vonbaronhans
@vonbaronhans@midwest.social
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 5 days ago:
Krita isn’t that much worse than Photoshop/CSP for digital illustration. That said, going back to CSP after a year was such a relief I didn’t know I needed. So many little stumbling blocks removed.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 5 days ago:
Iirc, when the ADP put out their guidance on Pepe, it was during the 2016 election when Pepe was being actively coopted by alt-rightera and neo Nazis. One of those "take something innocuous and poison it by using it as a pseudo secret signal to other bigots.
I vaguely recall them saying that Pepe was a hate symbol only insofar as it was being used for that purpose. I wonder if that changed, or if this investigation is ignoring that nuance to hamfist a “hate speech” argument.
- Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 3 weeks ago:
Hey I comment from time to time, that’s contributing! Kind of!
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 1 month ago:
I dunno “comics” in the US are still mostly superhero stuff. Once you get into the non-superhero stuff it generally gets referred to as “graphic novels”. Maybe that term is used only to separate it from the superhero image, or it may have to do with syndication and release schedules? I’m not entirely sure.
- Comment on Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune 1 month ago:
Or giving yourself ulcers
- Comment on Emma Roberts says internet culture doomed Madame Web 4 months ago:
I thought they made it so they’d have a place for a Bollywood dance scene.
Which I’m not against. Bollywood dance scenes kinda rock.
- Comment on Emma Roberts says internet culture doomed Madame Web 4 months ago:
I just watched the marvels a few weeks ago. It was fun!
- Comment on Cursed wretched marketing 4 months ago:
That tends to make your phone screen look yellow/orange. Pink is a different thing.
- Comment on Cursed wretched marketing 4 months ago:
I had that issue on an old phone, could very well be hardware variance.
- Comment on Cursed wretched marketing 4 months ago:
White light is the combination of all those wavelengths. It is only the combination that makes it “white” in exactly the same way that a smaller range of wavelengths are “red” or “blue”.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
That’s true, it could be racism, it could be both.
God, if Taylor Swift runs for president I’d be stunned. I mean, given the circumstances I’d vote for her, but geez Louise.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
The only outcome that might suck even more is if Biden did step down, Kamala steps up, and she still loses. Cuz then it’s like… oh so we’re just gonna be misogynistic as a voter base now, great, thanks fellow Americans. Like, we were ready to vote for a shambling shell of an old man but not a lady with Hillary Clinton energy, okay. 🤦
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Well, in the current economy, the statistical indicators that economists rely on are booming. GDP, etc. What folks on the left like us are saying is that those indicators are easily measurable but do not paint an accurate picture of what most Americans are experiencing. It doesn’t feel like a boom out here because, well, it ain’t.
It’s not like we’re sipping champagne, kicking it at the beach, and complaining that the guy next door has a nicer beach. We work just as hard as other generations and get a lot less to show for it.
Acknowledging that is important, but corporate politicians in either party seem like they just don’t want to anything about it.
Still voting for Biden, but yeah, not enthusiastically.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Yeah it’s not great, but like… coming across as coherent is important no matter the position. Biden kinda failed that basic competency test, probably just due to his age and not like, stupidity or a personal failing of any kind. I’m still voting for Biden, but yeah it’s not exactly an enthusiastic vote.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
So, speaking from a purely pragmatic perspective, voting for Biden is better than other US electoral choices for the purpose of trying to help Palestinians.
I understand your reticence and moral indignation, I largely feel the same.
But the biggest reason Trump won in 2016 is because voters were not particularly enthused with their choices, and a great many decided not voting at all (or voting for Trump as a protest against the establishment) was preferable to voting for HRC.
I have to imagine that we both believe that Trump is worse than Biden when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Given that we’re already in election year, it’s down to Biden and Trump. One of them is going to be president come January next year.
Taking all that together, if we want things to get better for Palestine, we should vote for Biden because the alternatives are much worse.
Granted there is a lot you can do outside of elections to help, and I wouldn’t recommend ignoring those. But given that voting for the US president takes a few hours out of one day every four years, it’s not a good idea to ignore that either.
I hope this helps you understand those of us who don’t really like Biden but will vote for him regardless.
- Comment on Indie games using retro graphics 5 months ago:
Pseudoregalia is a PS1-eta low-poly aesthetic 3D metroidvania with really, really slick movement mechanics. It’s the kind of game that really could’ve existed back then, had developers just known all the little quality of life design choices we have these days.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 7 months ago:
More of a you think, I think. My shorts feed mostly comedy stuff, DND stuff, art stuff, and music stuff. Well, and the odd Christian preacher, which I assume gets wrapped up with the atheism content I also see.
- Comment on foucault 8 months ago:
I tried to read Foucault in grad school. His writing is just the worst, like it’s intentionally trying to be difficult to read and understand. When other people describe Foucault’s ideas to me, they seem cool. Wish I could actually understand the original stuff though.
Maybe I’m just an idiot, I dunno.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
On the housing thing - there’s been a major intrusion of private equity firms into the regular house market. A report came out recently claiming as much as 40% of all single family homes sold in 2023 went to private equity firms to turn into rental properties (iirc). On mobile, otherwise would try to actually give you the source.
I can’t speak to the food price increases. My only thought is that most people are creatures of habit and always have been, so I doubt that individual shoppers ‘not putting pressure on the stores’ would explain a historic rise in costs. That said, if we did find evidence that shoppers are less savvy or willing to change habits, my first guess as to why would be people overall being more overworked and stressed. But until the data comes in, who knows.
- Comment on Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games 10 months ago:
It does make it different by virtue of sheer scale and efficiency.
A single human artist, no matter how good and fast they are, could ever singlehandedly damage the livelihoods of millions of other human artists. But a machine can. That’s a meaningful distinction.
Granted, your point is valid in its purest sense. If we lived in a world where everyone could benefit from AI art without the real-world downsides, I’d agree with you, full stop. But we do, and those ramifications matter.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
That explains why my DDG searches have been less than helpful… it’s just as unhelpful as Bing. I usually find myself trying other search engines, but run back to Google when I can’t find anything relevant to the problem I’m trying to solve (most of my googling is tech help stuff).
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
Would that work in the case of photographers? I would only think to use Maps for business that are likely to have or must have by necessity some building or office.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
Vermintide 2 didn’t hook me. But I’ve already got over a hundred hours in Darktide.
Good stuff.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 1 year ago:
So… I actually really like golf. I think it’s fun. Haven’t played in over a decade, but I look back on my memories playing pretty fondly.
That said, I have zero issue recovering a lot of that lost land and water usage to put them to better use.
I’d be very interested to see a version of golf that is less ecologically destructive and less water intensive.
- Comment on Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord 1 year ago:
Must be server specific. I’ve used Discord for years and never had to add a phone number.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
While this is true, I’ll add that a huge swathe of the same people are huge hypocrites. All it takes is one of their own children to be inconveniently pregnant, and then it’s all “rules for thee but not for me”.
I don’t think it’s possible to know the proportion of evangelicals who are hypocrites in this way with confidence, but if you look for examples you’ll find plenty. The most recent one I saw was a BYU student who was paid 500 bucks to prank called his mother and say he got a prostitute pregnant (for the filmer’s tiktok or whatever), and after a couple exasperated questions, the mother told him to make the fictional prostitute get an abortion.