kryptonianCodeMonkey
@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can also ask your mom 20 hours ago:
“Monkey” by George Michael. Genuinely never heard this song.
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 2 days ago:
Star Trek’s universe: Federation citizens live in essentially zero scarcity where labor is optional and people can dedicate their lives to basically anything they like that this within their capabilities.
Star Trek’s AI: A typically flawless tool (when the plot doesn’t require an incident), optionally used by the individual, to perform complex calculations, simulations or provide immersion entertainment, complimenting whatever task needs done.
Our universe: We live in a capitalist society where the survival of 95% of the population requires them to sell their labor, where the majority of the population works in any job(s) they can get to make ends meet, where working in a creative or intellectually fulfilling field is a rare blessing and prohibitive to most, where your capitalist overlords claim the majority of your productivity for themselves and see the wages they do pay you as a burden to them that should be minimized regardless of your well-being.
Our AI: Devalues or replaces creative and intellectual roles. Forced down the throats of workers and consumers. Used to collectively monitor everyone. Used to push more wealth to a concentrated few. Notably and constantly unreliable while given unearned trust. Not actually intelligent, just good at specific kinds of prediction and parroting based on training from real works from real people that was stolen without the consent of the creators to be fed into the machines to be plagiarized on request. A genuine risk to the stability of our economy. A nightmare for the mental health of children and those vulnerable to delusions and/or thoughts of self-harm. Increasingly used to replace thought and skill development making us collectively dumber and more reliant on it.
- Comment on The crazy bastards, they've finally done it 3 days ago:
Damn. And right after Jackass did their last movue.
- Comment on how to build a loopback device 5 days ago:
IT: “Did you verify that your data cable is connected to the outlet in the wall?”
Client: “Of course I did. I’m not an idiot!”
- Comment on Beer garden ready 1 week ago:
Gru?
- Comment on Words of wisdom 2 1 week ago:
Y tho?
- Comment on splat 1 week ago:
They sell kerrygold at Walmart. It’s definitely some of the pricier butters there, but it’s not exclusive to the bougie places anymore.
- Comment on progress 1 week ago:
This was my 16 year old Foster son’s takeaway from his convict mentor. He went to prison, then he turned his life around and makes good money and has a family. My son decided that that meant it was an acceptable life trajectory… a good one even… to go to prison. That he could turn his life around before becoming a felon just didn’t compute.
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 1 week ago:
Scolopendra stirs.
- Comment on Video games 3 weeks ago:
Okay. Doesn’t make it a walking sim still
- Comment on Video games 3 weeks ago:
It is fine to have a different experience and taste in games. But The Last Of Us is absolutely not a Walking Sim. For one thing, Walking Sims, by definition, have no combat. You just walk around and explore a place and uncover a story along the way. TLOU is filled with stealth combat and 3rd person shooting, survival horror style resource management, as well as exploration and an unfolding story.
I think what you mean is that you dislike Narrative-driven adventure games. Walking Sims are a sub-genre of narrative driven games, but not all narrative driven games are Walking Sims. The Last Of Us is an narrative- driven action-adventure survival-horror game.
- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 3 weeks ago:
Well, consider me brainwashed by evangelicals then. Non-evangelicals really need to step up their PR game.
- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 3 weeks ago:
Catholics do not believe that non-Christians go to heaven. Best case scenario, righteous unbelievers go to purgatory. Same with unbaptised babies.
Also, I grew up going to baptist and pentecostal churches. They 1000% do not think my atheist ass is getting into heaven no matter how righteous I am, even though I got baptized for that matter. Unless I repent at the 11th hour and “accept Jesus into my heart as my savior,” anyway. There are certainly plenty denominations that are not all about preaching “hellfire for the unbeliever”, but even plenty of those so believe that is true even if they’re not boasting about it. There are some that allow for people to be saved through ignorance of Jesus (which makes missionary work kind of fucked up when you think about it that way). But even that is not the norm.
Jesus’ sacrifice saving humanity from eternal damnation is a key tenet of nearly all denominations. And most of them also say that you need to actually accept it turn your life over to him.
Source: 37 years of life in the Bible belt as both an active churchgoer and apostate.
- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 3 weeks ago:
you picked the wrong religion
There is no way that most people didn’t pick the correct religion. Even if all Christians were “correct” enough to get to heaven regardless of denomination, that still leaves 71%+ of the world who aren’t Christians, and that is best case scenario as Christians are the largest religious group by population in the world currently. And even within the Christian community, there are plenty of in-groups and out-groups that consider one another to be cultish and blasphemy. No matter what you are betting, your chances aren’t great and the majority of the world is still “wrong” and will face whatever consequences come with that fact.
Personally, I’m happy to just not believe than to force myself to conform to some oppressive dogma, dump my time and money into a church, and live with shame just to hedge my bets for what would still be bad odds anyway.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 3 weeks ago:
No I just meant I think that wanting to experience life rather than needlessly restricting yourself of everything “unhealthy” to try and gain another day without these experiences is a good philosophy.
I understand that you are not the one deciding to restrict yourself in this case. That and the unequal enforcement of the law on the rich are both another thing entirely and complete bullshit.
Hope you get the opportunity to enjoy more out of life, buddy.
- Comment on The cylinder must remain unharmed 3 weeks ago:
Right? A normal mug has one topological hole. This one has 3. Surely that makes it 3 times as topologically interesting as a normal mug.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 3 weeks ago:
Based
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 3 weeks ago:
Tastes a lot like grapes that have gone off, actually. So just imagine that. Maybe you’ll live longer.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 3 weeks ago:
I had to sell all my free time for some ultra-processed foods
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 3 weeks ago:
People who live longer:
People who drink a glass of wine every night.
People who buy organic and cook whole foods at home.
People who spend 30+ minutes a day being activr/at the gym.
People who get 9+ hours of sleep every night.
People who have less chronic stress.
People who get regular checkups/screenings at the doctor.
So… rich people that have the time and can afford to do all of those things or have them done for them.
- Comment on currently busy 😅 3 weeks ago:
When I met my to-be brother-in-law for the first time 9 years ago (he was 19 then, for context), he was in a public restroom. My to-be mother-in-law called in and said “Hey bub, you in there?”
“Hey, mom. Yea. I’m poopin’!”
“Okay. This is KryptonianCodeMonkey.”
“Hi, kryptonianCodeMonkey! I’m poopin’!”
Then I went to pee at the urinal next to his stall and he announced, “Hey, I have shoes just like those.”
So, anyway… if your goal is to be memorable…
- Comment on *Eyeroll* 3 weeks ago:
The only presidents from the last 80 years included in this are himself and the 4 Democrat presidents alive during his presidency that he has already publically shit on. Almost like he is afraid to put himself over presidents people in his party and target age demographics actually have fond memories of. No Reagan, neither Bush, no JFK, LBJ, Eisenhower…
- Comment on Weirdo "News Presenter" criticises the left politicising Dolly Parton's death... whilst politicising her death. 4 weeks ago:
If he wants to visit Dolly, let him
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 4 weeks ago:
The only reason that American ERs may get you in faster is because it is so fucking cost prohibitive that the only people there are either at serious risk of life or limb, or have chronic conditions and they are going to his their out of pocket max anyway. The people that should be going to the ER but don’t feel like they absolutely have to, aren’t.
And every ER in the US and Canada both prioritize people by need. You triage life threatening issues first. Then serious injuries. Then things that may have deeper issues. Then things you can treat now. Then things that you are just wanting to get checked out. Then things that you should have just gone to your primary care for. If you are waiting for 12 hours in either case, you definitely didn’t come for life saving care or serious injury. You might have to wait a while for an x-ray, cat scan or mri because those are always a bottleneck in every hospital.
If people were dying in Canadian ERs waiting for care, or getting chronic conditions due to delayed treatment, I would be concerned, but that is never the claim. It is always just about your precious time away from work. But how many hours is too many hours when you are recieving FREE care compared to a bill high enough to buy a new fucking car every year? Perspective, people.
- Comment on No Such Thing 4 weeks ago:
You can argue a case that the current inflation is not specifically or even mostly due to corporate greed. Inflation has many factors to it, and covid supply chain interruption was a major factor as was the Fed’s necessary reaction to it. But you lose me at ‘there is no such thing as “greedflation.”’ That is obviously bullshit.
Corporations can and did use the temporary inflation from supply chain interruptions causing empty shelves as an excuse to raise prices, arguably justifiably to a degree to keep your business afloat. But when the entire market has uniformly raised prices, when production and supply chains return to normal, they have no incentive and no competitive pressure to return prices to pre-interruption levels. The higher prices have been normalized, the consumer has already adapted to that expectation, and businesses have no reason to provide substantive releif to their consumers when they are making bigger margins and profits than ever.
Corporations, and in fact all capitalistic structures, are powered fundamentally by greed, by desire tommaximalize profit. If they were not profit-driven they would be non-profits/charities. In fact they are, to some extent, legally required to be greedy, to prioritize maximal return for their shareholders. The idea that profit-driven corporations that must, at all times, continually grow, lest they die completlely, that must get the maximum price with the minimal overhead (including labor) does not materially contribute to inflation… that is a fucking fantasy.
- Comment on I find these terms acceptable. Socialism vs Billionaire Pedophiles 4 weeks ago:
For once, it is coming closer to true than ever before when they have made this exact same claim. It is a self-fulfilling prophesy now.
- Comment on Is this true? 4 weeks ago:
There can be benefits of open world. When traversal is a primary mechanic and is half the fun of the game like in a lot of Spider-man and Crackdown games. When the vaste distances with little to no civilization, just natural terrains, forrests, and the occasional temple and giant beast fill you with a sense of wonder and unease to set the tone of the setting like in Shadows of Collosus. When the world itself is a living puzzle to be unraveled like in LoZ: Majora’s Mask.
The problem is when games have big maps just by expanding terrain, filling it with tedium and unthoughtful design, make traversal a slog, and make everything feel unintentionally void of life and interesting things to do/see. And narrative driven games almost always benefit from at least some linearity.
- Comment on This sandwich 4 weeks ago:
Seems like they probably skipped the broth. Looks basically just beschemel, though, being generous, it may have a bit of mustard, sour cream, and/or some herbs mixed in.
- Comment on Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major 4 weeks ago:
I tried using my own name and it said my password was too weak. So I start my Planet Fitness membership tonight.
- Comment on onions 1 month ago:
Noooope