Iunnrais

@Iunnrais@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do each gaming fraction (pc, consoles, mobile) hating each other?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At some level, it’s because each platform costs a lot of money. If a game is not available for your platform, it’s super expensive to get another platform. So other platforms having fun games your platform doesn’t can mean losing out— either you won’t get to experience the game, or you’re going to have to shell out, and either way hurts. Thus, it is actively in your best interest if the other platforms fail, thus encouraging devs to spend more effort on your chosen platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This IS the descriptive approach. Trying to wrangle fish out of ghoti is simple not how people read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder that according to the actual rules of English orthography, “ghoti” can never be pronounced as “fish”, because said rules feature “position within a word/syllable” very prominently. An onset g simply can’t be pronounced the same way as a final gh, and in fact, any “gh” followed immediately by a vowel must be pronounced with the hard /g/ sound. “ti” is only ever allowed to fricitize to the “sh” sound if it’s followed by another vowel. Ghoti can only be pronounced the same as “goatee”, and English speakers know this intuitively even if they can’t articulate why they know this, the same as we internalize hundreds of other language rules without knowing that we know them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspected as such, that’s why I asked for clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you mistype, employ sarcasm, or were you not aware that the genre is named after Metroid, not the other way around? Metroidvania— games employing similar experiences to Metroid and some of the more notable Castlevania games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it became wildly successful. Success brings notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know that elevator operator used to be a job that people had to be employed to do? No one says hiring a person to operate an elevator is more cost effective than installing a push button system for people to do it themselves. The cost really wasn’t prohibitive to move away from human labor here.

  This is not the only case, I’m just bringing up an example. The thing is, when a job is replaced by technology, you don’t even think about it anymore. Yes, there are also jobs that CAN be replaced by technology, where the tech is more expensive… but that’s not the rule, that’s just the leading edge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, we also heard them from the ninja turtles, and any other kids media and/or commercials trying to appeal to the demographic. Some of us used it sarcastically on the playground, but I don’t think any of us knew anyone who used it seriously. I think it might have been surfer slang that was co-opted by marketing departments?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chirp in Fahrenheit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, except that I think the time system is great. It was deliberately designed to be maximally divisible, and makes a lot of sense in that manner. 12 hours of daylight— a highly divisible number, with 60 small (minuscule, or “minute”) divisions of the hour, which is even MORE divisible than 12. Then when time keeping got more accurate, they added a second division of 60 more parts, and… well, called ‘em seconds.

  Basically, 12 and 60 are just so divisible they make really good bases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some key software I need to use doesn’t work on Linux, and is unlikely to be able to in the near future, sorry. I did use Linux for a while, mind you, and I more or less like it… but a computer is only useful if it runs the software you need to do the things you want to do with it.

  I don’t want to downgrade to windows 11, but I’m going to be forced to. And to even do that I’m going to need to bypass the hardware authenticator, as I’m apparently ever so slightly behind their so-called minimum requirements, which aren’t really minimum requirements but just a push to get me to buy a new PC I don’t need.