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- Comment on Game over 1 day ago:
Hehe, ok but I’m not sure what the intermediary is between those. I have much better options that are cheaper and tastier, at least for now (although 8 dollar chicken burritos are up to 12 now after obvious 2025 reasons… sigh).
- Comment on Game over 1 day ago:
No, you’re right. Chipotle isn’t the highest grade food but there’s a reason it’s in a category above, say, Taco Bell. It’s servings are a little big, but it’s not unhealthy per se, except some of the more gimmicky items like “queso”, lol.
They do have a bad rep, but the hoopla about it giving you diarrhea is probably more because it sits out too long and/or spicy; fast casual is basically pre-prepped lower tier casual chain restaurant food (e.g. Olive Garden, Applebee’s, or whatever).
- Comment on oh no 3 days ago:
Reminds me of something that’s been on my mind for several days now. I spotted in my rear view mirror a driver and their passenger having a conversation in sign language while driving.
I never once thought about it.
- Comment on The snow drifts in my yard from yesterdays storm 3 days ago:
Ah, to be one with mother nature…
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 4 days ago:
Ironically, Huffman doesn’t seem to be in the Epstein files. This isn’t because he isn’t a pedophile-- he very likely is-- but he simply wasn’t important enough of a person for them to invite him or even talk about him.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I’m near SpaceX in CA and see plenty of men in them because SpaceX purchased a bunch for company cars when Tesla couldn’t sell them.
Also it’s really weird to see like, 8 of them in one place.
- Comment on Artists face steep income decline due to AI, UNESCO finds 1 week ago:
Meanwhile a surprising number of outlets are advertising %100, including corporate ghouls like iHeartRadio. Hopefully that trend continues as people get sick of slop pushed in marketing.
- Comment on Eventually, coffee moves from a drink that gets you going to an emotional support drink. 1 week ago:
Interestingly, many skip that first step. Iirc, it’s about 30% who don’t get more awake but rather start to relax under caffeine. About the same % who also need to poop right after, but not the same people. Lol
- Comment on Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 1 week ago:
True. Maybe a guide that mentions the big names would suffice? I have a friend scared away with the choice paralysis.
- Comment on Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 1 week ago:
The Linux part is a bit of an afterthought in that announcement but it’d be pretty cool if they’d just go all in. They admit they’re the main browser of most Linux distros after all, why not give a specific setup a shout-out? Most of the confusion in switching is in distro and interface, after all.
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 1 week ago:
Nah… they let you keep the placenta, sure, but the doc gets to keep the foreskin for their special baby skin leather doctor’s coats.
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 1 week ago:
Well, it’s “free” under insurance, yes. The bigger thing is that it’s covered under every insurance and I think Medicaid, the public assistance healthcare. Not that it’s all that expensive when a birth is like, tens of thousands of dollars sometimes.
I’ve never met anyone who paid for it, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in law that you had to cover it (while shit like birth control is still debated).
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
The article is bunk, but oddly enough the all time high by Steamdb suggests it’s around tied with DST, Megabonk, Hades II, and a few others at 115k-ish.
Nightreign, as AAA go, 313k at peak, lol.
You can still tell the article is bunk for comparing it to Stray as a cat game. Oh yeah, sure, while we’re at it let’s compare to Hello Kitty Island players, eh? AI logic. Lol
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
The article is talking about concurrent play, which generally peaks near release for all genres, with a few exceptions (like Hollow Knights sleeper numbers). Isaac came out when there was relatively fewer players and it’s a slow growth, so the original probably didn’t have a very high concurrent count.
The remake is around 70k peak, although it’s oddly high at 20k right now, perhaps because if Mewgenics.
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 1 week ago:
If it shocks you farther, it’s just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don’t even have to be there, and it’s free. Very strange, all things considered.
- Comment on Chat are we cooked? 1 week ago:
I mean, it is still a whole course of civics but you sorta have to be paying attention in school. It’s also usually late high school and your average tiktok user may not have graduated yet. Kinda makes sense since you’re hitting voting age at that point.
Plus international audiences, although if I’m being honest I think they have better odds of knowing what the constitution is.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
Typo, or likely auto correct for FFXVI. Yup, was autocorrect, as it just did it again just now lol. I’ll correct it.
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 1 week ago:
To be fair I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s already a vendor for that. They already kinda do that with Chromebooks at schools, and work computers are sometimes lent out to workers including those with beefy hardware. Doing it strictly for gaming wouldn’t be that much of a stretch lol
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
Really short article but kind of an interesting point. To be quite fair, the games don’t just take very long to produce but their appeal keeps shifting towards more adult themes so younger players might not even play them. FFXIV was basically Game of Thrones and prior to that you had… whatever the fuck FFXV was what with a road trip royal theme? Hell, even DQ12 was announced to have adult themes.
DQ spinoffs have a better shot but they haven’t been particularly good and FF spinoffs are money grabs, so there’s that too. The article points to more popular franchises in Japan like Pokemon, although at my kids are literally watching Pokemon TV designed for toddlers, that’s kinda cheating with how everywhere that franchise is, lol.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 2 weeks ago:
Next you’ll be telling me you missed tank controls in games. Why strafe when you can slowly rotate to turn?
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 2 weeks ago:
I still never liked that. It’s the best of a bad situation, but aiming with a mouse is so superior, many games won’t cross-platform with a PC out of fairness, lol.
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 2 weeks ago:
Hell, even by first episode standards, Voyager literally starts with the Maquis rebels. It’s right out the gate critical of the Federation’s utopia, haha.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
Quite simply, as it says, when things get heated, such as during a fight with your spouse, the fan will start trying to escape which causes it to spin.
This also works if you start yelling at it yourself, although you need to be genuine. It can detect if you’re lying, so get angry!
- Comment on Onii-Chan is watching you 😩 3 weeks ago:
They especially like loan words that most Japanese people kinda know, so yes, definitely the best option.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 weeks ago:
I’m kind of poking fun as a Missouri friend of mine who had dogs who came and went outside freely. Obviously when you’ve got animals coming and going, the floor gets really dusty and dirty.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 weeks ago:
Places with diversity, basically. You visit a Japanese friend and realize how much better that is, lol.
That, and have you seen interior people’s floors? The shoes are sometimes cleaner, oof.
- Comment on no, I don't have ig 3 weeks ago:
My students typically use ig or tiktok, but when I’m asked what I use, I hesitate mostly because it’s super hard to explain the fediverse without completely derailing the lesson.
Plus it’s not like there are studies talking about the dangers of Lemmy or Piefed. “Oh no, I’m compelled to install Linux!”
- Comment on How accurate is this? 3 weeks ago:
My wife did both in a Californian suburb and this is accurate in that retail will make you lose faith in humanity while waiting tables is actually kinda fun but very tiring.
In her case, it wasn’t the Karens but rather the amount of terrible parenting she would witness. One kid shamelessly stole thousands of dollars of Pokemon cards, get caught, and the mother took his side and blamed the store (?!). Plus, so many kids just left there like it’s a fucking daycare, too. Touching and messing up stuff. My wife was working alone most of the time, too!
Not to mention, no chair, no real breaks, minimum pay, and so on. At least with food service, good places have tips and you get to bring home food. If you sell alcohol, it’s extremely lucrative in states that don’t dock your pay. An occasional jump scare is worth making more than an average college grad, and one of her friends opened a sushi place and gives us a discount. Food service is cool.
- Comment on Nature sure made the right choice 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate that we also only use one nostril at a time, which we can only do with two. It swaps every few hours, too!
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 4 weeks ago:
Not too surprised. What I’ve seen from friends and family in the industry is a mix of union busting and natural shrinking after the 2020 boom. AI is kinda frowned upon for those AAA companies (at least at middle management and below) so it wasn’t so much job replacement although that option might still galvanize union busting.
Granted the companies in question are Japanese and Korean developers, so the US side is mostly licensing and marking and such. And if I’m being honest, some of those marketers really should lose their jobs, or at least stop getting paid twice that of actual talented people… sigh.