Zephorah
@Zephorah@discuss.online
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 7 hours ago:
I don’t have all the expansions for that pathfinder.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 13 hours ago:
Played Pathfinder, the second one. Replayed Neverwinter Nights 1&2. Did a Legendary ME run through, because, why not? A sprinkling of Stellaris throughout, no recent expansion adds.
Checks out.
The prices are off the rails lately, and the games are not as good. I can’t justify $100 for a game alongside the electric bill and groceries.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 days ago:
I believe them. Larian has done well.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 3 days ago:
Now I just feel old. Really old.
- Comment on Peas plz 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
It’s conspiracy theory regarding the ball room. I love that so may here love the rigors of proper science, but do try to have some fun with this. It’s a TikTok posted to Substack.
Substack does a couple things. Journalism, yes. Essays from people like Robert Reich and Heather Cox Richardson, among others. But there is also an incredible amount of conspiracy theory over there as well.
- Comment on One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
Ofc it’s not real journalism. It’s ballroom conspiracy theory.
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- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
The Skyrim mod that plays Danger Zone when a dragon shows up.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
Single player do whatever you like. Play your way. Example: the old DnD games like Neverwinter Nights and Baldurs Gate, I’d start a game by console commanding a Light/Lore (scholar iirc) ring and a stack of identify scrolls. Do what you like to remove the irritating part. Bag weight mods in Fallout, anyone?
Multiplayer, no, never.
You could argue that mod use is cheating, in the same sense that console commands are. That would mean almost everyone who has ever played Skyrim is a cheater alongside everyone who modded out Inquisition’s beige pajamas before BioWare added an alternative.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I failed to paste the copy. After a 12 hour shift.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
There’s less errors overall in having consistency in who healthcare reports off to between shifts. The 17% is balanced out by that (math wise). The errors in having 3 people reporting around an 8hr clock are significantly higher than with the 12hr clock.
But a 4th shift? Staying over to 16hrs? The 36hr week, I feel, is the extent to which you can safely take the 12h shift.
Additional madness is in that, in 26 states, the administrators of hospitals can hold shift workers over into double shifts. I don’t know about you, but I lose the capacity to read words around hour 18. Yet, this practice is engaged routinely in health care, without regard to sleep patterns. Maybe it is an 8h shift. Maybe that person spent day shift in school then went to work for an evening shift. Now is being held on their license to stay a night shift. And expected to drive home after more than 24hrs awake. Maybe their babysitter leaves at midnight. How good and safe is that patient care going to be?
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
This is true. It also results in less intershift rancor. But it doesn’t change the difficulties of 4th and 5th shifts in the same week.
I’m all for turning a 40hr/5day work week into a 36hr/3day work week. It works well in 24hr professions.
What I’m not for is this 996 nonsense.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
In the healthcare environment that is true. 12h shifts retain consistency between back and forth reporting, while with 8hr shifts things get lost or missed or misinterpreted in the handoff.
My point is that 3 is the sweet spot, it’s the 4th and fifth shifts that become cumulatively bad and result in increased car accidents on the commute.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
There is a large body of research out there regarding 12h shift work in healthcare. I’m only linking 1 article, a quick search will yield more, easily.
A TLDR on it: 12h shifts decrease performance. Stacking them decreases safety and performance, cumulatively. Car accidents pick up significantly on day 4.
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
Alternatively, the poster calculated the wrong answer, thus assuming this guy was wrong.
- Comment on It's the only logical future, captain. 3 weeks ago:
Replicators, teleporters, holodecks, monetary exchange dead, and Q showing up at random.
- Comment on In reversal, Trump supports House vote to release Epstein files 4 weeks ago:
High odds he’s ok with it now because what will be released is a “cleaned” version. We can’t trust much of anything from this admin.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 4 weeks ago:
This remains a favorite. 1 & 2. Of course, corporate dissolved the studio.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 4 weeks ago:
Me neither. I technically had an account, but only to log in and look around. I found it most useful during things like Floyd protests and riots, for a real time news feed from people with boots on ground on what’s happening. Apart from that, it has always seemed odd and worthless.
- Comment on A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists 5 weeks ago:
Take a long, hard look at the impact. Higher utility bills for everyone. Massive light noise. Noise, incessant noise. Water pressure issues.
- Comment on A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists 5 weeks ago:
Ypsi is in the Ann Arbor zone. This is otherwise decent real estate. A data center would tank that. I hope the data center loses, but we’ve seen many a city council sell out their constituents for these leviathans.
- Comment on Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies? 5 weeks ago:
Art mimics life mimics art mimics life mimics art mimics life mimics art…
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 5 weeks ago:
Anything but Yelp. Depending.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
What badge number? They won’t do that. They need demasking.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
Not the point. As long as they remain masked there will be no accountability.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
Again though, until you connect their actions on the street, to a face, prosecution will never be possible.
The need unmasking, on the street.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
We will never get there while they are anonymous. The path to prison starts with de-masking.
You can’t prosecute what has no identification.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
They use facial recognition on us while we are not allowed to see their faces.
These guys need de-masking.
