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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon needs cooking advice⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
But the salt absorbing into the pasta will be a bit different than being part of the sauce. If it’s a common issue that people you’re cooking for want less salt, fine I guess. If not, salt the water when you cook pasta.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It’s the point of no return for something, but I suspect there’s still a future to fight for. Anyone pushing a full doomer view is trying to suppress you. In case the worst happens, you should try to build a community around yourself and support other people. Join a mutual aid group if you can (or start one). If you grow produce or something, talk to your neighbors and exchange resources.

If we build a strong foundation, nothing that happens can break us. In the worst case, they’ll try to break us and break themselves upon us. We need to be strong so we can come back stronger in the future.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bombs Awat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The 70s was a wild time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to manipulate Tinder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
As I guess a reasonably attractive man, as the other person mentions, it’s probably a volume problem. I end up not messaging a lot of matches just out of apathy. If I don’t think their profile is interesting enough, I often just won’t message. I’m sure this is at least 10x worse for most women.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to manipulate Tinder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If the best you can do is say hello, that’s pretty pethetic.

The complaint is that Bumble had something that made it unique: that women sent the first message. On other services anyone can message first, but 99.9% of the time that ends up being the man, which is fine but having something attempt to switch that up was cool. Bumble removing this makes it more like everything else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to manipulate Tinder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the old Bumble model was better (in my opinion as a man). It creates incentive to have an interesting profile with stuff people can comment on. The newer “opening move” thing incentivizes generic responses. Bumble (in my experience) still has women message first far more often than Tinder though. You may just have to wait and not message immediately.

Creating an opening message is only really difficult if someone has a generic boring profile, so if it’s an issue for anyone maybe that’s why.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Absolutely not true. All the console creators, sure, but not all developers. There are so many good developers, especially indie.

There’s issues with purchasing anything in capitalism. We have to deal with that as long as that’s the case though. It doesn’t mean Nestlé isn’t significantly worse than other campanies though, for example. There are different degrees of bad, and Nintendo is basically the top for gaming.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It doesn’t have to be AGI, though it’d certainly help. It could be a Machine Learning algorithm (the stuff we call AI in marketing today). It just needs a lot of data to train on to recognize what we want to bring and what we don’t. It’s actually a particularly good application for ML.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Personally, I think 1 holds up better. 2 isn’t bad by any means, but it was one of the first games with physics and the physics puzzles get old fast. It was amazing at the time, but now it’s not as interesting because we’ve seen it a million times.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What your coffee preparation method says about you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I use a Chemex, and I have used Fedora. I’m on Garuda now, which is my favorite, which is Arch based but with extra stuff, so the Chemex makes a lot of sense (fancy pour-over).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It ain't much, but it's a livin'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So say we all!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yep. It isn’t even a new thing for proc gen. That’s how it’s almost always done. You use perlin noise (usually multiple layers) to create different areas with different types of content. They just didn’t do this, except for resource patches which are the least important thing to worry about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon meets up with a girl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Am I not supposed to be sticking my dick in popping hot ramen? o.0
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, I mostly agree they should be mostly empty and boring. They aren’t though. They’re absolutely full (of really boring stuff). There are no empty spaces. If there were then finding something would feel special. However, anywhere you land it shows you at least like ten points of interest nearby. I don’t think there’s anywhere on any planet that isn’t inhabited despite supposedly no one colonizing most of the planets. Every location is generic, so none of its unique and you never find anything special.

Excitement and fun is built on the juxtaposition of the opposite. If everything is equally interesting, nothing is interesting. For example, in some space games finding life on other planets is exciting, because it’s rare. In other games there’s life on nearly every planet and it’s boring because it’s not different than anywhere else. To use loot drops as an example, if every drop was a legendary, legendary drop would be boring. You need most drops to be bland common items so the legendary drop stands out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well before Starfield came out they said they couldn’t make TES6 yet because the technology didn’t exist. Starfield’s development, I assume, was partially about building this technology. That makes me assume it’s the procedural generation or the ships. If the former, I doubt it’s the main game world or TES6 is fucked. I would suspect maybe something like plains of oblivion that are proc-gen or something.

To me, one of the biggest things that make Starfield feel so bad is the planets are so boring, specifically because there’s too much to do (and it’s all meaningless). Every location is surrounded by the exact same amount of points of interest. There’s no barren areas and more habituated areas. It’s all this bland uniform container of “content” with nothing making any of it stand out. Proc-gen only works when it can be used to make a lot of boring empty space with a few interesting unique things to find. I don’t think they’ve figured that out yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, good point. The Switch isn’t just a console. I guess that’s probably why it’s portable; to sell one for each child. We did each have our own Game Boy in my household, mostly I think to make road trips less hell.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The Switch is an insane device to me. It’s been underpowered before it launched, but 32GB storage? I had flash drives twice that size when the Switch came out. What the fuck?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Back in my day I had to share a single console with my siblings. We had to take turns playing single-player games. This can be fine, and can even be a bonding activity. I’m not sure if it’s “ideal”, but nothing is. Most likely your kids will outgrow the Switch soon anyway, or they could not even like it to start with, so don’t go overboard buying them each a console. You can decide in the future to buy more if you want, but the new Nintendo device is also on the way, so that’s something to think about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Everything that isn’t Firefox is just a skin of Chromium, which is controlled by Google. There are no good options for browsers if you don’t want Firefox.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aerodynamics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
At the speed cars move at, air behaves much like water. They’re both fluids. The faster you move the more resistance it has, but also the more dense the fluid is the more resistance it has. Moving quickly through the air is similar to moving slowly through water.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I willing to bet the new console isn’t significantly better hardware (which was already outdated when the Switch released), but just made to have a system the didn’t already have emulators for it. The Switch emulators work perfectly (better than the console). The new one probably is focused specifically at preventing them from working and not being a better device for consumers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well, they’ve sold the same product for about the same price since 1970, so it makes sense. I have no idea how schools can require a specific device from a specific manufacturer. It’s just straight up market control by a public entity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terraria hits over 60 million sales with Terraria 1.4.5 shaping up to be another big update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Just a heads up (and sorry) but 1.0 released in 2011, 13 years ago. It was more than years ago when you purchased it. Again, sorry.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushrooms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn’t that easy to understand?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Wasting Pumpkins!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Two things can be bad.

I hate the “this thing is worse so let’s not talk about that” mentality, as if you’ve never held two opinions at the same time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Wasting Pumpkins!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well, this is talking about food waste, not pollution. Even if it rots and doesn’t do anything, worst case it’s a pile of bio-matter. The land, and everything involved in growing them could be used for actual food though, which could decrease food prices potentially.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Wasting Pumpkins!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What makes you think that. Is there something odd that people aren’t commenting on or something? Maybe calling the inside guts? That’s the only weird thing I recall seeing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since when does a clock need a privacy policy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
While inconvenient, you could build it yourself if it’s a feature you really care about and don’t want to wait and hope it gets merged.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Also, the half life is when half of it decays. Some of it is constantly decaying. We don’t need to wait for the half life to see any of it. The ratios would be totally off if there was enough of it to get the amount of lead we have right now, but some would exist. When the math is that complex, it’s not going to change anyone’s mind who believes what a magic book (written by regular humans) says. Nothing will, be if you want a chance it has to be something simple and obvious.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, for sure I agree the quantities aren’t there to be a replacement, and it seems like we agree that harm is the thing to consider, not really the source.