Sunsofold
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- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 18 hours ago:
I haven’t played 4, but I played 1, 2, and a bit of the presequel or whatever it was called. They were essentially all the same game. Run, shoot, run, shoot, hear vaguely off-color joke, run, shoot. Is there any particular reason to bother with an overpriced remake of the same old game? Is there a reason for worrying about 4KUHD textures on a game where the aesthetic is cartoony? If you’re a 9 year old who’s never played, and it’s all on mom’s dime, I could see being tricked into buying it by the advertisers, but why is anyone else excited about it?
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 1 day ago:
So you’re saying they’d get so high they die, and the THC will still be in their systems when the human cooks and eats them. Might have an idea why they were doing this ‘experiment’ then.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 1 day ago:
That’s essentially the thing that makes LLMs as unreliable as they are in everything else; they run on probabilities that have no anchor in reality. The game is just another contained reality to which the model has no direct connection.
- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 1 day ago:
Most common reason for this is thirst.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 day ago:
It takes real, practiced skill and/or quality equipment to hit a bullseye at long range, or to kill an armed opponent at short range quickly and cleanly enough to not give them the chance to shoot you back. It takes no skill to hit an undefended, person-sized object at <10 meters, the distances involved in most indoor locations.
- Comment on Will I become a bad person in a year? 6 days ago:
Morally? No.
Legally? Be careful. Some places have allowances in laws to permit relationships between closely aged young people, even if one is technically a minor. Some places do not. Check your local laws. If it’s not explicitly laid out as an exception, a bad breakup, a bad parent, or even an unlucky encounter with a nosy cop can seriously damage your life.
- Comment on What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently? 6 days ago:
~0%. Everyone is reliant to some degree on others. Even if you grant a tropical paradise to somewhat ease the physical needs, even survival is a team activity, and no one thrives under forced solitude.
- Comment on Awooga 1 week ago:
B to GGG in a few months? That’s almost a b-movie horror plot.
- Comment on Are fossil fuels vegan? 1 week ago:
‘Eggs are really small potatoes?’ Got it. Off to make some potato salad.
- Comment on What's the name of the type of man I'm attracted to? (pictured) 1 week ago:
The mockery in ‘chav’ is not about class, but choices in relation to class. Class is not chosen. That particular ‘look’ is certainly chosen.
This is a young man in a pub. They might call him working class, but few would call him a ‘chav.’
The young men in your provided images are absolutely the sort who would be called chavs, not because of something intrinsic to themselves, and not because they work for a living, if they do, but because of the choices they have made in how they present themselves to the world.
The chav look is not respected because it simultaneously follows neither the unwritten rules of modesty and dignity that the working class often use to claim moral superiority over the wealthy, nor the unwritten rules of ‘tasteful conspicuous consumption’ used among the wealthy as their in-group lanuage. It is part of a subculture within working class spaces that attempts to draw esteem via conspicuous consumption, but without wealth. It is a subculture which has ‘bought in’ on the consumerist ethos which says ‘who has the shiniest hat, and the most attention, is the best person.’ The message is subtle, but present.
You can be attracted to the aesthetic, just as some people are attracted to the aesthetic of prison inmates, serial killers, fascist uniforms, etc, but the real-world versions of those things are not something to hold in esteem, regardless of how hot they might be. You aren’t the first person to be attracted to an aesthetic tied to a problematic culture, and you won’t be the last.
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 1 week ago:
I tend to treat words fairly literally and try to be precise, so if I say ‘I’m sorry,’ it’s because I am sorry. If I want to sympathize, I can say other things. (‘That’s awful.’ ‘Those bastards…’ etc.) On occasions where I have not felt sorry because the other person has reacted emotionally to something , I tend to ask questions. Calmly giving people a chance to feel heard can often help.
In most cases, though, I try to move people toward solutions-oriented thinking to prevent spiralling. Asking questions lets them put the problem into words, helping them switch from a defensive emotional stance to an open brainstorming stance. Giving people a goal can make them feel a sense of progress, giving them distance from the problem and possibly netting a better final result than even might have happened without the inciting event. - Comment on what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you? 2 weeks ago:
Masking techniques
For prying questions, pick up some evasive answers. The response only has to vaguely imply an answer. Use ‘I’m not sure’ or ‘I don’t know’ where applicable.
To skip chitchat, skip the locations it starts if possible, and just look like you are in a hurry if you can’t avoid them.
Learn the signals for uninterest, like not looking at them, one word/grunted responses, beginning work, etc.
Keep in mind though, the purpose of the ritual is to let people feel good about their time working together. If you negate it, you will not have that positive impression in their minds. They will think of you negatively, which will absolutely cause you other problems. It might be worth spending 15 minutes of ritual as insurance to reduce likelihood of problems later because everyone thinks you are a prick.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s a tough question to even approach an answer to, because, for one, there are people who moralise the issue and say pedos shouldn’t have anything that might make them happy, regardless of whether it would reduce their likelihood of victimizing real children, (the same attitude saying drug addicts are degenerate scum) and less stupidly, the only way to tell what the effect of such a thing would be, would be to do it and see what happens. Then it’s the same problem with any other human experiment. If it led to a decrease in child rape, you’d see some academic writing on it but you would still get a lot of people hemming and hawing about the moral hazard. If it led to an increase, whoever made the decision to give the go ahead on it would be arguably morally culpable for all those extra kids being harmed. Not a lot of people funding grant proposals are looking to risk being put into the bad part of the history book to, just maybe, be labeled ‘the one who helped the most hated class of the mentally ill.’ (If anyone wants to argue the paedophiles aren’t mentally ill, I’d have to question how their definition of mental health includes rape, but I digress.)
Personally, I’d like to do away with the hate and get them all into some form of treatment, whatever that might mean. (I’m not a psychiatrist.) While they hide, they are more likely to be a danger to others. If visible, they could be researched, maybe treated or screened against, but we’ll never know while they are hidden, and it seems better to reduce the hate, usually a good thing to do in any case, and get them to come forward, than to surveil the whole of society as though we’re all criminals, or sit on our hands and pretend everything is going well, as is, when the President of the US, a member of the royal family, and dozens of other powerful people are dodging questions regarding possible involvement with a child sex trafficker.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
We can’t even get everyone to agree kids shouldn’t be in porn. There is zero chance you are going to get everyone to agree to sacrifice their civil rights on the altar of ‘protecting’ the kids of parents who refuse to do it themselves from something many don’t view as harmful.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I mean… yeah. More or less.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Space Engineers
Ares at War scenario with Industrial Overhaul and Weapon Core to make everything as complicated as possible
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Modded MC, specifically TFC packs
It hits almost all the right points to lock me in.
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 4 weeks ago:
Worried Blackbird was a publisher for a moment. Shipbreaker is great. I beat it twice (normally and no clones) and still play for relaxation. Captain Shack mentioned it during a stream a few days back and I was just thinking how it’s probably the only game where i’d actually willingly buy a DLC for a new set of ships or a sequel with the ability to add ships as workshop mods.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 4 weeks ago:
Instead, investors did the fucking, and now here we are.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 5 weeks ago:
patiently waits for paper to publish
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 5 weeks ago:
You could also just not play games that think they are allowed to access the kernel at all. Seems safer, more affordable, and basically without downside. They aren’t even that good of games.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
How much do you trust your father? This could go great or terrible. She could be a friend’s daughter who he genuinely thought would be a catch, or she could be a prostitute he’s trying to use to manipulate you. You’d be in a better place to know.
- Comment on Mushroom Lamp (Gnarled edition) 5 weeks ago:
I know, but you were thinking it SO LOUD.
- Comment on Can’t put solar panels on your roof? Plug-in ‘balcony solar’ may be for you. 5 weeks ago:
A long time ago I saw a thing about how foolish the creator thought it was people had stopped using awnings. They keep out the worst of the sun in summer and let it in during winter, when the sun is at a lower angle. My immediate next thought was, ‘why don’t we have solar panel awnings?’ They don’t require making holes in your roof you then have to worry about leaking. They can be mounted at the same angle as the roof so they wouldn’t be less efficient in many places. They could be added like eaves and keep the sun from heating the walls too, a huge benefit in hot areas.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 5 weeks ago:
Correct, for killer functionality to work you have to connect the camera to an automated turret system.
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 5 weeks ago:
‘It says… no tresspassing?’
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 5 weeks ago:
There are no runes on the clam. The runes are in your eyes.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The first higher part is basically a whimper but the lower part is more akin to mumbling or muttering.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 1 month ago:
I mean… James Bond is also just a guy who shoots people. Most non-action movies are just a series of conversations. How the story is told is often far more important than the boiled down concept.
