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- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Review Thread 9 hours ago:
I’m gonna wait on this game for now.
However, bugs can be fixed, performance can get a bit better (or more powerful hardware will arrive at some pont), but bad writing and characters will stay bad forever. I think this game can be fixed where Starfield was a lost cause on launch.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
Somewhere between top-right and top-middle depending on how revoked his license is at the given moment and how much vicodin he is on.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Us lemmings will never be comfortable with this level of centralisation.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
I just ment you’d have to cut so much that at that point it would basically be a new game. I’m thinking a bit more from the dev point of view. Like an old rusted-to-hell car, everything is fixable. The question is cost: if you have to replace or re-fabricate every piece than you’re better off starting from scratch.
I’m the case of Starfield, changing the core story, characters, missions, and theme is basically the same as replacing the entire car body.
- Comment on Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon 1 month ago:
Ah, I see the early access model, except for employment. Put in extra work now and maybe you’ll get some days back in a few years. Unless the project fails… or you leave the company… or we don’t feel like giving you those days anyway.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
The difference is, there is no fixing Starfield, it is rotten to the core. You would have to re-do most of the story elements and writing, and the disjointed, empty world. On top of that you’d have to fix the bugs and technical limitations like the constant loading screens. At this point you would be throwing out most of the game and basically starting from scratch with a few systems done, like the ship building and possibly gunplay.
I think cyberpunk never became what many wanted, but if you let go of your expectations, it is a good game.
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 1 month ago:
Sorry, that’s right, got it mixed up
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 1 month ago:
Let me start with the calendar because I actually had to look up the history of calendars (which was super interesting). The first person to use A.D. was a monk called Dionysius who used it around 525. In the Roman empire years were counted by the year of the current reigning Consul. Dionysius wanted to avoid using the calendar based on Roman emperor Diocletian who widely persecuted christians. This new system was adopted by the church only.
Centering the calendar around nativity of Jesus was only adopted as an official calendar by Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne in around 1600, and the rest of the world changed over to it over time until around 1900.
So the people actually living in 1 A.D. had no idea they were living in the year of the lord.
As far as I know we only really know that Jesus was a real man in the Herodian Kingdom at the time and that he was in fact crucified around 33 A.D. (which would not have been called A.D. at the time). Weather we believe he was truly resurrected is more of a question of faith, relying on religious sources. So basically applying Occam’s razor I would say that the resurrection was just part of the religious texts written by monks, not necessarily something that was 100% true.
In maths there are definitely larger and smaller infinities. Take for example the set of all natural numbers [1, 2, 3, …]. This is an infinite set. Compare this to the set of rational numbers, these can be expressed as a fraction of two natural numbers [1/1, 1/2, 1/3, …]. There is already an infinite amount of rational numbers between 1 and 2, making this an uncountably larger infinite set. All this being said, the boulder thing always sounded a bit weird to me but it does raise the question of what we mean by omnipotence, and can we accept the existance of such a being, all of this gets very philosophical. (the paradox has several proposed resolutions if you are interested btw, some more satisfying than others)
Which brings us back to the problem of evil. Let’s say our lives on Earth are just a test to see if we are accepted in heaven. This explains why bad things happen as they are a test of faith. But this just raises more questions:
Why does it take God our entire lives to decide whether we are accepted? What about babies that die during birth or shortly after? How can they prove their faith?
Anyway, this got way too long. I’d like to reiterate that I think religion has very positive aspects: community, belonging, purpose, an answer to what happens after death.
But I’d also say that historically, religion (especially Christianity) was a tool to keep the masses docile and subdued, allowing the church to hold power over hundreds of years but also kept believers somewhat safe, at lest from their own community - commandments like do not kill, steal, or even Jewish customs of not eating specific types of meat. If they had to make up, or embellish things to keep it going, that was a price they were willing to pay.
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 1 month ago:
Great, you should focus your efforts on different companies, Valve is one of the few good ones (so far).
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 1 month ago:
Well, not to get into a theological debate here but there are many logical inconsistencies and paradoxes with religion in general.
Stuff like the “can God create a stone so large that he cannot lift it”; or just seeing all the suffering in the world and trying to justify why a benevolent, all seeing, all knowing, omnipotent being would allow kids to get cancer - either god is not capable to fix it or doesn’t care, neither of which is a great outcome.
Just applying Occam’s Razor in general makes religion pretty far fetched, especially the more hardline old testament you go: God creating the earth, Noah and the flood, etc. There is just a much simpler explanation to all of it.
I mean no offence to religious people in general, in fact I think religion can be very useful for some to find a purpose or belonging in their lives. I just find the cognitive dissonance of religion impossible to reconcile with reality.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
This was also my initial take but look at these graphs with the Y axis starting from 0 Image Image Stock lost 67% value in the last year alone, and lost 85% in the past 5 years. Looks pretty dire to me. I would say this is undervalued but I have no confidence in the ubi leadership to turn it around.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
I have to agree with this comment. I’d probably just set up the router regardless (probably in WiFi AP mode) and not worry about it too much. No one reads the terms and conditions anyway. If someone comes to actually enforce the thing I’d obviously take it down. Hide the ssid if you want to.
As others mentioned, there are ways to also hide traffic behind a single device, maybe connecting to a VPN on the router level would help with this?
Back when I was in uni I had terrible wired Internet so I’d try everything. At one point I was using a jailbroken iPhone to share its 4g connection without having to pay extra to the wireless ISP (basically data plan was unlimited but tethering wasn’t). It worked fine, I could use my data on any of the devices over wifi but it was barely faster than the wired network and it was a lot of hassle so I gave it up.
- Comment on Intel’s advanced chipmaking process reportedly runs into trouble 2 months ago:
Is this gonna be another 14++++++++ ?
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
It’s made by the Developer who made Gunpoint and Heat Signature (also amazing games if you somehow haven’t heard of them BTW).
It’s a turn based tactics/puzzle game where you command a squad of wizards with different magical abilities to dispatch a room of enemies. A bit like into the breach but hand crafted scenarios, not procedurally generated.
It also has a fun story, character customisation, and ability unlocks. Almost every scenario has a bunch of optional extra goals, so you decide how hard you want to wreck your brain. Highly recommend it!
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
Ah, so that’s why your leader now appears when you are communicating with a different civ. They had to add this for bullshit skins monetization.
- Comment on USA | Trump will speak from behind bulletproof glass at outdoor rallies 2 months ago:
You’re right that it is a stationary target, probably doable by image recognition, even with GPS jamming. Still, bit more sophistication required than just strapping a grenade to a dji.
- Comment on USA | Trump will speak from behind bulletproof glass at outdoor rallies 2 months ago:
There is probably a lot of high tech jamming and EW equipment used by the secret service
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 3 months ago:
My workplace also forces me to do all my porn searches on Bing.
- Comment on Fallout London - Official Launch Trailer Premiere 3 months ago:
I own fo4 on steam but I already have a wabbajack setup with that install. Could I torrent a gog version and install it on top of that?
- Comment on Report: 82% of US gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles in 2023 3 months ago:
Sad, but this includes mobile, so PC only numbers are probably a bit better
- Comment on How Apple’s India gamble paid off. 4 months ago:
Thank you for your service
- Comment on Getting the Skyrim itch again... Any mod recommendations to freshen it up? 4 months ago:
I highly recommend Living Skyrim. It takes around 300gb storage but it’s absolutely worth it.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 months ago:
Now that’s a reference
- Comment on Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE 6 months ago:
There is definitely a buzz, the SPT (single player Tarkov mod) servers have been constantly overloaded for days now
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 6 months ago:
I lost faith in the verge after how they handled the whole PC build fiasco
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 6 months ago:
Would you even be able to move it? You’d have to put it in neutral first so you can attempt to push it but good luck with that if it’s bricked. I know electric cars generally shouldn’t really be towed either (a few meters might be okay but I’m not sure).
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
There is nothing inherently wrong about food pictures but I feel like it is a symptom of the focus shifting from trying to take quality pictures to showing off a nice dinner/vacation/car you had to your “friend” group.
There is a thin line between look at this cool thing and look at how much better my life is then yours. I kinda have a distaste for the second one. (That said I take food pictures all the time but mostly of stuff I made myself)
- Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users 6 months ago:
I’m still looking for something to replace my shield TV tube. I don’t believe that has AV1 support.
- Comment on UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones 6 months ago:
Homing Pigeons 🪽?
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
I remember Instagram when it was new. It was an actually photography app. Of course it had the edgy filters (which ~15 year old me made full use of). But the pictures people posted actually had a bit of effort behind them.
Then it started becoming another mainstream social media where most pictures were about people’s lunches. I didn’t stick around for it’s final phase of business ads and thots.
I think it lost the cool factor by the time FB bought it but maybe it would’ve taken longer to become as ad-infested as it is today
