ryathal
@ryathal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 2 days ago:
The vast majority of states have some level of control on the increase in property taxes. Generally through a cap on appreciation, cap on tax increase, or both.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Your neighbors would be lucky to have a house if it actually went off.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
There’s a lot of reasonableness and average person would expect in law, but needing a supersonic bullet to hit it is well out of reasonable territory.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 1 week ago:
I absolutely hated my first experience with modern dual stick controls. It felt so wrong compared to GoldenEye.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
It’s steam, like almost all power obviously.
- Comment on Sure, Jan 1 week ago:
Kid Rock is the guy you call when everyone else said no and you can only pay in Bush Light.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 week ago:
Yea, but that still was a funny episode as their beliefs were played as a joke. There’s not anything funny about sex trafficking and ritual killing.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 week ago:
They need an episode with a disclaimer the whole time that this actually happened. It wouldn’t be a fun episode though.
- Comment on "We can't just continue making the map bigger and bigger": Why Bethesda want to expand Fallout 76 inwards, not just outwards 2 weeks ago:
I think there was a beautiful 2 week period where games had open worlds that weren’t just dead empty space everywhere.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 weeks ago:
He wants access to massive user bases for fortnite without having to pay anything to the platforms. That’s why he’s so intent on attacking Steam, Apple and Google. Steam would be a massive increase in revenue even with a 30% cut going to steam for epic, but mutual benefit isn’t in vogue at the moment.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 2 weeks ago:
Yep. You can’t outrun your fork.
- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 2 weeks ago:
I think I’d still say 3 is overall better than 1. The gameplay is just so clunky in 1 that even with the mediocre story, the gameplay of 3 puts it ahead.
- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 2 weeks ago:
That was still some of the best multiplayer gaming I’ve ever played. While it was loot crate based, it was far more customer friendly than the modern equivalent.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 3 weeks ago:
The real killer feature was not having to manage cd keys to install games on new computers or just reinstall them.
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 3 weeks ago:
In the sense that the US is a product of British colonialism then yes. Global communication wasn’t anywhere near robust until the empire was in decline.
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 3 weeks ago:
Shootas Blood and Teef. A 40k themed side scrolling shooter with very heavy stylized graphics. If you like 40k it’s a good insight in how orks see themselves. If you don’t like 40k it’s still a mechanically solid game and it doesn’t really have the same grimdarkness that is common in 40k games.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 4 weeks ago:
Companies don’t stop hiring, at least in tech. They can force out more expensive talent and hire in cheaper areas or get more junior talent. You could very well interview your potential replacement.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 5 weeks ago:
Texting on my old stratosphere was so much better than the modern keyboards. I wouldn’t mind an updated version.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 5 weeks ago:
They might have better lawyers, but generally the big club of the government is the inevitability factor. Federal departments are basically immortal and have no profit motive to justify the continued budget.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t strip power though, it just moves it to something that hits the news cycle multiple times.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 5 weeks ago:
This seems shortsighted by these companies. A jury trial is way more expensive and public with a chance of paying as much or more fines anyway. Sure it takes longer to get a ruling, but that seems like a small win.
- Comment on If I publish my memoir and wrote about every bad thing people did to hurt me while the people mentioned are still alive, how much trouble could I get in? 5 weeks ago:
There are anti-slapp laws to help with this, but they aren’t always used appropriately.
- Comment on If I publish my memoir and wrote about every bad thing people did to hurt me while the people mentioned are still alive, how much trouble could I get in? 5 weeks ago:
That’s not actually a solid defense as “fictional” characters that are obviously someone that exists can still be ruled libel. A common informal defense is to give the fictional person a small penis. It doesn’t change anything legally, but it does require someone suing you to admit in court that they have a small penis.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" 5 weeks ago:
He did that in the run up to fable too, but games media wasn’t very widespread then.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t mind RNG, I mind games that rely on it over proper design. Xcom has tons of RNG, but it’s generally still possible to win most maps with proper strategy. Most roguelikes have this problem where any given run is impossible to win regardless of play.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
I do appreciate the games that give you quit and quit to desktop in the same menu.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
- Games that offer stealth as an option over combat, but have mandatory combat bosses.
- games that have excessive grinding as part of the main gameplay.
- Games where randomness is the primary factor in winning and losing.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 5 weeks ago:
AI chat bots are actually a useful workaround for shitty web uis now. When you don’t know which icon is hiding the thing you want, you can just ask the AI to do it for you.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
If anything it’s probably incentive to lie about AI usage. They got more publicity for being snubbed than winning.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 months ago:
I think it’s also that there aren’t crazy discounts on anything remotely new. There used to be 1-2 games that made headlines.