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- Comment on So which is it? 1 week ago:
“Salad mores” is not what I meant by s’mores.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
This is my experience as well. People don’t hate vegans specifically, they hate evangelists generally.
- Comment on I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t answer the question directly, but this may be related.
Back in the 90s when the cable channel TLC wasn’t shit, they had a series showing actual surgical procedures. I watched one where a woman had previously had a mastectomy, and this follow up was essentially rebuilding her breast by moving fat from her belly into her chest.
It’s not just cutting out one lump of fat and putting it somewhere else. The blood supply had to be kept intact, so it was more like a slide puzzle. Lots of stuff moved only as far as it could without interrupting the various veins and arteries.
Interestingly, they made sure to point out that the fat being shifted around still thinks it’s belly fat, so gaining and losing weight that would normally affect the belly would show up in the one reconstructed breast
Presumably this other procedure is similar. Fat is moved from the legs in such a way that by moving a relatively small amount, the butt gets bigger and the legs get smaller, making the butt look even bigger by comparison.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 2 weeks ago:
“Two popular games with little else in common can be shoehorned into my pet narrative” is a bad title, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Turns out the 80s fearmongering of shoving free/cheap drugs at kids to get them addicted, then jack up the price was prescient after all.
Just with digital subscription drugs instead of narcotics.
- Comment on If TikTok in the US is spun off as a separate entity, how hard would it be for the current company to put in a back door to still access the data. 3 weeks ago:
No need. Most apps already collect a ton of data, and is sold to anyone who asks nicely. Which company owns a service won’t change that one bit.
The whole thing is election-year performative bullshit, while your data isn’t one iota safer.
- Comment on 70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability 4 weeks ago:
99% of gamers knew this years ago.
It’s always been a race to gobble up the handful of whales that keep the mobile game industry alive. Now add hundreds more desktop and console games to that list. Sure, there are lots of people that will happily spend thousands of dollars on any shitty game, but once you’ve got the entire industry spending billions fighting over those players, the well runs dry eventually.
- Comment on Supernova Absorption for Nulification 1 month ago:
This is going to depend on the specifics of your story, but a supernova happens when a star runs out of easily fused fuel (hydrogen, helium).
If you want to prevent the supernova entirely and return the star to “normal,” that means removing all the heavy elements from a stellar core and adding lighter elements. I’m no scientist (or author), but turning back the clock like that is beyond my imagination.
Absorbing the energy for use in other applications? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so…maybe? You can probably hand wave that way. It won’t be 100% efficient, and whatever tech that’s absorbing that energy has to be able to contain a star. This one has at least some hypothetical support: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
A Type III civilization is able to capture all the energy emitted by its galaxy, and every object within it, such as every star, black hole, etc.
It reminds me of the Ringworld novels. I won’t rehash the entire plot, but basically an artificial structure is built that requires a material the author calls “scrith” that is essentially (impossible)[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium] with known physics, but a clever author can write around it well enough that it doesn’t get too much attention for its “magic” properties.
- Comment on Does mucous have calories? 1 month ago:
Sure. It contains a protein called mucin, which will have some, eh, “nutritional” value. Plus whatever is caught up in it. It’s mostly water, though, so not much.
- Comment on [US] Why don't city limits just follow county lines or vice versa? 2 months ago:
The county lines were likely drawn 100-200 years ago. The method will vary by state, but is usually either in a grid or following some geographical features. Where people live probably wasn’t directly taken into account.
Cities lines are drawn as needed, and as cities expand, it just depends on where the population growth is. For mature towns/cities, they may be butted up against adjacent towns, so expansion is driven by whichever people are otherwise “unclaimed.”
But why do cities expand in the first place? Money, prestige (which brings more money), adding services to under-served residents, etc. The question they’re asking when it comes time to grow the borders is, ‘will this bring in more money than it costs in a reasonable amount of time?’ It can be expensive to add services in some areas if they’re expanding water/sewer/police/fire/electric/etc, but the additional tax revenues may be worth it.
- Comment on If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen? 4 months ago:
Kamala Harris becomes President, and the GOP implodes under the weight of a million conspiracy theories.
- Comment on If a game adds or changes content outside of extra add-ons like DLC (such as a free update) does that content have to be reviewed by ratings boards and risk changing the rating of the game? 4 months ago:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was briefly changed from M to AO due to content that couldn’t even be accessed without mods.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
But without the chatgpt spam that has overtaken bing the last few months.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
Pure speculation: of the people who don’t like Epic, maybe 25% are legitimate, principled objections to their business practices. The rest are split evenly between people who just want to manage their entire library on a single platform, and folks just going along for the hate-ride because it seems like the “safe” position to take.
From a technical stance, Steam and GOG are superior platforms (for different reasons). For equal-price purchases, I can’t think of a single reason to choose Epic over other options. But claiming a game for free? That doesn’t make anyone a bad person.
- Comment on Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma Doesn't Really Care About the Series' Chronology 5 months ago:
What’s next, Final Fantasy doesn’t have a canonical timeline?
- Comment on OK Microsoft... trying to log into Teams while work lapop updates to Windows 11. No longer works in any iPhone browser, including Edge. The app will not authenticate my work login... 6 months ago:
My company’s IT department tried to push Teams since we pay for it either way. The rest of the company revolted and stayed on Slack.
- Comment on Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad 6 months ago:
That’s bad, but at the very least, Windows can be customized to hide all that crap. Some options are up front, some require a lot more digging, but it can be de-advertised. Xbox is way more locked down.
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 6 months ago:
If it’s a persistent problem, and a tow truck isn’t an option…
Get a set of cheap car dollies, then you can move it out of the way. THEN you can place it perpendicular to the parking spots with the bumper at that support beam and he’ll be stuck until the blue car leaves.
- Comment on Microsoft’s CEO say it’s ‘doubling down’ on being a game producer and publisher | VGC 6 months ago:
*70 billion this year alone.
2021: Zenimax for 7.5B
2018-19: Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, Obsidian Entertainment, inXile Entertainment, Double Fine Productions (all unknown amounts)
Earlier: Rare for 375M, Mojang for 2.5B - Comment on Why did 15g sugar pancakes taste sweeter than 100g sugar cupcakes? 6 months ago:
The other ingredients matter. Certain other flavors can mask or enhance sweetness.
- Comment on What is the best website to search for scholarly articles? 6 months ago:
You may be surprised by the amount of journals and other scholarly resources you can access through your local library.
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 7 months ago:
The area has been a hotbed for 5000 years. The west didn’t help, at any point, but conflict in the middle east is as old as history itself.
- Comment on Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs 8 months ago:
Right. Here’s how it works: Your game is on Gamepass, and a user installs it. Now instead of Microsoft paying you $0.15, then you paying Unity $0.10, Microsoft will just pay us directly the $0.10, and you still get your $0.05! See, it’s a great deal! Everybody gets their money and you don’t even have to deal with the Unity costs! Please, don’t go!!
- Comment on So why is 3 nm chip better? 8 months ago:
IIRC, anything less than 7-10nm is mostly marketing-speak anyway. Tunneling is a real limit at that scale, but chipmakers keep advertising smaller numbers as a performance-class figure rather than a physical size.
- Comment on Why does lemmy have it, so any link takes you off the page instead of opening in a new window? 8 months ago:
I was almost beginning to think I was browsing the whole web wrong by middle-click-opening a bunch of tabs, then going through them all after I’ve seen all the interesting headlines.
- Comment on Do you find the description Live Service Game off-putting? 8 months ago:
Live Service Game, the idea…I find unappealing and just plain skippable. Live Service Game, the phrase…is so much better than “Game as a Service.”
But hey, not every game/genre/delivery method is going to appeal to everybody. The industry is big enough to cater to multiple niches, even if some are much (much, much) bigger than others. I’m happy that people can find whatever game they like, and I can find my favorites as well. That doesn’t make anybody more correct than the other.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 8 months ago:
Devil’s advocate: Isn’t the “primary purpose” of a product what it’s actually used for?
There are over 400 million guns in circulation in the US. In 2021, there were just under 50,000 gun-related deaths.
Is it fair to say that 0.01% of uses are the “primary purpose”?
- Comment on Is there a word in English to describe someone who wants to preserve a (minority) culture against erosion from a majority culture? 8 months ago:
Cultural
conservativeconservationist - Comment on Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More 8 months ago:
Digital downloads only. The throughput is fine, but the latency is terrible.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Same thing happened with links in Outlook a few weeks ago. After the first 3-4 attempts, I finally saw the option to turn it off.