KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
No Stupid Questions is typically for questions that have answers that are not based on speculation or opinion. That might be better suited for Ask Lemmy. (!asklemmy@lemmy.ml or !asklemmy@lemmy.world)
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 day ago:
Brad Wentworth? Is that you?
- Comment on stylish 1 day ago:
I’m not sure what’s better: The alligator wearing the hat, the conservation instructor seemingly grabbing its tail to stop it, or the alligator just not giving a shit and carrying on with its day.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 day ago:
Dude should just delete his account in a form of internet Harakiri at that point.
- Comment on Anon has a business idea 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on the woke left is always like “we need less shootings” gun control so kids can’t commit domestic terror. but the right says i get wolf pussy so they win. 3 weeks ago:
Okay, Stalinwolf, you seem like an authority on this subject. I believe everything this person says.
- Comment on the woke left is always like “we need less shootings” gun control so kids can’t commit domestic terror. but the right says i get wolf pussy so they win. 3 weeks ago:
I have so many questions.
- Comment on my escaping the matrix moment was when i stopped being ashamed of my anthropomorphic wolf porn obsession 3 weeks ago:
Better show him some. Just to be sure.
- Comment on Think this is a realistic prediction or just being used to hype up investors? 4 weeks ago:
There’s probably already games where AI generated “every pixel”, just not the code that displays those pixels… This headline only implies art, even though it’s pretty clear they meant the whole game, code and all, and without seeing the whole article, we can’t really effectively comment.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Plot twist: Their son is 35 and lives alone.
- Comment on Best gramma 4 weeks ago:
They all look happy, except the yellow beaker on the right and the yellow test tube, who have decidedly :| faces. I wonder what they know that the others don’t…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Your dad’s pretty alright.
- Comment on why can't there be a soda dispenser for energy drinks? 4 weeks ago:
Not on the same scale obviously, but this exists.
- Comment on Did a Lemmy post offend you? This doctor can help 5 weeks ago:
So do we, like… swallow them, or what?
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 5 weeks ago:
In this same vein, Backpack Hero is quite good, too! If you like one, maybe check out the other.
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 5 weeks ago:
It’s worth noting that Risk of Rain 1 and 2 are very different games (3rd person 3D vs. 2D side scroller), and both are good - so if 2 didn’t grab you, maybe check out 1 and see if that’s more your thing. (The remastered version has a lot of nice QOL stuff and some new game modes and items.)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Strongly suspect that “a % of the overtime rate” is a lot less than 100%, too.
- Comment on Chants of Sennaar, a puzzle game where you decipher an alien language (Demo available) 1 month ago:
I got you, fam. It’s not exactly the same - more narrative focused, and slower paced - but it will scratch that same itch.
- Comment on Fuck Your Anti-Israel Bullshit: I'm Here to Crush Your Lies 1 month ago:
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 1 month ago:
Even if there weren’t a million examples of prior art, the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole, and we as players should absolutely rail against this. Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics - I’d bet money that there hasn’t been a single fully “original” game in 20+ years. If companies are allowed to patent every little mechanic (even ones they didn’t come up with), the industry as a whole will just become impossible to operate in.
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
My wife and I actually did this, sort of. Not a completely new name, but we took her grandmother’s name, rather than either of ours. Or, her great grandfather’s name, I suppose.
- Comment on The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales 2 months ago:
Well, this all but guarantees that we’ll see more ridiculously high priced consoles in the future, too. Good going, folks!
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues.
Genuine question - how long do you think we should try to fix the issues before coming to the conclusion that they can’t be fixed through conventional means? Do you think we should resort to nonconventional resolutions at all, if the conventional ones cease to function or don’t yield results? If not, why not?
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 months ago:
it is literally illegal for a CEO to do the right thing if it will cost shareholders
Source?
- Comment on conditional probability 2 months ago:
I think that was inherently my problem with the whole thing. It may have had good intentions originally - using metaphor to draw attention to a problem in a way that might have gotten through to people who don’t understand or reject more straight-forward discussion - and that’s great when it works, but because of the absurdity of the premise, it ended up being a magnet for scrutiny and objections. As a result, there were three main kind of responses:
- Accepting the premise at face value, and agreeing that a woman should choose the bear.
- Objecting to the premise, because it is patently ridiculous if taken at face value.
- Objecting to the underlying message.
Group 3 were the truly toxic responses, and they did a good job at highlighting the underlying message (or perhaps at highlighting a specific kind of person, who will just object to anything a woman says no matter what, or who refuses to believe that women are justified in their fear of men, or who are incels, or whatever else), but they, and the responses to them, kind of took over the entirety of the discourse surrounding it… it became about those people objecting and others objecting to their objections. At that point, it felt like the whole point was to shine a spotlight on toxic individuals, and the real message was lost to that.
- Comment on ROFL 2 months ago:
Here’s a great article about the nuances of various options.
- Comment on conditional probability 2 months ago:
Sure, and that’s fine - but if that’s the case, why do we get long-winded explanations with stats and math like the one linked to earlier? Maybe not everyone got the memo that it wasn’t supposed to hold up to scrutiny, but when someone writes something like that, apparently with the intention of it looking like an actual statistical analysis of an actual situation, they’re opening themself up to analysis and criticism.
- Comment on ROFL 2 months ago:
It’s pretty neat to me that we’ve created this weird language around laugh onomatopoeia.
There’s a very different tone and meaning between “ha”, “hah”, “haha”, “hahah” and “hahaha”, and I think most people can pick up on it with very little exposure without ever actually being told the difference, or even being able to explain the difference in words. I’d be willing to bet that 30 years ago, it would have been far less of a ubiquitous experience.
- Comment on conditional probability 2 months ago:
This seems to be comparing percent of women who’ve been attacked by a bear to the percent of women who’ve been attacked by a man, which… I mean, I guess? But a more fair statistic would be comparing the percentage of bear encounters that result in an attack to the percentage of man encounters that result in an attack. This is also comparing fatal bear attacks to non-fatal man attacks.
I agree with the conclusion that a woman has a greater chance of being victimized by a man than by a bear, but this whole argument just feels like it’s designed to not stand up to critical analysis with the intent of labeling whoever tries to call it into question a misogynist, though, and I’m not going to get into all of that again.
- Comment on conditional probability 2 months ago:
I assume that part of the intent with these type of scenarios is to draw attention to toxic masculinity by baiting out toxic responses, which is fine and obviously it’s effective if that is the intent. However, any attempt to respectfully disagree with the premise was also treated as toxicity and that just made me not want to engage with feminists or the discourse at all, which seems counter-productive.
