Cethin
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- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 11 hours ago:
That’s also assuming a data breach is required for it to be bad. What’s to stop them from using this to tie a person to activity? Then it makes it really hard to view things your country/employer/etc might not want you to see, for fear that there will be consequences for it.
If it was just a magical switch, to ban people under a certain age from social media, I’d be for that probably. It isn’t though. At best, there are consequences that effect everyone. At worst, this is a backdoor to push through internet tracking legislation.
- Comment on Happy birds 11 hours ago:
Wow, that’s messed up. I don’t know if there’s an authority they could be reported to, but that sounds abusive.
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 2 days ago:
Based on my experience, a long time ago, no. Even if they self-diagnose as autistic, they also say hateful things about them, and anyone else for that matter.
- Comment on Happy birds 3 days ago:
This picture looks like it isn’t in a harsh climate. We generally think of penguins living in the polar ice caps, but there are several species that live in warmer climates. Based on the sandy beach here, I’m guessing this is one of those.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 6 days ago:
That doesn’t actually say that it isn’t the closest to a classical British accent. It only says it’s diverged from the modern one. Yeah, it isn’t the same as the classical British accent, but I believe it preserves more of the characteristics than other English accents have. They’ve all diverged, but some less than others.
IIRC, there’s an island that’s very isolated in the US who’s accent is as close as possible to a classic British accent, but it’s a population of maybe a few dozen people, if that even at this point.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 6 days ago:
Fun fact: southern Americans speak English more traditionally than anyone else. The British have fucked up the pronunciation so hard at this point. Their spelling is typically more traditional though, yeah.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 1 week ago:
I agree that we’ve lost some “education” in conflict handling. For example, I think people should get their asses kicked for doing things society doesn’t agree with, like neo-Nazis. That can’t really happen anymore because there’s too much surveillance, and it’s technically illegal. Things like the “no tolerance policy” have made this worse too, where defending yourself is the same as attacking someone.
On you’re question of learning to deal with ignorant assholes, no, I think I’d rather have parents that support me, because there’s already far too many ignorant assholes who will treat them poorly. There’s no need for a parent to add to that. They’ll learn that lesson soon enough, if they haven’t already. If they could choose one or the other, then sure, your option is better. They don’t though. They will be bullied and mistreated for it outside of the home. The least that could happen is for them to be able to come home and be welcomed for who they are without judgement.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 1 week ago:
I think you’re missing the point though. If you actually don’t give a fuck, and it would be something that they appreciate, why not change what you call them? Isn’t that the right thing to do? If it actually cost you something then fine, there’d be an argument to not do it. Also, if you cared about it then there’d be an argument to not do it. Since you’ve said you don’t care, why not just do it? If you can make your kid just a little happier, at no cost to yourself, why wouldn’t you take that opportunity?
I wish I could say you’re being selfish, but you aren’t even doing that. It doesn’t benefit you to not change. It’s just spite I guess. You think it effects who you are to be nice to your child in a way that doesn’t effect anything else.
Yeah, we don’t know what the reality of the situation is. We only know what you’ve said. What you’ve said though is uncomfortable to hear. I don’t like hearing about parents choosing to not do things that make their kid’s life a little easier for absolutely no reason. If you actually don’t care about what your child is called, and if you care about doing what’s right for your child, then change. It’s free, and I’m reasonable sure your child will appreciate it, probably more than you could realize. They obviously still want to be around you and don’t want to make you uncomfortable, so return the favor.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 1 week ago:
How can you be sure they don’t care? Could it be, instead, that they know it’ll just be a pain in the ass to get you to do what they want, so they don’t bother even if it’d make them happier? They’re appeasing you so they can still have a relationship with you. You are refusing to appease them. Your child sounds more mature than you do.
- Comment on Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car? 1 week ago:
One setting I recommend, though maybe not for the first time, is turning the infection timer, or whatever it’s called, to 0. In vanilla default settings you may be infected when bitten, but not always. There’s no cure, so you’re just waiting to find out if you’re infected, and it takes a while. At first it just looks like it could be a normal infected wound, but things keep getting worse. The standard “solution” at this point is to drink some bleach to die and start over. I prefer to skip all the waiting and have it instantly kill me if I get infected.
- Comment on Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car? 1 week ago:
Stationeers. It’s a game about building and maintaining a station on another planet, with complex and realistic gas/liquid mechanics, properly recreating the refrigeration cycle and everything. You have to grow food and create oxygen and water, and manage the temperature of your station. It has one of the steepest learning cliffs ever, but there are guides for everything online.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
It’s worth a shot. You can get it pretty cheap sometimes. Honestly though, yeah, I think it’s probably better for people who haven’t played many souls-likes. For me, it feels clunky and super easy to cheese because I’m used to what it’s trying to do, and I know to use the mechanics to my advantage. I spent a good few hours with it, but eventually stopped playing. I didn’t dislike it, but I put it down one day and then never had the interest of coming back.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Protondb.com is your friend, but also essentially everything can that isn’t multiplayer, and most of that can as long as it isn’t from EA or China.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
It’s very Souls-inspired, but (as someone who has played a good number of souls games) it’s done fairly poorly. It’s still far more interactive than TES games, but it’s clunky. It’s not bad, just bad compared to the Souls games, which are particularly good, but the rest of the game is quite different from a souls game. It’s basically if you take the bonfires and combat system from a souls game and stick it in a narrative focused RPG.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 2 weeks ago:
The experience is different because the person in the ISS is simply not close enough to Earth to be subjected to Earth’s gravity, in any practical amount.
It sounds like someone still hasn’t played KSP! Play it! It’s great. You’ll learn a lot, and you’ll have fun doing it.
Stuff doesn’t stay in orbit because there isn’t gravity. It stays there because it’s moving sideways while it’s falling down, so it doesn’t hit the thing it’s orbiting. Without gravity it’d be able to just sit in space wherever it wants. There wouldn’t be a geosyncronus orbit as all orbits would allow you to just sit above any location you want. A geosyncronus orbit is one that the amount it has to move sideways is, in degrees from the center of earth, the same amount the earth rotates.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 2 weeks ago:
Sure, if you’re traveling near the speed of light. For everyone on Earth, no one has ever experienced this (beyond a micro level that doesn’t matter and no one is discussing).
- Comment on The Projected Truth 2 weeks ago:
I’m 14 and this is deep.
Sure, we can think there’s no way to actually know anything because your mind could have made up everything that happened before this moment. That’s a stupid way to interact with the world though. It doesn’t help you do anything thinking that way and only makes everything pointless, including conversing with you for people who don’t even believe this.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
Yes. That doesn’t mean it’s cost rising doesn’t increase the cost of everything else.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
The bad thing is, this will effect all food prices. As one food price rises, people buy alternatives, which raises the price of everything else.
Still, they aren’t going to rise as much as beef, so it’s still a good idea to switch. It’s just good to keep in mind that no one is isolated.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 2 weeks ago:
Some of those are because international standards (the military and ammo, although the US military uses yards more than kilometers, but they do use both, probably because of international influence). Some are because science is run on metric (pharmacists).
Litres though, yeah, idk. I’m assuming it’s because it’s easier to make a bottle in Litres and sell it around the world? Litres predate metric too, so it could be because of that? I never see poured liquids measured in Litres though, only bottles. Usually it’s pints or fluid ounces.
I do have to congratulate illegal drugs for teaching metric to Americans probably better than our schools though. It’s an interesting dynamic.
- Comment on Factorio 2.1 will be the last major update as Wube Software are moving on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s the one!
- Comment on Factorio 2.1 will be the last major update as Wube Software are moving on 2 weeks ago:
I doubt it. There’s already several first person Factory games. Also, they don’t hit like Factorio does. First person is just so fundamentally limited that, as popular as they are, because they’re prettier, I don’t think it works as well.
Top down, especially 2d, let’s the scale be so much larger, and makes it easy to plan and interact with. You can easily copy and paste massive factories. Even the best version of this in first person let’s you only copy small sections. The closest 3D one to the scale of Factorio is the space robot one (I can’t recall the name), but it’s a third person somewhat top-down view. There’s a reason why people still say Factorio is the best factory game, despite having so many options inspired by it.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 2 weeks ago:
The US usually consistently uses imperial, which sucks but it’s consistent. England switches between the two constantly. They’re crazy people, and they use measures like “stone” for weight sometimes too. Metric is obviously the better system, but consistency is better than randomly deciding which to use when.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 3 weeks ago:
And? Is there something newer that’s a standard? If not, it’s the new one.
Also, it’s only recently become the de facto standard. Yes, it’s older than that, but it didn’t become the standard until maybe five years ago. So much was still being made for USB-A, and some things still are. Anything older than ~5 years ago has good odds of being A.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 3 weeks ago:
It’s the new standard, but there should always be at least one USB-A. It’s still incredibly common.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 weeks ago:
It has probably the highest learning cliff of any game, but there are also guides for everything. At the higher level, once you’re surviving, you’ll hopefully be programming stuff too. That’s all done in Assembly, so ideally you’ll have experience with that, but it’s not that hard to learn for doing basic programs. If you need any help, let me know!
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 3 weeks ago:
Well, you wouldn’t sabotage the billboard. You would sabotage their factories until it costs them more than the billboard makes them. Make it unprofitable to create them.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 weeks ago:
FO4 is far from unpopular. Yes, people have complaints about it, but it’s pretty universally enjoyed. It just could be so much better.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 weeks ago:
New Vegas isn’t a Bethesda game though.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve tried NMS like three or four times at this point, at launch and a few months ago notably. It’s never clicked with me. I think it’s made for someone who likes the imagery of a space sim but hasn’t played one. I’ve played too many space sims that the fairly constrained and bland interactions of NMS don’t do anything for me.
For example, you aren’t really flying your ship. Your somewhat pointing it where you want it to go, but you can’t crash, so what’s even the point? If you can’t fail an interaction, there’s no input the user can give that’s wrong, so why should the user even care?