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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They ratted on themselves. Hundreds of couples get put on the screen on coldplay concerts and nobody remembers them. It was their stupid reaction, as if a sniper was going to shoot them, that made the clip go viral.

  Had they not reacted at all they would’ve been forgotten like everyone else.

  They were warned even, Chris Martin always warns audiences of the camera before hand so they could’ve gone into the back for a minute and been on zero risk of this happening. But a guilty consciousness ousted them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This explains why I can’t buy games right now. I tried to use PayPal and it failed but now my account seems to be blocked from any purchase. Not even direct card. When I asked support they demanded a screenshot of my cart.

  Dude, Gabe, I just want to play outer wilds. There’s no tits, let alone incest in Outer wilds. I’ve never bought a porn game in my life. Why am I being punished for a billionaire company’s moral panic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all the cocaine. When I watched madmen I thought it was an exaggeration. Then I dated a guy who worked in marketing and met his coworkers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably are. But, this problem is also much larger for them than for other players. Oneplus is estimated to have sold 10 million phones over a one year. Samsung sold 4 times that number of s24 alone. If the suppliers can’t provide that level of manufacturing then they have to build the supply chain themselves, and that takes a lot of time, R&D and money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God forbid the racist asshat doesn’t feel welcome on the internet. Fuck asmongold, he is stupid and this argument is stupid, racist and made in bad faith. He is plain wrong, don’t defend the racist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Slurs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this fish but with plants?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it funny, because it is not required at all. You could be the most casual lazy ass gamer, and still see and accomplish every piece of content inside the game. The game doesn’t penalize you, and instead goes out of the way to reward the player for everything they do, even if it is just loitering around and barely progressing stuff at random and by chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you don’t engage with over 60% of the game anyways. Sounds to me like a balanced game that has something to offer to a variety of players, and anxieties, overfixation and stress with some gameplay and not other seems to be something the player brings in and is not caused by the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be remembering wrong, but I think it is entirely possible to develop relationships with the town characters and see almost all of the cutscenes without ever upgrading any of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t find out what that means unless you made it to year two and it immediately tells you that you can keep trying anytime you want.

  It’s not a one and done, you can literally retry the test infinitely. There is no crunch period at all, this anxiety comes from players misunderstanding things the game says in plain English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people have an money anxiety built in that translates into the game. The funny thing is they bring it all themselves, the game makes absolutely no fuzz at all about making money.

  The very first scene is the main character running away from the ratrace to a farm. Yet the very first thing some players do is bring in the ratrace with them. Everything in the game makes money and no money at all is ever required by the game from the player, except to advance the farming itself. It doesn’t even have banks or debts like animal crossing.

  It’s bizarre how people, when left to their owe devices, simply reproduce the worse habits of real life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is also controversial because sexual arousal is far from the only reason men have erections.

  This study is an example, there’s an alternate interpretation that affirms homophobia is actually the result of repressed sexuality, in general. Thus any sexual stimuli would be arousing. Thus causing an erection, regardless of the gender displayed, and irrespective of the person’s sexual orientation.

  This tracks with the fact that almost all homophobes are politically conservative, tend to be highly religious, or are very young and immature. They all coincide with environments prone to sexual repression.

  The other variation is that anger also causes arousing.

  This study was too small to control for those kind of factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  His obnoxious voice is fake, just as him. There are videos of him outside the streaming. His voice is artificially lowered for streams and videos. He’s all fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Not only I’m not gonna support it, I gonna actively tell people to not support it. Because this is stupid. This is shit. Eat my ass.”

  — Thor “PirateSoftware” Hall, on the Stop Killing Games proposal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deltarune didn’t exist yet. It’s an undertale ripoff.

  Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasn’t with an (allegedly) entire company around him. He’s a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of other’s work. That’s all he does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst part it that this are far from the only two events. He has been kicked from several other guilds, for exactly the same narcissistic and egoistic behavior. If everywhere you go it smells like shit, at some point you have to start checking your own shoes. He is just always adamant that it’s other people’s fault that it smells like shit, when he has full diapers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are display sizes always measured in inches?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tho relationship of nautical miles and knots for speed is really good for navigating over a sphere. There are some handy shortcuts that make quick mental calculations fast and intuitive, specially with an e6b flight computer (not an electronic).

  The alternative would’ve been to use euclidean planes, projections and radian transformations, which would’ve been harder to use for navigating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctor Rockso⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are very few hard set laws in psychology. That said, OP is wrong. There is not a study contradicting each other study. The problem is that human behavior is not very deterministic, save for a few subset of conditions and behaviors.

  Psychology did have a reproducibility and p level crisis. However, in my opinion this was the result of external political and financial pressures over universities and research institutions. Which deviated and forced theoretical analysis and statistical experimental designs that were not suited for psychological research. Researchers were forced to design and construct studies in ways that ensured publishing, grants and finance. Instead of good theory and science.

  The second factor is bad science communication. Psychology is a field were everyone feels entitled to talk with authority because it is about the human existence, and we are all human after all, no? However this leads to a high degree of disinformation that makes it hard to separate science from opinion, and often times political agendas too. This of course makes it seem like psychology as a science is less reliable than it is. Because it gets mixed in the same bag as pseudoscientific slop.

  When you sift through the misinformation and read hard psychology science, then you notice a third thing. A lot of the hard science is on neurological functional psychology. Which is dry and not very interesting to sell in blogs, tweets, and reels. And the softer, social science side, that is virtually ignored by media, because it tends to reflect that capitalism and western civilization is destroying mental health. So there’s no interest to promote that idea or to acknowledge that, we know how to fix a lot of problems. But it requires dismantling a lot of power structures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He is referring to the fact that the only game pirate software has made was abandoned 7 years ago in early access and the dude just keeps patching it without significant content to avoid steam flagging and keep charging money for an unfinished demo. It’s an unimaginative ripoff to boot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The relevant actors in this discussion already tried to address the arguments. Ross made a response video because Thor refused to talk to him like a petulant child.

  Thor simply doesn’t care, his first comment to the initiative was literally “eat my whole ass”[sic]. The whole conversation is way past rational discourse. Thor decided to actively oppose the initiative under the main argument of “this is fucking stupid”(direct quote). There simply isn’t any rational argument to address. It’s all a personal attack from a narcissist with an audience. He knows that this initiative kills his grift business. That’s all there is to know about the content of his rationality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It may, but that is in armed and ready bombs. Nukes are stored with the explosives separate from the fissible material.

  That point is moot though. As we know Iran is still years away from a nuclear bomb, because Trump and Netanyahu are liars. As evidence by the fact there is no radioactive spill from the facilities destroyed. Either Iran didn’t have the material there yet, or they already built the bombs and they are stored elsewhere. The first scenario seems more likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One-point safety is about preventing a nuclear yield when one of the explosives inside the nuke go off by accident and not all of the detonation triggers. It does help to prevent accidental nuclear yield if the nuke is destroyed by an external explosion. But you’re understimaing how extremely difficult it is to initiate a nuclear fission event. Not only should all the trigger explosives go off, the fission material has to be hit by the explosion from the right place and in a correct sequence and timeframe. Else the fission won’t start.

  Bombs are even stored separate from the explosives sometimes, for extra safety. The biggest issue with these attacks is radioactive material contamination. The risk of a nuclear explosion from bombing a weapons development or storage site in one in billions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is U2 considered "grunge?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I call it non-progressive pop, or also corporate treadmill music. Because the harmony never gets anywhere or do anything interesting, but always feel like it’s moving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a high proportion of those two groups that plays third party on PC or even a steam deck. The Switch is just the current Nintendo machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ARMA 3 Recieves Surprise Performance Update⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to miss it. It is still there and enjoyed by thousands of people everyday still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But somehow more reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, what’s up. Are you (or anyone in thes thread) feeling suicidal?

  Talking openly helps to deal and cope with the feelings. But some people feel shame of mentioning these topics. You can find out if there’s a help line local to you and call. You’re reaching out, which is good. Find someone who is open to talk and unload that burden. Trust is hard to earn but it goes a long way to talk about feelings, even if they’re uncomfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The pride flag was envisioned and flown for the first time in San Francisco. For better or worse, most of global queer culture is us centric.

  Most of the flags are also copyrighted or copylefted, to some degree or another. It’s a jumbled mess. But in general no one is profiting unless you are literally buying a physical flag, as all of them fall into fair use or can be freely licensed for use in commercial products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, like, there’s even a little leaflet that is the first thing you see when you open the box that just says “Don’t remove the screen protector. If it gets damaged, don’t replace it yourself, send it in for a free replacement.” Or some wording of that kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The flip and the fold come with a screen protector from the factory. It’s integral to the phone as the screen is flexible and soft, without it the screen would get opaque and dull. People forget that the point of cases and screen protectors is to be like rubber tires. They’re there to take weather (not damage) instead of the phone, and to be easily replaced on the regular. Samsung offers a replacement service for the flip that changes protectors regularly with the phone protection program.