TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Evolution of the k'chain che'malle, pretty much 11 hours ago:
2050s - Time traveling paleontologist team returns from a trip to the cretaceous only to establish a religion dedicated solely to the worship of spinosaurus in whose imaginations we are only figments.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 5 days ago:
We need to advocate for better pay
Yes.
and stop taking tipped jobs.
If people could just “stop taking tipped jobs” you really think they wouldn’t have been doing that already?
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 5 days ago:
Are you thinking not tipping would magically transform a “tipped” position (that was subject to the minimum tipped wage) into a non-tipped position (that was subject to the normal minimum wage)? What’s the threshold? A particular percentage of transactions refraining from tipping? Under a specific dollar amount of tips per worker? The employer having to supplement the tips to get it up to the minimum tipped wage more than a certain percentage of the time? Are you sure “yeah, but there’s a blank on the receipt labeled ‘tip’, so theoretically the workers could get tips” isn’t enough to make the minimum tipped wage apply? Does it vary by jurisdiction?
Meanwhile, the real person behind the real counter of real coffee shops you like probably regularly skips meals to afford rent.
Even if what you’re suggesting could work, who’s to say they wouldn’t immediately replace it with some “gig economy” sort of alternative that would turn the workers into freelancers to whom no minimum wage applied?
Yes, advocate for worker rights, but don’t kid yourself that not tipping your servers is somehow doing them a favor.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 5 days ago:
I mean, you should tip the barista, though.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 6 days ago:
There’s civilized humans? Where?
- Comment on Missionaries using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil’s isolated peoples 6 days ago:
Yeah, that’s super shitty. I can just hear the Christian missionaries now. “They’re outlawing the Bible.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
All the instances really ought to pin this post.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Fediverse is so heavily censored
No it isn’t.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 1 week ago:
Probably Breakout as well.
- Comment on Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow 1 week ago:
I feel you. I’ve always preferred subs. There’s just so much missing in the dubs. The tone of voice and such never translates for some reason. (I’m not sure it has to be that way. If the voice actors just… did a better job of preserving how the original language emoted, and the people overseeing them let them do a better job, then I’d imagine dubs could be fine.)
I’m really into Critical Role lately and all of the folks on Critical Role are voice actors, and most of them do a lot of anime. Liam O’Brien voiced Gaara in the English dubbed Naruto, for instance. And I feel a little bad because I consider myself to be fans of all the Critical Role folks, and I love the voices they use in Critical Role, but god I can’t stand dubbed anime. Even roles they play. Given that they’re great in Critical Role and terrible in anime, I have to imagine there’s some reason out of their control why dubs just can’t be “good”.
The other thing about all this. I don’t tend to “just” watch anime these days. I put anime on while I’m doing other things. But I can’t read subs and do other things at the same time. The result of all that is mostly that I watch less anime than I used to. I spend more of my time watching stuff that is natively in English that I can most-listen-to and glance at every few minutes. (Like Critical Role. Sorry, I didn’t mean this post to end up being an ad for Critical Role. Lol.)
But when I watch anime, I still watch it subbed because I can’t stand dubs.
Speaking of which, it’s high time I watch some anime. (But I can’t right now because I’m trying to at least finish campaign 2 of… wait for it… Critical Role before they start campaign 4.)
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime? 2 weeks ago:
[There are 1,121,817 living people with Wikipedia pages]. There are more than 8 billion people alive today. That means about 0.014% of people have Wikipedia pages.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime? 2 weeks ago:
Won’t last long, but it satisfies the requirements.
- Comment on YSK: There's an easy way to make retro game memes 2 weeks ago:
Protagonist of the NES game “Star Tropics” (and its equally-underrated sequel “Star Tropics: Zoda’s Revenge”.)
- Comment on YSK: There's an easy way to make retro game memes 2 weeks ago:
I’m disappointed they don’t have Mike Jones taking bananas out of his ears:
- Comment on Study shows AI coding assistants actually slow down experienced developers 2 weeks ago:
>surprisedpikachu.png - Comment on That's Some Fancy Footwork 3 weeks ago:
Believe me, it’s possible to divorce god too.
- Comment on "Tuesday" which sounds like "twos-day" is day number 2 in the week whether you one-index and start your week on Monday *or* zero-index and start your week on Sunday. 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Day 2. ;)
- Comment on You DID feel dumber than what you are feeling right now, there's no "I've never felt dumber in my entire life." . 3 weeks ago:
Hold my beer.
- Comment on "Tuesday" which sounds like "twos-day" is day number 2 in the week whether you one-index and start your week on Monday *or* zero-index and start your week on Sunday. 3 weeks ago:
…
maybe…
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on What is the range or how does one calculate the maximum number of 2 intersecting circles (like Venn diagram type) 3 weeks ago:
Can you define your terms a bit? What do you mean by “range” and “angle-range?” Also, if you’re taking about angles, angles relative to what in particular? (Maybe relative to the line segment connecting the centers of the two circles? Relative to a tangent of one of the circles at the point of intersection?) Are you looking to solve this only for the case where the two circles have equal radii, or for the more general case where their radii may be unequal?
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 3 weeks ago:
Why isn’t that common to cover with a blanket other parts of our body when we feel cold, like the belly or lower back?
It… is?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Your post is all over the place with like 3 different unrelated topics.
The 30k thing is great for you, and maybe a coincidence. (You didn’t make it clear.) But I assure you syncronicities aren’t unique to your faith.
And I have no idea what that has to do with the meeting or the bible verse you referenced.
- Comment on Lighting choices 4 weeks ago:
What are the chances of two separate gender reveal parties happening simultaneously using the same exact means of displaying blue/pink in the same apartment building exactly one apartment directly above the other?
Also, it bothers me way more than it should that on the middle one, the arrow goes from the movie frame to the window and the other two are the other way around.
- Comment on I want a community to exist like 4chan greentext here 4 weeks ago:
One could make a community named “Anon Posting” or something, lock it so only a mod can post, and then make the sole mod a bot that would post anything it got via DM (probably after automoding, rate limiting, etc) to said community.
I do think it’s a good idea for the bot to keep a log in case it gets abused for sufficiently evil purposes. One could add some extra functionality to the bot that would give identifying information about the poster to instance admins on demand (via DM), but I think instance admins would have pretty easy access to all DMs made to the bot, along with identifying information anyway. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on that.)
Also, the bot could totally delete its logs and with them the identities of all posters after a while. Maybe a month?
And, of course, this wouldn’t be ironclad anonymity. But it would keep identities secret from anyone but the bot maintainer and instance admins.
Yeah, sounds like a pretty cool concept. Not volunteering to write such a bot (at least any time soon) or anything, but I support it.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 4 weeks ago:
Roughly in order of how much I enjoy them from most to least. (Not that the later ones are bad. Just that they’re more low-key.)
Mindustry is amazing, but as I mentioned above, really really addictive. (The commercial game it’s most often compared to is Factorio.)
Then there’s Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Amazing dungeon crawler.
Endless Sky is a great space mercantile sim.
Luanti is a Minecraft clone.
Unciv is a turn-based civilization development game.
And if you’re wanting to do emulation, there’s Lemuroid. Also, EasyRPG, an engine for playing RPG Maker games like Yume Nikki. Oh, FreeDoom is a great implementation of Doom for Android.
Those are the ones that’ll keep your attention for a good long time. There are tons of much simpler games that are still fun like Frozen Bubble and Hyper Rogue. And plenty of games that I haven’t really gotten into very much but that people really seem to like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Man. There are a lot now that I’m listing them out. Lol.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 4 weeks ago:
Jesus. People get big mad about this stuff.
The problem isn’t mobile games, and it’s not console games, and it’s not PC games. It’s the profit motive and corporations and enshittification. And there’s plenty of that going on in games for mobile, console, and PC. (And, for that matter, TTRPGs. And it’s not like the 300 different collectors editions of Monopoly released every year aren’t enshittification at play.)
Addictive gotcha mechanics are shitty when they’re tied to microtransactions. Even when not tied to microtransactions, I think they can still be shitty depending on the specific circumstances, and it’s definitely wise to responsibly manage your (and/or your children’s) engagement to not cause other problems in your(/their) life. But is addictiveness in a video game inherently a bad thing? I don’t think so. All games cause dopamine squirts whether it’s Pong or a slot machine. That’s kinda the point of games. There are plenty of Open Source games out there that cause big addictive dopamine squirts. (Mindustry, anyone?) And such games aren’t made to milk whales. They’re made because someone wanted to create and play such a game.
Don’t be talking too much smack about shovelware! Low-quality games create their own vibes. Some are accidental masterpieces. Both of my favorite two YouTube gaming content creators do a lot of their content on really low-quality games. This series got me to buy Radiation Island and I had a great time playing it. And here is a great video on all the shitty official games based on the movie Avatar.
“Gaming is as much about socializing as playing” is an awesome outlook to have on gaming! Addictiveness in games can be… concerning. But sometimes particular games are the key by which your kid can be involved in peer group. I’m not saying that automatically trumps any downsides and you should let your kid spend $∞ on Fortnight skins or whatever. But I think probably in most cases a balancing act is superior to a hard “yes” or “no”.
I should probably specify that I’m admittedly an old fart who doesn’t know shit about mobile gaming. (The only mobile games I play are Open Source ones on F-Droid.) And the only modern console I have is a Switch, and I don’t have any plans to get one soon. I’ve played a lot of Breath of the Wild, though. And a fair amount of Tears of the Kingdom.
Some final thoughts:
- Open Source gaming is awesome.
- The way they’re doing anti-cheat on PC is fucked-up.
- But so is the way they lock down consoles and phones.
- Hack your games. Hack your consoles. (If you don’t hack it, you don’t own it.) Get your kids interested in hacking stuff.
- …responsibly, of course.
- Play games with your kids! (And not just the ones you want to play.)
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 4 weeks ago:
Who’s going to tell them about prions?
- Comment on All hail the immortal cleanse 5 weeks ago:
A salamander. I see what you did there.
- Comment on The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting 5 weeks ago:
Artificial intelligence has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words.
I call bullshit.
