Sludgehammer
@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 3 weeks ago:
Oh my god… that’s the perfect summary.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 3 weeks ago:
Wait… the game where you can buy a bundle of every ship in the game for $48,000 might be pay to win?
- Comment on Cookie Clicker coming to Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S 3 weeks ago:
Hmm… I dunno about adding to the base version of the PS5, wouldn’t a game like Cookie Clicker benefit from the power of the PS5 Pro? They should make it PS5 Pro exclusive.
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on mood selector switch 3 weeks ago:
Another fan of Big Clive I see.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 3 weeks ago:
Because some manager thought “Blockchain” made the whole thing sound more high tech.
- Comment on Maryland Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Man in El Salvador 1 month ago:
Oh thank fuck he’s alive.
I am honestly surprised.
- Comment on A Federal Lab That Tracked Rising S.T.I.s Has Been Shuttered | The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said. 2 months ago:
You’d think of all things Trump would be concerned with STI’s.
- Comment on ghibli posting 2 months ago:
The big booty Ghibli styled gnome or not making it’s but even bigger?
- Comment on How are batteries recycled? 2 months ago:
At lease some of them get ground up and turned into corn fertilizer.
- Comment on DOGE Is Replacing Fired Workers With a Chatbot 2 months ago:
Because of course they are. Fucking techbros.
- Comment on National Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet. 2 months ago:
Well, obviously. The natural beauty of this nation is woke and must be destroyed.
- Comment on DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week 3 months ago:
I’m guessing it went like “Wait they’re needed for what!? Okay… rehire them, but don’t tell anybody.”
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 months ago:
Now I’m picturing Captain Planet stepping around a corner and having his flesh melt off as and his bones dissolve.
- Comment on Kennedy Would Keep Stake in H.P.V. Vaccine Suit if Confirmed 4 months ago:
I’ll admit, I was not expecting Nurgle cultist to take over the US government.
- Comment on Trump Administration Fires U.S. Coast Guard Commandant 4 months ago:
Don’t worry, I’m sure Trump will appoint, I dunno… Catturd or someone to fill the role.
- Comment on With Every Fiber Of My Being 4 months ago:
No, no… I’ve been assured online it wasn’t actually a Nazi salute.
- Comment on downloaded rednote and this a frequent emote in the comments 4 months ago:
Trump has nowhere near enough hair to make pigtails like that.
- Comment on Trump’s Wish to Control Greenland and Panama Canal: Not a Joke This Time 5 months ago:
It wasn’t a joke the first time, it’s just that after everyone laughed at him he got humiliated and pivoted to “Haha I was just kidding you guys! So funny right?” and tried to play it off.
- Comment on Peter Dutton says he'll never stand in front of an Aboriginal flag as prime minister 5 months ago:
The opposition leader stated that the flag’s presence in press conferences is a symbol of division.
Translation: “Those ***** need to learn their place”
- Comment on Intruder 5 months ago:
- Comment on Why did the first people to settle in very cold climates decide to settle in such a harsh climate? 6 months ago:
They were repeatedly being selected for the people who could handle a slightly colder environment, so by the time the population reached the polar regions, all that was left was people with traits to handle the cold. Any remotely beneficial recessive gene would quickly replace dominant alleles in the population.
Although I’m sure there was some genetic adaptation, I’d argue it was more technological advancement. The northernmost tribe discovers a better make of clothing, or a better housing structure and suddenly the colder winters farther north are now tolerable so people settle there. The new northern tribe refines their technology and knowledge and now that they know how to… ice fish or something they have a winter food source, and now their descendants can settle even farther north.
- Comment on don't be a coward 6 months ago:
Complex limb? Let me see an elephant tie a granny knot. Maybe with training? OK. Do a square knot.
Complex communication? Elephants have communication skills on par with a 3-4 year old human. An intensely trained dog might top 200 words. My vocabulary is an easy 50,000 words. Yours is too.
Now apply both of these challenges to a chimpanzee. I doubt one could tie a knot very well. Washoe the chimp we taught sign language had a vocabulary of only 450. Yet, I have I on good authority that a very close relative of chimpanzees have developed complex thought, complex language and advanced tool use and creation.
- Comment on don't be a coward 6 months ago:
They must have limbs skilled enough to handle and construct this technology, a complex communication system, and a binocular vision system (for this reason the most used in all species) to perceive their environment. The humanoid shape is one that best fits these maxims and therefore it is quite possible that an advanced species would also have a more or less similar shape.
Elephants meet all of these criteria as well. A complex limb (their trunk), a complex communication, and binocular vision (although I don’t see why this is necessary).
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 6 months ago:
Close enough I suppose.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 6 months ago:
Holy crap, someone who actually didn’t have it yet!
- Comment on Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release 6 months ago:
Nintendo has been cracking down on emulators this year.
I’m guessing it’s because the Switch 2 will be a “Gamecube to Wii” sort of upgrade. Gruntier CPU and GPU, minor hardware changes, but same basic system. So Nintendo has been cracking down on Switch emulators so there won’t be a zero day Switch 2 emulator.
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6.9 Changelog 6 months ago:
Placing a bomb and then switching to a weapon no longer applies its enchantments to the bomb damage.
Huh, never knew about that one.
- Comment on Is there a conversational AI chat bot that isn't... So horny? Preferably free, but I'll pay a little bit of it's good. 6 months ago:
Just be aware that the Gemini is rather limited in the logic department, even as chat bots go.
Image - Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 7 months ago:
There’s also a pack containing every ship they’ve sold which you can only see/purchase if you’ve spent one thousand dollars in their ship store. I’ll spoiler the price so you can try and guess how much it is first:
spoiler
$48,000, not counting the $1000 you have to spend to be able to see it.
