Kroxx
@Kroxx@lemm.ee
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
I love the “but it pays for schools” argument, like how about we drop 3 less bombs per year and just pay for all the schools out of the existing tax pool like it should be.
- Comment on fck yea 2 months ago:
Quantitative analysis flashbacks form this, I learned the fastest way to figure out how much reactant you need to figure out the tipping point of the ph was to just run quickly adding large jumps of aloquates on the first attempt ,let it turn dark, then on the next one go ahead and add a safe amount of reactant I found from the first attempt then go super slow with the drip rate after. Was pretty consistently one of the first to leave lab
- Comment on Wanna play a game? (please don't call osha) 3 months ago:
It’s technically like 15.7M , it’s the highest concentration you can get before you hit fuming (~70wt% iirc). Although anything you do with it after makes it fume like crazy anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The system is really bad but you should also factor in the price while searching for schools, I went to a state University, one of the minor ones, and tuition was under 10k/year. So your son paid more for 1 year than I did for my entire degree by almost a factor of 2. Some universities are way more expensive than others. I got a STEM degree and was employed 2 months after I graduated, with a very prestigious research position. So it’s not like going to a shitter on paper school had an impact on me personally.
- Submitted 5 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 deserves better than these awful WizKids miniatures that look like they’d melt on a mildly temperate afternoon 6 months ago:
The tone of this writing is bizarre, even for satire
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 7 months ago:
Vegans have been refining these arguments for a decade now and can present clear sharp moral stances with a counter to everything you have to say
Lol they fuck they can, they couldn’t even properly present and defend their own sources.
- Comment on Invention rule 8 months ago:
You just can’t see all the tumors under the lab coat for the chemist.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 8 months ago:
Yup
- Comment on Aluminum 8 months ago:
Team aluminum all the way. A higher up where I work is obsessed with stainless steel, he gets these monstrous heavy duty tables made out of SS that hold objects 1/3 of their weight. Makes lab rearranging a nightmare lol.
- Comment on Baldurs Gate 3 devs tease future non-D&D games, say morale is “super high”: “we're doing our own thing again" 8 months ago:
I wish articles would just call them Larian studios instead of BG3 devs.
- Comment on No Carl 8 months ago:
Fucking terrifying form of life, I remember seeing this on Animal Planet as a kid. The whole cycle is fascinating, thank god it doesn’t fuck with the birds brains. Can you imagine a parasite trying to pilot an avian? Reiteration: fucking terrifying.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I’m so tired of hearing this about America, we have one of the most diverse countries in the world. I understand the narrative that the media shows the world, the most horrendous of Americans (which are the smallest groups) get a totally disproportionate amount of media time because of their awful actions. A majority of the population tries to be decent human beings, of course bias exists subconsciously and people aren’t aware of it.
I am in the SE region of the US, which everyone loves generalizing as the most ignorant and racist area. I have seen true racist when I was delivering pizzas and my coworkers were black, it was horrendous. I can assure you the racists are a minority and a shrinking one at that. Not only that but it is exceedingly rare that they are under 50 years. Not only both of those things but both millennials and gen Z call out that shit immediately.
It really starts to wear on you when you actively try to fight these things and everyone still only sees your country as full of racists. Yes they exist but it is a shrinking minority.
- Comment on Very scientific. 8 months ago:
Pill bugs are isopods right? They have a more hotdog-esque shape though.
- Comment on The Code 9 months ago:
I would guess university agreements with publishers
- Comment on 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement 10 months ago:
The problem I have is when a gimmick is forced on me
- Comment on Happy cakeday, lemm.ee! 10 months ago:
Thank you so much for all the work you do! I really loved reading the stats on this post, kinda surprised by the kbin bans I wouldn’t have expected that.
Thank you also for the philosophy by which you run the instance! It may be bumpy sometimes but I think you guys are doing a stellar job at it and I agree with it.
Keep it up, I’ve started trying to post and I’m sure more will as time goes on. I am very hopeful for the future of Lemmy!
- Comment on Hero 10 months ago:
It’s a lot different in academia vs industry for hard sciences. I currently work in industry, we have no options in the things we research but we are funded to the Moon. There is of course some amount of bowing we have to do in order to keep them quiet but that’s about it.
In academia you have to secure your own funding constantly or your project just ends essentially. Academic institutions also look at metrics like impact factor and papers published/time that also effects the availability of funding. I know that people have had to stop pursuing doctorates due to funding issues. Politics in academia is notoriously horrendous.
- Comment on Cannabis 10 months ago:
Yeah but the original cannabis indica described has none of the physical characteristics of what it does today, there is not a genetic difference between sativa and indica that is sold in the cannabis market today.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 11 months ago:
I’m not sure what the future holds in regards to whether they will try to pursue this again or not, I certainly hope they won’t. This information doesn’t change anything that is going on right now.
Here is the reason I posted it, I think it will help: There were people online saying that Valve may be the ones who delisted HD2 to protect themselves legally, instead of sony being the one’s who delisted it. This is primary source evidence that it was in fact Sony who delisted it, not Valve.
We can try to draw conclusions from it and I think it is very strange that Sony hasn’t re-enabled purchasing in these countries now that the PSN requirement has dropped, companies typically try to sell products to as wide of an audience as possible.
I know that doesn’t directly answer your question but unfortunately I think only time will tell.
Up until this point I personally haven’t seen Valve or Steam make direct comments as to who exactly made this choice. I may have just missed it but I always look for something directly from the company. I also don’t have knowledge on how steam pushes changes, I think if you have intimate knowledge on that it was obvious? This is also just pulled from a post on Reddit, so it could also be 100% bullshit. To me though this was the first thing I saw that allowed me to start forming an opinion to your above question, without giving Sony the benefit of the doubt. I hate to give that to Sony because I hate what Sony did, but for arguments sake I personally don’t ignore things like that.
These are my reasons for sharing.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 11 months ago:
Sure man, this post confirms what you are saying so I’m honestly not sure what you are after. If anything it’s squashing disinformation that bothers you. Regardless I’m not going to entertain your replies further.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 11 months ago:
Nope that’s why I used the phrases “the idea was” and “speculated”
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 11 months ago:
So this article states " Sony delisted it" with no references to official announcements. I personally have been waiting on something directly from steam or Sony and to me the steam response satisfies this enough.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 11 months ago:
The idea was that the weekend of the review bombing AH and Sony weren’t communicating a lot/ didn’t have a plan for countries where the game was already sold but could no longer be played.
So it was speculated that Valve might have pulled sales because they wanted to protect themselves from any legal repercussions, while all the dust settled. At the very least it would look like they tried to do something if it ever went to court.
It made sense to me but I live in the US. If you break into someones house here and hurt yourself, the homeowner is liable legally even though the criminal was breaking and entering into the homeowners home. The country is so sue happy that many companies are very proactive on legal matters.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 11 months ago:
The steamdb change doesn’t list the reason why, doesn’t confirm if it was a push on Sony’s or Valve’s end just that a change occurred
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 11 months ago:
There was a lot of speculation and no confirmation, this is confirmation
- Submitted 11 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on Which one? 11 months ago:
The stick, it has hand guards!
- Comment on 2024-05-06 downtime 11 months ago:
Thanks for the update, even with that little downage .ee is insanely stable!
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 11 months ago:
Yeah I’ve not seen them address the delisting anywhere yet, if you have a link or anything please add it I’m trying to stay as updated as possible on this.
