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- Comment on monthly challenge 2 days ago:
It’s a bit weird, but imo not wrong. 500 > steps/day or steps/day < 500 is the same. As long as the big end of the < or > is at the 500 it makes sense. It only doesn’t make sense if you literally read 500 > steps/day as “five hundred greater than steps a day” instead of parsing it as math.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 days ago:
I’d love to see the look Macron and Zelensky gave each other at some point during or after this scene. The things you do for peace…
Also Trump 2028? That’s unconstitutional right? And he’s showing this to other world leaders?! That should be some kind of lawsuit in and of itself.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Yeah that’s why I commented
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If it’s like Cities Skylines then that’s pretty decent. I never bought a DLC and yet I got lots of content updates on an already great base game
- Comment on Cutting sucks 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s insane honestly. My own meals are probably like 70% vegetable or something. A lot of people already eat very few vegetables in my opinion, but OP really goes beyond that in this case. Bland, tasteless, and not even healthy
- Comment on Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar? 2 weeks ago:
2 things come to mind:
The first thing is that at one point many years ago we participated in Rocket League’s RLCS. Participation was completely open. We were actually doing quite well until we randomly ran into pro players and got completely demolished. It’s kinda humbling to know that even though you’re part of the top ~1% of players, pro players are still in a totally different league and absolutely unbeatable. Their speed and game sense is so much better than that of any mere mortal, it’s like we weren’t even there. We were probably low Grand Champion around the time, and we got beaten like we would beat Gold ranked players. Personally I don’t mind losing like this, it’s a good learning experience and shows you how much is possible.
At uni I also participated in plenty of LAN parties that had random game competitions. Usually they were games that a lot of us didn’t ever play before. We’d usually start playing the game a few hours in advance to get a feel for it. There I’ve found that I’m quite decent at this usually, but that there are definitely a few people who can get quite decent at a game in 2 hours to the point that they challenge people with casual experience with the game. It as always good fun though, and because I tended to put some effort into it I regularly managed to get into the top 3.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
Personally I’d say that “always striving for the maximum and stressing myself out” is a personality trait that’s not only a problem in Stardew Valley for me haha. I’m o it’s not a great mindset to have, but unfortunately it’s a subconscious drive that’s hard to eliminate.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
I guess it’s just a mindset difference. I’d say me and my friends are all pretty competitive gamers (as opposed to more creative gamers). We tend to play games mostly for the challenge. Also didn’t help that we had just finished our Facorio playthrough. So in our mind we still had “the factory must grow”. So our minds were like “if space -> use space”.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
While I enjoyed it, it was also very stressful. I think we just played wrong. We covered every millimeter of the plot with farms or other useful stuff and then proceeded to be busy for more than half the day with just maintenance. At some point this meant that we never got to explore and often barely had time to go to the stores or talk to the people in the village.
Apart from overcooked it was probably the most stressful game Is ever played and it’s not supposed to be like that
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 1 month ago:
That entirely depends on the circumstances. One cannot make a blanket statement. Let’s say that a horrible disease breaks out in a city and the government successfullymanages to quarantine the city before anyone gets out. The people inside suffer and most die without medical help or medicine, but the disease doesn’t spread and humanity is saved.
However there are plenty of cases where we should stand up for the rights of a few people even if it costs the majority of people. Making things accessible for people with disabilities costs money that technically could be spent elsewhere, but an empathic society should stand above this kind of thinking and make sure that society is accessible to people with disabilities.
- Comment on Well, are you? 1 month ago:
Meow meow :3
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“mem”, which is west-frisian for mum. Other than that I don’t really speak west-frisian, but words like mom/dad/grandma/grandpa all stayed in Frisian. Family also sometimes speaks Frisian to me, but unfortunately I forgot how to speak it at a young age and can only understand it.
- Comment on mothing phone 1 month ago:
Hahaha. I love all the moth posts.
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 1 month ago:
Yeah I have the same with Rollercoaster Tycoon classic. I spent money for it and really enjoyed it, but instead of patching that version for newer phones they just released a “new” version that’s compatible with newer phones. I should’ve expected this from Atari, but damn it’s so scummy
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 2 months ago:
I tend to keep them around tbh. Sometimes I install random shit on them or use them for funny projects. I only kiss one because it broke completely
- Comment on we are not the same 2 months ago:
Yup same. And many like it. Good to know that this experience is shared lol. All the stalls will probably either be empty, locked, or have something fucked up in it.
- Comment on we are not the same 2 months ago:
Same here it’s so frustrating. It’s usually when I actually have to pee. Would be cool if I could just wake up to actually go to the bathroom instead of going through this while show. Luckily the brain is at least smart enough to not mix up the dream with reality
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 months ago:
I wondered this for a long while, but I’ve realized that I’m in a pretty privileged position. Where I live (the Netherlands) the tap water is not only drinkable, it’s actually almost indistinguishable from mineral water. Certainly for me at least. I’m not much of a traveller, but when I was in Oostende in Belgium I remember the tap water was absolutely vile. It was (or at least tasted like) desalinated seawater. Instead of hydrating and refreshing it tasted stale and salty. If that was the only water I knew I probably would be drinking more refreshing stuff like ice tea or cola all day as well. When I got back to the Netherlands my first glass of tap water tasted like heaven.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 2 months ago:
I’m Dutch and I’be seem plenty of these over the years. I can’t remember where tho, probably university and maybe highschool. I feel like they’re (or were) quite common
- Comment on Of course you had to have a binder to store them 2 months ago:
I’m still looking for my childhood CDs/DVDs that somehow got lost in my parents’ binders and are now possibly lost to time. I love keeping them in the case so I can admire the album art and possibly the booklet before listening
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 months ago:
Possible, but at least in my experience most normal people know 1/3rd and understand what it means, but if I’d throw a “point three repeating” at them they’d probably get confused. Fractions are just a tool to communicate stuff more efficiently, good in some scenarios, confusing in others. It would be cool if we could teach everyone the “repeating” syntax as well because it’s another useful tool.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 months ago:
I’m also Dutch so I don’t have the answers about the imperial system haha
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 months ago:
In many cases that’s fine, I’ve done so regularly. But when you want to be precise without making it complicated you can just say the fraction as well. But in order to do that you need people to feel comfortable with it, therefore we need to teach kids this from a young age. I’m not saying we always need them, but they’re definitely very useful tools that you want at the ready when you need them. To make quick calculations in your head it’s often way simpler to use the fraction than the real number. And in cases like 1/3rd or 3/7ths it’s a way simpler, accurate and more efficient way to communicate the number than to name the rounded number.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 months ago:
Imo fractions are way more simple in many cases than decimal numbers. Saying 1/3rd is way more useful than hitting someone with the 0.33333333333333… Quick mental computations with fractions are also simpler in this case. Though this question (and questions like it) seem useless to me indeed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m gonna fight to make sure that moment never comes. Though I seem to have been blessed anyway, I’m in my 30s and my hair hasn’t really disappeared much at all.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 months ago:
There’s a big difference between food safety and not eating meat. One is about companies putting dangerous stuff in food that can potentially harm people, the other is about something which humans have been eating ever since they existed. I understand that there are some arguments to be given about why we shouldn’t eat meat, but those are definitely not as widely supported as disallowing the companies to inject “poison” into our food. In my opinion banning meat definitely would go way too far, the cost of banning meat far exceeds the benefits for public wellbeing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Why have black history month or black lives matter, don’t all lives matter? Why have feminism, don’t all genders matter? Why aren’t cishets included in pride, can’t they be proud?!
These things exist to call out specific issues that exist for specific groups. Other groups might experience the same problem, but that doesn’t matter. This is for men and their specific issues. As a man we’re always told to just suck it up and keep going. To be strong. It was way tools late that I realized that I was allowed to seek help and feel emotions.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Damn what a crybaby. I’ve recently discovered that “non-manly” products tend to be better anyways. I don’t want my hair to smell like chemicals, I want it to smell like roses or mango. I want my skin and hair to be soft. And I generally don’t need 5-in-1 shower products
- Comment on Can't fathom it 2 months ago:
5 meals is also excessive. I have the same schedule and I eat the normal 3 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, dinner. I can’t really miss any because then my tummy becomes very distracting. I really don’t understand how you can go till 3pm without feeling any adverse effects. If I skip breakfast I’ll be useless and dizzy till lunch.
I just don’t eat more than I need each meal.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 2 months ago:
Okay but I don’t know anything about the boardgame. I’m judging the game based on the game itself. It’s a cool game set in a cool Cyberpunk world.