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- Comment on I dont understand why I have to bring a bottle to the restaurant 9 months ago:
Looks pretty heave g-good, Sweden...
- Comment on I dont understand why I have to bring a bottle to the restaurant 9 months ago:
Deserved revenge for the fact that the Japanese put ketchup in spaghetti.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Part of my core philosophy is to never let other people define you. Define yourself and let other people define themselves too.
- Comment on Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision 11 months ago:
It's a shame, but considering that Unity is deep in a hole of unprofitability coupled with high interest rates across the globe, I can't say it's surprising.
Plan A was to rip off all of their users and Plan B seems to be to downsize.
- Comment on why is the world suddebly focused on the irsali-palestine conflict and hamas group? 11 months ago:
There's no doubt that Russia are backing Hamas and doing so mainly to divert resources and attention away from Ukraine.
At the same time, the war in Ukraine is slowing down while the situation in Israel/Palestine has rapidly escalated.
- Comment on Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 11 months ago:
Kind of an aside but does anyone know how the Intel Arc cards are on Linux?
I'd imagine that a lot of the driver problems aren't really as significant since you can use things like mesa and dxvk, but I don't really know.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
Learn about the states and call them by their state name like we do in the US: (washingtonians, oregonians, californians, and so on.)
Internationally people love making fun of Americans for knowing little about geography, but it's always a bit surprising to find out how little people in other countries know about US geography considering many of our states are bigger (size-wise) than many entire countries.
- Comment on Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy - Release Date Trailer 1 year ago:
Not really, it's just kind of a weird name for the collection based on the fact that Apollo plays a relatively big role in the story of these three games.
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- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
Not that buying more stuff is ever the answer but... As someone who also spends way too much time at the same desk, getting a Steam Deck has totally revamped my love for gaming. Most of the time I'm not bringing it out with me (although I have traveled with it), but just being able to play PC games from bed, on the couch, or even outside in the back yard has been a ton of fun for me.
- Comment on Game recommendation, looking for easier western 3D ARPG 1 year ago:
As someone who has been stuck on Balteus for the last 2 days, I'm not sure AC6 is a good recommendation. It also doesn't really feel or play like ER.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Can you really blame them? I can't.
The fact is that we are living in societies with an increasing wealth gap between the richest and the poorest people. While the rich can afford basically anything, including to fuck around in death trap submarines at the bottom of the sea or peyote orgies in the desert, the average people are finding it hard to afford a house, a family, pets, a car, groceries and basic needs, etc. Everything is a rental, the average person owns very little, some people own nothing at all, and that creates a society where people feel they have been abandoned and have no stake in anything. Meanwhile governments and corporations that influence them are leading us towards a future odd climate catastrophe, AI generated bullshit, and economic collapse.
So is it any surprise the poor majority resents the rich minority? The worse the wealth gap gets, the stronger the resentment grows. And it has been that way throughout human history, leading to example after example of social unrest and violent revolution. A stable and healthy society demands an economy with a strong middle class that can afford the things they need and some of the things they want.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
It’s also because Burning Man, at least in the last decade or more, just turned into another affluent, rich white people and influencer event.
I'm pretty sure it's been that way for at least 20 years...
The only people I've personally known to go to Burning Man was a rich kid in high school who went with his dad who was a marketing high-up at a very big tech company. Always came back talking about trying drugs and seeing some crazy shit, but then on Tuesday it's right back to full days of pointless meetings I guess. I've never been and I frankly don't ever care to, but that alone gave me the feeling that Burning Man is where tech suits go to play hippie for the weekend, and that always felt lame as fuck.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 1 year ago:
Next year's value proposition on PC parts is almost always better than this year's. (Except for NVidia for some reason.)
- Comment on Starfield – Official Live Action Trailer 1 year ago:
Are you sure?
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 1 year ago:
The US healthcare system is actually even worse than people think. Employers use it to hold power over us all, and even if you have insurance the prices of everything are extremely inflated (my dad went in for back surgery and the total was $47k usd, but get this, one of the items was a single bag of saline solution----$270!), and many people including myself can't afford health insurance at all so I'm 1 accident or illness away from total financial ruin.
I genuinely love America and the place where I live. There is a lot to like and there are many places where life is much harder, but the US health system is one of those things that is embarrassingly bad and honestly just scary.
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 1 year ago:
Unfortunately there are a lot of people here (and all over the world) who grind their asses off through multiple jobs while sacrificing their entire life, and still don't earn enough to lead a decent life or own anything.
- Comment on If bullshit jobs are *really* bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense? 1 year ago:
Despite how people act, we are fundamentally flawed and generally imperfect.
Whether we're talking about daily life or global industry, mistakes are often made, plans go awry, and processes are almost never perfectly efficient or optimized. Even the most highly engineered, well oiled machine has inefficiencies.
Businesses are just the same and they actually waste a fuck ton of money every day, but all of that (plus a healthy profit margin) is ultimately factored in to the prices that we pay for goods and services. In other words, many people have bullshit jobs that don't actually improve services optimization or production, and that wasted effort is actually paid for by all of us, the consumers.
On top of that there's another variant of bullshit job that's actually useful to the economy or society in some way, but might be inherently unfulfilling or unsatisfying on a personal human level. (For example, something like corporate data entry jobs come to mind. Potentially useful to someone, but maybe not a very meaningful way to live in the long term.)
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 1 year ago:
You sound burned out and/or depressed. Are you doing the things you really want to do? Or are you just progressing down a track for the wrong reasons?
Video games and guitar don't give inherent meaning to life, but they are good examples of things that people do because they want to. Of course work is work for a reason, but It's important to think about whether you have genuine passion for your current path.
- Comment on Do you exerience back spasms pain so intense it makes you black out? 1 year ago:
If you're having severe back pain (or any unusual or severe symptom) you're better off going to a doctor as soon as possible. First, severe pain is never something that you should just live with, and it may be able to be treated. Second, it's possible that whatever is causing your severe pain could lead to worse problems or be a symptom of something serious. (I don't mean to scare you, but it's important to rule things like that out sooner rather than later.)
- Comment on How would someone with a terrible singing voice go about learning to sing? 1 year ago:
Awesome :)
Just keep in mind that you don't have to sound like anybody but you. Wanting to get technically better at singing is a worthy cause, but don't let sounding different, or even "bad", stop you from writing and singing your own songs right away.
So many of the artists that I love (folk guys like Neil Young, punk rockers like Tim Armstrong, and so many other people across a bunch of genres) are people with pretty unconventional voices who are just confident enough to pull it off anyway.
- Comment on Isn't technically everything open-source? 1 year ago:
Some programs are distributed as "scripts" (in a scripting language like BASIC, BASH, Python, JavaScript, Lua, etc) which are stored on your computer in human-readable form and only converted into CPU machine code when you run the program, through an "interpreter" program.
- Comment on How would someone with a terrible singing voice go about learning to sing? 1 year ago:
The first thing to try is matching pitches: play a note on some kind of instrument or app, listen to it and try to sing that same note. Do it again and again and again, multiple times every day until you feel that you have no problem doing it. This is the starting level of "ear training" and its a hugely important part of singing and playing instruments. Music is just as much about your ears as it is your instrument.
It's possible that some people are just naturally bad at matching pitches and will always be a little bit out of tune, but if that's the case for you even after a few months of ear training don't let that stop you from taking part in music, because there are plenty of iconic artists in the pop/rock/folk/blues/hiphop world who technically can't sing for shit and people still love them. In other words, practice and train your voice as much as you can, but also learn to embrace your unique voice and make it work for you.
- Comment on Isn't technically everything open-source? 1 year ago:
Your computers CPU doesn't understand human language or code, so programs are compiled from human-readable programming languages (like C++, Rust, etc.) into binary machine code. Machine code is basically just a bunch of CPU instructions and data that are formatted specifically for your CPU's architecture (depending on if it's x86, ARM, etc.).
Most of the time, when you install a program/app/game, you're only getting the compiled binary in your CPU's machine code, so you couldn't view the original "source code" without going through a complex process called "decompilation".
For something to be considered truly "open source", it not only makes the original source code available to the user, it also publishes that code under a license like the GPL which gives the user certain rights to use, copy, and/or modify the code.