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- Comment on Zelda BotW vs TotK - which one should I buy? 3 days ago:
They’re both great. One is a sequel to the other. Get BotW.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 4 days ago:
You’ve basically just described “confession”. You go into a little box designed to make it as difficult as possible for the priest to identify you, you talk about all the ways you feel like you’re a bad person, and the priest talks to you for a while about it, then gives you some actionable items to make amends and once you’ve done them God officially forgives you. The whole concept of confession is designed to allow people to let go of their regrets and live in the now. It’s actually quite clever as a bit of societal design. If modern priests had psychotherapy degrees then everyone in the world would have access to free therapy - unfortunately they wouldn’t be very useful for LGBT+ people.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 1 week ago:
Europa Universalis IV 90% off. Alan Wake 90% off. Prince of Persia series 80% off. Devil May Cry 1-4 67% off. Various Hitman games 90% off - the original is going for 79 cents. I could go on but I dunno what you’d be into.
They have more recent games too, like Baldur’s Gate 3 20% off, but that’s the same discount as on Steam at the moment so I dunno if it counts as “of note”.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 1 week ago:
Note: GOG is also having a sale
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 1 week ago:
SNES:
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Harvest Moon - this can lead into allowing the kid to plant something IRL and having them water it regularly, allowing them to “be a real farmer”. Incidentally this is also a great way to get a child to eat vegetables, as a child who refuses to even consider eating a vegetable will change their mind when they grew it themselves
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Super Mario Kart
Mega Drive:
- Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine - simple puzzle game with humorous characters from the old cartoon
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- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 week ago:
Yeah someone who cares enough about security to switch to Signal in the first place will be willing to go into the settings to get everything just the way they like it, but everybody else will only keep the app if it doesn’t bug them.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 2 weeks ago:
Well, they’re DEVELOPING them. They’re not MAKING them yet.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 2 weeks ago:
Hypothetically, we could terraform Venus. At the very least, it shares a lot of the issues that we’re trying to fix on Earth, just dialled up to 11 - its main problems are that it’s way too hot, the atmosphere has way too much carbon in it (96.5% vs Earth’s 0.04%), and the atmosphere has way too much sulfur (0.015% vs Earth’s 0.00000002%, making the atmosphere highly acidic). So if for example scientists had an idea for causing a chain reaction in a planetary atmosphere that rapidly sequestered all atmospheric carbon but were worried about unknown strength or side effects, instead of testing it on Earth where it could kill us all, they could test it on Venus where any failures would have no serious consequences. And if it worked, not only would it mean that we fix climate change on Earth but we partially terraform Venus into the bargain.
Venus has roughly similar gravity to Earth and has a ferrous core which could hypothetically be turned molten (and therefore ferromagnetic) to provide the same kind of magnetosphere that Earth’s core does. Mars has neither of these things and would therefore never be able to sustain human life naturally - Venus potentially could. On Mars, the atmosphere is just one of many obstacles. On Venus it’s THE obstacle.
- Comment on PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, and let’s not forget:
- Comment on PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of those, I wouldn’t consider PC mascots as their games are on console too. They’d be more like multiplatform mascots. Doom was on the SNES for example. But there are some games that just aren’t the same unless you’re playing on PC.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 weeks ago:
Well I meant more along the lines of getting fired, but sure
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 weeks ago:
If he’s higher up than me and my job is at risk and I need the job, wouldn’t mouthing off be a bad idea?
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 weeks ago:
What’s my motivation? Is there a reason why I’m listening to Alec Baldwin brag about his watch? What’s stopping me from simply walking away?
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 4 weeks ago:
The money saved will pay for one dev, or two if you cheap out
- Comment on Fediverse for teens 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have kids so I dunno if it’s still happening, but my dad had a brief and very awkward conversation with me to tell me that if I had sex to make sure to use a condom but if I ever did get a girl pregnant I could always tell him and it’d be OK, we’d figure it out, etc. Nothing fancy or anything; just the essentials to make sure I wasn’t a dumbass about sex.
- Comment on Fediverse for teens 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, nowadays a part of the “birds and bees” talk should include an explanation of privacy settings and common Internet scams.
- Comment on Fediverse for teens 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely not; I wish all kids argued their case using well-thought-out presentations
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 5 weeks ago:
In principle I agree. The problem is that there are countries which don’t care about respecting law and if you kill AI in the West, all that will happen is the West will get left behind.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s a cheat, though. Both the American and EU states only agreed to join their respective unions in the first place on the promise that these systems of balances would give them this level of input on union policy. Without such assurances, what small nation would ever agree to become inevitably subordinate to the whims of a larger state? It would never happen, and the western world would remain fractured into small nation-states constantly warring with each other, failing to cooperate and probably getting picked off, one by one, by nations like China or Russia which have no such qualms about forcing a union through conquest.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The EU has a similar system:
- Each EU member state gets ONE seat at the EU Council, regardless of population. This is comparable to the US Senate.
- Differences in population size are accounted for by EU Parliament, where the number of MEPs (Members of European Parliament) a member state gets is determined by population. This is comparable to the US House of Representatives.
- Finally there is the EU Commission which is the executive branch, comparable to the US president and cabinet.
The point of the EU Council/US Senate is to protect isolated regions from getting steamrolled by urban regions. Farmers are comparatively few relative to city industry workers, but any nation, union or federation is built on the back of farming. However, due to the distance and lack of interaction between city dwellers and rural dwellers, it’s easy for city dwellers to grow disconnected from the reality of just how important the rural dimension is, and vote for laws that only suit the city. It is utterly necessary to create a system which balances the two.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Put simply: if RCV had been in place for the US presidential race in 2024, the Gaza issue wouldn’t have split the Democratic vote.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Don’t blame me; I voted for Kodos
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
i’m not advocating that
You don’t have to. Forbes already publishes a real-time up-to-date list of the richest people in the world.
www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#5b60b1453d…
It can be sorted by net worth, country of residence, industry the person made their fortune in, or age.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
or sometimes no candidate
How does FPTP help in that scenario?
risks more people accidentally voting different than they wanted
Can you describe how that might happen?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s not just the USA that’s in dire need of it. The UK should also adopt it. First Past The Post (FPTP) voting encourages polarized extremism.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 month ago:
Poe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Poe’s law is based on a comment written by Nathan Poe in 2005 on christianforums.com, an Internet forum on Christianity. The message was posted during a debate on creationism, where a previous poster had remarked to another user: “Good thing you included the winky. Otherwise people might think you are serious”.[4]
The reply by Nathan Poe read:[1]
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article.
The original statement of Poe’s law referred specifically to creationism, but it has since been generalized to apply to any kind of fundamentalism or extremism.[3]
