Dasus
@Dasus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 1 day ago:
Play time hours not loyalty.
Loyalty, passion, interest, call it whatever you will.
Those that play for a living
Oh that was a serious point you were making? Even with every cat and his nephew being a streamer, there’s still not that many people playing or streaming professionally for that to actually affect the market. That’s ridiculous.
Also, Switch games, aside from like Zeldas, are like the least played/streamed games there are, so that’s really not a valid excuse. It might be a valid excuse if we were talking about Steam games and Nvidia GPU’s, because there’s so many players and so little stock, but Nintendo made it a point to have enough stock and Switch streamers aren’t really that much of a thing.
So it definitely rewards people actually use their Switches, instead of people who were born with a gold spoon up their arse. And you have zero points against that except "I’m rich and I dislike it because it means someone else might get something before me and I’m not used to that because (my daddy’s money means) I’m rich
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 1 day ago:
You haven’t made a point about why rewarding loyalty is bad, or why your demanding that people be priced out of buying the thing isn’t pathetic.
But hey, maybe I missed it. To explain it to me, and try to make it so simple that an idiot can me can understand it, because from where I’m standing from, you seem like a whiny rich kid who hasn’t played their Switch and is now afraid they won’t get the newest toy when it comes out.
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 1 day ago:
You’re getting offended, because I’m asking you to stand behind what you literally posted about?
Kinda weird, man.
You’re saying they should price it higher to make it about “who has the means”. That is literally the purest capitalism. Nintendo is choosing an alternate priority.
Guess you’re mad at me for showing you what your values are, huh?
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 1 day ago:
You were just saying you think money should matter more than playhours.
That is very much one of the implications. You not having thought of that is not my problem.
Make your point then, please.
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 1 day ago:
that’s a very core principle of our system.
Something being as it is doesn’t mean it ought to be that way.
You would prefer that a rich asshole with all the money in the world who has 7 switches in different colours and sizes and all the gears with them but never plays them, just has them because he wants to let people know he has them should have more of a chance of getting a new Switch 2 than, say, a teenage loner kid who’s only comfort from bullying has been a Switch he’s been playing religiously for the past few years and has just managed to save up for a new Switch 2 and is super excited for it coming out?
Because I would definitely say the latter should be prioritised. And that is what Nintendo is doing, and your take makes zero sense. “But why won’t anyone think of the scalpers?!”
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 1 day ago:
So you mean they should just prioritise rich people instead of passionate people?
They can’t know how much free time people have, but it’s a fair assumption that more time using the Switch means you’re more interested in playing it.
They’re rewarding loyalty. But you think they should reward… having money?
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 1 day ago:
Specifically aiming at people with free time?
Entertainment systems company marketing to people with free time?
Those bastards.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 days ago:
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 days ago:
a Polish person will pronounce every finnish word correctly and a Finnish person will pronounce most of Polish words correctly.
I’m Finnish and I’ve had a Polish friend for 15 years and I can say you’re most definitely mistaken.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 days ago:
You are saying you never read two vowels in a row?
No. I’m saying the ones which are umlauted don’t go with their umlauted partners. You can äiti easily. That’s mom. But you can’t have Äati. That’s not a word. Ä + a don’t go together.
I may be wrong because of how flexible Finnish is, but I don’t think a Finnish word exists where there is either äa oe öo combination. Äo maybe, but not likely.
Its something calmed vowel harmony, which is sort of why I don’t see Polish as being any where near Finnish. The amount of consonants you guys use is unnatural to a Finnish person.
Finnish pronunciation is definitely not a “subset of Polish”. Polish is a PIE-language. We’re not even in the same language tree bro.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 days ago:
coöperation.
I come from Poland and we read in a consistent way.
Okay I don’t doubt yours is consistent, but it’s really hard to grasp. I come from Finland and in the Nordics you would never get oö öo aä or äa combinations I’m pretty sure. Å can go with a but a doesn’t really go with ö I don’t think and uhm.
Anyways my point is I’ve no idea how you would go about trying to pronounce coöperation. Or rather what your idea of it is.
I’d couldn’t argue which is more constant, but Finnish is every consistent. And pretty much in line with IPA.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Finnish
hevonen [ˈheʋonen]
hernekeitto [ˈherneˌkːei̯tːo]
tule! [ˈtuˌle]
Example of words with their IPA pronunciation. When something like “geography” in English is “ʤɔ́grəfɪj”.
Those don’t look alike at all. So I’m sure polish can be consistent, but to me at least, I’d be afraid of how complex that consistency is.
In Finnish wr say “kentauri” and in ipa that’s pretty much the same.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 days ago:
In Finnish we say kentauri and you can go ahead and imagine Japanese pronunciation for it and it’s mostly the same. Finnish is just more neutral in tone imo
- Comment on Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia. 3 days ago:
Probably referring to SMS protocol, 160 7-bit characters.
In a few years the newer phones automatically started just telling you how many messages long your message was.
You’d end up shortening things sort of like a telegram.noSpacesSomeTimesToSaveChars etc. but it’s own style. txting it was called, because “txtMe” is a lot shorter than “text me back, please”.
And they weren’t free so you’d pay by the SMS.
And when you were txting your crush and heard the Nokia sms… and then another, you’d know there was a longer message. Or having a row with them, in which case it wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
And sometimes you’d run out of room on your phone (because the memory only supported like 48 messaged or smth), you’d get a message, start reading it, then it’d say “cont”, but your message memory full icon is flashing (same as got a message, but flashing instead of just the letter icon).
Idk what the argument is but that’s what “original text message” means to me.
- Comment on Japan's Sukiya food chain shuts almost all outlets after rat and cockroach contamination 3 days ago:
Well, perfect is subjective. But yeah aside from a few things I’d be really interested to live there some years.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 3 days ago:
I believe, internationally, lots of places which have saunas also have pools or even cold pools. I imagine. Like high class gyms or smth.
But I’ve heard several stories of Finns being abroad and going to a sauna and being prevented from tossing water on the stones (löyly = it’s sort of the water and the heat that results from throwing it, roughly how you’d use “gas” in relation to cars, more gas can mean more petrol or pressing on the gas pedal harder, that sort of word), and the employees saying “you can’t do thaw to it’ll break the stove” because they don’t understand how saunas work.
And to do this to the best effect you need a proper löyly to the point you pour cold water from the löyly bucket on top of your head to bear it for a while longer for all the muscles to really warm up. And then for maximum shock quick jump to cold water, or sometimes just a snowbank. That’s common as well. Hurts like bitch though if you do it with the wrong kind of snow, like jumping on a bed of freezing razors. (The top of snow that was quite soft earlier had frozen and I didn’t see it in the dark and jumped into the bank and there was like a half an inch of raspy ice on top before I broke through to the softer snow. Or I just didn’t care being either so young as not to or so drunk as not to. Probably both.)
And if you’re gonna throw a strong löyly, or even löyly at all in a public sauna, it’s proper etiquette to ask for consent from everyone. Although now that I wrote that I have a feeling asking for consent in some non-Finnish public saunas may have a different meaning, as far as I’ve understood from popular media.
- Comment on Japan's Sukiya food chain shuts almost all outlets after rat and cockroach contamination 3 days ago:
Japan usually seems very strict about hygiene and regulations, and since it’s a chain, I think this seems a lot bigger of an issue than it is.
If I had to guess, a central warehouse has had evidence of vermin (after the mentioned rat miso soup at one outlet and a bug in another outlet), so instead of being like “oh well we’ll see if anyone sues if they end up noticing they’re eating cockroaches”, it’s probably a matter of honour to the company to just get rid of anything that could even with low probability have the slightest contamination, and the company ofc eats the losses and doesn’t whine and actually deeply apologises and reassures customers.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 4 days ago:
It’s perfectly commonplace to have at least a 100 degree sauna.
I think something like 140 is around the hottest I’ve been in.
The air is that temperature, but there’s also a ton of moisture in the air. You can take it for a few minutes at a time, then optimally you go take a dip off a pier into a lake or the sea. When I was in that 140c sauna it was a proper wood heated large sauna at my confirmation camp, it was on an island in the Baltic so we could run out the sauna and jump into the Baltic Sea. It wasn’t warm at all, but the intense heat of the sauna having warmed all the top tissues and muscles, you get a sort of immunity to the cold. Which lasts for a little while, and when you start getting cold enough, you go back to the sauna, and because the cool water has now cooled the skin and muscles, you get a resistance to the heat for a while.
Rinse and repeat. Literally.
This cycle supposedly has benefits for circulation and muscles.
And having done it ton in my life I don’t doubt that at all.
Usually I have to settle for the sauna in my apartment though. (I live in a cheap rental but a sauna is default in pretty much all buildings built after the 90’s.) And then either going to balcony to cool off a while or take cool shower. It’s not as nice, but it’s more or less the same.
Although I don’t rip the most out of my electric stove to get the most heat. I have it set on pretty low and I just use a lot of löyly. Probably I’d say my normal saunas are maybe around 90-110 degrees at the most. A sauna below 80 degrees is considered a “Swedish sauna”, which is to say we mock them as not being strong and manly as us and so Swedes would be afraid of having a “proper” sauna.
And to be honest the Swedes are pretty on board with this whole stereotype I guess, seeing us as brutes or something. Here’s a cool Swedish commercial featuring a Finnish man. They made it.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 4 days ago:
minus the TERF nonsense, and wizards shitting on the floor.
I get that but why go after such a highly regarded part of official canon lore?
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 4 days ago:
You know a nation of people who may not be able to articulate their understanding, but definitely have a high intuitive understanding of that?
We Finns.
100C sauna and no problem sitting on wood, but happen to touch something metal and oooh-weee.
Also same thing happens the others way around when it’s - 20c outside. I don’t think there’s many people in Finland who don’t have a core memory of what cold metal tastes like in winter, because of the resulting trauma. And it doesn’t even need to be metal to stick.
Nicely explained.
- Comment on Horror 6 days ago:
They’re on a carriage that’s like pontooned at the bottom, being pulled by the horse and driver who each have their own balloons.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 6 days ago:
“I’m arguing bigger picture”
No, you’re specifically doing the opposite.
Your taking what you did as a novelty, niche hobby in the 90’s and saying “it’s just the same now”.
It literally isn’t. The difference in users is about 5.5 billion.
over semantics of what videos were in ~95 (very low res and shit quality fyi)
Consumer digital video cameras didn’t even exist until 1995.
I’m just saying they were always there
You arguing that the “it’s the same now” is exactly the same thing as saying literature was “exactly the same” 500 years and 5000 years because they share some very base level features.
Again, the difference is users is 5.5 billion to the 90’s. Wireless connections are everywhere.
Imagined how dumb it would be to argue cars are the same as when they were invented. “They still have wheels and an engine and you steer them to go about. We had the exact same thing in 1885!”
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 6 days ago:
Has your clan had a bronze orientation day yet?
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 6 days ago:
That’s like saying cuneiform on small tablets is the same as writing after the Gutenberg press. “It’s all just symbols marked on a medium.”
But I think you know that there’s quite a difference in being able to print books on an industrial scale and a few priests knowing how to write down taxation in cuneiform on stone tablets.
I actually do have(and still use) the same computer I had in the late 90’s
My point exactly. You’re saying things haven’t changed because you’re stuck. The world has changed in 30 years. Arguably more than in any previous set of 30 year cycles.
30 000 hours uploaded every hour. In 1995 there weren’t even 30 000 websites. >5.5 billion users versus 16 million. Do you have any idea just how huge that difference is? Here’s a hint, the difference is about ~5.5 billion people.
Like what’s your crusade in arguing that “it’s all still the same” when it’s obviously completely different.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 6 days ago:
My guy, wtf were you doing in the 90’s on a computer?
Playing games.
there were video files all over the place to download and watch.
The amount of some 3 second quicktime clips doesn’t even begin to compare with today’s videos. And you’re pretending like downloading videos on a 56k modem isn’t complete garbage.
Sometimes it would take minutes for a regular html site to load. People were not browsing videos, lol.
Not really sure why you even feel the need to doubt any of this
Because you’re pretending like an incredibly niche experience you had with a thing that doesn’t even begin to compare with today is “exactly the same as it was”. No it’s not. Literally a majority of the world, ~5 billion have a smartphone. Instant access to HD videos, in their pocket, 247.
Back in 1995 there were about 16 million users, now it’s more than 5.5billion. 23,500 websites back in June 95. Now it’s more than 1.1 billion.
I’m not doubting anything. I’m calling bullshit on you pretending like there hasn’t been absolutely massive global change just because you still live in the same garage and have the same keyboard and screen.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 6 days ago:
I’m starting to wonder if you even where there.
Yeah, people had home videos. But no-one was recording themselves talking to a camcorder to then digitise the video and upload it to an ftp server. That would’ve taken literally days.
What you might have is some beyond shitty webcam (after 94 that is, but you said late and mid 90’s) and you might take an image of yourself and send that somewhere.
It’s how I got my first nudes.
What it sounds like to me is that you weren’t actually there but are nostalgic for the period.
Flash animations were popular, actual videos only became commonplace with YouTube, which was founded in 2005.
And even back in 2005, you couldn’t stream something to watch, the connections were so shit. You might be able to download something to watch, but not stream it.
It’s beyond ridiculous to say things haven’t changed in 30 years. 30 years ago personal computers were a novelty, now they’re a necessity.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
“must of”
"Must have", not “must of”
Quakenet is still going strong.
30 years ago you couldn’t share video with just a few min and a link. YouTube was not a thing. It took until early 00’s to have shitty webcam connections.
Now you can livestream 8k
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
You go down a list if inventions pretty progressively, skimming the best of the last century or at most two.
The skip to currency, which is several millenia old.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
I remember when the Internet was a thing people went on and/or visited/surfed, but not something you’d imagine having 247.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 1 week ago:
Yeah I think this is to counter someone selling theirs on purpose replacing it. Guess the number is just honestly an estimate of what could reasonably happen, but then it’s still 3 a year. But then again you couldn’t definitely have such bad luck to lose your wallet thrice a year.
Anyways, I’d assume that if (well before the US went totally mad) there was an actually reasonable case of someone encountering the limit who clearly wasn’t a fraudster, it’d probably be amended.
But that’s just my cursed optimism, probably doesn’t reflect reality.
