Wirlocke
@Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Anon listens to music 5 days ago:
Or if it’s made with Grok then it’s a Nazi pedo AI.
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 week ago:
Still works as there’re plenty of mathematicians that would love for people to acknowledge the infinite zeros preceding each number.
The real problem in this case is if you write september as 09.
- Comment on Anon's grandpa had hands 1 week ago:
There’s the question of when taking from the dead goes from grave robbing to archeology, but no matter the length of time it’s always looting!
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 1 week ago:
Oh god, billionaires have been experiencing AI psychosis before AI, that’s why they don’t see any issue with it.
- Comment on great to know! 1 week ago:
I think of all the unified tech ecosystems, Apple is hands down the best but Google is still the best non-Apple option. The only other option I think is Microsoft, and I would rather drown in burning gasoline than go back to anything Microsoft touches.
Obviously the best option is to host your own stuff through open source, which I am doing, but it’s taking time, it’s a lot of work to keep up with. Google gives me a bunch of barely passable tools accessible from anything with an internet connection.
I did degoogle for browser and search though. Firefox and Kagi makes the internet almost tolerable.
- Comment on Employers ditching health coverage 1 week ago:
- Comment on Employers ditching health coverage 1 week ago:
Maybe we could push public healthcare if we rephrase it as subsidizing companies, might as well try right?
- Comment on Contrast 2 weeks ago:
Love that it’s in the “Health” category.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t know about the no speaking rules in Saunas. I would think that should be a sign but there easily could have been and anon didn’t read.
It would already be creepy if the first thing he asked was where she lived; however the line “Well I decided to talk to her and ask where she’s from” can imply that he spoke, got no response, then kept yapping.
Furthermore, the fact he’s complaining about how what he did was not “really that bad” without acknowledging he broke a rule, tells me that he knew what he was doing but decided to break that rule because he’s not “really that bad”.
All that said, I’d probably break that rule to crack a one-liner like the reply, because dumb jokes are my favorite.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 3 weeks ago:
On disk!? 👀
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 3 weeks ago:
When the draft hits but I’m trans.
- Comment on You haven't seen enough trans Spider-Woman memes 4 weeks ago:
So there’s a lot of posts or art that try to reframe villians as being pro-trans, usually to the effect of “we’re not that messed up” even when it’s entirely possible that they would be that messed up.
So I really appreciate that Sauron doesn’t make an exception for trans people here. “Transition? Sure, how about you transition into the Mesozoic Era Spiderman!!”
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
And somehow Chile didn’t lose any of its coastline.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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! 5 weeks ago:
Diogenes: Behold, God! Image
- Comment on Disc drive needed 1 month 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 month ago:
First word not first letter
- Comment on Anon's gf is intense 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Lieutenant Dan!
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Yeah I know about those services, though I wish I didn’t…
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 1 month 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.
