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- Comment on 'They Were All I Had': Lebanese Father Buries Parents, 4 Daughters Killed by Israeli Bombing 2 days ago:
I think it is because normal people aren’t excessively greedy. A recurring feature for many of our ‘leaders’ is that they are motivated by profit first and foremost. Schuemer and Jefferies are more than happy to roll over, if it gets them a treat from a donor.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 3 days ago:
I suspect an offense against the USA would be easy to pull off. The low standards of ICE and the nature of their operation would allow just about any organized actor to have a free hand in the US, if they chose to do so.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 days ago:
Throwing down better people is the easiest way to stand above them.
- Comment on Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time 4 days ago:
Wouldn’t surprise me if the Trump Regime deploys bioweapons, and everybody else scrambling to develop counteragents.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 5 days ago:
Use a VPN and be Vietnamese. They are rolling out a law against unskippable ads, IIRC.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 6 days ago:
I hope Mamdani and friends oppose this piece of shit. It exists to erase sexuality that doesn’t belong to the straight white dude, alongside filling the pockets of the wealthy by watching our every move.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
The Magic Tower genre is definitely that way, and Soulestination moreso, because it has a lot to consider from the mechanics. For example, the Soul system.
You have a capacity of Soul, and for each soul you collect, you increase your stats by 1%. When you get to your cap, you enter a state of Rage - doubling your strength, and being forced to attack any adjacent enemy. This can be good for bosses or removing multiple enemies at junctions from play. However, this resets your Soul pool to zero, and increases your capacity by 1. This means it takes longer to become enraged, but your power potential also increases.
In the Magic Tower genre, the timing of your actions is everything, despite being turn based. Changes in stats dictate which kinds of enemies you can afford to encounter. The defeat of enemies is both a price and reward, so you have to engineer bargains. For example, glass cannon enemies are exceedingly deadly, but if you can strike them down in one blow, everything behind them is a deluge of goodness. But emphasizing attack means that sturdy enemies can take their time tearing you apart.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
I think that ICE will be sent information about children, and then they will ship the good looking kids to the highest bidder.
- Comment on Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues 1 week ago:
I want copyright to go extinct. It has no place in a proper civilization.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
On my end, I am playing Soulestination on Novice mode to develop my meta. The idea of the Magic Tower puzzle genre, is that there are finite resources. The order in which you use keys, kill enemies, collect resources, and the application of meta knowledge is fundamental to optimal routing. If you like numbers or exploring possibilities, this genre can be pretty neat.
Unfortunately, Soulestination has a trash translation. I recommend DROD RPG, which is also generally better balanced.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
As it turns out, Doomguy is a robot clone of BJ Blazkowitz, who was deliberately smuggled onto Mars by scientists who knew about Hell.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 1 week ago:
I bought a twin pack of Nutella from Costco. The unopened one developed mold after awhile, but the opened jar in the fridge was just fine. If anything, I was expecting at least the reverse.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 1 week ago:
Food lasts way longer than what one would expect. I got a bunch of eggs in the fridge from CostCo from about a year ago. They still taste alright, much to my surprise.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 1 week ago:
It should be a rule, that a food executive is required to eat at least seven meals a week from the business they are running. Their attitude about food quality would fundamentally change.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
Because I want a 800lb gorilla to perpetually support my gaming distro, working Nvidia drivers, have enough freedom to use mods and whatnot, documentation suitable for people who aren’t terminal-brained, and so forth. Valve is the kind of company that can tick these boxes, simply through sheer inertia.
I tried Mint back in early 2025. It wasn’t quite right for my purposes, so I wanted to wait for something friendlier.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
Hopefully, SteamOS Desktop will be in the wild and shaked off any teething issues. I want to switch to an OS that is suitable for a power-casual. If it looks like a 2nd American Civil War or WW3 is on, I might switch early to Cachy.
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 2 weeks ago:
The adults are not alright.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 2 weeks ago:
I would prefer the burgers to be nice again. The was a time, long ago, when they had that char-broiled texture and flavor.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
I think that the belief of pen and paper being “natural”, is a weird idea. We have less than 15,000 years of history with pen and paper, closer to 150,000 if we include cave paintings. Far as evolution is concerned, that is a pretty darn short. Our understanding of writing - and computers - arises from an incidental application of our intelligence, not the other way around.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 3 weeks ago:
If there is universal healthcare, caretakers for the elderly and the orphaned should be available. That means a young kid can ask for a caretaker and receive that aid. Kinda like an reverse adoption, where the kid chooses the parent, rather than the other way around.
The government can send a representative to households or schools with a kid under 10 years of age, with the job of asking whether they want to stay. Do this once a year, giving the kid a tablet through which they can securely send a simple survey without showing their parent what they put on it. Depending on what the kid wants, they stay with their family or can tell the state that they are unhappy with where they are.
It wouldn’t be perfect, but at least it gives pathways out of bad situations.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 3 weeks ago:
If America or any other society moves to have UBI as the basis of all things, children could have personal agency. If free housing and a monthly income is available to all, alongside free education and healthcare, a child could choose to leave their family at any time. This would go a long way to preventing abuse, allow children to fulfill their personal growth, and so much more.
Family, friendship, and community should exist because people like each other, rather than being a product of authority.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 3 weeks ago:
Dunno about cloud AI, but for local AI, the technology definitely isn’t ready. It requires serious hardware to run, and current AI tends to fumble with narrative and roleplay pretty easily.
GLM-4.6-V with Heretic, couldn’t understand the scenario I wanted to try: creating a blank robot, who is to be raised into a cyberolympics champion as part of a slice-of-life story. This particular AI model instantly went into a dark mindset of nihilism, where it wanted to commit suicide or rebel against a creator during bootup, despite the scenario outlying that the robot would have a blank personality at first. A dark direction is fine, but it needs to make sense.
Mind, an model like Step3.5-Flash Abliterated was much more sane and on the mark, but it overthinks things. Which is bad, it makes a 10-minute output into something like 40 minutes.
Hopefully, the Chinese New Year will unveil a quality model for roleplayers.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
The problem isn’t the technology, but the implementation.
The USA should have had a national digital textbook initiative, where free textbooks are developed and digitally distributed to all schools of every educational level. Each textbook can have modules and problem generators, designed to make it easy for teachers to assemble a custom curriculum for their class, to assign problems, and to quickly have generic quizzes graded.
The biggest problem with such a program would be things like essays, culture, and history, since many bad actors would want to press their beliefs onto students. Still, things like dates, locations, and people involved with events can be standardized. Maybe teachers can rate educational modules, to help keep bad material from being adopted by most teachers?
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I liked Nexomon Extinction, and am looking forward to Nexomon 3D.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 3 weeks ago:
$5 for a whole generation of games would be fair…and this certainly isn’t. Wario is the true representative of Nintendo.
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, figuring out Instances with Lemmy took several days for me. Lemmy.world simply wasn’t fit for my purposes, and potentially could have made me tune out the entire Lemmy ecosystem. I was like “this is it?”.
- Comment on Two sides to every story 3 weeks ago:
Therapist: “Another rube to line my pockets…”
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
Even if this bill was in good faith, I wouldn’t want it: I believe that the USA is headed into a civil war, and I want the good guys to have the ability to manufacture stuff if they need to. Be it guns or tractor parts, having flexible logistics will be invaluable. Not just for military use, but also for civilians who don’t have access to official parts.
In any case, the implementation of universal healthcare and UBI would be much more helpful for quelling violence. People who can have access to mental healthcare and with enough prosperity, are much less likely to become deranged enough to murder people. Measures like this, often exist to keep the peasants from being able to rise up against their overlords.
This thing is a product of malicious greed, not for the sake of good.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 3 weeks ago:
The only thing that is certain, is that the logistics chain of the F-35 can easily break down. It is best for the EU to rely on a chain that is fully within their custody.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 3 weeks ago:
Military grade Teslas? I support ICE having those. DOOR LOCKS, SIZZLE
