captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Companies try to stop online support for CEO killer suspect 1 week ago:
Meanwhile the other day the manager of a grocery store was joking about how we need more people like him while scanning my ID for beer.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 weeks ago:
In the future nobody reads “the design of everyday things” apparently
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 weeks ago:
It hurts seeing a meme that was fun a decade ago get run into the ground by being used so aggressively and so long and so fucking uncoolly.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 weeks ago:
Also safety features should be accessible to those panicking. It’s why heavy machinery emergency stops tend to be big red buttons/switches
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 1 month ago:
Yeah they were an empire run like and by meth addicts. Terrifying to face, shockingly clever, and headed directly to destruction with the only question being whether they or someone else landed the killing blow on them.
These were not hyper competent tacticians, it was a society that hyped itself into a blood frenzy, convinced of their own superiority and that they’ll be destroyed if they don’t destroy everyone else first. That’s a terrifying threat, but so’s a meth addict with a knife and paranoid delusions.
They were hemorrhaging competence through their Nazi bullshit. Yeah they had some people like von Braun, but they lost people like Einstein (and special shout-out to Fermi who defected from Italy because his wife was Jewish). Additionally their behavior in held territory actively fostered partisan resistance and encouraged fighting to the death.
And that’s ignoring the fact that they broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact while at war with France and England and at war in Africa and while leaving Italy to defend itself. The Soviets were a force unto themselves having been the only army to trounce Russia in centuries.
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 1 month ago:
This conversation is enlightening to me. See I just always assumed business people understood how engineering works, but were being obtuse to keep us on track or were just looking at the financial spreadsheets. But no it seems some people genuinely don’t understand that sometimes you spend a lot of time on things whether or not it goes anywhere because if you don’t you don’t develop any products or solutions.
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 1 month ago:
If I owned a multimillion dollar company, probably yeah. There’s a limit but for a groundbreaking company the RCA labs are more a warning of “but they actually have to complete projects at some point and have direction” than a “everything needs to be rigidly directed”.
“Hey I have an idea for something I’d like to exist” is quite possibly one of the best things a business owner can hear out of an R&D engineer’s mouth. You provide oversight in accordance with the risk factors established by your financials, business plan, and how good of an idea it is. But if a bunch of them like it as a product that’s a good sign.
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 1 month ago:
I never would’ve expected a handheld console that could comfortably play Baldurs Gate 3 on an airplane. I got it for indie games, but it’s expanded beyond that for me
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 1 month ago:
Oh hey, that’s why I hate capitalism as an engineer. The endless pursuit of profit first rather than making good things that people want is disheartening as someone who just wants to make things that make life better
- Comment on Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ 7 months ago:
Every once in a while the CCP does something that makes me think they’re feeling guilty about how much they welcome capitalism.
If only they applied that to workers rights and workplace democracy.
China too needs a communist revolution.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 7 months ago:
They said what they said. You’re the dollar store version of a man who without money would be an insensitive stereotype of the hill folk round here
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 7 months ago:
What in the misogyny fried hell are you on about?
- Comment on SteamOS 3.5.18 Preview released for Steam Deck 8 months ago:
As someone who got one for indie games it’s amazing. I love my oled steam deck and my wife keeps stealing it as well.
- Comment on Innovative sand battery can heat entire town for a week 8 months ago:
It’s a thermal battery. They always sound weird, but yeah they work
- Comment on Someone redesigned the Steam UI, and I need it. 1 year ago:
No they just got replaced by designers
- Comment on It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals 1 year ago:
That’s also just impressively authoritarian
- Comment on It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals 1 year ago:
Ah yes, facial analysis, someday people will stop thinking this is even possible to get to the error rates they want
- Comment on 4chan prepared me for this debate 😏 1 year ago:
Which is wild because how anyone can read anything white supremacist out of something even based of an Alan Moore comic is wild.
- Comment on Build him a dungeon? 1 year ago:
G as in gnu
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 1 year ago:
Nice. Yeah his prose is meh, but the world building, character writing, and volume are amazing. I’m in the middle of stormlight right now and loving it.
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 1 year ago:
Then there was L. Ron Hubbard. Nobody spewed words like L Ron. Nobody wrote pulp like L Ron. Motherfucker could churn out a book in a day
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 1 year ago:
Brandon Sanderson
- Comment on It causes vaccines 1 year ago:
If it makes you feel better the ban isn’t because kids could choke but because people used to hide shit like sawdust filling in food so we banned all non food completely surrounded by food
- Comment on Is there something that helps digest a cheese pizza? 1 year ago:
That really depends. Which gives you more issues, greasy diner food without cheese, or a milkshake? If it’s the former sodium bicarbonate or bismuth subalycylate should help as will limiting your fat consumption earlier in the day. If it’s the latter try lactase
- Comment on We never see the moon's turtle though 🤔 1 year ago:
The older books are definitely harder and rincewind books aren’t my favorite. If you haven’t tried the guards or Industrial Revolution books you may want to give them a try. Once guards found it’s feet it was some of my favorites.
But also yeah it can require smaller doses for some people. They’re a lot and the better books are heavy.
- Comment on We never see the moon's turtle though 🤔 1 year ago:
It’s so good. I was convinced it was overhyped. I was wrong
- Comment on We never see the moon's turtle though 🤔 1 year ago:
The turtle moves.
- Comment on [@GamersNexus] They Changed Everything: Valve Steam Deck OLED vs. LCD Tear-Down 1 year ago:
A large portion of the stock is held by employees so that may stay consistent for a good long while. Valve isn’t hurting, they’re able to continue to put out side projects like this and none of their competitors have really stood strong in the face of what they’re doing
- Comment on [@GamersNexus] They Changed Everything: Valve Steam Deck OLED vs. LCD Tear-Down 1 year ago:
Valve seems to be firmly within the category of enthusiast run company. The heads of EA, Microsoft, etc clearly don’t game. Valve is clearly run by people who do and want their hobby to have a better environment. It’s the only expectation I have for their consistent pro consumer behavior. That or the fact that it’s been wildly profitable so why stop.
- Comment on Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played 1 year ago:
I just love that binding of Isaac is still doing so well