taiyang
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- Comment on Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop. 1 day ago:
Nah, academics love their publication biases.
Wait, I mean journal publishers. Publishers love their publication biases.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Always hate when it suddenly tries to collapse on ya when you’re in the tub.
- Comment on The Very Hungry Kittypillar 1 day ago:
What I’m hearing is we should joke about alimony and suicide? Dark.
I’m kidding! You’re right, although I want to add that I’ve even heard the worm thing as a reason for his bad decisions, etc… Cover there, too, as plenty of people with no brain damage make terrible choices and have horrible anti-science views.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I mean, it’s actually healthier to an economy to keep the well trained immigrants but you know how racist af people are. These aren’t just professionals, they’re pre-wealthy professionals and often have seed money to lead start-ups, lol
But racism and xenophobia are self destructive.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Having actually worked in academia, though, this actually does have a kind of fucked up capitalist answer (and it really isn’t merit) which is most true in public universities more so than Harvard: international students pay more. A lot more, in fact… so much so that my alma mater of UCLA has marketing campaigns in places like China.
As others point out, though, this isn’t zero-sum. More money theoretically means more subsidized US students (and more seats in general). At UCLA, this is especially true since any Californian making less than a certain amount can pretty much get a free ride (and even if not that, highly discounted tuition). I myself being a beneficiary of that, too, btw.
Now, private schools on the other hand, they probably pocket that cash. USC being my most local example, but I bet Harvard does the pay to win shit, too. I think it’s correct to take issue with how they operate, but MAGA is misleading people as they always do in any form of class warfare.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 1 week ago:
Same, but given the time sink I’d like an abridged experience. I heard they doing that with DQX so why not FFXI?
- Comment on Damn 1 week ago:
The Subway training videos have gotten pretty weird, it seems.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 week ago:
Couple other things to add to this beautiful list others have: meta gaming and chat.
They barely added achievements and only for a couple games, while steam has that, guides, community art, and even a newish notes feature in case you’re playing an OG game that makes you track stuff. Guides have kind of been better than more traditional sources.
Chat is… better on steam, although discord kind of supplanted it. Game based emoji, stickers, etc. It’s actually very good, though, with support for couch coop stream gaming, etc, with voice comms.
One could also point to the generous family sharing function, but I’m not sure what Epic does in that regard. DRM is DRM though. Do keep in mind, though, the philosophy behind Steam is to make DRM palatable by adding features. Epic philosophy (on paper) is to give devs a higher cut, although I’ve heard devs feel more supported by steam-- especially since they aren’t afraid to throw obscure indie games into a users discovery queue.
- Comment on Oh god 2 weeks ago:
Idk how to interpret this when I read it while laying on my right side. What’s on my left… the sun?
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 weeks ago:
A steam deck lite would probably dominate, lol
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 weeks ago:
At this point I want Switch 2 to flop so hard they go the way of the Sega and start licensing their IPs on other platforms, giving up on consoles. A shame, too, since their tech is little kid hand friendly and the PC market doesn’t seem keen on tiny screen handhelds.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 3 weeks ago:
Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me that Nintendo had help lines you could call for stuff like Zelda secrets, and they may have intentionally added things like secret caves to incentivize that lucrative service.
- Comment on Tiramisuitcase 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, Tiramisu should be America’s favorite dessert.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks ago:
You want the absolute “guide damn it” example? Try playing the OG Dragon Quest games. They’re nonlinear by nature and there’s a spot in 2 (or was it 3) where you need to literally check an unmarked floor for an item. No indicator, save maybe a vague NPC dialogue in another part of the planet that didn’t get adequately translated in English so you’re truly aimless.
- Comment on 8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs 4 weeks ago:
Ugh. I hate this timeline.
My 8bitdo story, back when they’re we’re just starting to put joysticks on their SNES style controllers, I used mine to the point that the joysticks were falling apart. I sent them a support email, and even though it wasn’t covered by any warranty or anything, a very nice Chinese person working there sent me a spare set of joysticks in the mail, plus words of encouragement (in somewhat broken English) since I wasn’t shy about fixing the thing myself.
Can’t imagine that today, but it was a nice gesture and I’m glad they’re still making stuff today.
- Comment on Academic email signatures 4 weeks ago:
I mean, or murder the ones who won’t have a tea party with me.
- Comment on Academic email signatures 4 weeks ago:
I use Dr. and make a point to, but only because it reminds me of a character from TV which tickles my funny bone.
That, and I tell them “Just Professor is fine, too, it makes me feel like I’m in Fire Emblem Three Houses.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There are 8 billion people on earth and close to 400 million are in the US. There can, and will be, even worse takes out there.
- Comment on certainly be worth the risk. 5 weeks ago:
Yup, third one I’ve seen too. I didn’t mind the catgirl one but it’s already kind of messed up to meme with this asshole, but these last two aren’t even very good.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
Concord
Haha, just kidding.
- Comment on Anon gets outed 1 month ago:
NGL, this greentext actually made me smile cause I’m a terrible person. Likely not real, but real talk, I love to bring a room to a very dark place as a joke with my friends, though, especially since I deal with a lot of scary topics in psych and politics and usually use it as a way to bring to real topics. Weirdly gets people to open up about their real traumas too, for some reason.
Plus it’s friends, so you know, very different context lol
- Comment on jared 1 month ago:
Yeah, that was a lot of blood.
- Comment on Google it 1 month ago:
Honestly I’m pretty sure you can already do this. Your average person is remarkably superstitious and believes in angels and demons and such, it doesn’t take much to also think they were cursed. Lol
- Comment on I love to send the most absurd messages I can think of to steam scammers 1 month ago:
You’re right, the prequels have dead kids, almost no women, and heck, it even has a dear leader taking over the Senate and declaring himself emporer in the name of safety. Republican wet dream.
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
Positive spin, he bought it from a pro-LGBTQ+ thrift store to support local causes in his area. I swear I’ve seen similar jackets at said thrift stores.
- Comment on Anon watches It 1 month ago:
We have unlocked you full potential… seizures.
- Comment on Anon watches It 1 month ago:
Psych background, it’s bad too but nothing makes me scream more than the “you only use 10% of the brain” crap. When that movie all about that came out I absolutely lost it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s why you always go for the porn family plan, much better value and you can share it with Grandma /s
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 1 month ago:
Using it for education? Not this current model, not by a long shot. Granted, I’m in higher ed, but even then it’s suggestions have been so mediocre at best I’ve had to drastically modify anything it suggests to the point it’s no longer time efficient to use it.
And believe me, I’d love it to grade essays for me but there’s no way I can trust it with that simple task yet, even with a rubric.