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- Comment on That one Pokémon 18 hours ago:
I don’t think that either are supposed to be slimy, I think that’s usually a sign of an algae or health problem, so both would fit that corner, which then leaves the open corner as Legs=4, Slime=Yes, and House=1
- Comment on That one Pokémon 18 hours ago:
Coral?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 week ago:
Did you read that link before posting?
In comparison with other construction materials (aluminium, steel, even brick), concrete is one of the least energy-intensive building materials.[2]
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 week ago:
I understand the distaste for the aesthetics. But it’s a pretty inarguably better material from a structural, cost, sound blocking, etc. standpoint.
Don’t get me wrong, I love red brick, and personally want a red brick house, but I also recognize the sheer practicality of concrete blocks and would probably pick that with a brick veneer if I actually had to pay for it.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 3 weeks ago:
That seems absurd, we’d never build a civilization if everyone was at this level of dysfunction or anywhere near a majority, nevermind one with such rigid specific rules.
Yeah, we would.
A) ADHD does not prevent most people from living a normal life
B) most of human society throughout history has not required the level of planning and attention that modern society does
C) ADHD does not matter if you’re a slave or indentured servant who’s going to get beat if they don’t do their job
D) ADHD symptoms tend to lesson with exercise and hard physical labour
And recent surveys have as many as 25% of people suspecting they may have undiagnosed ADHD:
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 4 weeks ago:
The diagnosed ones generally are, the others are often self medicating in a variety of ways.
- Comment on Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it would not surprise me if the Supreme Court blocked it for being too reasonable.
- Comment on Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same 4 weeks ago:
This judge actually fully understand how companies abuse two sided marketplaces and is thus forcing Google to open up both sides of the market place to competition. Both forcing Google to host new app stores inside the Play store so that they’re visible to consumers, and forcing Google to allow those app stores to distribute the Google Play apps so that the app stores aren’t crippled by a lack of developers.
This is a way way way bigger win than I could ever have hoped for.
- Comment on Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same 4 weeks ago:
PC Gamers think Epic is the devil incarnate because they paid for exclusive games for the EGS, meanwhile they have made a bigger impact in the world of digital anti-trust than virtually anyone else on the planet.
Allowing companies to conglomerate is the single worst thing that prevents capitalism from functioning even a little bit, and tech companies are the worst at false claiming that every product needs to be tied to every other product.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 4 weeks ago:
LMFAO, you take your ADHD diagnosis too seriously.
- Comment on Could someone please explain/Tldr the Subnautica 2 controversy? I liked the first one, but I'm severely out of the loop. 4 weeks ago:
Unknown Worlds was created by Charlie Cleveland and was originally a group of developers making a half life mod: Natural Selection.
With its success, Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire formed the official studio called Unknown Worlds, and then hired more people to make Natural Selection 2.
After Natural Selection 2, Unknown Worlds made Subnautica 1. Charlie Cleveland was the director, designer, and lead programmer on it. Max McGuire was also a programmer on it, Hugh Jeremy was the producer.
After this, Charlie Cleveland moved into a CEO role, Max McGuire moved in the role of company President, and Trey had Ted Gill as CEO.
They released Subnautica Below Zero, which none of them were that involved in to somewhat more middling reviews.
They sold Unknown Worlds to Krafton, and in the contract it had a $250M bonus spread amongst the staff of Unknown Worlds for on time delivery of Subnautica 2.
Allegedly Krafton asked Charlie Cleveland to work on also producing a Subnautica movie, so he was focusing on that.
Apparently at a milestone review Krafton was unhappy with the amount of content that would be in Subnautica 2 early access. They asked the team to increase it by 30%. The team refused and thought it was ready to release.
Krafton then fired the two studio founders (Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire), the CEO (Ted Gill), and put in a new CEO who delayed the release past the point of the staff getting the $250m bonus.
The studio then pledged to give the staff a $25m bonus instead.
The fired leadership team is now suing Krafton, meanwhile Krafton is claiming that it was just acting in the beat interests of not disappointing gamers.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
A population where everyone is armed will also almost certainly have more firepower than a single terrorist group, too.
It will also arm a whole shit of load terrorists, and people just having a bad day.
The power dynamic is between the terrorists and anyone who would oppose them, not just the state.
Yeah, and now you’ve raised the floor massively.
when terrorists are basically always ultimately handled by a military force
[citation needed]
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
It requires not allowing the police to be outgunned by terrorists.
Notice that it was after the LA bank robbery in the 90s, where two guys had tons of body armour and military rifles and outgunned the LAPD with their 6 shooters, that you suddenly saw every single police force across the country militarize and by assault rifles, body armour, and APCs.
Notice how in the UK their cops still patrol without guns.
The state will always maintain a monopoly on the top level of violence. The idea of gun ownership to oppose the state is laughable. Notice: right now, no gun owners using them to oppose the state.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
Changegenerallh comes about from mass mobilization. The French have gotten more concessions from the government and the rich through mass strikes than Americans ever have firing guns. I’m not naiive to the idea that it’s all purely 100% peaceful protest, but one man with a gun rarely makes a significant change in the overall direction compared to hundreds of thousands of people turning out and threatening the economy.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
Well in a democracy, presumably the people who vote for politicians. In a democracy with a constitution that guarantees rights and security for non voters then them as well.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
The state always maintains a monopoly on violence. Otherwise you’d have a terrorist show up and the state would be unable to stop them.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
No one’s going to argue that there aren’t going to be edge cases that are hard to criticize, but in general, supporting any kind of systemic vigilante justice always leads incredibly quickly to innocent people getting lynched and cycles of reciprocal violence.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 5 weeks ago:
Go back to bed gramps
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 5 weeks ago:
You’re the daftest fucking idiot alive if you think spray painting a slogan makes you a terrorist organization.
- Comment on How active is too active while being on lemmy? 1 month ago:
That’s too much for your own mental health.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 month ago:
If I correct your 500 and 4 years, your statement becomes “Nintendo sold their consoles at industry pricie for the average console lifecycle”. Oh the horror, Nintendo does what every other console seller does
No, Nintendo historically produces under powered consoles and overcharges for them so they can make a profit on every console from day 1. That is not what the other console makers do.
And the part about selling a reskinned game at full price every 2 years? If I’m being generous I’d say you’re talking about BOTW and TOTK. But that’s not 2 years and it’s not a reskin and your argument implies multiple games but I can barely come up with one.
Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Mario Party, etc etc etc
Nintendo sells
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 month ago:
No, it’s just a good way to filter out people who want to engage in pedantry and people who actually want to discuss the issue at hand.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 month ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 month ago:
Using years and hundreds of dollars is not min/maxing precision. That’s a stupid excuse for something you should own up because your made up numbers detract from your point. If the numbers don’t matter then this shouldn’t make your argument look ridiculous.
Counterpoint: shut the fuck up, you understand my point just as well as if I had looked up the right numbers and adjusted them for inflation.
Nitpicking is not the same thing as conversing. Grow the fuck up.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 month ago:
No my comment just uses normal human language to convey a point instead of min/maxing precision.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 month ago:
Nintendo, the company that makes gamers pay them $500 for a new console every 4 years, and then $80 for a new skin of the exact same game every 2 years, and calls it innovations and consumer friendliness.
Nintendo is a fuckwad company. You’re just gaslit cause you like a character they made.
- Comment on EA-backed car culture site winds down, as Need for Speed series is ‘shelved’ | VGC 1 month ago:
Playing the original hot pursuit on my friend’s family’s Gateway PC, is a true core memory.
The spirit continued with Burnout 2 & 3 before ultimately dying. Racing games need to focus more on destruction and less on licensing real world cars.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 month ago:
🤔
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 month ago:
On the Voyager app you can see that it wasn’t edited at all.