JeeBaiChow
@JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
- Comment on US lawmaker calls videogame purchases rentals disguised as sales: 'When you pay for a game, you should own it' 6 days ago:
Is it wrong that I can tell the guys party just from the body of his statement?
- Comment on Star Wars Zero Company studio start to bring back devs furloughed prior to launch, with "more than half" of previous headcount reportedly returning to payroll 1 week ago:
They doubled their pay, right?
Right?
- Comment on Used Ryzen 7 5800X3D Gets Buyer Locked Out of Valorant Due to Previous Owner's Cheating 2 weeks ago:
Funny. They made such a big deal when the pentiums had some sort of identifiable code back then. Now everyone just shrugs.
- Comment on Capcom aren't just running out of Resident Evil games to remake - they're banking on it, with a mysterious "crossover" planned when the timelines collide 2 weeks ago:
Whoa, they’re actually doing it! I can’t wait! RExViewtifulJoe let’s gooooooo!
- Comment on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding 1 month ago:
Oh, and over 90% of ‘facts’ used in an argument are simply made up.
- Comment on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding 1 month ago:
Beyond a certain size, we lose the ability to intuitively understand numbers.
Examples? Sure:
- how many people misunderatood the scale of the undertaking of trying to find mh370 in the ocean without any detailed guidance
- how far billionaires are from the average person (i once argued that just having a comfortable home and a computer or cellphone put one comfortably in the top earners in the world - people dont understand the sheer scale of poverty or income inequality as it applies to the global situation)
- how only the top ~100 atp/ wta tennis players actually make enough to comfortably cover basic tour costs
- how absolutely vast the universe is. Voyager is slightly over a billion km from the earth rn, and it only means it has travelled a light day from the time it was launched
Feel free to add your own
- Comment on Reign of terror 4 months ago:
The only hard legos that dont hurt when you step on em in the middle of the night?
- Comment on Trump's triple-digit tariff essentially cuts off most trade with China, says economist 1 year ago:
Question: are the Chinese goods still cheaper than their US equivalents, in spite of the 145% tariffs? If so, what does china care? It’s only the us consumer that will pay the price.
- Comment on Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back 1 year ago:
Like an idiot bully, he didn’t expect them to fight back.
- Comment on Square Enix Has Set Up A New Policy To Go After Harassers 1 year ago:
Tbf some of the fans are obsessed with righteous things like tifas bust measurements and whether cloud is a closet femboy bottom.