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- Comment on Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary 1 day ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
“I will not trust any vaccine made by a capitalist” sounds like a satire of a left wing person. I can’t tell if you were making a joke or really hold an absurd position.
- Comment on Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary 2 days ago:
I see poe’s law is alive and well.
- Comment on Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming 4 days ago:
I switched to mint because ms won’t even let me upgrade to 11 if I wanted to. Other than some initial hurdles installing it, and losing some hd space because I kept windows on the other partition, it’s been fine. Proton and Wine are pretty low maintenance
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 1 week ago:
It was okay.
Didn’t really like the ending(s). I think one of the lead guys was like “cyberpunk can’t have happy endings”, so I guess they never read Neuromancer.
Gameplay was so-so, but I fixed some egregious problems with a mod. People who thought it was going to be life changing were living in a dream land.
- Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account 3 weeks ago:
I think you have to also account for the kids’ ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 3 weeks ago:
Lots of people never reach more advanced stages of moral reasoning. They don’t do bad things to avoid being punished, or maybe because they have a simple understanding of “it’s against the rules”
The current justice and prison system is abhorrent, but something needs to happen if someone tries to murder someone else. Most people are alright but there are a lot of anti social people out there, too. And a lot of people who would be alright if they were in more stable circumstances
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 1 month ago:
There was a (fiction) book I was called “all the birds in the sky”. I really liked it. Highly recommend.
One of the plot threads is a rich tech bro character that’s like “the world is doomed we need to abandon it for somewhere else. Better pour tons of resources into this sci-fi sounding project”. And I’m just screaming at the book “use that money for housing and transport and clean energy you absolute donkey”.
There are a lot of well understood things we could be doing to make the world better, but they’re difficult for idiotic political reasons. Racism, nimbyism, emotional immaturity, etc.
- Comment on Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale 1 month ago:
I also really liked pillars 2, and am sad they’re not making a third one.
- Comment on Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog 1 month ago:
Targeted ads should be illegal.
Contextual ads are a compromise I would accept. That is, you can buy ads based on the page content, but not the viewer details. So if I’m looking at a website about bikes, you can have bike ads on there. You don’t need to know I’m a xx year old living in zip code 10001. That’s how ads worked for like decades (centuries?). It’s fine.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 1 month ago:
Guild wars 2 is a very good game, but very different than guild wars 1.
They both avoid the endless gear and level grind, but gw2 is generally easier and less tactical. You can solo most of it. Builds are a little more limited, but it’s also harder to make a useless character.
They addressed the most common problems with early mmos: other players are never a bad thing. there’s no kill stealing. If you’re doing some event to fight off demons that have invaded the town, and other people show up, the game silently scales up a to accommodate more players, and everyone gets credit. it’s great.
I really like it. I don’t play it every day, but I go back to it all the time.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 month ago:
Have you played Nioh2? It has diablo-like items, but actual combat. It’s very good.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 month ago:
What if leveling up didn’t make number get big, but instead gave you more options in a fight?
Horizontal progression is pretty cool .
Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t want that. They want to feel cool and competent without actually doing anything. That’s not to say like you need to “earn” your fun or whatever. But that the progress quest number go up don’t think too hard is immensely popular with a lot of people. They don’t want to be challenged.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 month ago:
I still remember the thrill when I was a teenager when I clicked a random corpse in Diablo 1’s hell and the unique staff Mindcry popped out.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
Been happy buying music from Bandcamp and not having a subscription. Didn’t even make it onto the chart :(
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 1 month ago:
A response on slack that’s like “I’m at the grocery, back in 20” is fine with me. It’s more annoying when someone wanders away with no status and is unresponsive for hours.
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 1 month ago:
Some people are bad at working remote, and want to drag the rest of us down with them, too.
Yes, it’s a slightly different skill set to work remote. You have to be better at the written word. You can’t just roll up to someone’s desk and be like “have a minute?” (which is fucking awful anyway). You also need to be responsive and set your status appropriately. A lot of coworkers just wander off and leave their slack status as active. To my mind if you’re running an errand longer than taking a dump, you should update your status.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Don’t forget about the halo effect. Someone on stage doing a killer set is going to seem hotter. When someone is good at one thing, we start to think they’re good at everything (where being hot is a thing).
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 1 month ago:
I understand fear of retaliation. No one wants to lose their home or go hungry, and it’s not like landlords will give a shit. But I also want management to fear the workers rolling up to their house and hour before dawn. They only have power because we let them.
Well, at least until they have fully autonomous kill drones or something.
But it’s easy to say that from my comfortable home. It’s another to actually get in a truck with your friends and actually shoot a VP in the back of the head.
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 1 month ago:
I’m not as informed as I’d like to be. Rock paper shotgun did an article recently about unions in video game development, which was interesting and might be somewhat broadly applicable: rockpapershotgun.com/from-blizzard-to-bethesda-ga…
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 1 month ago:
Folks should unionize, and then use that collective power to tell “back to office” mandates to fuck themselves to death.
Shut down AWS and let the world burn until management capitulates. It’s not like the soulless husks calling the shots can run the show themselves.
- Comment on Why is the internet overflowing with rubbish ads – and what can we do about it? 1 month ago:
I still think targeted ads should be illegal. I would accept static ads that are based on the content of the site rather than me as a compromise.
So like if I’m looking at example.com/cool-bikes you can show me bike ads. You don’t need to know who I am or track me.
It’s good enough for the past few decades (centuries?) it’s good enough for now. The Superbowl doesn’t serve a different ad to every viewer.
- Comment on Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia? 1 month ago:
They tend to be more authoritarian. That means they’re more likely to prioritize in-group above all else.
There’s a book about authoritarian personalities I was reading a while ago. It talks about an experiment where they did like a model UN, but secretly sorted all the authoritarian types into one game and everyone else into the other.
The authoritarians ruined the world. Like, nuclear war. When they got a do-over, they still fucked it up.
The other group basically cooperated and solved world hunger.
Authoritarians probably shouldn’t be allowed in positions of power. The GOP attracts a lot of them.
- Comment on "Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours 2 months ago:
Fingers crossed for total conversions. Give me some non-5e rule systems. (Unlikely, I know. Double unlikely to get anything other than maybe Pathfinder, but I can hope)
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
Sometimes people’s priorities, needs, and desires are bad.
- Comment on If we ever move past Trump I don't think I'll ever be able to put up with any political bullshit again. 2 months ago:
A lot of people are really quite stupid. On top of that, they’re in social groups (ie: tribes) that have shitty values.
Long term investing in education would help. So would things like removing lead from the environment, and fixing healthcare and labor laws so people aren’t so stressed all the time trying to survive.
Something like half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level (Snopes says this is basically true but there are complexities www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/ )
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 months ago:
That sounds pretty similar to how I like Guild Wars 2, except offline. That’s cool. I signed up for the beta thing.
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 months ago:
You can either buy it once to gain access to the offline “ironman” mod
This sounds relevant to my interests. What updates come with this? Just security? Nothing?
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 months ago:
I agree with your ideas on micro transactions here. They create a lot of temptations to make the base game worse. “Your inventory holds 12 items but for a very reasonable price you can hold 6 more!” may seem harmless but it also sucks. The game is objectively and arbitrarily worse without that transaction.
Purely cosmetic skins are a little better, but you end up taking advantage of people who buy more than they should.
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 months ago:
Mildly interested. Concerned about monetization. I don’t do subscriptions or microtransactions, and “pay once and you’re good” is pretty rare, probably in part because there’s ongoing costs to running a server and in part because lol most people will charge as much as possible. But that’s why the only MMO I play is guild wars 2. You buy the game and you’re good. They sell expansions every couple of years.
Also you should mention lemmy on your site where you mention discord and reddit.