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- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 1 day ago:
I know. 😔
I mostly share these feelings because it illuminates the issue a bit for some people who otherwise have not considered it.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Ah, good point. I guess things would rapidly re-form in the favor of the fediverse if this law was overturned…
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 1 day ago:
Yet again, we have difficulty having shared definitions of the most basic words.
We really need to address this some day. So much conflict will go away once we stop arguing about the definitions of words.
Maybe words are too imprecise, and we need something else. But on the other hand, we have precise words for lots of things. But it’s considered elitist or whatever to use them. “$10 words” are often just very precise and replace a bunch of other words in a sentence.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Well, it’ll be a difficult transition. But in the long run, maybe not?
As long as the Fourth Estate gets their shit together.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
It shuts down Truth social and all social networks. YouTube stops allowing uploads, the fediverse closes up shop, cats and dogs living together.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
There is no Radical honesty on Truth social.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 day ago:
That’s a fair take. I’m sure they feared looking dated. I think that’s a misguided fear that you have when you don’t think the other aspects can live up to expectations.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 day ago:
Yeah, but it’s not just a toon shader/cel shaded shader.
I’ve seen footage, this game has full PBR and all sorts of fancy lighting. Etc. Reducing it all to “cell shading” isn’t the whole story.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 1 day ago:
This is how I understood it too.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 2 days ago:
He probally knows only a certain percentage of his audience will ever hear about this.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 2 days ago:
Eh, I guess it is. But it also isn’t. We have stagnated a bit in the rasterization and VRAM departments when you talk about affordable entry level cards that most people buy.
And the PlayStation 5 has not changed since it launched…
- Comment on ChatGPT Building Age Detection Tools 2 days ago:
Weird, tools. Not more AI.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 3 days ago:
I wonder if either of them are actually the correct scene.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 days ago:
You made this statement by using the most optimized high end VR title in existence. And the creators of the game their own engine!
Graphics do matter. That’s why you cited Alyx. Right? Because it has impressive graphics. Graphics in VR have generally stagnated for the past 5 years since Alyx came out.
- Comment on Despite fakery concerns, Stop Destroying Videogames campaign claim "around 97%" of their signatures are valid so far 3 days ago:
That’s a really good ratio considering the people surrounding the issues.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 days ago:
Only PCVR titles can even approach saying such things without looking like jerks. And even then, it’s probally counter productive.
- Comment on I'm a bit hooked on old anime. 4 days ago:
Yup, that’s how percentages work!
- Comment on I'm a bit hooked on old anime. 4 days ago:
Percentage wise, maybe. But not volume wise.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 5 days ago:
So the potato is a sin eater?
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 6 days ago:
“This company is too cheap to pay someone for a proper advertisement.”
Using AI like this seems like a counter productive way to build brand awareness.
- Comment on We must not posthumously sanitize Charlie Kirk's hateful life 1 week ago:
Wait what? Because people are asking others to chill with the cheering?
- Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors 1 week ago:
Sounds better than age verification… oh wait.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 1 week ago:
WhatYearIsIt.jpg - Comment on YouTube Is Hiding Videos From You 1 week ago:
Hasn’t he also said some weird stuff about sex with kids too?
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead. 1 week ago:
Remember that my original comment was pointing out that YouTubers would flip out if they switched to this metric.
I agree with you.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead. 1 week ago:
Yeah, you can infer it.
But no one is making a thank you video because they reached a weekly active users metric.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead. 1 week ago:
Weekly active users here.
Also, just show the new stat. No need to hide the subscriber total.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead. 1 week ago:
That’s news to me. They took away subscriber numbers? YouTubers still talk about them.
And this is the number behind the plaques they send out to people. I can’t image them stopping that.
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 1 week ago:
It was at least in part a piracy site. Everything was uploaded by users. It was a piracy site in the sense that early music on YouTube was mostly users uploading too. This also often meant the audio compression was random, and sometimes terrible. And on YouTube it was terrible 2006-2010 or so.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead. 1 week ago:
lol, watch YouTube do the same and creators flip the fuck out.