Semjaza
@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on It's just loss. 4 days ago:
But there’s about enough housing for everyone too… Just that it’s of houses are sitting empty across Europe, North America, and China.
And lots of the food wasted in those places (minus China) is imported from places with less food security, such as Brazil, India, and Morocco.
So it’s almost like the energy use and infrastructure is already part of the problem and solving it would take less.My point is that Malthusian was never correct, and the problems are ones of distribution. Not number of humans. (And Malthusian worries tend towards genocide naturally, that they’ve been shown consistently to be wrong should make them doubly suspect.)
- Comment on It's just loss. 4 days ago:
It’s not though, seeing that a very large proportion of the world’s population get by, and that about 1/3rd of all food produced for human consumption is wasted each year. (Checked the UN source it’s 19% of food that makes it to people, and 13% of food pre-end point in the supply chain).
And this is without starting to consider the energy inefficiency of feeding livestock to feed to humans.
Also an awful lot of the world gets by with much less than US or much of Western Europe does. There’s a long way between our surplus of food and food insecurity.
- Comment on The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders 4 days ago:
Love this game archeology stuff.
It was an interesting read and should remind us how quickly things can be lost without proper archival systems.
Plus, the day to day and normal is often forgotten or overlooked by history as us fish never write about normal water and currents.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 days ago:
Do you think this info graphic is more or less worrying if it is numbers of living beings rather than biomass?
- Comment on A Viral Game Targeting ‘Gold Diggers’ Has China Arguing Over Gender 2 weeks ago:
Released in the PRC, so no. Nothing sexy.
Just misogyny (and maybe some homophobia for good measure).
- Comment on A Viral Game Targeting ‘Gold Diggers’ Has China Arguing Over Gender 2 weeks ago:
Sixth Tone is not a “no name magazine”, it’s the English language publication of one of the largest online news publications in Shanghai.
Its a contender for best English language publication in China, and a good source of investigative (well, as much as you can get in the PRC now 财新 has been nutuered) journalism. It still gets to do more critical stories when they’re small scale and frame it as a problem government will find a way to solve.
- Comment on Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair, I have respect for rules like that and also know that camping out for a rare quick animation would kinda ruin the effect when you want to be playing.
- Comment on Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Nice write up.
Must admit I’m kinda disappointed the screen shot of Kaepy G isn’t one where the head is twisted nearly upside down.
But it also made me come in and read your thoughts on it. It’s a comfy game to play. Good luck with the project.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 weeks ago:
You’re right, and I was being facetious.
You responded well and explained it for all. Thank you.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 weeks ago:
So a museum in Western Europe or the US is better, or just as bad?
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 3 weeks ago:
With books and older non-unique registration code games it is explicitly legal to sell them second, third, etc hand.
At least in the EU and UK where those overly restrictive licenses have been declared ineffective. Maybe in the US it’s just another personal freedom sacrificed for freedom of capital.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 3 weeks ago:
UK law allows for making and duplication of digital copies of a product you own that version of, provided you don’t share them with others.
At least it did 15 years ago, not 100% certain today off the top of my head.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 4 weeks ago:
Only a few bites because people, understandably, aren’t biting that headline.
Share a screenshot of the article instead and they’ll be all over it.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, they enjoy and will happily play me at Mario Kart for exactly the same reasons they won't play me at F-Zero.
Presence of catch up mechanics role of luck.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 5 weeks ago:
A CD is clearly homotopic to a torus, though…
And the walls of a straw do have thickness…
A straw goes:Gas - solid - gas - solid - gas
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
If more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I’m all for it.
Better late than never.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
Might maroon me for fucking up the FOSS though.
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Doom
Tetris
Chrono Trigger
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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 2 months ago: