Glide

@Glide@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Based response tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While you are overreacting to the accident itself, driving is not for everyone. I strongly disagree with driving being a basic skill everyone should have. This is some North American cultural mythos created to help further push the responsibility of building decent public transit off of our lawmakers and governments.

  Driving is a challenging thing to do correctly, and a not small number of people have no idea how to do it, but are on the roads anyway. While I believe you should take an accident like that with a growth mindset, the clear truth is you’ve never felt comfortable behind the wheel, and your skill set doesn’t seem to be built for that. If it’s important to you, I suspect you’d be capable of overcoming the unique challenges it presents to you, but it’s not. There are ways to live without being a driver, and things you can provide to others in exchange for them being the drivers in your life, and imo, that is fine.

  Don’t quit driving because you had an accident. Decide if being able to drive matters to you, and decide how you want to live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have the CD in a box somewhere. It was loaned to me by a friend and I never gave it back. Hilariously, I still see that friend, so that might make for a fun conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the illusion of human thinking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck is this slop posing as academic study, lmfao. “arcruacy”? “tinking”? Using a pile of academic language around slop doesn’t make that slop accurate or useful, and the joke that is the writing style shows that this wasn’t reviewed by anyone with a brain cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jump Ship Demo is Live!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do want to state that the flight model has NOTHING on Elite. But otherwise, it is in a lot of ways a game which I wish Elite was a lot closer to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jump Ship Demo is Live!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Friends and I downloaded it, prompted by this post. There’s a little bit of awkwardness and animation jank, but man, does the game get the core concept right.

  Space is not flat, the ship feels like a near arcane contraption, rail guns should feel like they’ll punch a hole in a small planet, and grappling hooks always feel good. These guys know what I’m looking for. The only thing I could genuinely ask for is a more true to physics flight model, but ultimately, I’ll be too busy taking down fighters using a rocket launcher while gravity-booted to the nose of my ship to care too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence.

  Smart people who make good products that people want will have the invisible hand distribute them wealth. Dumb people who make bad products that no one wants will go backrupt. This is the core philosophy behind why capitalism “works.” It is a system that conflates wealth with virtue, by design.

  You’re right to point out that it is incorrect logic, but no one is confusing anything. The entirety of our Western world is build around this idea and reinforces it to its people at every single opportunity. They’re making the judgements that they have been told are correct. Can we really say people are confused when they’re confidently acting exactly as they’ve been taught from birth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With you in spirit, but they have too much control over too many lives to just be dismissive about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I am sure there are real, specific reasons that can be pointed to as “the reason,” the real answer is that you can’t put two narcissists in a room together and tell them they’re on the same team. This always was the only possible outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you a Lemmy Shitbird? Click here to find out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly, I know for a fact I’ve upvoted a number of posts today, but my search on this ONLY shows my downvotes?

  I definitely down vote more than I upvote, though. It’s habitual to think “that is fucked up and really shouldn’t be here,” but a lot less habitual to hit an up on every mildly neutral to positive comment that, tbh, deserves it. It’s eye opening to have all my downvotes laid out in front of me. Though still weird that the ups I know for certain exist aren’t showing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In any other setting, when we take specific, tiny stones and carve patterns into them until they can perform tasks for us, we call it magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The BMI was created by a social scientist to place people into rough categories for a study on how obesity impacts social interactions, in a study on how the “average man” represented a social ideal. The fact that we now use it to define who is obese and overweight I’d a little insane. While it’s been adopted by major health organizations (and hopefully adjusted by genuine health professionals), it is a horrible singular indicator of physical health. People in the extremes are statistically more likely to face health issues. This is not the same thing as “being in the obese category makes you unhealthy because you are fat.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs. male delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He. The fact that you assumed I’m a woman explains a lot about why you’d defend this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs. male delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that is the target audience, but not the explicit message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs. male delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come off it. You and I both know that the man in this image is not the butt of the “joke.” Fucking sad that it’s 2025 and we’re still defending pathetic positions like “the only thing that really impresses women is wealth” under the guise of shit like “no, no, see, he’s old, so it’s actually a deep and nuanced boomer humor Facebook post from Grandpa.”

  Sling insults and argue ad hominem to try and deflect all you want, this meme is base level, early 2000s sexism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs. male delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, classic boomer misogyny disguised as a meme.

  I mean, the post sure is shit, I’ll give it that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you get the letter of the rule, but completely miss the spirit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s not the point, but this toeing if the age line is just as gross as going after minors imo. We need to respect the nuances of human relationships rather than reducing it to a number.

  Mind you I get that this guy identifies as having aspergers, so nuance is not his fortee, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What in the late-stage capitalist brainrot.

  It’s “simple economics” to attack people trying to make art and entertainment for having the gall to ever consider increasing their prices, knowing full well that the cost of living has increased drastically? You’re going with “that’s just the market telling them they’re charging too much” while ignoring the reality that rent has doubled - and in some cases tripled - food costs have gone up 50%, and wages have barely improved? It’s the fault of video game developers that you have relatively less money and cannot afford to purchase their product around the other products you need or are expected to purchase?

  If your wage increased with the cost of living, you would not see this price as “too high.” But because some price increases are on necessary purchases, we attack the unnessecary ones, like good little capitalists. Adam Smith would be proud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that you get downvoted for pointing out the reality of the situation.

  Relative to the price of every else, $80 for a AAA videogame is actually reasonable. The problem is that rent has gone up drastically, food has gone up drastically, and our wages have stagnated. Getting pissed off at Gearbox for charging $80 for Borderlands 4, and then paying $15 for a burger and fries without an equal reaction just doesn’t seem sensible to me.

  Everything is awful, and videogame devs aren’t the ones stealing all our buying power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ones and zeros and tens⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you gave me the benefit of the doubt and I appreciate it, but I want to say clearly that Hitler was anything but a genius. He had a penchant for sticking his nose into professions that he had no business involving himself in, and making decisions that he had no background in, education on, or understanding of. Like Trump, he was a narcissist who thought he knew best just because he is who he is, and was not self-aware to let the professionals work.

  Perhaps eloquent was the wrong word, as I wrongly assume Mein Kampf was his words, when in reality it was likely the words of his editor, followed by a translator. Instead, I would say that when you hear him speak, Hitler’s voice is powerful. I cannot the same for Trump. One feels like a commanding leader, and the other feels like a toddler throwing a tantrum, though they were both, ultimately, the latter.

  Also, just so it’s on the record, I read Mein Kampf as part of a minor in history. This was not personal interest, though it is an incredibly interesting text. It was fascinating to discover he devoted ~2.5 chapters to the importance of the same kind of simple, yet powerful finger-pointing rhetoric used by right-wing ideologists to this day. I joking say it’s one of the earliest texts on meme theory, and it’s only half a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ones and zeros and tens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It literally took until the “signed America over to Canada” line before I was confident it was fake.

  Fuck, this is a weird timeline. At least Hitler was eloquent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon blames millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The executives, investors and accountants making the decisions that are ruining games are not millenials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hardly call $50 games “budget titles.” Is paying $30 for a meal at a steakhouse a budget meal just because that high-class $50 a plate reservation-only place exists?

  I agree that price doesn’t equal quality, but I don’t feel so good about trying to normalize AAA $50 games as “budget titles.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, this is a cute way to push Linux and all, but Windows 10 reaching end of service really doesn’t mean we have to give up using it. We could easily have years before the end of support causes compatibility issues for the average home user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a photo of irony.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …the gag is that this isn’t ironic, right? Like people dropped their /s?

  You expect people who are bad at driving to need to attend a driving school, and it is therefore a place where you are more likely to see accidents. This image meets what one would reasonable expect. It is not ironic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting take. I found them to be very different people. Two different flavours of cliche’d anime protagonist, sure, but very different people none the less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner and I make a point to occasionally play through a couch co-op game as well here are some of the things we enjoyed.

  Phogs - Currently playing this. It’s a cute, dog-themed puzzle game thing, where you play as two heads of a single long dog-thing. We’re enjoying it, but we’re not particularly deep in, and I do wonder if it’ll get Ibb and Obb samey, but it’s worth checking out imo. Cassette Beasts - Couch co-op, Pokemon inspired, adventure RPG with great storytelling, fantastic music and a retro aesthetic. The world is very Zelda-like in exploration and puzzle solving, while combat is Pokemon double battles. Highly recommended, just be aware that one player gets to be the player-made protagonist, while the other is one of an interchangeable series of partner characters. Sea of Stars - The co-op update did a lot of good for this game. A Chrono Trigger inspired, faux-SNES era, indie RPG. There’s a lot of unvoiced dialogue, which I could see as being a barrier to enjoyment as a multiplayer game, but the game is paced quite well, so I don’t think it’s a huge problem. Also, players do take turns inputting commands, but everyone is responsible for the timed hits/blocks, and you each control a character of equal agency in the overworld, so it avoids the largest co-op turn based RPG folly of having one player and one half-watching “follower.” There are a ton of accessibility options/features (difficulty is VERY malleable), and as an added bonus, there’s a free story DLC coming on the 20th. Children of Morta - This is perhaps the most “hardcore” of my list, but the girlfriend, despite explicitly not enjoying “hard” games, really really enjoyed this one. An action-RPG with some very light roguelike elements, Children of Morta has you play as a family of hunter-gatherer-warrior types in a fantasy world, working together to stop a malevolent power from corrupting the physical world. Each family member has a different playstyle, their own skill tree, and a lot of personality. The game is very story driven, with a few moments being taken between each run for the fantastic narration to drip feed the narrative, slowly teaching you more about the world, the characters, and their family dynamic.

  These are the ones that came to the top of my mind, either because they were particularly good or, in the case of Phogs, is ongoing. If I see anything else worth mentioning when I look at my Steam list next, I’ll add.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religions have some of the wackiest rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of the Bible was simply guidelines to keep people healthy and happy. All this “the skin of the pig is unclean” stuff? They hadn’t figured out germs yet. No sex until marriage? No contraceptives, so don’t create in cared for children. I won’t waste my time on it but, when examined in context, this is the vast majority, if not the entirety of the bible: lessons on how to be safe and happy relative the time, made digestable and relevant to the common person.

  Sucks they had to get there via fear of imaginary, post-life pain, and it sucks twice as hard that they’ve neglected to rationalize that part as the rest of the belief structure has modernized.