I don’t personally get the appeal of many gaming YouTubers. I’m not personally very into watching other people play videos (not review, but just play). I can kinda understand some people wanting to watch that, but it always surprises me just how many people watch it and for how long.

It also seems all too common that they have very questionable views and their fans will defend them to the death. I don’t get that either. There’s some YouTuber creators I really enjoy, but if they said horrible things, I sure as hell aren’t going to defend them at all, let alone to the degree that some gaming YouTubers get ardently defended.

Many games I play automatically determine pretty reasonable settings. And worst case, you can always lean towards lower settings.

It adds value by helping convince clueless investors to give you money. I’m entirely serious. There’s a significant number of investors that think blockchain technology is a good thing. Doesn’t matter that it’s a terrible solution to practically every problem. The goal isn’t to be a good solution. The goal is to make money. They only need to convince a few clueless people to give them that.

Same. I’m lucky for software to be my hobby/career. It’s practically free. Contrary to popular misconception, it doesn’t require any kind of special or more powerful hardware (for most dev, at least). Maybe $150 for a second monitor, for sanity, but that’s not actually necessary.

…I mean, I do have good hardware too, but that’s for my gaming hobby, not my software hobby.

I have to admit, I am surprised that still exists, and also a little surprised it’s not considered at least a little bit of a sex game (I mean, every MMO has ERPers, but in my head, I pictured Second Life as a bit more common for that kinda thing).

Honestly, I’ve wished that experience was possible for other times. I know it’s dangerous and that’s why it’s not. But general anesthesia is just such a better experience than local. Eg, I had a dental filling the other day. That uses local anesthesia and it’s quite stressful (especially as my first time undergoing that). I found myself wishing it was as convenient as how general anesthesia is just blink and it’s done.

I also wish it were so easy to fall asleep. It sucks tossing and turning at night (especially when there’s something big going on the next day, which only makes it harder to fall asleep), knowing how anesthesia can knock you out in seconds. My understanding is that anesthesia isn’t sleep and won’t give you the benefits of sleep, but the experience of drifting off so fast is still what I want from sleep.

It’s crazy that even when people are told about this, they usually still defend it. I don’t get why the heck any normal person would like the idea of spending a few months salary on a ring. It’s such a terrible way to start a new marriage, especially with wages being what they are these days.

It doesn’t usually go down when you pay debt off. In fact, paying off all your credit card debt every single month is a great strategy that will get you a good credit score. And is ideal, because that way you avoid the high interest rates that credit cards have.

It also doesn’t go down if you check it with sites like Credit Karma. I believe what you’re thinking of is hard checks, which loan issuers use and they can slightly ding your score as they represent you about to get a new line of credit. Though honestly that part is pretty sketchy, since it applies even if you don’t get a new loan.

“What if climate change is a lie and we accidentally make the world a better place for nothing?”

That’s a really great idea! More places should do that. Maybe then there’d be a lot fewer people losing all their money within years.

In addition to major prize winners, it should also apply to people who have just started earning a massive income. Eg, professional athletes.

There doesn’t have to be coordination if there’s incentives.

It’s like how so many people who drive cars act in ways that benefit cars and is counterproductive for those who don’t drive. They want plentiful free parking, lots of lanes, and cheap gasoline. They’re not particularly coordinated. They’re just incentivized because of their position. They benefit from those kinda things, so gravitate towards them (and also don’t oppose them).

Given that they also talk about finishing their work with nothing to do, I’m guessing they work one of those jobs that doesn’t actually need so many employees but has to have them or are held back by the lowest performers.

The idea of “completing all my tasks” is a silly one to me, since my product has an endless stream of work where we can’t do all the things we want to do. If I managed to finish all the things I personally planned to do, that would mean nothing as that’s just my personal plan and there’s a virtually endless backlog. This has been the case for every job I’ve had as a software engineer.

Most employers I think pay for time, anyway, not tasks. Even when salaried, it’s a salary intended based on time you’d generally work. And if this wasn’t the case, many people (myself included) would be penalized for delays.

Why Uber rides as opposed to, say, having the office (and your home) in a good location such that you can efficiently use public transit? IMO that’s the ideal. Having to use a car is wasteful.

And if more people wanted Linux, Linux laptops could actually be a thing sold in normal stores instead of being a niche item only found online. I think a lot of the casual user concerns with Linux stem from lack of OEM support. You have to worry about any particular hardware driver not being supported. Beyond that, Linux vs Windows or OS X work pretty much identical for the average casual user who just wants to browse the web.

Oh god, the sausage one… I was just a little curious. There’s videos making an air sausage and a water sausage (which go about as you’d expect).

Going in blind is the best. Unfortunately, it’s probably pretty difficult to do, since spoilers are extremely rampant. I don’t even know how I managed to do it. But it really is magical if you go in blind.

I know it’s wrong, but there’s something about the forbiddenness of JS that makes it sexy.

Oh, baby, you wanna do what with my strings?

Jokes aside, Scala or Haskell, hands down. Those are sexy languages that make gorgeous code.

1. I feel like this one is an issue either way. Even if it doesn’t take out the entire community, taking out the largest community is pretty impactful. It worries me that the fediverse feels so fragile.
2. I think that case is a perfectly valid one to create a new community over. I’m not saying there should never be duplicates, just that we shouldn’t have them without a reason.
3. Yeaaaah, I think defederation should be handled better and admins need more granular options so that they don’t have to defederate except in the most extreme cases. The fact that some of the biggest instances can’t be seen by some other instances (or at least one other) is weird and worrisome.
4. I don’t think this would be a reason to avoid smaller instances, but admittedly people will generally create communities on their instance. I don’t think you even can create a community on another instance? You have to have someone on that instance create it and set you as a mod.

I agree with you on those special weapons. I dunno why the heck they made those so rare or expensive while also not being that durable. I don’t find it an issue for most normal weapons, though, especially with the fuse mechanic in TotK. I like how it forces me to vary things up and allows for regular treasure chests or drops to actually give you something you can use (even if it’s basically like a short lasting consumable).

I’m with you when it’s generic, way too numerous items like those damned feathers.

I’m all for collectibles when they’re interesting, meaningful, and not too numerous. But I think most games and especially open world games really just want to pad the completionist time.

Horizon is a game that did collectibles much better, with the exception perhaps of data points (which aren’t marked on the map for some reason). The collectibles in Horizon are unique, have story, and are usually actually interesting to get to. I noticed often in Horizon, they were just so interesting to either get to (the case for ornaments) or had fascinating story (like the ones that unlock images of the past).