Shiggles
@Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
- 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' 4 days 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. 6 days 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. 3 weeks 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?
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 weeks ago:
Realistic as in “this is a believable real person” not “this is exactly what everyone looks like”
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
muh libs aren’t left leaning
And you expect me to take anything you say after that seriously
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
They… don’t though? Unless you’re pretending saying “voting for [not the democratic candidate] is a vote for Trump” is now apparently right wing and not just a basic understanding of how first past the post works.
Like, your definition is both wrong in terms of what right wing means, and not even descriptive of either. They’re just not tankie shitholes so I guess that makes them look bad to you?
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
Neither .world nor .shitjustworks are “right leaning” they just hate the tankies most vocally lmao. Neither would it make too much sense to call a tankie “left” leaning given their raging hard on for authoritarianism. I also think most of Blahaj would be offended by being lumped in with them.
- Comment on Behaviour Interactive (Dead By Daylight devs) acquire Red Hook Studios (Darkest Dungeon devs) 1 month ago:
Please keep behavior far away from fromsoft thanks
- Comment on 'Melts our frozen-solid hearts': Frostpunk 2 devs celebrate 350,000 copies sold—covering the production and marketing costs 1 month ago:
Lmao okay so you had a skill issue and got salty, got it.
- Comment on 'Melts our frozen-solid hearts': Frostpunk 2 devs celebrate 350,000 copies sold—covering the production and marketing costs 1 month ago:
Tedious: too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous
I think what you were going for was challenging and/or punishing. The first game explicitly has ends to each city type, and I certainly wouldn’t describe watching the city steam a man alive to get the people to tolerate you putting sawdust in their food “dull”
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 2 months ago:
The west
Are authoritarian regimes somehow supposed to be more opposed to using children to promote heightened surveillance?
- Comment on How to treat a man 2 months ago:
Instead we chuckle at a message of violence and wonder why people get radicalized.
- Comment on Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2 2 months ago:
That’s cool granddad, you must be such an open minded and pleasant individual
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 2 months ago:
Why? The padding is there for those with the stomach for it, but you can just… play a new game once you’ve stopped having fun?
- Comment on Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month 3 months ago:
If my experience is anything to go by, you mug everybody you see, steal everything in their wallet to “identify them”, interrogate them while vomiting drunk in their apartment, and maybe solve a murder or two on accident.
- Comment on A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 46 white men have lost 3 months ago:
It’s also technically a lot more if you remember that we do in fact have several marginalized parties running in every general election.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.
- Comment on Garfield 4 months ago:
Garfield’s injection of +c reminds me of when I was a wee little shit and, annoyed at losing points on a test for forgetting to write “+ c”, decided to exclusively write “- c” for the rest of school. Dropped the habit in college because I stopped caring, but I am always tempted.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 5 months ago:
My only complaint is my thumb hurts from air dashing 24/7
- Comment on Our bffs 6 months ago:
The second most useful thing I learned from statistics courses was the statistics. The first was just how terrible most people are in their application.
- Comment on UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices 6 months ago:
Y’all probably just went “damn, it is way too easy to snoop on our own infrastructure” after checking personally.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
“Socialism will transition to communism” is just a communism thing. Social democracy is different. It doesn’t involve communism. Because communism is cringe.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
Because exclusively that’s the communist viewpoint. There are different socialist ideologies than communism. It’s a rectangle vs square situation.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
That’s neither exclusive to communism nor has it been achieved in most purportedly communist states (I hear Vietnam’s actually been having a good run of things but I can’t speak to specifics).
Socialism != communism.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
They’re mask off on hexbear/lemmygrad, they try to be subversive on lemmy.ml. I have in fact instance blocked the first two, you can usually dodge them on .ml. Lemmy is far less enjoyable if you have not blocked them.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
Commune-ism sounds like a lovely idea on a small scale, you gotta solve a lot of political problems to make it work on anything bigger. Social democracies like the scandinavians seem to be the best way we currently know to run a humanitarian society.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
“America does bad things, so I should support china/russia instead!”
“Stalin/mao were (anything besides utterly reprehensible dictators)”
“Communism could’ve worked if-“
Honorable mention to thinking this coy “I’m going to act all hyper respectful and yet also like I know more than anyone about anything” bullshit gets you anywhere.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 7 months ago:
If only there were people desperate for a better life here, alive now, perhaps in a neighboring country or even entire other continent bordering the states.
- Comment on Germany: 'Groped' female statues highlight sexual harassment 7 months ago:
People like to touch silly places on statues. Maybe the intent translates better in German culture, but it’s a swing and a miss to me.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 7 months ago:
Man, you gotta just pity this guy. Is he desperate for attention? Screaming into a void? The world may never know.