Sunsofold

@Sunsofold@lemmings.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The fullest widom is knowing it all depends on your goals and risks. This is not a universal binary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Never, ever buy anything based on IP. That is pure familiarity bias, a trick to make you think it will be good. In the particularly susceptible, it can even create self-delusion and confusion. (X is good, therefore this other thing that licensed the name ‘X’ must be good. It doesn’t feel good, though. No, clearly it is my feelings that are wrong. X is good so ‘X’ must be good. It uses the same mouth sounds. How could it not be?)

  A change in medium is inherently a different product and can never be the same as the original. As anyone who has seen a movie based on a book can tell you, there is zero guarantee the movie will have anything more than a passing resemblance to the book *coughEarthseacough* and maybe not even that. *coughWorldWarZcough* Oof, pardon my coughing. The bullshit fumes coming out of the marketing and licensing departments are making it hard to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More...⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I just saw something about this the other day. Internet advertising has apparently begun the process of swallowing its own tail. Cory Doctorow was talking to someone about it. I can’t remember who it was though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s still going. This is the kind of person we need in every field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this colour?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Freedombox but with more modern and popular apps? I was just thinking about this kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ideas for deadspace behind fridge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d need a bit of reinforcement, but maybe a lazy Susan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a similar one but these days I’m wanting something smaller. The spring slide on this style means the minimum size is rather large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean ‘life feels scripted’ in the sense of you feel like there is a narrative structure to life, like your actions and words are decided by an external writer? Or do you mean in the sense of life has a narrative economy, like someone could have ‘plot armor?’ Or is it the sense that life should have more structure, like it goes against some unwritten law of writing that some things could happen at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People aren’t here for Lemmy in particular. They’re here to avoid the others. If all you want is content, you’ll just go to Reddit. If you are here, it’s because you recognized something of the awfulness in corporate reddit but liked the format. Lemmy is Reddit for people who pay attention and care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scheduling is hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  capitalism was pretty OK when we had unions

  That’s kind of the trick. People who collected loads of capital then spent loads on developing an ecosystem of media, ‘academics,’ and political manipulation that has steadily chipped away at those unions, and the ideas and circumstances that make them possible. The glut of overpriced degrees with distorted prospects, the idea that schooling is for getting a job rather than advancing knowledge, the union busting activity, the system of HR, the mergers on top of mergers that build monopoly, all paid for by capitalists who already had more money than they could use.

  ‘Just quit’ is pithy, but misses out on the fact that survival without a job is not an easy prospect. It doesn’t even punish the management who are making their workplace awful. It all gets displaced onto the other employees and the company machinery. Hell, it can serve as a reward in some places. If they throw work at someone until they quit, the employee has been doing all that work until then, so no worries there, the work can be shoved off onto the other employees on the team, and most people aren’t going to quit over a small extra ask when the alternative is months of job searching with no unemployment. And for however long that manager can spin that out, they’re just adding to their bonus. And then, ironically, they can do exactly what you are talking about and quit, going over to the next company saying ‘look at this, I cut costs at my old job by XX%.’ and getting the job-switch payraise with a premium for doing things that harm their former team and employer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘I’m 40% Markov chain.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🔔 SHAME⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘I’ve been alive for like five minutes. WTF?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, I gave you the knowledge and you don’t want to integrate it, so it’s on you now. Have fun lying to yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  accommodating preferences in one is far easier than the other.

  Tell me you’ve never tried to code a complex interactive experience without telling me you’ve never tried to code a complex interactive experience. If you think it’s so easy to take every element of a highly complex, performance sensitive program and make it possible to pick and choose which ones you experience without breaking the whole experience or turning a 1 year project into a 10 year project, go ahead and try. Do you also ask movie directors to make their movies so that when you hit ‘skip scene’ because you don’t like the way the scene looks, it still makes a good movie?

  museums aim to preserve history

  That’s just your failure to understand there are more kinds of museum than a history museum. A history museum does have special work involved, but others don’t share that element. Perhaps you’ve heard of an art museum, sometimes also known as a gallery. They can contain all sorts of elements, audio, video, scent, touch, taste, human interaction, machine interaction, ludic interaction, whatever. The artifacts can be any age, with art from hundreds of years ago or being created in the moment via performance.

  The analogy is a failure, to be sure, but only because I hadn’t considered the possibility you wouldn’t have that piece of common knowledge. Now that you do have that knowledge, though, if you can’t see the analogy, that’s on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually one of the cleanest, most direct analogies I’ve ever used. Both are curated experiences with controlled visual, auditory, and interactive elements. The differences lie only in the physical/resource limitations each has for the kinds of experiences they can include.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You really like the word ‘gatekeep,’ as though it were a bad thing. When you walk into a museum, start complaining about the lack of teleporters and strippers, and then get told to leave, yeah, they’re gatekeeping you, but it’s because you’re complaining about the lack of teleporters and strippers in a museum. That’s not what it’s there for. They have curated a collection of experiences focused on creating an overarching experience, and you have wandered in, said ‘I don’t want to have to walk to each exhibit, teleport me,’ and ‘This exhibit is booooooring. Teleport me to the one with strippers.’ If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re looking in the wrong place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Publishers are a key ingredient in the recipe for trash games. Buying IP and telling some dev team that is doing it for the paycheck to slap something together is not making a game, it’s parasitism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the homeless all end up in prison, there are no more homeless, and a fresh supply of profitable slave laborers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure about every game but I’d like to see a lot more games do what Rebel Galaxy did and let you set up paths for custom OST. No game dev can license the perfect soundtrack for every player, but it’s great to be able to slot in what I feel makes the perfect soundtrack. Some people want their fight scenes to be scored with DMX, some want Burzum, and some want the Cronos Quartet. Let them all find their moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was with you at first, thinking you meant in a sandbox game, like turning off hunger/on hardcore in Minecraft, etc. but you’re just whining because every moment isn’t custom built to keep up with your personal ADHD/hedonic treadmill. The point of a game isn’t to just give you a blowjob from launch to credits. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re looking in the wrong place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if some people aren’t, no one is getting psychologically damaged by the sight of some digital boobs. Puritanical attitudes toward sex do more damage than seeing boobs ever could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Toggleable, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My particularly niche gripe is bad dialogue tree options. There are so many games where the mechanism is selecting an option and watching it play out, but so many of them are shit when it comes to the difference between what you see as the option and what actually is said/done. Heavy Rain did it. ‘What should the character say next? Unreadable zalgotext option A, or unreadable zalgotext option B?’ Or ones where the options on screen are ‘A) I thoroughly agree. B) I thoroughly disagree. or C) What?’ but selecting C means the character isn’t just asking for clarification because ‘What?’ actually points at the voiceline, ‘What the fuck are you talking about, you piece of inhuman filth? I bet your a murdering rapist.’ If I can’t have some idea of what selecting an option will do, I’m not actually playing a game at that point. I might as well be trying to play Mario with a controller that remaps itself randomly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a number. Not interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An experimental setting.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s gotta be tired after spending all night running around not-killing-just-initiating-medical-bankruptcy-ing people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AKA a way to get rid of whatever’s been sitting there the longest?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for an all-SSD home server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the big consideration is really sound, doing whatever is necessary to use larger, but slower (wide, high CFM per dB/RPM) and higher quality (fluid dynamic bearings) fans might serve the purpose regardless of other hardware. Some of them are rated to be <20dB, quieter than a whisper, and fluid bearings are supposed to be mostly impervious to the noise added by aging that hits a lot of fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep wondering what the world would be like if the prices of everything were not subsidized by exploitation. So many industrial processes are done in places where they aren’t made to adhere to HSE regulations because it’s cheaper. How much would your day-to-day expenses increase if it meant all the bits and pieces involved cost enough to pay for vaguely safe and sane working conditions and environmental protections?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the purely GUI level, if you’re being granted acrobat, it turns out you can extract arbitrary subsets of pages manually, very quickly. You can then rename them. I haven’t learned powershell personally but it absolutely could be used to batch rename files, even if it’s a somewhat silly looking language compared to bash. Again, though, how much work that involves depends on your desired naming conventions.