Cethin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: Teamsters President Sean O'Brien is a **Class Traitor & Republican Stooge** - (Details in post body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I was reading this and thinking it’s not that bad; that this is an over-exaggeration. However, it then goes on to say that Trump is trying to “Make America Great Again” and includes Republican endorsements, and even a letter from one. It says nothing about what Democrats are doing, or others. Yeah, fuck that. If you want to be bipartisan, then fine. That’s probably a good idea to get the best outcomes. This isn’t bipartisan though! This is incredibly one sided and partisan —in favor of Republicans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you missed it. “Nothing is a shit name” can be read as “there are no shit names.”

  (Unless I misread your comment and missed something.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With how bad it is at writing it, I’m guessing similarly bad. It’ll do something, but odds are it introduces a ton of errors that you then have to track down. That’s the best case. Worst case, it just creates something totally different that looks similar to the input but doesn’t do the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people on earth don’t care much about Paris. If you ask 1000 people on earth to do this measurement you’d probably get 1000 different answers. Picking the line that goes through Paris is just a random choice that got enough agreement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The specific chosen points to measure are not natural. The size of the earth is relative to where you pick those points. Sure, it is natural that those two points exist, but choosing them isn’t. Any two points any the universe exist naturally. Picking two points to measure is not.

  Yeah, to make it useful to humans it needs a scaler. No one is saying that isn’t true. That doesn’t make it any less arbitrary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the definition of arbitrary. There’s no reason to pick those specific things to base your system on. They picked them because they’re easy to measure and have a reasonably consistent value over time. Then they divide it by some number that makes it useful on a human scale. There’s nothing fundamental that lead to those values being chosen. They were just useful. Nature doesn’t work on meters. It does work on the speed of light. It is a fundamental unit of nature (excluding the unit of time, which is obviously not fundamental, but we could use any measure of time).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On addition, we could measure year by a different planet. To the universe, choosing the time it takes the Earth to move around the sun one time is pretty arbitrary. Why not Mars? Or why not a totally different star system?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still arbitrary. The definition is just something that gave a result that was a useful scale for humans. There’s no reason to pick that over, say, the average distance to the moon, or something else. That distance is just fairly easy to measure and reasonably consistent over time. There are other choices for it though. The 1/10,000,000 is just whatever number was needed to make it useful. Nature doesn’t care about that distance, unlike the speed of light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the least arbitrary unit system. It’s the only unit that actually matters. Meters are arbitrary, in that it’s a number chosen to be useful to humans. The speed of light isn’t. It’s a measurement of a natural phenomenon, which we didn’t decide. (arguably, the time measurement is arbitrary though.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. The headline in the OP says millennials.

  I do like a good mayo or mayo-based sauce though, yeah. However, growing up I remember my parents putting miracle whip (and calling it mayo) on a lot of things, and I hated it. I definitely don’t use it to the level they did. It’s good, but there are other condiments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Millennials are in their 30s. I don’t think it’s due to palates not having developed. I think it’s more to due with just using a more diverse set of condements. I don’t dislike mayo (though I do despise Miricle Whip), but I don’t use it very often. I tend to go for other flavors. If anything, I think it’s the older generations who have an undeveloped palate. They tend to eat a much smaller variety of flavors/styles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they got rid of it or made it slower. They did introduce a bug where you randomly stop when sliding IIRC. They’ve “fixed” this bug multiple times now, but it never actually fixed it. It could be actually fixed now for all I know, but I remember hearing that surf in CS2 is practically dead because it’s bugged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … CS2 doesn’t have destructible environments, it doesn’t have vehicles, it doesn’t have any innovation at all other than being more like a slot machine than the last Counter Strike which was basically the same as the Counter Strike before it.

  Honestly, I think that’s part of why it has lasted so long. None of what you listed are necessarily better. They’re just flashy. They would ruin the design of the game though. CS could have vehicles, and some custom maps did, but it doesn’t work to improve the game so it never became a part of the primary game.

  The need to always do something flashy and new I think is a reason why so many modern FPSs suck. They don’t understand their game and ruin it with features that don’t improve it.

  I say all this while my primary game for ~2 years is The Finals. It’s easily the most innovative shooter I’ve played in a decade or more. It has the best destruction I’ve seen in a game ever. However, they understood how it work with their game. They didn’t just do it to advertise it as a feature without it adding anything. It actively combines with the other parts of the game to make one cohesive thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is there’s currently a bug with surfing in CS2 where you’ll occasionally just stop when sliding on a curved surface. I don’t know if that’s been fixed, but I think surf is largely dead in CS2 because of it. You need to go to one of the older games if you want to do surf right now probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  NFTs with fewer steps, but yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t say most of the heat was carried by photons. They said the photons turn into heat when they’re absorbed by atoms. That’s how radiative heat works, and yeah, most of the heat from a space heater isn’t radiative, but some is. All of the light you see turns into heat, so it isn’t lost. A tiny fraction will be lost through some means, but approximately 100% is turned into heat at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Skyrim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For the exp thing, it hardly matters. It’s not like you need the exp in Skyrim. If you do, cheesing alchemy or smithing is a far easier source than this exp boost.

  The shop thing is nice but, if you’re playing with mods, there are far better options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what people are complaining about. They’re complaining about the author wanting to write about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know the story isn’t real, and any “explanation” that makes it seem logical is purely designed by the author, right? She didn’t survive anything. King wrote a stroy about a sexual assault survivor and wrote this into it. He could have chosen literally anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In particular including the mouse. The reason why the age is so long is because Disney keeps lobbying to get it extended. It used to be a much shorter period of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project Rebearth (in development), an MMO city-builder, with a top-down map style view, where players repopulate a 1:1 replica of Earth, releases a demo on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the other comment says, players build cities. A quick search says there are 81 cities with over 5m people each in the world. Most city builders were building at the scale of these large cities, so that means over 81 players would be over the population we have in the real world. If there are thousands of players, yeah, it’s going to get tight. If there are tens of thousands, there’s not enough space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends on the situation. I’m not saying to spend time arguing with them. I’m just saying showing them there’s another position that reasonable people they know hold is good. Most people are told the only people who hold a different position than them are crazy people.

  I do care about these people, because they vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I disagree still. That’s the ideal, but even just seeing that there are other opinions held by people you care about is good. If you live in an echo chamber where everyone agrees with you then you think you must be right on everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the total distraction of community and third-places is I think the #1 cause of the division of political discourse, but second is that people refuse to engage with other human beings on the topic. They watch TV or browse online, and they get one extremely biased view of the world. They don’t share it with other people where they could get other points of view.

  It used to be people would get the paper and talk about it with each other, but that’s taboo now. You take it to an online community who all agree with you. There’s a reason why the infamous Thanksgiving family gathering caused strife. It’s because people were actually having discussions and disagreements. Disagreement is healthy, but people seem allergic to it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2 Million Bond for Posting Facebook Meme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I didn’t even notice what the middle one is. Definitely bad taste and I’m certain it’s against FB policy. Showing that around to random people is pretty fucked up. Still, it isn’t illegal by any means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE CRAZY PILLS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, there is evidence of harm by fluoride. It’s not as significant as they make it out to be though, and it potentially helps a lot of people. That said, I do somewhat agree with the stance. The US is (currently) a developed nation that has plenty of access to toothpaste with fluoride. Fluoride deficiency is not really a concern here. With that, and the harm it causes, I’m slightly in favor of its removal from water. However, it needs to be done in a way to prevent fear mongering and taking things beyond this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicago fighting ICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They should at least pull down their masks. Pantsing would be funny, but clearly they care about hiding their identity, so removing that would be more useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DC2 is still fairly similar with the dungeons (though much less grindy, and far less annoying with running out of water or whatever, from my memory). 2 adds a ton of other things to do though. If you’re tired of grinding dungeons, go fishing, breed your fish for races and events, go golfing, find things to take pictures of for inventing, progress your town for more unlocks, advance NPC quests to add them to your group, etc. 1 is fairly linear with one way to progress. 2 has probably a dozen different activities to progress in, so you can do whatever you want in the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From my memory, the misable stuff isn’t the important, but it is frustrating to not be able to get. I would say if you aren’t worried about missing a few unlocks, just accept that you’ll miss stuff and don’t stress about it.

  If you’re the type of person (like me) who finds out they missed something and feel compelled to restart, even if you were never planning on 100% the game, then yeah, use a guide. I wouldn’t use a guide for everything, but I’m certain there are guides that say when misable stuff is coming and how to get them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With MS especially.