Light ever seen a newspaper? Did he know the world outside his city existed? If you aren’t starting with and primarily focusing on people globally known are you even trying?
- Comment on Finally an explanation 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. A person can want every nazi dead and hope that nobody has to die while being completely logically and morally covered.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 5 weeks ago:
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” -Gandhi
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing. It’s the wrong argument.
A powerful argument if one cannot tell the difference between a person and a product.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a lot easier, more reliable to promote your son to VP than Senior [blank] Engineer. Also, for some weird reason we could never have predicted if we wanted to create a more efficient and equitable system, the people who decide salary decided they should have the biggest salary by a lot.
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 1 month ago:
Avoid arguments as 9/10 they mean nothing.
If you find yourself in an argument, or what you think is an argument, caring about winning/losing is the wrong mindset. This isn’t Debate Camp and there isn’t a trophy waiting for you. Listening, testing your knowledge and convictions, and maintaining your integrity are all much, much more important than “winning”.
If you “lose” an argument, especially if you “lost” to style, tactics, rhetorical devices, etc… then see Rule 1 above.
- Comment on Fafo 1 month ago:
Sadly, no. It probably will actually cost around $1B to drive screwworms back to the Darien Gap again and that’s assuming the people in charge are planning that (they’re probably not- why help poor countries?!) and capable of following a plan that already worked once (they’re not). This number will balloon out of control and their nonsense plan to hold the line at Texas will be a disaster IF it ever even comes online as it’s planned for late 2027. A preview of the planning genius.
- Comment on Fafo 1 month ago:
That success is part of what caused the problem. Complacency set in, and capacity eroded.
This part is sort of glossed over. There was a report in 2018 that the Panama facility was in dire need of updates. We were talking about a one time $50M investment and an extra $10-15M a year to hold screwworms at the Darien Gap as they had been for decades. Trump did nothing. It’s easy to blame COVID, but there is a very, very avoidable problem and yes, the blame lies squarely with Trump.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 1 month ago:
I would agree that kink is a spectrum, or axis. Specifically, it’s the Z-axis to the masculine/feminine attraction (“gay-straight” but generalized) X-axis and sexual intensity (aka, horniness level) Y-axis. That’s right, we’re going 3D.
- Comment on The 1996 experience 1 month ago:
Me in 2026 to myself: Be careful about burn in.
Also me in 2026 back to myself: Engineers solved that with hardware and software a long time ago. Burn in is incredibly rare now.
Me again: Remember how mad dad got about the Cartoon Network logo in the corner?
Me, frustrated: Dude, we haven’t watched network TV in 20 years.
My final stand: Dad was really mad, bro.
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 month ago:
In Kasparov’s eventual defense, he did say this after losing to Polgar:
“I was wrong about women playing chess. I gave an opinion a long time ago that I no longer believe.”
and later in his book wrote:
‘I won’t hide from the fact that I did make regrettably sexist remarks about women in chess around this time. In that 1989 Playboy interview I said men were better at chess because “women are weaker fighters” and that “probably the answer is in the genes”. The possibility of gender brain differences aside, I find it almost hard to believe I said this considering that my mother is the toughest fighter I know.’
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 month ago:
Wait until you learn about “generations”.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It really is the roaring 20s all over again! Hell yes! Even have Republicans in charge of everything again! Party like it’s 1928!!! /s
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 month ago:
You never know when you might need them.
Have you considered going meta and hoarding games you might play about hoarding consumables in perpetuity?