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- Comment on Help! Help! I'm being assimilated! 5 days ago:
A Tribble as the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
- Comment on Help! Help! I'm being assimilated! 5 days ago:
Janeway: What makes you think she is a Borg?
Seven: Well, she turned me into a drone!
Janeway: A drone?
Seven: I got better.
- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 6 days ago:
The first is on GOG as well, for only a few cents more.
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 1 week ago:
I saw so much praise for this game, which got me to buy. Then I genuinely felt like I played a different game than everybody else.
Not that I thought it was bad or anything, I just walked across the landscape for 2h15m and then haven’t thought about it since.
- Comment on Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer 1 week ago:
But why pay all those programmers when all they had to do from the beginning was a simple
#include “ai.h”
- Comment on Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous? 1 week ago:
People are weird about gasoline. They’ll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that’s less than 50 cents of total savings.
So a grocery store can offer, say, 10¢ savings, and it only actually costs them like $1.50-$2.00 per customer. That’s way less than other sales that are harder to advertise and don’t bring in the same amount of business.
Ultimately the psychological benefit for the shopper is more than the financial cost to the store. The others societal costs don’t come in to that equation.
- Comment on a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave? 1 month ago:
Santa himself has been described as a “jolly old elf.”
I’m no lore expert, but it makes me wonder if the original Santa (human) passed the title to one of his former underlings. The Dread Pirate Roberts of the North Pole, perhaps.
- Comment on The Price Is Right: a big ad space where the joy of winning is just a distraction from the true goal - to sell more products. 1 month ago:
Showerthoughts from 1972.
- Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. 1 month ago:
Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus to take out an entire alien spacecraft. Probes are a piece of cake.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
This is my experience as well. People don’t hate vegans specifically, they hate evangelists generally.
- Comment on I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt? 1 month ago:
I can’t answer the question directly, but this may be related.
Back in the 90s when the cable channel TLC wasn’t shit, they had a series showing actual surgical procedures. I watched one where a woman had previously had a mastectomy, and this follow up was essentially rebuilding her breast by moving fat from her belly into her chest.
It’s not just cutting out one lump of fat and putting it somewhere else. The blood supply had to be kept intact, so it was more like a slide puzzle. Lots of stuff moved only as far as it could without interrupting the various veins and arteries.
Interestingly, they made sure to point out that the fat being shifted around still thinks it’s belly fat, so gaining and losing weight that would normally affect the belly would show up in the one reconstructed breast
Presumably this other procedure is similar. Fat is moved from the legs in such a way that by moving a relatively small amount, the butt gets bigger and the legs get smaller, making the butt look even bigger by comparison.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 2 months ago:
“Two popular games with little else in common can be shoehorned into my pet narrative” is a bad title, though.
- Comment on If TikTok in the US is spun off as a separate entity, how hard would it be for the current company to put in a back door to still access the data. 2 months ago:
No need. Most apps already collect a ton of data, and is sold to anyone who asks nicely. Which company owns a service won’t change that one bit.
The whole thing is election-year performative bullshit, while your data isn’t one iota safer.
- Comment on 70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability 2 months ago:
99% of gamers knew this years ago.
It’s always been a race to gobble up the handful of whales that keep the mobile game industry alive. Now add hundreds more desktop and console games to that list. Sure, there are lots of people that will happily spend thousands of dollars on any shitty game, but once you’ve got the entire industry spending billions fighting over those players, the well runs dry eventually.
- Comment on Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time. 2 months ago:
The term identity politics may have been used in political discourse since at least the 1970s.[19] The first known written appearance of the term is found in the April 1977 statement of the Black feminist socialist group, Combahee River Collective, which was originally printed in 1979’s Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,[22] later in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, a founding member of the Collective,[23] who have been credited with coining the term.[24][25]
- Comment on The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically. 2 months ago:
I need a mnemonic to remember how to spell “mnemonic.”
- Comment on Supernova Absorption for Nulification 3 months ago:
This is going to depend on the specifics of your story, but a supernova happens when a star runs out of easily fused fuel (hydrogen, helium).
If you want to prevent the supernova entirely and return the star to “normal,” that means removing all the heavy elements from a stellar core and adding lighter elements. I’m no scientist (or author), but turning back the clock like that is beyond my imagination.
Absorbing the energy for use in other applications? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so…maybe? You can probably hand wave that way. It won’t be 100% efficient, and whatever tech that’s absorbing that energy has to be able to contain a star. This one has at least some hypothetical support: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
A Type III civilization is able to capture all the energy emitted by its galaxy, and every object within it, such as every star, black hole, etc.
It reminds me of the Ringworld novels. I won’t rehash the entire plot, but basically an artificial structure is built that requires a material the author calls “scrith” that is essentially (impossible)[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium] with known physics, but a clever author can write around it well enough that it doesn’t get too much attention for its “magic” properties.
- Comment on "This generation is finished" --previous generation 3 months ago:
“The last generation just doesn’t get it” - current generation.
- Comment on Does mucous have calories? 3 months ago:
Sure. It contains a protein called mucin, which will have some, eh, “nutritional” value. Plus whatever is caught up in it. It’s mostly water, though, so not much.
- Comment on [US] Why don't city limits just follow county lines or vice versa? 3 months ago:
The county lines were likely drawn 100-200 years ago. The method will vary by state, but is usually either in a grid or following some geographical features. Where people live probably wasn’t directly taken into account.
Cities lines are drawn as needed, and as cities expand, it just depends on where the population growth is. For mature towns/cities, they may be butted up against adjacent towns, so expansion is driven by whichever people are otherwise “unclaimed.”
But why do cities expand in the first place? Money, prestige (which brings more money), adding services to under-served residents, etc. The question they’re asking when it comes time to grow the borders is, ‘will this bring in more money than it costs in a reasonable amount of time?’ It can be expensive to add services in some areas if they’re expanding water/sewer/police/fire/electric/etc, but the additional tax revenues may be worth it.
- Comment on Every star in the sky is interacting with you through gravity 🌌 We are all connected to the universe around us. 3 months ago:
Any given star is constantly emitting an unimaginably large, but finite, number of photons. A tiny few of them travel tens to hundreds of (Earth) years, only to end their journey in your eyeballs.
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi Game Will Be Live Service with a '100-Person Survival Mode' 4 months ago:
And then when these games continue to flop critically, and never reach the player count they forecast, it’s the developers’ fault and layoffs abound.
- Comment on How to disable one speaker in a stereo speaker Android phone? 4 months ago:
You can change the audio balance to 100% one side or the other in accessibility settings.
- Comment on What, Exactly, Is Xbox Thinking? 4 months ago:
It’s all about publishing something, even if it’s hollow click bait.
- Comment on If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen? 5 months ago:
Kamala Harris becomes President, and the GOP implodes under the weight of a million conspiracy theories.
- Comment on If a game adds or changes content outside of extra add-ons like DLC (such as a free update) does that content have to be reviewed by ratings boards and risk changing the rating of the game? 5 months ago:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was briefly changed from M to AO due to content that couldn’t even be accessed without mods.
- Comment on Dukat is upset they still haven't built a statue of him in the parking lot for pushing a cart into traffic 5 months ago:
O’Brien returned his cart, and yours, and was mumbling complaints about lazy people while gathering two more when somebody drove a motorized cart into him and broke his ankle.
- Comment on AppleTV complete replacement opinions 5 months ago:
I like my Roku, but it would be much more annoying without a pihole to block the ads.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
But without the chatgpt spam that has overtaken bing the last few months.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 6 months ago:
Pure speculation: of the people who don’t like Epic, maybe 25% are legitimate, principled objections to their business practices. The rest are split evenly between people who just want to manage their entire library on a single platform, and folks just going along for the hate-ride because it seems like the “safe” position to take.
From a technical stance, Steam and GOG are superior platforms (for different reasons). For equal-price purchases, I can’t think of a single reason to choose Epic over other options. But claiming a game for free? That doesn’t make anyone a bad person.