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- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 1 day ago:
To be fair, he navigated Disney / Lucasfilm’s grip on the Star Wars franchise pretty adeptly.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 1 day ago:
Notably not being described as an RPG but an action adventure game.
Still, interesting given the studio founder is Stig, who directed both the Star Wars Jedi games and some of the God of War games.
It’ll be interesting to see his level of spectacle brought to a DnD universe.
- Comment on Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse 1 day ago:
Undoubtedly, but we still chose to come to Lemmy because we visited it and saw a bunch of people that we mostly agreed with on it.
Think about how many Lemmy users block hexbear or lemmy.ml, or would spot in disgust when they visit gab or voat or something.
Users prune those sources because they aren’t interested in hearing wildly toxic fringe ideas (or flat out being propagandized to), but it’s still fundamentally up to you as a user to decide what you consider rationale and worthy of discussion, and then going forward the content you see on here is only what’s shared by very like minded individuals.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that Reddit as a comparison intentionally promotes rage bait constantly, both in comments and posts, and that drives people to go even more nuts and become more polarized compared to a more neutral algorithm like Lemmy, but even open and decentralized social media platforms create filter bubbles.
- Comment on Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse 1 day ago:
The internet inherently creates information silos, because of the nature of how it works.
Cable TV, Newspapers, the Radio, etc. were all broad-cast networks, as in one person talks and that gets cast broadly to all listeners on the network.
Channels provided some level of user choice in what they listened to, but not very much. At most they still picked between only a handful of different options.
The internet fundamentally isn’t a broadcast network though, it’s a messaging network. When you publish a video on YouTube it isn’t broad cast to every one with an internet channel, instead, the users goes out and looks for the information they want and requests and YouTube sends it back to them.
This inherently creates filter bubbles because the information you receive is based on your own existing preferences and requests to a greater extent than with broadcast information mediums.
- Comment on Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse? 2 days ago:
Yeah I currently use Printables just because I trust Prusa more than the others, but at the end of the day Prusa is still a private company that could change its policies and decide to fuck over all its users or sell out to a company that does.
Thingiverse is just slow and crappy these days, Makers world defaults to locking everything down and not allowing remixes, so an open federated alternative would be great.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 3 days ago:
Most overrated language imho. I actually enjoy Java more.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 5 days ago:
Lol cause I didn’t answer your dumb troll question?
Tell me this, what in OPs original post makes you think it was brought up for no reason just to be rude? All OP said is that comments were made. We literally had no other context for how they came up.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Oh wow, such a valid point you have. Just because you think it’s boring I’m sure that’ means that it’s never occurred before.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Lmao, yeah, keep going, you’ve almost gotten yourself off
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Let’s use the power of imagination, I can imagine a party where a group is having a conversation where everyone is talking about relative attractiveness and how privileged that’s made them in life, and the rather obviously unattractive partner has walked up and has been quiet for a while so someone makes a joke about the elephant in the room and they move on.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Yes, and it’s perfectly possible to have commented on someone’s unattractiveness in an empathetic way.
In this case it sounds like neither their friend nor their father did, and I personally wouldn’t because it seems like a minefield, but I have seen cleverer friends and family navigate those minefields.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
It’s not about being open and honest. It’s about that not being relevant. Your opinion on how someone looks isn’t relevant, helpful, or necessary unless it’s directly asked for.
They could have literally been having a conversation about their relative attractiveness when it came up. At the time I posted this, we didn’t have more context on what exactly was said, beyond the initial incredibly vague description of “comments being made”.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Nothing irks me more than people who lump people into categories so they can rage out at a made up charicature and feel a social media vindication high.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Like, my blunt uncle might make a joke about a boyfriend being ugly and cracking a mirror or something, but he would never, ever, say something like ‘you can do better’ or ‘ew’.
There’s a line between being open and honest about someone’s attractiveness, and being cruel and a bad judge of character.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Yeah, those sound like crappy people that you’re talking to.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Lots of people navigate the world being more open and honest about things the way they are, rather than beating around the bush about everything that could possibly be sensitive.
Being nervous and awkward and avoiding the elephant in the room can draw more attention and self consciousness to it then not.
Being nervous and repressed doesn’t make you the be all arbiter of how to navigate the world.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
I mean, did they talk about how he wasnt conventionally attractive or did they care about it?
Are they saying, “old ugly bob is coming by for dinner tonight, make sure to put out an extra setting”, or are they saying “don’t date bob because he’s old and ugly”?
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Or just honest, open ones.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
But inflating the base battery capacity to cover people having showers at 5pm because it’s easier than storage water heaters and time/remote controls is stupid. You can reduce the base need for batteries by reducing the need for electricity in the first place and reducing the use of vehicles that need to carry batteries in place of e.g. overhead catenary.
A solution that doesn’t take into account human nature isn’t a solution.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
- Distribution doesn’t just include long distance distribution. It includes all the wiring between transformers and houses and all the internal wiring of the house and all the devices inside etc.
- Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple 6 days ago:
Question, is that how MacOS works?
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
It’s founded on the article not making a cohesive argument. Current copper usage is primarily in consumption and distribution, not generation.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
Or you use pumped hydro, or compressed air, or gravity batteries, or any of the other energy storage technologies that aren’t chemical batteries.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
You’re wrong in terms of long distance power lines being mostly copper, but this does seem a lot like fossil fuel propaganda.
Motors, generators, and transformers can be built using aluminium; they’re just a bit bulkier and less efficient. Very common practice.
What I mean is that the bulk of current copper wiring goes towards distribution and consumption, not generation.
The big thing is that batteries really should be a last resort, behind demand response (using power when it is available, rather than storing it for later), long distance transmission, and public transport instead of private vehicles.
This isn’t a big thing. This is a constant thing in every system. It’s the push and pull between efficiency and resiliency. More storage capacity is less efficient when things are going well, but is more resilient and adaptable when they’re not.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 1 week ago:
What is this publication and who finances it because this section is incredibly sus:
Copper use is not carved in stone. Hybrid cars, which pair small batteries with gasoline engines, need far less of the metal than fully electric vehicles.
Power grids that mix nuclear, wind, solar, and a pinch of natural-gas backup can slice the copper bill dramatically compared with battery-heavy systems.
“First of all, users can fact-check the study, but also they can change the study parameters and evaluate how much copper is required if we have an electric grid that is 20% nuclear, 40% methane, 20% wind, and 20% hydroelectric, for example,” Simon said. “They can make those changes and see what the copper demand will be.”
Like you think we can transition to an increasingly electrified world, where all power comes from electric utility lines, and you think our copper usage will be … just in renewable power plants?
This reads like straight fossil fuel propaganda. In an electrified future the majority of copper use comes from distribution lines and products that use electricity not the type of power plants generating electricity.
- Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple 1 week ago:
The court ruling that we’re discussing.
- Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple 1 week ago:
[citation needed]
- Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple 1 week ago:
My fucking god youre both remarkably dumb, and remarkably confident in how dumb you are.
Please do us all a favour and go and read the Wikipedia article on anti-competitive behaviour and anti-competition laws before commenting.
And just in case you lack the mental faculties to actually parse that Wikipedia article, the key lesson we’re looking for you to learn is that you do not need a a monopoly to behave anti-competitively, you just need market power.
- Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple 1 week ago:
Apple wouldn’t have to if they didn’t artificially prevent competitor app stores from being installed on iPhones. An app store is just software that tells the OS to install another piece of software. They are not complicated or hard to code, Apple just installs one with your phone and prevents any apps from being installed except through it, and then they refuse to host other app stores.
This is them using their market share in phones, to avoid competing fairly with third party software app stores like Steam.
They claim they have to install every thing through their app store for security reasons and there’s no possible other way to build it (horseshit), so rightfully then, to prevent them from illegally tieing two unrelated products together, they have to host Epic on the App Store.
And let me be frank. Your assertion that Epic is not a good company and Apple is not a good company, in the same breadth, is false equivalency horseshit.
Apple charges mafia 30% of all software REVENUE in addition to their other anti-competitive bullshit. They use their dominant platform position to be an absolute drag on the economy at large.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
No doubt.