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- Comment on If you could have any vision-related superpower, what would it be? 1 day ago:
Probably toggleable statistics. So I could choose to see information about people above their heads. Mood, age, name, net worth, and stuff like that. It’d be something I could turn on/off and choose what’s stats I want to see at any given time
- Comment on [DISC] Time-stop Ugly Old Man Chapter 1 1 week ago:
Ok, that was actually pretty funny. Calling it ugly bastard time stop and labeling it nsfw is effectively misleading
- Comment on If you were to launch a rocketship parallel to the earth, on wheels, how big would the ramp have to be to get it into space? 1 week ago:
Some more physics things, every planet has a limit on how high the tallest possible mountain is based off their surface gravity, the type of rocks present in the crust, and thickness of the crust. On Earth it turns out that limit is pretty close to Mt Everest’s height. Space is still about 50 miles above Everest so I don’t think humans could build this ramp with our current understanding of physics
If you want to go to space slowly then you can just do what Felix Baumgartner did and take a special type of balloon to get into space. Unfortunately, if you’re not traveling 25,000 mph relative to the surface of the planet, you’re going to fall back to the planet. Just like Felix did
- Comment on If you were to launch a rocketship parallel to the earth, on wheels, how big would the ramp have to be to get it into space? 1 week ago:
So for physics reasons it doesn’t really matter what technique you’re using to leave Earth. If you’re going to try to go to space successfully, you’re going to have to go a minimum speed of 25,000 miles per hour. That’s called the escape velocity and it’s a different value for every body of mass in space
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 1 week ago:
Look man, as someone who thought Switch 2 mouse controls were a gimmick and has sunk 17 hours into Civ VII, I don’t feel confident enough to tell all these people that they are wrong. If I had been in college and was told people could get scholarships for NASCAR Soccer I would have laughed in your face. Being that cocky is asking to be wrong
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 1 week ago:
First and foremost it’s bold to put this out before Drag x Drive releases which is just weird enough to become its own thing. Second, even the owner Epic doesn’t even seem to know what to do with Rocket League because they seem to be trying to make it part of Fortnite. Thirdly, esports are everywhere, sorry not all of them look like legacy sports but that’s not a problem for people playing the games
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Technically? You could install a Switch emulator and run a cracked version. But that’s hardly ideal. I haven’t played it but I’ve heard Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is similar and well received
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Animal Crossing (New Horizons specifically) is very similar to The Sims and is all about daily life, decorating, and maintaining a household. So I would imagine that could help with daily vocabulary. It might also give you a weird depth on dinosaurs and fish, but that’s an ok problem to have. Likewise Stardew Valley should be similar
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 2 weeks ago:
spoiler
I’m aware of the electromagnet. I think it’s ridiculous you need to find a compass, a battery, and a workshop in order to make it work. By the time you have all those are you really going to run around the house to hoover up items? If you want it on another run is that what you’re waste a coat check slot on? Also, it doesn’t collect gems or dice, which is stupid. That’s something you should just get permanently at a certain point
- Comment on So many bands emphatically demonstrate that successful communication is not about what you say, but how you say it 2 weeks ago:
They also did one of the poke “raps” ! It’s one of my favorites besides the OG and BDG’s
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 2 weeks ago:
I found it to be a beautifully frustrating experience. There clearly are a ton of layers and puzzles can help you solve other puzzles. I appreciate the effort it took to make it, but it doesn’t feel like it respects the effort it takes to play it. Here’s some of my frustrations:
- At a certain point you should get a magic vacuum upgrade to pick up all common items in rooms. Hunting for gems and coins in rooms on my 25th day sucks and adds nothing
- I should be able to move at least three times faster. Fuck, navigating the house is slow
- It really sucks that the first time you “solve” the primary puzzle you actually can’t progress until you solve a separate other puzzle that is dependent on finding one room and then another, and that is not clearly indicated at all
- While footsteps eventually become trivial it’s an annoying resource when you don’t have full control over the layout of the house. So you can build a maze through no fault of your own and then you don’t get the steps to explore them
- Eventually there’s a special room you can pick every run. Why do you make me actually traverse to that room? It burns useless steps and again, is slow as fuck
- Additionally, the only “permanent” room you can place (to my knowledge) you can get way too early. So if you put that in a crappy spot you just kinda fuck yourself for the rest of the game
- Sometimes you will think you have solved a puzzle but need to assemble the rooms to implement the solution. So you can: spam runs and rooms to get lucky and find it, do normal runs and just hope you find it, try to manipulate RNG to maximize the chance of solving that puzzle. None of those are fun when you have a couple of solutions to try and you spend multiple in game days manufacturing that opportunity
- The items are kind of crazy. There is a puzzle that requires you to assemble three items in a specific room, then discover a separate other room, then get to that room to use that item. There’s like 15+ items in the game, how are you ever supposed to organically put that together? Also finding a metal detector in my first 5 days made me paranoid that every room was hiding keys and coins on the floor even when I didn’t have it
- Some of the puzzles are so obtuse and have so many layers that if you ever happen to solve one that you suddenly think all puzzles could be that crazy. I solved the chess puzzle before the periodic table puzzle and was building this wildly complicated solution to that puzzle when it was actually really simpke
Despite my gripes I do think it’s a good game with incredible puzzles and a very unique design. I just think it doesn’t account for people actually playing it. I would bet there’s a really intriguing story under this but eventually I got so hung up on performing solutions I had already discovered I couldn’t be bothered to also discover the plot. I did read a summary after that helped contextualize things. Honestly what I’m looking forward to is when someone else takes these mechanics and refines it into a really cool rogue-like
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 2 weeks ago:
According to them, very well. Dave Grossman traveled around doing police training for years and this was part of his training
[In the widely shared clip filmed at one of Mr Grossman’s police training sessions, the former Army Lieutenant Colonel says: “Killing is just not that big a deal.”
He then talks about an officer describing that they had the “best sex” after fatally shooting someone, before adding that it is a “perk of the job”](independent.co.uk/…/police-training-video-kill-se…)
- Comment on When it comes to saving, Gen Z asks: 'What’s the point?' That's dangerous, expert says 3 weeks ago:
The generation that lived through 3 “once in a lifetime” economic disasters doesn’t trust their money will be there when they need it. Gee I wonder why?
- Comment on Is it possible to basically not snore at all? 3 weeks ago:
To live an entire life and never snore? Probably not. You’ll probably get sick and stuffed up and snore at some point in your life. Is it possible to generally not snore? Yeah, maintaining healthy weight, good sleep hygiene, not being sick, avoiding allergens, and proper sleeping ergonomics will probably prevent 99.9% of snoring
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
As a former 22 year old, I should have absolutely been on a leash
- Comment on Did they already take the porn? 1 month ago:
It’s entirely possible there’s an issue with lemmynsfw.com that either has screwed up federation, or the majority of their content. I’m at work so I can’t investigate right now but I’d bet it’ll be fixed by the end of the day
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 month ago:
I made a lemmy post about it but I theorize they’re crowdsourced AI training. Post something, post a couple of separate AI interpretations of it, then analyze the highest up voted AI and “organic” responses, and feed that back into the model. Rinse/repeat
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 month ago:
I mean the bots don’t help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There’s like 6 prominent “Am I the Assholes”, a bunch of text message “screenshot” subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of “explain the joke” ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it’s obviously AI
- Comment on Nice place to shop but sometimes gets sticky 1 month ago:
Americans have a weird quirk with preferring “local” grocery stores but not bothering to look up who actually owns their grocery store. So the majority of “local” chains are just regional Kroger brands or in this case Food Lion is the southern equivalent of Dutch Delhaize
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Unironically, yes. If the “internet” were to disappear tomorrow civilized society would no longer exist. Too much had been built on an unstable jenga tower of technology. We put a lot of faith in the status quo existing despite the fact that little evidence suggests it will
- Comment on Instant rotten milk 1 month ago:
You jest but there’s a carbonated Persian drink called Doogh and Milkis is a Korean drink that they remove a lot of the lactose from. It’s not a crazy concept
- Comment on Instant rotten milk 1 month ago:
Carbonating water creates a small amount of carbonic acid in the water and makes the whole thing slightly acidic. Usually it’s not enough to instantly curdle milk but it would certainly give off the same smell/taste as almost expired milk. This would almost certainly be very gross, even ignoring the bubbly milk part
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s kinda the same thing as “selling feet pics” and “stripping to pay for school”. There’s a common belief that since men are so desperate for sex that any woman willing to do sex work will make a decent amount of money. That’s simply not the case if you actually talk to any kind of sex worker. However, America is so puritanical that most people don’t even know a sex worker, let alone have the bravery to ask them about their work
- Comment on I have to hand it to this guy. I'm seriously confused about the format of this..?? Russian propaganda, I'd say? 2 months ago:
This doesn’t say anything. Neither of those statements are true. Nobody “allows” someone to enter the country “illegally” that’s what the laws mean. We also didn’t magically change the rules when Trump entered the office, he just chose to ignore them and is being reprimanded for it. Also illegal immigrants can’t vote so they don’t impact policy decisions. This is two vague statements that evoke feeling without actually saying anything associated to an attractive made up woman with no facts attached
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- Comment on Time to rewatch. Gurren Lagan 2 months ago:
Me firing up old Konosuba episodes
- Comment on One-handed games? 3 months ago:
The Final Fantasy pixel remasters are all old school turn based RPGs that can be played one handed on the steam deck. Certainly not all 50 games but UFO 50 has a bunch of games made for a non-existent console that are all pretty simple and I would bet a lot of them can be played one handed. Both Crypt of the Necrodancer and Cadence of Hyrule are rhythm dungeon delver games that probably work one handed too, technically so would the new game Rift of the Necrodancer but that requires more skill than I have
- Comment on Ultra Gullible 3 months ago:
A pre-built tower with a disk drive and windows 7. I think you better call the Loch Ness Monster cuz you’re only getting about three fitty for that
- Comment on fedi 4chan? 3 months ago:
How would you federate something ephemeral? I’ll admit I don’t understand the specific techinals of federation but what stops another platform from hosting your content locally after it has supposed to have been deleted? It seems like the two goals of the platforms are diametrically opposed
- Comment on Amid Trump crackdown, illegal border crossings plunge to levels not seen in decades 3 months ago:
Arresting more people and saying they’re crossing illegally doesn’t make it true. Here’s evidence of at least one German tourist being held for no reason. Also it’s easy to get record numbers when you blatantly ignore laws:
the Trump administration has empowered federal officials to swiftly deport migrants without hearing their asylum claims, under the premise that the country is facing an “invasion.”
U.S. law says migrants on American soil generally have the right to claim asylum to delay or halt their deportation