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- Comment on EU military chief says it would make sense to put European troops in Greenland, Welt reports 3 days ago:
They voted for him because they know what kind of person he is. A scary proportion of American voters are explicit supporters of fascism.
- Comment on Lemon wine and orange wine 4 days ago:
How does the acidity of the citrus not kill the yeast needed to ferment?
- Comment on Windows 11 is getting colorful new battery icons that are easier to understand at a glance 5 days ago:
It can be, but I am thinking if Microsoft were to make every system tray icon display various colors, it wouldn’t be any more readable than the current monochrome icons. The advantage of the battery indicator alone having color is that you can notice it out of the corner of your eye and immediately interpret it without having to pick it out from among several other colorful icons.
- Comment on Windows 11 is getting colorful new battery icons that are easier to understand at a glance 5 days ago:
Within reason, though. Color is also meaningless when it’s everywhere.
- Comment on Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Grows 1 week ago:
"With Tiktok and its propaganda out of the way, Americans will be forced to use a different app.
Everyone flocks to RedNote
“Wait no not that one”
Either that, or this is some weird reverse psychology move to make the Republicans go “Wait, he doesn’t want it band? Shit, now we do!”
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 3 weeks ago:
Sadly I think this is the new normal. You could buy a decent GPU, or you could buy an entire game console. Unless you have some other reason to need a strong PC, it just doesn’t seem worth the investment.
At least Intel are trying to keep their prices low.
- Comment on The 2025 Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) Speedrunning Marathon begins this Sunday at 11:30 EST (16:30 GMT) 3 weeks ago:
Looking at that one, they have it labeled as “showcase” so they’ll probably do a limited collection of content in the game to demonstrate particular tricks and strategies but not the whole thing.
- The 2025 Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) Speedrunning Marathon begins this Sunday at 11:30 EST (16:30 GMT)gamesdonequick.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 3 weeks ago:
Like others have said, budgetary restrictions coupled with limited imaginations is the answer, but there are a couple somewhat interesting “handwavey” explanations a sci-fi universe can use. Off the top of my head:
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Directed Panspermia: Life on Earth (and other planets) was seeded by an intelligent higher order. Evolution occurred mostly naturally, but all following the same starting blueprints with variations to account for environmental differences. Eventually this leads to intelligent, humanoid life. Basically, sci-fi intelligent design theory.
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Convergent Evolution: Two unrelated organisms can evolve similar traits because they happen to be best suited to certain tasks. For example, the number of times crabs have evolved independently, because crab-like traits work universally well for their shared niche. So in theory, if humans are distinctly advantaged for our evolutionary niche, it stands to reason that other forms of intelligent life might resemble humanoids as well.
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- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 weeks ago:
Mass shooting? Sounds like a normal Wednesday.
- Comment on South Korea mulls creating 'KSMC' contract chipmaker to compete with TSMC, requires a $13.9 billion investment 5 weeks ago:
Can’t say it’s a bad idea. In the (hopefully) unlikely event China ever makes a move on Taiwan, it would give Korea’s initiative some huge demand from every tech sector in the West.
- Comment on Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardware 1 month ago:
In this global consumer society? More likely consumers and enterprises just toss their perfectly good but incompatible devices in a landfill and buy new minimum spec devices, because buy buy buy is all that matters. Repeat in a year or two when Windows 12 comes out and ups the hardware requirement again.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
I hope so. Less cost to the taxpayer, and the high calorie and sodium count will send Trump to an early grave.
- Comment on Is there a way to exclude topics from what I see on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Jerboa does not
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 months ago:
There are valid uses for AI. It is much better at pattern recognition than people. Apply that to healthcare and it could be a paradigm shift in early diagnosis of conditions that doctors wouldn’t think to look for until more noticeable symptoms occur.
- Comment on Beer, I summon thee 2 months ago:
Is your refrigerator running?
Yes?
Then you’d better go catch it!
Shit fuck there it goes.
- Comment on Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media 2 months ago:
But your normie friends and family would fit in a lot better if they simply read some T H E O R Y.
- Comment on Matt Gaetz's resignation letter: "I hereby resign as a United States representative." 2 months ago:
Sure, not much to see though.
- Comment on Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory 2 months ago:
What safeguards? Biden’s order was just that they had to report what they were doing. He didn’t restrict anything.
What the AI market is really going to feel is if Trump’s proposed tariffs affect the prices of all those chips they need to feed their models.
- Comment on Sony is trying to patent a 'universal' rewind button that could fix your worst gaming catastrophes 2 months ago:
Fuck no, it’ll barely work with any game, just like most of the new features they promote any time they announce a new console.
Every other game today is live service online only garbage which means they wouldn’t allow rewinds given the server-side dependencies that wouldn’t work with it, and games from other developers would probably support the feature for 2 launch titles before everyone stops caring about it because it’s extra work and no one uses it anyways.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 2 months ago:
Journey
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 2 months ago:
But the Sony implementation wasn’t meant to take you back to where you were, it was meant to take you to specific predefined starting points. That’s all. Both meant to be “time savers” of a sort but different strategies were used. One clearly didn’t work as well as the other.
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 3 months ago:
While I don’t believe the PS5 has any feature that is up to snuff with quick resume, just wanted to mention that I think this feature was a bit different in function. It was more like a shortcut to specific things within a game, such as if you wanted to just go straight into a multiplayer match or to a specific level of a game, you’d use one of these activity cards, the game boots up, and there’d be minimal to no menus to navigate through. Just launch direct to gameplay or as close to it as possible.
I don’t believe many games used it, though. Not even all of Sony’s own offerings.
- Comment on Technotopia, a city builder with card selection and roguelite mechanics and a Bioshockesque theme, released on Steam 3 months ago:
The BioShock logo (and the art of the game itself) uses an art deco style that was relatively commonplace around the early 1900’s.
Whether this game’s usage of that style is a deliberate move or if it’s just borrowing from a shared aesthetic, who can say.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 months ago:
Super Mario Wonder was also a big one. Critically acclaimed, too.
- Comment on Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Quits YouTube With Final Video Teasing Mystery New Game 3 months ago:
You joke but I would kill for a new Kirby Air Ride game.
You wouldn’t believe my disappointment when they had a Nintendo Direct years ago and threw a “one more thing” at the end which opened with Kirby Air Ride music and Kirby riding in on the warp star, only for it to be a Smash Bros character reveal. The video they put on YouTube after the fact opened with the Smash logo, but it didn’t during the Nintendo Direct.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
Sure, not arguing that. But there’s no ideology that can completely preclude violence.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
Quakers are just an extension of Christian ideology. Jainism I don’t know enough about, but any religious identity will eventually develop the concept of justified violence when faced with the existential threat of a larger rival religion.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
I don’t think any ideology has not had brutality committed in its name.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 months ago:
There are definitely some bad actors on here who are trying to manipulate the election in Trump’s favor. The sort that claim to be leftists and come to every US politics-related thread (or even ones that aren’t related to the US until they make it so) with their list of talking points about why no one should vote for Harris, but conveniently have no answers for who deserves votes more.
