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- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 16 hours ago:
As an American (not that it’s particularly unique from Europe) living in a city feels much better because I’m not completely tied to my car. Living in suburbs and rural areas makes it far less tenable to walk or bike anywhere. Cities are the only place with any sort of public transportation or even pedestrian infrastructure that is remotely walker-friendly
- Comment on It was nicer when Duke Nukem Forever was famous for never coming out 1 day ago:
Schrodinger’s Delayed/Rumored Game: while unreleased it is both the perfect game and the worst game of all time. You won’t know until it’s released.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 week ago:
Hell yeah. Welcome!
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 week ago:
Call of Duty: World At War Zombies
Every map in WaW zombies has been re-released at least twice. WaW zombies is cool because of how simple and barebones it is, but holy fucking hell that game was not coded for any sort of melee combat. The zombie bodies are so damn large, according to their hit boxes. Try to run past them but brush up against their pinky? Guess you’re done. Also for some reason the co-op splitscreen is not split vertically, and it’s not split horizontally, each of the two players just gets a quarter of the screen in a tiny box. Who knows why.
I love it to death but it’s real hard to go back to it.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
Social media is not just a tool; every single major social network has an algorithm with an agenda
Tools for connecting people cannot make editorial decisions. Tools for connecting people don’t try to manipulate those people into thinking certain ways.
If social networks were purely tools for connecting people who want to communicate, then we’d be having a different conversation.
If you ask me, we should recategorize Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc from “Social Networks” to “Content Distributors” because that’s what they are. They take content from the users and advertisers and prioritize what they want to promote in front of the users.
Signal, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc don’t have algorithms with agendas so their purpose is purely social networking. They are the actual social networks.
- Comment on Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car? 1 week ago:
More towards the funny side. Just looking to customize my car with the same font
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- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 week ago:
Yes. The media is suppressing them. See c/50501
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 weeks ago:
Odds are that there are dozens of people way cooler than me who would benefit from the work that I can do in preparation for them.
Also, eternal life, like immortality in the annals of human history, is only something I can hope for. Making other people’s lives better is the only way I know for sure I can make a mark in the world.
As Bo Burnham puts it, “You pray so badly for heaven knowing any day could be the day that you die. Maybe life on Earth can be heaven. Doesn’t just the thought of it make it worth a try?”
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 4 weeks ago:
Ok.
- Comment on What is the name of the sexuality of being into the opposite gender and willing to date the same gender but not finding anyone of the same gender attractive? 4 weeks ago:
This is probably not at all what this person is like, but the way I read this made me picture someone desperate to prove that they’re cool and hip by being part of the LGBTQIA+ community. I have never heard of anyone like this, though I have heard of someone very European claiming to be native American for the street cred so I wouldn’t say no one would ever do the same with sexuality.
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 4 weeks ago:
“Now I need a fake ID to rent ultra-porn!”
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Masculine urge to do this 4 weeks ago:
I almost always want to scream in the mirror.
Exception: the other day I was in a plane bathroom where there were mirrors on either side of me and I was listening to Muse’s “Panic Station” and whenever the backup vocals repeated words, I would swing my face from mirror to mirror while lip syncing them. It was v fun
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on what’s with some adult tv shows using tiktok speak/“brainrot” or acting like the example below, wouldn’t this approach work better with children’s shows? 5 weeks ago:
Brainrot is a very unique kind of joke. To old people, it’s funny because “haha kids are stupid.” To middle-aged people, it’s funny because it sounds like a meme and that on its own makes it funny. To young adults, it’s funny because it’s an ironic meta joke that’s funny just because it’s supposed to be funny even though it really isn’t funny. To teenagers, it’s funny because “haha old people are stupid because “haha kids are stupid” so let’s play a prank on old people to make them think we’re stupid.” To kids, it’s funny because it’s funny to teenagers.
So I dunno take your pick. Also marketing and sales people can be notoriously up their own ass and out of touch (see the Wendy’s “memer” commercial) so who knows why they do things
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
Design, ESPECIALLY user-centric design is so difficult to get right. Epic Systems, one of the largest medical software companies in the world, has an entire research department dedicated solely to finding the optimal way to present information and options to their users. Since their users are typically old doctors who hate needing to learn new ways of doing things, this is among their highest valued divisions.
When UI designers find something that works, people are going to copy it. That doesn’t mean it’s ripped-off, it means R&D paid off.
Case-in-point video game controllers have slowly but surely converged into the ABXY, D-pad, 2xbumper+trigger pair, 2 analogue stick design with a system button and two more meta control buttons. Any ventures beyond that (index finger paddles, track pads, etc) have all found a way to fit into that schema.
Additionally, that “click the stick to see important items” mechanic that was made famous as Arkham’s detective mode has made its way into basically any game that has any sort of secondary puzzle-solving mechanic (Batman Arkham, The Witcher, Spider-man, etc). It also shows up in tactical games to let you tag items or characters of interest (Splinter Cell, Crysis, Last of Us, etc)
Furthermore, entire genres are built out of good user experiences. FPS wouldn’t exist without the slick mechanic implementations of Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM. FPS on console wouldn’t exist without Halo’s intuitive control schema which Call of Duty 2 would later improve upon and ultimately become the default console FPS layout.
Good design is hard to come by, so yeah if it’s good it will be replicated.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
*Nintendo has entered the chat *
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
I’m mad. I’m very mad. I’m also very tired of watching political movements get shut down by the people who respond with “yes, we need to do better” followed by a handful of performative actions, and absolutely no substantive change.
I believe in a general strike. Wholeheartedly. I believe it would make real change. How the hell do I organize one safely? How do I trust any of the other people online who claim to be organizing them?
- Comment on How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ? 1 month ago:
Consider the Thames river. Which one? Depends on how you read it out loud.
The “Temz” runs through London while the “Thayms” runs through somewhere in Connecticut.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 1 month ago:
Spider-man 2 mainly because who wouldn’t want to be Spider-man
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 1 month ago:
There’s a lot of things you can do with a hatchet… and a Nazi -BJ Blaskowitz
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 1 month ago:
One is phrased with specificity, implying the action is extremely particular. The other one makes it sound like the horse is likely to bite you if you’re looking in its mouth too closely
- Comment on Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments 1 month ago:
“Please insert envelopes of cash to our dowse-with-gasoline machine that only sometimes randomly sparks
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A good place to start is investigating if someone else already is (like generalstrikeus.com already is) and try to join them. Strikes are all about strength in numbers, and joining an existing effort is way more effective than starting from zero
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The subreddit has no stickied post nor does the sidebar describe the protest. I don’t see any description of what the objective is anywhere. I’d love to participate and try to accomplish something but what is it that we’re trying to accomplish other than making noise?
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 1 month ago:
I like the horse one way more than the English saying “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” Yours makes way more sense
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What is the objective here? Are we asking for something specific or just yelling in frustration into the void?
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 months ago:
I think therapy helps as a remediation, but it’s not preventive nor does it fully solve the problem because ultimately it’s transactional and paying someone to listen is fully different from finding someone who listens to you that you also want to listen to.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 months ago:
Traditional masculinity dictates that men don’t share their feelings (with the exception of anger and aggression because that’s not a feeling that’s just being manly). Sadness, despair, loneliness, depression all will be commonly bottled up and left untreated which leads to deep-seated feelings of isolation. The cure has to be a change in social norms, including decoupling the ideas of being socially vulnerable with being feminine.
This is a gross generalization of the issue but it definitely describes my experience with it.