CheeseNoodle

@CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could another country like Great Britain Release the Full Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The UK already had its own epstein island moment with a child sex traficking scandal involving british parliment, it vanished inside a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It outright says:
  “13% of non-winners switch to favour the right-wing. By contrast, nearly 18% of the winners who get more than 500 pounds switch to the right-wing party”
  That is a description of induviduals, 18% of people become more right wing, not 100% of people become 18% more right wing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I read the study, first of all the paper aknowledges that there’s a several point swing in voting preference between non winners and people who won less than £500 which strongly implies people who play the lottery are more likely to vote right wing to begin with. Secondly even for large wins the swing was only around 18%. At worst money does not make everyone a bad person, more like 1/5 people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valves first title with a 3 in it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you mean episode 2 expansion 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or those were previously just assholes without money? Nice people who win the lottery likely don’t stay rich for long because they use that money to help people they know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does money reduce empathy or is lack of empathy just a serious advantage in acumulating money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  modern sociological research or… basic common senses? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if you start with 10x as much money as everyone else in a game of monopoly you’re almost certainly going to win that game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their main issue is being antisocial jerks, they don’t co-operate so they can’t share knowledge and the females die careing for the eggs (which again they might not if they worked together) so they can’t pass anything onto their young either. The jerk part is they also eat eachother sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For americas enemies: Don’t interupt your enemy in the process of making a mistake.
  For americas allies: Don’t poke a wounded bear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy American import day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wherever it comes from its a great way for kids to actually meet the people in their local community rather than every house being an island.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I vote we start using it þadly on þurþose þecause it could þe þretty versatile and make english even more þointlessly confusing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Clover is honestly fine, its short so even if it spreads into your flowerbeds its not going to do any damage, in fact since its a nitrogen fixer it might even help, and insects like clover a lot more than grass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fun part about shitty people as they can be really good at pretending not to be shitty if it means they can be extra shitty down the line. Its a trope for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that Unreal is a garbage engine for optimization at face value, it has a lot of useful tools and a lot of incorrect/dated documentation for those tools some of which are also just kind of configured wrong as their default settings. If effort is put into optimization to configure things correctly and only use the various tools like nanite or lumen in their actual use cases (rather than just throwing them on everything) you can get some pretty fantastic optimization.

  TLDR: Good but complex tools marketed as low effort with bad defaults and exagerated marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I found 1 and 2 were games I could both replay at least once. With 2 the only bad bit to replay is bricks area where the devs just spammed a ton of very spongy enemies in a big map. 3 had more fun vault hunters mechanically but even during the first playthrough so much of it feels like filler content (like literally ALL of Hammerlocks area) and the final boss is somehow even more dissapointing than BL1, trying to play through a second time is at least 2/3 “Oh god not this bit again”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this the 1 letter typo where removing it makes the game massively better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the UK government proposed to increase tax by 1% and make trains free would you be in favour?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I get a magical garauntee that it would happen? Because otherwise no given the state of governance; they would absoloutely raise taxes then talk about making trains free until everyones forgotten and then maybe make trains cheaper for a specific age group for a while with that reduction being completely eaten by ticket price rises within 2 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 arrests for violent fascists attacking police - 900 for grannies and disabled people holding placards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the takeaway is that violent protest is 100x more legal than peaceful protest right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got some cherry wood and linseed oil laying around as well as access to lathe, could make a real nice stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And finally, when they employ zero people, and no one has any money to buy their product they will have finally hit infinite profits. Seriously though it doesn’t look like we’re doing UBI any time soon and I doubt the ultra rich would kill off everyone on purpose because half the point seems to be to have people they can feel superior too. Are we just going to wipe ourselves out in a weird paperclip maximizer scenario where we pile up a ton of shit no one can actually buy but has to keep being made to make a line go up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like 1 had the best vibe, 2 had the best story (but also the worst balance) and 3 had the most fun vault hunter designs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox issues Bloodlines 2 refunds after backlash over paywalled clans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also often updates to prior DLC content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While pay has also functionally gone down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still not entierly mass dependant, the point is at a distance based on a ratio between the two masses, if Jupiter were closer to the sun then the point would be inside the sun. Its still impressively massive to pull the point outside of the sun at any functional distance but so could a grain of dust with sufficient distance and a big empty universe to prevent anything else from interupting things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, We created an increasingly awful world to live in, its no wonder people want to try and live in a different one as much as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority of British citizens would not pass a british citizenship test or even those same customs checks. The customs checks are so broad everyones going to ding at least one flag and the citizenship test has stupid innane stuff like sports questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They could always use a poster…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair even our attempts at describing a technically possible but implausably simple version of a blackhole are essentially educated speculation. Although worth noting that black hole like objects did appear in fiction before they were discovered IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meat from EU set to be cheaper as UK axes new border checks in Brexit reset⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations to the meat sellers on their new increase in profit margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And cybernetics that won’t play adds in your brain until you have a seizure!. Seriously settings like cyberpunk and shadowrun are starting to look good by the standards of what we’re heading for. (Shadowrun is also old enough that you could actually just barely survive on a part time job without sharing an appartment even in the dystopia)