JoshuaFalken
@JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
- Comment on A heart-warming story 20 hours ago:
You’re preaching to the choir here.
The chart is for people that have never tried to sing.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 23 hours ago:
From the United States perspective, less blood in reserve drives up prices for the population, so it seems to jive with healthcare as a whole there. I know Canada was buying plasma from them as well in the before times, but I’m not sure about that any more.
Several new plasma donation clinics have opened up to collect from people with more common blood types. It’s interesting to hear the UK ships blood in from the west at all. I would have figured there would be closer options available. Unless Brexit also made that more difficult too.
I understand the necessity of shipping blood around, but it sure would be nice if everywhere had enough donors to keep the blood in country. Though I suppose even in such a utopia, gold blood would still be sent around the world when necessary.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 1 day ago:
You’ve reminded me some years ago I donated at a pop up clinic, and it was across the street from a carnival that came to town. They went and got a bunch of ride and games tickets and gave them to blood donors. Big sign over at the carnival, and the clinic was packed.
That’s a random way to get people in, but it worked, and it was fun. Now if only they could take the donation while people wait in line for a ride haha.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 1 day ago:
Most appointments are to have something done to a person’s own benefit. Chiropractic, dental, accountant, that sort of thing. Making an appointment to donate blood to a person you’ll never meet is a type of selflessness that surprises me when I hear of people missing those appointments.
Someone at the clinic I go to once mentioned they had two or three missed appointments every day. I don’t know, I suppose I take it more seriously than most, but it strikes me as an odd thing to miss. Especially when the service here calls two days before an appointment to confirm.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 1 day ago:
To further this, the negative and positive value also matters. Someone with a negative type can only take negative blood, whereas a positive type can accept both.
I wish it were easier to get people to donate. Just this morning I heard a radio advertisement for the blood service that included the line ‘please schedule and attend an appointment’, which seems wild that so many people book a time then don’t show up.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 1 week ago:
Don’t forget morfans!
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 5 weeks ago:
To chime in from the Great White North, I agree with much of what you’ve written, though I haven’t spoken to anyone that thinks Canada has moved too slow.
What’s been done so far has happened as efficiently as government workings can be done, but when I go to a restaurant I don’t skip the entree if the waitstaff brings out the appetizer with haste.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 5 weeks ago:
For a question as broad as ‘what is this country doing about that other country’, it might be a good idea to drop the editorial names and instead include position descriptors. Canadian politicians don’t have the same name recognition as American counterparts.
Mark Carney is Canada’s Prime Minister, who won the position over Pierre Poilievre.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
Just a guess but, I wouldn’t consider anything that was an order of magnitude more expensive than what I was looking to spend.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 months ago:
I’m not sure cost can be set aside from a price discussion when they’ve explicitly stated it won’t be a Costco rotisserie chicken.
With the number of consoles sold this generation, I’m not sure where the limit is for what people will spend to play the games they want. With console pricing has trailing budget gaming PC’s, I could see a number of people getting a Steam Machine in lieu of the next Playstation or Xbox.
What would be interesting to see in the future is the split between units sold to lifelong console players making a change, and pre existing Steam users with stuffed libraries buying one for the couch. If the latter make up the majority of sales, but they priced it like a chicken, that’ll be a problem pretty quick.
Hopefully it shakes out well and indie game developers reap some well deserved rewards.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 3 months ago:
Fruit Ninja comes to mind.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It might have been the sixth closure of the day that person was involved in.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 months ago:
That would be interesting if it were a thermal camera. Though as you point out, I wouldn’t be spending extra money on such a feature.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 months ago:
Haha, that was intentional. It’s amusing to present an argument and wholly undermine it in the final line.
I don’t see much use for a dedicated kitchen screen. Though for someone that does have a use case, the fridge is the only place I see it going other than a wall. More cost effective to use a tablet, we agree.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 months ago:
Haha, that was intentional. I don’t see much use for a dedicated kitchen screen. Though for someone that does have a use case, the fridge is the only place I see it going other than a wall.
To follow a recipe on a fridge screen might also involve having an island to be able to face it while prepping, so even that scenario I have trouble seeing utility.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 months ago:
Cupboard doors are too high; dishwashers are too low; ovens have too many windows; countertops are too horizontal; and the backsplash is too far away.
As far as surfaces where screens could go, a fridge is a pretty good contender. I don’t have anywhere else in my kitchen I could put a dedicated screen. When I’m following a recipe, I just pop a tablet on the windowsill.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 months ago:
Those people should have just slept in their fridge, problem solved!
- Comment on McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 5 months ago:
It’s appreciable to want to be compensated directly, however that means not all servers are compensated equally for their time. Instead of a division between labour and ownership, tipping allows division to fester between labourers.
A few places in my area have removed gratuities and raised staff compensation, and the workers there enjoy not only feeling on par with their coworkers, but also the stability of having a consistent and predictable income.
That said, it’s understandable why changing the gratuity policy might seem offensive if your example of wait staff pocketing 75% of the revenue is anywhere close to accurate. I wouldn’t want it changed either.
- Comment on breakfast 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t have guessed before this image that a hundred blueberries would fit in a dish that small.
- Comment on Flight attendants overwhelmingly vote against Air Canada wage offer 5 months ago:
When a ten percent raise would still earn workers less than minimum wage, the union should reconsider labour disrupting action.
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 5 months ago:
While not about France, the prominent example that comes to mind is Star Wars personifying the United States as the Empire.
- Comment on Golf Cartification of My City 5 months ago:
Golf carts in the city can be done well, with Peachtree City as the prime example. However they have infrastructure, and more importantly, laws surrounding the use of the carts.
Intoxication, unrestricted parking, and no rules combine to be a disaster waiting to happen. In your situation, I would attend city council meetings and speak out regarding the safety concerns you’re witnessing. It would be useful to also begin documenting misuse of these carts to present at these meetings.
Parks in my area have signage forbidding motorized vehicles. There’s no logical reason the people driving carts can’t leave them in the same area as cars. Driving across park fields is bound to become problematic in terms of lawn maintenance. Once your area implements laws, it could be nice to replace some of the vehicle traffic with cart traffic.
- Comment on T-Rex Burger 5 months ago:
A local joint in my area did something like this last year. A five dollar burger with two patties, and one dollar per extra patty, no limit.
I’m sure in practice there would have been a limit, but we got a lot of burger for twenty dollars that day. It came skewered and served on its side in what I’m guessing was a submarine sandwich tray.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 5 months ago:
Copper spools have the sheathing stripped off, wire cut to reasonable lengths, then brought to multiple recyclers in stages.
To be sure, the odd idiot will show up with a unadulterated spool and try to get paid, but most that go to the effort of abducting these things off the side of the road aren’t entirely stupid.
Then again, a less scrupulous yard might still buy the spool as it comes and strip it themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Often find yourself inside many stores you find irrelevant when strolling around town? All those unlocked doors must be such temptation.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 7 months ago:
Imagine the power of combining this tosser initiative with the revenue sharing aspect of New York’s vehicle idling program. Save the planet and get paid all at the same time.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 8 months ago:
Too bad burgers outpaced inflation then. It’d be nice to have a $1.50 option commonly available.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 8 months ago:
I agree about everything in your first point. I hadn’t previously considered that the novelty of a new technology would necessarily increase have disproportionately high initial cost.
That said, I feel like any calculation of cost against how many hours played is entirely subjective. Your suggestion of $0.75 / entertainment hour is quite different than what I consider ideal. Games will vary genre to genre, person to person, platform to platform.
A person with limited time might exclusively play shorter titles, or maybe just multiplayer titles. A person with significant free time might spent hundreds of hours replaying an RPG.
To be incredibly broad, I would say that games shouldn’t cost more per entertainment hour than half of what any given person earns at their job - but even that is quite subjective and should be taken with salt.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 8 months ago:
You make a good point, and I agree. I wasn’t thinking that it was the only thing on the market and therefore the price is whatever a new technology costs.
I tend to think of video games - being a form of entertainment - as a great way to be entertained while also being an incredibly low cost option for the amount of time I spend enjoying them.
Buying a $600 console just to enjoy a single $60 title is an extreme example but to me, if that game provides 100 hours of playtime, that seems well worth it. Cheaper than going to a theatre or most other forms of entertainment.
To be sure, I don’t do this, but I’ve always viewed gaming through a $/h lens, and could never understand why so many people saw it as a waste of time. That’s what I was thinking when I wrote that comment earlier - it seems to me that you get more playtime with some RPG from this decade than you would playing Pac-Man. Though perhaps I feel that way because games like Pac-Man don’t appeal to me.
Thinking about it, your point might be valid again, with the Atari being a new technology, people were likely to sink far more hours into a title than they might do with modern games since we have so many to choose from now. I’ve never thought about it that way. Thanks for pointing this out.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 8 months ago:
The Atari 2600 released for $190 in 1977. Or about $1000 today.
The best selling title, Pac-Man released for $28 in 1982. Or about $95 today.
Compared to so much else that has risen dramatically over time, vastly outpacing video games comparatively, I think it’s a bit hard to argue with the value proposition of modern titles.
