yesman @ yesman @lemmy.world

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I don't like the idea of time spent as a value proposition. One of the reasons UBI games are trash is because they measure "engagement" as satisfaction and bloat their games with repetitive and dull scavenger hunts. They waste your time.

Some of the best games are short and have little replay value. The Portal games come to mind.

meant to mislead potential players into thinking the game is successful when, in fact, it's severely underperforming behind the scenes.

Why would a player in a single-player game give a tiny shit about how popular it is? It's the investor class that cares about that; stop treating their interests as a natural good.

The anger people have when you tell them it’s neglect when you just let a cat roam free. It’s insanity.

If you want to see people loose their mind, suggest that the way we dominate these animals to please us is the root cause of all that suffering and neglect.

*I live with a cat and am having beef for dinner. I'm a hypocrite, not PETA.

Rushdie should be more sympathetic to the Palestinians. After all, Hitchens, Maher, and Islamophobes at large have been using him as a human shield for years.

These people are like the photo-negitive of Eugenicists.

anti-natalists present with reactionary ideology since they're obsessed with what other people are doing with their bodies. And they advocate for a totalitarian state to regulate that. But then they're also obsessed with environmentalism?

Maybe their lefty misanthropes? I don't get it.

TED is just like sharktank. Only instead of having a good business idea contestants compete to sooth the guilt of wealthy liberals and promise them that technology is going to save us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cromwell

There are some English words and phrases that can't be said in American English. Like the "I inherited this government position from my father". Or, "Sure hope the King doesn't veto this legislation".

I know an Amanda Lynn, she can't sing for shit. But she slices onions and potatoes thin as paper.

random fact. The English word for bourgeois is burgher (pronounced like burger) . They both translate to "people of town". I'm trying to popularize "burgher" because I have a grudge against lunatic French spelling.

Just change the file extension to *.png. Works every time.

their highly-publicized repudiation of diversity initiatives.

That's only the latest in a series of blunders by Target that date back to the pandemic. They used to have a reputation of being a pleasant shopping experience. They used to be the "not Walmart". After the pandemic they were slow to re-staff and the predictable result was dirty stores, empty shelves, and long waits at checkout.

Here is an astrophysicist explaining mathematically why they suck: YouTube or Nebula.

There are over a hundred distros, There is no reason to keep using one if you don't like it. Use a VM to avoid multiple re-installs and be picky. You've got that luxury. Nobody is going to tell you how best to use your computer, unless you install MacOS or Windows.

They should have left the graphics alone and worked to squash bugs and add playability/quality-of-life features.

Those games are famous for being brilliant, but deeply flawed. Graphics were not the flaw.

This is a big deal. The emergence of eukaryotes may be more important to our biological story than the emergence of life.

Some have suggested (I saw it on PBS Spacetime) that eukaryotic evolution is the "great filter" that prevents civilizations and explains the Fermi paradox. Perhaps the universe is filled to the lid with slimes and bacteria, with complex cells being vanishingly rare or maybe unique.

The problem is that the US put sanctions on this person. Not that M$ is obeying those sanctions; it's not optional.

Best practice is to criticize them for genocide profiteering. They chose that.

They also sell Pacific Northwest

I was actually delighted when Windows 11 added tabs to notepad and explorer, and layers make MSPaint worth using.

But all of these things became buggy messes. Explorer showing ads for OneDrive and inexplicable behavior, On more than one occasion, the address bar would become unusable, and I deeply resent having to use the mouse to do simple tasks.

Now I know that this was prelude to Copilot.

So now I daily drive Debian making me a computer user, not a resource for billionaires to mine.

Chris Christie was the prosecutor that put Chuck in prison. This was a great source of friction during the first administration.

This is the most humane idea the administration has had. They could multiply the benefit and still save the taxpayer the price of cruel rendition.