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SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in KVN

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

SnotFlickerman , 9 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 , 9 months ago to risa in Q is relatable

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SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in I heard we are posting Kevin

Wait… there’s another Kevin?

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SnotFlickerman , 9 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 , 9 months ago to memes in le federation

Hi 80, I’m son.

SnotFlickerman , 9 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 , 9 months ago (edited 9 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.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in 2% of kids and 7% of adults have gotten the new COVID shots, US data show

In March of 2019 I made a comment online pointing out that US work culture wouldn’t respond effectively to COVID and that soon we would be right back to sending people to work sick because the God Economy matters more than public health.

The reason everyone is rolling their eyes is because no one ever really took it seriously. Those with the most money were able to get treatments and isolate themselves easily. They still are able to. The number of CEOs who demand return to office while also not showing up to the office themselves is quite high.

We were always disposable. There are effective ways to continue to handle this, but no one in charge wants to spend time or money on those things.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to technology in Apple Watch faces potential import ban in the US | The International Trade Commission has found Apple in violation of a bloody oxygen tracking patent owned by Masimo.

It would all be fine if it weren’t for that bloody oxygen tracking patent!

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in this is the fediverse, and we are the federation

Hard feelings towards LOTR you say?

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in Jack Smith Asks Court To Jail Trump If He Keeps Yapping About Witnesses

And I am reminded, on this holy day, of the sad story of Kitty Genovese. As you all may remember, a long time ago, almost thirty years ago, this poor soul cried out for help time and time again, but no person answered her calls. Though many saw, no one so much as called the police. They all just watched as Kitty was being stabbed to death in broad daylight. They watched as her assailant walked away. Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.

It can easily be argued that the constant kid-gloves approach with Trump and other rich and politically-connected defendants falls under “the indifference of good men.”

They understand the laws have been twisted to favor people like Trump, but they keep acting within the confines of the “law” like that makes them “good.” No, at best it makes them “lawful neutral” if we’re talking D&D alignment.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in Jack Smith Asks Court To Jail Trump If He Keeps Yapping About Witnesses

Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

If “good” thinks these rules that favor those with the most money, who spent a lot of money on senators and house representatives to make sure those rules favored them, that those rules should be followed with strict intensity, then yeah, good is pretty fucking dumb.

Society: You keep playing by these rules that favor the wealthy. We even have proof the wealthy paid for bills to be passed for the rules to be more favorable to them!

Government: Look, if we don’t follow these rules we’ve set up for ourselves where we’re always outspent by the oligarchs who actually fund us, we stop getting payche---- err, I mean, it all falls apart.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in Jack Smith Asks Court To Jail Trump If He Keeps Yapping About Witnesses

I mean, I get it, but like… so the other side (Trump & co.) is able to make mistakes and be absurdly emotional over petty fucking bullshit, and it’s just sort of accepted and okay for them?

I’m so sick of everything being tilted towards we can never appeal the people who are obviously acting in bad faith and everyone who is operating in good faith has to endlessly cross every T and dot every I while the other side essentially plays the pigeon and knocks all over the chess pieces while shitting all over the table and strutting around like they won.

Like, I get that some people have legitimate grievances for appeals, but I’m so sick of a justice system that hands people with money an effective endless route to act in bad faith to drag out cases and get away with it. Why is there no legal recourse to deny such things to people who are painfully obviously operating in bad faith? Why do we have to keep letting them get away with it to make the case “iron clad.” I don’t fucking get it, it seems like the whole system is set up for people like Trump to actively exploit it.

Why the fuck isn’t there more demand for reform of our criminal justice system? Not just the painfully obvious two-tiered justice system that favors the rich and politically connected, but just this basic idea, that the rich can’t just endlessly look for fucking loopholes to try to drain the other side of money to fight the case. Too much of our system really comes down to who has the most “Fuck You Money” to spend on lawyers for the longest, and I’m sick of acting like that’s fucking okay somehow. It isn’t, period.

This kind of behavior should be grounds for denying future appeals, not handing them out like fucking candy, for fucks sake. He lead a fucking coup, and if our government can’t grow a pair of balls and start treating this accordingly, he’ll end up pardoning himself and then being an insane autocrat who gives out capital punishment to his enemies.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

Exactly, media moves so much faster now, so they literally had a smaller frame of reference and were exposed to far fewer of these ideas than modern audiences. We take it for granted now, but it used to be difficult to get your hands on media that was more obtuse or complicated, because often they didn’t have copies at your local library, and as such, audiences back then just wouldn’t have the frames of reference that we do in allowing us to understand the concepts and references to other existing media.