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otp ,

Its not as if incumbents with approvals this low haven’t competed. They have.

And he’s up against a convicted felon. And we have the data on it. You don’t win the presidency with a felony conviction.

otp ,

Are the “probabilities” of both, based on historical data, not currently 0%?

otp ,

“X has never happened (until it happened)” is literally the point of the comic.

It’s not a divide by zero problem because we’re looking at all the presidents for a given criteria. N is the number of presidents elected.

Every one of those blurbs, and the two additional ones suggested here, are a situation where N equals the number of prior presidential elections. And all of them are 0%, because the listed criteria were always 0/N.

otp ,

I’d rather express it as the number of federally-elected felons over the total number of historical presidential elects… which seems to be what the comic is using.

otp ,

Or the instinctual downvote caused by reading something so stupid? Haha

otp ,

I think it’s very unlikely that the kids will be doing anything resembling work that’s productive for the company.

At worst, this is glamourizing fast food and fast food jobs to children. But this isn’t slave labour, lol

otp ,

Exactly. All 30 kids will probably love it. This probably isn’t something that parents would sign their kids up for unless they genuinely think their kid would enjoy it, lol

otp ,

It probably wasn’t written by a professional, and they’re trying to satisfy two demographics.

There’s the part for the kids, obviously, but the other demographic is the parents who want their kids to LEARN something at the camp.

Parents don’t necessarily send their kids to Pokemon Camp because their kid loves Pokemon, but because the camp advertises to parents that their kids will learn X, Y, and Z skills and stuff, lol

Washington man arrested after fatally shooting teen who had BB gun (www.usatoday.com)

Myers, who says he’s a licensed security guard, was sitting in his car Wednesday to conduct “overwatch” while his son trains because “he has seen numerous crimes occur” in the parking lot, according to the probable cause statement....

otp ,

Why would anyone not be?

otp ,

I’d bet money that a decent number of people who commit those kinds of crimes keep Grindr on their phone and will eventually use it to find someone to hook up with.

Closeted homophobes are real. Some are just sick fucks, but some are deep in the closet and self-hating.

otp ,

This is NotTheOnion material, lol

otp ,

I got to the word “Bullfroglike” and stopped reading

otp ,

I’m very familiar with Bullfrog. Loved a lot of their games.

I hate the trend of gaming journalists using “-like” to describe genres of games

otp ,

No hate towards Bullfrog or the game featured in the article. I just hate the meme of using “X-like” to describe a genre.

otp ,

I hate the meme of using “X-like” to refer to a genre

otp ,

We call them first-person shooters now. And I think they were usually called Doom-clones. But it makes sense that they’d use a word like that when a word for the genre hadn’t really been codified by that point.

otp ,

I saw another article describing something, perhaps this game, as a “Theme Hospital-like”. Theme Hospital-like is not a genre.

Souls-like is likely in a similar situation as Rogue-like or perhaps “Doom Clone” from back in the day, where a new genre is emerging and there isn’t yet an agreed-upon term for it. Rogue-like stuck around probably because it was such a niche game/genre for so long and people had been calling it that for maybe decades before the term went mainstream. Doom Clone died out because the genre branched out so much.

I wouldn’t necessarily want to reduce “Souls-like” to another genre, because it may very well be its own genre. It may end up “growing” a new name like First-Person Shooters did, or it may end up sticking around because “X-like” may be the new thing to do.

I’m just getting annoyed by seeing things like “Stardew Valley-like”, “Dragon Quest-like”, “Theme Hospital-like”…those tell you nothing if you don’t know the game they’re talking about, and if you DO know the game they’re talking about, you might get the wrong idea what the game is about because the author is making a bad comparison.

otp ,

Yeah, Rogue-like is a notable exception. The difference is that it’s an established term for a genre, whereas a single journalist saying something like “Theme Hospital-like” is not a genre.

otp ,

My dislike of it stems from the marketing ploy aspect. It feels like clickbait; authors trying to get hits from people looking up (or “interested in”) a certain game even if it may not be an accurate description.

I think the Doom-like FPS’s are getting called “Boomer Shooters” now, lol…but we’re ironically in a situation where we need a new term again. Or we would be if that genre were popular in the mainstream.

I think describing the game in the article as a “Management Sim inspired by Theme Hospital/Bullfrog” would get across the same concept, for example. I don’t think it’s difficult. I think it’s just becoming a popular thing for gaming journalists to do

otp ,

Is there really no other way to say that? Lol

otp ,

I can’t help but read the first word of your username as rhyming with “Protoss”

otp ,

I’m glad that this is the controversy on Lemmy, and not things like Reddit had with r/JailBait.

I’m perfectly fine with just avoiding interactions with lemmy.ml communities. They can exist, even if I disagree with them. And if I wanted to participate, I’d probably be welcome so long as I follow the rules. Unlike r/Conservative, which required proving yourself to the mods to get a pass to enter or something…lol

But yes, it’s definitely good to know what the .ml stands for, and to keep that in mind whenever one sees Lemmy.ml.

otp ,

Oh come on downvoters, that was funny! Haha

otp ,

I can’t even see what instance you’re from, but your account is only a couple months old. Why not create one on a different instance?

otp ,

No, I don’t think I mixed up r/Conservative with r/BlackPeopleTwitter…lmao

otp ,

It was an include list, from what I recall, that required signing up for having a mod go through your message/post history, lol

otp ,

Well, things have turned around! Haha

otp ,

I don’t doubt it. There’s definitely a difference when something is in the Fediverse though rather than all hosted on the same servers. It’s a lot easier to say “We don’t condone this” when a server is defederated from the gross ones.

otp ,

Ooh, good to know. I’m still a noob here, lol

otp ,

you will get at best dog pilled

What’s a dog pill? Lol

otp ,

So yes, I think it is very important that people are being made aware of this and I also think a concerted effort should be made to move bona fide communities away from an instance ruled by bad faith actors.

Yeah, this sounds perfectly reasonable.

It’s not like it was some grand conspiracy to make all those communities communist. It’s just how Lemmy originated. As Lemmy grows, it’s bound to get more communities on other instances, and if enough people hate the moderation on ML, then the other communities’ growth will start to outpace the originals. It’s not like Reddit where there are default subs (afaik).

otp ,

Yeah, though I think there’s a difference between Reddit having it vs. Lemmy having it. Especially with popular/general instances defederating from the scummy ones

otp ,

one drive is so fucking invasive in 11

Which one? C? I think you can change it!

fathermcgruder , to nostupidquestions
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Is "resting confused face" a thing?

@nostupidquestions

otp ,

I think “confused” is too broad for this expression.

He looks like he just asked someone what a joke means because he doesn’t get it, and they refused to tell him. It’s almost a face of frustration stemming from confusion.

otp ,

Given the choice between an online community with assholes being moderated away and an online community without asshole moderation, I’m going to choose the one where assholes get warned, muted, and banned.

My favourite subreddit had a rule, “Be Civil”. I much preferred that sub over ones that didn’t have that rule (or one like it). Too many people don’t know how to behave in public forums, and those people make the internet a lot less pleasant. See Facebook and Instagram comments if you’d like some examples.

I don’t play many online games, except with friends exclusively, or where there is no chat (especially voice chat). If there were games that had moderated communities that banned assholes, then I’d be more likely to venture into that world…and maybe I’d even start turning on my mic.

otp ,

You want players who are invested in winning.

Yes. Players who are invested in winning. Not players who have poor emotional regulation or social behaviour and are invested in being assholes.

It’s called sportsmanship. Yet some online games sound worse than middle school sports games… probably because, for years, nobody got punished for acting like a middle schooler who can’t control their emotions or behaviour.

As for your statement on toxicity preventing you from playing multiplayer doesn’t seem true. There are plenty of games where you will never see toxicity and you still don’t play any of them so that can’t be what’s stopping you.

I’m fascinated by how you know so much about the games I don’t play! Lol

otp ,

As long as people aren’t breaking the rules regarding hate speech

Hate speech and threats of violence are what the article is about.

So if you agree that rape threats and certain words (that constitute hate speech) are ok to ban, then you’re in agreement with the article and other people saying “People shouldn’t need to grow a thicker skin”.

Unless you’re against hate speech, but in favour of threats of violence, but I don’t think you are just because you didn’t explicitly say it, haha

otp ,

Some Chinese 80’s and 90’s kids are going to be ecstatic to find this out

otp ,

Which doesn’t make it okay, of course.

They should either disclose longer turnaround times for people in those situations, charge (after authorization) for a non-warranty repair, or send the device back unrepairable if that’s the case (which they do in some regions).

otp ,

Isn’t the idea that they’d say “Sorry, your device isn’t supported for our repairs, and we’re unable to send anything back to you”? So the user gets nothing?

otp ,

If that’s the case, then that’s fine.

Another article I came across suggested that Samsung would “destroy” the device, but nothing about Google doing that. I thought that that’s what all the rage was about, but instead it might just be clickbait, lol

Fires set off by Hezbollah rockets spread through northern Israel (www.reuters.com)

Israel’s parks authority said earlier on Monday that fires had already covered hundreds of acres. The national fire service said its firefighters were operating late into the night in several spots, including in the town of Kiryat Shmona, where they were trying to protect a line of houses.

otp ,

Is this Iran actually attacking Israel now?

otp ,

Exactly! There’s Bollywood, Tollywood, K-Dramas, J-Dramas, C-Dramas…

otp ,

Tap for spoilerThat was the joke

What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?

I used up play a ton of Doom mods years ago and a lot of the TCs were fun but lacked substance beyond the surface. Some of the new ones are cool but overly complex. (The Sonic cart game has an hour long tutorial before you start). I was a big fan of Simon’s Destiny, the Castlevania mod for Doom....

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uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Download – Best version to play today (free)

…steampowered.com/…/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters… – Steam download of the “no frills” version (also free)

otp ,

This comment chain is actually about HL2.

otp ,

You take your magic wand and make all guns disappear, people who want to harm others will turn to knives. Take those away and they’ll turn to baseball bats, brass knuckles, chains, and metal pipes.

Ok, let’s do it.

Guns are a lot more dangerous than anything else you mentioned.

Also, how many children are killed in knife accidents every year?..

otp ,

Isn’t the rape capital South Africa?

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