bizarroland
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- Submitted 4 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Let them know what they are missing! 3 months ago:
Or zero
- Comment on Let them know what they are missing! 3 months ago:
You know that's a really good question.
I don't know if a dragon is ever mentioned anywhere else in the Bible other than Revelations. But at the time Revelations was written, Rome would have been in full pre-fall swing, so maybe it's some sort of like crossover information.
- Comment on Let them know what they are missing! 3 months ago:
If you had thought of that in 2016 you would now have enough money to be able to afford not having a conscience.
- Comment on Let them know what they are missing! 3 months ago:
To pieces you say?
- Comment on Let them know what they are missing! 3 months ago:
Because some people are more attractive when viewed from left to right or right to left.
- Submitted 3 months ago to [deleted] | 24 comments
- Comment on Why are stories that take place in another world where everyone is white and Asian are normal, but it's "woke" if they are all black? 3 months ago:
It's just like their previous theft of the term "bleeding heart". A person with the bleeding heart was someone who just cared so fucking much, and so they mocked bleeding heart liberals for caring so much that their hearts just bleeding away, wah wah way.
And used that term to justify the hardness of their own hearts and to somehow imply that it's manly to not have feelings.
- Comment on World of Goo 2 - Official Trailer 2 3 months ago:
Good for them. I remember the last one being pirated so much that they were in danger of bankruptcy so I hope everyone that pirated the first one will do the right thing and buy the second one with cash or gift cards or some other meaningful method of transfer of equity to the developers.
- Comment on Uses for local AI? 3 months ago:
Wonderful. I'll check it out. Thank you!
- Comment on Uses for local AI? 3 months ago:
I have a 4070 sitting around collecting dust that I got from a trade, I've been thinking about setting it up with whispr and TTS and having a way to talk to my house.
I have a couple of smart home integrations, mostly air conditioning, light switches, security, and doors.
What I would like would be to have a few speakers on the walls that can talk to my server where I can say something like, hey computer, turn on the lights in the dining room and the lights in the dining room would turn on without transmitting that information to Google or Amazon.
- Comment on We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny 3 months ago:
The algorithms primary objective is to generate interaction.
Interaction leads to ad revenue.
The quickest and easiest way to get people to engage with a topic is to infuriate them.
After all, how many of us have apps on our phone that shows them only cute pictures of cats and dogs and babies?
How many feel-good stories do you read in an average day?
How many of us spend our time solely in the pursuit of self-improvement and self-education rather than delving into bitter bickering over politics or religion or whatever the cause of the day happens to be?
It's easy to optimize for the lowest common denominator.
- Comment on The taste of 🦅🇺🇲 Freedom 🇺🇸🦅 3 months ago:
I know I could do it, but I also know that that burger is going to sit in my stomach like a 10 lb fucking weight for the next 5 days.
No fucking way would I eat that
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 3 months ago:
I think you missed my point. I am in favor of steam and valve by far, my quibble is with the idea that anyone can sell 100,000 copies of a $15 game.
For every Stardew Valley there are thousands of other games no one has ever heard of and that almost no one bought.
By all means though, make great games. I'll be buying them on steam.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 3 months ago:
I agree with you but at the same time I feel like I should point out that this is the China fallacy, where there's a billion people in China and if you could just tap into even 0.3% of their market you would make bank.
While it's technically true, the fallacy behind it overshadows the difficulty of acquiring that percentage of the market. The grand majority of games released never become cash positive, and over 50% of games on steam alone never make more than $4,000.
https://vginsights.com/insights/article/infographic-indie-game-revenues-on-steam
This is not an issue with distribution, it's an issue with marketing and market fit, and accompanied by the base fact of that if you're the kind of person who is good at making games, it would be a rarity for you to also be the kind of person that's good at marketing the games you made.
Those are two entirely different wheelhouses that function best with two entirely different personality types, and that's not covering all of the different disciplines that you need to make a game or run a game making company in the first place.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 4 months ago:
Making money isn't evil.
- Comment on The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy 4 months ago:
I for one cannot wait to laugh at what kind of bumbling bullshit these 75-year-old geriatric assholes who can barely even answer their own emails come up with.
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 4 months ago:
Yeah see there is a thing called disproportionate response.
If you've got a guy with 100 million followers talking shit about someone else and making wild accusations against them against another person who has practically no following at all, then the response is far too powerful for the issue at hand.
- Comment on Maybe it was someone from the future. 4 months ago:
I don't kn ow what's going on but I wouldn't be surprised for it to be a setup from the RNC to help drumph win the presidency.
- Comment on Crunchyroll/VIZ gave copyright notices in Artist Alley at Anime Expo 4 months ago:
They started as a pirate site and sold out, and this is what happens when you sell your soul.
- Comment on The interior of your house is hot, the exterior cool. What would the most efficient orientation be for a box fan? Pushing hot air out of a window or pulling cool air in through it? 4 months ago:
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
- Comment on Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months 4 months ago:
I actually use gimp in a semi-professional capacity. I have access to photoshop but I find Photoshop to be very unintuitive whereas Gump has all of its layouts exactly where I expect it to be after a few years of usage.
There are some things that photoshop does better than gimp. It's magic select tool is light years better than gimps, and content aware fill is also light years better, but I, who only need to make occasional minor edits to images to present them to other people one time I'm able to accomplish everything that I need with free software, and if it were up to me alone I would discontinue my Adobe subscription.
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
There are vast differences between Windows home and Windows pro and Windows Enterprise editions as far as how easy it is to control and block off the annoyance ware that Microsoft builds into it.
If you use deployment software to roll out your images after standardizing them and have a set image that you can deploy to a thousand computers as easily as one then it's very simple to sign in with a local domain account and disable the windows things through a group policy and just start rocking and rolling whereas your average Windows home user is not going to even have access to GPO and we'll have to tediously for each and every single computer every single time they reset it redo all of the things to disable all of Microsoft's crap activation.
They are not entirely different but definitely distinct versions of Windows and dismissing the home and non-enterprise users that their experience is inferior to your experience on the Enterprise side is what I'm saying is disingenuous
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
It's kind of disingenuous of you to proudly say, "I don't use the same version of Windows that this person likely does and I don't have the same issues that this person does so they must be full of shit".
- Comment on Now that scotus gave the president immunity Biden can legally assasinate all of the conservative justices 4 months ago:
Okay so in that case what Biden could do is go ahead and execute all of his political opponents and then if the lower court returns that the ruling of the supreme Court is unconstitutional than the new supreme Court can decide whether or not to uphold that.
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 4 months ago:
If Trump had lost to Hillary Clinton then people would make fun of him for not even being able to beat Hillary Clinton when there was a multi hundreds of millions of dollars hate campaign launched against her that was so effective that people still hate Hillary today.
- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 4 months ago:
Is that a bad thing though?
- Comment on Rolls a Nat 20 4 months ago:
You have no power here, I was already at max cringe
- Comment on I don't get how people can become depressed, when we live in the century of Fentanyl, easy access to alcohol and amusement arcades. 4 months ago:
24 hours of mikes hard lemonades race. Could be fun and you have a buot in sponsor
