MolochAlter
@MolochAlter@lemmy.world
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 2 weeks ago:
Truly a fate worse than death.
- Comment on What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”? 3 weeks ago:
Technofeudalist
- Comment on i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad?? 4 weeks ago:
- programming doesn’t mean you have a high IQ, I should know, I’m a pro and I’ve worked with some absolute dullards
- high IQ doesn’t mean you’re not a dumbass, I should know, i have 123 iq and am a dumbass.
- free online tests are always bullshit, the only reputable ones are paid
- how old are you that you’re worrying about this and who put this moronic worry into you?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
you’ll get to see the difference between a bad and discriminatory democracy and a pure dictatorship soon enough.
The former elected to enfranchise the aforementioned blacks, the latter is deporting people on a hunch, for instance.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 1 month ago:
Man, the hidden upside of Europe being largely deforested: not enough wood to build houses with.
Only the inner frames are wood here and still covered in plaster wall and such. Most parts of my house are not flammable, let alone a fire hazard.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 1 month ago:
Depends on where you live, I literally never met a person whose house burned down, but our houses are not mostly wood.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sounds like he’s done a lot of research and has kept an open mind. He’s also wise in suggesting to go into therapy and see if there may be other causes/co-causes.
Anecdotal, but a friend of mine has ADHD and once she started treatment for that she also lost like 95% of her feelings of dysphoria and decided to postpone transitioning until she could figure her shit out a bit more.
Years later she’s decided she’s fine as she is and saved herself shittons of money and physical suffering with no real drawback.
It’s important not to be emotionally attached to a diagnosis.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 1 month ago:
You can easily buy 3 10TB HDDs with that money, plenty of redundancy, no need to have someone else do it.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 1 month ago:
Nice try, FBI
- Comment on Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled 2 months ago:
Not OP but yeah.
Still am, to a point, because thanks to WoW we never got Warcraft 4.
And arguably chasing the WoW demographic also made DND 4th edition suck balls but that may be just the old grognard in me.
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 2 months ago:
Why wouldn’t they? They have it on hand and it would obviously yield “better” results for their intended use case.
If you’re going as far as trying to generate AI csam you’re probably quite deep in that hole already, why settle for less?
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 2 months ago:
In the Netherlands it’s, no joke, 15 minutes and ~60 bucks.
Did it before, as a foreigner too, easiest shit in the world.
They even have dual language forms.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 4 months ago:
Not only that, even the ADL try as they might can’t really make that claim with their chests. They qualify that pepe edits exist that have antisemitic connotations, which is true of literally any of the 4chan template meme characters.
There’s nazi trollfaces, nazi wojacks, nazi chads, you can’t use that as a reason to call pepe an antisemitic dogwhistle.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 4 months ago:
Worth mentioning that the main US senator supporting this, Mark Warner, received substantial donations from Disney, which also poured 1.5 billion (with a B) dollars into Epic Games.
Wouldn’t be surprised if some bigwig at Disney pushed for this investigation, too, especially given how fucking flimsy the results were (55% of all hate symbols were fucking pepe the frog).
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 4 months ago:
If you look back at her primary in 2020, she was.
Hard to wash that off with some last minute recanting, like with fracking and other such campaign claims.
Her hand was tipped as to her ideal term in office 4 years ago, I’m surprised Trump didn’t use that shit in attack ads given how much more stereotypically progressive she was then.
Personally I called it in when a clip of hers saying “we’ve got to get woke” (not sure about the wording but the word woke was used positively) from some talk show aimed at black people from this year came out.
You need to live in a parallel dimension to think that word is not absolutely fucking nuclear waste in the political discourse rn.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 4 months ago:
It’s huge in wrestling at the moment because it’s been a faction for like 3-4 years involving the actual bloodline descendents of chief Peter Maivia, which includes The Rock, Roman Reigns, the Wild Samoans, and pretty much any samoan in wrestling excluding Samoa Joe.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 4 months ago:
We’re doing ok in Europe.
Even with lower salaries than the US, most people in their 30s I know have a mortgage.
I myself bought at 31 with my wife.
It’s not affordable for everyone but it’s doable for people with actual salaries, you just might have to compromise a bit on position or size.
- Comment on ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews 5 months ago:
Fuck I hope not, Indiana Jones absolutely should booty be a shooter.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 5 months ago:
Neither of those people were ordinary in any way tho.
- Comment on Phonebooks 5 months ago:
Very small font on very thin paper.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
That would be quite smart of them tbh.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
Yeah I mean, it’s got upsides and downsides, like everything. Unparalleled access means anyone can make something, which means a lot of things that have niche appeal can find their audience, etc.
It also means a lot of things without any appeal will be out there.
It’s not good or bad in itself but it can be impractical on the consumer side of the equation, and it makes even the remarkable stuff very likely to just disappear in the shuffle.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
Sure, but the stock is tanking now, and the regulations are not on the books.
Like, I agree there needs to be an overhaul of a bunch of regulations regarding monopolies and such, but this doesn’t help analysing the current situation where they’re not in place.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
That’s just generally all of media right now. We are at perhaps the highest level of accessibility for media creation we’ve ever been, but that means that any schmuck with a pair of thumbs and time to waste can make something.
High accessibility means abysmal signal/noise ratio, turns out.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 6 months ago:
You realise this isn’t make believe at all, right? Stocks are ownership.
If a stock dips low enough it’s possible to do what microsoft did with Activision Blizzard and buy out another company wholesale, for instance.
Speculation on the stock market isn’t the reason the market exists, it’s a side effect of its pricing mechanisms, the actual point of it is to gather money for companies and gather stake for buyers.
If a major company like Ubisoft keeps tanking, odds are you can look forward to another major buyout and merger which will make the already horribly oligopolistic game industry even smaller, which is not good for anyone involved.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 6 months ago:
They did not say “do I enjoy it?” they said “Is it worth the effort?” and if having food made exactly to your taste is not worth the effort you either have no standards and would be fine with microwave slop and fast food, or you lack the skill to make something that satisfies you.
Either way, skill issue.
The one exception would be if you’re disabled or something, and I don’t mean “I have adhd” disabled, I mean “I physically can’t stand at the stove for 20-30 minites” disabled.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 6 months ago:
Is it worth the effort?
No.
Sounds like you suck at cooking, my guy.
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 7 months ago:
Both of your points are only partially correct.
I think we can state as a truth that they have less potential profit.
Wrong, they just take less effort and have a more constant revenue stream.
Potential for profit means nothing, when so many attempts at milkable forever games end up like Suicide Squad or Concord.
Also you can come into them half baked and pull the plug if the game doesn’t sell (because it’s half baked) like they’re doing with SS and they did with the Avengers game.
They spend more money.
They don’t, you can’t spend money you don’t have, whales are working adults.
Kids spend money for less. Better ROI, not higher payoff.
You make the 18302nd skin and troves of kids will badger their parents for fortnite bucks so they can buy it but not everyone will. The upside is that making a skin costs you single digits percent points of the profits, so even if one or two are a dud, you’re fine, the good ones will make up for it.
It’s a business model you can throw money at once the game’s got an audience base, which is very attractive to companies, because it’s uncomplicated and reliable.
- Comment on If you feel like you're always being watched, can you really claim to have integrity? 7 months ago:
Of course, just because there’s an audience doesn’t mean you’re pandering to it.
Fundamentally, integrity is an internal concept.
Only you can know if you have it, because only you can truly know your motivations.
As long as your moral choices are truly based on your own principles and you would do the same regardless of observation, then you have integrity.
External factors can only give you reasons to pretend you have integrity, but they can’t prevent you genuinely having it.
- Comment on Did we ever find out more about Thomas Crooks? 7 months ago:
Given the fact that neither side demonized him, this may be one of the few cases of actual “mentally unstable lone wolf” with no sane or reasonable motive.