Tarquinn2049
@Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 days ago:
I mean the kinds of gambling that might trigger someone with a gambling addiction. Isn’t that where you were coming from?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 days ago:
You can’t gamble with dice?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 days ago:
Ok… but his thing can actually happen… your version of the bad things that can happen for still also posting news to twitter is all imaginary stuff that doesn’t happen in real life.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 days ago:
The whole point of the post is real gambling is rated as totally safe for kids. As long as it doesn’t use card or poker chips as imagery. Why is getting kids to actually gamble ok? Why is imagery associated with gambling so much worse than actual gambling for kids?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 days ago:
So then explain why games with actual real money gambling aren’t rated 18+, is gambling “imagery” really that much worse than having actual gambling?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 days ago:
If your stated downside to still using Twitter is that it’s a waste of time, is that invalidated if your posting tool posts to all of your socials with one click? Like most professional social media users that have to maintain a bunch of channels with the same content?
Also, who is being dramatic about how important it is to be on or off twitter?
- Comment on A little Russian invasion comparison to put it all in perspective 2 weeks ago:
Now, imagine the reason was to prove you aren’t just powerful on paper but can really back it up…
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
In the same vein
“Wha-wha wha-wha what do you want? Wha-wha wha-wha what do you want? Why do you keep poking me?
Daah buu daah buu”
The song from warcraft 1 or 2 or something.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
Do you want axe? Except as "dyouwan taxe?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 5 weeks ago:
A lot of it is the difference between learning practically and learning theoretically. You don’t have to understand the underlying mechanics in practice to know how to keep getting the same result. Your brain doesn’t have to be doing any math, it just has to have shaken a bottle enough times to have a good comparative basis formed.
Learning to calculate the current remaining volume in a container when observing someone else shake it… that would use all that theoretical knowledge and math.
It’s like knowing how hard you have to throw an egg at a wall for it to break instead of bounce off. You do it 100 times, you just get a good feel for it. Doing all the math, and then trying to learn it practically is barely gonna affect how quickly you learn it in practice. But if you wanted to make a robot that throws it exactly hard enough without wasting any energy, practical knowledge will have almost no value, and theory and math will be incredibly valuable.
- Comment on Understandable, copy that. 1 month ago:
Yeah, it sucks to be on the side where people will pick apart your words to see if they can intentionally misconstrue anything. So you have to very carefully craft all sentences to reduce the chance that any of them can be misinterpreted. Instead of the side where you can just say whatever you want and if it doesn’t play well, you were retroactively actually joking.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 month ago:
Do they have them when they are little too? Or maybe it worked out that it was less likely predators would yoink their babies because it seemed like they were always watching. Can’t sneak up on someone with eyes on the back of their heads, that never close, even while sleeping.
- Comment on So begins the great smart bulb saga! 1 month ago:
Careful with alarm fatigue. It’s unfortunately something your brain does without your permission. If you ever find setting lots of alarms stops being helpful, that is likely what happened. Basically, since you will end up brushing off a decent portion of those alarms as you are either still on task or don’t need to be on task yet “this time”, your brain will slowly think of those alarms as less important, no matter how important you want them to still be.
It can help to set as many different alarm sounds as possible. Sometimes, that can make it feel like each alarm is different, and they won’t all be lumped into the same category in your subconscious.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 1 month ago:
Discussing it properly is fine as long as they are interested. If they don’t seem interested, then you can boil it down to a simpler analogy. Some kids very much appreciate having the full picture right away, and some need a framework first before details can be added. Most schools use method 2, because it will eventually reach all kids, and the only downside is kids that need/want method 1 will be bored the whole time.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 2 months ago:
Yeah, all the complicated flashlights with multiple settings I have used support turning on and off into the last used settings. I don’t think I’ve ever used a flashlight that forced you to cycle through everything. I had a bike light that did, but I got rid of it and replaced it with a flashlight mounted instead.
- Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell? 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s just one of the ways it has changed over time for some cultures, hehe. There were plenty of millenia before hell was even thought of the first time, we probably will never know what the first written use of it was, let alone the first time it was used in oral storytelling. But with what little evidence we do have from thousands of years ago, we can see that the idea of hell was never consistent since.
- Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell? 2 months ago:
Religion is pretty hard to believe if it wasn’t the one you were raised into. And it’s often times pretty hard to get out of the one you were raised into.
But outside of religion, a pretty common fictional view is that heaven is the extreme end of order, and hell is the extreme end of chaos. Neither one can harbor any middle ground, and thus they would both suck to be stuck in.
Inside religion, whatever your religion’s version of heaven is, usually depends on what “your people(local and as a whole)” would want it to be. It changes over time and distance to better fit. But never bring up that it has changed, as it has always been this one and true correct way of depicting it, to question that is some kind of sin… and hell of course is similarly fluid despite having always been “this” way.
In truth, they have both been depicted every which way imaginable.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 2 months ago:
It’d be nice to line up his quotes on the subject in chronological order, since it seems like the last one would be about how his infidelities were his biggest failings in life. People say a lot of stuff to rationalize their behaviour while they are still doing it. But with time and space, can put together that the problem wasn’t that other people “chose” to feel hurt about it. They will always be hurt if it came by surprise and you didn’t have consent first. Hell, even in proper polygamous relationships with as much consideration and communication as possible, it can be a challenge to not hurt anyone.
- Comment on Eureka 2 months ago:
I’m sorry you are not familiar enough with one to know this. You know the difference between men and women? There basically isn’t one. We are 99.9% similar.
- Comment on In honor of the start spooky season (yay!), I have a question about an apparently beloved spooky meme/skit. What about "David S. Pumpkins" is so funny? 2 months ago:
The thing about it is to remember that it’s generally one of 5 skits they have had to write and rehearse as much as possible in the course of 6 days at most.
SNL is more about having a good reason to workshop their skills than it is about how good the show is. But innthe context of what they are actually accomplishing, it’s generally a pretty good live show. But of course, it will never be as funny on average as a pre-written and pre-recorded show that can be edited and fixed up.
Sort of the same thing as going to any live theater shows. They are not as good as recorded and edited stuff, but you have to appreciate the effort given the context. And adjust your expectations of the quality of the results. They might occasionally still make something that happens to compete fqvourably with other media, but it shouldn’t be expected.
- Comment on I think Sims is a dead franchise now 2 months ago:
Just a heads up, Alterlife likely never got off the ground. They mocked up a demo video with store assets 3 years ago, but were never heard from again. I still have it on my wishlist, but my hopes are not up, lol.
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 2 months ago:
Would you say to not play World of Warcraft until it is “finished”? It has huge game changing updates all the time.
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 2 months ago:
Can always go the krobus route, platonic roomates with a friendly shadow monster.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Pirates, and everyone else in the game, are aware of the date... 2 months ago:
That’s awesome. Buncha nerds, hehe. I miss when games were made by a handful of friends, sure sometimes it meant they leaned a little too heavily on a mechanic that only played well in their opinion and stuff like that, the upsides were worth it though.
- Comment on What are your favorite racing games? 2 months ago:
Ooh nice. I’ll take it. It may not be the dream, but it’s what you wake up to after dreaming, and that’s really all you can hope for.
I’m pretty sure a game as I described would only be a cult classic at best. Can’t expect that kind of passion project in our financial climate.
- Comment on What are your favorite racing games? 2 months ago:
I really liked the Tokyo Xtreme racer games. They are still probably the best car RPG games. I would love to see what someone could do now in the same vein. Even tokyo xtreme never got quite as crunchy or difficult as I would have liked.
I want to go so far as to be like a tactical survival style game, where you are out there earning a living wage from daily(nightly) car racing, and putting most of it back into your car. Just the repairs and maintenance alone being a bar you have to meet and beat every day on average to stay afloat, and then you can think about upgrades after.
It basically takes an environment like that for it to matter in a racing game that there are upgrades between the worst and the best. If trying to save up for even one good part wouldn’t be possible without at least some middle parts first.
Meanwhile, could have some “roguelite” elements too in driver experience/skill. The car is only half of what’s winning the races afterall. And even if you really blow it at some point and your car is fucked and you need to salvage and pull together what you got and go back to a cheaper car to maintain/repair, you’ll still have all the experience/skill you personally gained helping it go a little smoother this time.
- Comment on Anon defends Michael Jackson 3 months ago:
He likely did have vitiligo, but as far as I know, it doesn’t lighten all your skin gradually and evenly. I don’t know if he did do something about it on purpose. You’d think if he did, at least some other people with vitiligo might choose the same option…
But either way, I don’t begrudge him the choice if it was something he did to deal with vitiligo. Honestly, I don’t know if I would begrudge him the choice even if he didn’t have vitiligo. It would certainly be an odd choice, with some social consequences, but it would be his choice.
His skin changing to white was only part of it too, he also had plastic surgery to make his facial features shaped more in-line with facial features common to white skinned populaces. His nose infamously took too much work to get the way he wanted it and ended up with problems later. Could be entirely co-incidental that the plastic surgery he wanted happened to make him look more like someone that was born genetically white skinned…
But taken together, it does seem pretty likely he wanted to identify as white.
If that was the most noteworthy thing about him, people would probably have been upset for a while, but got over it at some point. I mean “Black Alien” has certain done more to purposefully change his appearance and while we see him pop up on the internet every now and then, we tend to go back to fogetting he exists between mentions.
But Michael Jackson is noteworthy for reasons that would hold just as much merit if that part of his life completely never happened.
I, for one, am not convinced of any of the pedophilia stuff, but alot of people are. To me, the descriptions of activities the kids gave sounds so much more like a stunted childhood than anything sexual. But, assuming they were true, it’s much closer, but still wouldn’t be the most noteworthy thing about him.
He was just that much better than the next closest musician. That he could get through both those news stories coming up all the time, and still have most people think positively of him.
- Comment on 'FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time' delayed, new timing to be announced at 'LEVEL5 VISION 2024' 3 months ago:
Oh, the girl, up to her old tricks of stealing time again. This time from her own devs.
- Comment on Anon is living like royalty 4 months ago:
They have an effect on the chemistry, but for the most part, if you are depressed, you will be depressed no matter how good of a day or month or year you have. Depression doesn’t happen because you did something to cause it. And it doesn’t stop from just having a good time.
- Comment on Anon is living like royalty 4 months ago:
It’s just chemistry, it barely has anything to do with what is actually going on in your life or how much you appreciate it.