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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 6 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Species: Unknown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  3 seems fine. The balancing was tied into the number of deaths so more players will have more power to do things but fewer retries and, while 1 would be brutal or impossible, 2 would make it harder to complete certain actions but you’d have the revives to make a few mistakes and still come back as long as you have good teamwork.

  If only flamethrowers could be used to defeat the monster that is ‘scheduling difficulties…’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha! Tricks on you. There was only ever one electron in the universe anyway. Now they can split the work and get twice as much universe done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 6 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Species: Unknown⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely better than Phasmophobia. Phasmo is terribly designed. S:U is nicely paced, doesn’t have a system of in-game information with gaping holes and outright lies, does have nice pacing, legible design, and has the potential to become even better. It’s definitely a good group game if you have the right number of players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I seriously find ‘customer service smiles’ and mandated verbatim scripts to be so much worse than any alternative. It dives straight into the uncanny valley and harms my experience, no matter what the manglement thinks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it. The cost/benefit it seems is still not there yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We have built systems that have detected:

  • Black holes which collided 2000000000 lightyears away
  • single photons
  • neutrinos, particles that can pass through lightyears of lead
  • concentrations of chemicals rated in picograms (0.000000000001g) per litre
  • vibrations rated at 1/1000000 of a g

  We have come into a world where people carry around, nearly 24/7, devices capable of recording high definition video, measuring variances in light, magnetism, vibration, storing time correlated data and even processing over it with enough proficiency to put digital bunny ears or makeup on you in real time.

  Despite all this, we have no evidence and no mechanism by which we even might expect ghosts could exist. It’s reasonable to say you can’t be 100% certain they don’t exist, but it is also wildly unreasonable to say they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is thus true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the idea of someone expecting to be booped with a camera so they insert a thin glass vial filled with fake blood in their suit nose, so when someone boops them, they can grab their suit nose and go, ‘Aaagh! My node! You broge by node!’ as they seemingly get a bloody nose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Fuck IP. Make new things, not nostalgia bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What did you do to make them curl up into a ball, David?

  David? What did you do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, that behaviour, which becomes more common among people living in areas with higher crime rates as a self-preservation technique, is viewed as suspicious behaviour by police, and is likely to get you tracked by security if you do it in a store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Usual reminder:

  If you know a parent who is not an active gamer, remind them to never buy games for their kids that have microtransactions, passes, or any form of post-purchase payment. They often will have no idea what they are contributing to as it is not part of their ‘bubble’ to be aware of what these things do to their kids, their kids’ friends, and the industry and society as wholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible that none of this is real?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me guess. You game.

  Everything in life is training for the next day. Spending so much time training yourself to expect things to follow the common logic of games leads to that expectation ‘leaking’ out of its context. If you spent all day watching porn, eventually, you’d expect life to follow porn rules. If you spent all day on 4chan, you’d expect people to act like meme-brained incels. Even something like doing sudoku teaches you to see numbers in boxes and look for the pattern to fill in other boxes. Where someone who spent their life immersed in religion might see spiritual possession, you see NPC behaviours. This is conceptual framing, a.k.a. ideology.

  As for that particular guy, based just on the info given here, I’m guessing drugs. Work sucks. Some people do drugs about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨allium gang rise up 🌰⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pity the poor souls who don’t like onions. No place is safe for them. The foods of all lands are just too delicious for them to handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t find other work. Don’t you know? This is exactly how good it will be now and forever more. /s

• TIL about Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydreamyoutu.be ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been. But if you finish ‘it is how it is’ with ‘and so it shall always be,’ you’ve written off any chance of anything being better than it is, right at this very moment, and might as well kill yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if they were against giving the food away?

  Then they’re malevolent, and thus unqualified for their position. If someone are faced with the choice between giving something away in a way that can benefit them, and just setting the thing on fire purely to prevent someone else possibly benefitting, and they choose the latter, they are unqualified for any executive position. Even if one assigns no value to the potential of helping others, they are actively choosing to lose out on almost certain benefits (through tax benefits, PR, reduction of thefts of necessity, which are appreciably likely to come from their store’s saleable stock rather than their waste) to prevent possible, but improbable, losses. That is actively choosing a worse outcome for the company they are ostensibly working to serve. Failure.

  what if their worry is that someone would hide the stuff till it expires to give more away.

  Then either:
  A) The person is committing malfeasance and can be audited, as all managers should be anyway, and fired for actual harm, (which is still unlikely to cause enough damages to actually be a threat to the company, because if it caused an appreciable dip in profits, they’d fire them for incompetence without even needing a detailed audit)
  or B) they can demonstrate to the management they are doing something that actually works out in the favor of the company, and the halfwits would be firing someone who found a way to turn trash into money.

  It is idiotic mismanagement to throw away someone with years of experience because they might do something that most people wouldn’t think of. Even an unpaid intern has enough access such that they might choose to misappropriate something of value. If you fire everyone who might take advantage of their access for misappropriation, there will be no employees, just a building stripped even of its copper wiring because you couldn’t trust a security guard to have keys.

  Most managers don’t get the discretion to break protocol when they feel like it.

  This is a statement of current failure, not a reason not to improve. I’m saying something like ‘It’s a bad idea to cut your hands with a knife,’ and your response is something like, ‘But in all the kitchens I’ve worked in, people cut themselves all the time.’ Something bad doesn’t become good just because it’s common. If a job can be accomplished just blindly following a list of prescribed rules and procedures, that’s a minimum wage job or a job in need of automation, not an executive position for a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t trust someone to appropriately handle waste, you don’t trust them enough to be a manager.

  Giving them to the pantry instead of keeping them for himself is immaterial to their rules.

  This is prime executive laziness. In this case, that should warrant an investigation by upper management. If the regional director fired an otherwise productive manager for what really would amount to ‘not getting a receipt for tax purposes,’ one has to question whether they’ve been promoted beyond their capabilities. Rules are for people who aren’t trusted to apply critical thinking to their job, i.e. relatively new minimum wage workers. Managers are supposed to be people with enough education, experience, and established trust to make decisions on behalf of the company. If they aren’t trusted, they shouldn’t have been made a manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, given the problems the world currently faces, both are fairly optimistic. 50 years is a long time now. Nuclear treaties are expiring and the people in charge of the nuclear powers don’t seem the kind to decrease their nuclear armament, or make rational decisions regarding their use. A shifting climate could (not necessarily definitely will but certainly could) destroy our ability to feed ourselves at scale, creating a world where people are too concerned about food to worry about building robots or self-actualization. Clean water sources are becoming rarer and harder to access, so people might be too focused on fighting over water to worry too much about anything else. And the fun part is none of these are mutually exclusive. We could have a future where part of the world is a glowing crater, the equator is a sun blasted hell, and the Canadians and Siberians are the only survivors, fighting each other over what’s left of the bioaccumulating-poison-laden arctic fish as they shout their battlecries, words with a meaning no one remembers anymore; ‘SORRY!’ ‘BLYAT!’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are ads on Lemmy? I’ve never seen one.

  But, like so many things in this world, if you ask ‘why is this a thing?’ the answer is almost always ‘idiots exist.’ A handful of idiots DO click on ads and buy the products, download the malware, etc. It’s not much but the 30 real people lend legitimacy to the 970 ‘totally real people’ who ‘totally clicked on the ad but just didn’t buy anything’ according to the metrics, and it’s seemingly impossible to sell anything without paying rent to the marketers because it’s essentially analogous to nuclear arms; if no one had it, everyone would be happier, healthier, and safer, but if they have it and you don’t, you lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No love for LLMs from me but, flatly, no. Asking a question is soliciting a response. Their response is not the one you wanted, but it is solicited. It would be like you asking for a dick pic from someone, the penis of whom you were interested in seeing, and them responding with a generated image from one of the unfiltered image generators.
  The intellectual equivalent to an unsolicited dick pic is probably spam advertising. A piece of media is being sent to someone who did not request it, by someone who does not care if the recipient does not want to receive it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonobos can "play pretend"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The researchers, desperate for a cleric to support their party, then attempted to teach Kanzi how to play DnD.

  Kanzi, being a bonobo, then humped the imaginary object and asked for more snacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ads need to be banned. They are inherently harmful, inherently deceptive, and only valuable in competition with other advertising. There is a direct line between the advertising model and the malignant politics that are destroying our world. Ban them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What powers does the Secret Service have and exhibit to protect the POTUS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, not so much ‘powers’ as technologies and strategies. ‘Powers’ in this space would suggest things like ‘power to arrest’ or ‘jurisdiction’ rather than the physical systems and strategies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lipo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That swings too close to conspiracy theory territory. Hanlon’s razor still applies. The powerful didn’t say ‘I want them dumb, so I will defund the schools.’ They said ‘I don’t get anything out of paying for other people’s schooling, so I won’t.’ Then it was ‘just world’ bias combined with PR to bring it into the mainstream.

  Defeating the just world bias at scale is probably one of the greatest hurdles to achieving anything really great on a societal level. How do you achieve a sane middle ground between ‘I deserve everything I experience. Luck had nothing to do with it,’ and ‘I have no agency whatsoever.’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apathy comes from depression and grasping at things that don’t make sense can be read as anxiety. America failed to develop an educational system and now has no clue how to cope with stresses being applied to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Economics is the child of math, not a sibling. It’s only half math. The other parent is philosophy/creative writing. That’s how you end up with the myth of barter and trickle-down, the stuff based on speculative storytelling, that refuse to listen to math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/Silksong joins Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not my favorite indie game but glad to have a place for them on the verse.

  Bompanada! (Am I doing that right? I don’t actually speak your language.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a friend. Friendship is between approximate equals and requires respect and trust. He does not trust or respect you. He looks down on you for your age and ignores your valid arguments because of it. If you have any choice in the matter, get away from this person and find people who, even if they disagree, will do so from a place of reason and respect. Do not be fooled into thinking someone is a ‘friend’ just because you interact with them regularly.