gerryflap
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- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 2 days ago:
I obviously don’t agree with them, but my assumption is that it has to do with maturity/innocence. An unborn child hasn’t done anything wrong. They’re full of opportunity and have a whole life ahead of them. A criminal sentenced for death has I some way done something very wrong. They’ve had their chance and failed.
- Comment on Jedi Survivor could have been great 4 weeks ago:
Interesting how experiences can be so different. To me Jedi Survivor was an improvement over the first game, which I already enjoyed a lot. As far as I can remember you keep most (if not all) of your abilities. In the first game Cal has almost nothing after he essentially cut himself off from the force after the trauma of order 66. It’s and entirely reasonable explanation of Cal not having most normal Jedi abilities.
Survivor also has better combat, because of the new abilities and weapons, better graphics, and better traversal (looking at you, Zeffo). While I really like the story in Fallen Order as well, I also think that Survivor is better overall. It’s not as clear cut as good vs evil. There’s many different factions and people with different goals. In the end, it’s about everyone just trying to survive the tyranny of the Empire, whatever it takes.
The games definitely does feel very “gamey” though. There’s a lot of places where it’s clear that things are only the way they are because this is a video game. But to me that’s okay. A game doesn’t always need to be the most realistic and life-like experience. I don’t mind that a specific puzzle is totally unrealistic and clearly only there to force you to solve it. I can imagine that some people will not enjoy that though, and that’s okay.
- Comment on What are your favorite racing games? 5 weeks ago:
At the moment Assetto Corsa and Wreckfest.
Assetto Corsa because it’s a simracing sandbox. I’ve modded it to hell with Content Manager and CSP. I also have a lot of paid mods for mainly formula cars like the RSS Formula 1/2/3/4 cars and the VRC Formula E cars. The AI is the perfect level of silly to cause absolute mayhem with the right settings, but also pretty interesting races when you want them to behave.
Wreckfest is a joy on the Steam deck and for casual mayhem. It still has a nice driving model imo, while remaining casual. The maps are optimized for crashing into others which means you’re never safe.
- Comment on Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys? 1 month ago:
Idk. I’m an aro/ace and to me it’s mostly just another body part. I’d be surprised if most gay guys would feel different
- Comment on Bread 1 month ago:
Either lawful or chaotic neutral depending on whether I can find the clip again. But I doubt it matters since I store it in the freezer and heat the slices I need when I need them.
- Comment on after 40 all meals are horror 1 month ago:
I also eat pretty much the same breakfast every day. For lunch I can vary what’s on the bread and the type of bread. That’s just how things are here. It’s not the nicest, but it saves a lot of time and money and can also be quite nice
- Comment on after 40 all meals are horror 1 month ago:
Here in the Netherlands a lot of people just eat sandwiches. I usually take them with me to work. Not a lot of effort
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" EU Petition is Live 2 months ago:
Yeah it was very easy actually. Though fair warning to people who are sensitive to flashing lights: after logging in with DigiD my screen went full strobe mode. Looked like multiple pages loading in quick succession with different background colours before finally landing on the success screen.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m okay with any delays as long as it doesn’t release in a totally fucked state. I have huge respect for the Devs, dealing with the Ukraine invasion and also building a game
- Comment on I'm terrified of the Netherlands now 2 months ago:
Apparently i’m almost 3 inches taller than average. So somewhat better but still scary
- Comment on I'm terrified of the Netherlands now 2 months ago:
This scale is totally wack. The feet of the human bodies in the graph don’t start at 0 but somewhere between 4 and 5. Such a bad graph. That being said, we Dutch people are very powerful and you should be terrified >:3
- Comment on Loading like a 90's dell computer 2 months ago:
This happens quite often to me, especially when tired. I’m assuming that for me it’s mostly autism related. That being said, I’ve noticed that many non-autistic people also have this happen every now and then., it just happens more for me.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web 2 months ago:
Oh I never knew, but it seems true. On his Wikipedia page both researches are mentioned. It’s so impressive how these researchers are behind so many different but interesting papers.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web 3 months ago:
Machine learning and compression have always been closely tied together. It’s trying to learn the “rules” that describe the data rather than memorizing all the data.
I remember implementing a paper older than me in our “Information Theory” course at university that treated the creation of a decision tree as compression. Their algorithm considered sending the decisions tree and all the exceptions to the decision tree and the tree itself. If a node in the tree increased the overall message size, it would simply be pruned. This way they ensured that you wouldn’t make conclusions while having very little data and would only add the big patterns in the data.
Fundamentally it is just compression, it’s just a way better method of compression than all the models that we had before.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 3 months ago:
I mean, yes and no. The festivals I visit and my gaming PC are also a complete waste of energy when you view it like that. I hate the dangerous situations we have every year in the Netherlands with fireworks. The heavy fireworks and loud bangs, the vandalism. But I’m okay with the people who send a lot of nice colourful fireworks into the sky around new year’s eve, and the farmers with their loud “carbid” launchers.
- Comment on What does your booger feel like rn? 4 months ago:
Ever since getting COVID in 2020 my nose is basically 2 like 70% of the time. Painfully dry, completely useless at filtering anything. It depends greatly on the humidity and temperature though. In spring/summer it tends to behave a bit better.
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 4 months ago:
But we also don’t call our language “Dutch”, we call it Nederlands. It’s a relic of an old time, but actually German should be called Dutch and Dutch should be Netherlandish. It’d help a lot with the confusion of young German and Dutch people learning English for the first time haha. Would also resolve the confusion around “Pennsylvanian Dutch” being German.
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 4 months ago:
Dutch is such a weird one. We don’t call ourselves “Dutch” in Dutch, we call ourselves “Nederlands”. This would be something like “Netherlandish” in English. We do call Germans “Duits” though, and they call themselves “Deutsch”. Somehow in English German and Dutch got a bit messed up. The reason is probably that during the middle ages we did refer to our language as “Dietsch”, so that probably stayed around.
- Comment on Who's gonna tell the boss? 4 months ago:
Because sometimes people get violent with guns/fireworks and it’s quite useful to have some protection?
- Comment on meme 4 months ago:
As an asexual (who really finds sex yucky): guess I’ll die
- Comment on His neighbors live in constant terror 4 months ago:
I hope for this person that they switch direction every now and then. Constantly turning in the same direction doesn’t sound optimal
- Comment on Okay this is getting a bit real now Duo, thanks 💔 4 months ago:
Okay, but have you ever tried being sad even though rationally speaking everything is going super well? ( Don’t worry about me, I managed to get out of that vibe :3 )
- Comment on Let's discuss: The Sims 4 months ago:
My first experience with the Sims was jumping behind a random computer at some kind of event that was running the Sims 1. Most of the family had just died because the previous person behind the PC had let the house burn down. Needless to say, I was a bit confused. I’ve played the Sims quite a bit after that, and I honestly like messing around with it.
I don’t think I’ve ever played a game without cheating a lot of money. I don’t like that the Sims that I made have to go off to work or school, so usually I just build a big fence around the property to keep them all there. From there on it used to devolve into chaos when I was younger. Building huge mazes to access basic necessities, launching fireworks indoors, etc. Nowadays im a bit more behaved though.
Imo the Sims 4 is the best nowadays. The older ones are showing their age. That being said, the Sims 4 is definitely in need of some competition. It’s inexcusably buggy sometimes, and I personally think there’s a lot more that can be done with a game like this. Hopefully the upcoming competitors can spark some fire into this genre.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 26th 4 months ago:
I got randomly recommend “Kena: Bridge of Spirits” recently by Steam and decided to go for it. I just finished the story and it was definitely a good recommendation. Hard enough to make me work for it, which I always like. It is kinda short though, finished it in like 12 hours. It’s a bit janky at times with the camera and jumping, but overall a great experience.
- Comment on Oh no, they put GRANDMA in the McFlurry!!!! 4 months ago:
Yeah that’s probably why it’s so noticeable to me as well. I’m not exactly counting calories yet, but I’ve been trying to reduce the amount of excess carbs and calories in my meals. So seeing this is quite the shock.
- Comment on Oh no, they put GRANDMA in the McFlurry!!!! 4 months ago:
600 cal?! Sjeesh. Puts into perspective how overkill desserts like these are. I just ran for an hour and (according to my watch) burned like 800-900 cal, which I don’t fully trust. One of these bad boys would probably undo all of the hard work
- Comment on Thanks. That was what I was looking for. 4 months ago:
What’s wrong? I find this a reasonable result. Most people looking for megabyte to bytes are actually looking for mebibytes, since the mega- prefix is literally just times a million but a lot of programs actually list mebibytes as “megabytes”.
- Comment on Microsoft announces the Proteus Controller, a gamepad for Xbox gamers with disabilities 5 months ago:
Microsoft does a lot of bad things, but I got to give it to them here. Their push for accessibility in gaming is definitely a good thing. They’ve been pushing multiple modular controllers in order to allow people with disabilities to play games in a comfortable way. Having the support of a major player in the gaming market like Microsoft will definitely help with support for these products.
- Comment on Mhhhh hagelslag 5 months ago:
I don’t understand how other countries manage to remain civilised without eating a broodje hagelslag regularly.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 5 months ago:
Hmmm yeah, now that you mention it I do remember a few occasions of launching soy milk throughout the kitchen. Still I prefer it over the second one though. After it’s been opened once, it’s much less in the way.