carl_dungeon
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- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 day ago:
Stupidity, cult mentality, “my sports team” mentality, religion, and single issue voters.
- Comment on Found this while going through old stuff. I'm terrible at chess, but I would play expecting to lose just to watch the animations. 3 days ago:
That was my first computer! I wanted this game so bad back then, never had it. I’ll have to spin it up on my os-9’ed g4 Mac mini, hopefully it still runs in 9, most things I’ve tried do.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 3 days ago:
No
- Comment on Why is Gen Z so Poor? 6 days ago:
Guess you’ve never heard of inflation. Minimum wage in the 1950s would be something like $27 today- and that’s just simple annual inflation not accounting for buying power of the dollar. Factor that in and it’s more like $35. That’s a far fucking cry from $7.50. Plus, that guy in the 50s had only high school education, a stay at home wife, two kids, and a house.
Single family homes in my area start at $650k and go well over a million regularly. Town houses can be a 500k easy. Rent for a small apartment can be $1500+ a month plus utilities. People struggle on $70k salary here, which is about $35 an hour. Now imagine making under $10.
Another example, public school teachers start work making less than $60k. Imagine starting work with $50k-70k in student loans, some of them predatory private loans, spending nearly 50% of your post tax income on rent and then still having to pay for food, gas, car payment, insurance, and making those minimum loan payments basically forever. You’re pretty much financially crippled for life unless you marry someone that makes money or switch careers. That’s fucked up- someone that works as hard as our teachers, with their master’s level educations and endless night and weekend work should have to have 3 room mates for 20 years just trying to survive.
If the only thing we had was proper minimum wage adjustment and nothing else, society would be in a much better place. If we also had subsidized child care for working families, healthcare, non predatory education and insurance than imagine how much better off we’d all be.
But naw dawg, let’s just make some lazy Starbucks drinking kids get 4 fucking jobs to try and keep your old ass in social security.
- Comment on After India, Brazil becomes second major BRICS country not to join China's Belt and Road Initiative, citing Brasilia's desire to maintain strategic autonomy 6 days ago:
That’s a whole lot of shitty people in one picture.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 1 week ago:
I have one and my kids share it with me, but considering a second. They support profiles. My son plays it on the couch while my daughter watches her shows, and then they’ll put it on the tv and play Mario kart together.
- Comment on Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down | The former president likes to talk about the attendance at his rallies, but empty seats and early exits have grown more common. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I bet his rallies are boring as shit
- Comment on What's a good gift for a 2-year old? 1 month ago:
A toy that makes a lot of sound- like a truck with siren noises or a little electric piano, or spaceship with explosion sounds. There are these great plastic dinos that roar when you play with them. As a parent, I’m telling you, their parents will thank you.
- Comment on What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?: Crash Course Religions 1 month ago:
They’re the same picture!
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 1 month ago:
Atheism is the belief (ironically) that there is no divinity.
I don’t think that’s strictly true. The lack of belief in something isn’t a belief. By that logic, everyone would be a believer in the infinite things that don’t exist, which is silly.
Believing god is blue with 10 arms or an old white man, or a moon beam is a belief. Having no belief in any of those things isn’t an alternate belief system the same way an empty pie tin isn’t another form of pie.
Do some take the extra step and say something like “it’s impossible for there to be a god!”? Sure, but I think most atheists instead find 0 evidence of god, and therefore find it very unlikely.
- Comment on How would I find my phone if I didn't have a phone to find my phone with? 2 months ago:
I use my watch
- Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 2 months ago:
I don’t think the klan votes black.
- Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking? 2 months ago:
Many don’t. I don’t. I’m not gonna vote trump over it though.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
Fallout 4 wasn’t bad, it was a lot of fun for a few playthroughs. You can make some valid arguments about steps backwards from new Vegas, but it did a lot of things well too.
- Comment on How to decide what kind of controller one should purchase? 2 months ago:
Ps5 controller is Bluetooth, works for me without any special drivers. Has native support in some games for the haptic triggers and touch pad. It’s a fantastic general purpose unit. The Nintendo switch classic NES controllers are awesome for retro emulation too- also Bluetooth. They make NES/SNES/N64 variants- but really the ps5 will handle all those use cases and feel just fine for any modern gaming.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
What standard is trump being held to again?
- Comment on Anon defends Michael Jackson 2 months ago:
Maybe it was all kiddy diddling
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
Because no one cared about that 60 years ago
- Comment on File Storage on YouTube | YouTube 2 months ago:
It’s just a PoC which is fine, it was a fun watch. Ever hear about using aws r53 as a “free” DynamoDB? Someone even did a PoC of that, fun times!
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 3 months ago:
I feel like actual humans read my comments here most of the time. It’s pretty small still, but it’s growing!
- Comment on Is it actually very common for people to have violent sadistic fantasies, possibly involving actual people in their lives? 3 months ago:
There’s a big difference between thinking/imagining something and acting on it. I wouldn’t consider it an issue unless it’s causing damage to your life or relationships. Fixating on morbid stuff to the point that it impacts your life is probably a sign of something bigger going on.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 3 months ago:
People still use twitter?
- Comment on Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing? 3 months ago:
Because what people really want is an iTunes like service that just has everything for a single price rather than 14 streaming apps that have content overlap but also exclusives and rotating temporary content licenses costing $20+ each with ads.
There was a period of time when I gave up pirating because Netflix+prime was good enough to watch just about everything, and on-device search easily searched both platforms and provided a unified search/watch experience. It wasn’t worth the effort of finding and storing content yourself.
Fast forward to today, you search for something, it belongs to some fucking random service you don’t currently pay $17.99 a month for and then halfway though a season, it drops from the platform and goes to another streaming service you also don’t pay for. It’s just endless bullshit and nickel&diming now.
I’d happily pay $60 a month for a single service that just had everything and saved me from all this bullshit, instead I’d be forced to spend $300 a month for 23 services I barely use just to have access to the catalog of content I want.
Another example of this done well is steam- I just want my whole library in one place, I don’t want 5 different game libraries each with their own crap. Consequently I’ve spent thousands of dollars on steam over the years because of the unified experience.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 Has Been Delayed Indefinitely, Pre-Orders Are Being Refunded 3 months ago:
Yeah, looking forward to it!!!
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 Has Been Delayed Indefinitely, Pre-Orders Are Being Refunded 3 months ago:
I loved 1 - but 2 didn’t make any sense to me. Slapping 3D on it didn’t seem like something it needed, and it makes it a very different game. Plus, it’s not made by introversion - that’s where 95% of the humor and novel game mechanics came from.
- Comment on Trump Questions Harris’s Racial Identity, Saying She Only ‘Became Black’ Recently 3 months ago:
What a weird, loser-ish thing to say
- Comment on Can't wait for Borat 3 in another 20 years.. 3 months ago:
In 20 years these guys will be 15 years dead
- Comment on Donald Trump Is Unfit to Lead 4 months ago:
Duh
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Because Elon is a jack boot wearing autocrat wannabe
- Comment on Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks 4 months ago:
It’s insane to me this is a thing- in 2004 I was flabbergasted when a professor required us to turn in work on floppy- I hadn’t had a floppy drive in years at that point… that was 20 years ago.
I don’t understand how a country so high tech in so many ways could be literally a quarter century behind on something like a web form or digital drop box or something.