Sunsofold
@Sunsofold@lemmings.world
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 2 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 5 days ago:
There’s a wild spread on both pay and the requirements to work as a teacher. Some places require barely more than a pulse. Some places require years of schooling. Some places pay teachers no better than shelf-stockers. Some pay a decent wage and/or have a decent pension/benefits system. It’s definitely not a monoculture.
- Comment on Subtitling a video, what is that noise at the end before they scribble on his face? This time, no tools to cut it out because it sounded distorted 1 week ago:
Overlap of snoring and door sounds. If you want to choose, snoring is more relevant for subtitling as it shows character state.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
As long as the sample size is large enough outliers can be absorbed.
- Comment on NextFest Thoughts 1 week ago:
Only one I got to try was Approximately Up. I’ll probably get it if they keep going with it. I might over-simplify it as Archean I can run without a raytracing GPU.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Got the first one purely because it had soundtrack by Sidewalks & Skeletons. Turned out to be a pretty good game. Hopefully this one won’t go the way of Wizard of Legend 2 and turn into a big disappointment.
- Comment on What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government? 2 weeks ago:
When the first guy who called himself a king’s swordsmen fell asleep. Should have peasant mobbed his oversized hovel and never let anyone do it again.
- Comment on Can I assemble a metal building by myself? 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t have it already, get some mechanical help for heavy lifting and holding. It’s technically possible for a single person to do a lot, but not if they crush themselves trying to hold up something that needs a machine to lift. If it’s ever a fight, you need help, whether it’s a person or a machine.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
Best answer I’ve ever had for this was ‘find something to support.’ It can be anything. Just find a space where you have people trying to do something for the benefit of others with some bare minimum cost of entry. The group coming from people trying to help others will bias it toward nicer people. The cost of entry, even something small like $5/mo or physically present volunteering, deters anonymous trolling.
The other good option is classes. Doing things to improve your skills in something is generally worthwhile anyway, but it also puts you in contact with other people who share an interest.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 2 weeks ago:
This is kind of the best-case fantasy of what happened to introduce that DNA so let’s just hope it’s true for now.
- Comment on Downvoting your ass 2 weeks ago:
Strange. Pictures of large round butts rarely get downvoted on the internet.
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 2 weeks ago:
The Last Night
I heard about it because it had music by Lorn. It looked cool. Cyberpunk pixelart aesthetic. ‘Post-cyberpunk’ concept. Then there was some twitter drama about something the creator said in a tweet years before that maybe indicated some unsavory views which they immediately disavowed. They said they were still working on it ~5 years later, which was ~5 years ago. The game remains unreleased.
There’s also ‘What Lives Below.’ I don’t know what happened with it. Wishlisted it after it was announced, but haven’t heard anything since. It might have died in the womb, as it were.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno. Maybe. They get up to some… shenanigans.
- Comment on Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead 2 weeks ago:
‘FINNISH HIM!’
‘Okei, kijiik helvetin ruotsalaiset paskiaiset ijikki klii.’
*Call ended*
- Comment on Day 6 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Species: Unknown 2 weeks 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 ⚛ 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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’ 2 weeks 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’ 2 weeks ago:
I doubt it. The cost/benefit it seems is still not there yet.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Good. Fuck IP. Make new things, not nostalgia bait.
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 🌰 4 weeks 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 4 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
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- 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 5 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.