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- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 15 hours ago:
This satan guy sounds like a hoot. I want to see more of that.
- Comment on Would submitting a criminal complaint against Trump and his administration too the ICC for war crimes be a waste of time? 5 days ago:
Neither is Russia, but the ICC still issued warrants for the arrest of several leaders after they invaded Ukraine.
en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Criminal_Court_a…
I’d love to see the next Democratic administration just let them take him and all his cronies.
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 5 days ago:
Terrible name for a Jedi.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 6 days ago:
If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.
People trade long-term detriment for short-term enjoyment all the time.
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 1 week ago:
Yep. People tend to think of the big 5-10 names that are on every corner, but the FDIC insures over 4,000 banks in the US.
PDF warning: fdic.gov/…/fdic-latest-industry-trends-december-2…
- Comment on Stardock announce an expansion into indie game publishing 1 week ago:
They had some cool software like 20 years ago. Then they doubled down on the subscription model, and I haven’t thought about them much since then.
Hopefully they don’t lean into live service games or DLC traps.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I have a not-that-old work laptop with a single usb-c charge port (for the dock) and the connection sucks. Thankfully that one also has a barrel port for power only.
I hate that my new one is usb-c only. I’m moving between locations often enough that long-term durability is a concern having to plug/unplug that one all the time. I’d much rather it was an extra few mm thicker and have a charge port I’ll never have to worry about.
- Comment on Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that 3 weeks ago:
Have you ever magnetically levitated a cow? If not, then however magnetic they are, it’s less magnetic than frogs.
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 3 weeks ago:
She’s hot, but there’s just too much pressure to make it work.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 4 weeks ago:
This article should be Exhibit A in any class on “correlation does not imply causation.”
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Gambling was made more accessible in the US because of a SCOTUS case in 2018. Starting later that year, Delaware became the 2nd state to allow sports betting (after Nevada). The list of states allowing access to online sports betting keeps growing, with Missouri the latest to join less than 3 months ago. 39 states now have gambling in some form, with 7 more considering legislation in the next year or two.
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Gaming revenue took off in 2020-2021 because more people were spending all day at home. It has since flattened, or slightly declined as a) pandemic-era games that were written and designed in those tough circumstances turned out poorly. b) gaming company execs thought the gravy train would never end, so set projections too high. c) acquisitions and mergers due to a combination of a) and b) meant massive layoffs and low-effort slop. d) VCs bought up the shells of former successes and accelerated c). Oh look:
A new report by Epyllion, a gaming industry advisory company headed by venture capitalist and market guru
These two things have nothing to do with one another, besides coincidentally happening at roughly the same time.
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- Comment on Multiplayer car games? 5 weeks ago:
Wreckfest 2 is in early access, if that counts as upcoming. Same developer as Flatout 2, so it should feel similar, just more modern.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 1 month ago:
Remember a few years back when all new companies were just normal words with (all/most of) the vowels removed?
It’s all fads. Creativity requires more risk than the current environment is willing to accept. So you just do whatever everyone else is doing and call it revolutionary anyway.
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 1 month ago:
The original Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda was February 21, 1986, making it 40 in just under three weeks.
North American and European releases were in the summer and fall of 1987, though.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 1 month ago:
I did a pretty extreme weight loss a few years back, and in two months, I lost 20 pounds.
Even that was a bit more than is recommended without strict medical supervision. Two pounds per week is kind of the upper bound of “normal” weight loss. Don’t attempt more without a very, very good reason, and an even better doctor.
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 1 month ago:
Whatever I would do, I most certainly wouldn’t post it on the internet.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 month ago:
You can’t attach it to the floor, but can you use some good double-sided tape or super glue to attach small steel weights to the underside of the corners?
Any home improvement store should have some flat bar. 1/8" or about 3mm should be flat enough to avoid a tripping hazard, but check local regs for commercial properties.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
There is no market Microsoft won’t half-ass* their way into.
* Purely as an expression. Teams is nowhere near usable enough to give it that much credit.
- Comment on /c/fuckai in shambles rn 2 months ago:
And they both serve under a man with an artificial heart. Genetic enhancement is illegal, but cyborgs are a-ok?
- Comment on Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975? 2 months ago:
I wonder if they could have been inspired by the writings (and some illustrations) of HP Lovecraft? I’m no lore expert there, but a Beholder wouldn’t be out of place by the side of some of the others.
- Comment on In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone 2 months ago:
No argument there.
- Comment on In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone 2 months ago:
Whatever you pay in insurance is unlikely to cover the damages won by an injured party. That money is coming out of the pockets of people who will never cause an injury.
Good drivers subsidize the assholes.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 months ago:
The lid always goes down when not in use at my house.
“It’s a shit receptacle, not a water feature” has been repeated to anyone who doesn’t know the rule.
- Comment on What would happen to a werewolf in space? 2 months ago:
The ISS orbits at about 400km. The distance to the moon is about 385,000km. From the moon, and especially the sun, the Earth and ISS are basically in the same place, so the phase of the moon doesn’t appreciably change in low earth orbit.
A werewolf on Europa (and others) could be in a full moon much more often. Even on the side facing away from the sun, it may still have plenty of light due to the reflection from Jupiter.
Maybe they would have to hide away from society once per month whenever they turn into a human monster?
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 2 months ago:
And Mortal Kombat hit consoles in 1993, so the big, controversial hits weren’t limited to PCs in the early 90s.
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 2 months ago:
And gym memberships.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 3 months ago:
Yes, but I haven’t seen him since he killed two people, partially because he’s been in prison for the last ~28 years.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 3 months ago:
Judges don’t pass laws, but they can create plenty of loopholes out of thin air. Qualified Immunity doesn’t exist in any statute (to my knowledge), but it is a de facto legal standard, for one example.
- Comment on Temperature sensitivity feels like it should distinct 3 months ago:
The classic “five senses” works well enough for the basic understanding of how we interact with the world, but doesn’t actually hold up under much scrutiny. You can apparently get up to 12 depending on how you want to define things.
www.press.jhu.edu/…/how-many-senses-do-we-have
The idea of five classical senses dates back at least to Aristotle, himself a rather classy guy. In De Anima (Of the Soul) he argues that, for every sense, there is a sense organ.
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Let’s tweak Aristotle’s definition of what a sense is just a bit. Instead of a sense organ, each separate sense really only requires a different kind of sensory receptor. In the skin alone, there are at least four different kinds of sensory receptors: those for touch, temperature, pain, and proprioception (or body awareness).
- Comment on Do people know what the Streisand effect was about? 3 months ago:
And it was inside a huge (10k+) batch of pictures documenting the entire California coastline. Basically nobody had even seen it at the time she, or at least her lawyer, threw a fit about it.
- Comment on Do people know what the Streisand effect was about? 3 months ago:
I do. I’ve been reading Techdirt for over 25 years, so I’m sure I read the original post where the term was coined at the time it was first published.