radix
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- Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside. 2 days ago:
IMO, professional soccer in the US is way behind because it’s less TV friendly. No commercial breaks (other than halftime) means less money coming into the sport than more commercialized competition.
At youth levels, it’s one of the most played sports in the country. Then as soccer-playing American kids get further in their “career”, they get pushed toward other sports where more money is. Colleges rake in cash on football and basketball, and lots of these kids play multiple sports until a coach makes them choose.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
I haven’t actually fired it up in a while, but Gedonia might be up your alley.
store.steampowered.com/app/1114220/Gedonia/
Looks like a sequel is currently in early access, too.
- Comment on Can't prove environmental issues if you don't have the data 2 weeks ago:
Covid numbers wouldn’t be so bad if we stop testing, and ocean health won’t get worse if we stop measuring.
Kill that messenger!
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
Not just music! (Though that is probably the strongest example)
It’s telling how many people are nostalgic for a society that only existed before they were born. Recent History education sucks.
- Comment on On the seventh day, god created uranium 3 weeks ago:
“Testing your faith” sounds like tricking people into not believing. Which is exactly what they accuse their devil of doing. This god sounds like kind of an asshole.
- Comment on Anon mishears a coworker 3 weeks ago:
Squat on the inkpad, perp.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks ago:
Active Time Battle (ATB) was under patent until 2010.
Games are just software, and software patents are definitely (and unfortunately) a thing.
- Comment on If you could make a magic wish so that your crush liked you, would you do it? 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure she likes me already. Enough to stick around for the last 25+ years, anyway.
- Comment on Are all millionaires, Billionaires, CEOS and wealthy people famous? 1 month ago:
I don’t think I could even pick the CEO of my own employer out of a lineup.
There are something like 24 million millionaires in the US, and over 50 million worldwide.
“Famous” is relative, but its safe to say most people have never heard more than a tiny fraction of those names.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 2 months ago:
It’s easy to set up any number of seemingly impossible situations if you start with the premise of a super entity that can accurately predict the future.
What you’re given is [Ridiculous Assumption] + [Normal Situation] = [Paradox]
But the trick is to quickly gloss over the [Ridiculous Assumption] and frame it as [Normal Situation] = [Paradox]
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 2 months ago:
Hopefully the story or progression is engaging enough to keep my interest.
The devs have promised that the story and progression will be getting a change from previous entries. The past few have gotten some flack for just throwing all the currency and all the cars at you without much challenge to it. Recent editions are bordering on being a car-collector-simulator as much as a racing game.
Personally, I’ve loved them all for just messing around and driving hundreds of different cars, but a bit of change in formula would be welcome, if they can pull it off.
- Comment on why does almost nobody live here? 2 months ago:
Other comments give a good tl;dw already, but in case anyone wants a video with pictures and examples, Geography By Geoff has done this topic a few times. Here’s one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqyM54CNSsY
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 2 months ago:
I only get to the theater maybe 5-6 times per year, and that’s almost always with my spouse, so the movie is secondary to the experience.
I do watch a lot on streaming, and between the summary, genre, actors, director, and reviews, both professional and word-of-mouth…I can usually pick out what I will enjoy. If it turns out bad, it’s one button to turn it off.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 2 months ago:
I will watch good movies, and skip terrible movies. Whether they are in a franchise or not has no bearing on it, for me.
So go ahead and make more. I may see it. I may not. But I’m not going to begrudge anyone who wants to see more of that character no matter what.
- Comment on get zapped, idiot 2 months ago:
That never happens to Thor-opods.
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 2 months ago:
Your link doesn’t mention Clinton at all, but starts with this:
Federal law does not allow national referendums in the United States where the general population gets to vote on an issue.
It happens at the State level regularly (in states where it’s used), but it’s not something a President can initiate.
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 2 months ago:
Can you be more specific? The US doesn’t have any mechanism for a national referendum on a specific issue. Usually when people use that term, they’re talking about mid-term elections (and reelection bids) being a “referendum” on a President’s total popularity.
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 months ago:
Our family computer at the time was well below the minimum specs, so i played for the first year or two at like 5 fps. Good game, not good as a slideshow. lol
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 months ago:
First game I specifically asked for from my parents: Stunt Driver. Must have been in the first half of 1990.
First game I saved up for and bought myself: Super Mario Bros 3. Much of the money I saved came in the summer of 1990, so that would have been in late summer of that year.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 2 months ago:
This satan guy sounds like a hoot. I want to see more of that.
- Comment on Would submitting a criminal complaint against Trump and his administration too the ICC for war crimes be a waste of time? 2 months ago:
Neither is Russia, but the ICC still issued warrants for the arrest of several leaders after they invaded Ukraine.
en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Criminal_Court_a…
I’d love to see the next Democratic administration just let them take him and all his cronies.
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 2 months ago:
Terrible name for a Jedi.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.
People trade long-term detriment for short-term enjoyment all the time.
- Comment on Anon the explorer 2 months ago:
Steam tag: “choices matter”
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 2 months ago:
Yep. People tend to think of the big 5-10 names that are on every corner, but the FDIC insures over 4,000 banks in the US.
PDF warning: fdic.gov/…/fdic-latest-industry-trends-december-2…
- Comment on Anon uses his computer 3 months ago:
This is why Windows peaked with version 2000.
- Comment on Stardock announce an expansion into indie game publishing 3 months ago:
They had some cool software like 20 years ago. Then they doubled down on the subscription model, and I haven’t thought about them much since then.
Hopefully they don’t lean into live service games or DLC traps.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I have a not-that-old work laptop with a single usb-c charge port (for the dock) and the connection sucks. Thankfully that one also has a barrel port for power only.
I hate that my new one is usb-c only. I’m moving between locations often enough that long-term durability is a concern having to plug/unplug that one all the time. I’d much rather it was an extra few mm thicker and have a charge port I’ll never have to worry about.
- Comment on Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that 3 months ago:
Have you ever magnetically levitated a cow? If not, then however magnetic they are, it’s less magnetic than frogs.
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 3 months ago:
She’s hot, but there’s just too much pressure to make it work.
