SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, study suggests

If you can’t control your anger and allow it to make you impatient and careless, that’s far more on you as an individual than on the idea of anger.

Plenty of people are quite capable of being quietly, patiently, absolutely fucking furious.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to news in Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, study suggests

It’s true, anger can make a motherfucker real productive.

The question is whether or not what they produce will be good for anyone else.

I fully agree that anger can be directed towards good goals, however, it can also be directed towards totally dangerous goals, both getting their drive to succeed in their plans from “anger.”

The person whose anger leads them to create something that helps people, or prevents the horrible violence they suffered, is doing a service for those around them, born out of the anger they had at a broken system. There have been many like this throughout history. Fred Rogers took the pains of his childhood and created Mr. Rogers Neighborhood for similar children, who were maybe bullied and needed a friend, much like he did in his youth.

The person whose anger leads them on a shooting rampage to kill innocents because they’re angry at a broken system and too dickless to know what to do other than lash out violently are the problem.

We need more Fred Rogers’ and fewer mass shooters.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in Mystery Star Trek 3000

Well folks, the crowdfunding for Season 14 has begun in earnest. If you want Joel, Jonah, Emily & the rest of the gang riffing stuff like The Original Series, get your manos on their crowdfunding!

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SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in KVN

I havent checked in a hot minute… maybe it did.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to games in Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I forgot to mention that! Yeah the nigh invulnerability for struggling players is a huge help.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in MFW I see the RISA, Prequels, and LOTR meme communities fighting and the Achievers are not included

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SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in MFW I see the RISA, Prequels, and LOTR meme communities fighting and the Achievers are not included

Beaver? Uhhhh, you mean vagina…?

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in KVN

I am glad we are at least getting a graphic novel to finish off the series.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to games in Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

Super Mario Bros Wonder threads this needle expertly, in my opinion.

Each level has a difficulty rating from 1 to 5 stars with 1 being easiest and 5 being “Mario Hard.”

To complete the main story, you only really need to beat mostly the easier levels, like difficulty 1-3 stars. All other levels are really optional, but there are a lot of them, and they are the 4-5 stars level difficulty.

So the “main game” by default should be “easy enough” for most gamers, and for those who want a challenge, there are tons of extra challenges for them to pursue.

I think I prefer this to a “difficulty setting” because it allows both casual and hardcore gamers to approach the same game in different ways. It doesn’t make you feel like you are missing anything from either way you choose to play. It also allows you to practice the harder levels if you want to get better.

Some games like Halo, if I recall correctly, literally rewarded you with special cutscenes for the hardest difficulty in beating the game. That can leave players who “aren’t good enough” for such high difficulty to feel a bit left out.

I don’t feel the same about Super Mario Bros Wonder, it just feels pretty accessible to all and I think more companies need to attempt something similar.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in Q is relatable

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SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in I heard we are posting Kevin

Wait… there’s another Kevin?

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SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in How do poor people in the states give birth without money?

Nope. You will have to fill out paperwork after triage and before being put in a bed.

You can be prosecuted for fraud for providing false info.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to memes in le federation

Hi 80, I’m son.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to memes in le federation

I guess Elon Musk isn’t the only guy in his fifties whose brain is stuck in teenager mode.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to technology in A mostly paper replacement for single-use RFID tags

Paperless RFID Tags Are Carbon-Based

OK, thanks headline. I thought all RFID tags were paperless?

A team of design program graduates from London’s Royal College of Art aim to change that. They’ve devised a mostly-paper RFID tag that’s as safe to recycle as a piece of paper with a pencil doodle on it.

So, not paperless? Mostly made of paper. Paperfull?

What the fuck even is this headline trying to say?

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EDIT: Thought about it some more and came back. I think the headline really is referring to all standard RFID tags, and not the new RFID tags referenced in the article. It’s just a confusing ass title to go with because it doesn’t reference the new tech at all. It just makes a factual statement about old RFID tech: that they are paperless and produce carbon pollution. Except isn’t it the production of them that makes the carbon pollution, not the RFIDs themselves? I don’t know, still a confusing headline, even though I’ve sort of sussed out what it was trying to say.

TL;DR: Headlines should probably reference what the article is about, not what it isn’t about. Which this headline did opposite here. It tells us in the headline what the article isn’t about.