Donjuanme
@Donjuanme@lemmy.world
- Comment on xkcd #3117: Replication Crisis 1 day ago:
Replication failed successfully.
Or failed replications replicated successfully (could be useful, but was originally marked as failed to replicate)
- Comment on Is it morally wrong for an immigrant or naturalized citizen to "keep a low profile" and avoid speaking up against the government in order to minimize the risks of denaturalization/deportation? 2 weeks ago:
It’s important to support those in your community that have the target on them before the target gets placed on you. Once the target is on you and the community has failed you keep yourself safe.
- Comment on And NO lube!?! 2 weeks ago:
Implication being only a high schooler would think these things.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 4 weeks ago:
My favorite series is disgaea, but I wouldn’t recommend it to most people, it’s over the top game breaking silliness.
Chroma-squad is often overlooked, but captures a lot of what name 90s trpg’s great and improves on the formula quite a bit.
The absolute best trpg imo is “bionic dues”, I feel like it you enjoyed into the breach you should definitely give bionic dues a shot, it’s such a different style of game,
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 4 weeks ago:
I’m closer to 40 than 35, and my wife recently gave up ever replacing “college blanket”, which was actually bought for me in early high school after I asked if I could take my grandparents comforter home with me. They found one and got it for me that Christmas (I think it was Ross/home goods), it was probably the most generic comforter ever, I always thought I’d be able to find another when needed. After 2 cats, a dog and the better part of 2 decades, my wife decided it was time to let it go and get a replacement, no problem, it’s the most generic comforter ever. She gets me a nice duvet, so we can keep the inside nice and replace the outside as needed, nope definitely not the same. She gets a comforter, it’s stitched way too tightly, and doesn’t breathe the same (okay maybe a 20 year old blanket has gained a bit of aeration, maybe it breathes better than it did when it was new, but you can definitely tell the padding is stitched much more tightly than college blanket’s ever was), she got me a “cooling” comforter, it’s decent, but paired best with college blanket, and when I only have 1 blanket 9 times out of 10 it’s college blanket.
Now college blanket has had 5 cats and 3 dogs and the majority of my life, it’s been the bed of desire for multiple animals, myself included, and my wife sometimes asks for it when she’s sick. Apparently it’s really scratchy, and holey, and it’s closely missing about 20% of it’s original fluff, and I would put it away in a place of honor in a heartbeat if I could find a new one. I swear it was 40 dollars at a home goods store, in a pile with a hundred others just like it, but we’ve looked for the better part of a decade now, and it’s been deemed irreplaceable. It would probably be the first material thing I went for if we had to evacuate. I’m not highly sentimental, but you don’t let a good blanket go.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 5 weeks ago:
Oh my goodness, someone else who played ghost master! What a quirky awesome game! I wasn’t aware it was PC exclusive, because who the hell consideres PC to be “exclusivity”
- Comment on ...📉 5 weeks ago:
38, just lost the 12 year old 267k miles car to an idiot my age in a brand new muscle car who was immediately on the phone to Daddy. It was one of the few things of value I had to my name. Was hoping to get 400k out of it. Instead I get a new car payment that I have no idea how I’m going to cover.
The times are rolling, I’m not sure they’re good.
- Comment on Question about the Humble Bundle Choice 1 month ago:
I’ve been a member since day 1.
You absolutely get to keep your games, you don’t get to keep accessing the… App… That they have gate keeping a bunch of their “trove” games, but if you’re just going for this months games subscribe, redeem the keys, and cancel.
I don’t believe there’s any saying you can’t continuously subscribe and unsubscribe. And if there is, sign up with a new account, they’re selling steam keys, they can’t revoke them.
It’s honestly one of the best deals in gaming imo. I’ve only had 1 or 2 bundles I wasn’t enthusiastically happy with, and I found friends who were interested in taking those keys off my hands.
That said it only adds to my back log every month. But 10$/month (grandfathered in) I cannot complain with the service at all.
Actually 1 compliant, if you don’t redeem the keys immediately they might “run out and be ‘temporarily unavailable’” I’ve found a dozen of those and I check in on them once or twice a week and in the last 6 months they’ve only gotten more keys for 2 of those games, fortunately the 2i was most looking forward to.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 1 month ago:
I want to posit that because water isn’t compressible at forces we experience commonly, it doesn’t mean it isn’t compressible. For 99.999% of the water rules we concern ourselves with water should be considered incompressible, but there are exceptions to every rule
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s been 15 years since I’ve taken oceanography, but the density of water is determined by its temperature.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 1 month ago:
Along with the people pointing out conductivity.
Who says water is not compressible? Takes a lot of energy, but the big bang didn’t happen in a sea of water.
- Comment on Markets cheer court ruling to block Trump tariffs 1 month ago:
Annnd it’s gone. Yeah at this time we’re not deserving of being a world power
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 1 month ago:
Oh hell yes!
Now to get off this third world Internet (Northern California)
- Comment on xkcd #3094: Mass Spec 1 month ago:
Hey that’s what I do!
- Comment on SOCKS SOCKS SOCKS 1 month ago:
Sea otters have the opposite problem, gotta have them on ice while they’re under.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 2 months ago:
Tell that to
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 2 months ago:
Man I should’ve read through the comments before I made a reply comment to another person, I could’ve added a source for every one of my “games will complain about X if a sequel is released” just from the comments here.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 2 months ago:
Rebuilding from code up instead of continuously adding to an overburdened foundation, I don’t know why he’d want to start fresh at all. And he can’t just rebuild and re release because the "mod scene"would pitch a fit
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 2 months ago:
“gamers” would have a cow if there was ever a sequel seriously discussed. He already charged them once, how dare he charge them again.
I suspect 10-20% of the community would take that stance, even if it’s only a few%, it would absolutely be magnified by the echo chamber and there will be talk or how concerned ape left stardew valley “incomplete” and it’s "abandon-ware"and all future products should be pirated.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
Very easy to tell if someone knows what they wrote about in a two minute conversation. My wife grades/t.a’s at a university, it’s obvious when someone doesn’t know the information in person (and she’s very understanding towards people who cannot verbalize the information but still know it). The old professors aren’t very keen to it, but the graders can very easily smell the bullshit.
And if you know the information well enough, but send it through gpt for editing/refinement, that’s usually accepted, unless you’re in a class that grades on composition.
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 2 months ago:
So you have an axe to grind because of another sports success?
Or are you here “just asking questions”
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 2 months ago:
The sheets of paper are getting filled in minutes before they’re announced,
The teams can trade their picks between each other,
It’s not known what teams are going to take what players, if my team (4) thinks team 1 is going to take player A, and team 2 isn’t interested in that player but team 3 is, if team 1 takes player b instead my team might talk with team 2 about trading draft pick positions so we can get that player.
There’s a lot of talking between a lot of professionals representing a lot of teams, the whole situation is very fluid, and it might change the course of your franchise (unless you’re the Jets)
It’s also 3 days of spectacle.
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 2 months ago:
The draft is being held in your state this year, it’s the first time as far as I can recall, they want to make a good show of it so it might return some day.
- Comment on After years of historical 4X games, Endless Legend 2 is a much-needed flight of fantasy for the genre 3 months ago:
I wish warlock, “master of the arcane” and it’s sequel had done better, they were the perfect balance been civ and age of wonders, with twice the gameplay speed of either
- Comment on The Triple-i Initiative 2025 - Indie games for 2025 3 months ago:
It definitely had more games! Was very satisfied when the previews ended where they did, would’ve been amazing to have more but it was already so much,
Absolutely 10/10 protection, added a fair number of games to my wishlist, and even bought a couple. And It was fun trying to guess what games were before their titles came up.
Is that deep rock galactic going to be another free content update? At first I thought they were finally integrating what they learned from deep rock galactic survivors (and that would explain why they’ve never thought too long on multiplayer), but that has to be way too much for just a content update, right? Jeez coffee stain continues to knock it out of the park.
- Comment on The Triple-i Initiative 2025 - Indie games for 2025 3 months ago:
Wasn’t this like 40 minutes last year? Damn I’m excited to watch this (especially if it’s like last year’s) but that’s quite a time commitment, maybe over the next couple days.
I think I added half the games from last year to my steam wishlist/follow, unfortunately quite a few are still in development.
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 3 months ago:
That’s the crux of my statement, yes.
AI doesn’t scare me.
How people respond to it scares me
And that it’s being prepared to drive/copilot government agencies scares the everliving shit out of me.
- Comment on xkcd #3074: Push Notifications 3 months ago:
I’m now signed up for cat facts, meow meow meow Meow meow
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- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 3 months ago:
Now I’m frightened to my core.
AI doesn’t scare me.
People making decisions off of AI scare me.
The government mandating people use AI to make decisions frightens me to my core.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 months ago:
That would get them regulated, they’re only going after the “correct” “bad people”