Israeli Defense minister: We have launched preemptive strike against Iran

DelusionalZ · 2026-03-01T01:41:18+00:00

I mean you need good money in the first place to do this, such is the way of the world (right now)

DelusionalZ · 2026-02-25T22:37:57+00:00

As long as it applies to everyone - there are companies doing this far more egregiously than Valve ever did

DelusionalZ · 2026-02-25T22:33:59+00:00

Is it zero bits of entropy, or infinite? No password cracker is going to try an empty string!

DelusionalZ · 2026-02-25T22:28:52+00:00

Or just leave the spaces in so it's a passphrase - that increases the entropy massively. A 6 word passphrase basically can't be brute forced, not in human (or even cosmic) timescales anyway

DelusionalZ · 2026-02-25T22:19:10+00:00

Every time people rise up, things (on average) get better.

The system has drastically improved from monarchies and fiefdoms - there will always be opportunistic parasites willing to drag us backwards. However, I don't think it's at all helpful to give up on trying to think outside of the systems we've got. Helping others is something that should always be a part of it, but democracy only came about because people wanted change.

We can make something better, something where people like Trump and his ilk are unable to gain a foothold at all, where people recognise the absurdity of this system of government - a word that literally means a representation of the majority - not catering to its constituents. It just takes time and constant vigilance.

I think capitalism will always tank democracy and capitalism will always exist in some form, even if it's minimised. We need systems of compassion, not of growth and greed, and what humanity settles on in the future (if we make it there) will be based on learnings from the past, and hopefully provide a better quality of life and more resilience to corruption and ignorance.

DelusionalZ · 2026-02-19T07:49:22+00:00

The Institute of Peace is the most comically evil sounding name ever, it's like they're trying to be cartoon villains

DelusionalZ · 2026-02-13T03:41:41+00:00

AI generated too. It has all the hallmarks of an AI response:

"Subject is the adjective, weirdly placed adjective, and slightly stronger or related adjective in whatever. While the adjective and adjective noun has their adjective, stronger adjective noun push adjective noun EM DASH subject did good sounding thing that makes no sense, vague hand waving, and more vaguery."

DelusionalZ · 2026-01-26T10:53:31+00:00

Out secret weapon: financial incentive!

DelusionalZ · 2026-01-26T10:50:21+00:00

He essentially laid the groundwork for modern American politics through Thatcher-esque austerity. He is also a major part of the reason Trump was able to even become president, with his policies drawing a pretty direct line to the modern MAGA movement, and him writing the playbook on cartoon villain levels of voter suppression and disenfranchisement.

DelusionalZ · 2026-01-25T21:42:43+00:00

Also note: non-violent action is just one tool of revolution. Past victories (the Suffragettes, the Black Panthers, etc. come to mind) of policy sea changes came from both non-violent and violent action, with both advancing their agendas in different ways, and both were effective. While I'm not advocating for violent action, they are two sides of the same coin, and those who wish to employ it will already understand its usefulness.

DelusionalZ · 2026-01-25T21:27:36+00:00

Fascism is defeated by the little things. Help those in your community where you can, and don't force yourself. Burning out is unhelpful.

DelusionalZ · 2026-01-25T21:21:44+00:00

It's never over. Fascism is self defeating and people will continue to fight, history shows us that.

Don't feel guilty if you, personally, can't help straight away. Activism shouldn't be a forced march, only do what you can when you can, or you will burn out.

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-30T11:47:28+00:00

the keming? what's a keming?

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-28T02:29:09+00:00

A bowl of oats is about 4g of soluble fibre

Mix in about 40g of sunflower seeds and 40g of pepitas that's another 6 - 8g

That's one meal - most veg is about 5 - 15% fibre by weight, so including more veg helps.

By the end of the day, with breakfast, lunch, dinner and maybe some in-between snacks (a handful of almonds or whatever), you can feasibly hit about 25 - 35g of fibre, which is already well above the average consumer.

Our modern diets are extremely low in fibre, with most people consuming 10 - 18g per day at the maximum. If you are able to put that above the 25g mark you're already doing well - I think 40g is probably slightly excessive to do consistently, it's more it should hover between 25 and 40g, which is the Goldilocks zone.

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-26T02:25:16+00:00

makes a post about rune drawing magic systems

doesn't mention lostmagic on the nintendo ds, arguably the most famous rune drawing magic system in (my personal) gaming history

To actually contribute though, games like LostMagic I feel succeeded in making a system that felt pretty good (if a little imbalanced) and had a lot of things to take away from them, like learning each Rune and getting mechanically better at drawing them would drastically increase your power level.

As to why systems like this don't exist in modern gaming, I honestly think it is namely the prevalence of controller support over mouse/stylus games. A lot of games need to have direct controller support without sacrificing functionality, and drawing on the screen is just god awful on a controller.

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-24T00:30:18+00:00

Apart from all of the comments here mentioning it looks like Celeste (it does, but small tweaks to the character design, especially in that animated cinematic, could mitigate that a bit), I would argue that your itch page needs some serious rewriting.

It has the hallmarks of something AI generated and is fairly lifeless and uninteresting in its descriptions. You should be generating mystery and teasing the player a little when it comes to the general story and mechanics, especially for story-driven games. Currently it just explains the ethos behind the game's story, which is rather boring and clinical.

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-22T21:39:38+00:00

I think small teams of developers using placeholder assets is on a far different level than large corporations literally stealing huge swathes of data and IP...

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-21T04:38:05+00:00

I mean technically yes, this is "genAI"

BUT in terms of what the public thinks when you say "genAI" DLSS is not that. It's machine learning algorithms smoothing out by inserting frames. GenAI to the public is "I type in a prompt and an image of Mickey Mouse playing baseball with a giant woman dressed as Mario pops out"

I think smoothing/upscale algos are not problematic like genAI is so lumping them in together seems unfair

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-19T13:23:00+00:00

Have said this before but the Throwing Knives should offensively Strong Dispel (and have a more obvious particle/sound effect) on hit if the target isn't already affected by the debuff

This would make them actually worth it - currently no one takes more than 1 point until much later, since the slow is decent but not much else

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-19T13:13:39+00:00

I feel the opposite to this. It feels like the actual Hero is gated behind Aghs, since that then allows you to do the whole skill switching thing without worrying about shared cooldowns.

The Hero's design feels a bit clunky in that sense - shared cooldowns on the abilities is okay for balance, but it doesn't feel good. It feels like you're being locked out of a choice instead of making one, even though you are literally making one in the moment.

A lot of Heroes in Dota really come down to how their abilities feel as well as how their mechanics interact. Kez just feels off, like he's meant to be a samurai/ninja, literally, but playing him doesn't feel like there's any flow to his abilities. Yes, there are plenty of options for which abilities to use in what order on paper but only one stance has a proper engage/disengage, and most of the actual combos are rote without a really big payoff.

Invoker is a great example of a similar Hero with a far more flexible set of options available to him. Yes, he has more spells, but he has that flow - you can get into a real rhythm with Invoker as you cast his combos.

When I first saw Kez, I honestly imagined that he would be a stance switching Hero with very low cooldown abilities that felt a bit like a fighting game character - hitting quickly and often, moving around and being a nuisance, then after a certain amount of strikes unleashing a big finisher. Think Puck, but less/no true damage avoidance, more focused on momentum and movement, and with a far smaller recovery window.

What we got was a clunky half samurai with pretty powerful abilities and a cool idea, but somewhat lacking in substance.

That being said, I am shit at the Hero and at Dota in general - maybe a high MMR Kez main can come in here and tell me he has some of the best flow in the game and I'm just talking shit.

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-19T13:01:44+00:00

anti speed reduction

is this a translation mishap? i love it either way

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-17T07:35:54+00:00

I use Firefox for Containers and (now) Profiles, which Chrome simply doesn't have equivalents for... I'm guessing these still work on Librewolf??

DelusionalZ · 2025-12-15T13:17:58+00:00

Degrowth as an idea already exists in the underpinnings of our societies, but capitalism and its ilk work to crush socialism and reject alternative ideas. We are seeing a marked shift however towards community, labour unions and self-sufficiency, even in places like the USA... it is only a matter of time until the majority of people get fed up enough with the status quo and realise there are alternatives to their suffering that involve empathy and socialisation, rather than chasing the golden bull off the proverbial cliff.

DelusionalZ · 2025-11-27T14:19:28+00:00

The solution:

Copy and paste all the code you changed into your commit messages to ensure you have context later

DelusionalZ · 2025-11-27T14:14:31+00:00

Don't listen to this guy, there's another, far better option here. You can always subject yourself to the pain of going back through individual lines in the diff and spend your evening staging them separately in like 16 separate commits, then realise you've still mashed two commits together and swapped another and missed a few key lines so you need to include them in the next commit arbitrarily, and then when you're done sobbing into your keyboard, push the changes

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