MolochAlter

@MolochAlter@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disco Elysium, which plays really well on deck even with very low TDP, great for long lazy days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It hasn’t been. It’s just as clunky as it’s ever been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every console they release is so locked down you can’t even install their own os on it, I think you’re wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For my money? It won’t allow that without jailbreaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still use your Steam Deck much?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, during work breaks or when chilling in the living room with my wife while she does her hobby stuff.

  It’s not my main machine by any stretch of the imagination but it does get regular use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Pleads With Steam Deck Owners to Stop Inhaling Exhaust Fumes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the age of clickfarming every week is a slow news week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, but those are both expensive in their own ways.

  If they don’t see a return they won’t do either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t remove a tax without lobbying or breaking the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it is in line.

  Are you not sinning for fear of retribution? Would you give pause to your actions only cause I called them sinful, or would you dismiss my accusations and go on with your day?

  I’m dismissive because that’s what “token” credence gets you. Yeah, it may be possible, but we all know it’s about as likely as the sky falling tomorrow, so I’m not about to waste my time entertaining the possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I give a sentient mollusk the same credence, i.e. a token amount that does not change my behaviour at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Theoretical is not the same as “made the fuck up”

  Something being theoretical is as good as it gets short of being observed in science, it means the most evidence points to it being real which is why we spent insane amounts of money to find evidence of it.

  If you were to postulate black holes without evidence they would exist but they would still made the fuck up until proven otherwise, not “theoretical”.

  Again, have you accepted the lord Jesus Christ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, have you accepted the lord Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Feelings in the sense of “they feel things through a sensory organ and react to that”, same as sight, hearing, touch? Sure!

  Feelings like fear? No.

  Aversion from pain is not the same as fear, fear is aversion from pain that hasn’t happened yet, it requires the ability to abstract the concept of negative outcomes and expand the aversion from discomfort to possible discomfort.

  No plant has been observed reacting to something that it hasn’t experienced at least once before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  even for a mollusk

  Yeah LMAO no.

  Mollusks are basically meat plants, they have barely a nervous system to speak of.

  Also having eyes and a face has nothing to do with brain activity or neural capacity to process what you’d call an “inner life.”

  A mannequin has eyes and a face, a simulacrum of something need not share anything with it other than appearance.

  You can absolutely extend this kind of empathy to mammals and primates as we know they have the brain structures we have observed to be necessary to have certain emotions, but it’s not because of this asinine notion that if they look similar to us they have similar properties.