Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 2 weeks ago:
It sucked shit 20 years ago but it’s fine since like 2010. Better than Little Caesar’s for sure. Worse, but cheaper, than the non-chain options around me. (Though nowadays if I pretty much only get pizza from Costco, Moto, MOD, or a local joint. It is nice to have a reliable middle ground for groups of people.)
- Comment on This sandwich 2 weeks ago:
They’re only fucking it up if they’re trying and failing to make a specific thing, not just because they thing they make offends you.
- Comment on This sandwich 2 weeks ago:
Accurate but I was trying to expand beyond “Americans using food words wrong”. (Also, “wrong” is culture purity nonsense in this context. Food and language evolve and that’s fine.)
- Comment on This sandwich 2 weeks ago:
That’s true in every country, you should see “pizza Americana” or “American fried rice”.
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just tiktok, I see people here (and everywhere) misuse “anymore” all the time these days. It needs to follow a negative!
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 3 weeks ago:
No solution, only angry >:(
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 5 weeks ago:
Oh I’m not disputing that the game we got was a good one, just that it seems like such an obvious concept for VR. I thought the sequel was disappointing. Focused entirely too much on warfare as the only viable strategy, and I missed the variety of wacky side quests and secrets scattered around the maps.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 5 weeks ago:
Black & White would have worked so well with VR.
- Comment on AOC vs Graham on Social Security. 5 weeks ago:
Don’t bother, they aren’t going to engage in good faith. They want purity and accelerationism rather than praxis and pragmatism.
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 5 weeks ago:
Nothing works until it does. And revolution has yet to produce a stable communist society on the scale of a major nation, so maybe don’t talk too much shit at the people trying to make the world a better place to live in.
- Comment on The gaming industry is truly messed up… 5 weeks ago:
And it would stop immediately if those workers had solidarity and refused to work on the project without the full team.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 months ago:
Communism in the strictest sense is the means of production are owned by the state.
Not off to a great start. “Common ownership” is not synonymous with “owned by the state.” There’s lots of ways to set up a government such that the means of production are owned by the state and almost none of them are communism.
The classless doctrine was proposed by Marx and is often inferred when talking about communism.
Yes, Marx was the political philosopher who described a possible outcome of the inevitable collapse of capitalism and is the de facto reference point for discussion about communism. Many subsequent people have built off those ideas or arrived at similar conclusions from another angle but it’s good practice to specify which when it’s important. Marxism-Leninism, anarchist communism, Luxemburgism, whatever. Marxist communism is indeed inferred without other context.
You can absolutely have a communist society with a caste system.
You can have a communist movement with a caste system but a communist society is classless by definition. It is post-scarcity and utopian. It might be literally impossible for humans to organize in such a way in significant numbers but moving toward that ideal is the unifying philosophy of all communist movements.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 months ago:
communism describes an economic system that places most of the control with the government.
I know you’re simplifying things for brevity but this is misleading at best. You can’t gloss over the goal of a classless, stateless society when defining communism, and it is explicitly a left-wing philosophy. Contrast with fascism, a right-wing political philosophy that places most of the control with the government by reinforcing control over capital and creating a clear national identity.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 2 months ago:
Ha, you think the rest of the world doesn’t profit off slavery…
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 months ago:
The modding has the same problem blacksmithing/enchanting in Skyrim has: You have to invest a lot of advancement in the system to get any benefit out of it. Older Bethesda games let you sidestep that by throwing money at the problem which is a totally valid way to let players have more freedom but all the good stuff is locked behind feats and high stats now. Why can’t my character be an emotionally stunted moron with a skilled mechanic on retainer to access the good shit? Instead I am completely reliant on farming raiders of various factions and hoping for good drops. (This is the “looter shooter” thing the other guy brought up but I don’t think it’s a great version of that either.)
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 months ago:
in everything but graphics.
And stability. I’ve recently replayed the main Fallout games and the crashing and bugs in the vanilla New Vegas experience is inexcusable.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 months ago:
FO4: Welcome to Fallout! Here’s your nuclear war, here’s your vault, here’s your wasteland, here’s your wacky robots, here’s your dog, here’s your Good Guy Faction, here’s your power armor, here’s your first Deathclaw, now either go find your son or fuck off.
It really tried to cram the entire setting into a playable E3 demo, made most builds nonviable, not to mention how half-baked the modding system and settlement construction tools are.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 2 months ago:
I’m free to buy my PC games lots of places. Sometimes I go through GOG or itch.io. But I’ve uninstalled the Epic launcher and whatever Ubisoft calls theirs because they’re a worse experience than Steam in every way. It’s not a monopoly just because there’s a clear best option.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 months ago:
Reasonable “death with dignity” options would erase the need for such drastic measures but of course the Christian Nationalists hate that kind of thing.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 months ago:
I’d rather walk in front of a bus than die in a nursing home, frankly. Wasting away unable to care for myself seems uniquely miserable.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 months ago:
the lives of my partner and kids is worth more than your inconvenience.
But not worth more than your inconvenience or you’d just slow down when you can’t see as well.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 months ago:
Counterpoint: I drive a 98 chevy and I can see fine at night because my eyes are good unless someone is in the oncoming lane and their headlight spill washes out my vision. People that can’t see adequately with old-style headlights simply should be legally restricted from night driving. (The same way vision-impaired people are restricted from all driving)
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 months ago:
Switch to one specific LED bulb instead. (Or two! Your choice of circle or rectangle.)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 months ago:
Illustrating the wide range if ways people enjoy games, because I absolutely hate playing with people like you. I want everyone trying their best to fairly engage with the objective. Competitive, sweaty even.
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 3 months ago:
the idea that we’d dumb down a curriculum for the minority is… troubling.
“No Child Left Behind” peering out from the shadows, gutting programs for more advanced students.
It’s easier to lower the bar than make people jump higher.
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 3 months ago:
Nah, astronomical spectroscopy is cool as hell and it’s really easy to have simplified examples you can fiddle with. At its most basic you’re using a prism to divide the sun’s light and measuring the visible bands. (This is pretty much how infrared light was discovered in 1800!)
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 3 months ago:
I can read way faster than I can listen to a narrated video or whatever, and I can easily split my attention without losing my place in the information.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 3 months ago:
Slingshot (or old-school sling but they’re much harder) is probably better for small game if we’re entertaining real dystopian collapse, unless you also learn how to make arrows.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 4 months ago:
Maintaining my own home and garden justifies the continued use of my 98 pickup, plus I’m “the friend with a truck”, but it’s not my daily car and I dread the day I have to replace it. Contemplating an EV conversion kit if it can manage the same loads.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 4 months ago:
3070 can’t play them to my standard.
You’ve poisoned yourself. Chasing fidelity and refresh rates has done for graphics what short-form media did to attention spans. I’m emulating PS1 games and playing Fallout 4 on a 970 while my computer fans blow like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and I am free.