kartoffelsaft

@kartoffelsaft@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen the occasional post here on lemmy making this point. I don’t see anything factually wrong in saying she’d likely keep status quo or even make it worse. But when I see this said the one thing that I always wonder is never addressed:

  How would the outcome be better if you voted against her?

  Like, I have to imagine that someone making this argument thinks Trump would improve the situation. Because if that isn’t the case, then this is not a decision I’m making at the voting booth, so saying she’d continue genocide as a reason to vote against her falls flat (and, if you’re wondering, is why people are quick to downvote this argument). Is the hope that Trump will see the artillery shells sent to isreal as “librul policy” and axe it on that basis? Or that he’ll do such a bad job that he’ll get assassinated/arrested/overthrown? Something else entirely?

  Enlighten me, because I can’t envision Trump making anything better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An informative martial arts infographic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uganda ain’t blue enough!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised TOEM isn’t on your list, given the premise is pretty much exactly what you describe. Last I checked it comes up on the first page or something if you sort steam by highest rated.

  Lunacid might also be a good game. I think it fits your criteria for me, but that might just be for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you rank sums of single-digit numbers ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, having two primes sum to a power of two is undeniably powerful in my experience. The number of times a calculation goes from tedious to trivial from this sum is incalculable. The lowest I’d put it is A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Question on Art Syles for Indie Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this can really be answered until after the fact. Anything that I (and I suspect most) people could say about an artstyle are going to be particular to an instance of that artsyle. If I’d give advice as someone who is neither an artist nor a game designer, what attracts me more than anything is a unique artstyle, which, if I’m gonna give a brutal opinion, starting from a vague category like ‘pixel’, ‘hand drawn’ or ‘3D’ probably won’t get you there.

  I feel like I even struggle to answer your question at face value because it doesn’t align well at all with how I conceptualize game art. For example, Cruelty Squad is a game that I don’t think I’d have gotten if not for it’s artsyle. Like, sure, it’s 3D, but it’s a lot more like a PilotRedSun animation than it is a game like TF2. Or take a game like Factorio: most of the assets of that game are pre-rendered 3D sprites, so despite being artisticly unique in a way that interests me it doesn’t fit into the categories you’ve asked about. The best I can say is “I dunno”, and I don’t think anyone else can answer it further than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advertising Lemmy on r/place⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, that post specifically asks people who don’t have a technical background. It can be used to show that laymen have the capacity to use a federated platform like lemmy, but not that they are a significant portion of the userbase (albeit that post does have a lot of replies).