Adalast
@Adalast@lemmy.world
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 9 hours ago:
I don’t personally hate on Apple’s 30%. I hate on Apple’s predatory licensing practices which demand an upfront expenditure before the first unit sells at all.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Can we go for upcharges on food items for modifying them next? If you are going to charge me $0.30 for adding tomatoes to a sandwich, you better damn well reduce the price by $0.30 when I remove tomatoes from a sandwich.
This is getting so out of hand in the USA.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 7 months ago:
Can confirm, both true and stupid.
- Comment on Scientific rigour: Be transparent in your research. Ethical obligations: 8 months ago:
I believe confidentiality refers to sharing details about the study as it relates to individuals, privacy relates to sharing personal details about a participant, and anonymity refers to sharing identifiable details. Examples Confidentiality breach: patient X reacted badly to the study and gained a disfiguring disability. Privacy beach: patient X is a married straight white suburban male. Anonymity breach: patient X is Steve Rogers and he is also Captain America.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 8 months ago:
No idea why I am getting down voted. Helion’s tech is a great alternative to steam for generating electricity from fusion reactions.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 8 months ago:
Looks like literally nobody brought it up, so here goes… The Alternative: Helion Great YouTube video on the topic (Helion is at 6 minutes)
- Comment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified 10 months ago:
Thank you kind lexical hero.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 10 months ago:
You dont have to since the set of all positive integers belongs to the set of all real numbers, you actually hit both tracks by just taking the lower track.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 10 months ago:
Hope things get better man, or whatevet idiot manager you have gets caught with his hand in the boss’s daughter’s cookie jar.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 10 months ago:
The Bhor’s model is at least a useful simplification of the atomic structure. What needs taught is that everything you learn before college and intensive narrow topical courses is simplified to the point of being incorrect with the hope that you get enough of an intrinsic understanding of the concept that the less simplified explanation you get next will make sense. I say this because it will still be simplified to the point of being wrong, but will be a step closer to the truth. This is the essence of education.
Elementary/middle school: ice is water that has frozen solid HS: ice is water that has lost enough energy that the molecules form a crystalline lattice. College: there are actually 19 or 20 kinds of water ice that have been verified, but as many as 74,963 might exist. Post-collegiate: There may be 74,963 kinds of ice, but I know one ICE we should definitely eliminate from this world.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 10 months ago:
Yes. This is an artifact of a destigmatization coupled with better diagnostics for evaluating ASD. More people aren’t autistic, more people are being diagnosed and receiving counseling for coping with the neurldivergence in a cold and uncaring neurotypical world.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 11 months ago:
I have a real issue here too. Though mine more centers around the purchase of IP to bury it because it would be competition. How many amazing creations that would benefit humanity and make all of our lives more livable are buried in archives at these big corpos?
This is what I would like to see fixed, in the most aggressive way possible. I want a clock on the ownership to bring a product to market based on the purchased patant and if that clock runs out, ownership reverts back to the creator.
- Comment on Awooga 11 months ago:
Yes, yes, but we live in this timeline so the research that will be done into the mediating factors will 100% become a “breast enlargement therapy” in health spas should it even remotely be found to be repeatable, controllable and safe be damned.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 11 months ago:
God, I literally cannot choose. That list is probably my perfect list of scientific figures in history. Aside from Edison, he can burn in hell.
The only ones I might add would be Goodenough and Gauss.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 11 months ago:
I kinda hope they also weight reviews based in hours in the game. If ten people with 1000 hours I’m a fame recommend and 1000 people with <10 hours don’t recommend, I really hope the score is better than 50%.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 11 months ago:
I don’t seem to have this problem as much. That said, I didn’t on Reddit either. Maybe it is because my feeds are mostly science, weird maps, and things discovered on lemmy.nsfw.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 11 months ago:
Just letting you know that you are definitely suffering a Dunning Kruger moment. I have had to study how printers work all the way down to the electrochemical level and no paper printer is simple to make aside from a dot matrix printer. In my educated opinion I will say that you are borderline correct that a laser printer might be more feasible from a materials standpoint, neither are feasible in general for a home lab, let alone a guy at his kitchen table assembling a kit.
Laser printers and ink jet printers involve extremely complex electrochemical and physical processes to function that a home lab is going to struggle to replicate. The optics for laser printers have to be assembled in a clean room because even a single stray particle of dust will destroy the print quality for a large section of the page. Ink jet printers use tiny heaters to vaporize the ink and electric fields to propel it through a nozzle to the page. These jets are created using multilayer acid etched circuitboards that are precicely tuned for the specific inks and substrates that are used.
These are just examples of challenges to overcome, and are by no means exhaustive.
I hate the printer companies probably more than anyone here, so do not think I am a shill for them. I am articulating why what you are saying is impractical and unreasonable. Laser printers are probably easier to source most of the mechanical parts, but assembly is obscenely delicate and prohibitive. Ink jet printers are simpler to recreate and assemble, but the miniaturization required makes it impossible to do at home.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 11 months ago:
You are missing a vital part of how a laser printer works. The toner is dusted onto a drum that has a static charge. That charge is manipulated by the laser, which means that there is a very specific frequency that the laser has to utilize and it has to be keyed to the material used for the drum. I would have to dig more into the specific interaction, but I am pretty sure that off the rack lasers and drums are not going to be functional, both in wattage and frequency.
So the laser printer process is: a laser traces the negative space on a drum with a static charge to discharge those spots, next a pigment substrate is dusted onto the drum, being held by the static where the positive space is going to be. Following that, a heater heats the substrate to permanently affix it to the page.
- Comment on Toot toot 11 months ago:
I prefer the didgeridoo.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 1 year ago:
Ben Browder, he has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 1 year ago:
Honestly, that one I can’t agree with. While none of them are in scientific fields, James Franco is a rogue scholar who holds 4 MFAs and 2 PhDs. They could have picked MUCH worse and less educated people. He also avidly researches science and technology as he pursues the craft of writing science fiction.
- Comment on Hmmm... 1 year ago:
Soooo, fish, fish, and… Ummm… Fish, got it.
I love how every vertebrate is a fish or none are.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 1 year ago:
All Valve would have to do is announce that they would be making sale and install of mobile games and apps through the Steam App and the entire industry would shit the bed.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 1 year ago:
True, but what did Valve actually delist on Steam? I frequent the AO section and everything has appeared to be business as usual in there. I had honestly not even heard about the pressures on Steam until I saw the stuff about Itch.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 1 year ago:
Time to start lobbying governments. EU/USA legislation stating that outside of legal violations, a payment processor is not allowed to refuse a legitimate legal transaction.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 1 year ago:
Thank you kind stranger. I vehemently oppose censorship, especially by uninvolved 3rd parties, so this is precicely what I needed with all of this. Good list of games too.
- Comment on robot slurs 1 year ago:
Reminds me of the ST:Next Gen episode where the colony finds the silicon based life and the crystal ends up calling humans “sacks of mostly water”
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 1 year ago:
Seriously. I was so surpeiced when I learned that porn in Japan is serialized and you only need to know the serial number of a porn to find the exact one piece you are looking for.
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 1 year ago:
Nah, we just both have the same parent.
- Comment on I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet. 1 year ago:
I like to spice up my time with spreadsheets by doing them in Pandas. That way they can be theoretical and it is like mathematical roleplay.