CarbonatedPastaSauce
@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
- Comment on Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" 20 hours ago:
Since Fable his life’s work has been blowing smoke up peoples asses. Color me unenthused.
- Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 3 days ago:
You would get thrown in jail, rightfully, for doing this once.
Corporation does it by the truckload and they are politely told to please stop, if they don’t mind.
Not even the trivial, meaningless fines we’re used to reading about.
This world is broken.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 4 days ago:
Your phone company is selling this data. Your tax dollars are then used to spy on you. But let’s place the blame with the enablers. If the data wasn’t being sold, ICE couldn’t buy it with your money.
Privacy is a myth in the United States.
- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 1 week ago:
So, when humans are involved they are inherently bad due to the reality of human nature. Got it.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Thanks for your hypothetical but I’m speaking from first hand experience. When you have the same type of experience and aren’t just speaking off a statistics sheet you might change your tune. Most people do.
Personally I think we need massive gun control reform. But I don’t live in that world, or a world where that’s going to happen in my lifetime even. So I’ll continue to do what’s most practical for the reality I live in.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Some of us have been victims and may have a different opinion.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In Subnautica VR
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 1 week ago:
Buoyancy, farting, or manatees?
- Comment on Should I get the Measles and/or Mpox vaccines if I had them as a child? 1 week ago:
Your doctor can do a blood test and tell you if you should get a booster. I got a booster at age 50 because that test showed my antibody level for measles had fallen below their acceptable minimum.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 1 week ago:
Most people are perfectly fine with the way things are.
I don’t think that’s true, but I’m constantly disappointed in humanity and overestimating people’s will to make things better, so who knows.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 1 week ago:
God damn I hate this bullshit argument.
People are looking for leadership in a time of crisis. Saying “well why don’t YOU do it instead of complaining” is just mind numbingly oblivious to how societal change actually works.
You build the movement, then you act. If you act too soon you’re just another revolutionary lined up against the wall and shot. Leadership is required to succeed and very few are capable of that level of leadership.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 1 week ago:
That’s how the world works and always has to varying degrees. It’s just more obvious at the moment than it usually is.
Btw, “they get to rape kids and I just wanna go to the whorehouse” isn’t the BEST argument, but I guess you’re sorta aiming in the right direction.
- Comment on The highest-rated games and what the people say 1 week ago:
Congratulations, you are now an art critic!
Seriously… that’s basically what you’re doing, curating your own list based on what you think is important. And it’s great! I’m the next step down on the food chain, the guy who devours the curated lists that people like you spend time putting together. Thanks!
- Comment on What are therapists allow to share about their clients? 1 week ago:
I really don’t know, but I’ve read several books by psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists where they shared client stories, without PII. I would think it’s ok to share generic stories as long as the client can’t be identified, only because I doubt from some of the stories I’ve read that all those clients consented to having their stories told, but who knows. Hopefully somebody with expertise can chime in!
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 2 weeks ago:
I have literally never seen someone wipe down an arcade machine in the 5 decades I’ve spent playing video games in public. You just have to assume a kid touched it and it’s covered in snot. But it’s like owning a cat. You just have to not think about it too much.
But yeah…. You’re actually both right. Money is really gross. So is everything else in public, or the world for that matter. It’s why we have immune systems. Can’t just accept that everything has to be gross though, we also need to keep things sanitary. But we can’t clean everything all the time! So how clean is clean enough? Everyone draws that line in a slightly different place.
And so here we are.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 2 weeks ago:
You are not the only person that hates those scents! But we are rare. I usually get deer in headlights look when I explain it to someone.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
Because that kind of shift in mindset (going backwards, basically) will require far more pressure than a 1-2 year RAM shortage.
Enterprise developers are basically unaffected by this. And anyone writing software for mom & pop was already targeting 8gb because that’s what Office Depot is selling them.
This mostly hurts the enthusiast parts of tech. Most people won’t notice, because they don’t know the difference between 8, 16, or over 9000 gb of RAM. I’ve had this discussion with ‘users’ so many times when they ask for pc recommendations, and they just don’t really get it, or care.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
Found the silver lining guy.
Love the optimism but yeah, the impact on software dev will be minimal, if there even is one.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Photoshop for over 30 years. Even when the time comes
It’s not coming. Not for you, anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, sadly they still meet the definition. As much as it pains me to admit I’m the same species as them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What the shit is that headline? Humans caused ALL of this! The fucking robots aren’t in charge yet.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 weeks ago:
Because many people believe any use of gen AI is unethical due to how it was created, in addition to how the people in charge are using it.
In other words, using it in any capacity is a bad look to a lot of creatives. And other rational people who can foresee the devastating impact it’s going to have on art of all types, government, and society at large.
- Comment on What are some cool infections? 3 weeks ago:
Personally I’d go with a large painful burn scar with an interesting story, or a battle wound that reopens from time to time or causes some other limitations. “It never fully healed” ala Frodo Baggins.
A person walking around in premodern times with a semi permanent but nonlethal infection would strain believability for me.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
Cause most of us have no way to pressure them. What am I going to do, threaten to take away the $0 I’ve paid them over the last 20 years?
But, you know, that’s exactly the reason they don’t care about our whining.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong but Mozilla is real busy making Firefox another bad choice among many bad choices.
Maybe it’s time to go back to BBSes. This whole internet thing kinda sucks now.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
This is what I have used for the last few years (after being a Firefox user for almost 2 decades), and yeah we’re probably safe for a little while, but it seems the writing is on the wall. The LibreWolf team can only do so much when the core browser is constantly being enshittified. I hoped this was a flash in the pan thing and LibreWolf would save us until Mozilla regained its senses, but it seems they’ve gone batshit.
I too will be keeping my eyes peeled for what to use next.
- Comment on Why is comment section of this video filled with nazis? 3 weeks ago:
Oh I see the problem. It’s on Yourube.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve found if you don’t put the blindfold around your arm it stays just as easy to throw things as before.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
You are correct.
Agriculture, shipping, and power generation together dwarf the petroleum used by road vehicles.
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 4 weeks ago:
They kinda did this in Strange Days.