To clarify, pencils are a terrible idea in space due to graphite and shavings getting into electronics. Grease pencils were okay, but an independent businessman took his own initiative and funds to develop a zero g pen that was superior, which he sold to nasa at reasonable cost.
Sony objectively did not win that generation. The Nintendo wii did— some gamers don’t want to include the Wii in the running at all, but it was there and it won approximately 101 million to maybe 88 million.
Now, the ps3 made a remarkable comeback and eventually caught back up with the Xbox 360, tying or slightly exceeding it in sales in the very end, but that’s not winning. That’s especially not winning compared to the PS2 generation, where there was absolutely no contest that it won— there wasn’t even a serious rival to the ps2 at the time. It dominated. The ps3 barely squeaking out a second place trophy against a CLOSE third place, when it trailed far behind at first, is not winning the generation. It’s just not.
Sony lost the absolute monolithic dominance they had in the ps2 era. That’s the situation I’m comparing now. Maybe this windows 11 situation won’t echo the past, but it’s a question I’m musing on in the shower.
I would follow the guide laid out by Lockhart’s Lament. Basically, teach math as an art.
That dream aside, I wouldn’t mind aiming at statistics as a target, instead of calc… specifically to lessen the impact of people who lie using statistics, and also demonstrate that not ALL statistics are lies.
42 and counting… I actually have some small hope of trying to buy a house next year though. Not in my home of America though, it’ll be as an expat, and contingent on a foreign bank extending me credit. Not a sure thing at all, but… I’m hoping? There might actually be a path forward? Maybe?
If my name was uncommon and had become infamous? Yeah, I think I might change it in that case— it’d be a hard call and I’d have to think it through carefully, but I might come to the conclusion that I’d have to do it. But a common name? While it might get smudged a bit by the villain, there’d be too much dilution for anyone to care.
At some level, it’s because each platform costs a lot of money. If a game is not available for your platform, it’s super expensive to get another platform. So other platforms having fun games your platform doesn’t can mean losing out— either you won’t get to experience the game, or you’re going to have to shell out, and either way hurts. Thus, it is actively in your best interest if the other platforms fail, thus encouraging devs to spend more effort on your chosen platform.
I loved act 1 of this game, but the rest seemed scattered and unfocused. I would have loved if the story from act 1 developed further over the course of the game, instead of ending abruptly with a boss fight and then basically never mentioning anything in the act again.
If connected to the internet, there will probably not be any problems for a little while. A couple months, maybe a year— but at some point, someone will inevitably find a security flaw that impacts the way you use the computer. Maybe a flaw that allows an advertisement you find on a website to infect you. But maybe a flaw that will enable anyone hunting for computers online to exploit, in which case just being connected to the net will be enough to get infected.
At this point, your computer will simultaneously be part of someone’s bot net, mining for cryptocurrency on someone else’s behalf, rented out for processing farms, and so on and so forth. You might also get hit with advertising Trojans and scriptkiddie shit, but it’s far more likely that the stuff they’ll infect you with will just syphon your processing power for their own purposes.
I wanted to love bastion so much, but I’ve found I hate twin-stick— or rather, keyboard to move mouse to target in a third person action game controls too much and it just gets in the way. For third person, I just want keyboard only, and target where I’m facing.
The semi-emotionless, or at least restrained emotional delivery of the lines always hit me really hard. They never screamed, never cried, but the matter of fact way they said Kharak was burning, and how you needed to hunt down the perpetrators… it was chilling. The emotion was somehow bleached out of the voices, yet so, so, so powerfully deep and present nonetheless… I don’t know how they managed it, but it was incredible.
No. Enshittification has a very specific definition. It’s a business model that follows exactly these steps:
Step 1: make a product or service of high quality to users, offered for free, to gather a large user base.
Step 2: slowly optimize the platform for “business users”, aka advertisers. The service now starts to become worse for the original user base.
Step 3: make the product worse for both end users and businesses in order to squeeze more short-term profits.
It’s not a general term for “things getting worse”, it describes exactly these three steps, in this order, exactly as stated. Any variation would need a new term… except we have enough examples of this playbook that no such variations have been spotted.
‘sup fellow ptsd person. My psychologist explained that ptsd comes from an extended period of time where you believe, actually believe not and just muse about abstractly, that you are going to die or an equivalent level of terror. I have little doubt you could get ptsd from it. It’s the end of your life as you know it, even if not literally the end of your life.
If you haven’t/aren’t already, I strongly suggest finding a therapist trained and specializing expressly in ptsd management. I had some therapists that were a bit more generally trained, and they… did not really help. The specialist untangled multiple of my triggers, and let me live my life again— there’s still some left, but I had to move away and I haven’t found another specialist left. If only ptsd was the sort of thing that went away over time (it doesn’t). And definitely, definitely run (don’t walk) away from anyone suggesting anything remotely resembling talk therapy. Talking about your ptsd can literally make it worse, and reprogramming triggers can be as complicated and delicate as defusing a bomb.
For those not aware, avoid lemmy.ml because it’s a tankie run and enforced echo chamber, where Russia, China, and North Korea can do no wrong, and saying otherwise is banned as “hate speech”.
Teens just think differently. It’s not their fault, no more is it the fault of my four year old when he can’t understand things. It’s just part of growing up. But this part of growing up involved emotions being heightened not just to 11, but like 27 or something absurd like that. It creates so much drama, heartache, and pain.
Now, all those saying that work is, in fact, just like high school? They’re complaining about individual people they meet who act immature, reminding them a little of high school. The fact is, as adults we SHOULD be leaving that all behind, and anyone that continues to do it is an outlier. And outliers get attention, and we tend to focus out experiences on them.
But it IS an outlier. Adult life is not like high school, except in exceptions that we sometimes focus on in frustration because we shouldn’t have to deal with it, but sometimes do.
In highschool, it’s not the exception, it’s just how things are all the time. It can’t help but be that way. It’s how you grow up. It’s how we are as young humans, anywhere and everywhere.
Adulthood is different. There are times we remember being young and stupid, mostly when witnessing people being stupid sometimes— and that never changes. But adulthood is different.
Yes, TLA is a three letter acronym. A four letter acronym, on the other hand, is an ETLA, or “Enhanced Three Letter Acronym”. For advanced cases, you can get an EETLA (or XETLA) for Expanded/Extended Enhanced Three Letter Acronym.
To be fair, we also heard them from the ninja turtles, and any other kids media and/or commercials trying to appeal to the demographic. Some of us used it sarcastically on the playground, but I don’t think any of us knew anyone who used it seriously. I think it might have been surfer slang that was co-opted by marketing departments?
To clarify, pencils are a terrible idea in space due to graphite and shavings getting into electronics. Grease pencils were okay, but an independent businessman took his own initiative and funds to develop a zero g pen that was superior, which he sold to nasa at reasonable cost.