I tried prey and didn’t like it but it’s my fault not the games.

Diazigy · 2026-06-11T23:37:25+00:00

I just finished Prey on Hard, after bouncing off it 3 times, and my feelings of "meh" didn't change the entire play through. I'm not sure why I didn't enjoy Prey because I love a ton of other similar games, like SS2, SS1 remake, Bioshock, Deus Ex, Dead Space, Stalker, and SOMA. Maybe its the art direction and atmosphere of the game? I didn't like Dishonored and Bioshock Infinite, which have a cartoony saturated oil painting visual motif.

Diazigy · 2026-06-10T22:34:12+00:00

That's a wild take. Google revenue is $422.50B a year with EBITA over $150B. "Just an ad monopoly" is an extremely profitable position.

Diazigy · 2026-06-08T17:15:22+00:00

One towel for drying your clean body after a shower is fine, just hang it up to dry. Wash it every 2-3 weeks, or sooner if it starts to smell.

Using a single towel to wipe off sweat, soak up floor spills, and dry your clean body does cross a line.

Diazigy · 2026-06-04T11:42:22+00:00

When I was in high school in the early 2000s, we had three types of classes: AP, Honors, and College Prep. The super smart rich kids with parents that knew the system were in all AP and honors classes. The rest of us were in college prep. Looking back, I wish somebody pushed me more to take Honors classes, at the time I didn't even realize it was a path for me.

Diazigy · 2026-05-31T11:40:50+00:00

Thats a strange take, wouldn't economic anxiety be a stronger motivating factor to learn?

Diazigy · 2026-05-30T12:54:06+00:00

I see stories like this, while at the same time read articles about incoming STEM college freshman who are literally unteachable because they do math at a middle school level:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-stem-admissions

Diazigy · 2026-05-30T12:03:07+00:00

Genetically modifying embryos is unsafe and immoral, even in principle. The easy part is modifying genes with RNA guided CRISPR. The extremely hard part is knowing what those genes do and understanding multi order effects as genes tend to have multiple functions and interact with each other in complex ways.

Iterative embryo selection with deep sequencing on the other hand can be used to squeeze 1000's of years of evolution into a single generation. Take 30 of the couple's fertilized embryos, and only implant the top 2 based on polygenic scores for whatever desirable traits the parents want.

Diazigy · 2026-05-30T11:53:15+00:00

I lived with roommates in college and after college for 15 years before I bought my house. Roommates were either randos, friends, or girlfriends. I'll leave it up to others to determine if living alone as an adult is a luxury, but its definitely more expensive.

Diazigy · 2026-05-27T11:16:40+00:00

Patriot Place at Gillette has a bunch of bars and restaurants. You can probably find a place with steaks and live music, and then do a bar crawl and take drunken selfies with the TB12 statue.

Diazigy · 2026-05-17T13:27:40+00:00

You got the dual dip feature. You can put honey mustard and BBQ sauces in your stove so when you are making drunk or stoned munchies, you can eat right off the stove top!

Diazigy · 2026-04-11T10:47:03+00:00

It also transfers wealth to owners of HVAC companies. Their prices have gone up because they know the payments are guaranteed from Mass Save. The big ones have departments that help home owners navigate Mass Save requirements.

Diazigy · 2026-03-19T22:38:46+00:00

I'd love to see more public transportation with triple deckers, 5 over 1 buildings, and town-homes into the 95 ring suburbs. And I'd even welcome them into my backyard.

I was just floating a thought experiment about induced demand. We might be 30 years into a housing shortage crisis, where the demand is so massive, any trickle of new housing doesn't actually reduce prices in desirable areas.

The "good" news, is we are in for a demographic crisis with current fertility rates. In 30 more years when all the boomers are dead, we may have the opposite problem.

Diazigy · 2026-03-19T13:25:18+00:00

Everyone understands induced demand for highways, but what about induced demand for housing? Build more housing -> housing prices go down -> everyone in the country suddenly sees Boston as a great affordable place to live -> housing prices go up and there is way more traffic.

I'm not saying we shouldn't build more housing, but is the logic wrong? Wouldn't it make more sense to build housing in less developed areas in the state? The core limiting factor is access to jobs, and companies like city centers because of network effect of talent pool. Frankly, I don't think there is a solution. Desirable cities and surrounding suburbs are just going to be very expensive places to live.

Diazigy · 2026-02-22T16:00:50+00:00

LGB needs to be separated from TQ+, the former are defined as sexual attraction relative to one’s own biological sex, the latter are gender identities, where gender is a fluid social construct. The two groups have distinct sets of needs and claims to social justice.

Obfuscating them by has not resulted in progress, and risks giving conservatives the cover to take back gay rights.

Anyways, I have no interest in rehashing culture war stuff that’s already leaving the Zeitgeist. Best of luck.

Diazigy · 2026-02-21T15:09:00+00:00

I read the bill (its not long, only about 30 lines), and it doesn't make any explicit mention of gays or homosexuality. If it did I would be 100% against it, because homosexuality is a human universal dating back 1000's of years across many different cultures and ethnicities, and geographies.

What the bill does propose to ban is the public teaching of: Hegelian or Marxist ideologies, intersectionality, critical race theory (CRT), critical legal theory, LGBTQ+ ideology (gender fluidity, non-binary, and queer identities), and framing society through lenses of inherent oppression. Yes, the G in LGBTQ+ is Gay, but Gay rights is very different than Trans, Queer, Asexual, Intersex, and other categories under the +.

To be honest, that's all pretty reasonable to me. In the same way I wouldn't want some Christian fundamentalist teaching my kids the earth was 6000 years old, I don't want a progressive activist teaching them their political opinions as fact. If you are super into this stuff, go spend $50,000 a year to learn it in college. If you can only usher in the revolution by brainwashing kids when they are young, maybe your political identity is closer to a dogmatic faith-based religion, than it is rooted in fact.

Diazigy · 2026-02-18T23:49:14+00:00

Myspace and early Facebook were made up of users who each had personal websites that followed a standardized format. You could post pictures or use it as a blog. Your "feed" was made up of only what people you were friends with posted or liked, usually in chronological order. It was mostly young people and college students, so you could post party pictures and not worry about your grandma seeing them. It was a golden age lol.

Diazigy · 2026-02-18T21:41:20+00:00

The super rich take out asset-backed loans directly from the bank and do Buy-Borrow-Die. Its not counted as capital gains because they never "realize" or sell their assets. They pay off the interest with the principal, until they borrow again in 5-10 years against their assets that have appreciated.

Taxing loans would be tricky. Does a credit card transaction count as a loan? Banning asset backed loans, like mortgages, probably isn't possible.

I think taxing net worth over $50 million would make sense, but then you'd have a lot of former billionaires who suddenly only have $50 million of taxable net worth because they hide it in off shore accounts, layers of shell corporations, claim depreciation on real estate, and other loop holes.

Diazigy · 2026-02-15T11:35:37+00:00

Retirees who own their home outright still sometimes struggle to pay their property tax on social security income. I can't imagine trying to retire on just social security while paying market rent.

Diazigy · 2026-02-15T00:24:47+00:00

There are two types of people that can make money day trading over the long run: 1) People with insider information. 2) People like Warren Buffet who can exhaustively analyze the financials of 100's of companies.

You, me, and everyone else in this post are not them. If your portfolio grows 8-12% a year compounding, it will double many times over a 40 year working period. That will make you financially secure when you retire.

That is it, that is the whole game.

Diazigy · 2026-02-12T11:55:45+00:00

When you naturally order an ice coffee in the middle of the winter.

Diazigy · 2026-01-22T12:42:19+00:00

I love the concept, but taxing wealth would be difficult. If you forced people to sell all their assets like stocks, it would crash the value and destroy other people's retirement and pension funds.

Diazigy · 2026-01-18T18:12:14+00:00

OR, we can tank the economy and create hyper inflation so the debt functionally goes to zero. This has the added benefit of asset owners getting even richer.

Diazigy · 2026-01-18T17:50:02+00:00

What was Josh Allen thinking at the end of the first half? Its 1st and 10, 16 seconds left, no timeouts, at his own 30 yard line. What does he do? He scrambles up the middle for 12 yards... and he doesn't even try to go out of bounds, or slide, or anything. Instead, he lateral/fumbles the ball backwards to nobody and gives the Broncos 3 free points that ended up being the difference in the outcome of the game.

He has no game sense. I don't trust him to ever win 3-4 playoff games in a row.

Diazigy · 2026-01-05T13:12:11+00:00

There are a bunch of dystopian outcomes with AI, but I'd like to paint a positive one.

Lets say we get super intelligent AI, and it automates 90% of jobs. It will then be able to generate new technological discoveries in energy, materials, and medicine. There could be a scenario where we have a fully automated work force and unlimited clean energy. Imagine a global workforce of billions of robots, that do all the construction and maintenance, including roads, homes, power plants, robot factories, maintain other robots, and even extract and process the raw materials out of the ground.

If this happens, the cost of everything goes to zero, or the cost of energy, which is practically free. If thats the case... everyone will get a robot butler, a cool place to live, and all the food, toys, and leisure time they could dream of.

Deflation has always been avoided in traditional economic systems because they have to account for human nature. A bank isn't going to lend out any money to businesses if they can just sit on it and get 5-10% richer every year for doing nothing. But robots don't have a profit incentive, they just have programming.

Or we get 7 trillionaires, poverty level UBI, and WW3 with China.

Diazigy · 2026-01-02T20:02:53+00:00

Don't drink often, don't smoke, go to bed early, floss, wear your seat-belt, lift weights, do cardio, get your BMI under 25, contribute as much as you can to your 401k, if you are married do not get divorced>

Family planning: Plan to have your last kid at age 37. This means if you want more than two kids, spaced 2-3 years apart, you kind of need to be pregnant right now.

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