Regrettable_incident

Regrettable_incident , 1 day ago

I love RTS but I rarely play it these days because I don’t have a lot of screen time. When I have half an hour to pick up my device I’m probably going to play an FPS. I did start a play through of the original homeworld campaigns a while back but I’ve not had time to progress far.

Regrettable_incident , 2 days ago

Yeah competition won’t work in a market where some competitors have such massive amounts of wealth. This is a failure of unrestrained capitalism and it’s bad for consumers ultimately.

Regrettable_incident , 4 days ago

Isn’t this just voice recognition software?

Regrettable_incident , 4 days ago

For one glorious moment of misreading there I thought there was a humane pin strap on.

Regrettable_incident , 8 days ago

Shame you’re getting so downvoted. People are so determined to believe in good philanthropic billionaires that they forget the system that allows the accumulation of such ridiculous wealth doesn’t work for nice philanthropic people. It was like this with Elon musk, before he sacked his publicists (my guess) before the cave diver thing. People were saying he was going so save humanity or some shit. All he’s done is fuck up twitter. Same with this guy. I use steam and I think my steam deck is a cool little machine but that doesn’t inspire me to tongue the sweaty arsehole of an obscenely rich guy.

Regrettable_incident , 10 days ago

Yeah, my job sometimes requires me to drive round areas where people may be sunbathing. What I do is drive in first gear even if it is frustrating and be observant because I don’t want to hit anyone. Seems like this ought to be common sense when you’re driving and humans may be lying on the ground.

Regrettable_incident , 12 days ago

I don’t know how many people would be accidentally strangled by their abusers - from what I understand, it takes a fair few minutes and bit of effort to strangle someone to death.

Regrettable_incident , 13 days ago

Your experience as someone who tried it for a week probably doesn’t reflect that of people who used it professionally for many years. Part of what made it valuable to media people was the ubiquity of possible sources, but it takes some time and work to develop links to those sources and to the professional contacts who have their own connections to share.

Regrettable_incident , 12 days ago

The experience of a news consumer is going to be different from that of a professional journalist. Kinda like the experience of eating a burger is different from working in a kitchen. Yeah, they’re two different things, we were talking journalism. Twitter was never great for news as a consumer imo, but it was a very valuable resource for journalists. I’m not sure how good X is for either but I’m pretty sure nether experience will have improved.

Regrettable_incident , 15 days ago

I’ve got a hammer.

Regrettable_incident , 15 days ago

The children too?

Regrettable_incident , 15 days ago

That makes sense, but I guess the problem is that they take up a lot of space.

Regrettable_incident , 9 days ago

That looks great. I’ve been rediscovering tofu a bit recently, it’s so versatile.

Regrettable_incident , 28 days ago

Yeah, it feels like a much improved version of an Eliza. Much improved, but still software. It doesn’t understand what it’s saying. TBF though I know a few humans like that.

Regrettable_incident , 28 days ago

Exercise gets harder to keep up when you get older and everything starts hurting.

Regrettable_incident , 1 month ago

I’ve been playing through the first two games again for the first time in many years to get set for this. They hold up pretty well. Haven’t tried Deserts of Kharak but might play that too. I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed them.

Regrettable_incident , 1 month ago

We don’t know the breed involved yet but we’re mostly assuming it’s pitbulls. They’re illegal to own here in the UK because they keep killing people.

Regrettable_incident , 1 month ago

We’ve never really needed to use photo ID in England and never had problems with fraud. You can only visit one polling station one time, the system worked fine. The Tories changed it to deliberately disenfranchise the poor who are less likely to have these types of ID, and they did this because they’re scum.

Regrettable_incident , 1 month ago

What about just one really big wasp?

Regrettable_incident , 1 month ago

Yeah I’ve been thinking that too. Not sure I have time to learn it though so I keep sticking with windows. But I really have to make the effort to switch.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

Isn’t it invite only?

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

Thanks I’ll check it out

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

The problem with democracy is that to really work it requires an informed electorate, and a lot of the information the electorate get is propaganda. But like you say, I don’t have a better alternative to offer.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

I kind of feel that the term ‘addiction’ is being used a bit freely these days. If you’re addicted to heroin, for example, and you’re unable to access the drug you are sick as fuck for a week. That’s not just a psychological phenomenon, it’s physical too. If a porn addict is unable to access porn I find it hard to believe that they suffer similarly. That said, people manage to mess up their lives pretty profoundly with gambling so perhaps it’s better to define addiction based on the harm done to someone life rather than the consequences of withdrawal.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

I suppose the feeling is that no actual children are harmed in making AI porn. It’s still something that sexualises kids though so I’m not sure how valid that argument is.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

Yeah fair point. I’m just thinking I’d call it a mental health issue more than an actual addiction. Extreme phobias are psychological and this stuff sounds kinda like the opposite of a porn phobia.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

I think Portugal will basically sell you a passport for a €250,000 investment. I don’t know about Spain. I had Spanish residency years ago but moved away and let it slip, residency was pretty easy to get back then. I’d fuckin love to have an EU passport.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

I’m not sure there are that many suckers. Trump’s campaign has bled his supporters pretty hard, they don’t have billions to invest. And serious speculators ought to know it’s not worth shit, unless they’re just riding the idiot wave. I suspect there’s something fucky going on.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

I had just started to appreciate twitter when musk bought it and it turned to shit. The big advantage of it was that it seemed like pretty much everyone was on there to some extent. Mastodon doesn’t have anything like that user base, though it feels like it’s growing and I much prefer the UI.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

Yeah I was going to say this is what overpopulation looks like. Then I remembered the witch trials in the 1600s and thought there’s plenty more crazy shit people have done. There’s more people now and arguably less crazy shit. Stuff like this is always going to happen though, human condition. Still horrible, we’ve got lots of work to do as a species.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

That looks great - except I see cucumber in there. Is it just me that finds the taste of cucumber really intrusive? Even if I pick it out I can still taste it on the stuff it’s touched.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

Yeah, it tastes of abomination. Not too keen on the whole melon family TBH. I like gherkins though. I’ll eat pretty much anything if it’s pickled.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

Damn I didn’t even notice. Guess I don’t really look at the pictures.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

Hate speech can also incite violence against targeted groups. I’m fine with freedom of speech but there’s got to be a line somewhere. I’m not sure whether this legislation is over the line or not, we’ll see how it’s enforced.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

I’m wondering if this may already be illegal in some countries. Revenge porn laws now exist in some countries, and I’m not sure if the legislation specifies how the material should be produced to qualify. And if the image is based on a minor, that’s often going to be illegal too - some places I hear even pornographic cartoons are illegal if they feature minors. In my mind people who do this shit are doing something pretty similar to putting hidden cameras in bathrooms.

Regrettable_incident , 2 months ago

Yeah most of the good veg here in England is from small organic growers, and that’s too expensive for a lot of people. I grow my own tomatoes and they’re yummy, the supermarket ones taste bland as fuck.

Regrettable_incident , 3 months ago

Trump in court is like Sideshow Bob in a room full of rakes.

Regrettable_incident , 3 months ago

Maybe you’re getting incorrectly billed, have you checked the meter readings? Smart meters don’t have a great reputation.

Regrettable_incident , 3 months ago

403 down, 10 up. That’s mobile, it’s all I have. In the UK it costs £10/month

Regrettable_incident , 3 months ago

And that’s something else that makes a lot of the world look at America like a backwater shithole. Feeling the need to be able to kill other people - that might be important to many Americans but from the outside looking in it seems ignorant and barbaric.

Regrettable_incident , 3 months ago

That doesn’t seem funny at all to me, maybe it’s in the delivery.

Regrettable_incident , 3 months ago

Yeah I’d forgotten about Populous, used to play it on my Amiga back in the day. It was the first. RTS type game I played iirc.

Regrettable_incident , 3 months ago

E.g. Belle Delphine bathwater stunt.

Do I want to know what this is?

Regrettable_incident , 3 months ago

Well that’s grim.

Regrettable_incident , 4 months ago

I’m not necessarily saying there should be a violent far left committing crimes. . . but the right keep trying to both-sides their terrorism shit, that’s how you get a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Regrettable_incident , 4 months ago

Yeah, if Linux wants to become an alternative OS for average folks, its users need to stop being so evangelical and obnoxious. I’m sure there are linux users who don’t blow goats, they’re just not on lemmy, or they’re keeping quiet.

Regrettable_incident , 4 months ago

This looks very pretty. But I can’t help looking at it and thinking about the mechanical implausibility of getting that flappy thing to fly. It looks like shrapnel waiting to happen. I never usually have a problem suspending disbelief in games, I think the ‘simulator’ label makes my brain expect something grounded in reality.

Regrettable_incident , 4 months ago

No, but TBH I haven’t really looked yet, I’m still working my way through the campaign. I’m told that the mods are still out there somewhere so I’d guess the expansion is too. I’m also told there’s also a community developed game that’s pretty complex - but again, I’ve not checked it out, my screen time is pretty limited these days.