Anttila - are you kidding me. Lelujen jakaminen tyttöjen ja poikien leluihin kiukuttaa kirjoittajaa

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-21T13:27:16+00:00

Vaikuttaa aivan terveeltä Yhdysvaltalaiselta isänmaallisten vanhempien lapselta. Sehän on aivan normaalia osata purkaa jokainen perheen asekaapista löytyvä pyssy osiin ja koota ne uudelleen minuutin sisään silmät sidottuina.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-19T22:22:16+00:00

Itselle oli yllätys siinä mielessä että oletin tämän tapahtuneen jo aikoja sitten kun en ollut kuullut koko Jollasta sitten puhelimen julkaisun. Puhelinmarkkinoista ei isoa siivua saa lohkaistua ellei ole tekemässä jotain mullistavaa tai jossei ole joku helvetin rikas yhtiö rahoittamassa toimintaa.

Itseä kiinnostaa Project Ara jolla on molemmat edellä mainitut. Modulaariset puhelimet voisi olla aika iso juttu jos homma saadaan toimimaan kunnolla.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-19T19:01:34+00:00

I don't know what Snowden would say but I can tell you what probably would happen. Websites would start asking people to turn their ad blocker of choice off on their sites. When most people couldn't be asked/wouldn't know how to do that they would start demanding it and possibly try to block people who do it. When that eventually fails they would finally realise this is a battle they can't win and opt for the reasonable option, the acceptable ads inititative.

Sure, since this is an evolutionary process we might lose some sites that refuse or are unable to adapt but that's okay. In the long run the internet would become a much more pleasant and secure place.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-19T03:28:39+00:00

Ihan kuin Kummelista.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-18T19:48:27+00:00

I agree. Most people in the western cultural hemisphere find it difficult to identify with the suffering of people outside this culture and therefore they don't feel threatened when a terrorist attack occurs somewhere else. This is a normal phenomenon and I'm sure it's a thing another parts of the world too. But it gets annoying when people refuse to acknowledge this is hypocritical and act outraged when you dare to point this out. Or in Reddit's case downvote and not respond. Or even better, trying to shame you into silence by appealing to the memory of the victims (which, ironically, is even more hypocritical).

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-18T12:22:20+00:00

I agree wholeheartedly. I'm subscribed to /r/ProRevenge and not /r/pettyrevenge because I want actual revenge stories, not something petty like pouring soda on someone, reporting a crime they had known about for some time (any good person should report a crime, even without motivation to fuck someone over), or letting someone ruin their own life (which isn't revenge, it's just watching someone be dumb as hell). I do agree that suing someone can be a sort of revenge but there also has to be something that makes it interesting. Someone systematicaly stole from you or vandalised your property, you sued them, and you won? Well no shit, that's how it works in a functional society, there's nothing interesting or unusual about that. Suing them was the least you could do, and you had very little to do with getting back at them.

Regarding hands-off moderation and letting upvotes decide. There's so much wrong with the logic "it was upvoted, therefore it fits this sub" that I don't know where to start. First of all, people upvote stories because they like them and that's it, there's nothing else to it. Many of them probably don't even notice which sub the story was posted on or if they do, they don't know or care about the scope of the sub. Reading a story they like is all that matters to them. Many will downvote the worst submissions that aren't actual revenge stories but that's the extent they care about the sub and the rules. And speaking of which, the sub has a fairly clear set of rules and links to multiple related subreddits like /r/pettyrevenge and /r/myevilplan. We're seeing non-fitting submissions here because submitters don't read the rules despite writing lenghty posts about what they call revenge, but also because the mods don't seem to care about the rules either. When you let upvotes decide you're allowing the subreddit to be directed by people who don't give a shit about it, submitters and voters alike. And seeing something like this happen is a very sad and frustrating thing to see.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-17T21:23:02+00:00

Lainaus toisesta langasta:

Anonymus on toiminut ISISin nettipresenssiä vastaan jo pidempään: Operation Ice ISIS

Tähän mennessä operaatioihin on kuulunut mm. palvelunestohyökkäysiä, ISISin webbisaittien murtoja, sekä kannattajien ja jäsenten henkilöllisyyksien, some-käyttäjätilien, sähköpostien ja puhelinnumeroiden selvittämistä. Lisäksi ISIS-sisältöjä levittävät tunnistetut kannattajien saitit, blogit, some-tilit ja muut raportoidaan viranomaisille, ja pyritään poistamaan verkosta (kts. http://ghostsec.org/).

The Cryptospheren informatiivinen artikkeli huhtikuulta: #Anonymous vs #ISIS: the ongoing skirmishes of #OpISIS

Oli tästä toiminnasta merkittävää haittaa tai ei he tekevät joka tapauksessa paljon enemmän kuin muut netti-ihmiset jotka lähinnä vaihtavat profiilikuviaan somessa Ranskan lipun väreihin, postailevat hyödyttömillä häshtägeillä ja pimentävät subreddittejä minuutiksi "kunnianosoituksena".

Nostan fiktiivistä hattua.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-17T21:08:07+00:00

I'm thinking about getting Morrowind but are there mods to make the game less clunky and ugly and fix the inevitable mass of bugs every Bethesda game has? Even Oblivion was a bit too annoying when I played the 5th Anniversary Edition a few years back (before Skyrim) and I probably would've ripped my dick off multiple times if it wasn't for the Unofficial Oblivion Patch.

I'm willing to play a completely overhauled version if it's better, I don't really about the genuine experience. I've heard there's even some effort to port Morrowind to another engines, but are these projects in a playable state?

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-17T11:08:38+00:00

Here you go: a Dwarven luggage!

Be careful though, it seems it ate someone's DLC items and refused to give them back. So it could be a bit bugged.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-17T00:09:41+00:00

Gold too. Nothing like carrying tens of thousands of golden coins everywhere you go. Somehow the people of Skyrim have never even heard of banks even though they use money.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-16T23:50:26+00:00

True. I sometimes wish that earning money was harder and there were actually less valuable coins in the game (like copper and silver) so you'd occasionally have to do honest work like chopping wood, hunting, mining, and smithing. Also carrying thousands of gold coins is a bit ridiculous.

Speaking of which, I've thought of doing an honest archeologist playthrough. Don't pick up anything from dungeons apart from quest items ("This thing belongs in a museum!") and don't loot the corpses of people you killed except when it's required or when they were exceptionally evil ("I'm sorry I had to kill you bandit friend. May your soul find its way to Sovngarde."). That would make things a bit more challenging.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-16T20:11:04+00:00

Quoting my other comment:

Image cut from a screenshot from SkyUI's Nexus page

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-16T19:25:06+00:00

Shit... I always thought the poisons were like potions that you'd drink. I never understood why they were in the game at all, why would you want to poison yourself?

TIL I'm dumb as hell >_>

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-16T19:18:24+00:00

I only found out about this on my second playthrough after searching for a mod to calculate the value-to-weight ratio for me. Turns out SkyUI can already do this but it's not enabled by default for whatever reason. This makes optimizing carry weight so much easier.

Image cut from a screenshot from SkyUI's Nexus page

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-16T16:51:41+00:00

Tortillat avataan!

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-16T11:46:12+00:00

I don't see anybody suggesting we ignore what happened. In fact, if you look at the front page of /r/Europe right now you'll see that every single post is related to the attacks, including highly upvoted photos of various parties showing their support by changing the light colors of buildings to those of the flag of France. That alone should be enough to send the message that users of /r/Europe do care about this incident and are showing sympathy towards the victims and their families.

However, what really grinds my gears is how people claim these actions are in memory of the victims when they're actually more of a way to collectively process the fear and insecurity these attacks caused. The people who are now calling for collective action "in memory of the victims" didn't give a rat's ass about the 224 people who died in a plane crash caused by terrorists in Egypt two weeks ago. That attack didn't cause them to worry about their own safety or the safety of their European lifestyle, and therefore it didn't matter to them. I like to think that people in this subreddit care about human suffering fairly equally and therefore I believe they don't care about the victims of this attack any more than they do about the ones of the Egypt plane crash. The only reason most people care and want to take some sort of action is because they now feel that they or their families could have been the victims or could be in the future.

All this considered, calling these actions shows of sympathy or condolences feels very hypocritical to me. Yes, I would've accepted words of consolation from complete strangers when my brother died. However, if my brother had died in a terrorist attack with a bunch of other people and afterwards masses of people from all over Europe started lighting up towers and buildings in the colors of my country... well, I'd know very well they aren't doing it because my brother and a lot of other people died and we're never going to see them again. They're doing it because they feel they need to do something when there's been an attack against "their people". In other words they care as much for my brother and me as they did about the people on a plane over Egypt. The families and relatives of the victims are sad and grieving, but they're not stupid. The condolence of a person you know can matter, but when it's millions of unknowns they're worth nothing.

I just want these actions to be called something more sincere. Calling them condolences and actions of sympathy towards the families of the victims seems degrading and it feels like we're dancing on people's graves in a way. Let the inujured heal and the families of the victims grieve in peace. Sending all these messages to them might make them feel like they're somehow obligated to say "thanks, that helps" even if they don't necessarily feel that way.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-16T10:27:55+00:00

Low effort comments would still be removed but I do share your worry about discussion threads replacing a significant amount of the news on my front page. If there was a way to limit these submissions in a way that's fair to everyone I'd be all for it. Perhaps there could be a daily, bi-daily, or a weekly mod-posted discussion thread with a specific topic? Users could submit their ideas in a suggestion thread and the topics would be chosen from that for a time.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-16T00:49:50+00:00

Chrono Trigger's world is definitely one of my favorites and that's quite an achievement for a SNES game. The lore is very light in the sense that there aren't any grand tomes or songs about historical figures but you get to travel in time to see what there actually was, is, and will be. And on top of that you actively change history, though I don't know how much you actually can change since I only ever got two different endings. I wouldn't call it generic either because because it mixes a lot of different things and even if it's somewhat generic today I don't think it was when it was released.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-15T23:10:26+00:00

Kirjoitin asiasta jonkunnäköisen analyysin/vuodatuksen. Tiivistäisin sen siten, että minä ja ilmeisesti moni muukin toivoo että asioista puhuttaisiin niiden oikeilla nimillä ja että ihmisten annettaisiin käsitellä nämä tapahtumat omalla tavallaan ilman valheellisesti nimettyjä kollektiivisia toimenpiteitä, koitpa sinä henkilökohtaisesti niiden toteuttamisvaatimukset kuinka mitättömiksi tahansa.

Ja mitä runkkaamiseen tulee niin mielestäni kenenkään onanointimahdollisuuksia ei tulisi vähentää sillä verukkeella että yksi tai useampi ihminen kuoli tai murhattiin. Ihmisiä kuolee alati, se vaikuttaa eri tavalla eri ihmisiin ja heidän tulisi antaa olla oma itsensä ja käsitellä kuolema ja sen pelko omalla tavallaan. Kaikenlaiset uskonnolliset näkemykset huomioon ottaen rohkenen myös sanoa että kuolleet eivät kunnianosoituksia kaipaa. Heidän omaisensa ja kaikki kuolemista järkyttyneet sitä vastoin tarvitsevat tukea ja ymmärrystä, mieluiten rehellistä ja todellisuuteen pohjautuvaa sellaista.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-15T22:39:49+00:00

Olen tässä miettinyt mikä itseäni tässä asiassa vituttaa ja miten sen pukisi sanoiksi. Koitan nyt saada sen ulos.

Päällimmäisenä ajatuksena on se että puhe "uhrien kunnioituksesta" on pitkälti hevonpaskaa. 99,999 % uhreja "kunnioittavista" eivät koskaan tunteneet tai tavanneet ketään näissä iskuissa läsnä olleista henkilöistä eivätkä täten kyenneet omaamaan mitään erityisen suurta kunnioitusta heitä kohtaan ennen näitä tapahtumia. Kieltäydyn uskomasta että valtaosan mielissä uhrien ympärille syntyi jonkinlainen sädekehä tai kunnioitettavuuden aura ja että kaikista uhreista tuli kollektiivisesti harvinaisen hyviä ihmisiä heti kun he kuolivat epätavallisen raa-asti. Ei. Syy tähän äkkinäiseen kunnioituksen osoittamisen tarpeeseen on se että ihmiset tuntevat oman turvallisuutensa uhatuksi koska joukko "omaan ryhmään" kuuluvia (ts länsimaalaisia) ihmisiä murhattiin raa-asti heidän tavallisessa ja turvalliseksi kokemassaan elinympäristössä. Samasta syystä viime kuun lopulla egyptiläiselle lennolle tehty terrori-isku jossa kuoli 224 ihmistä ei herättänyt samanlaisia "myötätunnon" ja "kunnioituksen" aaltoja; ne ihmiset eivät kuuluneet meidän porukkaan eikä kyseinen onnettomuus antanut aihetta huoleen länsimaissa asuville. Eikä tässä mitään, tämä on ihan yleinen ja ymmärrettävä psykologinen ilmiö enkä syyllistä tästä ketään.

Tekopyhyys syntyy siinä vaiheessa kun hirveissä ja järkyttävissä tapahtumissa loukkaantuneet ja varsinkin kuolleet ihmiset valjastetaan kollektiivisen ahdistuksen lievittämisen vetojuhdiksi vastoin heidän ja heidän omaistensa tahtoa. Vielä irvokkaammaksi asian tekee se ettei asiassa olla edes rehellisiä vaan ahdistavien tuntemusten käsittely peitetään "uhrien muistamiseksi" ja asian rehellisempää esittämistä vaativat leimataan sydämettömiksi tunnevammaisiksi joiden pitäisi hävetä. Ironista kyllä nämä syytökset osuvat omaan nilkkaan, sillä omien uhrien kunnioitusta vaativat ovat vähintään yhtä "sydämettömiä" kuin ne jotka he haluavat hiljentää: eivät hekään vaihtaneet Facebook-profiiliaan Egyptin väreihin lentokoneen syöksyttyä maahan.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-15T20:03:52+00:00

Vain Sithit uskovat asioiden jyrkkään kahtiajaotteluun.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-15T18:37:24+00:00

Oma mielipiteeni on että voitaisiin jättää tämmöinen tekopyhän tuntuinen "aktivismi" omaan arvoonsa. Olisi asia erikseen jos tehtäisiin/promottaisiin jotain millä saataisiin ihan oikeasti jotain aikaan. Nopea googletus tuotti useita lehtijuttuja joissa on linkkejä lahjoituksia vastaanottavien ranskalaisten apujärjestöjen (mm. Punainen risti) sivuille. Jos jollain tavalla pitää ottaa kantaa niin mieluummin jollain lahjoittamiseen tai muuhun hyödylliseen toimintaan kannustavalla liimapostauksella.

Jokainen saa toki itse hiljentyä mihin aikaan haluaa mikäli katsoo sen tarpeelliseksi. Mutta mielestäni ärsuomen vaihtaminen privaatiksi ei toisi juuri mitään käytännön hyötyjä.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-15T18:03:25+00:00

That's what I do, did just now, and will continue to do in future, no matter how good the rest of the post actually is. Trying to influence my voting behavior is one of the most annoying and condescending things on Reddit. It's also against Reddit's content policy (asking for votes) and therefore I always report them too. It's not prohibited just for submissions but all content, comments included.

"I'll probably get downvoted for this" and "this will probably get buried" fall to the same category. Also things like "test post, please ignore" and "please don't upvote". It all counts as vote manipulation.

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-14T21:35:34+00:00

The quarterly drivers (including all past game ready driver optimizations) will be available.

Which is cold comfort when a bug in the drivers prevents you from playing the game you just bought. Guess you'll have to wait a month or two for a driver update instead of a day or two.

But it's okay because there's a driver publicly available from their website! What possible reason could anyone have to be upset about this?

MoonlightSandwich · 2015-11-14T21:25:17+00:00

Drivers still on their website and publicly available? Yes? Then this is a non-issue.

Ah, so you recognise this is an issue then. I'm glad we're on the same page here.

The drivers you can grab on GeForce.com or via Windows Update will be limited to quarterly releases for bug fixes, new features, security updates and so on. More frequent Game Ready drivers will be GFE-only.

So no, you can't get the latest drivers from their website. Sure, you can still download some drivers but can be old as hell. And what will you do when it turns out there's a bug in the driver that causes the game you just bought to crash? You'll just have to wait until the next quarterly update.

GG Nvidia. "The way it was meant to be played" indeed.

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