Sunsofold

@Sunsofold@lemmings.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[NSFW] ysk: you can restore your foreskin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be more fun to restore someone else’s foreskin, magically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI first company? You mean investment scam?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You should not be working 60 hours. No one should be. Being over-employed is just as harmful to your life as being unemployed, sometimes more so. You need time to do the things you originally went to work to be able to afford doing, otherwise what’s the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get tired pretty quick of games where the multiplayer aspect is considered important to enjoying the game. If your friends are with you, you can enjoy literally sitting in the dirt doing basically nothing, just chatting. If your game requires me to also drag friends into it like some cultist, just to make it pass the bar into ‘fun’ then the game is a failure, plain and simple. They don’t get credit for the fun I brought with me to the show I paid for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  NFPA 101 -

  7.1.10.1 “Means of egress shall be continuously maintained free of all obstructions”

  7.2.1.5.2 “Locks and latches shall not require the use of a key, a tool, or special knowledge or effort for operation from the egress side.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played another guy’s game (game dev thesis project) based on the Milgram experiment. It definitely didn’t have this level of graphical fidelity. I’d be happy to give some feedback. I’m running Bazzite at the moment so if you need someone to look at for proton compatibility, etc. I’m happy to be the guinea pig there as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do each gaming fraction (pc, consoles, mobile) hating each other?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone actually still do that? I haven’t heard anyone identify with their system since I was a youngling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow I think ducks would have an accent like the old ‘transatlantic’ accent used by actors from the 1940s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you make a ‘feature’ opt-in, 3 people will use it, so the person who added it would have to work much harder to justify their paycheck. If you make everyone use your ‘feature’ by default, you can say ‘look how many people use the feature I added,’ while actually pointing at the number of people who didn’t turn off the feature according to the spyware metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The King" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried the demo a ways back. Seemed okay. Way more into the use of Gealdyr as soundtrack than the game itself, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I hate it, the old truism remains: ‘it’s not what you know, it’s who.’ I have done the job search thing and I have done the 'friendly recommendation thing. Searching and applying took months, led to very little response, and even less good response. Being the guy who a former manager thought of when a client says ‘Stop sending us idiots. Send someone reliable,’ got me straight into softball interviews and into work within a week or less. Talk to people in your area about finding work. It takes you from the pool of 20,000 people and robots that applied on indeed and puts you in the pool of 2 people who know the back door into their system.

  However, if anyone who works in HR is reading this, don’t do this crap. Just do your damn job yourself. Automation makes you worse at your job and convinces your boss you can be replaced with AI. There are no winners when you do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now that I’ve looked at an image of it I need a shower to get the dust off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking knew it, Cassandra!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1 Dumbass = 299 792 458 m/s

  Thanks, God. We’ll spend the next 3000 years obsessing over that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snail lyfe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know rats were… aficionados of the struggle-snuggle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snail lyfe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it snails where ‘male’ and ‘female’ is decided by who wins the slow-motion penis-knife fight?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ending a sentence with two spaces differentiates the end of the sentence, full stop. Kerned, monospace, serif, sans, heavy weight, light weight, double spaced lines, single spaced lines, whatever. Two spaces at the end of the sentence helps make the end of a sentence clearer in every case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hanlon’s Razor. Which is more likely, someone not understanding AI? Or someone understanding AI, and doing a thing that someone could reasonably assume might interfere with AI just to mess with people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I understand it’s a way to subtly screw with AI. Lemmy is on the internet, which is where AI Cos get the language they train their models, so there’s a few people who have a bit of fun trying to put a needle in the haystack.

  I always liked the thorn though, ever since I learned about it on QI. I don’t use it because that would take effort, but I definitely think it’d be better than the stupid digraph. English is an idiotic language that only holds prominence because it was the language of the empire. Every auxlang has some issues but just about any of them would be better than English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aww, poor soyjak, are you upset nature doesn’t adhere to your imaginary grouping made up before you had as much knowledge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a minute but i think i know what might be bugging you about the controls. If it’s the having to move and look with the same control, check the settings. There might be a way to adjust it.

  As for other options…

  -The Farming Simulator games are great for controller.

  • Story of Seasons is on sale on Steam right now.
  • Out of Ore
  • Mini Metro
  • Jalopy
  • Shipbreaker
  • the My Time At … series
  • No Mans Sky
  • Never Alone
  • Hokko Life
  • Staxel
  • Rebel Galaxy
  • Olli Olli
  • Arctico

  Looking on steam cross-referencing ‘casual’ and ‘good for steam deck’ is probably a good way to find some more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Öxxö Xööx makes all of his stuff in his own language

  The movie Incubus is entirely in a constructed language.

  The game Chants of Senaar is built around languages you slowly translate/‘learn.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to share your details but could I ask what yph mean more specifically by ‘wearing certain clothes and helping people?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  State capitalism is closer to communism than crony capitalism seen elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, manipulating people is technically a ‘function’ to which one can apply clothing. It’s not a good one, but it is a function.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of why I think ‘country’ and ‘communist’ are not really compatible. I don’t think it is possible to have a faithful execution of communism at the scale of an area like China. They’re obviously closer to communism than some places but also just as obviously not there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One way to look at this is the concepts ‘communism’ and ‘country’ don’t really work together. The modern nation-state requires a level of bureaucracy and scaling that is not really compatible with communistic ideals of egalite. It should also be noted that there isn’t really a completely anything country. China calls itself communist but uses capitalist elements. America is arguably the most anti-communist country but uses plenty of centralized regulation and subsidies. And each has a subset that is deeply in favour of more or less of each of these elements. The idea of having anything ideologically pure is the real childish notion here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How deep do you want to go down the rabbit hole?

  Do you trust your memory? Is how you remember it really how it happened? If someone else tells you it happened another way, is there any way to tell which one, or even if either, is correct?

  If the memory happened long ago, how much of the body that was there then is still here now? Is any of it?

  How much of your knowledge can be trusted? Do you still believe thunder is the sound of clouds bumping together, or some other old story from your childhood?

  If you have a memory of a dream, or a hallucination, is it a memory of a real event? If you don’t remember that it was a hallucination, does it become real for you?

  Step out of self-focus for a moment. What is a memory? The resonance between a perceived pattern and the stored pattern in the pattern-recognition system in your head. If the pattern isn’t perceived to trigger the memory, do you still remember? If the connection is malformed, and the smell of chocolate reminds you of the taste of cheese, what does chocolate taste like when it isn’t in your mouth? If the connection is fully broken, and you forget your name, who do you become? Who are you if, after living longer as this new self than as the old self, your brain heals and restores your memory of who you were?

  Is the body that holds this memory you? Where are the edges of that object? Materials move constantly in and out of the visible bounds thought of as your flesh, through lung tissue, through skin, through disgestive tissues, eyes, teeth, all of it to varying degrees. Nothing is impermeable. When oxygen is absorbed by your skin, carried to a neuron that forms part of the pattern that tells you you had a chicken sandwich last night, is chemically bonded to another molecule and expelled again, when it is part of you? Is it part of the memory?

  Research shows ones personality can be changed by as little as how long it has been since lunch. Are you a different person when you are hangry?

  How much of you is your memory? If your memories go away, how much of you remains? Does any?

  Is there even a you? The you you are now is clearly almost nothing like the you you were as a child. Are you still the same person? If yes, how? If no, when did the transition happen from one to the other? If information is part of what makes you you, are you even the same person you were when you started reading this comment?

  If there is no real separation between you and the things that move in and out of you, is memory anything more than a cycle of reactions, matter and energy triggering chemical changes triggering chemosyntesis, chemotaxis, osmosis. Do even those things exist, or are they merely more patterns of information found to assist the pattern of matter that stores them in the function of preserving that information?

  WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, PHILOSOPHY RABBIT HOLE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outsiders, studio behind Metal: Hellsinger, is being closed by Funcom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always preferred BPM to Hellsinger but that’s depressing. I was just listening to a discussion of the EA stuff from someone who has worked in the industry and he’s thinking the outlook is bleak going forward, that EA is likely to get the ToysRUs treatment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll recommend Kinetica. It’s a one-of-a-kind racing game where you race through gravity-defying tracks as a person in a kind of iron-man negligee with wheels while listening to old-school techno.

  Shadow of the Colossus is one of my favorite games ever, battling entities big enough that you run around on top of them, subtle storytelling, an enormous map for the time it was made, and fairly large even by modern standards.

  The Tenchu games are also good: ninja stealth assassination.

  Dark Cloud 2 is a kind of fun game. Smack your way through dungeons with a wrench and use the bits to build villages for your allies.

  Bloody Roar is a favorite for fighting games. Fight to BIOS energy then transform into a wilder form, like a mole, a bear, etc. and you can kick people through the edges of the arenas into new areas to fight.

  Devil May Cry is a classic.

  Ratchet and Clank, classic.

  Time Splitters is reminiscent of even older games.

  Red Faction 2 wasn’t a bad little shooter.