TheSambassador
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- Comment on How different would the world be if school never ended but you could leave anytime you elect to? 2 months ago:
School isn’t just learning the stuff in the classes. It’s the shared experience too. It’s the teachers holding you accountable for learning.
“Going to school” is a very different thing than just trying to learn on your own. Self motivation and time are a huge barrier for a lot of people. I think the OP was imagining being able to go to school every day and just take classes for free with other people also interested.
- Comment on Spin Rhythm XD 2 months ago:
It’s really great, isn’t it? I tried to get some friends into it but it seems like I’m the only one who enjoys rhythm games. I really like The Magician I think
- Comment on How to treat a man 2 months ago:
Isn’t that the status quo? I guess it’s not really fathers to daughters, but most women I know went through some amount of “here’s how to be a good wife” lessons from their mothers or family. I think women get a lot of “traditional gender roles” training that’s mostly about being caretakers.
Usually people putting forth this kinda “women should learn how to care for their man” attitude are coming from a conservative “traditional family values” position.
Really, we should be teaching people how to ask about and learn the needs of their partner, and how to determine your own needs and communicate those to your partner. Basic emotional intelligence stuff. It doesn’t have to be gendered at all.
- Comment on Official Famicom Controllers for Nintendo Switch | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 months ago:
The Switch controllers connect via Bluetooth and can be paired with a computer no problem. Not sure why these would be different
- Comment on Thanks, Google 4 months ago:
Reno is an awesome town now, you should check it out.
- Comment on "No Mow May" won't fix our biodiversity problems 5 months ago:
Did you just stop entirely and do nothing else? Or did you do some sort of zeriscaping or something?
I hate our lawn, but I don’t know how to transition it to something else. I don’t really have time to figure it all out myself and do all the physical labor of changing the lawn to something more manageable. So I just kinda mow here and there.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 6 months ago:
Government is as good or as bad as we make it. Pretending like it can’t be good while actively sabotaging it is conservative’s entire playbook.
And yes, increase my taxes. I’m happy to pay more if we can improve the lives of everyone. If we can pay for things like universal healthcare, good infrastructure, public transit, and decent public housing, double my taxes.
- Comment on Trans-mascs in a distopian future society 6 months ago:
Honestly, and what a good episode!
- Comment on The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing 7 months ago:
It helps, but you can’t do that to talk to people. Some of the shop keepers are surrounded by so much stuff you can pick up, and even being very careful I accidentally triggered at least 4 fights. My wife missed out at talking to Rafael at last light because she accidentally picked up the chess board that he’s playing (he literally just disappears).
- Comment on The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing 7 months ago:
I do think BG3 is a very impressive game and deserves a lot of the praise it gets.
That said, it sucks how finicky it is to run away from a fight. There’s way too many fights that just sort of happen with very little explanation as to why they’re attacking you. It’s also waaay too easy to accidentally steal things and trigger fights, especially on controller.
You basically do have to save scum a little, because one accident can lead to an entire town being pissed at you. If the game had better ways to de escalate combat and some better signposting of consequences, it’d be a 10/10 game
- Comment on Men over 30, what contributes to weight gain besides slower metabolism when you get older? Is it really hard to stay in shape? 8 months ago:
Metabolism may not change on average, but that doesn’t mean it can’t change or differ wildly between people.
Look, I know some people who obsess over their calories, eat perfectly, and exercise constantly, and they still barely hit their “goal” weight/fitness. And I know other same-age people who do no exercise and eat fast food for almost every meal who are still skinny.
Maybe age isn’t necessarily the reason, but we can’t pretend it isn’t easier for some people to lose/maintain weight than others. There ARE differences in metabolism.
- Comment on Looking for emotional game recommendations 8 months ago:
I know it has a bit of an intense fan base, but Undertale would definitely fit here.
- Comment on Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition PC specifications revealed, out March 21 8 months ago:
I pre order from small studios that have a proven track record. Even if it ends up bad, I’m happy to have supported the studio.
Pre ordering AAA games is always a dumb idea though.
- Comment on Give me Options or give me death 8 months ago:
What reason is there for this when the compiler could just optimize that variable out of existence? This feels like the most hand holdy annoying “feature” unless I’m missing something.
- Comment on Saying "Fuck Israel" is apparently a call to violence 8 months ago:
Just out of curiosity, would you feel the same way when people say “fuck Russia”, or would you understand that they’re saying “fuck the Russian government/Putin” and not “all Russians are monsters”?
- Comment on Dead Cells Co-developer Evil Empire Officially Ends Its Support Of The Roguelike Platformer 8 months ago:
I hate that the narrative on this type of thing is “developer ends support” instead of just “developer feels the game is done and won’t keep adding content forever.” Games shouldn’t need to be constantly updated forever, and headlines like this seem a bit manipulative - trying to equate “developer is done with a game” with the actually bad “developer of live service game decides to shut down servers so nobody can play.”
Games need to be done at some point. Roguelikes are great for little updates adding things over the year, but at some point it becomes too much. Dead Cells is great, and it still would have been great if they stopped after their 1.0 release.
- Comment on A platform with no issues 9 months ago:
I mean, the old UI wasn’t great. All they did was separate servers and DMs. I hated it at first too, until I learned the differences, and it’s honestly fine.
- Comment on A platform with no issues 9 months ago:
People seem mad at Discord for how their users use it. Yeah it sucks as a knowledge base since you can’t search it from a search engine, but it’s still easily the best tool for small, privateish communities.
- Comment on DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – State of Play Announce Trailer 9 months ago:
His stories are mostly over the top nonsense, but sometimes that’s fun. Also, for a “AAA” studio director, he’s willing to take some VERY big experimental swings when it comes to gameplay. Death Stranding has it’s problems, but it’s very unique. That’s worth some points.
- Comment on Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? 11 months ago:
Do you have an example of cynicism in the show? I guess the Ceritos being a lower class ship gives some of the characters a bit of a chip on their shoulder and they talk a lot of crap about command, but the characters themselves still have a pretty positive outlook overall.
- Comment on PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough? 11 months ago:
Playing a VR game wirelessly from your own PC is not “cloud gaming”
- Comment on It is funny because he does not have legs 1 year ago:
I really enjoyed your post! Thanks!
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
It’s not that data is subjective, it’s that the interpretation of that data can be subjective, and the raw data can be misleading.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge could use a win 1 year ago:
Edge started itself on boot after a recent Windows update. It even had a little pop-up about how “helpful” it was to have it start right when my computer turns on so I can “get to browsing” faster. It’s never been set as my default. Uhg.
- Comment on If only they had the voice of John de Lancie 1 year ago:
But now instead you just have no options when the batteries die, which in my experience has never broken 2 years.