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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does neuro divergent only mean Autistic and ADHD?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Any mental illness could be regarded as a type of diversity.

  Yes, that’s the purpose of the term “neurodivergent”, to destigmatize mental illness. Many mental illnesses can be lived with, in a relatively normal way, and could also benefit from societal awareness, accommodation and integration. Also, they could incur a risk of discrimination. They also have no cure, just like a physical disability e.g. a leg amputation, is simply a different body condition that will not change. Much like “person with disability”, the correct term should be “neurodivergent person” or “person with neurodivergency”, to avoid the appropriation of the word as a derogatory term.

  The “all brains are unique” side, doesn’t actually work. It’s a slippery slope that runs the risk of rendering oppressed minorities invisible. See the, “we are all sexually diverse”, dog whistle that was used in right wing rhetoric as an attempt to erase LGBTQ+ pride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people like FitGirl, NoSteam and so on make files into "repacks"? Do they just drop a folder into a condenser and that's it? Or is it more complicated?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is rather complicated. My understanding is that most repackers actually have their own custom pipeline for repacking and even custom tooling.

  What a repack is, is just a custom compression and packaging of the video game install. Some experimental repacks cut, or rip, part of the game such that it occupies less space while still keeping the game functional. Many choose not to cut anything. A part of the is using a different optimized compression type for each type of data file in the game, then assembling a compressed file for distribution. Finally, they supply having a custom installer that reverses the process correctly.

  It is a rather technical and fascinating

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would anyone downvote a question on No Stupid Questions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but let’s imagine. If there’s a conference somewhere (it doesn’t matter what it is about), and you go there and start screaming on a loudspeaker anti con-topic questions to try to make someone to punch you in the face. You will get punched in the face and then kicked out, probably banned for life, from said conference.

  Now, you could argue, that you were trying to get the most toxic people in the con to mask-off themselves. But you will still be just an asshole. It’s unhinged behavior, you are the toxic people in the comm. There are rules and a purpose to the space, so don’t cry and whine when you get kicked out when you break such rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would anyone downvote a question on No Stupid Questions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst are the troll questions. They’re just meant to stir flamewars in the comments. No one, specially the OP, is interested in the actual answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to respond to the ‘Gen Z stare’ without looking like a total boomer | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Upvoting because the article itself is infuriating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. How does one deal with grief or loss in a safe way without turning to alcohol or drugs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once stumbled upon an image that now I regret I lost. It showed a Venn diagram with two circles, one circle was your personality. The second, smaller and inside the first one but definitely took most of the space of it, was grief.

  Now, most people think that over time the grief gets smaller. But that’s not true at all. The grief doesn’t change, it stays there. But, if you grow as a person, as your personality gets larger, while the grief is the same size, it starts to take less space inside you.

  This is why the worst thing one person can do about grief is doing nothing. If you do nothing, and you stay the same, the grief will always hurt the same.

  But if you start to move, slowly at first as you must. And grieve when you have to. And laugh when you have to. Connect with others, and slowly start moving forward and growing and learning again. You the grow, and the grief little by little, takes less space. And it still hurts, but it hurts a little less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use your brain. Nintendo has roughly 8600 employees, 3000 in Japan alone. Salaries are the vast majority of indirect operating costs in any company. If Iwata halving his salary pays to avoid layoffs, then his salary had to be a huge percentage of Nintendo’s operating costs and the WiiU failure would’ve been the least of their problems.

  Nintendo regularly reports operating costs in the order of several billions of dollars quarter over quarter, a majority of them would be salaries or manufacturing. Even if Iwata was paid a single billion dollars a year, and halved that, it would barely amount to a rounding error on the accounting. It was just a PR movement, and most Japanese salary men recognize it as such. It is something done for media clout because “we will just pay you with the piggy bank money” doesn’t add any drama worth a headline.

  And Nintendo working conditions have always been controversial. While they are by far not the worst of Japanese corporate employers. They are not exactly saints either, falling into the same patterns that plague the Japanese office culture. Specially the abuse of employees qualified as independent contractors and unpaid overwork. It triggered a labor complaint in the US in 2022. They have become a bit better very recently, apparently. But it is still one of the oldest and most traditional fucking companies in the planet, they carry some troubling organizational culture sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That one is always misleading. It’s a known Japanese corporate move. As the article says, called “hansei”. Culturally regarded as an empty public gesture done exclusively to save the company’s public image. It works as a PR move, and it obviously did here, since it happened in 2013 and people still talk about it.

  But, it actually does nothing financially, and usually none of the money saved goes anywhere. Nintendo avoided layoffs because they hoard liquidity. Have done so since the 80’s. Their revenue could collapse and they could lose money for a decade and still not reach bankruptcy. That is far more unique to tech corporations than halving executive’s pay. It is what actually has been protecting Nintendo from their failures. They still exploit and abuse employees just like every other Japanese corporation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing stopping bad people with AI is good people with AI.

  Am I doing apologia correctly?

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paris, France⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And French police is doing the same. They even have an official name for barricading. They trap a group of peaceful protestors into an alley, then send a provocateur dressed as a civilian to start violence. They use the violence as an excuse to detain and injure everyone trapped inside the barricade. When the battle breaks out, they use that to further repress the peaceful protestors.

  It’s a worldwide established practice by all police forces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paris, France⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They should. For what I’ve seen in the news cycle, protests started peacefully then the police started crippling children. I mean, a 14 year old lost an arm to police brutality. That’s when the rest of the country raised up in arms and started attacking the cops and rioting. So far all political statements, starting with Macron, have only called to prosecute children for property damage calling them “extreme left violence”. While the cops maiming children, who were just asking for more teachers with fair pay, are being protected.

  ACAB

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, the one and only response to this strawman is always: Employees already got paid.

  No one who developed GTA6 will get a single cent or recognition from any sales of this game. All the money and accolades for the game will be collected and hoarded by individuals who didn’t have anything to do with the development.

  You can appreciate the art that went into the work by individuals, while also acknowledging that it was made by a soul sucking and horrendous corporation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are entertainment figures jump on a chance to talk about a Free Palestine but not a Free Kurdistan?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. People always have a bias or interest. Even if, globally speaking, I or you care for the humanity of all people and the victims of all conflicts. Time, space and resources in general are limited. So our bias, attention span, education, etc. Create a background filter for what we dedicate our time and attention.

  This is why the “of course” clause in leftist rethoric always have to apply. Free Palestine, of course has to necessarily mean a care for all human suffering across the globe. It is implied by default. It is just this three seconds are dedicated to this issue in particular.

  When people have objections they usually include them. Like terfs who can’t shut up about how much they hate trans people even when, on the surface, they seem to be using feminist rethoric. Antisemitic assholes will always include a qualifier to insult Jewish people. And even reject other areas of pro-palestinian discourse. Because they want to focus on the hate, the positive message is being coopted. Just like feminist messages are coopted to hate on trans women. It becomes obvious that the point is to promote hate, not to support people being oppressed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨P.T. Native PC Port 1.0 Is Out Now With DLSS 4.5, Frame Generation, Ray Tracing, Mods, And More⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how this phrase out context makes absolutely no sense, and might as well be alien to 99% of the population of the world:

  Resolution and frame rate are no longer tied to the PS4 hardware, while the game supports NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 3.1/4.1, and Intel XeSS, alongside native-resolution DLAA and FSR Native AA. NVIDIA RTX 40 Series GPUs can also use DLSS Frame Generation, while AMD FSR 3 Frame Generation is supported on Radeon RX 5000 Series and newer GPUs.

  Hell, it might as well be Chinese for over half of gamers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do dogs actually like having their belly rubbed or do they just know we really like to rub their bellies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll let you know. My dog has moods, each has their own body language. Sometimes she wants head and ear scritches, so she’ll bump her head into my hands and keep them there until I start petting. Sometimes she wants belly rubs, she will roll on her back in front of me or on the couch/bed. If I ignore her, she will switch positions into my line if sight and repeat. She also sometimes is not in the mood for petting, and my approaches will be dismissed. She turns her back and ignores me.

  Sometimes I stop on purpose to see her reaction. If she’s okay with stopping the activity she will leave or regain a neutral posture. If she wants more she will tap me with her paw until I resume. It’s very cute. Dogs are definitely very communicative if they want something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transport Fever 3 just came out. I just sunk 12 hours and plan to sink even more. They perfected the tycoon genre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If this survey is any indication, Audacity wants to add generative AI because of course they do⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The company developing audacity have done similar surveys for other software. No matter the result, they always add some version of it. I love the main UX designer philosophy. But the company is squarely pro-AI oriented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It has nothing to do with advertising. The phrase refers to bias and stereotyping. It is not about the book, it is about the person doing unfair judgment based on superficiality instead of knowledge.

  There are no covers that are not carefully chosen for the book they accompany. The source of error lies on the beholder making false assumptions about what the book is, then passing judgment on a book they haven’t read based on limited information and most likely incorrect assumptions.

  The phrase calls people to check themselves and their own biases before making decisions with limited information. Or at least to search for some more data with curiosity instead of bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole futures market for this and many other prime matter. Companies, including retailers, buy stocks ahead of time. That’s the original meaning of a stock. The company then fulfills orders as the stocks become due or they get renegotiated for a later date. This is a crucial source of financing for these industries. As they get the cash influx by selling promises of future productivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do we punish people when nothing bad happened ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost there but not quite. I’m not a lawyer, but have friends who are. The two examples are actually equivalent. Because, by principle, laws evaluate actions. Not consequences or intentions, those can be qualifiers in criminal cases, or discussed in civil cases. But in general the law prefers to deal with things that happened, not risk or what could happen. As it is far less ambiguous to argue that someone did something, than arguing whether or something could’ve happened.

  That’s why pre-crime was such a big deal in the sci-fi movie Minority Report. Similar to thought crime, it is a tough ethical and legal discussion without a clear possible answer that doesn’t lead to violent authoritarianism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oxygen, I think is the major factor. As long as the salmon is frozen and sealed, the bacterial growth is slow/spores remain inactive. When thawed while sealed, they are all trapped in there without oxygen and become active with the increased temperatures. According to some quick wikipedia search, it is the germination of spores into bacteria that creates the neurotoxin. The absence of oxygen is a requirement for the germination, so it promotes neurotoxin production. Releasing the salmon from the package before thawing lets oxygen in, thus they won’t become active as the salmon thaws, since oxygen slows down the bacterial growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A man was indicted for posing as a U.S. veteran and defrauding the VA of $63K over 27 Years for routine medical care⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Always remember. No matter what the law says, in our current philosophical embodiment of what a “justice system” is, you might be guilty or not of a crime, but the only real reason you are being punished is because of poverty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Follow the rules. It’s invite only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV shows on streaming services showing the titles in every language in history for each episode⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry. When AI does all the TV shows for you, then there will not be a need for crediting human labor. You’ll get to all 78 seasons of Ow, my balls! One after the other. Don’t see worry about 80% of the screen being covered in ads, it won’t cause seizures to most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mel Gibson has a peculiar talent.

  Racism? it is racism, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actors being outrageously attractive via artificial means is, meh, I suppose. What I can’t stand is when they load up with so much botox and had so many surgeries that they lose all capacity for acting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could barely withstand the latest Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie. Usually anachronistic music, sets or wardrobe doesn’t bother me. Most of the times it is tastefully done or are details that are immaterial to the experience. But lord, this version was so over the top that I sometimes felt like I was watching a fashion show and not a movie. I’m still somewhat warm towards Emerald Fennel, but this movie was a let down for me mainly for that one reason. She is also pretty gross and can’t help but to always include disturbing imagery, even if the script is supposed to be a romantic tragedy. Some of the scenes didn’t subtract anything, but definitely added nothing as well. I think this film failed at what Marie Antoinette (2006) succeeded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an argument that there’s no such thing as an anti war movie. Basically, movies are a recreative art medium. As such, any movie that intends to hold the attention of the audience all the way through, will make aesthetic or narrative concessions that will accidentally glorify war in turn. Some even go as far as claiming that any portrayal of war, even if negative, is promoting war.

  It reminds me of Come and See (1985), which is a great horrible movie. But often some of the things being portrayed are so well framed and filmed that it is truly beautiful at times. Even if the subject material is extremely horrifying. And the hook to keep the audience watching wanders into morbidity.

  In contrast with 20 days in Mariupol (2023), which I almost didn’t finish. Because it was true documented horror without any sort of grand narrative. A documentary doesn’t have to tell you war is hell. Movies, however, tend to wax poetic about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re supposed to be the clashing adjacent colors of red in the color wheel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet, here we are. With a bunch of personal attacks, again. And still, you don’t address the fact that your ideology is that people should go hungry because they don’t work the same way that you do. Am I the one being disrespectful and blinded by ideology? Again, where are you getting all of these weird hang ups about me? You don’t know me, my ideology, my education, my background or my work. I think you are just projecting like a mad man. “There’s no free lunch” means that you are OK with people going hungry and children starving. Just accept your worldview is violent and destructive. Check yourself, because all you are assuming about me isn’t true.

  You bought the class warfare bait, hook, line and sinker. You’ll rather fight with me, someone who probably has 90% of the same ideological values as you. Instead of fighting with the corporate oligarchs that taught you that some people don’t deserve to eat.