Ultraviolet
@Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Darn it 3 days ago:
The rich ones, at least. Longevity science under capitalism will result in a quasi-immortal upper class and a mortal lower class. Another looming threat of ultra-late capitalism.
- Comment on What year is it 1 week ago:
The tricky thing was we didn’t have the original rules, we had rules for things like betting systems on top of the game written with the assumption that everyone already knew how to play, so we needed to derive the rules from that.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 1 month ago:
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 1 month ago:
“Guess what! I’ve named a boil on my ass after you. It, too, bothers me every time I sit down.”
-Gheed, Diablo 2.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 months ago:
Textbook Lizardman Constant right there at the bottom.
- Comment on I put on my robe and my wizard hat 2 months ago:
There is much, much more overlap between them than you may think.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 2 months ago:
This may sound pedantic, but you’re looking for Fairtrade (one word) for the organization with the strictest vetting standards. Fair Trade (two words) isn’t regulated and just means they follow some sort of ethical code. It’s not necessarily bad, but it warrants more product specific research.
- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 2 months ago:
His house, the people’s choice. The information being available just allows people to make an informed decision of whether or not to use it, and in what way.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 2 months ago:
The main difference is that in equal measure to being a fascist, Trump is an idiot.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 months ago:
“Something I hope we can do no matter who you voted for is see each other not as adversaries but as fellow Americans, Bring down the temperature.”
No. Human rights aren’t a disagreement. We can disagree on whether or not we enjoyed a movie or on what pizza toppings we prefer. But if the disagreement is that you want to kill me or people I care about, you are, by definition, my adversary.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 2 months ago:
I’m not convinced we’ll go even a single decade of this regime without total socioeconomic collapse.
- Comment on Post-election blues 2 months ago:
Only if you’re exactly the right denomination too.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 2 months ago:
That just means you value your own ability to evade blame over the lives of real people.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 months ago:
Oh he’d act. He’d assist Russia and be the other Axis power.
- Comment on Tradition 2 months ago:
How is a gmod shitpost anything but a return to tradition?
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 months ago:
90 F to Kelvin, halved and converted back, is approximately -190.
It’s difficult to find data on what exposure to that temperature would do, the threshold for an extreme cold warning (meaning absolutely do not go outside without heavy protection) is about 150 F warmer than that.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
Which raises the question of why he would create a planet with the illusion of age and send you to hell for falling for his own trick.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
Kicking is our natural unarmed attack. Still a last resort compared to throwing rocks or whacking with sticks though. We evolved from ancestors who already used tools to defend themselves.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 2 months ago:
Are horseflies a lie because they don’t eat horses?
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 2 months ago:
In other words, emulators are crucial for game preservation? This shows that Nintendo knows that, and when they say it’s not the case, they’re not simply wrong, they’re lying.
- Comment on Was the first SSN to be assigned in the US just 000-00-001? 3 months ago:
That’s why giving out the last 4 digits isn’t safe. It’s trivial to derive the first 5 with public records and a lookup table.
- Comment on This made me so angry, enjoy! 3 months ago:
The original is still loss.
- Comment on The devil will walk on earth 3 months ago:
It’s also always either 6 or 11 years (or 7 in very rare cases, when you’re on both sides of a skipped leap year like 1900 or 2100) between “day X falls on day of the week Y” events unless you’re talking about February 29.
- Comment on Artifical Intelligence 3 months ago:
Good old toupee fallacy.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 3 months ago:
This is why I’m looking forward to the first few seasons of PoE2. It sounds like they’re starting out focused on making the moment to moment gameplay more interesting. They’ll cave to the zoom zoom crowd soon enough and ruin the game with power creep within a year, but it’ll be fun while it lasts.
- Comment on Installation 3 months ago:
Get the fuck out and call the fire department.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 3 months ago:
I just remember it intuitively based on vibes. Stalagmites sound bulky and lumpy, and stalactites sound sharp and light.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 3 months ago:
To put into perspective just how trivial it is, the actual amount of energy of splitting a single nucleus is on the order of picojoules. The shock from touching a doorknob is a few millijoules, literally millions of times more powerful.
- Comment on Anon plays Persona 5 3 months ago:
Watch a speedrun. They avoid almost all encounters and still nuke bosses in a few turns.
- Comment on Anon plays Persona 5 3 months ago:
I can’t think of a single remotely modern JRPG with required grinding. It’s usually that you have the choice between learning how the game works or overleveling to brute force everything. People then do the latter and don’t even realize the former was an option.