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- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 3 hours ago:
I know it’s not everything, because recently a relative bought a pan without checking and only realized when it was on the stove and refused to work :P
It’s not a big deal, but not something I’d ignore, since it’s a real downside specific to induction.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 day ago:
The main downside is that your pots and pans need to be compatible. In particular we have a few nice small pans, like actually small, and they work exclusively on the front left burner, and need to be a bit off center. I imagine there’s something wrong with the stove or the pans, but it’s a class of issues you don’t have with resistive or gas stoves.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 2 days ago:
Aw dang it, thanks for letting me know. I fully agree with you, so it’s a shame.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 3 days ago:
That is kinda true… I don’t think Valve actually says that, but I don’t think there’s a way to tell, so people can get away with not disclosing it.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 3 days ago:
It’s more complicated, because Valve absolutely isn’t perfect and contributes to problems, and most of that comment is valid. I still wouldn’t boycott them as it stands, because I do see them as the best option and don’t mind them getting some of my money.
The best alternatives have their own flaws, GOG using GenAI in official promotional material and no Linux launcher, itch barely having a launcher, which is valid, but is severely lacking compared to Steam.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 4 days ago:
AI slop
I’d like to be clear what you’re referring to, because I only know two things Valve is allowing in that regard
- Games using GenAI are allowed on steam, but disclosure is required, which is a position I appreciate.
- Steam hosts promotion events organized by third parties, where banners are displayed, a special page is available, and a lot of games go on sale - in those events (and AFAIK, none of Valve’s own events) promotional art is displayed that is submitted by those third parties, and sometimes has blatant GenAI use
Is there something else I’m unaware of? Because otherwise I guess it’s a matter of where you draw the line, because I’d still consider Steam the best platform available, and have to agree to disagree.
- Comment on In the deep freeze 1 week ago:
I imagine the two problems are cost and… People seeing lactose-free as unmanly or some bullshit and losing them customers?
- Comment on Why Grandma Why 2 weeks ago:
I feel like discussing what consent is with your children is probably a must do, at some point, no matter what.
I don’t like the polite refusal custom, and call it out in good company, but it’s similar to tipping - it’s so ingrained in cultures that it’s hard to root out, and any attempts to do so can hurt good people.
- Comment on Why Grandma Why 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but the problem is that it’s ingrained in culture, and most people are raised with that attitude, so if you raise your kid to act differently, you’re setting them up to be rude in the perception of others.
- Comment on el tigre 3 weeks ago:
This is AI slop
- Comment on "I don't read my replies" 4 weeks ago:
It’s a reference to a glorious image, not sure if it’s real, but it’s been around for a while:
- Comment on "I don't read my replies" 4 weeks ago:
My bios/similar are either empty or whatever I put there as a teen… Except for one where I put “Green Is My Pepper”, I should use that more.
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 5 weeks ago:
Ahh, is it Not Quite Almost Christmas Time already?
- Comment on i hate ai i hate ai i hate ai 1 month ago:
Are supposed to, and generally are, but there is a risk of somebody making unsourced changes and you seeing the article before it’s caught. Not a big deal for popular articles, but there are a lot of niche topics.
- Comment on Is this true? 1 month ago:
They said cool dungeons, which I understand, BotW shrines all have the same visual style, same enemy types, they can be boring.
- Comment on Buying new trends is a choice 1 month ago:
Technically vanilla RimWorld already has “Lovin’”, which colonists sharing a bed can do, and the DLC has colonist pregnancy, IUDs, babies, and I think even artificial insemination (though it’s been a long time since I played without mods, so I could be mixing something up)
But really, given sufficient time, any sufficiently moddable game will have a horny mod made.
- Comment on Google Maps Reviews in Germany are utterly pointless 2 months ago:
But the removed count only includes a one year period and caps out at 250, how would you find the new average?
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 2 months ago:
Regarding osu’s source code, I think the original osu (osu!stable) is closed-source, and I think the servers might be closed-source, but I believe osu!lazer, the new reimplementation in C#, is fully opensource. It’s an ongoing effort and a long-term migration it’s in the middle of, but lazer looks great and I think it’s already meant to be the main version now.
- Comment on onions 2 months ago:
As a person that generally dislikes onions, it’s different - I’m not a fan of onion flavor and don’t like the texture, but I know it can positively contribute to a dish for me, primarily if it’s not overly prominent.
It’s like seasoning, eating some seasoning alone might make it taste bad, you might dislike dishes that use it as a main flavor, but if it’s just a small component of a dish it might be a good thing. I haven’t had marmite, but from what I’ve seen it seems kinda like that, very strong offputting flavor that complements other things very well.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’ve played a bunch of medical in SS13, so CMO immediately makes me think Chief Medical Officer
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 2 months ago:
Ehh, pretty sure they know what they’re talking about, they just have what I consider a really bad take about it, and present it as absolute fact. Because yes, you need a connection to steam to “install” a game from steam, whereas you can predownload a GOG game and then not need a connection to install. Which doesn’t really matter to most people, since they don’t care about having the game use an official installer, as opposed to either an unofficial one or just archived game files, but it is a difference.
- Comment on national anthem 2 months ago:
Yup, seems like netflix started me at the latest season at the time or something, watched three episodes from the first season…
Not terribly impressed, still, seems like every episode revolves around sex, which is fair, considering humanity, but if every episode is going to be like this it’ll tire me out real soon.
Either way, glad to have checked it out properly from the start, thanks for shouting out the episode name!
- Comment on Please, call my Moth... 3 months ago:
Random fun fact about “ćma”, it’s related to “zaćmić”/“zaćmienie” (“to eclipse”/“eclipse”).
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 3 months ago:
Ah, sorry for the confusion, I was referring to the single-slit experiment, I wasn’t giving light a choice.
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 3 months ago:
What about the fact that light bends around corners? Notably the interference pattern when shining light through a slit?
- Comment on national anthem 3 months ago:
The first episode for me was the VR fighting game (to avoid more spoilers), which didn’t exactly motivate me to watch more
- Comment on friendslob 3 months ago:
I wouldn’t call those games objectively shit, but rather low effort. Often involving janky physics, rough models, bad game balance and friendly fire, all elements that can be funny in the right scenario.
- Comment on It’s always too little or too much. There is no in between 3 months ago:
One reason I’ve heard is that oiling up the pasta sort of saturates the surface making sauce stick less to it. But I also don’t think that matters much for leftovers, you’re already losing some “quality” compared to eating it fresh, and it sounds like a way to mitigate that.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 3 months ago:
Heck, there’s at least one opensource generic steam emulator that you just drop into the game files. I used it before when messing around with modding a multiplayer game, to run multiple copies at once.
- Comment on "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" 3 months ago:
Are people seriously going to buy a console that doesn’t even read a disk, just to download a game from the internet?
Are you seriously asking? Because I’ve seen time and time again, the answer to those kinds of questions seems to be yes. I think most people just don’t care, and they don’t need to, they’ll only buy a few games in a console’s lifespan to play for multiple years, and they’ll either just pick up what’s popular, or whichever one has a game they want to play.
