kakes

@kakes@sh.itjust.works

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kakes ,

Noita.

I've gotten the Greed ending once (defeating Kolmisilmä and "completing" The Work), but I've never even considered attempting the true ending.

kakes ,

I feel like everyone has their preferred builds they kind of gravitate to and feel comfortable with. That, and for me, a lot of luck to make up for my lack of skill lol.

kakes ,

Seems like OP is not familiar with fae mythology.

kakes ,

Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren't bound to license agreements, turns out it's actually very easy to have a "massive" content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

kakes ,

Haha literally what planet do they live on?

kakes ,

Oh hey, I think I'm the guy from that post! Lol

Glad you're enjoying it! I've been having a lot of fun with it too - even if my wife sometimes thinks I'm crazy when I "just quickly run over here" to check the hours for this place, haha.

My "Global Rank" is a bit over 5000, but I'm not sure if that's the same number as you're looking at, given the range. 400th in Canada, though!

kakes ,

Honestly I wish there were less communities. I've said this before, but people treat Lemmy like late-stage Reddit, expecting niche communities for everything, and we end up with hundreds of communities with no (or one, if we're lucky) active members.

This problem is then amplified by the fact that these niche communities are split even further across several instances, so our userbase ends up completely dissipated.

I would love to see users focus on a smaller number of more general-purpose communities. Of course, these should still be shared across instances, but I think we would benefit a lot from having, say, a "video games" community instead of 500 specific game communities.

As a side note as well, I don't think we shouldn't be "allowed" to create more niche communities (though if an instance admin wanted to regulate, that's their call). I think this should be more of a user culture shift, if anything.

kakes ,

Man imagine this game with a proper modern physics engine.

I mean, I guess it inspired a lot of what we see in modern physics games, so I don't really need to imagine, but still, I would play it.

kakes ,

The only way to play, imo.

kakes ,

I've done this a few times through my life, especially lately as I've finally been getting my own life stabilized. Here's some more "notable" examples.

A family member, where I've been trying to mentor them and help them in every way I possibly can - sometimes at great personal cost - but as the saying goes, I've led them to water but I can't make them drink. Still won't give up, though.

Another family member I've done the same for has actually been trying to take me up on it. Still early stages, but they've started on applying for college in a field they're interested in. I'm helping them study since it happens to be adjacent to my own field, and I'll help cover the bulk of the cost if they don't qualify for gov't funding. I'm really hoping things work out for them.

The only time I've really actually seen obvious results is in my students where I volunteer teaching English. One student in particular really struggled to read even a single word, but in less than a year, they can now read most sentences on their own - which is honestly just insane to me.
Obviously it's like 99.999% their effort rather than mine, but I like to think I'm helping lol.

...writing this all out makes me feel like I'm bragging or something. Really I've just been in a rough spot for most of my life, and now that I'm getting my life together I'm just trying to give back a bit where I can. I just want everyone to be happy, lol.

kakes ,

(?<!MagnyusG)

kakes ,

On the other hand, with more money going to the US alternatives, there's more potential for a US company to step into that niche once it's open.

Not that it'll necessarily happen obviously, but it does make it a bit easier at least.

Also, I feel like I should add the disclaimer of "I'm not American." I wish I could show my country next to my username or something lol.

kakes ,

I'm at the age now where I'm thinking about getting into it.

kakes ,

Idk about elsewhere, but dear lord, the BestBuy near me has so many employees it's hard to fit into the store. Literally every 2 steps a different employee asks if I need help, it's actually insane.

kakes ,

I'm not entirely sure. Any time I go there is just full of huge groups of employees just hanging out chatting with eachother, then they swarm you as soon as they see a customer walked in.

My best guess is that because the demographics in this city skew way older, they need a lot of staff to help a lot of non-tech-savvy customers? That, or the owner isn't very concerned about spending money on staffing for whatever reason.

Honestly, while it does make me uncomfortable to go there, I'm overall in favor of it because it means more local jobs, which is always (well, almost always) a good thing. Like, it seems like a really chill job that pays above minimum wage, so I say those employees should milk it for all it's worth, haha.

kakes ,

Never really occurred to me before how huge a 10x savings would be in terms of parameters on consumer hardware.

Like, obviously 10x is a lot, but with the way things are going, it wouldn't surprise me to see that kind of leap in the next year or two tbh.

kakes ,

Give it to someone that needs it.

kakes ,

What for?

kakes ,

Aha, so I was right, you will give it to someone. >=3

kakes ,

Wtf its been a year?? What a wild ride!

kakes ,

Always in favour of healthy competition.

kakes ,

You absolutely aren't wrong there.

kakes ,

Important distinction: Get a bin for your house - no sane educated person wants flour to be sold in disposable plastic bins.

(I'm sure you agree, but it bares mentioning in case there are ever any business folk reading this.)

kakes ,

They may have accounted for this, but I feel like that study would be disproportionately affected by wealth.

Not to say I'm against your overall point, of course.

kakes ,

I had a shitty childhood, was miserable in my teens, was possibly even more miserable through my 20s. When I was 16 I told myself if I was still as miserable by 30 I would consider ending it there.

Fortunately around 30, after my low point of the pandemic, is where things started to actually fall into place for me - both in terms of external factors and, slowly, internal monologue.

While I still have a lot of mental holdovers from all that time spent in a depressed state, I would generally say I'm sustainably "happy" these days. Something I genuinely thought I would never reach.

To anyone in a bad place right now, just know that if you stick it out, life actually can be surprisingly worthwhile.

kakes ,

Yeesh that seems a bit harsh...

You might want to use some of that self-reflection to examine why you feel that way about someone when you don't know what kind of life they've had.

kakes ,

Wtf why isn't this the guy in charge of Bethesda??

kakes ,

Sounds like me in Factorio ngl.

kakes ,

Thanks!

kakes ,

My favorite part of this article is that these guys specifically created this algorithm because they thought it would be funny to co-author a paper together and name it this. Cheers to those guys!

kakes ,

For the record, the real trick is to add "site:reddit.com". But as the site decays over time that will sadly become less useful.

kakes ,

I feel like Aaron 100% would have backed Lemmy.

(Edit: Not that I or anyone can speak for him, obviously.)

kakes ,

100%. To be honest I don't even use this "trick" anymore myself because like 60% of the links are inaccessible now.

It's incredibly sad that they destroyed such a great resource, that place was like the Wikipedia of opinions.

kakes ,

Yes. I'm a guy, and I would love to get a girl's take on this.

Do you think Fermi's "Great Filter" is not necessarily that a civilization destroys itself, but that it discovers a way to destroy the Universe?

Like, maybe the fabric of our reality is more fragile than we realize, and the reason we don't see "aliens" is that the universe doesn't get old enough for intelligent life to meet.

Of course, this assumes we are in a statistically "average" Universe, since presumably there could be a Universe in which intelligent life co-evolves within the same solar system.

kakes ,

You should join the circus with that incredible skill at leaping.

kakes ,

I can't guarantee I'll watch that video, but I can guarantee I intend to watch it when I can.

Generally speaking, though, I do agree that most people's idea of "intelligence" is very anthro-centric, if that's what you mean.

kakes ,

Yeah, the sociological side of "quantified" intelligence has a whole host of issues.

kakes ,

That's exactly what I mean. Like, even if a civilization set out at near-light speed a long time before triggering a vacuum decay, the decay would just catch up to them and wipe them out before they could reach us. It's a theory absolutely rife with holes, but it's an interesting possibility.

I'll gladly accept nonbinary!

kakes ,

No offense intended, but do you identify as male? I can't even be having this conversation if you do.

kakes ,

If you're interested, here's an article that breaks down the "Great Filter" theory pretty well imo:
https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-great-filter-a-possible-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox/

kakes ,

I believe that science, math, are more inextricably linked to philosophy than people tend to think.

While my idea is particularly half-cocked, the Great Filter theory is an important question for us as a species to answer. If evidence ever came to light that there is some challenge awaiting us that could wipe out our species, it would behoove us to at least be aware that such a challenge exists - even without necessarily knowing any specifics.

I gotta admit, I really wanted to like 3BP on Netflix, but imo they added way too much "personal drama". It's like they intended to sprinkle it on and the lid came off the container lol. It was worth it just to see the ship though.

kakes ,

Phew okay. In that case, I do agree that a hyper-aggressive species could be the Filter, though it's worth noting that our radio signals have actually reached further than our furthest probe, so I would go off that when doing round-trip destruction calculations. I love Mass Effect's take on this idea (though I haven't played 3).

As for why I asked women: Mostly because I thought the non-sequitur was funny.

kakes ,

Agreed. I was never a "math kid", so when I got to university, I was very surprised that a large part of what I learned in my math courses was actually philosophy.

That shift in paradigm instantly made me interested in math, weirdly enough. Turns out I love math, I'm just not a fan of numbers, haha.

kakes ,

Ozymandias, because it's one of the very few I've read, and I liked it.

kakes ,

My family has a history of the bad kind of alcoholism, so I didn't even try alcohol until my mid-twenties.
I was very introverted at the time, and I have to admit, I loved the person I was when I was drunk.

Fortunately for me, I had the willpower and the awareness to realize that just because I liked it didn't mean I needed more. For about 10 years, I drank socially, in moderation, maybe about once a month on average.

I'll admit it did get a bit dicey in University, where I had a drink most days with my friends after class, but I very quickly dropped that habit after graduating.

Not that it's relevant (is any of this story?), but I recently discovered I have an issue with my liver - presumably not alcohol related - and as a precaution I've just stopped drinking entirely. Fortunately I'm a lot more "extroverted" these days, but I'll admit I do miss it sometimes.

kakes ,

Honestly, since weed was legalized here, my entire social group pretty much entirely ditched alcohol in favor of cannabis. Definitely makes it easier for me to not feel pressured to drink, thankfully.

kakes ,

The first and easiest thing I'm seeing is to up that meager developer hardware budget.

kakes ,

My last phone lasted me 10 years, and even then I was tempted to just swap out some parts to keep it running.

There's no reason 10+ years couldn't be the norm for a smartphone, at least for people that don't need a portable RTX 4090.

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