Wirlocke
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- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 days ago:
While the time from child to mid twenties is definitely the parent’s fault, after that point you can try every trick in the book it won’t achieve a thing. Once someone masters weaponized incompetence they basically need a life or death wake-up call to do anything about it, and even then they might still not learn anything.
No one’s literally impossible to reform, but many people cross a point that requires a practically impossible amount of investment to reform.
- Comment on Bring it back 2 days ago:
And somehow Chile didn’t lose any of its coastline.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
When current theories say the universe is infinite they also mean an even distribution of matter in that infinite space.
And for something like the big bang, when theories say that the universe originated from a singularity they actually mean the infinite sized universe had infinite density at one instance, not that it literally came from one single point.
So there is technically infinite energy in the universe, but all that infinite energy is still experiencing entropy at on average the same rate.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Undertale is this but it’s not focused on too heavily unless you play multiple routes.
Deltarune I think has this kind of plot with the protagonist having an antagonist relationship to the player controlling them, but it’s more focused on player-made choices instead of save mechanics.
I would also like to nominate In Stars and Time, which is about timeloops and is very meta but not in the fourth wall breaking way.
- Comment on I got your 6-7 right here, kids! 3 days ago:
Diogenes: Behold, God! Image
- Comment on Disc drive needed 1 week ago:
Circa 2017, I build my first desktop computer, I get the cheapest disc drive money can buy. Since then I’ve used it to burn one(1) CD. Any software disc I’ve tried using with it was too broken and out of date, leading me to download the driver instead.
I’ve tried using a friend’s game disc on it, assuring them that Wine for Linux supports 16-bit Windows games. Turns out they dropped that support months prior.
It now stands its silent vigil, waiting for its purpose to be truly fulfilled.
- Comment on Anon wants tendies 1 week ago:
First word not first letter
- Comment on Anon's gf is intense 2 weeks ago:
On one hand, a person should be comfortable to assert their boundaries and to know that it doesn’t make them less respectable.
On the other hand,
- Comment on Trump’s tariffs resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from working people into the hands of millionaires and billionaire 2 weeks ago:
Considering he keeps “ending” the war on Iran to play with oil prices while he buys low sells high; makes me think the price gouging followed by tariff refunds was the real goal all along. Image
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
Being able to sort numerically and have it also be in chronological order is sooo cool.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 2 weeks ago:
Everything about the trip was discussed at length in the family group chat he was a part of, and the entire rest of the family showed up for Christmas.
I know I could reach out directly but if he’s still the same type of guy I last spoke to I don’t know if I want to reconnect.
- Comment on Anon has been misled 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the bible quote where Nathanael said “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” and Jesus said “Yo, he’s speaking the truth”.
Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 3 weeks ago:
Lieutenant Dan!
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 3 weeks ago:
I think you have things backwards. PhDs are just proof of becoming an expert researcher in a field, and MDs are just proof of becoming a practitioner of medicine.
Some who get PhDs or MDs become teachers because of their proficiency, but the purpose of PhDs and MDs isn’t to become teachers.
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 3 weeks ago:
Physicians don’t require PhDs, they require MDs.
A PhD is a Doctor of Philosophy while a MD is a Doctor of Medicine. So I guess in that way the title “Doctor” radically changes based on the field kinda like the title “Engineer”.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
I agree that if the difficulty is too high you ought to return it. Typically games are balanced for a sizable enough audience, if a game’s tutorial is impossibly difficult then it’s probably not a good tutorial or the game’s for a hyper niche audience.
I guess I can understand the appeal of easy modes just for experiencing the story. This does hit a wall though when a game’s story is dependent on its gameplay. Like Fromsoft games demand a lot of attention to understand the story beyond a basic level, they clearly want to gatekeep that and it’s part of their games’ identity.
My point is basically, difficulty is one of the tools a developer can use to craft their experience. While most games want to appeal to as many people as possible, it should be just as valid for a game to decide their experience requires inherent skill requirements, at the risk of people returning it if they aren’t the target audience.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I know about those services, though I wish I didn’t…
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
I don’t mind any of these approaches. Personally I’d want a single difficulty that is made challenging but with specific accessibility options. Like disable quick time events, loose lock on, and other things to make the interface more bearable if you have a physical or mental disability.
While I don’t care if a game has an easy mode, a lot of the “easy mode is accessibility” arguments feel similar to the “AI art is accessibility” arguments. Unless you can’t properly interface with the game, having low skill is not a disability or something needing accessibility support. If you practice you’ll get better at it.
The “but I don’t have much time” argument feels especially weird, like would you demand a cliff notes version of a book or TV show because you don’t have the time otherwise? If you just want the story just find a playthrough online.
If a game has an easy mode, great, it appeals to a wider audience. If it doesn’t, great, it’s catering to a specific audience. A game’s not worse for having an easy mode and a game’s not inaccessible for asking you to practice its mechanics.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon tests their IQ 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact, a man had the liquids in his brain swell up to the point of leaving the brain as a spread out layer on the walls of his skull.
Despite this extreme disfigurement of his brain, he had a job, a family with multiple kids, and the only possible side effects of 70 IQ (which wasn’t even proven to be because of this) and a twitchy leg, which went away when they drained the pressure from the fluid.
- Comment on Anon works in an office 4 weeks ago:
Hey, they won’t be getting hit with any ai slop coded vulnerabilities snuck into open source projects, so maybe if it ain’t broke don’t fix it?
- Comment on Anon invents a time machine 5 weeks ago:
I mostly agree but as a counterpoint, there have been a good handful of times in the Cold War where a single person had to choose whether to launch the nukes based on false positives, and simply chose not to.
If there was any evidence for time travel, it would be the fact that no nukes were fired during the Cold War due to a lot of close calls. Honestly the fact no nukes have ever been used in a conflict after Hiroshima and Nagasaki is also improbable.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 1 month ago:
My brother is pretty dumb but very persuasive so he can pass as an “intellectual”. His gateway drug to the manosphere was Jordan Peterson.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 1 month ago:
I’m in a weird state with him currently. See I was going in the opposite trajectory, I used to be one of those atheism-is-my-personality skeptics and a “rational” centrist in high school. Around the same time my brother was going down the pipeline I discovered I was trans and reconnecting with my emotions opened my eyes on a lot of subjects.
He didn’t have an explosive reaction but he insisted I postpone HRT until we “know for sure”. I said he’s welcome to help me explore the topic but I was still doing HRT until I’m convinced otherwise. He never got back to me which just tells me he would’ve dragged his feet and put my transition on pause.
Shortly after that incident I moved to another state for unrelated reasons and he has not once called me. After 2 years I visited my hometown for a week around Christmas and he didn’t even stop by to see me.
To be honest I don’t know if he’s even still manosphere MAGA, I know next to nothing about him since we last spoke. I could make an effort to contact him myself but after not even saying hi during Christmas when he knew I was visiting I don’t know if I even care anymore.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 1 month ago:
Could be worse, my older brother had his fiance dump him and he went from feminist democrat to manosphere MAGA.
- Comment on Growth 2 months ago:
I feel like placing identities into hierarchies always ends up controversial. Like non-binary is technically under transgender because transgender just means your transitioning from your assigned gender to something else; but a lot of non-binary people really don’t like being called transgender instead of non-binary.
At the end of the day, the words meanings are a subjective experience that cannot be directly observed or compared. So functionally all self-identifying terms exist flat relative to each other because there will always be contradictory definitions that you can’t rigidly settle on without ignoring significant groups of people.
- Comment on Divine revelation 2 months ago:
I can’t believe I’m seeing someone else come up with this hyper specific dumb idea.
We are either enlightened, cursed, or both.
- Comment on We are so close 2 months ago:
It seems like sucralose is not very unhealthy.
However the big name brands like Coke use aspartame which is a carcinogen and should be avoided.
cracks open a can of Coke Zero Beats sugar though.
- Comment on Doomer 2 months ago:
Ever since 2022 the jack-in-a-box music has been playing and Jack sure is taking his sweet fucking time.
- Comment on WTF is this??? 3 months ago:
Just turn right, it’ll go away.
