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- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
The rules are quite loose? Why else would they have eagle eyed officials watching closely to disqualify athletes for infractions.
Games can absolutely be played asynchronously. Games can have scoring systems instead of head-to-head.
Would you say pinball is not a game?
I didn’t think I needed to get out the dictionary definition of game, but I hope this clears it up… Definitions from Oxford Languages: “noun, a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.”
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
Why track and field events not games? They have rules, can be won or lost, and can be played casually if you think that is a requirment.
Take shot put, hammer throw, and javelin, for example. The game is who can throw the object in a certain way the furtherest. I could play a shot put game with some friends at a river bank by drawing a line in the sand and seeing who can huck the heaviest rock on the shore the furthest.
There’s a reason they call them Olympic Games.
Really any activity with some structure is a game if it is play and not “real”, even better if it can help practice a skill useful in life. There is a difference between a running race (a game) and running for your life from a bear (not a game). Between MMA and a street fight. Between war games and a shooting war.
- Comment on Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks 2 weeks ago:
I wish I read this comment before wasting my two minutes as well…
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 2 weeks ago:
If your game doesn’t involve traveling above 100mph and pulling more than 2g it’s not a sport 😤
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 2 weeks ago:
What athletic competition would not be a game if all sports are games? I mean, honestly, what is the difference you see between “sport” and “athletic competition”?
You can extend or contract “game” as much as you want, but I can’t think of a definition of game that would encompass all sports but not all athletic competitions (if there really is a difference).
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 4 weeks ago:
That link is just awful. Very difficult to tell where events are or how big they will be.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 5 weeks ago:
Same with Deftones.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 1 month ago:
The idea that Japan was ever more technologically advanced than the US is a tough argument to make. Perhaps they had better consumer and transportation technologies, but the US led the world in nearly all other forms of technology (see silicon valley, NASA, US defense technology, etc). It’s cool the hate on the US but there’s a reason it was the world super power for decades. It’s too bad it’s turning into an anti-science christo-facist kelptocracy.
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 2 months ago:
It sounds funny but it actually is more real than you might think
In Southern California there’s a bunch of toll roads for the rich people in Orange County they call The Toll Roads.
- Comment on Delicious 3 months ago:
My brain absolutely refused to read
Jeanut Putter and Belly
as it was written.
- Comment on Oh well... 4 months ago:
See, that’s the problem for drag, because if drag uses first person verbs then drag will sound silly but if drag uses third person verbs then drag will sound like drag is talking in third person, which will also sound silly.
- Comment on Hurry 4 months ago:
- Comment on Hurry 4 months ago:
There’s a ton of reasons that an operator would not want to rely on reverse kinematics. They are a professional who needs to make sure they don’t slam a big machine arm into something. While reverse kinematic control is nice as a user, it has multiple possible solutions, some of which may not be acceptable.
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 4 months ago:
100% anything you can do is great.
My girlfriend and I have each been putting $50/month into an investment account instead of paying for insurance for my dog, that way if she ever needs a big procedure I can pull money from there if I don’t have the savings for it. We’ve been doing this for 3.5 years and have now built up a good amount! I’ll divide the numbers roughly in 2 so you can see what you could be looking at:
Total $2750.
Deposits $2200.
Gains $550. - Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 4 months ago:
Fuck you very much for making me read that.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 months ago:
It’s better than dealing with whatever terrible nonsense they put on LGs and Samsungs. I was really close to getting an LG because everyone says it’s the best looking but I just couldn’t imagine going back to completely unmodifiable TV OS, so I got the Sony instead which still looks absolutely fantastic and I have my custom launcher on it set exactly how I want it.
- Comment on But yes. 5 months ago:
More like a steam turbine (which is way cooler cause it’s like a jet engine). Steam engine makes me think of a piston engine like on a train.
- Comment on I screen, you screen, we all screen for I screen. 5 months ago:
Buy 3 bicycles! 1st an electric commuter/cargo bike so you can run errands without a car. 2nd a road/hybrid bike for fun and exercise on paved paths. 3rd a mountain bike so you can enjoy more nature. (an eMTB if they’re allowed on your local trails can combine all 3 bikes if you want)
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 6 months ago:
I think they mean the “superheavy” (somehow a more stupid name than starship) booster rocket is the most powerful. I’m pretty sure by thrust metrics it is. It’s just that the superheavy-starship system can’t put much up in LEO because the starship is huge and heavy on its own.
If you put an expendable second stage on top of the superheavy booster instead of a starship it could put a lot more up to LEO.
- Comment on Piss™ 6 months ago:
Fr tho the hydration obsession is marketing wank you get you to buy Gatorade, fancy water, water bottles, etc. If you’re thirsty, drink water. If you are doing exercise, drink extra water. If you’re drinking alcohol, too bad, you’re getting a hangover even if you drink a shitload of water because you’re in your 30s now.
- Comment on i need it, soz 7 months ago:
That part of Chile is almost 100 miles of desert. Croatia is only like 10-20 miles wide in that area!
- Comment on How did Call of Duty get to this point? 8 months ago:
That has to be a meme post. Black Ops SIX? You’re joking. This is a picture from 2018.
- Comment on How to decide what kind of controller one should purchase? 8 months ago:
The Ultimate 2.4 has right now bluetooth and hall effect sensors as well. I couldn’t get it to pair with the switch though I didn’t try super hard. It works on Bluetooth with my Android TV but for whatever reason ignores the customized buttons (I keep accidentally pressing the wing buttons on the bottom) so I use the dongle on the TV.
- Comment on Bryony Page 8 months ago:
[insert article about how onlympic athletes are tragically underpaid and most struggle]
- Comment on Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less 11 months ago:
Clickbait.
Article is nearly 10 years old.
Article contains no studies or surveys showing this result.
The 50% figure is calculated by assuming a paltry annual raise and consistent large pay bumps by switching companies.
- Comment on I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns. 11 months ago:
They don’t do shit about the sound and smell of the two stroke motors. That’s the sound that pierces noise canceling headphones.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 11 months ago:
MiLK Is fOr bABieS
- Comment on Limericks 11 months ago:
Fair. Logs are natural unless otherwise specified. You wouldn’t put log(37) if you wanted base 10, you’d do log_10(37).
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 1 year ago:
Man that’s been the case with these sequels to games I really loved. Happened to Cities Skylines as well, and at first it seemed like that’s happened with Helldivers but it turns out it was so good it just ruined the servers.
