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- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 1 day ago:
mine is ftb skies 2, so like as long as I don’t leave my little island its safe XD
Although I read the question more of you just become the character, not that you wake up in the game.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 days ago:
minecraft, so meh? could be better could be worsem
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Neither, this time it was one of those stupid third parties they hire to try and search for infringing content.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 5 days ago:
Yeah, unfortunately, if that’s a US label, that is how the regulations work. The FDA allows rounding to the nearest five. However, if it’s less than five, they allow you to round to 0.
(1) “Calories, total,” “Total calories,” or “Calories”: A statement of the caloric content per serving, expressed to the nearest 5-calorie increment up to and including 50 calories, and 10-calorie increment above 50 calories, except that amounts less than 5 calories may be expressed as zero. Energy content per serving may also be expressed in kilojoule units, added in parentheses immediately following the statement of the caloric content - Comment on The legendary PS2 5 days ago:
Seen a PS2 buddy, I still have a PS2. It’s chilling next to my TV collecting dust until I get the urge to play need for speed underground, cabelas outdoor adventures, 007 or sims 2 castaway again!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t play very many series-based games, but off the top of my head, I would have to say Subnautica Below Zero is my most hated series game. And if I had to choose the second one, battlefield 1, or whatever battlefield it was that added a bunch of smaller stories instead of having an overarching story.
- Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions 1 week ago:
The intent is almost strictly for WoW, discord is advertising that it’s to allow for merging of WoW clan chat and discord messages, I would assume via the discord client which is why it asks for so many intents. Screw that regardless though.
- Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions 1 week ago:
Some of these permissions I didn’t even think was a possibility for discord integrations, holy cow.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I feel like most devs are going to agree with this. Most aren’t against using AI as an assistive tech, they are moreso against using it as a generative tech. Formatting, commenting and suggestions? Sure. Sometimes it even recommends things you haden’t thought of. Actually writing the code and making the entire thing is where many draw the line into “this is bad don’t use it”
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
I think the better alternative since it won’t kill application flows, is have a field somewhere saying that they need to mention the title of the job in a field that doesn’t make sense what it actually is,
such as have a duplicate middle name field, but specify in the job description that the second middle name field should be what the jobs listed title is.
To someone who didn’t read the job applicant, they would think that an error was made creating the job posting, but to anyone who bothered to read it they would know the second field is intended to be the verification process.
Anyone who doesn’t supply the job title (case insensitive all special chars like trailing whitespace and ’ removed) as the second field just gets auto rejected
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
this… is actually fair tbh, the current applicant applies to so many different jobs, some people I know just mass apply to every job available.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
I really don’t understand why myself. It’s not like a person is going to look at it anyway. It’s all automated now, anything that is short of a perfect image of what the HR thinks they need for the role gets throw out way before any actual human sees them.
A cover letter was great at the beginning because it let the HR person be able to get a summary of what the person has to offer without having to go into technical details of the resume, but now its all automated anyway so if its made it to the HR desk then they can just look at the details.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
I think it would be fully okay to have the cost of a house be multiplicative, based off how many you own after the second house. So, if you are looking to buy a third house, the price is actually double than what you would be expecting, and then your fourth house would be triple what you’re expecting, etc.
The price of the house will be the cost the seller lists it as, and the seller gets the cost that they listed it as. However, anything over the cost it was listed, if you are affected by that multiplier, has that money go straight into the government.
The reason I say after the second house is because I do personally think it’s fair for someone to want a vacation home somewhere, I just don’t think it’s fair for someone to have an interest into having a second, third, fourth, or sometimes even fifth vacation home. And there are many cases where you would want to own a second property such as if you run a self-employed job such as a computer repair specialist, you will probably own a shop, and having a office that’s at twice the cost of what it normally would be is extremely cost prohibitive to someone wanting to get into the market.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 week ago:
You should at least put a photoelectric fire/smoke alarm in your kitchen, those are less sensitive than the ionization alarms, they will still go off if you burn something but, you will avoid the hassle of it going off because you decided to cook some french fries or something on a frying pan.
Many people I don’t think realize that usually, you can usually press the button on the alarm, and it will suppress the alarm as well. I see many folk removing the batteries until it’s away.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
but, what if instead of lowering the amount of food production to match what you said, we just outlaw throwing still good food out, and instead enforce a donation style regulation where leftover food that is still safe to eat must be donated or given, not wasted.
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 3 weeks ago:
Technically, the internet already has what you’re looking for. It’s just not really standardized for video media.
The beginning of the URL or the schema is already able to on most mainstream OS be controlled by a specific application.
There’s nothing really stopping anyone from making it so there’s a video:// schema, and then configuring a schema handler to handle it. on Debian it would be a single desktop file with a MimeType=x-scheme-handler/video line indicating that type of url should be opened with that desktop file. I had to configure it for vortex to get it to open mod links, I never knew how easy that was
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 3 weeks ago:
This is every scraper for YouTube.
The only applications that I’ve ever seen reliably access YouTube are the ones that work by patching the YouTube app and then using what the app would do.
Applications like invidious or Grayjay almost always have a 15 to 30 second delay before any video.
- Comment on Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak? 3 weeks ago:
because they don’t actually want the person to respond. they want to paint a picture of what they are trying to push across. The more they let the other person talk, the less detailed their picture becomes.
It’s all of politics now a days, you don’t actually ask the question for the answer, you ask the question to push the narrative.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
My biggest problem with this, is lack of ability to resell. I would be saying the same if they made it so the disks are license only locked to the first account that plays them.
The issue for me isn’t the content of the disk, it’s what the disk allows.
That being said, if I had to choose between the disks acting like a key, or the disks containing the game I would obviously choose the disk playing the game.
But if I had to choose between a disk acting as a key, or no disk at all. I’m going to choose the disk acting like a key.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
I feel like I should add while yes they removed the microtransaction, they did the absolute bare minimum they had to do.
I also feel like this type of boycott doesn’t match that type, the one you linked was a permanent boycott until the changes were done, not a week long one. People were straight refusing to buy it period till it was fixed, and people who did buy it was review bombing it.
For clarification: The issue was they implemented a massive XP grind that was reliant on you spending money to level your coach. At the same time they had removed the ability to make it easier to obtain the XP. They removed the microtransactions as a whole for that mode, and readded the previous games XP slider but removed the fastest mode and kept only a 1.5x mode, and didn’t rebalance anything else in the game, so you still have a game that was intentionally geared torward’s someone spending money to level, just without the ability to actually spend money to level. I’m sure some exec intentionally did that expecting people would complain and they could use it as a potential avenue to readd the transactions again as a “see we listen to our community”
I personally do think a boycott on sony will eventually do something, but a week long one like this, isn’t going to do anything meaningful.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
this is a pretty accurate representation of most current day boycotts.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
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if its longer than a week maybe, a week boycott is just a piss in the wind.
For perspective, the Montgomery bus boycott, which is usually used as a prime example of how well boycotts can work, lasted for 381 days.
But yea a 1 week surely will do something.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure why it’s a timed boycott.
I already decided a couple years ago that this is my last console from sony. (likely my last console period tbf) everything else they have done since then has been no concern. I haven’t turned my ps5 on more than a handful of times in the last year. No reason to.
Their games are too expensive, are shit quality, and their entire mentality on giving “free” games to subscription members backfired horribly since I never bought any actual games using it, so therefore when I finally cancelled my sub I have nothing to bring me to turn the console on as well.
The Xbox has the same flaw atm, like yea gamepass is an amazing feature but, when you finally cancel that sub… there’s nothing left for you, you won’t see the advertising or the new games they offer, as you don’t have a reason to turn the system on. That was the biggest thing that kept me on my ps3 and 4, when I was playing my actual games, I could slide onto the PS+ area and see what was new, and if something caught my eye I either bought it or downloaded it. With the PS5 and Xbox X nothing has brought me back onto the systems… so nothing is making me feel like I should continue to spend money on the platforms.
- Comment on Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear' 5 weeks ago:
The game while fun suffered the same exact issue that Wild Gate did, where any new player trying to join in gets smothered.
There just was way too much power difference between items that you have at the beginning of the game and items that you gain at the end of the game. Combined with a relatively low player count, meaning that you can’t really have skill-based or level based matchmaking, just cold cuts your new players
- Comment on Contemplating on playing a controversial developer's bought game 5 weeks ago:
you’ve already given your money you can’t do much more than that. might as well play it
- Comment on I say this as an ex-coder, but is it possible to ask for a paper ballot instead of using the stupid machines when voting? 5 weeks ago:
boils down to it depends.
in my area, particularly we have paper ballots that then get read by the digital machines, so if there’s any type of question about the legitimacy of it, there’s the paper trail to follow.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Clarification: What definition of incel are you using? Are you strictly using the definition as “One who can not find a partner despite wanting to” or are you using a different definition
If it’s strictly that definition there isn’t anything wrong with it. It’s when someone in that position starts blaming the other parties for their position that makes it become an issue. I.E Racism, sexism, etc
In my opinion, incels are in a similar boat to furries, just being that designation doesn’t make it wrong, however the actions you do while in that designation do. As a result, the designation as a whole has a black mark.
It’s completely fair to hate that you can’t find an SO and blame yourself, it isn’t fair to hate that you can’t find an SO and to blame others for it. The only time I would argue the counterpart is fair is if someone is actually smearing your image, but that isn’t what is happening with the incel stereotype. The incel stereotype is blaming others for liking other characteristics (usually ones that you don’t have [and yes that can include self describing yourself as an incel]), which is entitled/extremely selfish as a trait.
However if your definition is the stereotype definition of incel, and you can’t see whats wrong with the above… I don’t think anything anyone can say here is going to be able to change anything.
- Comment on what's the deal with Data centers and why do we all of a sudden need massive ones built all over everywhere? 5 weeks ago:
Panic investors and companies realizing that their investments into it are short term and if they don’t somehow make a magic bean its all going to rot.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 5 weeks ago:
it’s something going on with itjust.works I think, because before it showed your post of 3 hours, and then two 7 month old posts replying to it.
Now it doesn’t even show my comment chain even exists at all. but if I jump instances it shows it in the proper order.
Isn’t technology great.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 5 weeks ago:
I’m confused how I just got a notice of this reply, and how it says “3 hours ago” but the comments replying to your comments are “7 months ago”