ImplyingImplications
@ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 days ago:
Metal Gear Solid 3, Subnautica, Papers Please.
I love the Metal Gear series but the Cold War setting of 3 works so well with the theme of the game. It also features crab battles and the ladder boss.
Subnautica really captures the feeling of being lost in some alien world and slowly making it your new home. The electronic voice assistant manages to send chills up your spine with lines like “oxygen.”
Papers, Please explores complex moral decisions in such a simple way. I wish to live my life more like Jorji.
- Comment on xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem 4 days ago:
What about goats in circular pens? A goat is tied to the fence of a circular pen. How long does the rope need to be so that the goat can reach exactly half of the pen’s area? What sounds like a high school math problem was eventually solved in 2020 via complex analysis.
Here’s the answer:
- Comment on "Everything's coming up zeroes" is like the inverse of "Everything's coming up roses" 4 days ago:
Unless you’re talking about the exit code of a computer program. Then coming up zero is a good thing.
- Comment on "You third rate call girl with your 4th rate deck" 6 days ago:
Lakan? Is that you?
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 1 week ago:
Musk paid $44 billion in cash for Twitter. Billionaires only have wealth on paper until they want to buy a company, then magically they have the cash.
- Comment on No matter how hard he tries, Elon Musk will never be as cool or as respected as Martha Stewart. 1 week ago:
Absolutely no one should respect a billionaire who fucks over others to slightly see her numbers go up. She didn’t need that money from cheating, but she did it anyways and fucked over everyone else.
To add some concrete numbers. Martha Stewart’s net worth is about $400,000,000 and the insider trading was to avoid losing $40,000 in stock value. In other words, she fucked people over to avoid losing 0.01% of her wealth.
- Comment on wheel mugs 1 week ago:
I’m bald.
- Comment on change_org 1 week ago:
Ancient Roman satirical poet Juvenal wrote that all people care about are “bread and circuses” over 2,000 years ago and it still applies.
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 1 week ago:
I think it mostly comes down to baby duck syndrome. People don’t like using a package manager for programs on their desktop but are fine using an app store on their phone (which might literally be running linux). People simply expect a desktop computer to work a specific way and when things are in different spots and called different things they get upset. I think it’s changing as more companies bake Linux into their product.
Steam Decks running Linux changes people’s impression of it. If a mainstream company sold desktop computers that came with Linux preinstalled I’m sure its use would skyrocket. It’s not that it’s impossible for the average user to understand, It’s that it’s not the default option.
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 1 week ago:
you could face roughly $100 in fines
hands court clerk $10 bill with an extra 0 drawn on it
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 1 week ago:
Michael Cera. He does a good job, but the whole time you’re waiting for him to do his “awkward teenager” character.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 2 weeks ago:
It was sarcasm. I really dislike that the only thing young men will protest about is saving video games.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 2 weeks ago:
What do those have to do with my video games?? I just wanna
grillgame! - Comment on Sad but true 2 weeks ago:
“Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else noticed?”
- Comment on go to sleep 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t judge my sleep schedule, Nagatoro-san!
- Comment on Petition to tell MasterCard, Visa, and activist groups to stop censoring legal fictional content 2 weeks ago:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. People fought wars to end monarchy, slavery, fascism. Wanting to be left alone isn’t the mark of a good person. Good deeds are what make a good person. It is your actions, not your beliefs, that make you a good person.
You don’t need to bombard people with your ideas. You need to stand up for them.
- Comment on Petition to tell MasterCard, Visa, and activist groups to stop censoring legal fictional content 2 weeks ago:
I find it hilarious that the reason these payment companies requested sites pull their NSFW content was due to direct action by a puritanical activist group but people upset by it not only don’t care enough to participate in direct action themselves but won’t even put their real name on a petition. Recently signed by: Crazy crazysmile. Thanks for the support Mr. Crazysmile!
Say what you want about right wing nut jobs, but they at least care enough about their ideas that they go out and make a difference.
- Comment on Petition to tell MasterCard, Visa, and activist groups to stop censoring legal fictional content 2 weeks ago:
Change.org is a private, for-profit, venture-backed company. Your money goes to their executives.
- Comment on Petition to tell MasterCard, Visa, and activist groups to stop censoring legal fictional content 2 weeks ago:
Lol
- Comment on akshully it's "epheboiatrist" 2 weeks ago:
Plot twist, he has a foot fetish.
- Comment on How to get a new line in a post, but not two? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a Markdown thing. End the line with two spaces.
First line (two spaces) ->
Second line - Comment on They even got their own island 2 weeks ago:
Yes, my friends don’t support me. Thanks random internet person.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 weeks ago:
I’m the only one in my friend group that watches anime and it led to them making lots of pedo jokes at my expense. I’m not a pedo and my friends know that. It’s just a running joke. And then they make a joke when someone new is around and everyone needs to explain I’m not actually a pedo…
- Comment on UK announces £30 million funding package and tax breaks as it aims to be the 'best place in the world to make games' 2 weeks ago:
Governments hate this one weird trick!
Fraud
- Comment on UK announces £30 million funding package and tax breaks as it aims to be the 'best place in the world to make games' 2 weeks ago:
I have a friend who is a solo dev. He applied for some funding once and was denied because he said he intended on using it to pay himself. They told him it’s not just free money for anyone saying they’re making a game; it’s meant to support businesses. He would need to incorporate, have monthly expenses, and multiple employees. I’m assuming this funding also works like that. It’s stimulus for the economy, not funding for art projects.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s why I didn’t suggest Americans start a petition.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
not doing anything is even more useless.
I agree. I also think if you’re not European, you’ve not done anything. There wasn’t even a petition made in the US so Americans haven’t done a single thing, yet are the most vocal about it. That’s the part that confuses me.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe an issue with federation? Heres the link https://lemmy.ca/comment/10932620
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why there’s such a hyperfocus on petitions. The only thing being attempted is signing petitions in various countries. Every country has declined to do anything and the last hope is the EU parliament which is being treated like some all or nothing final bet. Why just petitions?
Why not directly put pressure on some of the worst offenders like Ubisoft? Lots of people are saying they’re not buying another Ubisoft game again. Cool! Start an official boycott. People who cant sign the EU petition can sign a boycott promise. It wouldn’t be binding or anything but it could create more solidarity around not purchasing their next big release. Companies care about their bottom line.
You know the hate campaign against piratesoftware? Why not do that to the official Ubisoft account instead? They’re the company that is actually causing the problem. You might not like piratesoftware but he’s not the enemy. He hasn’t killed any of his own games. He didn’t make the decision to shut down the Crew. The offical Ubisoft account shouldn’t get to post a single thing without pressure from the movement. Critical memes should be made about the company and shared on social media. The CEO shouldn’t get to speak to an audience without being booed. Companies cave to negative PR all the time.
These things can be done in addition to the petitions. Personally, I don’t think any petitions are going to bring about the change people are looking for. Governments rarely listen to them and the EU isn’t much better. There are just 10 citizens initiatives that have passed and all their responses have been pretty lack luster. Even if the EU enacts the exact laws people are hoping for, what about everywhere else? The idea seems to be that other countries will get trickle down consumer protections. Americans are pushing Europeans to petition the EU parliament to make law changes hoping it will cause American companies to change how they sell products to Americans. It’s just such an odd strategy to me. Again, it can be done, but there’s no reason more direct action can’t be taken in tandem with the petition.
I get lots of downvotes and angry replies for this take which I’m not sure why. I can only assume people don’t like hearing that petitions are largely useless.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
I have posts being critical of it from over a year ago. I’d assume most people who have criticism don’t leave a comment because it’ll get you massively downvoted and your inbox will be flooded with angry replies.
