KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 6 days ago:
I am 100% confident that American policy on Israel will also shift thanks to progressive voices. And it will not require a progressive majority.
I’d love to be proven wrong, but I don’t believe this will happen while Biden is president. Not to say I’m not going to vote for him - I’m not that stupid, but he’s made it pretty clear that he will stand with Israel more or less no matter what they do.
I do worry that he’s upsetting a lot of people to the point that they won’t vote for him, though, and that’s scary to me. He comes across as very weak when he capitulates to Israel this hard. He’s repeatedly said, “This is the line, don’t cross it!”, then when they do, he moves the line. If he loses to Trump in November, I’ll have a hard time not blaming Israel and his policies in dealing with them for that loss.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 6 days ago:
I don’t think you really have a lot of choices to be honest.
Therein lies the problem. We don’t have a lot of choices. Voting for new, progressive candidates feels great and it’s nice to pat ourselves on the back and think we’re making a difference, but the fact of the matter is that voting for a candidate who has no realistic path to winning is only even a realistic option when the candidate with the ‘D’ next to their name is all but guaranteed to win. And yeah, I’d really love to be able to make a statement by splitting the leftist vote between the democratic candidate and a progressive one; I’d really love to tell the democrats to get fucked and vote for a progressive third-party for every seat, but right now is far from the time for that, especially in states where those races are actually close. The last thing we need is to pack the House and Senate with republicans who win something like 40/30/30 because we couldn’t unify behind someone who actually had a chance of winning.
Not to mention, we only get to vote in 1 state’s elections, and often times there aren’t even any progressive down-ballot candidates on the ballot to vote for.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 1 week ago:
It won’t stop as long as American voters care much more about gas prices than about human rights. American politicians are willing to sponsor genocide to have some control on oil prices in order to win elections.
Who should we vote for to stop what’s going on? Please, enlighten me.
- Comment on How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs? 1 week ago:
I’d consider one, but it’d have to pay considerably more. Like, 50% or more above what I’d otherwise expect for a fully remote position, and it would have to be an easy commute.
In most cases it’s adding 20-30% to the length of the work day when the commute is included, plus costs of transportation itself. Plus the general inconvenience and the fact that it’s almost always going to mean a more toxic culture. But if the pay and benefits were absolutely fantastic, I’d consider it, at least short-term.
- Comment on These Morons Are Buying Anti-Woke Water FFS 1 week ago:
I’m just mad I didn’t think of it first. I would love to market shit like this. If these people are going to pay an idiot tax, they might as well be paying it to me.
- Comment on Perfect Dark - Gameplay Reveal - Xbox Games Showcase 2024 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t the original Perfect Dark hard sci-fi with aliens and spaceships and things? It’s possible I just don’t remember it well. Either way, this doesn’t look like a bad game at all. Just not what I’d have expected.
- Comment on Perfect Dark - Gameplay Reveal - Xbox Games Showcase 2024 2 weeks ago:
This is the first I’ve seen of this game, but… this is definitely not what I expected from a game titled ‘Perfect Dark’.
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 3 weeks ago:
“Hey, can you recommend a good free photoshop alternative?”
“DIE!”
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 3 weeks ago:
Just like the good old Jraphics Interchange Format!
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 3 weeks ago:
Plus as an added bonus we can have the ‘gif’ pronunciation disagreement!
- Comment on God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC 3 weeks ago:
It’s either that or they eventually plan on charging PC players a monthly fee to play all their Sony games.
That would be hilarious, I’d love to see the backlash if they tried that.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not, but even if it was, the original comment would be grammatically incorrect.You wouldn’t say “You have a lot less herd”. “Less of a herd” would work, “Your herd is a lot smaller” would work better, but it was written originally as though ‘users’ was a collection of individuals, not a userbase as a singular item.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 4 weeks ago:
Your argument is supporting the comment you’re replying to. “Users” is equivalent to “cows” in your example, not “herd”. If you lost 50% of the herd, you’d still have a herd of cows, but you’d have fewer cows, just like there are a lot fewer users in this instance.
- Comment on Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability. Who's joining? 1 month ago:
You should propose this research; maybe you can get a grant!
- Comment on One of the world’s healthiest coral reefs is in an oil field 1 month ago:
Article version (from video description) for folks (like me) who are interested but who don’t want to watch a video.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 1 month ago:
Absolutely. 😄
- Comment on The Rogue Prince of Persia has been delayed to avoid being overshadowed by Hades 2 1 month ago:
I have been watching the Prince of Persia game, but I would absolutely have glazed right over its release while entranced by Hades II, so yes, I agree with you, it’s a very smart decision on their part.
(Also, can I just say, holy shit is Hades II some good value. It’s basically two games worth of content in one. More than twice the size of Hades I. Utter insanity.)
- Comment on Horrible!! 2 months ago:
Er, I suppose I do. The lizards. I like the lizards.
- Comment on Horrible!! 2 months ago:
For what it’s worth, friend group B seems much more interesting. I would like to get to know them.
- Comment on we have a problem 2 months ago:
That’s an interesting point / question. Decomposition is living organisms (insects, bacteria, microbes, etc.) breaking down the thing. Obviously we have tons of those inside us, but could the space suit keep them alive? For how long?
This ended up leading me down a bit of a google rabbit hole, but this answer seems reasonable to me (though I don’t have the background to verify it):
I am assuming in spacesuit here, on the face (lit side) of the moon. Bodily degradation involves much more than external fungi and bacteria.
Cells that receive no oxygen or nutrients die. We talk of such tissue death as dry gangrene when it affects extremities, such as fingers, feet, etc. However, we also recognize gangrenous bowel, etc. which results in tissue necrosis.
Such necrotic cell death is the consequence of acute disruption of cellular metabolism, leading to ATP depletion, ion dysregulation, mitochondrial and cellular swelling, activation of degradative enzymes, plasma membrane failure and cell lysis [1]
Lysis is messy and wet. Combined with the fluids in our bodies, what one would end up with is a mushy, smelly degraded body, not a preserved body. For a while, anaerobic bowel bacteria would flourish (which smell terrible).
Add to this the extremes of temperature (253° F in the sun and -243° F in the dark.) The suit would have lost it’s heating and cooling mechanisms, so the body would alternately spend 14 days in the heat and 14 days in the freezing cold depending exactly where it was (lets say the equator of the moon.) These freeze/bake cycles would further contribute to degradation through ice crystal formation and thawing.
Eventually, because there was no new substrate, degradation would come to a halt, but I’m not sure at what stage this would be. I assume, though, there would be a vast difference between a mummified body (done by dehydration) and a body left to degrade in a spacesuit.
- Comment on Why don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people? 2 months ago:
Parachutes require pretty specific conditions to be able to use, and they require a fair amount of know-how. Expecting random passengers to be able to operate a parachute at all is basically a losing battle, and if you had people jumping out of planes that were on their way down, you’d have a lot more people dying (speculation but I’d wager money on it) than if they just stayed in the plane. Plus it’d be a horrible look for the airline - even worse than a plane crashing and killing everyone on it - if they had dead people raining down over cities and whatnot because they jumped and didn’t properly deploy their chute, or deployed it too quickly, or didn’t jump at the right time and got hit by the plane or any number of other possible problems.
- Comment on Dragon's Dogma 2 MTX 2 months ago:
You encounter the merchant where you can buy the MTX stuff in the first few hours of the game. You can’t even use the majority of them before reaching that point.
I would honestly bet money that they’d designed the game to not have microtransactions, then some executive at the 11th hour told them to find a way to include them, and they made them inconsequential as a sort of malicious compliance. Not that I think it’s OK to have them in the first place, it really soured me on the game initially. I think it’s considerably worse for including them, but they are completely meaningless.
- Comment on Dragons dogma 2 controversy over the DLC on steam ( and optimisation and denuvo ) 3 months ago:
To add to that, the DLC thing really pisses me off particularly because I bought the game last night, and there was no DLC. The DLC didn’t show up until a few hours later, and by that point it was too late to refund it. Kind of felt like a bait and switch, because normally I wouldn’t buy a game at launch if they did that shit.
- Comment on Dragons dogma 2 controversy over the DLC on steam ( and optimisation and denuvo ) 3 months ago:
For better or for worse capcom is doing this shit in nearly every one of their games so i kinda expected this shit And if we stop shitting on them for doing it, we let it become normalized.
Denuvo is a cancer This pretty much sums up the topic.
Optimisation. It is poor apparently. Nothing new really as far as pc games go. It’s actually a lot worse than that. It’s been a while since I played something that had this level of problems. The fact that it’s CPU-based performance is actually the bigger issue because it doesn’t matter how beefy your graphics card is, you’re still dropping a ton of frames in that city specifically. I can run the game at 144 FPS until I go to that city, then it drops to 40, which is just outrageous. Gaming PC build logic has for a long time been to prioritize a great graphics card over a great processor (assuming you’re building with a budget and not a ‘money is no object’ type build), because that’s what matters for games, but suddenly with this one specific game, the processor is the bottleneck.
- Comment on oops 3 months ago:
During the pandemic, my son orchestrated a prank wherein during one session, the entire class kept telling the teacher she was on mute, despite it not actually being the case, and she spent the whole hour-long period trying to solve the non-existent technical problem. The responsible thing to do would probably have been to put a stop to it but I was just so impressed by his ability to coordinate this with 30 kids that I just couldn’t.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 3 months ago:
This isn’t Steam specific; this applies to almost every digital marketplace. Yeah, it sucks, but there’s some things you just have to accept. When’s the last time you bought a physical copy of a PC game?
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 3 months ago:
They could have made it an AU only feature, though, and didn’t, to their credit.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 3 months ago:
Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members’ libraries, even if they are online playing another game. If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time.
Well this is exceptionally exciting. This potentially solves 100% of my complaints with Family Sharing as it exists currently.
- Comment on This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases 3 months ago:
True Neutral, I see.
- Comment on Entomology is Awesome 3 months ago:
I wonder if the leaf-imitating insects ever get other herbivorous things trying to munch them.