JoshuaFalken
@JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 days ago:
Fruit Ninja comes to mind.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Those people should have just slept in their fridge, problem solved!
- Comment on McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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] 3 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! 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 4 months ago:
Given what Lumon has done with Gemma, isn’t it plausible that the marching band is an amalgamation of severed staffers from all the other unknown number of departments?
- Comment on Resume help 9 months ago:
That’s understandable. I imagine a large section of the user base doesn’t navigate to a specific community to look through posts, and instead just skip through the main feed. I didn’t realise the community until you pointed it out.
While I agree with your sentiment that no one wants to be so bombarded with foreign politics, at the very least the joke that user made was in keeping with the theme of the meme.
Regarding your final question, depending on your method of consuming this content, you may be able to entirely block comments by setting a blacklist of words, perhaps including ‘Republican’ in this case. The same I know is true on most applications for post titles, but I’m just assuming here the same is applicable to comments.
Either way, best wishes with the situation in the fatherland, I do hope to visit some day.
- Comment on Resume help 9 months ago:
If the word ‘Republican’ were omitted, that comment could be applicable in most countries on the planet.
It’s kind of nitpicking anyway, don’t you think? Almost as nitpicky as pointing out when the country of the United States is referred to by the name of the continent it shares with other nations.
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 10 months ago:
Funny how a mistake in a single sentence earns vitriol on the entire comment.
Despite what I’d mistakenly wrote, I meant that to overcome inflation and see a return of double to quadruple your investment - which is what the comment starting this thread suggests as the outcome - you’d have to beat the market by around 10%.
Regardless, my point was more to do with whether someone with only $50 to spare a month is truly in a position to invest in anything or whether they might be better off saving it for a rainy day or something like that.
If someone has a few dollars to spare come month’s end, but has found themselves skipping the odd meal, that money would probably be better spent on a small grocery trip than putting it into an ETF that’ll take years to turn a profit.
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 10 months ago:
Taking a step further, if the last thirty five years are any indication, that future $21k would be worth less than today’s $10k.
Besides, to overcome inflation, you’d need to average double digit returns on your investment every year for half a lifetime.
Like you say, it’s a tough decision if there’s anything that can provide you value now. Not to argue against savings, but expecting it to grow exponentially with no effort is folly.
- Comment on Since when does a clock need a privacy policy? 1 year ago:
I’ve been annoyed by a minor change in the stock Samsung clock app for some time now. I just installed the Fossify one you linked.
Minor nitpick: 24h time doesn’t start with a leading zero.
Everything else seems exactly how it should be.
Thanks.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Not sure why people are beating up on @nxn@biglemmowski.win for saying his opinion. Different people value different things.
I think I can answer your question though. Buying a console is a plug and play experience. Building a PC is not. Not everyone has the time, the patience, or the technical experience required to purchase compatible components, assemble the machine, and install the various software.
Anyone that’s ever bought a prepared meal has overpaid in comparison to acquiring the ingredients, prepping them, and cooking the dish. It’s worth the price to do so because I sure as hell don’t want to spend time making a bowl of French onion soup.
- Comment on Boeing proposes 30% wage hike to striking workers in its 'final' offer. 1 year ago:
Funny, I went through the article twice looking for the term length. Maybe I missed it because it’s written and I was looking for a digit. Thanks for pointing that out.
- Comment on Boeing proposes 30% wage hike to striking workers in its 'final' offer. 1 year ago:
This article doesn’t specify, but based on the previous 25% offer, I’m guessing this new and improved proposal is also structured over four years.
New information to me is that the union initially sought a 40% increase. Kind of silly to think that when 90% of your workers decline an offer - any offer - that adding an extra few percent will get you an agreement.
I wrote this before when the union declined the 25% bump, but it bears repeating:
If Boeing were to pay the 40% the union is looking for upon returning to work, and committed to annual salary increases that were double whatever inflation is moving forward, they would have 32,000 employees that would never strike the rest of their careers.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 year ago:
You just reminded me I’ve got to mail my modem back. Thanks!