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- Comment on Federation Issues As Of Late March 2024 4 weeks ago:
Ironically, this post federated.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 4 weeks ago:
The particularly hilarious part of this is that moments later Hasbro ditched Larian.
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- Comment on double slit 5 weeks ago:
It's really frustrating that people who don't understand this experiment have insanely taken into assume that a magic particle spell understands if a human being is watching or not.
- Comment on drafting 5 weeks ago:
There's definitely something to be said for trying to get it mostly correct the first time.
- Comment on Steam breaking records again hitting over 36 million players online 5 weeks ago:
It's pretty funny that most of the top games are like 10 years old or more.
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 5 weeks ago:
Incredibly, in spite of the fact that I've been paying for 25 years, I very rarely go for any of the alternative endings, other than the developer ending if you beat lavos the first time.
- Comment on ancestors 5 weeks ago:
You know, I know it's a joke, but if you think about it there's probably a lot of behavioral instincts that we rely on go surprisingly far back in the evolutionary chain.
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 5 weeks ago:
Chrono Trigger. I've played it on so many platforms it's a bit mind blowing
- Comment on Security Alert: Avoid Large Gatherings over the Next 48 Hours 1 month ago:
Us embassy: "you're cool. Don't come to school tomorrow"
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I tend to think that it's the diversity that makes it worthwhile. Some people are going to want just one user operating their own hardware and software, some people are going to want to build communities that are lightly moderated, other people are going to want to build communities that are heavily moderated, and what gets moderated and why will be quite different.
I know "Web 3.0" is supposed to refer to crypto stuff, but I think the real web 3.0 is this -- different communities connecting together (or not, such as the case may be) and no centralized governance to speak of besides that which each community wants to apply. I mean, how cool is it that you and I are talking on completely different software platforms through a community intermediate that's a third completely different software platform?
I guess the real question is about something that's as monolithic as bluesky, but you can already connect with platforms like minds and it's just another type of community.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Everyone will have a different opinion, but US jurisprudence prior to section 230 of the CDA basically asks the question "Are you willing to take on responsibility for everything you host?" If the answer is yes, then you should be openly trying to moderate everything. If not, then you should just have an open platform for the most part.
Might just be the old internet guy in me but I think I prefer that way of looking at the world.
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- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 3 months ago:
If companies were just greedy they could have raised prices at any time before. They didn't because they're trying to find the optimal point between supply and demand to make the most profit (as we all do -- are you willing to take a pay cut or eschew a raise you can probably get?)
All the money pumped into the economy is why they could raise prices -- not just in 2020, but pretty consistently for the past 20 years. Lots of normal people are getting screwed but it's fine for these companies because guess who gets much of the money being printed? Hint: donors.
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- Comment on Walter Koenig was bitterly disappointed about his role in Star Trek VI 3 months ago:
As for the story of the war and some of the characters stories... The age of heroes like Kirk in their prime is over, the federation is losing the war. Younger crews weren't properly mentored and so lack the knowledge of the aging heroes and so are not doing well at all, and the older crews dont have the vigor to engage in total war. Meanwhile the Klingons seem to be doing just fine, being both vigorous and wise, hence why they decided to start a war sensing a weak federation. Kirk would slowly over the course of the movie learn that it's not so bad mentoring top people. Bones would struggle after watching the young men come into the sickbay dead realizing in just a few years his final destination would be upon him, and he'd be making mistakes and cracking. Spock would share his struggles with his grandfather dying and would speak logically about death like nimoy did in "I am Spock" and it would help McCoy put death into perspective. Scott would learn he drank because he didn't think he had anything better in his life until he saw the new batch of engineers trying really hard to keep the ship running but lacking know-how and one of the engineers would come to him with personal problems and he'd realize he had more to offer than just work. Spock would do some brilliant work as a seconded science officer and later would use his skills as a diplomat to help end the war with the Klingons once the Enterprise becomes the focal point of a passing of the torch where the old crews realize they need to build up the new ones which makes the Klingons realize their time has passed to attack (with a little prodding). Uhuras work as a communications officer ends up front and center as she is a second diplomat working with Spock near the end of the movie. Checkov would realize that while he isn't happy with his past all he can do is move on to his future. Sulu would have a whole b-plot where he talks at desks about strategy and helps see several ambushes by the Klingons in advance which is part of what helps end the war.
Ok but that's it...
- Comment on Walter Koenig was bitterly disappointed about his role in Star Trek VI 3 months ago:
I think the ending needs some work but I like the concept.
I don't know if the boomers could write a story about getting old wisely, particularly not way back then. I like the idea of showing different characters managing getting older, both in positive and negative ways, and perhaps some characters having an arc.
Kirk would definitely be trying to keep living his glory days. He already looked like an idiot wrassling Klingons in Star Trek 3, by 6 he should be seeing the consequences of his insistence on playing hero, a washed up captain with a growing number of failed missions because he keeps trying to go down and fight the bad guy and kiss the lady and he just isn't capable of it anymore. His arc would be learning to let go of the day to day battles, and leaning into his wisdom earned by a lifetime of work in the field to help raise the next generation of people who will be taking over after him. In the actual canon just as Kirk never faced the Kobayashi maru challenge head on, his character never actually faced aging head-on and died in a battle including 3 old men.
The idea that McCoy would stop being a doctor is dumb, many doctors practice until they die of old age. His arc would be about coming to grips with the reality that he has a limited amount of time left and what that means.
Spock would be an investigation of what it means to have more time since he'd be a young man in Vulcan terms, looking at aging from an alien perspective, but hey we introduced a new family member last movie how about we introduce sarek's dad who is in the final stages of Vulcan decline and the consequences of having people be such reliable pillars for so long and then losing them.
Scotty's story of becoming a drunk stays, it's too interesting to not do something with.
Uhuras story should be a future reflection on a life for a woman that was much different than the life of a woman in the 60s when TOS first aired, an opportunity to show how different gene's future was than the present of 40-60 years ago.
Contrasting to Kirk who was the captain in his prime winning all the fights and getting all the chicks, Checkovs (sorry Koenig) character would be a reflection of a life of regret, of opportunities not taken. His arc would be about making peace with his past self and taking steps to constructively manage his future.
Sulu could be shown taking an entirely different path, such as a strategic command, and his arc would be about using his wisdom and experience from the enterprise adventures to advise the fleet.
With all this, I think two huge threats are too much. Galactic war or youth worms, and I think Galactic war makes way more sense for the last hurrah.
You'd start off with a captains log and the on a routine mission to transport Spock in his role as a diplomat to mediate a dispute on a planet. Smash cut to a battle between Kirk and a klingon. The dialogue would suggest Kirk quickly sniffed him out with his experience, but while he puts up a good fight ultimately he loses the fight. He beams up and a space battle starts with a klingon ship. He issues competent commands and wins the battle but just a beat too late so the ship takes some hits and some people die. Later he's admonished by Starfleet command and given an ultimatum that he either accepts a role as an admiral commanding fleets or he can retire, and he can make the decision when he gets back to earth but for now his first officer is in command of the ship. Just as they are about to set a course for earth they get a message that war has broken out with the Klingons and the Enterprise is needed immediately to participate in the war effort.
Anyway better stop here or I'll write a whole script lol
- Comment on Popular Fediverse Accounts 3 months ago:
Funny that some of the most popular accounts are completely insufferable.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 3 months ago:
The key is to use an alternative that's actually good, and most of these companies were never going to make an alternative that was good, just one that was exploitative.
Most of my purchases the last few years have been gog. The only game service where you actually own the game afterwards.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 3 months ago:
You might be surprised, on many fronts.
Empathy for others who are not exactly like you is actually considered a virtue when you're not in the little bubble that is reddit's toxic, hateful political disease. Despite what you seem to think, empathy for someone who isn't exactly like you is a key requirement of a healthy marriage.
Man, I hope I live to see my grandchildren read my book, The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son (He's born now, and he's beautiful). I bet parts of it will seem archaic, since it's directly addressing contemporary issues, but other parts will likely be timeless. It'd be really interesting if I could see them come of age and we'd get to see what they thought of their grandparents. The world will likely be a much different place by then, and not in ways you think.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
Ah, you're illiterate. I guess it's easy to think everyone else is stupid if you can't comprehend the words they say.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
It's an easy thing to just assume people are stupid. It makes the world nice and simple and if only people would stop being stupid and start being smart (smart like you, obviously!) All the problems of the world would be solved.
For a lot of people, reality isn't so simple. The common man is already struggling. Throughout history, the age people get married and have kids has been indicative of the stress civilizations are under, and many people aren't having kids before they get too old to have kids because that's the level of stress the common man is under. Global civilization is facing a demographic bomb as every continent except Africa is facing a massive reduction in population in coming decades because nobody is having kids because life is so hard.
As a study in contrasts, just look at wages vs. rent while I've been an adult. Minimum wage went from 11/hr to 15/hr. Meanwhile, my first 2 bedroom apartment was 350/mo, and today you can't get anything for less than 1200. A few years before I rented, there were decent houses available for $50,000 and today the average house price nationwide is $800,000. (Not the US, obviously)
So when a bunch of the business leaders and politicians who magically seem to get richer every time something is done "for our own good" -- politicians who make as much as a senior engineer on paper but all of whom seem to become fabulously wealthy regardless (huh wonder where all those extra millions came from) while the common man has suffered -- get together to figure out new ways to squeeze the common man, is it really so stupid to be skeptical? "Don't worry everyone, we're going to make your life even harder but it's all for your own good."
Having the summit in Dubai is fitting -- a city of extreme inequality, paid for with oil money, built by slaves, ruled by kings.
You can try to guilt and shame people into not caring about basic biological drives, but you actually can't. Entire generations of people have been pushed so far that their family lines will end with them. It's comfortable enough -- like being in a pool of comfortably warm water right up to your neck that you can't escape from, but when you can see people plotting to add more water to your pool the next step is you drown.
In previous eras, common people being this stressed out led to the fall of the Roman empire, the French reign of terror, the end of the Romanov dynasty in Russia or the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. While you call people stupid for not listening to their leaders, historically speaking those same leaders will be lucky to keep their heads on their shoulders.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 4 months ago:
If you want, try to help such people.
It might surprise you that you can dump unlimited money into certain people and they'll end up back in the same situation, but they'll hate you for not giving more because you still have something left.
It's like trying to help a drowning person, they often will drag you into the water with them.
- Comment on Motoring MMO The Crew is going offline in March, making it impossible to play 4 months ago:
Ross Scott called it.
Stop killing games.
- Comment on poggers 4 months ago:
It's just a matter of breaking the problem down Into an easier problem or set of problems.
All the additions are interchangable, so you could choose to add 1+2+3+4 or 4+1+2+3 and then 4+1=5 and 2+3=5 and then youve got 5+5 which is easy its 10. So you go ok you can do the conversion with 1 and 50 except it's still tough mental math so you say 1 and 100 to get 101 100 times, but that's twice too big so you slap it in half and you get the answer. It's solving a tough problem by splitting it into problems that aren't as tough.
The first step is knowing what tools you have in your belt. The second is knowing how they work in detail. The third part is the inspiration of using them in a way that solves a difficult problem.
I'm not a mathematician, but I've found interesting solutions to problems like this before, and it's fun when you understand your tools and understand the problem and it all comes together to find a solution nobody else would have.
- Comment on Recently I haven't even opened Lemmy 5 months ago:
If you think you can make a better lemmy instance than anyone else, just start one up. It's free and open source, and there's good tutorials out there.
Since it seems that you're convinced that with your ideas you can create massive communities, you should surely be able to become the largest Lemmy instance out there.
- Comment on Just some fun size comparisons 5 months ago:
I appreciate the link. I've seen the phrase "The end of History" before, but after reading about it, I can't help but think the phrase has a quaint "Manifest destiny" vibe to it, people making some really powerful proclamations they'll regret later.
- Comment on Enterprise-F in all her glory 5 months ago:
I didn't even know it was there. Honestly, having a phaser emitter right next to a hinged point only raises way more questions for me!
- Comment on Enterprise-F in all her glory 5 months ago:
I feel like phaser emitters on nacelle pylons is a general nono.
Typically you see them on thicker areas and further from the warp nacelles.
I imagine having a bunch of phased energy next to the source of your warp field could be tricky.
It would also be particularly bad if your phasers had some sort of catastrophic failure and it blew off one of your warp nacelles, or if the enemy ship was targeting phasers and blew a hole through your pylon in the process.
Unless I'm misreading the image and someone is trying to shoot the pylon.
- Comment on Just some fun size comparisons 5 months ago:
Interesting thing is that everything shrunk after the Galaxy Class.
I'm thinking it's because the galaxy class was a relic of Star Fleet's golden age. Most of their enemies were either allies or quiet, they started to think this little war thing was beneath them and turned their flagship into a luxury cruise liner.
I wonder what post-Wolf 359 Picard would say if he met Season 1 Picard. Hell, I wonder what post dominion war Picard would say to both of them?