Shiggles

@Shiggles@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My only issue has always been that I cannot throw more money at the ape. So I buy the game for gaming-adjacent friends and almost always ruin their lives convert them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stealing shamelessly from another comment, Stop Ice is a website version that should be a little more secure due to not being an app on your phone.

  Fascists are stupid, but lots of sociopathic opportunists aren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have three bottles, still sitting neatly in their half of the 2 pack packaging. It hurts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make dinosaurs weirder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might like the various works of David Hone, a very talented and well spoken paleontologist who talks in depth about how they know what they do know, and gives several examples of poor paleontology and what they’re doing wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  long term

  If you can remember THACO, tabletop games have survived needing to change a few systems in the past

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My wife says it's thanks to wearing sunscreen and avoiding cigarettes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, old folks definitely never made any mistakes or ignored any problems, that’s why the world was perfect before 2001 right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Our software is a bloated mess” is not the defence they think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading comprehension, even more challenging than dark souls nowadays eh? No idea what you’re even going on about now, but glad you got your nice rehearsed rant off your chest.

  The main souls games have already gotten progressively more and more “””accessible”””, somewhat to the detriment of what originally made them appealing. Options are a mutually preferable alternative - people that enjoyed the original gameplay would still have their torture, or you can play on games journalist difficulty and have basically the same experience as watching someone else play on twitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me you never played a soulslike for more than two hours without telling me.

  Boss’s weapon moves forward -> press roll, covers about 70% of the souls series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The latest HELLDIVERS 2 update is going to suck away lots of hours and it's discounted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, the game is only really fun when you’re playing with friends, and we only played a bit before going back to our current “thing”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If a transmissions company tried to spend money preparing for a disaster like this, their shareholders would sue them into the ground and lobby to make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of the sun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don’t use App Store payments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “exactly”

  follows up with the exact opposite of the comment

  And you say the american education system is the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But-but-but it won’t run the newest Doom!!!1! 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo could make fucking bank if it was easier to actually pay them to play their old games. They have no leg to stand on since I can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are heroes so important? Role models are one thing, but hero worship is an incredibly problematic concept especially at a young age. The idea of an unquestionably good person is a myth that lends itself to authoritarianism, and that should die a slow agonizing death. It’s a little much to get deep into stuff like that for a kids game, but I’m certainly not sad to see “blindly good” characters go - it’s why Bluey is nice for how imperfect the parents are, even if they’re still an unrealistic ideal with how much time and energy the parents have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know how sand on the beach is fine, but sand in a super windy dust storm stings like hell? Insulation is fine so long as nobody is actively touching it and spewing out bits. Probably shouldn’t be able to see it but it won’t kill ya.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conventional economic theory holds that a small, consistent level of inflation is the most beneficial. In short, you don’t want hoarding cash to be a smart long term economic decision, you want more of that money invested/moving in the economy. I recommend reading about the Japanese deflation in the 90s if you’re curious what the effects of even relatively moderate deflation can be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stardew allows people to achieve their dreams that are unrealistic in the real world, like -

  Home ownership

  Finding friends and community in a new place

  Finding love

  Evicting their local walmart and replacing it with a cinema

  Escaping the fresh hell of late stage capitalism (or becoming the very worst proponent of it, sometimes somehow both)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would sub in like maybe Darkest Dungeon 2 over Frostpunk? Less well received but still better than any of the other three. Both were distinct changes of pace, darkest dungeon just sold its soul to the epic games store and lost the bond you formed with characters over a long campaign in exchange for the roguelite shorter runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll gladly eat shit for a controversial opinion, but I mentally put chess pros in the same basket as those guys that would queue solely for Office in counterstrike and reach global elite. Like sure, it’s still an impressive time commitment, I just feel like there were better things to put that into. I hate MOBAs and yet I’d respect a professional DOTA player more? But I’m more than familiar with the fanbase of Chess and how defensive they get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “This doofus isn’t loving his neighbor, very anti christian of him”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry reality gets in the way of your corporate bootlicking 🤷🏻‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But have you considered the other platforms that aren’t GOG suck.

  I want things on a platform that is either utterly unobtrusive, or useful. Unfortunately, that means either steam or GOG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe time travelers actually exist and this mess of a timeline is the result of their interference...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not unknowable, you just have to conduct enough tests personally to have a reasonable level of confidence.

  You shouldn’t, but you could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*trumpets blare*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in a Keasbey Nights mood all year anyways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should have been born a Limited Liability Corporation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the few things I go back to the old site for is /r/eatcheapandhealthy - you need the time to make the food, but you can make very little cash go a long way, especially if you’re buying beans/lentils/oats dried and soaking them overnight rather than buying canned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d take Skynet over what’s currently going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How greedy of the man, to checks notes admit to not wanting to make a cash grab and instead leaving the series unfinished because they didn’t think they could do it justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most power generation is just steam spinning turbines. Solar’s just weird. Wind cuts out the steam loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How often does a solution need “new” code and not “basically the same code as a previous issue but with two small details changed”? This is a genuine question, I have only ever coded as a hobby. But 25% of your work being essentially just copy pasted sounds plausible, and that’s sorta all LLMs are doing, right?