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- Comment on Denuvo has been removed from Dead Island 2 2 days ago:
Who the fucks been trying to pirate Dead Island 2, lol
- Comment on A little known fact that may describe YOU 4 days ago:
Hey, brushing at least once a day while depressed is still an accomplishment.
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 4 days ago:
Look, you could give me a multi-million dollar grant and I will wouldn’t want to work with cockroaches, lol. (But then again, that’s what grad students are for…)
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 4 days ago:
One of the older social psych frameworks called Social Facilitation says that when we feel watched by others, how comfortable we are with the task determines if we improve or get worse. I’m of course simplifying for Lemmy but you can look to that framework easily.
They tested it with shoe tying vs putting on lab gear, measuring time to finish in the presence of others. Shoe tying got faster while lab gear, being unfamiliar, was slower.
I often give a more modern but dated example as when I play Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, I tend to do choke, because it’s not really my genre, but of the same era I tend to show off if I’m playing Metal Gear Solid 2, except the skateboard level of course.
- Comment on If only we knew... 5 days ago:
I mean, yes and no. I live where gang tags and random acts of vandalism are rather a frequent occurrence so when I say graffiti removal, I’m thinking that. Things like that only work to harm our neighborhood, defacing our storefronts and public transit and making people feel less safe in their community.
But yes, some forms of graffiti are expression and art. Nazis would take pleasure in removing that we aren’t for that, of course.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 5 days ago:
… Why not just copy the meme they’re referencing? It’s like they’re intentionally trying to screw this up.
- Comment on If only we knew... 5 days ago:
Why the death penalty?
Suspected Nazis should be given community service to work in soup kitchens, clean graffiti and pickup trash and such in majority black and brown neighborhoods.
- Comment on passage of time 1 week ago:
Thanks, 2025.
- Comment on Moon talk 1 week ago:
It might be because the moon is falling in 3 days.
Which… I guess is due to capitalism (Happy Mask Salesman peddling Majora’s Mask) or maybe the male loneliness epidemic (Skull Kid has no friends).
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 1 week ago:
Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It’s like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it’s never as advertised.
And most isn’t direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It’s very annoying.
- Comment on Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them 1 week ago:
So funny I read this post right after my 3yo dishes l ate all her broccoli, her brothers broccoli, and seconds on… broccoli. Didn’t finish her rice, though.
I think she might actually like fruits and veggies?
That said, I think a good trick is to style the performative foods as Japanese bento style because kids are kinda easily swayed by look and feel of food, so if it’s cute or cool they are more likely to eat it. We’re planning on doing that anyway, mostly cause my wife was raised in Japan where that was common.
Another thing to keep in mind is parents are often the role models, so liking or disliking things will matter. If you hate fruits and veggies, they’ll notice.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 1 week ago:
I thought that too until today, it’s never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 1 week ago:
Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I’ve been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren’t even that important when there isn’t a national outage lol).
My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey’s pawed AWS into non existence.
- Comment on DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core 1 week ago:
Mmmm… I don’t mind the Retroarch version and use it on occasion, but this is great news. The 9x experimental support and the running from zip are great news and I’m curious if it’ll make it easier to use the eXoDOS packages more easily.
I’m also wondering if this will impact the planned RetroAchevements’ MSDOS release, since I think they were using Pure for that. I can’t imagine it being an easy feat as it is, but if there’s active work on this I imagine it might push that along a bit. I really am craving a couple of DOS and 9x titles, and good achievement sets really help me get the most out of a game.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week ago:
Box labeled “burnt to a crisp” and put everything in it.
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 1 week ago:
I’m with you on this, I think. It’s not the best spoon but I bet it’s got an eerie glow to it, and perhaps shines blue when in the presence of milk or something.
- Comment on White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents 1 week ago:
Oh that makes sense, the codes probably open source. Those goons probably have minimal experience actually developing an app from scratch.
- Comment on White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents 1 week ago:
Oh no this one I know is real, I just mean, imagine how incredibly unlikely a story it’d be if they joined Lemmy or a Piefed instance.
They don’t really fit bluesky either but it’s popular enough I can see them try, lol
- Comment on White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents 1 week ago:
Now we need a parody article telling us the Whitehouse started hosting a fediverse instance. For once I don’t think people would eat that onion, lol
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
It’s like the search summary problem, only worse. Before, people lost traffic already cause Google would try to answer the question with a snippet from your site; however, LLMs (or at least ChatGPT) are trained on Wikipedia, because it’s available data. With Reddit being first, Wikipedia being the second largest source of facts they used (at least, according to statista).
Side note, you’re not even supposed to source facts from Reddit or Wikipedia, they’re better for finding other sources. It’s like a game of telephone, at the tertiary source you’re getting even less accurate information. It’s just oh so stupid the direction end users are herded towards.
- Comment on I do it at least 35 times just in case 1 week ago:
I wonder if it’s also because they’ve got healthier bodies or less stress or something. In any case, a wank a day keeps the doctor away?
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm… maybe. The state of the world has been pretty awful for the past year so I imagine that plays a part. Aside from trolls, lots of us are on edge as the whole world seems to tilt right with propaganda and AI.
That said, I like us.
I browse bluesky too and find I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s a bit more self-policing… Like regarding AI slop, bluesky is fucking rampant with it, like Trump dressed as a clown or Newsom with abs, it’s fucking awful. Lemmy has a couple communities for AI but on average, you try that shit and you’ll get publicly shamed. That could be considered mean, but I appreciate it (especially if it’s AI I can’t even tell).
- Comment on gain 2 weeks ago:
Oh cool, now let’s do Loss 2 with a bad ending to this one.
- Comment on California signs first US law regulating AI chatbots, defying White House stance 2 weeks ago:
I’d certainly welcome more people to my state, but it’s not perfect. CA does have some of the best policies and is often a trendsetter, but plenty of bad ones get by, too, like propositions passed with sneaky language. We got flack for the prison slavery one that was a proposition, for instance.
Still miles above some other states though. I genuinely am concerned for places like Oklahoma, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc., especially since I’m an education professional…
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
I vaguely remember elf and dwarf were, uh, classes in some games. But the AD&D one I remember had them as races, but you had interesting classes like… Magic-User. I vaguely remember having 8 hp on one? Oof.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
Dragon Quest 3 (and the two previous games) are great on NES. DQ2 is one of the hardest RPGs, though, as the developers admitted they never play tested the final dungeon. First turn AOE insta deaths, mini bosses that respawn, etc. there’s a reason they’re remaking them, though.
Those were inspired by Ultima and Wizardry, though, if you want even older RPGs. Actually, most SSI AD&D games were fantastic, too, and you can access them legally via steam now if you don’t want to futz with DOS, although my favorite Eye of the Beholder games are slightly newer at 1991.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
+1 vote for that, it was one of Team Cherry’s inspirations for Hollow Knight. It is not easy.
- Comment on Pornhub should make its own VPN 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they could include VPN for premium subscriptions I guess. Although at that point you already have a person’s credit card information, lol.
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 2 weeks ago:
Huh, TIL. Neat.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The polls are kinda dumb, and at the end of the day it kind of is both at fault-- and ya know what, honestly it’s to be expected and in some cases, probably for the best. We haven’t had a functioning government in a while and at least this way, ICE doesn’t even get paid (although they’re essential workers, for some reason, so they get back pay if we ever go back to funding).
My only beef with Dems here is… why healthcare? There’s a thousand and one better ways to message this shutdown, but no, we’re going to go with Biden era subsidies set to expire. Is it because it’s something they think will have legs with a GOP compromise? It sure as hell doesn’t resonate with the base that sees fascism before our very eyes.