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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me after I accomplish literally anything in Hollow Knight [Day 49]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
steam deck runs out of power on way to bench after a tough boss

But what you’ve done before you can always do again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Well I suppose good and bad are usually in the application of a tool rather than the tool itself. I’ve just seen it used for good enough to know what was shown here isn’t that, haha.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, gamification is good but this is just stupid. Humans respond to gamification for a reason, it can add a sense of accomplishment or help you lay out goals, etc. If you gave that to, say, a non-profit looking to motivate volunteers who clean up the beach or something, it’s a net gain for society.

But this? What accomplishment or goal do you get for eating shitty donuts 500 times? I’d like to meet the man (and it most certainly is a man) who is proud of his 500th Duncan trip. I’ll buy him a dose of insulin (but only the subsidized stuff).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo 3DS Game Finally Cancelled After Being On Pre-order For Almost a Decade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a game in my todo list, but pretty low on that list. Actually, speaking to getting closer to that design, you’d think 20XX (and I guess 30XX but I didn’t play) gets even closer. It certainly scratched my MMX itch in an interesting way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know what I have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Man ain’t nobody from Hawthorne is gonna afford a treasure like this. That said, I’m near there and this better be real because I still have a belated Christmas gift to get my brother!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who died are justified⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Weird we have the same weird hobby, although my excuse is singing to my 2yo and getting away with it. “I hyurt myself todayyy~”.

… My daughter is gonna be weird.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feelin' Festive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sure it’s ok when he does it but when I decorate my fence with corpses I get a nasty letter from my HOA.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ok, ok, I’m fine with paper straws now. Please, no more sausage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My worst offender would be the Neptunia games I’ve played (which I genuinely liked for gameplay lol) but honestly, if your gaming family can’t accept you at your Nep, they don’t deserve you at your NepNep.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody will question you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair, I’m snarky because plenty of colleges (and way too many high schools) still do this shit because it’s not about the knowledge, it’s about the signalling to employers that the student will make a good cog in their machine.

To anyone struggling in a stats course: real data science is programming, not math. If you’re on Lemmy there is a good chance you’re a better data scientist than your hack of a teacher.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody will question you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you’re in a college statistics course and you’re doing graphs by hand and not generated entirely be statistics software, the skills you’re learning are useless anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody will question you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Assuming it’s a correction line, I don’t think you can tell from the slope of that line alone as the clustering will matter and correlations are finicky. Now, if it was a regression coefficient, that sexy line can be calculated just by looking at it (although we’d want to know if it was significant, lol).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing tip: just start brain dumping⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I teach for a living and this wouldn’t negatively impact the grade. But real talk you’re usually using a rubric anyway unless you want admin breathing down your neck after a disgruntled student takes issue with the A minus you gave her.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much can we hope is being put in place behind the scenes at the US federal level to mitigate the damage Trump will do? Can any of it be effective?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
On the state level, there are protections (for now) since a ton of stuff has to be done to the constitution to remove such powers and they don’t have the majority needed for that. Sure there are loopholes, but for every fed willing to turn a blind eye, there’s a state rep willing to disregard their made up policy. CA already has a lawsuit fund, lol.

The federal level gets dicier. Despite the kiss asses on the GOP side, I don’t think they’ll have the courage to do deeply unpopular things for their region. For instance, removing the Dept of Education isn’t popular in places that get a lot of that Title I money. That ain’t a safe guard the Dems put in place, per se, but they made it in 79 under Carter and even Reagan couldn’t get the support to undo it in 80.

Any current safe guards? Biden is unfortunately very bad at these things as far as I can tell and what good he did will likely be credited to Trump despite the truth. Best we’ve got I think is just trying to sure up as much Ukraine support as possible. The house Dems might have the best shot, though, given the narrow lead. With Senate, it’s probably a good thing Manchin wouldn’t let Dems abolish the filibuster… although the GOP might go ahead and do that themselves this time. Senators don’t really have to answer to their constituents because of incumbent advantage, so there isn’t at much deal making like in the house.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Game Preservation Program Gets Tested Early By Blizzard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Obligatory mention that ExoDos exists. Look it up.

Y’know, I kind of get why a storefront would prefer delisting when there’s just a more complete or more “HD” version. I’ve had a friend buy an old version of a game for the same price as the “complete” version since both were up and he didn’t check. Blizzard is obviously just trying to promote their remake, but I wouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

(I’d still prefer having options, though, and that option should be free because playing the DOS version of Warcraft 2 would likely help promote the HD version, as sort of a demo. That game is fire and deserves the love, too bad the execs are morons).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🗣 📢 W A T E R⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I know a ton of people with English words tattooed in cool fonts. That said, they rarely are nonsense like Charcoal Grill.

No regarts, though, right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The things you can buy on amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Why do the comments feel a bit whooshy on this one?

That said, I bet you could find a kidnapper starter kit somewhere on the Internet. Fun fact, chloroform doesn’t work the way you think it does— it isn’t instant and it doesn’t last long enough to be of any use like this. Movies have lied to you. Keep this in mind if you have weekend plans with any CEOs near you!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just put a spray tan over it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
NGL, kind of like the look.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It won’t happen but that’d be such a fucking what the entire establishment would melt.

I’d pardon him for the lols, at Bidens age you gotta live a little.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Gosh that gentleman has a nice smile. And he allegedly brought a smile to millions of Americans nationwide, too!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix Appears To Be Using The DMCA Takedown Process To Silence Criticism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’ll have you know that’s a chastity cage and Yoko Taro put himself in that position in preparation for the next big thing!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgot your moms azz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Inappropriate anecdote for shit memes: my 2 year old says hello to the moon when I pick her up around 5pm from daycare, and she says goodbye to the moon when we exit the house and goodnight to the moon when she goes to bed if it’s visible from her window.

Moon love is real, yet somehow only Mr. Sun gets a song.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Share holder value⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s ok, Christmas came early.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Share holder value⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I really liked that one, it was soooo fucked though (no spoilers, but let’s just say it’s a bit mind blowing). It lead to similar side missions where you got to do that to others, too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the sorcerer subclass. From what I understand it’s not the cow-falling-from-the-sky good times from BG2 though. Might need mods for real craziness.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Man, I still having had time to do my wild mage run. Granted a friend wanted in on that for the shenanigans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
While that take is correct in 98% of circumstances, this isn’t one of them for a couple of reasons. BG3 has enough content at release to play for several years and have different experiences each time. The fact that it’s getting free additional content is more so because of people making the game popular in it’s first year, showing that CRPGs aren’t dead, etc. The game won literally every GotY award, for crying out loud.

There’s not a ton of other games I’d say this is bad take, but you know, it’s like complaining about Terraria or Dead Cells or something. At some point you get the game and you return to it periodically.

The only two reasons to put it off? You’re too poor or you don’t have time for a 300+ hour time investment. It’s not gonna get a steep discount anytime soon, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a nice toilet paper with some flower prints.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
My mom used to always buy budget TP from outlet and dollar stores, this would be on that list. It’ll also feel like sandpaper and tear the moment it touches your ass, the spiders might be the least of your problems.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscribe now for more clicks!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a good thing that market is so saturated that there’d always be a cheap uncomplicated mouse with all your features, unless you’re some sort of MMO mouse person.

That said, a company can probably still sell this to the government with enough lobbying. Those chumps love wasting cash on subscriptions they don’t need (looking at you, Adobe Cloud).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’m just so glad all the comments have such useful advice for folks. I second the tips suggesting throwing it in frozen and adding more water when things get spicy.