theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on CAH at it again 2 hours ago:
It’ll hurt his widdle feelings and incite him to waste time reacting though
- Comment on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers 2 days ago:
Check out IVAO
- Comment on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers 2 days ago:
There are, from random clicker sims to running actual air traffic in flight sims with such realism it took me a while to be certain it was a game (and not a air traffic union or something) when I looked up the website
- Comment on Painful to recover from 3 days ago:
Yeah, I’d say humor is the better indicator. It boils down to the ability to connect ideas in creative ways, as well as keeping a longer context window in conversations
It’s not a direct 1:1, but what is intelligence really? There’s many types, and they’re all a combination of domains
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 4 days ago:
That’s the straight of oman. Different straight
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 4 days ago:
What longer route? It’s the only entrance to the gulf as in “Gulf States”
- Comment on Rabbit hole 1 week ago:
A lack of jock itch for only $6.99
- Comment on Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity" 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been waiting for someone to post the link, ty
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. I think it’s going to fragment a la cyberpunk… It’s beginning already through a mixture of government controls and profiteering. Large enough platforms will still exist everywhere, but I think we’re going to end up with more regional networks
I think youll still be able to route a package across the world, but the age where you could access the same Internet from everywhere is ending
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 3 weeks ago:
I meant the Internet doesn’t have a future, it’s already half dead
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 3 weeks ago:
What future?
- Comment on It hurts 3 weeks ago:
People want cheap products in a general sense, they don’t like off shoring, it was hugely disruptive to jobs and the quality nose dives (at least for a time, sometimes permanently). They didn’t ask for or choose it, they’re the low information side of the system
Of course they’re upset at things being tariffed, they don’t want prices going up. They likely have some preference to buy things made locally, or by a country with a reputation
None of this is a choice made by consumers, it’s a generalized set of incentives and pressures created by the market
It’s like planned obsolescence… People hate it, it’s being sold to them
- Comment on It hurts 3 weeks ago:
The first two are debt related, and the third is off shoring
People didn’t ask for any of that… It was sold to them for profit
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 4 weeks ago:
Why do new languages come into creation?
Because someone with the understanding and education to write a new language decided the ones they know aren’t cutting it
Paintings are pigment expressed upon a medium. Code is thought expressed through a medium
People create new paints all the time
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft basically took it from Bethesda and cleared out a bunch of their core staff
The IP might not have been transferred, but Bethesda’s product ownership has been revoked. They didn’t even let outside teams touch their offshoot projects (like apps), and now the IP is probably going to be milked
Maybe obsidian will do something interesting with it before it inevitably is reduced to slop
- Comment on How did Voldemort actually die? 4 weeks ago:
She’s a way better writer than she is a person
She is a pretty shit writer though
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 5 weeks ago:
Not really. They call themselves Canadians and call us Americans. For example, they are boycotting “American” xyz
- Comment on 360 4 months ago:
Apartment buildings have multiple circuits that connect to the grid. Sometimes my power partially goes out, so like these outlets work but those don’t, because there’s three circuits and one tends to break first
- Comment on Nier Automata 4 months ago:
No, I shared my experience with the game and then explained why I think it’s also totally valid and relatable why they couldn’t get into it when they played it. Sometimes art is timeless, sometimes it can only be properly experienced in the time it was made for.
Although I guess most art won’t hold up if reading comprehension continues to plummet…
- Comment on Nier Automata 4 months ago:
When the fuck did I say any of that??
I don’t know why you recommend games to people, but I do it so others can find enjoyment. I had a deeply meaningful experience from the game that I like talking about, but I also think it won’t hit the same in 2026. I just don’t think others will have that kind of experience with nier in the current media environment.
It sounds hard to be so insecure in your own tastes that you need external validation
- Comment on Nier Automata 4 months ago:
The game is a true masterpiece, one of the best works of art I’ve ever experienced. The pacing and story were amazing, even the boring and annoying parts are perfectly seasoned with new information so that your interest and investment to the story deepens
It’s a world and a story that flows like music, repeating the same melody over and over with new instruments joining in and swelling with each repetition. It constantly adds new information that recontextualizes the story entirely with masterful timing
I also don’t recommend the game to people. It was perfectly tuned in a way that no longer works, it was made for society a decade ago. Sadly, I don’t think you can get the same experience anymore… We just aren’t the same as we were then
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 4 months ago:
Have you tried looking for a theater that does Chinese subtitles?
It’s a thing that exists, you might find it in a populated area but it’s not super common.
You could also find a Chinese movie with English subtitles, that’s probably a lot more common
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 4 months ago:
Also, on Reddit I never had anyone follow me around trying to cause reputational damage by spreading false accusations about me.
I’ve experienced it on both, but it was much more toxic and persistent on reddit in my experience
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 5 months ago:
Yep, shockingly rare. So much I can’t explain it to others… They look at me like I’m talking witchcraft lol
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 5 months ago:
It really goes beyond autism too. Babies might not like how they’re being held. Cats might have somewhere they like to be scritched more. Dogs might want to go somewhere they can run
The ability to put yourself in someone else’s situation to contextualize body language is a shockingly rare skill
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 5 months ago:
I think modern phones are just too big. I don’t want to hold a tablet up to my face
Personally, I just carry a headset, but if that dies it’s only consideration for others that might stop me from putting it on speaker
- Comment on Whatta my color? 🤩 5 months ago:
There’s purple and color changing eyes too
- Comment on We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI 5 months ago:
Standardization and automated processes will fix that
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 5 months ago:
Ask what proof would change their mind and show them. Then when their mind is not changed, you will understand
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 6 months ago:
I think they mean microblogging as a format