Morlark

@Morlark@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riding the bus to the underworld⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s not you, the joke just doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spelthorne restricts hoverboards, catapults and balaclavas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, sure, the youths these days are so violent, they’re always going about the place besieging castles and knocking down fortifications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a proud maritime nation, sure we should be celebrating this by having each denomination of note show a different famous vessel?

  £5 is Boaty McBoatface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone damaged my property, I’d feel pretty aggrieved… and it still wouldn’t make them a terrorist. And the police wouldn’t do nothing, because damaging property is a crime. That property being a few planes doesn’t magically change the equation. Just like the government wouldn’t be doing nothing if they hadn’t designated PA as a terrorist organisation, because a whole raft of criminal charges would still apply.

  Literally, and I want to stress this, literally nobody has suggested that PA should not face appropriate and proportionate consequences for their actions. And you knew that. You knew damed well that people have no problem with the government taking action, as long as that action is legal and democratically responsible. Yet you deliberately chose to dishonestly equate opposition to terrorist designation with support for them getting off scot free, even though that’s an obviously false and mendacious equivalence.

  You are not very skilled at this dishonesty malarkey. Consider yourself called out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s probably a fairly uncontroversial opinion. In the city-builder genre, Lethis: Path of Progress aimed to be the definitive city-building game of its time, hoping to match the peaks of Caesar and Pharaoh in the city-builder heyday. Instead, Lethis ended up being a huge flop, precisely because it slavishly copied the mechanics of Caesar without understanding that games as a whole have evolved since then.

  Lethis lacked certain quality of life features that now feel obvious and baseline. What said is that these features had already evolved towards the tail end of the city-builder heyday, in games such as Children of the Nile, and now feel glaringly obvious by their omission. Other city-builders that haven’t been so tied to the classics have seen more success (although there’s been no true breakout hits, sadly, no great renaissance in the genre).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Everywhere uses the same terms, you just didn’t understand the question.

  The result of addition is the sum. The sum is calculated by summation of inputs.

  The result of multiplication is the product. The product is calculated by __________ of inputs.

  OP’s question is: why can’t the blank be “production”, by analogy with “summation”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Summation” already means something else, and funnily enough words can have different meanings in different contexts without causing any confusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP literally emphasised the distinction between process and result in their post, specifically so that this exact confusion would not occur, and yet still everyone is talking about the word for the result instead of the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiltshire PCC supports calls to reclassify cannabis as Class A - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PCCs were a mistake. Never should we have let the ruling class impose a politicised police force upon us. It was inevitable that it would lead to ignorant nonsense like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was certainly a ‘no-brain’ somewhere in her thought process, I’ll grant her that.