CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No? Im saying those factors should be understandable, they just need to do the relevant testing to figure it out before building something the public could visit. Hence mentioning due diligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get yourself a real man.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Between the pink color, two arms and rounded face, I guess it does kinda look like one of human-descended “All Tomorrows” creatures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve long found the notion that the lesson of Jurassic Park, if a fictional story like that must be taken to have one, should be something like “science/genetic engineering is bad” or “you can’t control nature” to be a bit silly, given that, well, it’s a zoo. With pretty big animals, to be sure, but dinosaurs were animals still, not kaiju or dragons or whatever other fantasy monster, and some genetically modified to be somewhat bigger and lack feathers would still be such. It’s a story about some people building a zoo badly because they didn’t do their due diligence about the animals they had and cheaped out on staff and the systems they had for containing the animals, and somehow people get the take away that “these animals are special and can’t be safely contained” rather than “letting rich people cheap out on safety is a bad idea”.

  Were one to write a broadly similar story where someone cheaps out on a park containing elephants and tigers, and they get out and maul some people, it’d be obvious, but give the tigers scales and make them born in a lab and suddenly it’s a monster movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mouth suffers for the noms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’m the reverse, I used to find salt and vinegar a decent flavor if not the best, but can no longer stand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 publishers Krafton accuse ousted bosses of abandoning duties, and now those ex-leads are suing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly this whole situation seems fishy to me (no pun intended) on all sides.

  On the one hand, I get where the sentiment I’ve seen all over that this is just the publishers attempting to screw the devs over to avoid bonus payouts comes from, and it may even be true, there’s basically no reason to trust a big company and the ones in the entertainment industry are notorious for trying to avoid paying the people that actually make the stuff they sell.

  On the other hand, the 250 million number I see thrown around is a huge amount of money, even if distributed evenly, and if not distributed evenly, would be a huge amount especially for the people at the top (which sound like the people that were fired for the most part?). I could easily see that creating a strong incentive for those in charge of the studio to release something even if it wasn’t ready. And it wouldn’t really surprise me if it isn’t, just given that virtually every major release of late across the industry seems to arrive both after delays and in a seemingly unready state, even the ones releasing in early access. Were that the case, then the move the company made to delay the game and remove people at the top pushing against that would make sense.

  The trouble I have is, both these notions (that the publishing company might be delaying the game without need out of financial motivation, thus screwing over the devs, and that the leadership of the development company might be resisting a necessary delay out of financial motivation, which would presumably screw over the customer) seem self-consistent and plausible to me. The publishers claims are probably a bit more suspect given that from what I hear they have a history with scandal like this, but that isn’t really enough to make me feel confident that they have to be the ones being untruthful here, so jumping on a bandwagon feels premature until we have some information that rules out one of the two sides claims.

  I’d make some statement about how this whole incident demonstrates the pitfalls of combining capitalist profit seeking with art, but between how many times the gaming industry has been burned by that already and how anti-capitalist lemmy tends to be, I suspect everyone here probably would be familiar with that anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know these are generally fake, but they always grind my gears a bit. Literally just screenshot the full message with the “not delivered” part and resend the screenshot until it goes through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you guess, chat?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “It is imperative that the graduated cylinder not be damaged”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one are you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What about “didn’t use a cart in the first place”, or “brought own cart”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Virtually nothing in politics or economics is ever permanent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost dog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been known to not get humor, I thought the joke was in sharing someone else documenting a stupid decision of theirs unwittingly, and therefore if it was itself fake it wouldn’t have the same impact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost dog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would a wild (I think coyote?) even let someone wash it? I suspect maybe a tame one that someone used a picture of to make a funny story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mages be like:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens if you put the cursed forbidden knowledge book through a photocopier and just read the copies rather than the original I wonder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mages be like:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also known to more modern, less superstitious cultures as a proctologist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to put your life in perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro literally ran out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I’m saying names out of order, and say my last now but will say the beginning or other entries on the list later?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perpetual motion eludes us again.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how a railgun works, that’s how a coilgun works. Railguns create a loop of electric current that flows into one wire, through the projectile into the other wire, and back down to the starting point again, this configuration creates a force that pushes the projectile down the rails

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco changed the bag to plastic!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but a crop merely being bioengineered does not imply that that specific tweak has been made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco changed the bag to plastic!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average Landlord/Tenant interaction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those look like common house geckos, I don’t think that species hurts anything people care about and they catch bugs anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else enjoy Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet stereotypical pirates would love orange juice, if they could get their hooks on any.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gmod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this what health insurance CEOs do in their spare time these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devouring the artist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard the name but don’t know what it is, other than that I think it’s something fermented?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devouring the artist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Either he’s vomiting beans into that can or those beans have been congealed into a single semisolid mass that sticks together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at my french popsicle!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doc Hopper’s ice cream business looks even more dubious than his restaurant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not laid out like Lemmy is, because Lemmy is basically the fediverse version of Reddit, while Mastodon is more the fediverse version of Twitter. I’m not very good at using that format myself so I can’t offer much advice, but from what I’ve seen, what your feed is like depends a lot on what instance you join, to a much larger extent than on Lemmy (it’s a much bigger userbase than lemmy as well to my knowledge). I dont know of any equivalent to communities per se, you have to join an instance that is good for the kinds of things you’re looking for, and follow users that post or interact with that content. I think a favorite is more like a like, and reblogging is more like reposting for one’s followers and imstance to see too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America last night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how these things work, if anything, the more serious an event is, the more that thing is going to be what people make jokes and memes about, to dampen the stress of the situation if nothing else. I’m not sure there’s actually such a thing as an event so serious that nobody makes jokes about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I dont see how it isnt a war already, this kind of thing is an act of war after all, and the other side doesnt have to be capable of equal retaliation for the term to apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really even have an age range I guess, I’ve never met anyone I was interested in dating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*pat pat pat*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know albatross are big, but I can’t stop seeing it as an abnormally small man petting an abnormally well-behaved seagull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting news⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a context for “sociopath”? like, would a person that actually had that mental condition be disallowed from commenting, or was it saying that you had called someone else a sociopath and that isnt allowed?