frezik
@frezik@midwest.social
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 6 hours ago:
Pilot G2 if I must, but the real answer is a Lamy Safari.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 22 hours ago:
That is so utterly stupid that it shows why you should take a philosophy course.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 22 hours ago:
What we now call science developed directly out of philosophy.
- Comment on pain plant 3 days ago:
Cholula is my go-to sauce that I can get anywhere for cheap. If I can get it, Blair’s Original Death Sauce is the way to go.
- Comment on pain plant 3 days ago:
You’d have to eat a lot of pure cap to kill you. Oral LD50 in mice is 47.2 mg/kg (source). For an 80 kg person, that’s 3760 mg of pure cap. Even a single mg of pure cap dropped into a pot of chili would be inedibly hot even to the most hardcore spicy food fan.
- Comment on frenly warnin 5 days ago:
As a radical centrist, I must find any possible reason that someone would stick an obvious dogwhistle in their name besides being a Nazi. We can’t just go assuming the blatantly obvious.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 6 days ago:
Steph Sterlings’ recent video hits it directly. The big publishers see Balatro doing well, so they go copy Balatro. They spend a lot of effort looking for the next Balatro in all the wrong places. Their attempts to copy it will fail, because people who like Balatro will just play Balatro. This will continue until there’s a new indie darling dominating the sales charts, and then they’ll try to copy that.
The industry is deeply misguided.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 6 days ago:
The article puts the cutoff for “old” as being 6 years or more. Officially, Factorio was released in 2020, but we all know that any other studio would have considered it done years before that.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 6 days ago:
It’s AI at this point. Nvidia considers the gamer division to be vestigial. They were a $700B market cap company that was primarily known for gaming GPUs. They are now quadruple that with AI, and that’s even with some recent hits to their stock price.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 week ago:
Yes, and they have the problems outlined above.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 week ago:
Sure, they exist, but they have the flaws outlined above.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 week ago:
Ethics mean we don’t know what the average human male erect penis size is.
No, really. The ethics of the studies say that a researcher can’t be in the presence of a sexually aroused erect penis. Having the testee measure their own penis is prone to error. There are ways to induce an erection with an injection, so they use that.
Is the size of an induced erection the same as a sexually aroused erection? Probably in the same ballpark, but we don’t really know.
Source: Dr Nicole Prause, neurologist specializing in sexuality, on Holly Randall’s podcast.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Is Timeless 1 week ago:
IIRC, the steam release is based on a mobile port, and it’s bad. Maybe they fixed it since release, but I dunno.
PSX version added some anime cutscenes, which are nice. Problem is that loading times are horrible and happen as part of every battle.
I seem to remember the DS version being recommended. Otherwise, the SNES version is always good to find on the high seas.
It’s more approachable than most RPGs from the era. It has no random battles, and tends to avoid situations where you advance a character wrong and soft lock yourself. More hardcore RPG fans find it too easy, but it’s a classic for a reason.
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 1 week ago:
Creationist love to bring up all the wonderful things in the world. They tend not to bring up things like the recurrent laryngeal nerve or bot flies.
In fact, I think they’re confused as to why science would even bring these up. If evolution is a religion (as they often claim), why would that religion point to something so weird or ugly? The answer is that evolution just is, and it does weird and ugly things sometimes. Our job is to study the weird and ugly things it makes while also finding a better moral system than mere evolution.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 2 weeks ago:
Best use of ray tracing I’ve seen is to make old games look good, like Quake II or Portal or Minecraft. Newer games are “I see the reflection in the puddle just under the car when I put them side by side” and I just can’t bring myself to care.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 2 weeks ago:
It’s also connected to a performance feature. They can load lower resolution textures for faraway objects. You can do this without the blurring effect of DoF, but it’s less jarring if you can blur it.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 2 weeks ago:
Early HDR games were rough. I look back at Zelda Twilight Princess screenshots, and while I really like that game, I almost squint looking at it because it’s so bloomed out.
- Comment on Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union 2 weeks ago:
TSA are cops. Do we show solidarity with cop unions?
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
Worst example of tail wagging the dog. Trump says stuff, and followers think it’s a good idea because Trump said it. Nobody actually wanted this.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
I personally believe it’s due to lack of public investment in education and technology in western countries.
And you are correct, but why do you assume there’s any eugenics-themed arguments above? There is nothing of the sort. Everything the other poster says is completely compatible with Taiwan investing in education and technology that the US failed to do.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
And still is, so your point is still bunk.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
The US supported Taiwan for ideological reasons long before TSMC was a thing. Your reading of the situation is completely bunk.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
Why would people from Taiwan be deported to China? Even if the US wanted to punish them, Trump hates China more than anybody else.
With a growing number of ARM and RISC-V manufacturers out there, people with these skills are in high demand. You’re completely off base.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
It’s exactly how it works for people with highly specialized skills.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
Engineers from Taiwan that have chip design skills? Yes, they can walk at any time.
You’re taking a general case of H1B visa abuse–which is completely valid in broad terms–and applying it to a specialized case where the materials conditions are different.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
Lots of the Musk Administration stuff has zero constituency. It’s just stuff him, Trump, and a few Heritage Foundation guys thought up. This is one of them. Nobody was asking for tariffs on the whole world or thought it’d be a good idea.
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 2 weeks ago:
Right, Dolphin had an encryption key in there for the Wii that was hardcoded in. That is apparently the one bit of legal leverage Nintendo has to keep it off Steam, though being Nintendo, they would likely fight it, anyway.
In any case, the key could be a user provided configuration option, or tools for ripping games could do the decryption on their own. Either should keep the code safe from Nintendo being able to win a case. Though again, doesn’t stop Nintendo from trying and exhausting your ability to fight it.
- Comment on He's taking some deep drags on that Marlboro as he considers what to do 3 weeks ago:
Depends on how you interpret the Trinity.
God also promised he wouldn’t use that specific method ever again. Doesn’t take a rules lawyer to figure out the issue with that one.
- Comment on nets 3 weeks ago:
What if dispenser machines had a pay by volume model? You bring your own thing, they fill it, and charge you by how much you use. Would probably need something added to measure flow and set prices, but it’s not like a McDonalds built in the 70s is still using exactly the same machines they were back then.
- Comment on fireflies 3 weeks ago:
Who knew that by being lazy with yard work, I was doing the right thing all along. I do see fireflies out back during the summer. I thought it was just that we live fairly close to the edge of town.