lord_ryvan
@lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network
Programmer by day, burnt out by night.
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 2 weeks ago:
“Deaf” just means that you have such profound hearing loss that you can’t communicate verbally properly, most deaf people do register sound albeit very badly.
I, for instance, have about 75 dB hearing loss, I don’t hear people walking, and barely register high heels on tiles, I don’t hear cars driving either, but I do hear it when they sound the horn; to give an idea of my deafness.
But I do know what spoken languages sound like, and what rhyming means. And how weird English spelling is, compared to its pronunciation. (English is my second/third language after Dutch and DSL, if that matters)
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 2 weeks ago:
Some hearing people don’t have internal monologue, either!
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, and there is sign language poetry in lots of different sign languages!
It’s a beautiful and unique artform IMO
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 2 weeks ago:
Most people who are medically deaf can still hear a bit. Also, deaf and hearing are proper nouns, no need to capitalise them for the NAD’s odd outbursts.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had Black Desert letting me play a bit with an outdated version (I didn’t know there were updates, I hadn’t used the launcher for a while) but it gave my account a time out of 10 days after my play session.
I was also surprised it didn’t just go “Nope, update first!” immediately, I kind of expected that would be the case if I didn’t use the launcher.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Man I had to scroll far down for this. I know her appearance and character is a bit hard to take seriously but she makes great points in this video.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 2 weeks ago:
This works by injecting binaries into pre-compiled games, as well.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 2 weeks ago:
This also works with any Unity game which prefers to launch through a launcher.
If it’s an online game, like an MMO, they might put your account on timeout if you keep playing some outdated version of the game, though.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 2 weeks ago:
upsell other products
I don’t think I’ve seen games do that, not even to advertise other games from the same publisher/developer. But then, the only five games I’ve played with a launcher are three MMOs, Genshin, and Honkai Star Rail.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes updates require a game to be restarted. With a launcher it never needs to REstart, it will be started fresh afterwards anyway.
It’s also in general a good place to centralise account management (esp. if parts of the game would need to be reloaded if another account is logged in!)
Lastly, although this is more of a side-effect, but it gives a good place to shows recent news/posts of the company about their game to players, such as when there’ll be downtime, in a way that’s practically impossible for the players to miss.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 2 weeks ago:
They can do that without a launcher LMAO
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 2 weeks ago:
Who are you? The poop police?
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 2 weeks ago:
Not if the managerial position paid 50k and changing oil pays 150k
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 weeks ago:
Get uBlock and SponsorBlock for YouTube my guy, it saves so much!
- Comment on If you have diarrhea and you hold it in will your body retain some of the water? 3 weeks ago:
Swallow the plug.
- Comment on master manipulators 3 weeks ago:
How do you have so many mice?
Sounds like your apartment smells like leftovers; we had mice sometimes until we started to do dishes religiously and take out trash religiously. Or well, about as frequently as our parents do it.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t (really) let the owners set a price, have the (min and max) price set based on objective factors such as square metres of floor and the amount of schools, shops etc. nearby, as set by the government instead of by the highest bidder.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 4 weeks ago:
As a non-Finn, can you stop being some utopia despite your fascist-invested government?
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I poop on company time
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 weeks ago:
Mmmmerde!
- Comment on Motivational, inspiring 4 weeks ago:
Here
It
Play
Here
It
Said
- Comment on Motivational, inspiring 4 weeks ago:
I’m starting to give up and believe they’re just a randomly arranged assortment of “positive” words.
- Comment on Motivational, inspiring 4 weeks ago:
o7
- Comment on Can the public expect to get to see Luigi Mangione's 3 page manifesto in its entirety in a reasonable timeframe? 5 weeks ago:
This, again, picks a few words and phrases from it, instead of linking it.
This does not answer OP’s question, quite the opposite so.
- Comment on What was going on in England in the 1970s to give Monty Python so much comedy fodder that is still relevant today? 5 weeks ago:
“Disney has gone woke” has to be the stupidest thing to say, they’ve been woke longer than I’ve been around.
- Comment on Log by bolb 5 weeks ago:
That could be intentional.
another screenshot of squidward looking at the user name, in Jerboa
- Comment on everytime im in the city you 5 weeks ago:
Hello, friends!
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 month ago:
How about Russia using US military aid?
Trump has stated he would talk with Russia about solving the Ukraine problem…
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 1 month ago:
I wanted to say “You dropped this: /s”
But then I realised the British only need a tone marker when they’re not being sarcastic.
- Comment on Git good, son 1 month ago:
37s?
Of ploughing?Look at this champ!
