Cethin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I play a lot of Squad, which has no progression or anything that’s tracked from match to match. I’ve also played a good bit of X4, which is a space sandbox game, where you mostly set your own goals. Factorio is also one of my favorite games. I’m fine with games where you set your own goals. I just don’t get NMS.

  I think part of it is that there’s absolutely no friction when saying. For example, flying makes it impossible to crash. There’s just nothing at stake and progression feels mostly pointless. If there was danger or a threat to defend against, I think that’d go a long way to making it feel like there’s a reason to do what you’re doing. As it is, it just feels like chores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But in MC there is a drive. It’s not an extrinsic goal though, rather entrinsic needs. You need better gear, you need food (and maybe you don’t want to spend time doing it so you automate it), etc. NMS has a notion of this, but barely. It’s enough to say there is progression, but it doesn’t feel like you’re progressing.

  That said, I barely got into base building. Maybe that’s where things get good, but it takes far to long to get to that point that I’m bored by the time it’s a real option.

  I’m glad people like it. I just don’t understand why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re going to start switching desktop CPU architectures, I hope we switch to RISC-V instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimately, bots for meetings is the one place where it’s largely useful. You can have it just summarize what was said. That and receiving emails, which people are using AI to extend for no damn reason so other people have to use AI to read them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk 2077 would be another big one. A lot of the issue was bugs, but also a lot of missing content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave up on Elite shortly after launch. However, I do keep tabs on it on occasion. The end game of Elite is basically choosing factions to support and helping them take over star systems. Honestly, it seems at least intriguing. I can’t say the same for NMS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate that the devs keep updating the game, but honestly I don’t get it. Sure, there are a lot of planets. There’s not any reason to one over another though. They’re all procedurally generated with the same general stuff (yeah, you’ll need to travel for specific resources). For me, it just feels like I’m wasting time, because it doesn’t make you feel like you’re doing anything meaningful. I can’t be the only one who feels this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, usually the stars are classically attractive still, but there’s a lot more space for other people in other roles. I think comedy in particular has a lot of stars who aren’t incredibly hot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flashbang!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still amplifying light that is there. In total blackness they still don’t work. In very low light they generate a lot of visual noise. You’d need to provide some kind of light source for this no matter what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t grow up in the period. I was born in '93. I’m old enough to have seen third places, but for them to be dead by the time they mattered to me. It’s not screens that killed them. It’s suburbia and also helicopter parenting.

  Parents don’t feel they can let their kids run around safely because there’s no where to go within walking distance, and traveling anywhere requires a car. I’d agree devices with tracking probably do play a role now, but they weren’t a thing for me.

  Car dependence has created a world where almost everyone goes to work/school, then go home, only sitting in their car between, not engaging with anyone else. We’ve destroyed any sense of community that used to exist.

  I’m certain this is one of the largest drivers for all the issues we’re seeing today. It used to be you’d talk to your neighbors and share things with them, but today everyone is isolated and gets everything from the news, which tells them to be scared of everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… no one who this matters to thought that anyway. Either you get Chinese or US backdoors in your hardware. This has always been true. Theoretically Intel could make some backdoorless chips for government use though, but we won’t have access to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when ur higher than sagan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, it probably won’t work, but it can literally do nothing but help. Even if it doesn’t help with the specific issue they’re talking about, maybe the figure out it helps with something else. Getting off harmful drugs often has beneficial effects. (I’m a caffeine and alcohol user too. This isn’t me looking down on anyone.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when ur higher than sagan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The no alcohol and caffeine could actually help. It’s worth a shot at least if you still have ongoing issues. Not that this hack deduced anything accurately, but that probably does help a lot of people, and then he gets to take credit for it. It’s cheaper than free to try, though you’ll probably have some headaches for a few days if you have a bad caffeine dependence, like almost all of our society has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hosting a peertube instance would be almost nothing I comparison to this. It’d just be a duplicate of all uploaded videos at worst, which he’s storing many times that amount of raw footage anyway. They probably wouldn’t even notice the overhead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you get it. If you verify your age you’re identifying yourself. They aren’t “starting with children.” They’re only using children as an excuse to identify everyone. It isn’t about getting children off of these sites. It’s about tracking anybody online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ideal car⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, as annoying as that’d probably be, it’d also be great. You could likely argue any ticket was a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no. In this case it’s probably Intel is collapsing I assume, and they’re the only CPU producer native to the US. It’d be a really bad thing strategically to let them fail, so they should be nationalized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get electric for only a slightly higher cost than gas, just not the “premium” ones. As for Spyware, that’s any modern car. It has nothing to do with being electric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House launches official TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My French isn’t great, but I’m fairly confident I know how to pronounce this. It’s only a slant rhyme, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the only way I see it happening is if it’s done in a way that’s invisible to users. Even then, I don’t know if it’s a good idea. Either you store a copy of all content locally or your content is only available when your server (presumably your computer or phone for most users) is online. Most people aren’t going to have to storage space for self-hosting federated content that’s distrubuted, and having people go down constantly from turning their computer off is far from ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know when you’re talking about, but it probably wasn’t self hosting, unless you’re talking about like original internet stuff. GeoCities, for example, was not self-hosting. It was hosting your content on their platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t understand what you’re asking of me. Women having equal rights is a binary thing, they either do or don’t.

  I honestly don’t understand what you’re asking of me. Women having equal rights is a binary thing, they either do or don’t.

  This is wrong. They can be equal in some parts and unequal in others. No culture gives identical rights to all other cultures. There are degrees to equality. It isn’t all or nothing. I would say most of the west is more equal than countries that follow Islam as a state religion, but most of them don’t have total equality. I assume you agree with that, right? And Saudi Arabia is better than Iran, right? Not significantly, but there are degrees to it, right?

  Painting it as binary all or nothing is wrong, and probably is antithetical to progress. If it’s all or nothing, and something would take a step in the right direction, then why take that step if it isn’t all the way, right? Treating it as binary is bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The amazing thing about Linux is there are distros for any purpose. If you want stability there are distros focused on that. Yeah, the popular ones are often bleeding edge, or near bleeding edge, but you don’t have to use one that’s using the latest updates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they don’t mean in every case. Yeah, if you have to go halfway around the world from two addresses that are very far away from hubs, Starlink might be better. 99.99999% of the time this isn’t happening though and fiber will be better. There are situations for some people where it’s worth it. Fiber is better for the average case though, and it’s where money should be invested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You clearly haven’t been paying attention. Both have a ton of issues. You could argue either is worse, but I don’t think anyone watching would say they aren’t on similar paths. The UK in particular has a lot of holdover issues from never fully reforming their government and only slowly transforming from monarchy to constitutional Republic, and still carrying all the baggage, like the house of lords for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve got better Healthcare (for now). Other than that, yeah I don’t think they’re doing much better. In a lot of ways they’re worse. It could be argued either way which is worse, depending on your opinions on a few things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s an adaptive trait, just one that isn’t useful anymore. It wouldn’t be good for everyone to have ever, but it probably was useful for some people to have. Just like most people are more awake during the day, you’d want some people awake at night to keep everyone safe, so we have “night owls” who are maladjusted to the typical work hours we have today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservation of mass is not what would be effected here. They said weight not mass. Weight is an object measured in situ, effected by gravity and the atmosphere above.

  They would lose mass, but they’d become more dense. If that gas was less dense than the atmosphere then the slightly increased density would make the weight of everything above the scale slightly higher. Vice versa if it was more dense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Fredrik Knudsen] Unofficial Skyrim Patch | Down the Rabbit Hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the “you can’t modify my mod because it undermines authoritative intent” and them modifying things like the standing stones because “oh, that’s not the way it’s supposed to work.” Obviously he doesn’t even believe what he says. He just says whatever he needs to to “win” like a true narcissist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was someone speaking on behalf of MS and MS didn’t really work to change the perception. They can hide behind the “not an official statement” argument, but you shouldn’t spread their message. They did it on purpose, and used it for false advertising. It only isn’t illegal because they sent the message through unofficial channels, but then purposefully let it spread.