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- Comment on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News 1 hour ago:
Cool that they’ll release specs and CAD for the faceplate so people can make their own
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 8 hours ago:
I think that it’s true specifically because you don’t understand correlation vs causation
/s
- Comment on Stardew Valley Turns 10: The Big ConcernedApe Interview - IGN 1 day ago:
Krobus and dwarf please
- Comment on Y'all got one, right? 6 days ago:
But then how do you drain it after? Maybe the plastic liner can be lifted out and dumped?
- Comment on Unity launches Walmart SDK to "seamlessly integrate products" into games 1 week ago:
I cannot imagine wanting that to be in a game you’re playing
- Comment on anon is hungover 2 weeks ago:
hungover as fuckStill drunk from 2004
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 3 weeks ago:
Also, it still kinda feeds the AI narrative if he recodes the AI part.
“See? He used AI to make it faster and get some money then he went back and touched it up, really helpful tool”
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 3 weeks ago:
Idk what the other dude is talking about. It definitely exists some places.
Source: live in Copenhagen, don’t own a car.
- Comment on Off the Rails 5 weeks ago:
A super fun counter argument I heard once is that if it’s intelligent design, surely it’s not for humans. The universe is BIG with lots of empty space, lots of massive elements to it. Surely it was designed for something much bigger than humans.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 month ago:
Miss normer can i
- Comment on [Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest 1 month ago:
Cool, I’m gonna check it out!
- Comment on If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score? 1 month ago:
:(
- Comment on Who started this shitposting?! 1 month ago:
Well Jimmy Carter won’t be exactly aligned with me on a Foreign affairs issue so I think we might as well just support Putin
^Average pre US election .ml poster
- Comment on Change my Mind 1 month ago:
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I mean, Trump is just the marketing of a president. All sizzle, no steak. He has appeared in debates but it’s a huge stretch to say he’s shown up well in them.
In fact, a lot of politics are purely a popularity contest these days, aren’t they?
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 1 month ago:
Or kpop? Maybe against demon hunting?
Sounds a little demon-esque to be anti demon hunting
- Comment on Soup 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s like if you get a water flask at a restaurant and they have some lemon or something in it. It’s still water not soup.
Same idea but vegetables and noodles
- Comment on Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method' 2 months ago:
I’m not sure how I feel about AI chatbots as NPCs. On one hand, it does add near infinite dialogue options and flexibility to adapt to what a player does. That’s super cool and immersive.
On the other hand, it feels so damn lazy. Like I want to play games with dialogue/story as an art form, not as a “how much time can I spend here”
- Comment on Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method' 2 months ago:
The Solid Snake method of conversation has taken on meme status in recent years, as players noticed the Metal Gear icon simply repeated the last few words of anything anyone said to him as a question. As was discovered by ‘Hakkix’ on Reddit, you can do the same to game the NPCs in Where Winds Meet. If someone asked you, say, to “Find the buried treasure chest,” you’d respond by saying, “The buried treasure chest?” and so on. Eventually, the NPC gets so confused that they express their gratitude and end the conversation. Whether that’s due to confusion or exasperation is unclear, but the effect is the same.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 2 months ago:
I mean this is probably fake ragebait for the 4chan crowd
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 2 months ago:
The original Shapez is vertical. I don’t love how it plays on mobile in terms of controls but it works
- Comment on Insulin 2 months ago:
Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 months ago:
Tunic is so damn good.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 2 months ago:
I hope for Steamie Boi
- Comment on Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC] 2 months ago:
I would guess and kinda hope so? And then merge the steam machine/deck verified status together later in life?
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
So that’s a great picture I think for the difference between the loan durations.
I of course think the real problem is that average people might need a 50 year loan to barely pay for a house these days. But it isn’t “nothing” between the terms, it does help in the super short term
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
Fair, but it also shouldn’t affect the relative prices from 30 and 50 year
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
The calc I used for that number put $3k property tax annually amortized, good call
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
What?
Some random numbers that are of course VERY variable, but I just ran the calcs with 400k, 5% down, 6% APR for 30 and 50 years
$2648 for 30 years $2369 for 50
Now that is of course not a great deal, presumably you’d also get a little better rate for the longer loan (more points) but it’s not a dollar.
- Comment on Learning to drive 2 months ago:
Yup, exactly this.
Coached race cars (and bikes) at tracks for years, and amateur raced for more than a decade.
Try just pushing (not pulling). You have a LOT more range and more comfortable control from 9/3 than 10/2
- Comment on ...will continue until... 2 months ago:
It always gets there