ImplyingImplications
@ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 1 hour ago:
Source: Marriagetoxin
- Comment on Good shit 2 days ago:
“You are a man of culture”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I was on a discussion board for anime figurines and people started posting screenshots of their order checkouts showing tariffs nearly doubling the cost of their order. That caused a conundrum because people started talking politics and that’s not allowed according to the board rules. But what are people supposed to do? Can they talk about increased prices or is that political? Do they just have to pretend prices have skyrocketed for no reason at all? Can they even mention prices are higher than before?
If you don’t restrict things then you’re allowing discussion of politics. If you do restrict things then you’re preventing normal discussion because of politics. It’s unavoidable.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 3 days ago:
oh my God, Becky, look at her butt!
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 5 days ago:
The industry is completely different now. The original was made in the 80s where programmers were hard to find and it took 10 of them 2 years and a million dollars to make. Then physical cartridges needed to be made and distributed that only ran on specialized hardware that also needed to be made and distributed. It selling for the equivalent of $180 could be justified since it was niche technology. There’s a reason Biggie Smalls brags about owning a Super Nintendo and a Sega Genesis in a rap song. That shit was expensive even in 1994.
Today, someone can make Super Mario Bros 3 in a month after watching some game dev tutorials on YouTube, upload the .exe to Steam, and sell limitless copies to anyone who owns a computer. Selling it for $180 would be ridiculous. There’s no reason tech today should cost the exact same as it did in the 80s.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima Confirms GTA 6 Has Affected Release Dates, Including Death Stranding 2 1 week ago:
Kojima putting a game about purgatory into purgatory. Bravo! He’s done it again!
- Comment on How would legal procedure change if every citizen eligible for jury duty was aware of jury nullification? 1 week ago:
I don’t think much would change. Prosecutors already weed out sympathetic jurors during selection and a non-sympathetic jury wouldn’t nullify even if they knew they could.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
and then I sign it “Movie Guy”
is Movie Guy your pseudonym?
no it’s just a name I use instead of my real name
I love Home Movies
- Comment on Shinji need a little bit of motivation 1 week ago:
What uhhh what’s going on with the hands?
- Comment on Modern problem need modern soltuion 1 week ago:
Poor lady can barely afford clothes!
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
The ethics violation is definitely bad, but their results are also concerning. They claim their AI accounts were 6 times more likely to persuade people into changing their minds compared to a real life person. AI has become an overpowered tool in the hands of propagandists.
- Comment on 我喜欢你让我兴奋的样子 1 week ago:
购买同等或更高价值的西藏，即可免费获得西藏
- Comment on Lemmy horsepost 1 week ago:
- Comment on Be your own wife 2 weeks ago:
Just watching some The Time I as a 40 Year Old Fell In Love With a 12 Year Old
- Comment on no way 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse 2 weeks ago:
“Do you really want to allow the Liberal party to continue implementing radical woke leftists ideology?” said Pierre.
“Yes.” said the residents of Carleton.
- Comment on Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Breeding jiu-jitsu
- Comment on Punish me. 2 weeks ago:
Sigmund Freud has entered the chat
- Comment on Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard, yet Uber Eats delivery route optimization algorithms exist 2 weeks ago:
NP just means the algorithm to find the solution takes longer to run than verifying a solution is correct. If verifying the solution is easy then shouldn’t there be a way to find the solution easily? That’s the P=NP problem. NP-Hard does not mean the problem is hard.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 3 weeks ago:
I personally used it daily for years. There was more to the site than neo-nazi threads on /pol/. Anime, manga, kpop, and vtuber threads were some of the most popular and they were all highly moderated.
I enjoyed the lack of username/post history meaning no worshipping prolific posters or doxxing people by going through their history to find a post where they talked about their work.
No upvotes or ranking system meant good and bad posts weren’t labeled. You figured that out yourself without other people (or an algorithm) telling you how to feel about it.
Frequent thread deletion meant the site was constantly a snapshot in time. It’s like going to a bar. You’re not going to know the conversations people had in that bar yesterday. It might not even be the same crowd as yesterday. The vibe is created by the people there at that time and it’s constantly changing.
The site had barely changed how it functioned in 20 years. It was honestly one of the last bastions of the old internet before everything became about “engagement” metrics.
- Comment on I am simple man. I see a Goblin. I slay it 3 weeks ago:
Bill is short for Lizardman
- Comment on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety 3 weeks ago:
Screw anyone who says Stardew Valley is a cozy game. If I don’t water my plants and they die! If I stay up too late I’ll lose money! I can’t get the fish I need unless I fish at 6pm in the mountain lake on a rainy Tuesday in winter! Abigail has once again dominated me at the egg hunt! Ahhhhh!
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 3 weeks ago:
Father, I cannot click the book!
- Comment on So that's how they do it 3 weeks ago:
US alcohol sales plummeting so much they’re advertising on Lemmy!
- Comment on Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design? 3 weeks ago:
You can always request a refund while outside the 2 hour limit, it’s just going to be manually reviewed instead of automatic.
The time limit is arbitrary. There are lots of games that can be finished within a few hours. I’ve heard some devs say their short games are refunded at much higher rates than longer ones and recommend ensuring a game is at least 2 hours long. It’s like YouTube paying more money to creators who make videos that are 10min+. Now you have videos that could have been 2 minutes stretched out for meta reasons.
I doubt Blue Prince specifically tries to hide game mechanics for 2 hours to prevent people from refunding it. It’s just a slow burn puzzle game.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 4 weeks ago:
The French word for apple is pomme.
The German word for Apple is Apfel.The French word for Germany is Allemagne.
The German word for Germany is Deutschland.Asking why all languages don’t call Germany “Deutschland” is the same as asking why all languages don’t call apples “Apfel”.
Even within the same language, pronunciation changes by regional accent. Which region has the correct accent and which regions are kids taught to pronounce things incorrectly? Languages also change over time. The grammatical rules of English now aren’t the same as they were 100 years ago. Is English more correct now or less correct?
Language is more like music than it is math.
- Comment on 4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked 4 weeks ago:
The only people who would register would be janitors, mods, and admins. There are 4chan passes where you pay $20 a year to skip captchas and have a lower post cooldown which works by associating a token with an IP address. The token is emailed to you and you get reminder emails when the token is expiring so you can renew it. So 4chan would likely have emails for pass users too. Pass users still post anonymously. I don’t know the exact stat but I remember the owner saying something like only 1% of users have a pass.
- Comment on Trump pardons crypto exchange for money laundering, possibly preventing them from even being investigated again 4 weeks ago:
Pardoning crimes is a fucked precedent. When someone is found guilty in a fair trail it can be overruled on the whims of a single person? The US has the strangest idea of justice.
- Comment on Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube 5 weeks ago:
remember this video game is Open World. That means we must open out wallets and pay all the money in the world.
Honestly surprised this hasn’t be used by a game studio yet.
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 5 weeks ago:
Thankfully most of my investments are in GICs (Guaranteed Investment Certificates) which are Canadian investments with a guaranteed return. Interest rates were jacked up recently and these were giving guaranteed returns of 5%+ which I thought was good enough. They’ve dropped to about 2.5% and I was thinking of moving more money into mutual funds. Good thing I didn’t.
The only mutual fund I bought into is mostly based around US stocks. I bought in at $13.20 per unit and its now worth $12.40 per unit so a loss of $0.80 per unit. I have 800 units so that’s currently a total loss of $640. At its height it was about $14.50 per unit which would have meant a total gain of $1,000. Even if the value dropped to $0 I’d still have plenty of savings so I’m not worried!
