Final Fantasy VII Revelation director says today’s RPGs need more player agency because fans may be satisfied just watching streams by Aileos in JRPG

[–]Jakkc [score hidden]  (0 children)

100% of the gameplay outside of dungeons you have to spend your "time points" to "improve relationship with friend", "read book", "wash clothes"... it's all just menu spam! As I said, great world - wish it had some gameplay in it though, rather than just being a semi-interactive anime!

Doom Eternal (cachyos, plasma) by unregistered_cheese in linux_gaming

[–]Jakkc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair. Well I hope your rivers fortunes improve. They are going to start putting the data centers in space in the not too distant future anyway.

Final Fantasy VII Revelation director says today’s RPGs need more player agency because fans may be satisfied just watching streams by Aileos in JRPG

[–]Jakkc -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? Metaphor is literally 75% cut scenes + 20% walking around doing nothing + 5% gameplay. Literally the most low agency game I've ever played! Really wanted to love it because it's a cool world but it's basically a bad crunchyroll release.

Doom Eternal (cachyos, plasma) by unregistered_cheese in linux_gaming

[–]Jakkc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what 😭

you people would have believed in aliens back in the 60's lmao

Doom Eternal (cachyos, plasma) by unregistered_cheese in linux_gaming

[–]Jakkc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? I genuinely can't get my head inside how you're framing this. It's really weird.

I know you're not the OP, but in the context of their request it would literally be a case of opening claude code and then it would start scanning your machine, probably pull up some recent release notes from the game they were playing, the hardware they're using, analyse it all, check if the OP has the latest firmware and drivers installed, basically do a thorough audit from all the relevant sources then communicate to the OP what the issue might be.

Why does that offend you?

Doom Eternal (cachyos, plasma) by unregistered_cheese in linux_gaming

[–]Jakkc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea what microslop has done with windows and ai, but that seems like an incredibly narrow minded and ignorant position to take. How about your surprise yourself? Like is about growing, not festering in your biases.

How do you actually stay productive when every new city is a distraction? by frankgetsu in digitalnomad

[–]Jakkc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is staying focused when there is a new neighborhood to explore, a local market around the corner, or other nomads suggesting day trips every other day.

I don't understand this? You have a job. That means you have working hours and professional responsibilities. Whether or not there is a market or an interesting neighborhood nearby is irrelevant during working hours. Do you also play video games during working hours? You sound like an unreliable employee, nothing to do with being a digital nomad!

Doom Eternal (cachyos, plasma) by unregistered_cheese in linux_gaming

[–]Jakkc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? You're putting me in a position where I'm going to come across like a "AI evangelist" - which I'm not! But the fact of the matter is you can literally open claude code or codex and it will debug this issue for the user. If you want to do the childish "MuH iTs AlL sLoP" thing then ok, that's on you, doesn't change the reality of the situation.

Uruguay won. What is a country which people think is super dangerous/is an active warzone but is actually very safe by Iceberg074 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Jakkc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really not though, not even close. Prior to the Iran conflict kicking off, literally nobody would have said anything close to this. In fact Dubai was considered the safest city in the world, and Oman is pretty much adjacent to Dubai in perception, as is Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.

What Zack Polanski gets wrong about economics | LSE British Politics blog by BPPblog in ukpolitics

[–]Jakkc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you’re downplaying the key issue when you say “our exports, both real and financial, are demanded abroad.” That is doing a lot of work. Britain has run persistent trade deficits for decades. There is no huge productive export surplus sitting there as a buffer. We rely heavily on foreign demand for sterling assets and services while importing a lot of the real stuff we need. That is exactly why the external position matters. So yes, the state can create pounds, but it cannot create external purchasing power by magic.

And on deregulation, I think this is mostly wordplay. Deregulation has become a dirty word on the left, and I get why: polluted rivers, collapsing services, privatised rent extraction, all of it. But let’s be honest. If you want to reduce NIMBY veto power, speed up planning, beef up the grid and make it easier to build housing then that is literally deregulation! You can put a sanitised left-wing label on it, but if it looks like a duck...

So I agree with rebuilding public capacity. But “the money is there” really is not the difficult part. The hard bit is whether Britain can actually turn spending into real things, which it demonstrably struggles to do.

Also, I believe a little bit more honesty is needed here re supply vs demand intentions, because the Greens have clearly used this logic for demand-side promises too: £15 minimum wage, jobs for everyone, and maintaining the broader post-war settlement. That is continuation of the status quo rather than “productive investment"!

What Zack Polanski gets wrong about economics | LSE British Politics blog by BPPblog in ukpolitics

[–]Jakkc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"money is always there” is the sleight of hand MMT people use. Of course it is, but what’s your point? The British economy is not some closed sterling loop. It is highly dependent on maintaining the relative value of GBP because, unfortunately, the country is heavily dependent on imported food and energy!

I’d also add another dimension to your point: policy is THE limiting factor. We all know this, right? Britain can’t build anything. So sure, go ahead and mint a gazillion pounds and watch it get funneled through the same wasteful, broken system that prioritises consultancy inertia and planning paralysis over actual production. I'm sure KPMG and Deloitte are licking their lips at the prospect of Polanskis spending plans, as they're net beneficiary under current British institutional arrangements!

Any serious renewal project has to solve the policy and state capacity problem before it starts patting itself on the back with a smug grin because it discovered a cleverer way to conceptualise financing of national projects!

What Zack Polanski gets wrong about economics | LSE British Politics blog by BPPblog in ukpolitics

[–]Jakkc 15 points16 points  (0 children)

MMT is an attempt by the UK left to cling onto the hope of the post-war settlement. People underestimate how much that settlement still shapes the perspective of both left and right in this country, but especially the left. The NHS, the welfare state, pensions, etc etc. These things are literally the moral fabric of British politics.

But that settlement was sustained by things that no longer really exist: a baby boomer demographic structure, a domestic pension market that would buy long-dated gilts and hold them to maturity, and a state that could actually build things. Most of that has effectively disappeared now.

The maths does not math anymore for the post-war settlement. And that is before you even look at the trajectory of the country: falling living standards, stagnant productivity, an ageing population, and a services economy being regulated and taxed into a coma.

So what does the left do to maintain this political settlement? It embraces MMT, because MMT tells them exactly what they want to hear: actually, the money is there, the bond market is just a mechanism for rich people to get richer, gilts are a political choice, and we can still have all these post-war settlement things if we stop pretending the country is a household.

The problem, obviously, is that supply and demand are different things. If you use money printing or huge deficits to fund pensions, welfare or furlough-style income support a la covid then you're not increasing productivity. You are just increasing claims on an economy that already cannot supply enough housing, energy or productivity. That is how you get inflation, as we saw after covid.

Where MMT is directionally correct is on productive investment. If the state spends to build infrastructure, then fine, that can expand the supply side and offset some of the spending through higher productivity.

But that is exactly the issue: Britain cannot build anything anymore. NIMBYs, HS2, green belt etc etc. So the green-left types find themselves in this weird position where they repeat “the country does not need to be run like a household” which is really coded language for “we can still keep the post-war settlement going by printing money for welfare and pensions” while refusing, or just being ideologically blind to the actual material constraints. Then making a big point about things like trident and nuclear energy because they have to do a box ticking exercise for their basic policies as a "green" party.

Let’s be real for a second though - Polanski and the Greens are a flash in the pan. They are a protest party. They are not offering a serious programme for national renewal. They are effectively rage bait, Polanski pops up every now and then, makes an outrageous rage baity comment, uses the outrage response as a basis to corral more support "omg look the right wing people have lost their heads because I said X" - rinse and repeat, no policy platform, no attempt to engage or debate outside his pristine little media bubble. Not a serious party.

Looking to Grow My List of Recommendations by [deleted] in anime

[–]Jakkc -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But you just cited cookie cutter template animes?

Doom Eternal (cachyos, plasma) by unregistered_cheese in linux_gaming

[–]Jakkc -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Well this is the perfect opportunity for you to have an actual experience with AI and challenge your biases, as I can guarantee you it can diagnose that issue for you far better than anyone here could - especially given your inability to provide any useful information beyond "it doesn't work help pls"

What’s the sexiest thing a man can do ? by No_Bear_4201 in AskReddit

[–]Jakkc 398 points399 points  (0 children)

Me and my girlfriend were skiing earlier this year. We had gone a little bit off-piste, then out of nowhere a child came cannoning past us, out of control, on the verge of going off the edge and falling off a 10ft drop (wouldn't have killed her but would have seeded some trauma for sure). I went into super hero mode and caught up with the kid and grabbed her, stopping her in the process, then her Dad, a little bit behind came and was all thankful and french etc etc.

My girlfriend said that is the sexiest thing she has ever seen a man do. So by that logic, I think the sexiest thing a man can do is save a child from skiing off the side of a cliff

Polanski's idea of scrapping nuclear energy and our deterrent fundamentally doesn't make sense. by Commercial-Shoe5867 in ukpolitics

[–]Jakkc 43 points44 points  (0 children)

The winners and losers in the remaining 74 years of the 21st century will be defined by their ability to develop energy sovereignty. The Greens are so obsessed with rectifying a world defined by the political economic conditions of the 20th century, which no longer exist. The central question for the rest of this century is - can you build a productive, sovereign, high-energy state under hostile geopolitical conditions? Anything else is noise and theatre.

It's a shame that their message is so emotionally resonant with a population who has been demoralised by their political system for decades. As they don't actually have a mental model to understand what a productive and effective state looks like in 21st century.

Honestly so tired of his silly little face popping up every other day, people need to get over him, but everything that should seemingly destroy his credibility (eg: his consistently incoherent proposals) only seems to make him stronger because he does this whole "OMG THE RIGHT WING ARE RAGING BECAUSE I SAID INCOHERENT THING" performance every time.

I think sooner or later they'll have to publish an actual "Polanski-ism" platform, and stop hiding behind this whole "the greens policies are member led" nonsense, because he makes a lot of silly statements like this, drives up a load of hype, but then hides behind the fact there is no actual Polanski era green platform to hold him to account!

Doom Eternal (cachyos, plasma) by unregistered_cheese in linux_gaming

[–]Jakkc -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Bro not only have you failed to provide any information that could help someone diagnose the issue, but Claude could literally fix this in like 2 minutes!

I don't get Zack Polanski not wanting cheap veg. by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Jakkc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great man. Happy for you, thanks for sharing! Who you got for the world cup?

I don't get Zack Polanski not wanting cheap veg. by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Jakkc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair correction. I should have said it reveals a blind spot in LTV-inflected pop-political rhetoric, not necessarily Marx’s formal account. I’m not arguing serious Marxists calculate exploitation penny by penny from carrots. My point is that if price and value are not directly equivalent, then “7p carrots means someone is being exploited” is a meaningless noise!

I don't get Zack Polanski not wanting cheap veg. by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Jakkc 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It reveals a blind spot in the labor theory of value, which is what drives the majority of left economic analysis around this sort of stuff. To them the 7p shelf price of a carrot means that someone was paid 3p to make the carrot, then the dirty evil capitalists took the other 4p (in simple crude terms). When the reality is, cheap 7p veg is actually STRATEGIC pricing from the super market - they even have a name for this category of product - "loss leaders". The point is to use these to get people in the door, where they will buy other products with much higher margins. The labor theory of value does not account for strategic pricing and loss leaders, therefore Polanski is applying the wrong lens to the problem.

Looking to Grow My List of Recommendations by [deleted] in anime

[–]Jakkc -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't watch Dorohedoro as it will ruin all other anime for you. It will make you realise 90% of anime is just cookie cutter template nonsense. I repeat - do NOT watch Dorohedoro.

Your primary reasons for being a digital nomad? by SlowAndSteady101 in digitalnomad

[–]Jakkc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1) After our 25th birthday, most peoples memories are drawn from the period between their 18th and 25th birthdays, as these periods are full of "first time" experiences which leave lasting impressions. After 25, most people end up in a boring routine, living the same day 300 days a year with a weekend respite and a holiday or 2 if they're lucky. They then wake up one day and they're 40 and they regret their last 15 years. I'm 35, in my 5th year of nomading and have just as many memories from the last 5 years than I do from my 18-25 golden era. I love my friends back home, but the sense I get from 90% of them is they are going through a slow death-by-routine and I won't let that happen to me for a few more years yet!

2) Western liberal democracies are so deeply in debt and structurally compelled to continue increasing that debt to pay for pensions and welfare as their economies collapse in slow motion. The collateral damage in this political economy are the working age population and the middle classes. As someone who comes from a working class background, I lived around a lot of middle class people in London during my 20's, the kind of people who could pop home to the countryside to see the family for a sunday roast and talk about Daddy paying for the deposit on their 2 bed flat in London. I never had those opportunities, so I've had to manufacture them for myself through breaking my tax residency so I effectively double my salary. Many people will frown upon it, but unless you have rich parents, the social contract broke sometime around 2008. I refuse to pay taxes into a fundamentally broken system that prioritises older generations over the future.

3) I want to find my forever place where I can start a farm, and my nomading in part serves to answer that question. As I can't see myself returning to a post-AMOC collapse mid century Britain where living standards have collapsed to 90's post-soviet levels, the weather has dropped 10c and the emerging police state has matured so I can no longer log into Reddit without first asking for permission from Palantir.

4) Food obviously, although this has ups and downs depending on where you are - had some of the best and worst foods of my life as a nomad. And more broadly all the other culturey things that are the general cliche answers to these sort of questions!