KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 day ago:
No, EGS is plenty shitty now; what they’re saying is that EGS’s one singular saving grace - the free games they give away - likely won’t last for the reason they outlined.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Not to mention, this is a gross misrepresentation of what’s actually going on.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 days ago:
To all you folks who’re downvoting this comment: Are you basing your opinion on OP’s biased, slanted account of this policy, or did you read the actual post from the Feddit admins? You don’t have to answer me, but if it’s the former, maybe self-reflect that you’re here complaining about censorship and propaganda, yet you’re doing so in response to a very propaganda-laden post that misrepresents the actual situation.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 days ago:
The admins are also German, though, and seem to suggest that they feel at risk by this, as well. Maybe it’s just time for another European instance to start up, with admins not in Germany, who feel comfortable hosting this discourse?
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 days ago:
That’s a fair concern; maybe the recourse is just to move the community to a different instance? If the community as a whole is largely in agreement, this shouldn’t be a difficult task. Even less of one if the mods agree.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 days ago:
This kind of seems… reasonable? Like, they have and convey a compelling legal reason for needing to do this. There’s plenty of other Lemmy instances where these opinions and statements can be freely expressed. Further, they’re explicitly allowing discourse that conveys similar sentiment but doesn’t go against German law.
I guess my question is, what’s the objection here?
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 3 days ago:
This is brilliant, thanks for the link!
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 3 days ago:
It’s okay, ‘the shit’ is a weird phrase anyway. And as a Marathon trilogy connoisseur, you’re clearly alright.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 3 days ago:
This new game has essentially no relation besides name and logo to the old Marathon games. Sadly, because the old ones were the shit.
- Comment on What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative? 4 days ago:
Yep, you’re right. Confused myself with all the cumulative vs consecutive vs concurrent jabber.
- Comment on What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative? 4 days ago:
With regards to prison sentences?
Sentences served concurrently are served at the same time. If someone was found guilty of 3 different crimes, and was sentenced to 1, 3 and 5 years in prison for them, and they were to be served concurrently, they’d be in prison for a total of 5 years.
Cumulative (or consecutive, depending on where you’re from) sentences are served one after another, so in the above example, they’d be in prison for a total of 9 years.
It’s also possible for (for example) the 1 and 3 year sentences to be served cumulatively, and the 5 year to be served concurrently (in which case the total would be 8 years).
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Okay, I’ll bite, go ahead. Why are we censoring this?
- Comment on Internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 1 week ago:
The problem with that is that that sort of policy makes the internet just cease to function. User-generated content makes up a massive portion of what’s on the internet, and it can’t possibly all be policed before being posted, unless you want to make a post on Bluesky or whatever and have to wait weeks for it to be approved after manual review. The law requires companies to promptly respond to takedown requests but as long as they do, they aren’t responsible for the content posted by their users.
- Comment on Internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 1 week ago:
Yeah, the part about most having 16+ flags isn’t really surprising (or in my opinion concerning). The rest of it, though, is pretty damning, especially the executive response to it all. While I agree with the laws (in my country, at least) that online platforms generally can’t be held responsible for what their users post, those executives should absolutely be held accountable for choosing money.
- Comment on Road rage victim in Arizona resurrected through AI to deliver his own impact statement 1 week ago:
I know ‘AI bad’ and all that, but this is actually a great use of it, in my opinion. It sounds like it was a positive experience for everyone involved, and it sounds like being able to separate herself from this victim statement helped her write it to be more genuinely in the spirit of what the deceased man would have said than she otherwise would have been able to, while also more cleanly separating her own, very opposite, feelings from it.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 1 week ago:
And also knock it off with the fucking microtransactions and shit. I wouldn’t mind games costing something appropriate for inflation if we were getting complete, high quality games without the expectation that we spend even more money afterwards. As it stands, they’re complaining about the low cost of games while also milking players for every penny they can on top of the purchase price. Fuck these guys.
- Comment on What were your go-to Games (or programs! We're all nerds here) from your childhood 2 weeks ago:
The biggest ones for me were the Marathon series, and a lot of old shareware RPGs (Realmz, Exile).
The 3rd title in the Marathon series came packaged with all of the tools they used to make the game, with which you could very easily make new maps and wild mods adding or changing weapons, enemies, mechanics, etc… I spent an absolutely unreasonable amount of time fucking around with that.
The maps were very rudimentary 3D (think Doom style), and they weren’t really 3D spaces so much as just corridors and rooms connected to each other. You could have a corridor that turned 90 degrees 3 times with no elevation change, and passed “through” itself, without actually having the two intersecting corridors connect in any way, which let you make some really wild maps with some pretty unique features that would be challenging to pull off in modern games. (There was even a multiplayer map called 5D Space that really showcased this interaction.)
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
Ohio being on the list is pretty funny (assuming this is in the US). Going to make geography and history classes awkward.
What grade is this, that Edging and Goon were common enough terms that they had to be included here?
“Animal noises” is very broad. Furry persecution. :(
The fact that they lose “LiveSchool points”, whatever those are, presumably for saying these words, is almost worse than the fact that they have this list at all. I don’t know what that system is or how it works, but I already hate it.
- Comment on Babe are you ok? You haven't touched your 3 weeks ago:
Price definitely seems high, but at least it’s a decent meal for kids. Nice variety of things; most places around where I live just have a tiny portion of a single dish as the kids’ options.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 4 weeks ago:
Especially if they’d help carry your bags and whatnot; that could be very helpful for someone who has mobility issues or just has a lot of things they need to bring. Well worth $7.50
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 weeks ago:
In a hypothetical world where every service that wanted to be kid-friendly was willing to make two versions of their site, and where the obvious security concerns were solved, and where it could somehow be quarantined away from normal users, how would a kid even prove they were a kid?
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 weeks ago:
The issue (in my eyes) is that this isn’t limited to discord. Anywhere online where kids are allowed to be, predators can also be. Fuck, even Roblox apparently has a big predator problem. So if we make it the responsibility of platforms to police, we’re setting ourselves up for a world where you have to have your ID ready to scan in to any website you visit or service you use that lets you interact with other people in any way, no matter how mundane, and there will be no internet services where anyone under 18 is allowed.
Or, we just accept that there’s no reasonable way to keep adults and kids from intermingling, and we make it parents’ sole responsibility.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 weeks ago:
They already have that policy, as the article notes. The problem is, how do you enforce it? As the comment you replied to notes, without requiring an ID verification, anyone can say they’re any age.
At what point does it become the parents’ responsibility to monitor what their kids are doing online?
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 weeks ago:
Changing what policy, and to what?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
A copulating donkey?
- Comment on Trump pardons crypto exchange for money laundering, possibly preventing them from even being investigated again 5 weeks ago:
Got to have some safety net in place in case the courts erroneously decide to rule in favor of the poors on occasion.
- Comment on Trump pardons crypto exchange for money laundering, possibly preventing them from even being investigated again 5 weeks ago:
Presidents pardoning corporations is such a fucked precedent, I don’t even
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 1 month ago:
That’s a good point; it becomes less economical if you need multiple of these cells just to counteract the self-discharge. Even so, it’s really just a demo of the technology; they do mention they expect to have a 1 watt model later this year.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 1 month ago:
Almost nothing… Maybe some very basic scientific equipment, but they do note that they’d be able to use multiple batteries layered to produce higher output, and that they’re expecting to have a 1 watt version later this year; that’d be far more useful in practice.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 1 month ago:
This is wild; the battery would outlive the electronics it’s powering in almost all cases.
The output is incredibly tiny, but I wonder if it could be used to trickle-charge a higher-output battery for use in electronics that only need to be used infrequently for short durations.