DrSteveBrule
@DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
- Comment on It's easy 1 day ago:
I hope this post is. My cousin made a similar post on social media about owning a house. He was ranting that the current generation was lazy and didn’t know how to budget. Everyone should easily be able to buy a house. The house he owned was bought with the money he made by selling his first house which was inherited. Some people are really just that dumb.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 days ago:
I guess I’m truly not understanding the comparison. I do not see the similarity between having a series ruined because an actor is a sexual predator and having a series ruined because you don’t like the sequel. Not sure what part of those scenarios you were comparing, but I’m just not seeing it.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 days ago:
The crime doesn’t have to equate? Why bring up Kevin Spacey’s crimes at all? How is that relevant to not liking the direction a franchise went?
I don’t feel that “this franchise went in a bad direction, so now I can’t enjoy the previous works” is anything like “this person is a sexual predator, so now I can’t enjoy their previous works”.
It would be really awkward to watch a known sexual predator in a movie, even if the movie predates the crime. The existence of the Fallout TV show has no effect on Fallout 1 as a game.
What a weird turn this conversation took lol
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 days ago:
That would be a good comparison if Fallout as a franchise was a person who committed sexual assault I guess
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 days ago:
I don’t even get it. Everything after fallout 1 has no bearing on fallout 1. It’s exactly the same as it was when it was released. It’s not hard to not think about things you don’t like lol
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
The United States of America is just a series of English words. It really wouldn’t make sense in some other languages.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
How long do you wait before lifting the lid back up to check for streaks?
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 1 month ago:
I don’t feel I was much more mature at 21 than I was at 18 and I was very immature at 21 lol
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 1 month ago:
I remember getting CD demos in cereal boxes lol
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 1 month ago:
The 360 is old enough to die in war but not drink alcohol in the US!
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
Possibly. I never messed around with tab management extensions before. Everything in Zen is built in
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
All my life I never saved tabs and everytime I closed the browser I would open it again with just the home oage. Then about a year ago I downloaded Zen Browser and I really liked the tab management that came with it. I created some profiles and folders to organize the tabs in so now I have maybe 20-30 tabs always open, but they are almost always used regularly. I might have 5 for my school. 5 for torrenting/hosting. A few for music related things, gaming, etc. It’s very organized and basically replaces the need for a custom html homepage.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 months ago:
I think there is a difference between what the developers expect and what characters expect. In Fallout3 a settlement builds their town around a deactivated nuclear bomb. There is an opportunity very early in the game to detonate it, which most characters understandably react poorly to. But I wouldn’t rate the game poorly because the surviving NPCs of that settlement become hostile to the player afterwards. The developers don’t really expect anything from the players as there is the choice to do either thing. I thought Dishonored did that as well. NPCs who cause havoc to the city by killing people and spreading disease will hear complaints from the surviving citizens. Also the story of the game sets up the player to be framed for murdering the empress so most NPCs by default already hate the player character. I liked that the game gave players the choice to remain noble and try to actively prevent further chaos or say fuck it and slaughter everyone who stands against you even if you are technically in the right.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 months ago:
Appreciate the response. I feel that I’m in the minority when it comes to caring much about good or bad endings. Usually if a game has several endings I’ll replay it to get the other endings. I’ve never really felt that a “bad ending” was a punishment though. Even if I get immersed in the character I’m playing, I never felt as though I experienced the negative outcomes. I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with a friend and he was getting mad at me because I wasn’t playing lawfully good lol. That game was designed to keep progressing no matter what choices you make. You can kill the most important characters but the game keeps going. Yet he felt as though we would have to reload a previous save if I did something too “wrong”. Anyway, I just find the difference of opinion on the topic interesting lol sorry for the wall of text.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 months ago:
That’s true, it is a game where each choice has a direct consequence. Going along that train of thought, do you see the “star system” in GTA as the game scolding you for your choices? If you’ve never played it, in GTA you are a criminal and as you commit crimes you get a star rating. The more stars means the more law enforcement that attempts to subdue or kill you. There really isn’t a way to complete the game in a non-violent manner though.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 months ago:
In what way do you think the game scolded you for killing enemies?
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 months ago:
Can you explain why you think the game punishes the player for engaging in combat and killing enemies? I get that the events in the game may change but I’m not getting how that’s a punishment to the player.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 2 months ago:
Every play a game of telephone when you were in grade school? That’s basically how reliable any religious text is. Even if it were originally written with the exact words of God, it certainly isn’t what it contains now. My favorite thing about the bible is when people specifically say “King James version” because they are admitting it has been altered.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
No doubt. I wasn’t trying to imply that either one is useless, but things change and new technology takes over. Another person replied to me comparing cursive and typing on a computer. I catch myself thinking that new generations are at a disadvantage because they don’t learn the same things I did. But it may not always be necessary that they do. I am of the computer typing generation. I didn’t learn to write beautiful cursive, but my life hasn’t been negatively impacted even though many people have expressed sympathy for my awful education. I was just trying to say I think it’s a rather normal thing for old systems to get phased out of a classroom from time to time. It’s not really a good reason to believe that younger generations are doomed. But like I said I fall into that line of thinking myself from time to time.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
One part of me wants to feel disappointed that kids aren’t learning to read analog clocks, but another part of me thinks there was a time when people grew disappointed that the younger generations stopped learning to use an abacus in favor of digital calculators. I certainly don’t want some old geezer giving me shit because I don’t want to learn to use an abacus. I also don’t want to be that old geezer.
- Comment on Share your poops! 2 months ago:
You mean writing on paper? Like cave people?
- Comment on Organization. 3 months ago:
Its a movie. Wanted.
- Comment on They deported my Chihuahua 3 months ago:
I’m not saying you’re wrong but I think it is interesting that your interpretation of the meme is that it is a joke against the people being targeted by ICE while I immediately thought the meme was about how brain dead ICE officers are that they would target a dog simply because it had a sombrero on. I have no idea what the OP’s intention was when making the meme. Maybe I just made my assumption based on the fact that this was shared on Lemmy which is overwhelmingly against ICE. If I saw this shared by a conservative person I would more than likely share you sentiment though.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 months ago:
I pirated the RDR remaster and felt very entitled to because I bought it way back on xbox360 with the Undead Nightmare mode, but that whole DLC is broken even though they still sold it to me on the Xbox store. So I pirated to new remaster and when I went to play Undead Nightmare, it’s still broken lol
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 3 months ago:
First point I disagree with completely. As I already said, when practicing something like shooting three pointers, you are making conscious decisions on what you need to fix and work on to get better. If you shoot the first time and get an air ball because the ball came up short, you will have to make the decision to put more power into your shot to make the ball go further. If your ball goes too far left, next time you consciously aim more to the right. Practice isn’t the magical ability to be good at something because you did it a lot. It takes more effort than simply doing the bare minimum.
As for your second point, that is a slang use of the word. It is not meant to be taken literally. Where I think we fundamentally disagree is that I and many of the other users here seem to take the original quote you posted as being more literal than you take it. I interpret the original quote to mean that no outside factors manipulate the expected results. Human error is negligible.
Imagine you are holding a ball. You want to observe what happens if you suddenly let go of it. Will it fall down? Will it float in the air before you? Will it fly off in some random direction? You let go and it obviously falls down. You do that a million times because you hope that eventually it will stop falling down. This is an example of what I think the original quote is implying. No amount of practicing dropping a ball will change the results of gravity having a predictable effect on it.
All of your examples assume that the phrase “the same thing” is taken to be figuratively. That there is some element of “but not exactly the same” attached to the each example.
I’ll be honest here, I really don’t know the origins of the quote is or what the context was. But I do feel that you are in the minority when it comes to believing that the part that says “the same thing” isn’t meant to be taken literally. But that doesn’t necessarily make you wrong either. I quite enjoyed where this debate went even if neither of us was convincing to the other, I can still respect your argument. I said I felt you were trolling at first, but I can see how it can be left to interpretation.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 3 months ago:
You’re arguing that human error doesn’t allow for the same results which I agree with. But if you want to achieve the goal of being better at something through practice, you have to rely on more than just hoping that by chance, your error will achieve a better result than the last time you tried. That does not contribute towards learning to be better at a task. You must make conscious decisions to correct mistakes. If said decision changes something you did last time, I wouldn’t call that “doing the same thing”.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 3 months ago:
How do you define the phrase “the same thing”?
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 3 months ago:
I feel like you’re purposefully arguing in bad faith. Are you legitimately trying to convince me that “the same thing” means “not really the same thing”? Regardless of how you meant to ask the question I believe most people, in this thread at least, have a very different sense of what the original quote meant. Your responses throughout the thread feels like trolling.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 3 months ago:
You don’t think the context of the quote is implying doing the same exact thing repeatedly?
- Comment on Lies, all lies 3 months ago:
I also work in an OR and Spotify does the same thing. We will just leave on something like 80s rock radio playing over night and when we come back the next morning we hear Snoop Dogg blasting from the same playlist lol