Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based Red Dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just responding to what you said, not the overall line of argument. I was going to add stuff about not being able to determine the colour of those first slaves and it not really being relevant either way, but it felt like it was getting rambly so I cut it back to the main point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based Red Dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There was slavery before Portugal or feudalism were things. I’d wager slavery might even predate the homo sapien species and probably came soon after a species was able to communicate orders and threats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to my lair⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh ok, I’ll try putting it in the microwave for a bit, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to my lair⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I made an energy efficient one by replacing the light bulb with an LED bulb and some cooling fins since the design looked like it would trap heat from escaping, but that guide is garbage because it doesn’t work like it’s supposed to!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention the selection of games available is pretty paltry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo 3DS Game Finally Cancelled After Being On Pre-order For Almost a Decade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s kinda like asking your mail deliverer when something you pre-ordered will arrive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you a responsible adult?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or saying that the only global maps we should accept are ones projected onto spheres. Same thing for partial global maps above a certain size threshold (projected onto partial spheres).

  I’m curious what that threshold is. Like how long do North/South roads need to be before there’s a non-trivial divergence towards the equator? How far do parallel East/West roads need to be before one is noticeably longer if measured from the same longitudes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain to me how a ventilation fan can suck LESS when on high compared to low?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the output side is clogged up and the attempt to push more air through than it can handle causes turbulence that results in slower air flow, or affects what air it is sucking up so that it pulls more from the sides rather than below.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll never see it coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also it’s not like assuming it will collapse in the next decade will make any difference other than having a harder time enjoying the time before then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a TV without researching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually just assume that free shit given away as part of some other sale is going to be bad or shit quality. They probably bought a big batch of them for real cheap because they weren’t selling so great in stores and eventually someone decided to just get rid of that inventory maybe at a loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite so far has been Enshrouded. Voxel world that doesn’t look like it’s made of cubes, plus souls like combat (though not nearly the same difficulty).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WoW probably holds the most cases of this for me.

  World PvP was one front. Early on, just winning fights felt good. Then, as I got better, it felt more normal when it was an advantageous matchup for me. But the peak for me was during TBC, I was leveling my rogue and a hunter jumped me as I was mining. This was pretty much a worse case scenario, especially because the hunter was lvl 70 (max at the time) and I was still something like lvl 65. But even at the same level, a) a hunter is a natural counter for a rogue, and b) I was mining so I didn’t even get the stealth advantage.

  So there was a lot of dopamine when I ended up getting to finish mining that node and the hunter had to walk back to his corpse after I beat him anyways.

  Also a lot of dopamine from finally beating raid bosses that my guild had been stuck on for a long time. Vael in BWL was the peak for that one IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's strict mom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And what about when they call your bluff and turn “semen inspection time” into a “guess where I came this time” game?

  Then combine it with the “release numbered animals” and say there was n+1 to find when there’s really only n.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Q: What do you call a doctor that cheated and manipulated their way through medical school and their residency?

  A: Doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons make the worst game ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can still be relevant in combat when you want to look around to see where your enemies are or find the exit or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons make the worst game ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the tone of the actual responses doesn’t match the text for the selection of the responses.

  "Do you accept the mission?"

  • Yes
  • No, thanks
  • Maybe…

  Option 3 actually declares war on quest giver.

  Oh and one that just happened to me last night:

  Your normal actions still work during dialog so if you press buttons to try to exit out of a dialog, you might accidentally attack the NPC you’re talking to. If you let them kill you, they are still hostile when you return. Need to start a new save to recover. At least they drop the unique key from their shop when you kill them (Dark Souls 1, hopefully it’s no big deal that I had to kill the blacksmith. At least I don’t have to listen to the pounding metal when I spawn above him anymore).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons make the worst game ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was that the one with the stupid “car launched from plane” bit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mental health⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call it overclocking so much as changing the way you think, and making it easier to separate thought from emotion. Or at least that was an observation I made about what was different. I could think about things that were normally very emotionally charged without those same emotions getting in the way, kinda like being able to skip the stages of grief when thinking about things many people are in denial about without even thinking about it.

  I also believe that it reduces the barrier between the conscious and subconscious, allowing more things the subconscious “figured out” to bubble up to conscious thought. “Figured out” in quotes because while the subconscious is powerful, it is not infallible. There might also be a sense of connection between the “a-ha!” feeling of figuring out something profound and random thoughts going through your conscious mind, making normal or dumb shit seem important and groundbreaking in the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diamond market⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah only question for me right now is if it will go to 0 or 2 before going back to 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diamond market⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many world wars were fought in the last century? The answer might surprise you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitposting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tangent topic, but how does an anarchist system prevent popular leaders from gaining authority? Also, how does it defend against an aggressive authoritarian neighbour that wants to annex territory?

  I like the idea of anarchism in theory, but I just don’t see how it could be possible to get there from here where every existing power would see it as an ideological threat to their own power (similar to how capitalist powers reacted to communism), or how it would maintain stability if it was realized.

  And as much as I don’t like the monopoly on violence system because it seems to encourage corruption on the side with more access to violence, I can’t help but think it would eventually devolve into a lot of in-fighting.

  Like power constantly rises from nothing more than physical strength, charisma, or good strategic thinking in groups of humans. Some primates other than humans go to war with their neighbouring groups. Egypt became a kingdom when one tribe conquered the rest, and that one wasn’t the first to try. Countless empires have risen and fallen, most of the time despite violent resistance of those who would rather be neighbours than subjects. The Vikings sailed around raiding for their own benefit and then later conquered regions like in France, Britain, Sicily, and Kiev. The Mongols did the same except using horses instead of boats. Then European powers did it. Then America started pretty much puppeting anyone who went against corporate interests while a cultural movement in Russia and China started out trying to move power out of the hands of their ruling class only to see even more authoritarian powers take over.

  History is full of cases of “I don’t care what you want, this is what I want and I’ll just kill you if you don’t go along with it.” How could that change?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no formal rule, but adjectives can function as verbs in day to day English. <Subject> <adjective> <object> can mean the same thing as <subject> make <object> <adjective>.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great tee shirt with words of wisdom that I bet you never realized⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking of which, an obsession with dicks or second hand dicks totally sets off my gaydar. Not that there’s anything wrong with being gay, but this post feels a bit like overcompensating, so maybe it’s something to think about.

  Like does it really bug you that a hand probably touched a dick or does it bug you that the thought causes a more complex reaction than that?

  Either that or you don’t really care about it that much but are saying it to trigger others who might care, which I can respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuclear launch detected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are all just ways of converting energy from one form into electricity. Every single one of the ways we “generate” electricity ultimately comes from gravitational energy. By the time we use it to power electrical circuits, it all has gone through various energy-consuming/losing processes.

  The list wasn’t so much a “ways to create electric energy that aren’t spinning turbines” as a “power sources for electric circuits that aren’t spinning turbines”, which is why I included chemical and electrical, even though they often aren’t very useful without another source of electric power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only alternatives that I’m aware of:

  • solar cells (converting photon energy into electricity)
  • acid batteries (converting chemical energy into electricity)
  • peltier devices (converting heat differential energy into electricity)
  • induction (converting electrical energy into electricity on a different circuit)
  • bioelectricity (using biochemical energy to produce electricity)
  • static buildup (using friction between various materials to produce a voltage differential)

  I think there’s a way to use lasers to generate electricity, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I agree with the second one. Like ending bigotry would be nice, but assuming everything that can be motivated by bigotry is motivated by it isn’t going to accomplish that and ultimately (IMO) is why so many people see “wokeness” as a bad thing (though not discounting that there are a lot of actual bigots out there). I think it was also a factor to why Trump won in 2016 (and Hillary played right into that by acting like she should be president because it was about time there was a woman president, not to mention the DNC uniting to keep Bernie out).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO it should be cyclical. Passion provides ideals and goals, reason can help work towards those but also evaluate them and refine them.

  Like once upon a time, I wanted a high end sports car. But over time, through reason, I realized that owning one would be more of a net negative than a positive in many ways and now I wouldn’t likely get one even if it would be trivial to afford. I’d like to not even need a car at all, but reason has me recognizing that that also wouldn’t be a positive given that I live in an area where mass transit infrastructure is poor.

  This boils down to having conflicting passions/goals and using reason to resolve them (like wanting a sports car while also wanting to afford other things and to reduce my environmental impact and not driving a sports car is a very easy way, trivial even, to have less impact than driving one).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The gods are with Anon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The middle of winter… Oh Valentine’s Day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They meant they wanted a game set during the conjunction of the spheres but didn’t know if witchers were a thing yet at that timeframe in the lore. The wording made it seem like they were talking about your first witcher idea but they were talking about a different alternate timeframe setting they’d like to see.