TaiCrunch
@TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Where there's a violence there's a way 1 week ago:
Remember kids, violence is never the answer. But it’s always an answer.
- Comment on Why would you suggest that?? 1 week ago:
Not with that attitude
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 week ago:
$20 is the limit for me. I’m perfectly fine waiting a few years to play the game, if it still exists by that point. If it doesn’t, then I’m glad I didn’t waste my time.
- Comment on Switch 2 supports USB mouse controls, developer reveals 1 week ago:
Funny you mention it, the next large purchase I have planned is a gaming PC to replace my aging 2018 laptop, and I plan on going all-in on Linux. From what I can tell, AMD seems to be the way to go, and as a long time Fedora user, I’m interested in Nobara.
What’s your setup? Any recommendations?
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 week ago:
Plenty happened as a direct result of the protests. There was a brief moment of solidarity where everyone had a perspective to share about racial (and other types of) bias and discrimination, in turn sparking a cultural shift toward better inclusion and equity efforts. Police brutality and excessive force were thrown into a much bigger spotlight, and reasonable districts made positive sweeping changes (shoutout to Illinois’s SAFE-T Act). Those months of protests pressured prosecutors to up the charges of the officers involved with murder charges appropriate to the situation, instead of third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
There were some people that felt threatened by all this, so they cranked up the propaganda machine (with help from their Russian compatriots) in a desperate effort to bury it, gain traction, and build up enough power to undo everything. To say that nothing happened because of the protests, to oversimplify it down to “just a bunch of looting and riots,” to characterize the movement as “radical left-wing/antifa terrorism,” are those false narratives they’re so desperate to promote.
Protests work. And they know it. They’re terrified of it.
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 week ago:
Never forget that the crime he was ultimately executed for, without due process, was giving a cashier a counterfeit $20. That was enough of a justification for those cops and everyone who supports them.
- Comment on Switch 2 supports USB mouse controls, developer reveals 1 week ago:
Your perspective is way off. It sounds like you’re young, single (no kids, at least), and doing well for yourself. Which is great!
I have a pretty well-paying job, at least enough for my family and I to live comfortably. But I also have adult responsibilities, including taking care of said family. Sure, on paper, I could feasibly afford to get both, but there’s no sense in getting two systems that–to my earlier point–seem to serve identical functions. Especially not when I’d also like to go out with my wife, prep a high schooler for college, help my younger child with severe special needs with everything he needs to thrive, sometimes go on vacation, do some other hobbies, responsibly maintain vehicles and things around the house, and so on. All that on top of purchasing frugally (every single piece of furniture in my living room, for example, we got secondhand for free).
So yes, it’s very much an either/or decision for me, as it is for a lot of people.
- Comment on Switch 2 supports USB mouse controls, developer reveals 1 week ago:
I don’t have a Steam Deck yet. Given the choice between that and the Switch 2, at this point, I’m still going with the Steam Deck.
- Comment on get back, swine! 1 week ago:
I’m choosing to interpret this as the human being the patient and that (harmlessly) forking pot-bellied pigs is therapeutic for us.
- Comment on On trees... 1 week ago:
Hit me. I love evolutionary fun facts.
- Comment on Switch 2 supports USB mouse controls, developer reveals 1 week ago:
As soon as they showed the JoyCon mouse control I was hoping there would be support for standard mice. It still doesn’t do anything to steer me toward a Switch 2 over a Steam Deck, but it’s an excellent move for accessibility.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 weeks ago:
I’m 5’5" and I just know my legs would dangle like a child on their first roller coaster.
- Comment on How can I contribute processing power to the community? 2 weeks ago:
Where are you hosting your instance now? I’ve been looking into a cheap VPS for the things I’d rather not host on my personal home network.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 weeks ago:
ioi-xd.net/files/wokeornot.html
As it turns out, not a lot.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 2 weeks ago:
Have you ever considered public speaking?
If you have, don’t.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3 3 weeks ago:
I see what you mean. There’s definitely been a lot of marketing overreach with the franchise. But there’s something about Final Fantasy that makes it a money-printing machine. Maybe it’s the long legacy, nostalgia, or the fact that they’ve been with it since the beginning, but FF marketing campaigns have (almost) always been wildly successful in a way that Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, or even Dragon Quest (in the US) can’t live up to. Just look at Kingdom Hearts, Super Smash Bros, and even that Louis Vuitton promo with Lightning.
Not that I’m trying to sell you on this set. I get that a lot of people don’t like Universes Beyond.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3 3 weeks ago:
FIN is the best-selling MtG set of all time and there hasn’t even been a prerelease event yet. Blowing up the budget is plenty justified in this case.
- Comment on NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones 4 weeks ago:
I had a long, exhausting conversation with my father-in-law last week where my son and I both had to explain to him the basic fundamentals of what science actually is, how the scientific method works, and why and how the NSF awards grants.
We also kept having to explain that just because there’s some junk science put out by bad actors to line up with an agenda, that doesn’t mean all science is junk. We also, also, kept having to explain that there isn’t some “the government” conspiracy manipulating all science behind the scenes to push out things that will kill us (that’s good old capitalism, baby!)
AND the fact that science rarely gives you a hard, definite answer one way or the other because it’s not meant to. And that continuously changing scientific consensus is not only a good thing, but that’s how it’s supposed to work.
AND! why the Joe Rogan thought process of “every conclusion is equally as valid regardless of evidence or actual knowledge” is not only invalid but incredibly dangerous, and further explaining the idea of the hierarchy of evidence, and that individual people are not sources, even if they’re a PhD at Harvard or Stanford.
All that to say he stills sees this as a great thing. Because Fox News and Newsmax.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Same way that kid with the hot mom felt?
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii 4 weeks ago:
I’d rather see Chrono Break revived.
- Comment on Here is how ad agencies are working hard to make sure you see ads in ChatGPT responses 5 weeks ago:
The second a platform becomes a viable avenue for advertisement is when it stops being viable for any kind of quality.
Not that AI does a lot good at that, anyway.
- Comment on Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status Over Alleged 'Propaganda' 5 weeks ago:
Now’s the time to host your own mirror: github.com/pirate/wikipedia-mirror
- Comment on Luigi checking out another CEO in my feed ? 5 weeks ago:
Or just buy it.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The pipeline 1 month ago:
But they’re ✨ sophisticated ✨
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 1 month ago:
My wife loves the shopping ads and always complains when the Pi-Hole blocks them.
Thankfully (weird to say), the current political climate has her worried about being tracked online and she’s finally opening up to the idea of proper privacy.
- Comment on Get that Musky Grindset going 2 months ago:
More like 1M an inch
- Comment on Pikachu Becomes Viral Symbol of Resistance During Anti-Erdoğan Protest In Turkey 2 months ago:
StarFox, but it’s a couple of rogue F-22 pilots
- Comment on Dig this trench to protect your landlord's ability to gouge your decendants. 2 months ago:
Computer infrastructure is the front lines now
- Comment on place yer bets 3 months ago:
Don’t even need a warhead. The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) just threw the probe itself at an asteroid hard enough to affect its orbit.