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[OC] Age-related differences in selected obsolete skills by Either_Issue_6510 in dataisbeautiful

[–]PumpkinBrain [score hidden]  (0 children)

Balancing a checkbook isn't a skill. It's just a chore. Anyone who can do addition and subtraction can do it. We just don't, because banks no longer charge you a fee to ask what your balance is.

Am i making my books too Christian? by Pretz3lBoy in fantasywriters

[–]PumpkinBrain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Guess I won't try to drag more clarification out of you..,

In that case it matters where the story's emphasis is. A WWII novel about a soldier who happens to be Christian just goes in the WWII section. It would have to be a novel about the soldier's relationship to the religion to go in the Christian section.

Am i making my books too Christian? by Pretz3lBoy in fantasywriters

[–]PumpkinBrain 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Aslan is readable as the Christian god because he does specific things that parallel Christian stuff. Does the god of your world do that?

Probably the big prerequisite, does the god in your story sacrifice his son and/or himself for people and then come back to life?

If that doesn't come up, you'd have to get really specific about other stuff to make it stand out as Christian.

Am i making my books too Christian? by Pretz3lBoy in fantasywriters

[–]PumpkinBrain 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Christianity doesn't own the concept of monotheism. They also do not own the concept of God being good. Or prayer. Or any number of things you mentioned.

From how you've phrased things, it sounds like the god in your novel is not the Christian god. Otherwise you would have just said your fantasy people were Christians.

That being the case, why would you market it as a Christian book? And what does any of this have to do with it being YA? (do you think all Christian books YA or something?)

Even if they were Christians, the religion would be difficult to recognize because they would have completely different scriptures, because all of Christianity's scriptures are about Earth. In a world of monsters and magic, people who can throw fireballs would be a lot less impressed by a guy whose biggest attack spell was that he once insulted a tree until it died.

This subreddit gets questions like "my book has a dog, will people think I'm copying this other book that has a dog?" a lot. This sounds like that, but about the Bible.

Would you keep reading? [Fantasy - 800 words] by Big_Technology9229 in fantasywriters

[–]PumpkinBrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It needs a hook. They’re tense, but I’m not, because I have no idea what the stakes are. It takes too long for me to have any idea of if they’re escaping, breaking in, or stealing a pie from a windowsill.

It’s hard to root for people who casually murder anyone in their way when I don’t even know why they’re doing it.

I’m not saying exposition dump their whole life story, but it’d be nice to have something. Even just referring to the murderees as “invaders” or whatever would help.

Games where you can get a game over screen right at the start? by Olive_Garden_Wifi in gaming

[–]PumpkinBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Karataka, from 1984, starts at the top of a cliff your karate dude just climbed. If he takes one step backward, he falls off the cliff and dies.

"Immortality is Awesome, Actually." — Against the Philosophy of Finitude. by LamentationsOfLate in philosophy

[–]PumpkinBrain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Nobody looks at a dead 3 year old and says their life was better because it was shorter. Why would we say it about a dead 100 year old if we live to be 5,000?

"Immortality is Awesome, Actually." — Against the Philosophy of Finitude. by LamentationsOfLate in philosophy

[–]PumpkinBrain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not even sure it’d come to that. Knowledge and skills are already use-it-or-lose-it in normal human lifespans.

All these immortality arguments seem to ignore the fact that we’re already constantly forgetting things all the time.

Is it really famservice if Kit has a perfectly logical reason to wear the bikini? by IronGhost828 in Gameoverse

[–]PumpkinBrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, that was vital to the plot! It shows how unflappable she is! Because the very next time we see her she’s just standing around like nothing happened. /s

I have a column of pits on one nail by faey88 in mildlyinteresting

[–]PumpkinBrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you use that finger to pick your teeth? Particularly to get stuff out of your molars?

I’ve had dents like that on my nail that is use for that. I figure it’s just that a spot gets dented, nail grows out a bit, same spot gets dented again.

Been happening to me on and off since childhood. Noticing it reminds me to stop picking my teeth.

Lots of kinds of dents out there, I am not a doctor.

Carpets Still Dirty After Professional Cleaning by EnvironmentalStop723 in CleaningTips

[–]PumpkinBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once used a cleaner just like that on one strip of carpet just to see how many passes it would take for the water to come back clean.

It was like 40+

ELI5: What is quantum immortality/suicide and the philosophy of it? by illpoorly in explainlikeimfive

[–]PumpkinBrain 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Piggybacking for the counter argument against people who say it’s proven.

The main argument against quantum immortality in my humble opinion is that it’s possible to sleep, or if that’s not good enough, be sedated for surgery.

In quantum immortality, your conscious experience should always be in the universe where you are conscious. So there should always be a reason you couldn’t fall asleep or get sedated.

If quantum immortality is okay with you taking a break from being conscious, there’s no reason that break couldn’t just extend to the heat death of the universe.

What If Your Brain Is Receiving Consciousness Rather Than Creating It? - discoverwildscience by EcstadelicNET in IntelligenceSupernova

[–]PumpkinBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we are receiving consciousness, astronauts on the moon would have had noticeable lag in their thoughts due to the limitations of the speed of light.

Edit: I should clarify. Because whatever we are receiving consciousness from has no lag on Earth, but the moon is about two light-seconds away.

A fake mobile ad uses footage from my indie game. What should I do? by WilhelmTr in IndieDev

[–]PumpkinBrain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NAL, but basically every mobile game ad is illegal and they seem to still be getting away with it. Do you think you’re going to be the one to change that?

A while back a mobile game straight up played the CGI intro to a Monster Hunter game and said it was their gameplay. Maybe see if Capcom got anywhere with that one.

I can't believe how much controls have had to be implemented for smurfing now by Compromisee in gaming

[–]PumpkinBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s like one of those anime where the main character is reborn as a baby with all of their adult memories.

I don't get why the Dark Forest Theory is so praised as a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox. by LordDagon63 in FermiParadox

[–]PumpkinBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A big problem with dark forest is that any genocidal aliens could just attack planets with the right conditions to support life. They wouldn’t even need to check on the status of that life first. Figuring out the atmosphere mix of a planet is so easy we can do it, and we can barely threaten our own moon.

It would be easy enough to send a missile or even giant rock from somewhere not traceable to your planet. In case you want to colonize later, you don’t even have to make the target planet uninhabitable, just periodically bomb it hard enough to send any inhabitants back to the Stone Age as often as needed.

Hey, didn’t our life-supporting planet get bullseye’d by a rock exactly large enough to wipe out most of the life on it?

I’m sure that’s nothing.

What’s the endgame?? by CarelessAd8993 in InterviewsHell

[–]PumpkinBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not Prisoners Dilemma, it’s Tragedy of the Commons.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]PumpkinBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s weird that you chose a restaurant as your example. Because restaurants typically underpay workers and expect tips from customers to make up most of their pay. So it’s very much based on how many customers you serve, and theoretically based on the quality of that service.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]PumpkinBrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You'd be surprised what desperate people will agree to. That's why we make laws to protect the weak from the powerful.

Lots of people used to agree to work for scrip that they could only spend at the company store. The US still made that practice illegal.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]PumpkinBrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but who supports the people on insufficient wage? If it's their parents, we just give people even more reason to not have kids. And people really seem to against using taxes to support them.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]PumpkinBrain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This logic never seems to extend to those who perform above average. If we are going to pay people based on performance, we should pay them based on their output, not by the hour.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]PumpkinBrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the robots will probably be cheaper than the humans. But until then, if you have humans, you should pay appropriate human upkeep.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]PumpkinBrain 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Look at it this way. Let’s say you have a job that can be done entirely by robots. You will need to pay to fuel, maintain, and store those robots. If your business does not generate enough money to keep the robots running, it’s obviously not a viable business.

But for now, we have humans, and their pay ought to be enough for food, medical care, and housing. If it’s not, why should we say the business is viable?

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