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- Comment on Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D is out and it is beautiful 2 days ago:
I imagine with denuvo he’ll have to wait a moment before he can sail the seas. Not too long, though.
Hold yourself over with emulated DQ 1 and 2!
- Comment on Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D is out and it is beautiful 2 days ago:
I adore the first trilogy of DQ games but I’m holding off cause I don’t like or trust SE anymore (plus, denuvo, ugh).
I will say, it’s a better experience to play 1 thru 3 in order with no prior knowledge of what makes them a trilogy. Having 3 stand alone kind of misses that “oh fuuuuuuuck” realization I got to experience (and subjected a friend to, who has yet to forgive me lol). It’s what made 3 one of my favorites next to 5 and 11.
- Comment on Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive 3 days ago:
Unreal was one of my favorite to multiplayer because the setting felt fun to explore with my friend, even if they stripped some of the story out. I’m glad it’s available in all it’s glory.
- Comment on Let's reclaim Doge! 4 days ago:
Those assholes even took the OK hand gesture. Let’s not let them have this, too!
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
At some point it becomes easier to just travel to places to buy your gpus and such. When I was in Singapore, their prices on electronics were both good and compatible with my own stuff. I visit there to see an old MMO friend and it’s just… Closer to the source, I guess.
- Comment on I'm going to try not to swear when you're around. Is this a good apology to a coworker? 1 week ago:
You’ve got way more patience than me. Just yesterday my own grandma was offended by my use of fuck randomly and I ended up defending myself instead of apologizing (she likes Tim Walz so I said the guy called Musk a dipshit and somehow that got me out of hot water lol). I don’t think I’d even have that much tact with a coworker.
- Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? 1 week ago:
You know, we kind of do have it and some apps will even let you know. But it’s got a lot of flaws as everyone else has pointed out.
You know what I kind of want is a way to see karma by instance. What you’re going to learn is that certain instances have rather extreme views (including the default lemmy.ml) and seeing how unpopular you are there while being popular elsewhere might actually make that feature more interesting.
Like, sure he’s a -100 on LemmyGrad but he’s a 200 on Sh.itjust.works; take that as you will. Lol
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 week ago:
Ok, except what if only the target is within earshot and it’s used exclusively to make that person feel like shit? And would this be true of any other insult that could potentially apply to someone else, like being bad at something? Although I guess if harm is the goal, empathy isn’t exactly a priority.
I’ll concede you’re right about collateral damage, though. Friends of mine know I don’t actually believe the insult in most cases (especially penis size, what am I, 12?), but I use more tact if I’m worried it would upset present company or being up bad memories, etc (more commonly fat shaming). I also don’t insult people like I used to, though.
But, I don’t really hold anything sacred and I’m not about to hold back a good insult for a hypothetical person.
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 week ago:
It’s like with the “do you punch a Nazi?”, even pacifists have limits.
Then again, I think for me it’s ok to hit people where it hurts when you want to hurt them— and penis size is the “alpha males” easy and effective target just like crowd size is a certain assholes weakness.
- Comment on PSA: Break Your New York Times Games Streak Today. 1 week ago:
Oh. Well uh, Mondays puzzle is so easy I already took care of it on the can earlier but I can consider Tuesday I guess.
I’ll break the other ones though, Wordle and Connections are unfun anyway.
- Comment on PSA: Break Your New York Times Games Streak Today. 1 week ago:
Sounds like a lovely Monday.
- Comment on Standard Time 2 weeks ago:
I just can’t sacrifice entire weekends to reading webcomics like I used to…
- Comment on Thats love 2 weeks ago:
Same. It’s almost okay, except it makes me angry. Lol
- Comment on Go fuck yourself, Mike 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got these emails before, almost exactly like this. I have a PhD, but sure, I guess I’m qualified for this too.
- Comment on [Meta] Time first a in we're numbers damn big! while checked the for we're 2 weeks ago:
The fucked thing is I read that normally. Y’all have tainted me.
- Comment on Every place gotta have the cuck booth 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a boring engineer friend who’d probably benefit from having a wingman along for an awkward date. I support the three-person date!
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas release 20 years ago today. 3 weeks ago:
Good ol’ Sandy Shores. I wish it wasn’t so spot on sometimes! Not that South LA is much better.
- Comment on The Only Patriotic Choice for President 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, they’re cherry picking. On average their news is fine. You want to diversify your sources, else you end up in a weird bubble. Just remember that if you come up on a year subbed, you can get it for a dollar a week again by talking to support to cancel.
I don’t see NYT being worth it’s base price but the promotional price is fine.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas release 20 years ago today. 3 weeks ago:
Ah shit, here we go again.
But really, I place it second after GTAV, but I’m biased. I was born and raised in LA but I was too young to fully get San Andreas references. But V? I live where Franklins from, work where Michael lives, and have relatives where Trevor lives. It’s not satire, it’s a documentary.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
As others say, it’s not required and you very much can use other titles. Most stick with Dr because of how much time and effort and stress went into it, although I only use Dr. because with my first name it let’s me go by the name of a certain Simpsons character. “Hello, everybody!”
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
I use this as an example for interval vs ratio; you can’t halve Celsius because it’s an interval scale where zero is arbitrary. Kelvin is ratio as it has an absolute zero-- you very much can halve it and doom near the entire planet next summer
- Comment on Anon thinks it's too late 3 weeks ago:
Aside from no friends, the rest of those things apply to a ton of 19 year olds. I don’t think it’s entirely Social Medias fault they have a weird expectation; even I had that as a teen and I heard my dad’s generation did too.
I think it’s mostly because people see movies where sex is commonplace in high school and losing your “V card” is a thing. The expectation to drive and work has also just been there since forever ago, but this current generation is even less likely to need to either. At least I know there are some non-chan places also pushing to get teens to understand those expectations aren’t normal…
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
Two notes from my actual coursework in education and psych; first, baby talk exists for a reason but it’s the singasong voice that matters most, especially when they’re picking up sounds. The funny thing there is you can say absolutely terrible things in a singasong voice and they will love it and remember it better.
Second, the arse in the example isn’t actually all the way wrong, using vocabulary is important especially in that second and third year. I forget the author but there’s some studies that show preschool vocabulary is directly related to parental education and they found it’s because of the vocab the parents use. We’re taking tens of thousands more words learned. Too bad I can’t remember the author, just that it was four letters (and since leaving academia, my zotero is long gone).
- Comment on Clippy Crunch 3 weeks ago:
Now we need an “Oops, All Paperclips!” version. Preferably all sharp metal, even if it is only half as likely to cut your mouth as Captain Crunch.
- Comment on A useful map for travelers 3 weeks ago:
Damned car lobby keeping us from high speed rail in Antarctica. Just try looking up walking directions on Google maps, you just know it’ll have you going all sorts of ways because there no pedestrian infrastructure!
- Comment on Why Choose? 4 weeks ago:
This is an image I didn’t know I needed in my life. I shall now share it without any context to a friend. Thank you.
- Comment on Why Choose? 4 weeks ago:
No, especially not these days. But on Lemmy, if you go unfiltered like me, your All channel will in fact have porn in it… sometimes remarkably high up at like 100+ votes.
I’m too much of a purist to edit my feed though (plus who doesn’t want a little porn, as a treat).
- Comment on We're all on the spectrum 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I used to work in a field with huge samples so significance wasn’t really all that useful. I usually just report significant coefficients and try to make clear what changes by model. For instance, if a type of curriculum showed improvements on test scores, you simply say how much and, possibly, illustrate it by saying if a person went from 50th percentile to 55th percentile.
Every field varies, though. I find it crazy how much psychologists I’ve worked with cared about r-squared. To each their own, I guess.
- Comment on We're all on the spectrum 4 weeks ago:
Frequentist statistics are really… silly in a way. And this coming from someone who has to teach it. Sure, p is less than 5%, but you sampled 100,000 people-- an effect size of 0.05 would be significant at this rate. “bUt ItS sIgNiFiCaNt”… Oy.
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 4 weeks ago:
My mom still goes there but only picks things up when it’s the right “color” if the day, for the 50% off. The fact that she won’t get things that aren’t in sale at a thrift store should be enough evidence to know it’s not really thrifty.