Wirlocke
@Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Anon has been misled 2 days 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 2 days ago:
Lieutenant Dan!
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 2 days 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 2 days 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 days 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 4 days ago:
Yeah I know about those services, though I wish I didn’t…
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 days 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 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon tests their IQ 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Could be worse, my older brother had his fiance dump him and he went from feminist democrat to manosphere MAGA.
- Comment on Growth 1 month 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??? 2 months ago:
Just turn right, it’ll go away.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 3 months ago:
I wonder how often photos of them get accused of being AI nowadays?
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 3 months ago:
There’s a different story where a pair of twin women married a pair of twin guys, all four living together, and are all dedicated to basically living mirrored lives with each other.
Each couple had a child and while the children would be cousins they are genetically siblings. A fun fact amidst what is either mental illness, closeted polyamory, or both.
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 4 months ago:
I prefer to use the lossless format of PNG, pronounced as Ping.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 5 months ago:
Plus why would anyone use the expensive ram ssds and gpus to make a datacenter for videogames when they can hop onto the AI hype before it’s gone?
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 5 months ago:
Then I’d have to also tell you to never play a game or buy a product ending in 99 cents. Getting into the mind of the consumer is business 101 and is literally the difference between a game/product having any success or not.
And this has been proven, JCPenney tried to get rid of 99 cent pricing and led to losing 30% profits and bankruptcy. The people who want fair and square pricing won’t be there to actually buy it.
- Comment on Know when to stop 5 months ago:
This is a good showcase on why, even if you win, gambling will still drain you. There’s plenty of stories of people who hit the jackpot immediately wasting it all hoping for a second jackpot.
- Comment on Anon tells a true story 6 months ago:
Maybe this is a Sodium (explosive) + Chlorine (corrosive) = salt (delicious) type of situation?
- Comment on smart 6 months ago:
Multiple choice powerpoints but it’s competitive based on who submits the correct answer fastest typically played at school hosted by the teacher. Under a certain age basically all of us have done a Kahoot.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 7 months ago:
Thing is Valve is a private company with a flat structure and ownership that encourages moving between departments.
Basically, it’s just a club of people doing whatever they want and they happen to all love videogames.
- Comment on Anon moves to the UK 7 months ago:
They are female to male so top surgery is breast removal, technically cosmetic but vital for mental health. Whether they were able to get a mobility surgery and chose not to I don’t know.
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 8 months ago:
I think the Serana Dialogue Addon does the romance tastefully, they even hired the original voice actor.
