Semjaza
@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 2 days ago:
That didn’t help (Dodo as friendly inquisitive bird makes me sadder than many other extinct animals), but the primary factor was the introduction of rats to the island, iirc.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 4 days ago:
True, but we also tested many other materials across thousands of years and the death rate of contact with dihydrogen monoxide only exceeds the baseline death rate with immersion of the oral and respiratory sections of the visage. A property shared with most other substances, especially in liquid forms.
- Comment on science never ends 6 days ago:
You know a lot more Maths than I do, and I agree with you (even if my thoughts in it all are more about having a fancy name to get people who claim both Positivism and “Maybe it’s all a simulation man” to recognise the hypocrisy of that).
My whole life-data-mismatch thing is from similar discussions with positivists, as I think life and consciousness is a pretty easy area to show that it doesn’t hold all the answers.
Back to the main point:
The idea that Maths is countable is pretty wild, and I’m gonna need to mull on it. Thanks for sharing. - Comment on science never ends 1 week ago:
Yes, and those are rare cases and so far apart from “corrolates with time” it is hard to impossible to know for sure when someone is outside that window.
I was also under the illusion that we’d done a lot of experiments trying to reelecrifiy frogs’ brains we have failed to get anywhere beyond muscle spasms off of the data and measurements we’ve been able to make.
- Comment on science never ends 1 week ago:
We haven’t yet been able to ressurect anything by recreating vital signs in a corpse so there’s something we can’t measure or detect of life so far.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
UB are getting all up in my standard and pioneer formats and killing my interest for them/Magic as a whole outside of “limited” precons.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Doom
Tetris
Chrono Trigger
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 week ago:
Still the second largest CO~2~ emitter, so it’d make sense to put it on for the comparison.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 week ago:
Could you add the US to the graphs, as EU and West are hardly synonymous - even as it descends into Trumpgardia.
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 week ago:
E1M1 is great, top tier music.
The level clear screen music, E2M8, E1M8, and E1/2M9 tracks are all other top tier track contending for the throne.
Doom II introduced a few more bangers too, but I’m not as able to call the level codes to mind off the top of my head.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 1 week ago:
People aren’t used to this as a concept, especially when there are so many terms and conditions screens (that have been shown in multiple jurisdictions courts to not be legally binding) they click through on a daily basis as well as many other “as a service” models that are reliable enough that people don’t realise what the pitfalls are (people playing for Netflix are fairly certain it won’t close next week, for instance), even the more technically minded expect sunset clauses - which would be a pretty good legal baseline to improve the situation.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 weeks ago:
Unless it’s infrastructure or something with a natural monopoly.
The main competition with steam is buying physical copies of things. If we want to support retailers selling physical copies of games and bricks and mortar shops, that’s a good thing.
Alas, I think the games industry is chosing to abandon them. And Steam has the ability to add games purchased outside of Steam to it for convenience. Unlike Epic it puts the user close to the top of priorities.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Developer interview: my Q&A with the creator of Lutris 3 weeks ago:
Lovely interview.
Lutris got Magic: Arena working for me on my Linux machine a few years back and gave me a very enjoyable card game grind for about 3 years until I stayed limiting MtG:A to my phone on the commute.
Amazing work both from the Lutris team, and the interviewer.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it hurts seeing those 3 or 4 digits numbers.
But once you’ve finished a run once or twice, you’ll get more options and be able to turn it essentially into Sudoku or some other solitaire puzzle and do most levels perfectly once you know what’s going on and having a few more options.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 4 weeks ago:
Minimetro and Cultist Simulator are my go to “comfy” games, but cultist simulator really does get you feeling like you’re chasing a mad eldritch horror when playing at times. It’s deliberately obtuse and odd, and then a revelation of the truth takes you over and you push on beyond your wildest expectations.
Slay the Spire and Hollowknight have both been mentioned enough in other posts in case anyone reading this is somehow unaware of either of them.
Faster than Light and Into the Breach are both excellent games. FtL is rng mitigation and crisis control par excellence. ItB is basically chess, and you play out the turns as best you can. It’s rewarding, but once you get good you need to ramp up the difficulty somewhat to keep it fun.
- Comment on Sudokuvania: Digits of Despair (v1.1.0) 5 weeks ago:
I think this for people on a Sudoku level or 3 beyond me.
The sight of a blank grid with a multitude of arcane extra rules across it is something I just can’t sink my teeth into.
Also, is one meant to/does one have to put numbers into areas still covered by the fog?
- Comment on Sudokuvania: Digits of Despair (v1.1.0) 5 weeks ago:
Ahh, I shall do that then and see if I can get further than the courtyard.
- Comment on Best starter hands-down 1 month ago:
In contrast, bulbasaur is weak to all the birds and bugs that are so common in the early game.
To make it more difficult, Bulbasaur is the only one of the three starters to not learn a STAB move as their first move after the debuff at 5.
Squirtle gets bubble, ember for Charmander. Leech seed for Bulbasaur. And while leech seed has uses late game when you’re tanky, it is mostly useless against wild pokémon.
That is to say, both Charmander and Bulbasaur have a lot of trouble early game until you get a diverse team. But Squirtle will just stomp through it all (especially in original Gen1 when Special was imba, combined with its natural high defence state).
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
Which particular set of Israeli policies are you supporting here?
The 10-15 civilian deaths per strike on a possible low level Hamas supporter?
The continued “accidental” killing of medical staff, including Red Cross and Red Crescent workers, and journalists?
The idea of turning off water and electricity from all of Gaza as a valid response?
The escalation of illegal settlement and theft of Palestinian property and land in the West Bank, with IDF support no less?
Or the use of the Hannibal Protocol against Israeli Civilians on October 8th by IDF forces?
Or do you just not think it is incumbent on the one with greater power and strength to offer the olive branch first if peace is truly desires? And in fact would rather the Palestinian people are smeared across an enlarged Israel?
- Comment on 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm 2 months ago:
What other “mistakes” did they make?
A U in “colour”? An S in “realise”?
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If you’re trolling: well done, wanker.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 2 months ago:
I didn’t like the first series, and would’ve quit it at episode 3 or so but I ended up without internet access for a couple of days and the whole series downloaded… It got better.
But yeah, life’s too short for TV shows that take time to be taken on faith. And if you did finish the first series and still not like it, more power to you.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 3 months ago:
That’s not generative, since it’s just copying player input. Feasible without AI, just storing strings for later recall.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
On the one hand… First World War would’ve ended very differently.
On the other… Maybe eugenics would already be discredited by the 20s with how it went in Dixie.
- Comment on DOGE Reportedly Cuts FDA Employees Investigating Neuralink 3 months ago:
Because they fired the guy whose job it was to tell the press who got fired. So there is no longer an official record.
- Comment on Kevin sounds nice! 3 months ago:
Call me a poser, but I prefer him in The Skin I Live in.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 3 months ago:
That doesn’t seem to be what Chad Freeman thinks on the matter.
He seems to post that the US and Russia are pro-continued war, while Ukraine (and Zelensky) would (obviously) like it to end, though probably not at the cost of both Russian occupied zones.
US and Russia both gain from continued warfare, so poor Ukraine is stuck in the middle.
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 3 months ago:
Thank you, that looks like a good set of hooks for me to get into at a weekend, child allowing.
I very much appreciate the guide. I’ll let you know when I’ve had a fiddle.
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 3 months ago:
I tried using PiVPN to route my phone’s Internet access through my home network, but it kept breaking and I found I don’t have a head for networks.
Would caddy be able to do that in an easier to maintain way?
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 3 months ago:
Nah, posts like an American who started with good intentions but has taken America bad to mean that places that oppose the US therefore must be good/better.
The speech by the former US diplomat they like to post is worth a read, as despite some odd dubious or cherry picked data the conclusions are bang on the money, and it is right about it all being a very real politik, not actually good for Ukraine, approach by the US and NATO.
It also has the former diplomat state that Europe (that famously single and unanimous entity), as well as Zelensky (at least before 2024) and Ukraine want peace, and the US and Russia are both more involved in prolonging war to better their own outcomes.