SorteKanin
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 5 days ago:
I disagree that the reasoning you have makes gacha not gambling. It’s definitely still gambling if you ask me.
The crucial thing to note is that gacha and other loot box mechanics activate and exploits the exact same human psychological weaknesses as traditional gambling does. The point is to incite the player to keep playing “just one more time” because they might get that big win, that dopamine high fix.
That’s the underlying problem with gambling and the problem is the same for gacha and loot boxes. So I think it may as well be called gambling. But even if you don’t agree on using that term, hopefully you agree the the psychological effects are the same.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Okay, but surely upon arriving to said address with a huge swat team and discovering nothing amiss, no panicked people, no gunfire, no anything, their first reaction is to raid the house? The US sure is a strange place.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
abusing emergency services
I don’t understand - someone called the swat team on her? Why would they go to a private house with a giant swat force based solely on some anonymous tip? That makes no sense in my head.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Confused european here - why?
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 1 week ago:
The Talos Principle is amazing and the sequel is super good too. Devs recently came out with a remaster of the first game too.
Outer Wilds is a masterpiece, although it’s not completely chill at all times (actually can be scary but only rarely and you can disable that too). But it’s a really really really good game.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 weeks ago:
So is air cooling actually feasible but we don’t do it cause it would make data centers look like nuclear reactors? Or is it just not feasible?
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 weeks ago:
I think there would be a whole lot of excitement, possibly a lot of religious turmoil.
I’d recommend the movie “Contact” which explores this exact scenario :)
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean “meet”? The way we would reach contact is by radio signals at first, not by actual physical visits. So at first we would only be communicating with probably a very long light delay as they’d be very far away. Realistically speaking neither would be able to visit the other in any feasible way, unless they have technology that is far, far beyond what we can imagine right now. Interstellar travel is very hard.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
It’s actually easy if you think about it.
Rich people love comparing their wealth to others, so they can feel better about themselves. So we know quite precisely how much each billionaire is worth, cause they really like measuring those dicks.
Anyways, we can use this against them. You just tax the wealth. Not the income. Not the surplus or the profit. You tax the wealth.
For instance, during the Danish election, there were some parties who proposed the idea of a wealth tax such that all wealth above, say 30 million DKK would be taxed by 0.5% to 1% (depends what party you ask) every year. Someone worth 100 million Danish kroner would therefore need to pay 70*0.01 million or 700.000 kroner in taxes every year.
You could do more than 1% and 30 million for billionaires if you ask me.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
Anarchy is a political structure where there’s basically no one in charge, right?
That’s a very literal interpretation of the word. As I understand it, anarchy is more like a class of ideas, rather than any concrete idea. Two people who both call themselves anarchists can have very, very different ideas about how society should run.
So the answer is: it depends what kind of anarchy you’re talking about. Your question is asking how a broad category would work but it’s so broad that I don’t think you can give a concrete answer. You’ll need to be more specific.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 3 months ago:
Yea makes total sense - so you’d go for the logical yyyy-mm-dd format then, to fit with how you speak the date? Right? 😅
- Comment on If a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way? 3 months ago:
While the other answers are funny, the real answer nowadays is either “murder” or “assassination”. There is not really a more specific word for it.
- Comment on Anon's job has perks 5 months ago:
What is the point? Genuine question.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 5 months ago:
“That’s fucking why” - why what? I don’t get it. What “why” question is anon answering?
- Comment on What is this colour? 5 months ago:
I would say no, ochre would have more of a red or orange-y tint.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
but it doesn’t stop them from existing on the fediverse.
Well of course, nobody has absolute power over the fediverse like that. Anyone can start an instance and create millions of bot accounts if that’s what they wanted. But “the fediverse” is only what it looks like from the point of view of your instance. If stuff is blocked or defederated, it may as well not exist.
The point isn’t to eliminate all bad behavior on the fediverse (that’s not possible, by design of the system, and that’s good). The point is to allow users to seek towards those instances that keep bad behavior out.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You only need to stop it on your own instance. You can’t do anything else anyway. Users will go to the instances that aren’t flooded with bots.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
There’s nothing that can be done to stop it
That’s not true at all. You can definitely do something:
- Make a sign up process that filters out most low effort bots (e.g. applications, invite trees)
- Get more moderators to catch the bots earlier. In a similar vein, encourage users to report bots.
- Defederate from instances that don’t have similar measures and don’t take bot prevention seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
It definitely does. You just defederate from the instances that don’t do something to avoid bots.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 5 months ago:
No, that’s what I wrote as well. The identity service would not know what sites were visited or ideally not even how many sites were visited.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 5 months ago:
I’m not sure that is feasible, because in order to trust the answer, I feel the asker must know and trust the one providing the answer. It sounds like you’re imagining a system with many different ID providers? What prevents me from creating my own provider that just answers “Yes”, even for people under 18? If the site asking does not know it is my fake ID service providing the answer, I’m not sure they can trust any answer.
But I won’t pretend to be an expert on this topic, so perhaps it is feasible somehow.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 5 months ago:
In principle it should be possible to do a zero-knowledge proof.
This means that the website asking for age verification asks a yes/no question like “Is this user 18+?” and the age verification service (like a digital ID provided by the government or whatever) answers “yes” or “no” accordingly, but without telling anything else about the user. Also, the verification service should ideally not know who asked for the age verification.
So the site you want to visit only knows the thing they need to know: Whether you are 18+ or not. Nothing else. And the age verification service only knows somebody asked for age verification and provided the answer, but do not know which site you visited.
This is all possible, but I don’t have high hopes this is the intended implementation of any government seeking age verification, so don’t get your hopes up.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 6 months ago:
Tinnitus has no cure and is generally a permanent condition, so my guess is yes.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 7 months ago:
- Shake hands thoroughly after washing to minimise excess water.
- Move hands together as if you’re applying soap while using the dryer. This keeps the water evenly distributed on your hands, to maximise evaporation.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 7 months ago:
Would recommend Case of the Golden Idol for a similar detective vibe.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 7 months ago:
Source: I’m some guy on the Internet. You can trust me.
With the amount of AI slop out there, in this day and age this is actually a surprisingly high level of trust.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 7 months ago:
How comes movies aren’t like this? I feel like there are so few movies but so many games.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 9 months ago:
I’m completely fine with certain content being delisted because it is considered essentially on par with hate speech or something like that.
However, I really do not like that it is payment processors making that call. If someone makes that call, it should be the store in question (itch.io, Steam, whatever) or it should be the government.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 10 months ago:
… Or just a smart kid. Me and my friend in school were also early in learning about negative numbers, but our teacher was positive about it and encouraged us to use them in the problems even though the other kids didn’t need to.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 10 months ago:
Predicted what?