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- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 17 hours ago:
*purpoose
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- Comment on Protein 1 day ago:
Basically. This is like her thinking of a water molecule and him thinking of a glass of water.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 3 days ago:
Started with a Rift way back and recently got a Quest 3. As you’re already aware, it comes down to the games you want to play. I’ve invested a bit in a setup for flight simming, because I love helicopters. Because helis are so sensitive, VR actually gives you much better control (it also increases your immersion, obviously). I replayed Half Life Alyx recently, and it’s still great. And then I spend a bit of time in Beat Sabre several days a week. Oh, and there’s a puzzle game where you just use your hands to match a set of blocks to a 3d shape. It’s great not always using controllers. In terms of the quality of VR - it might not have improved enough to ‘cure’ your nausea yet. The quest 3 was a big step up in clarity compared to the Rift, but your peripheral vision is cut off, and it’s still a ways off from normal vision.
- Comment on whales are the mightiest of fish 3 days ago:
I guess Jedi masters consider fish to be a monophyletic group.
- Comment on NASA landed on the moon, by shooting for the moon 5 days ago:
Can this exchange be a certified Lemmy moment?
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 6 days ago:
What is HOA?
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 1 week ago:
The girlfriend from the unfaithful guy meme is not liking this.
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 2 weeks ago:
Good old 45 degree cliffs, one of the staples of alien planets.
- Comment on Never Thought 2 months ago:
Wow.
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 2 months ago:
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
Vangers is a postapocalyptic and fundamentally strange top-down driving/exploration/mystery/action-RPG.
It has a unique back story, hostile worlds and an intriguing and expansive vocabulary that helps tell the story. If you are the type of person that appreciates poetic neologisms because they get your brain going, guessing at the etymology and sucking up the layers of connotation, this is up your alley.
Even if you manage to complete the game, you’ll be left wondering whether what happened was even meant to happen. It’s sort of post modern with deconstructed words, rituals and behaviors all jumbled up and muddled together as a result of a great and important event that once had meaning to creatures that may no longer even exist.
- Comment on New Starfield free update added a ground vehicle 2 months ago:
So is your car the only car in the universe? As far as I recall the only form of local transportation has been that miniature train system on New Atlantis. If your own transport ships need to travel to an outpost 200 meters away, they go to space and back to get there.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 2 months ago:
I’m really struggling with this game. I got it on sale and played for 3+ hours, but somehow it didn’t grip me. It was really annoying having to constantly start over. Not trying to retract from other people’s experience of it.
- Comment on I wonder what they smell like. 3 months ago:
I wonder if his memory of ‘seeing in the dark’ stemmed from his pupils being extremely dilated.
- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 5 months ago:
What’s the total price, then?
- Comment on rounded corners are part of core functionality 5 months ago:
I thought Gnome was all rounded by default. Anyway, there’s a functioning rounded corners KDE extension, if you’re so inclined. I’m using it and it works really well.
- Comment on Guys will meet him and just say "hell yeah!" 7 months ago:
Share the load
- Comment on Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens 7 months ago:
Pictured: Teenagers
- Comment on The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically. 7 months ago:
The word ‘monosyllabic’ isn’t monosyllabic. The word ‘alphabetic’ isn’t alphabetic. The word ‘palindrome’ isn’t a palindrome.
- Comment on Don't forget! 7 months ago:
It’s about making you click
- Comment on If managers are so good at managing things, how come they can't manage to manage themselves? 8 months ago:
Checkmate, managers
- Comment on Self-Destructing Chips: Researchers Unveil Techniques to Thwart Sophisticated Cyberattacks 8 months ago:
Now that there is an old Dell Inspiron. I had one with that shell ca. 2006.
- Comment on To the top 1% truly smart people the other 99% are dumb as a box of rocks. But exactly how fucking stupid is that 99% ? 8 months ago:
There’s this worry that high intelligence itself drives you to be more dismissive of other people. I don’t really think that’s the case. I think intelligence can help you understand and sympathize better with other people.
Anyway, if you go by IQ, the upper one percentile score about 135 or higher, so that’s where your dividing line would be in raw numbers.
But since intelligence is distributed in a continuum, it wouldn’t make sense for everyone at or above 135 to consider everyone else equally ‘dumb’ - even if they did choose to use the IQ-scale to gauge everyone’s ‘stupidity’.
To do so would be like you getting first place in a spelling contest by a single point and then concluding that the person in second place (and everyone following) must be completely illiterate.
All that being said, the one percent really are very far from average. One way of putting it is that these people are further from the average than average people are from the ‘extremely low’ range (>69).
- Comment on The extension shingami eyes is back. 8 months ago:
To anyone who might be moderating a report over me in this comment chain: I am pretty confident that among my many opinions on all sorts of things are some you would label transphobic.
I’m also strongly against what you’re doing with this extension. I think therefore I deserve to be labeled as one of the ‘bad people’.
- Comment on The extension shingami eyes is back. 8 months ago:
I am fine with anyone blocking me. I absolutely agree that doesn’t somehow ‘infringe on my free speech’ or whatever. My concern was about self censorship, social pressures, enforcing taboo within communities that would use tools such as this. I think the real victims of labelling ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people by color will end up being the members of the very communities that embrace this kind of idea. It does absolutely remind me of an episode of Black Mirror. I think it’s a very ‘dark path’ kind of thing, whether people might find that dramatic or not.
“go meet your neighbors and make some connections that matter” - is pretty condescending. My neighbours are nice. Danish woman and a Polish guy. But then again, I can’t see their ‘color’, so who really knows.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Is that a default-ish tray these days? It looks like a complete mess.
- Comment on The extension shingami eyes is back. 8 months ago:
If you have the ability, please flag me red in your system.
- Comment on The extension shingami eyes is back. 8 months ago:
This seems like a dystopic tool for exerting social control. Better not step outside the lines, or the algorithm will make you the wrong color. Will this comment itself turn me red?
- Comment on If we can use hydrogen to power electric motors, why can’t we use water to run a car? 9 months ago:
Think of hydrogen-power as more of a battery.
Batteries have to be charged with energy from an energy source. And hydrogen has to be produced with energy from an energy source.
