Phen

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences German humor⁩ ⁨⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Girl goes to a store and asks: “do you sell pantyhoses?”. The salesman replies: “why? Do you have half an ass?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I also fell for it⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s Gura?

  Haven’t been able to associate the name with any specific fandom yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oopsie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even back then, the largest a forum became the less likely it was for trolls to starve in it. What we’re seeing is just the continuation of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And to think that this all started because Gabe was afraid that microsoft’s “app store” would hurt Steam so he decided to fully embrace Linux to in preparation. I bet not even Gabe expected back then that the situation would be as it is today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning a new language is easy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave up on duolingo very quickly because it had a ton of clearly wrong stuff too. Drops and Rosetta Stone have much better content for learning German.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem lies in wanting women to look better in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are dropping like flies this month - Linda Lavin - DEAD 87⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn there’s people dying who never did before. Crazy times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And it used to work better on Linux, until the Steam Deck got announced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The world won’t be any better if you don’t. The only difference is what you’d feel about it yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent but Deadly: I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I still meet new people to play with whenever I start a new mmo. I started one just last week, asked for a guild on the recruit chat, joined their discord and played together for a while.

  I guess it really just depends on what kind of game you’re playing and how old the game is. For games that have been going on for years, I doubt any guild would want to recruit people out of the public chat right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's in a name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what it hopped then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Niantic always announced itself as a data company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something in the way of “an apartment key is useless if you can’t get into the building”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only started remembering which side west is (relative to north) when I started thinking of “the wild west” and then thinking of where the wild west was. Still can’t use it in the real world for anything though. At most if I’m at my own town I know approximately where north is, but anywhere else I’ll quickly lose the sense of which direction is which.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two games I was looking forward to, both launching on the same day. One has Denuvo (civ 7), the other has not (KCD2). Guess which one I’m going to be playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rule of thumb:

  • are you making fun or otherwise mocking someone?
  • are you doing it for any “bad reason” whatsoever?
  • are you doing something that is/was primarily done by others for “bad reasons”, historically?
  • are you doing something that other groups started doing as a replacement for something else that they were not allowed to (that you are)?

  I’m half asleep so I may have forgotten something but if I didn’t, then answering No to all of those should be the minimum thing you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxbowin'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know much about rivers but based on the floods we had here in Brazil early this year, I don’t think that house will be there by the end of the century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired of every game being live service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not my experience with steam at all. Only one or two options of the steam store tend to show AAA games over indie games. If you browse by category or using the dynamic recommendation you’ll see plenty of good games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if someone creates a game with all the options there and you just use AI as a replacement for a complex UI, it could kinda work. A game like scribblenauts could theorically implement an AI based stage creation option with the current tech already. The problem with that is that the AI wouldn’t be able to guarantee that the stage has a proper challenge level (or even that is possible to complete it), so it would also need to implement an AI that tries to beat the level as well and then keep iterating over the two until a proper stage is found.

  In short: doable, for very niche cases and probably taking a very long time to complete a prompt (possibly hours).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Round things with antennas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty bad business decision. Even with the subscription in place they could give a year of it for free on new purchases and then just charge 2k instead of 1.7k. They would get the same money, people would be ok with it as it would be free for the time they use it and the company would even make some money out of resold units that would require the subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: 8-bit Era Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite 8 bit game was The Little Samson. So few people know about it but it was an incredible game for that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you rank sums of single-digit numbers ?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would switch 6+8 and 6+9

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Portuguese we don’t use many acronyms, but we have shorter versions of words with the vowels removed or things like that. When people tried to use acronyms we ended up with “fds” which some people read as weekend, others read as “fuck it”. The only other acronyms I can think of right now are all for offenses such as fdp (son of a bitch) and cdf (“ass of iron”, very old term for calling someone a nerd).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mythbusters⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Curiosity is the best trait nature ever gave us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how that’s going. When the devs started they were clearly overpromising things that they thought would be cool to have without any idea of how long it would take to implement them. I always suspected it would remain in development for many many years, but apparently it’ll be playable next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did a movie misrepresent the country or city you live in?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brazil is always misrepresented everywhere, but two funny cases come to mind:

  There was a House episode where Dr. House was treating a CIA officer who had been to Bolivia and had eaten a lot of nuts. At the end of the episode House realized the officer has actually been to Brazil and not Bolivia and then figures out that he ate Brazil Nuts, which could cause all the symptoms he had. In reality Brazil Nuts are much more common in Bolivia than they are in Brazil (or anywhere else).

  The other case was Westworld, Vincent Cassel speaks perfect Portuguese while playing an American character, talking to a Brazilian character whose actor speaks it incorrectly and with an extremely loaded accent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was always there and you forget me like this⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be my adhd+aphantasia brain but I don’t get the idea of enjoying a color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was always there and you forget me like this⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People actually have favorite colors and stuff like that? What makes a color become one’s favorite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon figures out how dieting works⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For weight, yeah. It’s still unhealthy for many reasons but if you only care about weight that’the thing that matters