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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even as a collector, I've never laid my hands on one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, SC3 was made by different people, and SCO was made by other different people and was a bit of a series reboot.

  For Star Control 2, I’d recommend Mega Mod. Tons of graphical updates, QoL features, and is completely free (of course!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  The minimal amount of words to communicate is 0.

  If you want to be functional in a new country, you’d need to figure out what kinds of things you want to say and how functional you want to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even as a collector, I've never laid my hands on one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think playing Star Control II on 3DO might have defined who I am as a gamer, and I highly recommend playing subsequent rereleases (it was PC only without 3DO!)

  I’m sure you’re aware that the original developers are working on a sequel after all these years!

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have another friend who could imagine dating a woman and also didn’t find them attractive. She was straight.

  I could imagine being a bumblebee, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of transforming into one or anything! Haha

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the desire to date women, then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best looking retro console or PC?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The 3DO FZ-10

  It just looks so sleek. For me, it was the future of gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best looking retro console or PC?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds similar to the 3DO’s situation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best looking retro console or PC?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dreamcast is up there too imo!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best looking retro console or PC?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This one looks a little naked. Needs more “High Definition Graphics” or whatever it says

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you aren’t attracted to them but you want to date them, what would you end up doing that you wouldn’t do with a friend?

  • Be in an exclusive relationship that doesn’t involve sexual activity?
  • Get jealous if they hang out with or say they love anyone else?
  • Engage in sexual activity but not enjoy it?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Time flows like a river, and fruit flies like a banana.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day, people hated Intellisense/auto-complete.

  And back in the older day, people hated IDEs for coding.

  And back in the even older day, people hated computers for games.

  There’ll always be people who hate new technology, especially if it makes something easier that they used to have to do “the hard way”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember we used to refer to enemy logic as AI. The 4 Pac-Man ghosts each had different “AI”. The AI of the enemies in this FPS sucks. This kind of stuff, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tools can be used to make art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my favourite games used procedural generation to create game “art”, “assets”, and “maps”.

  That could conceivably be called (or enhanced by) ML today, which could conceivably be called AI today.

  But even in modern games, I’m not opposed to mindful usage of AI in games. I don’t understand why you’re trying to speak for everyone (by saying “people”) when you’re talking to someone who doesn’t share your view.

  This is like those stupid “non-GMO” stickers. Yes, GMOs are being abused by Monsanto (and probably other corporations like them). No, that doesn’t mean that GMOs are bad in all cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The survey question seems to make it seem like it’s referring to original hardware, but I imagine a lot of respondents didn’t limit it that way.

  With emulation being common even officially these days (NSO, emulated games on Steam, etc), I think it’s fair to factor that in as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, this was the same thing that homophobes were doing to gay people.

  It’s not based in evidence or logic.

  Could be that phenomenon (illusory correlation?) where there are a few rare examples of someone who is [sexual minority aka. gay/trans] is also a pedophile, and that particular example of a crime becomes prolific…but the general population doesn’t have any experience with [sexual minority] people. So they assume that being [sexual minority] means you also have pedophilic tendencies because that’s the only connection they know thanks to that prolific crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some would say that’s what’ll happen when the human population is down to zero

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The correct thing to do with a swing and a miss like that is to apologize. If there’s no apology, it’s the asshole thinking they have an actual excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo DS Emulator DraStic Pulled From Google Play Store | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was in response to the Switch emulator controversy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the API changes, I became read-only (without an account) on Reddit.

  I now skim the communities that don’t really exist here.

  … it’s actually saved me a lot of time now that I can’t (and thus don’t feel the need to) debate local politics with morons anymore!

  … unless and until they come to Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting! How would “deadzone” be used, in that case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I usually type website (especially since we say websites, so the conjugation is at the end of the compound word). I tried to be careful with typos! Haha

  Username was another cause of debate. Should the field be “username” or “userName”? Well, the username represents the identity of the user (e.g., “otp” or “Yaky”). userName would represent the name of the user, which could be their first name for example. So then we might want userFirstName or userPreferredName.

  Filename is one of the weird ones where I think it should be filename but it looks too long to be proper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Civilization players don't finish a single game, going by Civ 6 data, and perhaps that's the best way to play⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I often have to push my way through. But especially for a domination victory, there’s a lot of time wasted on mopping up when victory is already completely guaranteed.

  Kind of like Monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deadzone feels right to me. Dead zone feels like it should be a zone that died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did get the joke, but I didn’t make it clear. My point stands that monolingual English speakers tend to make these mistakes more than German-speaking English learners, haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  loic.suberville on Instagram does a whole lot skits about how weird French is (and English, too). You might enjoy some of his content!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  French is in a different language family. One nice thing about French is that, even with all the silent letters, it tends to be more consistent than English. The same letters should make the same sound (or the same silence) in any context…at least more often than English.

  So if you know how “llon” in papillon is pronounced, you’ll probably be able to pronounce bouillon.

  Whereas if you know how “ough” sounds in “rough”… you’re fine with “tough”, but might have trouble with:

  • through
  • thought
  • though
  • cough
  • thorough
  • dough
  • drought
  • bought

  Those have all stopped looking like words to me though. <== This one too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t written language just an arbitrary agreement?

  So is spoken language! And I’d argue that it’s more the case for spoken language than written language.

  As someone who taught English and had to try to find patterns, here are my tips…

  • If it’s an adjective describing a noun, it’s two words (e.g. a house that’s green is a green house)
  • if its one concept without an adjective, it might be a single compound work (e.g, the special building for growing plants is a greenhouse. Green doesn’t describe a colour)
  • Compound words usually don’t have any conjugation when a verb is used…if there’s conjugation, then it won’t become one word (which is why we have “living room” and “bathroom”…but a “bathing room” would be two words. But not always)
  • If the compound word that’s a verb needs to be broken apart to be conjugated, it’s probably not a compound wor (e.g., if you need to say “He works out” and not “he workouts”, then it should be “I work out” and not “I workout”)

  But also English is just dumb. Especially with the dashes. I use those more for sticking together words that aren’t actually compound words. Or when it looks better, like with level-headed. It looks too long without the dash to my English eyes.

  Also, “itself” is always itself. It’s the reflexive pronoun (I think) like myself, yourself, etc. It’s one word the same way that “hers” is one word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Icecream is new to me, but my autocorrect recognizes it.

  Hotdog is how I usually spell it. It distinguishes a hotdog from a hot dog (i.e., a dog that’s excessively warm. No, nothing to do with yiff…)