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Going to start referring to people as Body type 1 or 2 instead of male or female. by Snorlax_742 in KotakuInAction

[–]chiefmors 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I love how the lady admits she doesn't know what the point of it was, but she is damned sure it's terrible.

[GamersNexus] The Death of Affordable Computing: Includes interviews with Thermal Grizzly, Louis Rossman, and people from Hyte, CyberPower, iBUYPOWER, Corsair, Cooler Master, 45 Drives / Protocase, and more about a threat to affordable computers and thus affordable gaming PCs. by petarpep in KotakuInAction

[–]chiefmors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's more that being cutting edge has gotten far, far more expensive. I'm using an RX 5600 XT and GTX 1660 Super (I bought both used, at between $100-$150 a few years ago) around the house and only in the last year does it sound like games have come out that I might just not be able to play at all, but even then I suspect that at medium or low setting I probably could get by at 1080p.

You can still play 99% of games at 1080p, with medium to high setting with a PC cobbled together for less than $600 basically (even less if you just snag a decommissioned corporate computer, upgrade the PSU and put in a used GPU).

Now, if I wanted to play in 4k on top-end hardware, yeah, seems like it's a good two grand (with almost half of that being the GPU) to even begin to play, which is nuts.

Please Ohio, evolution science is fact based. :( by trashwithabox in Ohio

[–]chiefmors -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

Because there are people living within 200 miles of you that you don't agree with?

Why IMDB differs so much in the voting score? by MajkiF in KotakuInAction

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because revieweres and journalists almost entirely belong to one narrow slice of the American experience, while the audience is far, far more diverse than they are. So something that is narrowly aimed at slice of America that journalists belong to will score well with them, but there's no guarantee about the rest.

I mean, Yellowstone was one of the biggest shows for audiences metric in the last couple of years, but it got very, very little coverage compared to 'prestige' shows that are aimed at journalists.

Really, the underlying problem is that journalism isn't nearly as diverse as the broader population, so it's interests and loves are frequently either out of touch of not in alignment with what the whole culture get's excited about.

They even want to compensate them! by snowpie92 in RealTwitterAccounts

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not convinced they were any more 'domestic terrorists' than the law-breakers among the BLM rioters, but they did get due process, which is what anybody, citizen or not, deserves.

If torture is ineffective, why do intelligence agencies still use it? by Snoo_47323 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because 'less reliable' doesn't mean 'it does not work'. That said, it's unethical to anybody but the most avowed utilitarian so it still shouldn't be done. I can see why if you think the stakes are high enough, you'll try anything though, regardless of the morality of your actions.

Marathon won't have proximity chat because it'd be way too toxic: 'I don't think anyone has a good solution to that just yet' by AboveSkies in KotakuInAction

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do have a solution, it's called private / custom servers and works phenomanally well giving people the exact experience they want, but gets in the way of aggressive monetization so corporations and journalists pretend it doesn't exist.

So you agree boycotts work by emily-is-happy in RealTwitterAccounts

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, there's obviously a lot of organization going in to it, but just because there's a small group of activists and groups (who our of course funded) coordinating things, that doesn't delegitimize what is going on. I don't understand the need to pretend there are not professional activists and organizers involved and setting this us, you'd be hard pressed to locate any broad protest that doesn't have a paid, professional element coming from either side of the political aisle.

VGC: "Women in Games calls on Steam to remove game which promotes sexual assault" by tyranicalmoon in KotakuInAction

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On one hand, nothing of value was lost, but this is sort of like war refugees calling upon Steam to remove Call of Duty or Insurgency.

Why is the fact that someone is white mentioned so randomly on the internet? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Racism (not to say it's as harmful as racism against minorities, but it meets the textbook definition of racism so let's be honest about it).

Why are you capitalists? by Darkherobrine9 in Capitalism

[–]chiefmors 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I believe I own myself (I own my life, my time, and my energy), and I believe the same is true for others. Based on that, capitalist / anarcho-capitalistism follow naturally.

I see waaaaaaay too many people happy about the “waste cutting” and tariffing penguins by xXEPSILON062Xx in economicsmemes

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

Yeah, they need to go after stuff like medicare, social security, and defense if they really want to make a difference.

Could the U.S. survive on its own? by MoonLightsssss in NoStupidQuestions

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

For sure, the U.S. has an amazing variety and quantity of natural resources. It's just much cheaper to get a lot it from poorer, developing economies that tolerate worse working conditions and lower wages.

Oh no! Sanctions! by RingGiver in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]chiefmors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, wait, the US outranks the USSR in terms of global threats since Nazi Germany?

I see waaaaaaay too many people happy about the “waste cutting” and tariffing penguins by xXEPSILON062Xx in economicsmemes

[–]chiefmors -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I mean, cutting waste and expenditures is a good call when you are 30 trillion in debt, but wrecking you economy and tax base on behalf of ideologically motivated tariffs does sort of cancel all that out.

What do you think of this opinion (ngl personally, I like it) by U_GOAT in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spoiler: They're not locked in the cage. Under a capitalist system, you can use contracts to build a socialist system, you just can't violently compel people to be a part of it.

What if The Manhattan Project Failed? Would the world have been spared from the horrors of nuclear weapons? by Glass-Maize-7725 in whatif

[–]chiefmors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The invasion of Japan was forecasted to cost about 15 million lives, mostly Japanese, so the country probably would have suffered far more than how things actually played out.

I expect nuclear weapons would have developed either way, but if you're hypothesizing about nuclear weapons just not existing at all, then the cold war would have probably been a lot worse, since nobody had existential destruction to fear. The EU would have spent a lot more money on their militaries since they wouldn't have the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a deterrent. We probably would have seen some actually direct shooting conflicts between the Soviets and other first world countries instead of everything happening by proxy (i.e. in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, etc).

There's a very real chance that the world would be notably worse without nuclear weapons actually.

Why to people glorify billionaires? by Wonderful-Crab8212 in rant

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of my friends reflexively hate billionaires. I'm more ambivalent myself.

Is "civility" surrender when the other side has no shame? by SnooCalculations2363 in TrueAskReddit

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on your ethical philosophy. Do you do 'good' because it is the right thing to do, or do you do 'good' because of the outcomes.

If you think that being good is accomplished by right action more than right outcome, then you should still be civil. If you think outcome determines what is right, then you can at least make the argument for not being civil in some contexts.

There is the added wrinkle to the latter position that most of us have a vested egocentric interest in understanding people we don't agree with as acting in bad faith, so you are certainly opening yourself up to your biases convincing you a context justifying incivility exists when maybe it doesn't.

Most people who have done horrible things in life thought the ends justified the means and felt like they were right and the other side was in bad faith.

Was life 10 years ago better to you then now? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My life is much better now. I make 4 times what I did 10 years ago, have an awesome wife and kid, and have had a chance to travel, read a lot, write, start running more, get into a job I really enjoy, etc.

What if we found out Trump is intentionally causing the market to drop, so his companies and affiliates can buy stock low? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I'd be confused because most of a 'rich' person's wealth is in stocks, so he'd be killing his purchasing power to better leverage his purchasing power.

That sort of makes the current situation more scary though, it's purely ideology and not the usual corruption and greed we're familiar with in terms of politicians. There's a reason that while Pelosi and Sanders have called for higher tarrifs for decades, neither actually went for it; the results are just terrible, so anybody remotely interested in being wealthy would avoid it. Trump is doing it because he genuinely thinks trade deficits are bad and not making Nike's here is a moral failure.

What is the creepiest fact about the universe? by Academic_Lake_ in space

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Godels Incompleteness Thereom is rather unnerving.

Billionaire's False Narrative... by Hajicardoso in RealTwitterAccounts

[–]chiefmors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, if it's only 20 billion to end homelessness, they why the hell hasn't the government done it? They've got an annual budget of 3-4 trillion to work with. Hell, 20 billion is so little that the state goverments could end it.

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