Soggy
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- Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update 2 days ago:
Pretty much for as long as online games have gotten updates. DOTA kinda codified it with the Battle Pass system but WoW battlegrounds/arena had seasons way before that. They’ll wait and do content/balance updates in chunks and that effects the meta in waves defined as “seasons”.
It’s everywhere now. It can be weaponized FOMO or a clean way to provide regular novelty without being tied down to legacy content.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
I’d happily have a phone half an inch thicker if it meant a folding or sliding physical keyboard for my large hands.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 1 week ago:
Ok, well, I am. It’s not “pointless story” it’s entertainment and I’m struggling to come up with a game that has zero plot or setting or characterization. Rocket League maybe.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 2 weeks ago:
It’s set in the Titanfall universe, there’s lots of lore scattered around. People work hard to integrate a narrative into the level and character designs, to imply plot in incidental dialogue or cinematics, or just literally write text entries that the majority of gamers will never read because only shooting and rare skins trigger their dopamine.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 2 weeks ago:
Leave Draw exactly as it is, thanks. Maybe increase magic damage scaling but the Junction system is neat and the whole thing ties into the plot.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
They don’t actually know why it happened. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 2 weeks ago:
That seems backwards to me, I would absolutely tell my friends if I thought their life choices were harmful.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
It can also just be a fun hobby. Old-fashioned soap making is a very approachable historical craft. (Modern soap making is also very approachable if you’re comfortable handling lye)
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
Old English is significantly harder than Middle English, yeah.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
I’m really hoping to stay where I am. I’d rather try to integrate with the Coast Salish people than 14th century Christians.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
Crude soap is easy to make. Wood ash + water + fat. From there you just fiddle with ratios and timing while trying not to burn your skin off with strong alkalinity.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
If your argument is that humans can only be “native” to southeast Africa… that’s dumb. It might be defensible in an ecological sense but sociologically the word is used differently.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
Middle English is understandable. It’s tricky and there are lots of unexpected differences but you’d get used to it. This is right at the edge of Early Modern English and the Great Vowel Shift.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
American here: governments have never cared about signed treaties with natives. But your heart’s in the right place.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
The day I can’t avoid advertisements is the day I drop the service. You want my money? Provide a product that isn’t trying to wring me and my data dry.
Video is expensive to host, I get that. I’d happily give a few bucks a month (which is way more than my ad views would be worth) but their asking price is laughable.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know why anyone would willingly default to the algorithm, I set my bookmark direct to the subscription page.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
I’d have to hold me phone so close to my face I can’t comfortably focus on it to match the relative size of my computer monitor, and it’s not a big monitor. Why would I settle for the jumbotron from the cheap seats when I can sit front row?
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want more apps, I want to return to
monkeearly 2000s web forums. - Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
Most sports never make the news. Even in the US it’s pretty fringe except for the wrestlers who transition to Hollywood, like John Cena or Dave Bautista. Though it had a heyday from the Hulk Hogan era through Stone Cold and The Rock when people were much more aware, generally. I don’t know anyone who watches but I know a bunch of people who used to watch.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
Sports theater as well.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Professional_wrestling_in_the_Un…
Quick little history of the last century in the UK.
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Active circuits are pretty much everywhere.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
Wrestling has a significant presence in Central America, Japan, and Europe. Presumably other regions as well but I really don’t follow the sport so my experience is all second-hand.
- Comment on xkcd #3073: Tariffs 5 weeks ago:
Pineapple and anchovy is delicious. Sweet and salty flavor explosion.
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 1 month ago:
Aeration is a known factor in cocktails, it also requires some kind of protein or structure in the liquid to hold onto air for more than a few moments. Slurping a bit as you sip will impact the taste more than shake/stir (assuming equal dilution, temperature, and clarity) The other factor bruise-truthers trot out is Volatile Organic Compounds and the “top notes” evaporating out or oxidizing and I’m sure that would happen if you left a neat glass out on the counter for half an hour, but ten seconds of tumbling is nothing compared to the distillation and bottling process.
It’s like the “espresso dies in thirty seconds” thing that’s actually an efficiency training benchmark that got misinterpreted at some point. The chemistry just isn’t that fast.
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 1 month ago:
I prefer mine a bit sweeter. I also prefer a coupe so I guess my champagne tastes are just two hundred years old.
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 1 month ago:
This isn’t a real thing.
- Comment on Skill issue 1 month ago:
“My position is so tenuous yet so important to my identity that I will not tolerate the slightest challenge.”
Alternatively, “That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick, no frou-frou symbolism. Just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal.”
Psychonauts is about trauma. Fallout is anti-war. FFVII is environmentalist. Samus as a woman was an intentionally subversive choice. Video games have had socual commentary for as long as it’s been able to be expressed.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 1 month ago:
Never take any risks to improve the world, that’s how things are gonna get better!
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 2 months ago:
It’s more that .ml is the biggest instance with that filter that will show up on .world, the biggest instance overall. So statistically, unless they are specifically looking at instances with automatic slur post filtering, this is the situation they will notice it in. They aren’t seeing the content differently, the removed is happening at the post so it’s the same experience for everybody.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 2 months ago:
It’s the biggest one still federated with .world with that filter.