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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump telling everyone they're gonna get "lots and lots of money" if they vote for his party⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Very. The entire Republican party is a disgrace for allowing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Firewatch and What remains of Edith Finch both take around four hours to finish. You can easily finish them in a day or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, it’s subjective. And you’re misrepresenting what I’m saying. I’m not saying there haven’t been games with excellent storytelling. FF7, Another World, Space Quest 3 come to my mind. There are undoubtedly a hundred more. But in reality those games still appealed more to us kids than my dad. With TLOU I feel like something new happened: the story resonated more with the dad in the house (me) than with the kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Firewatch
  • What remains of Edith Finch
  • Outer wilds

  The first two are “walking simulators”, i.e. very linear. But the story telling of all three is amazing. Firewatch also feels like a “game for grown-ups”. It deals with a person who leaves his wife because she gets early onset dementia. He runs off to work as a firewatch in a national park. Lots of complicated feelings involved and an extremely engaging mystery unfolding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither was Leisure Suit Larry. But I’d argue that the the game still appealed more to kids than to adults. With TLOU I saw something else happen: many kids hated the ending, while dads like me totally got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If we want to be charitable there’s a nugget of truth to what he’s saying though. I’m 48 now and I’ve played computer games since I was seven, and I’ve worked with game development myself. TLOU was the first game that felt like it had a story for someone who’s 40+. It felt like some kind of milestone. The art of games has matured significantly in the past 15 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a steal at that price⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hotdog goes in the bottom hole, mayo goes into one of the upper ones at your discretion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant admits he ordered the use of the Hannibal Directive, the initiative to fire in ways that will kill Israeli civilians to prevent their capture, on October 7, 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Channel 12 in Israel?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant admits he ordered the use of the Hannibal Directive, the initiative to fire in ways that will kill Israeli civilians to prevent their capture, on October 7, 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The source seems sketchy. Anyone have something more reliable or verification that this is real?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one spells "lose" anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I lost it by trying to press play too many times on screenshots of videos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's about logic and not "feelings"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So where are you getting $5K from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's about logic and not "feelings"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Must be nice to be in the 1%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeky Afternoon Snack ;)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what she said

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worrying grimoire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful not to give conservatives more stupid arguments

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They call me the problem solver⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience, judging from the subjective felt effect when drinking it, the amount of caffeine in filter coffee can vary by a factor 3x depending on brewing technique. I just came back from the U.K. and the hotel breakfast coffee there did less for me in three cups than a single cup from my Fellow Aiden coffee brewer at home. I used to cold brew coffee but had to stop because the apparently higher caffeine content gave me heart problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They call me the problem solver⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware of the amount of coffee, but unaware of the caffeine content in that coffee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They call me the problem solver⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you even begin to know your caffeine intake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they didn't read the manual⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just usually; this is how WIMP user interfaces have worked since the 80s, regardless if you use a mouse or another device (e.g. keyboard) to scroll the viewport. It’s built into the data model of the UI toolkit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I own a house, and I make payments to a mortgage company every month, and I’m pretty sure it would be illegal for that mortgage company to put a fucking Spider-Man billboard in my yard, facing my front windows.

  So… you don’t own a house, the bank owns it. Don’t give them ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Swede I find this utterly embarrassing, and more than just mildly infuriating. These are just criminals who use football as an excuse to hate on society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistically unlikely⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So what are the prime factors of 1?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistically unlikely⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But by that reasoning, 7 is not prime because you can do 7, 1*7, 1*1*7 etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistically unlikely⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the uniqueness constraint is why 1 is not prime.

  There’s more than one way to multiply numbers to get 1?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Psychology Behind Christian Body Shame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some (e.g. Yuval Noah Harari) would argue you don’t need deities to make it a religion, it’s just belief without proof that enables a shared value system. An agreement on norms, explicit or implicit. In that interpretation, human rights and money are also religions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are getting ready for the civil war in 2028 right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thirsty much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every function the body has ultimately exists to maximize the chance of reproduction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thirsty much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Different situations. She can’t force other people to dress differently to appease her, but if they make her uncomfortable (for whatever dumb reason) she’s allowed to avoid them.

  But also different situations because sex drive is possibly the strongest biological drive that we have, so even if you’re not helpless against it your brain can be distracted in a way that it won’t get from gendered clothing.

  I’m not religious or devoid of self control, or even interested in a relationship with a “gym girl”. But I would still wish the women at my gym chose to dress for function rather than to attract… whatever it is they want to attract. It gets tiresome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was an ok life, 6/10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That way, you can help someone else pay their bills!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Up until very recently all train route planning in Sweden was done manually with huge sheets of paper and rulers. Scheduling trains is a very hard problem due to the inability for one train to pass another in many places and the constantly high congestion. Any change in the schedule affects everything.

  In computer science it belongs to the class of “NP-hard” problems which are essentially intractable to solve optimally. There are various approximate methods that can be employed to get something that’s almost always good enough.