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- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 3 hours 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 😩 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 days 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? 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.
- Comment on Does your boss even love you if he doesn't portray himself as the big minion and you as a baby minion? 1 week ago:
Art historians from the future are going to have a weird fucking day going down the early millennium works.
- Comment on I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do. 2 weeks ago:
Bros plate is a fucking giant pizza slicer. That’s magnificent.
- Comment on Use to be saturday morning cartoons. Now its Saturday morning constitutional violations. 2 weeks ago:
Every morning, instead of pouring ourselves a bowl of cereal, we get a bowl of war crimes.
- Comment on aspirations 2 weeks ago:
Drat, too blurry to make out the less common horrifying things people are looking forward to.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
It’s mostly awful for the first two badges, but playing with fast forward I beat my first badge in White 2 with in game time around 65 hours (so probably around 15 hours). It’s insanely tedious, but I enjoy it late game.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
Beg to differ on the Pokemon example, but then again I am a completionist so that type of challenge gives me lots of self satisfaction (plus now I have achievements through RetroAchevements so a little bragging rights). Frankly, things like that should have internal motivation, so literally no reward is fine by me. I’m literally doing a professor oak challenge right now, which is significantly worse, lol.
Where I draw the line is mostly challenges that I just don’t see myself being able to accomplish in a given lifetime. Like the Balatro golden chip on every joker is way too RNG and time consuming for me. I also generally prefer not to have to do a speed run, but that’s mostly because I have kids now and setting something down without worrying about time is ideal.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I managed, but I’m a glutton for punishment. In the first one you can kind of go guideless as long as you know a few fundamentals: determination is most important as it gives more skill points and easily pays for itself - by endgame you easily have everything capped. Certain combinations of skills also become game breakers, like being able to duplicate items or pumping up exp gains, etc, but the game isn’t that hard and if you want to do everything you have to run multiple times anyway. That holds especially true in SO2, apparently.
On that note, SO games use divergent path storylines but rather than being a “choose a faction” or something, it’s dependent on party members. In SO1, it’s basically three ways things pan out for certain arcs depending on who you recruited, with some members required for others. Luckily there was a flowchart, so blind-ish runs can sorta use that without blatant spoilers. It gets kind of interesting because certain mutually exclusive characters are related in unpredictable ways, so multiple playthroughs kinda reveal more depth… at least as far as a game originally made for SNES can be.
Luckily the game isn’t that long so it wasn’t much of a chore to do multiple playthroughs, especially with fast forward functions of ppsspp emulator. Doing it on original hardware might have been more of a chore, though.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
The skills system really calls out for a guide, it’s really easy to misallocate points early game. Or at least that’s my understanding; I did SO1 on PSP recently but uses the same system more or less and you can make life a lot easier with proper planning.
The recent remaster supposedly has better documentation, although I’m not sure I like it better.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I’m starting up… Pokemon White Version 2 completely out of the blue because RetroAchevements is beta testing their multiset feature and I’m a sucker for the Professor Oak Challenge grind. (It’s pure madness, truly a waste of time grind beyond human comprehension, but it’s also an excuse to binge watch stuff and keep my overactive brain in check).
As always I recommend RetroAchevements in general, though. Truly an endless supply of old stuff to do!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been holding out for a Full Body experience but might just have to emulate it at this point. Although missing out on cutscenes is a real shame-- when it first came out, my wife and I played the game and watched the scenes together and uh… was an interesting and tense situation. Lol
- Comment on You definitely didn't want her to pick you up 4 weeks ago:
Reading your comment made me read the life story and yes. It is a really fucked up life story.
- Comment on I can still get down with the best of 'em! 4 weeks ago:
90s and early aughts are in a weird place radio-wise, maybe because they’re still touring in many cases. So I’ll hear them on a station dedicated to older rock, alongside GnR, Doors, whatever; turn to a contemporary alt station and it’s 90s bands alongside newer stuff like Tame Impala or Sombr.
Then there’s Sublime which… uh, kinda unique because the dead lead singers son is the new singer and they sound exactly the same so it’s like they time traveled from 90s to today. Lol
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 4 weeks ago:
Look, they’re not exactly Bush levels of smart… Sigh
- Comment on Help is needed 4 weeks ago:
We’re on Lemmy and no one has suggested Red Hat Chili Peppers? For shame.
Then again, I use Arch…tic Monkeys.
- Comment on Hello Kittypede 4 weeks ago:
A Hello Kittipeed Ouroboros. I like it. Sounds symbolic for late stage capitalism.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I was gonna say, also didn’t he just rip off what Valve was sharing for free from their VR lab experimentation like 15 years ago?
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, and a good literature review will dig up that chain. Although it won’t ever be perfectly accurate since the point is paraphrasing the literature to build a structure around what you’re doing, that doesn’t mean your secondary source understood the original (and their reviewers, who can very much be hit or miss).
And don’t get me started on authors misunderstanding quantitative data, haha. I haven’t been doing much academic research since my kids were born, but the number of “they made that shit up” cases were wild in education research. Like arbitrary spline models, misused propensity score matching, a SEM model with cherry picked factors, you name it.
… And this comment chain is way next level for this community. Hahaha
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 weeks ago:
Actually, are you sure a meta analysis isn’t a primary source? Having worked on one in the past, you’re often having to reanalyze data and the finished product is quite unique.
Even “structured literature reviews” I think count as primary sources, since the author adds to the literature their own perspective and they are generally peer reviewed.
That said, when you cite things professionally, you will often have hundreds of sources. Most researchers, legal scholars, etc., just keep a database of their citations for easy callback. It’s important because at the upper levels, different authors might speak of the same objective findings in two different ways and with two different frameworks, so the aggregate loses that.
It’s not something non-professionals necessarily need to care about, but you do want to train undergraduates on that proper methods so they’re ready if and when they go to graduate school.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 weeks ago:
Honestly I think it comes from a misunderstanding regarding secondary sources vs primary ones. Wikipedia, as well as encyclopedias and textbooks, are secondary sources. It’s not good practice to cite secondary sources without primary ones, but a lot of people (namely, teachers) don’t grasp why which leads these sources to get classified as bad.
That, plus Wikipedia is accessible without the usual gatekeeping and money behind what textbooks and encyclopedias have, which adds to the sources “credibility.” Money means marketing, including constant email campaigns targeting people like me trying to validate whatever textbook they’re peddling. (And in case you wonder if they’re evil, they sometimes offer kickbacks to adopt their expensive textbooks for my university classes).
Fedi users already get that, though, as that’s a common problem FOSS usually has. Point is, wiki lives in a weird place because no, you shouldn’t cite it just like you shouldn’t cite textbooks, but yes, it’s perfectly valid so long as you check those sources. And, speaking from experience, some students really don’t understand as I see citations for so much worse.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 5 weeks ago:
I guess we just need more global pandemics. It’s a great boom to the video game industry, literally everyone was playing games when AC:NH released.
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 5 weeks ago:
In my case, it’s because people don’t like all my pictures of the wall behind my computer screen.
- Comment on Himemiya Rie & Rinkou Ashelia [Phase Connect] 5 weeks ago:
We all know it’s not just the color of the flag that matters, but also how you arrange them to send messages long distance to your fellow maritime dating partner.