Cethin
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- Comment on I'm saving it for a little QT 🦟 1 day ago:
I’m in the swampy part of VA, around where we literally lost colonies to mosquitoes. I’m also a mosquito magnet, where most people don’t even get but if I’m outside with them, but they’re all over me. It’s great…
- Comment on I'm saving it for a little QT 🦟 1 day ago:
Depends on where you are. On the east coast if the US, the largest mosquito species is invasive and not an important part of the ecosystem. There is a native species, but they aren’t the ones cause issues. If we can destroy the invasive species specifically, that’d be great.
- Comment on New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware 2 days ago:
Main frame was just an example of a type of frame that aren’t glasses. There are many other types of frames that have nothing to do with glasses. A frame is just the structure of something. The people using that name to say it must be glasses are hyper-focusing on one usage of the word.
Although, truth be told, I mostly just want a Steam Controller 2.
This I can agree with.
- Comment on New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware 2 days ago:
There’s no way it’s VR. They already have the Index name for the VR line. It’d be called the Index 2 without a doubt. Maybe AR glasses, but frame does not imply glasses. Sure, glasses have a frame, but so do so many other things. Have you ever heard of a main frame? Those aren’t a type of glasses.
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 2 days ago:
How can they discipline you for not seeing something? Also, no one is saying to quit. They should keep working, but just become blind to these “criminals.”
- Comment on sweet temptations 2 days ago:
But there is plenty wrong with grass yards with non-native species. If they nuked all the native plants, that’s bad. We need native species for native habitats. Sure, GMO can improve plants, but we shouldn’t be planting non-native plants.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 days ago:
Yeah, Ford was horrible, but that’s one thing that’s reasonable about Fordism. He knew that if he payed his employees well enough then they’d have money to spend. I don’t know how the idiots who are wealthy today don’t get that, but they assume their wealth is infinite and comes from nothing.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 5 days ago:
They’re very different, so you need to figure it out for yourself. Both are great, but we don’t know your tastes. I would recommend BG3 though, for what is worth.
However, if you’re strapped for cash, I would recommend playing indie games. They’re often more interesting than these larger budget games (though these two are exceptions to large budget games being shit), and they’re usually like $20 max. Most people can get more out of Factorio or Dwarf Fortress, for example, than they can out of these games, at a much lower price.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 5 days ago:
It still needs somewhere to tap. RFID is short range.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 5 days ago:
The problem with it though is it would seem you still need another option available. Not everyone has a smartphone. Presumably they still want to service those people, so they have to provide some other option. The scan on/off system works for everyone, and it could easily be extended to busses. It’d work the same as a station, but you do it entering/exiting the bus.
I could see the issue with stations that don’t have gates, but again, they should be trying to service everyone, including those without a smart phone. They have to add something to those stations I would hope and assume. It might as well be a scan point —which could be something besides a gate.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 5 days ago:
I never bothered, but I know in the Pokémon Go era there were people with apps that modified their GPS location to catch rare Pokémon without traveling. I don’t know how that functioned, but I assume it could be used on this, right? It can’t know if your location is spoofed or not. This doesn’t seem like a very smart solution.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 5 days ago:
In D.C. (one of the few places in the US with good public transport) you can get a pass you put money on. Then you just scan it when you enter/exit a station and you get billed for the price of that trip. It’s dead simple. (It could be made even simpler if you just connected a credit card to it though, or if it just was, as an option, your credit card or google/apple pay.)
It sounds like to fix this problem the government just needs to regulate these companies and implement a similar system. It’s far simpler and more reliable and robust.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 1 week ago:
Just buy it for random people on your Steam friends list if you want to do that. There are still plenty of people who don’t own it (like me) and it might finally give them the push to play it.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
I play a lot of Squad, which has no progression or anything that’s tracked from match to match. I’ve also played a good bit of X4, which is a space sandbox game, where you mostly set your own goals. Factorio is also one of my favorite games. I’m fine with games where you set your own goals. I just don’t get NMS.
I think part of it is that there’s absolutely no friction when saying. For example, flying makes it impossible to crash. There’s just nothing at stake and progression feels mostly pointless. If there was danger or a threat to defend against, I think that’d go a long way to making it feel like there’s a reason to do what you’re doing. As it is, it just feels like chores.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
But in MC there is a drive. It’s not an extrinsic goal though, rather entrinsic needs. You need better gear, you need food (and maybe you don’t want to spend time doing it so you automate it), etc. NMS has a notion of this, but barely. It’s enough to say there is progression, but it doesn’t feel like you’re progressing.
That said, I barely got into base building. Maybe that’s where things get good, but it takes far to long to get to that point that I’m bored by the time it’s a real option.
I’m glad people like it. I just don’t understand why.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
Cyberpunk 2077 would be another big one. A lot of the issue was bugs, but also a lot of missing content.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
I gave up on Elite shortly after launch. However, I do keep tabs on it on occasion. The end game of Elite is basically choosing factions to support and helping them take over star systems. Honestly, it seems at least intriguing. I can’t say the same for NMS.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
I appreciate that the devs keep updating the game, but honestly I don’t get it. Sure, there are a lot of planets. There’s not any reason to one over another though. They’re all procedurally generated with the same general stuff (yeah, you’ll need to travel for specific resources). For me, it just feels like I’m wasting time, because it doesn’t make you feel like you’re doing anything meaningful. I can’t be the only one who feels this way.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 week ago:
Yeah, usually the stars are classically attractive still, but there’s a lot more space for other people in other roles. I think comedy in particular has a lot of stars who aren’t incredibly hot.
- Comment on Flashbang! 1 week ago:
That’s still amplifying light that is there. In total blackness they still don’t work. In very low light they generate a lot of visual noise. You’d need to provide some kind of light source for this no matter what.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 1 week ago:
That’s what I meant though. It should be “a thing.” It’s just a conversation. Group conversations are still conversations. You just have to see them as people, not as a goal. Once you get to know them and you find out of you actually like them, as a person, then you can more easily persue them without seeming weird.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 1 week ago:
Sure, it probably won’t work, but it can literally do nothing but help. Even if it doesn’t help with the specific issue they’re talking about, maybe the figure out it helps with something else. Getting off harmful drugs often has beneficial effects. (I’m a caffeine and alcohol user too. This isn’t me looking down on anyone.)
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 1 week ago:
The no alcohol and caffeine could actually help. It’s worth a shot at least if you still have ongoing issues. Not that this hack deduced anything accurately, but that probably does help a lot of people, and then he gets to take credit for it. It’s cheaper than free to try, though you’ll probably have some headaches for a few days if you have a bad caffeine dependence, like almost all of our society has.
- Comment on Ideal car 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, as annoying as that’d probably be, it’d also be great. You could likely argue any ticket was a mistake.
- Comment on They ain't there for you 2 weeks ago:
You’d think with a name like Human Resources people wouldn’t be that confused. They’re literally there to keep the humans working, as they’re seen as resources to be spent by the company.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the only way I see it happening is if it’s done in a way that’s invisible to users. Even then, I don’t know if it’s a good idea. Either you store a copy of all content locally or your content is only available when your server (presumably your computer or phone for most users) is online. Most people aren’t going to have to storage space for self-hosting federated content that’s distrubuted, and having people go down constantly from turning their computer off is far from ideal.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know when you’re talking about, but it probably wasn’t self hosting, unless you’re talking about like original internet stuff. GeoCities, for example, was not self-hosting. It was hosting your content on their platform.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 2 weeks ago:
I honestly don’t understand what you’re asking of me. Women having equal rights is a binary thing, they either do or don’t.
I honestly don’t understand what you’re asking of me. Women having equal rights is a binary thing, they either do or don’t.
This is wrong. They can be equal in some parts and unequal in others. No culture gives identical rights to all other cultures. There are degrees to equality. It isn’t all or nothing. I would say most of the west is more equal than countries that follow Islam as a state religion, but most of them don’t have total equality. I assume you agree with that, right? And Saudi Arabia is better than Iran, right? Not significantly, but there are degrees to it, right?
Painting it as binary all or nothing is wrong, and probably is antithetical to progress. If it’s all or nothing, and something would take a step in the right direction, then why take that step if it isn’t all the way, right? Treating it as binary is bad.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 2 weeks ago:
How do you warm up to someone without having a conversation.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 2 weeks ago:
Generally, yes, but if you’re a pleasant person to be around you can easily get things going from lectures as well. You just need to strike up a conversation like a normal person and be friendly. The problem most of these people have is they treat women like something to be won, when instead they’re just people.