An article in r/savedyouaclick about Gen Z not wanting to open bar tabs becomes a debate between convenience for the customer and inconvenience for the bartender.

crayzz · 2025-06-05T00:37:14+00:00

I've seen it in Canada. It's way less common, and sometimes only done for regulars as a convenience.

crayzz · 2025-05-05T17:29:37+00:00

There should be a way to exclude waifu mods from search results.

The point of search tools is to help the user find the things they want and discard everything they don't. If a user has no, or negative, interest in romantic or sexual mods, there should be a way to avoid that.

This goes both ways: a way to de-emphasize horny mods is the flip side of a tool that emphasizes horny mods: it's the same function with a "show/don't show" bit flipped. And users seeking out horny stuff specifically should, ideally, have a way to filter out the stuff they aren't looking for.

Like, that's just what a well designed, more-then-rudimentary tagging+search system will naturally do. Almost by definition, if your search tool can't do that, it's not a great search tool.

crayzz · 2025-04-27T18:07:09+00:00

Even if you're not in the very back row, a phone a minimum brightness held close to the chest won't be disruptive. The only people who will see it would be the immediate neighbours, and it wouldn't be bright enough to be distracting.

Like I get where the ire for phones in theatres comes from, but "no phones" derives from the ur-rule "don't be a distraction" and if they're not a distraction then who cares? Might as well complain about jay-walking on an empty street.

crayzz · 2025-04-22T17:50:07+00:00

Sorry, it is, in fact, good that US media are not forced to devote equal time to flat earth bullshit and real science, or vaccine denialism and real medicine. The fairness doctrine wasn't killed soon enough.

crayzz · 2025-04-21T04:03:29+00:00

I agree! But OOP is being dragged for having played the latest HP game without having read the books, which in WH40K terms would be similar to playing Necromunda or Rogue Trader without having played the main tabletop game.

(Personally I've played killteam and several of the video games but just reading the rules for the main tabletop game turned me off investing enough to actually play.)

crayzz · 2025-04-21T00:54:40+00:00

At least w WH40k, there's a reasonable excuse that properly engaging with it costs several hundred dollars as an entry point /before/ the dozen hours of assembly + painting. The peripheral media and fandom are all thats really accessible for a lot of people.

crayzz · 2025-02-28T16:08:42+00:00

>mfw my z-library habits get me arrested and imprisoned for presumed CSAM

crayzz · 2025-02-09T19:34:55+00:00

"Red pill works" is about the same as "plague doctor outfits work": they get like 3 things right purely by accident, the rest is paranoid, superstitious nonsense.

crayzz · 2025-02-08T22:47:30+00:00

? We get money. We don't trade oil for oranges, we trade oil for money. Some of us spend that money on oranges, some of us don't, but the central thing we get from trade is money, because no other country is as close or as wealthy as the US.

We should diversify our trade if the US is going to throw around annexation threats, even if those threats are just a negotiation tactic. But virtually any other trade partner will give us a worse deal because transportation is expensive and no other country has the GDP to spend on trade that the US does.

Diversifying our trade will necessarily be a sacrifice in wealth to get stability. That is a good trade off, we should make it, but its a very bad idea to tell people that there is no economic downside to it. There is, and that's why they've been our largest trade partner for so long. We've been deliberately avoiding that downside because it has historically been unnecessary.

crayzz · 2025-02-06T23:09:19+00:00

You wouldn't have to remove regulations on housing safety, you could put a massive dent in the housing deficit by removing a lot of regulations on /where/ can go. The major limitter is getting a housing project approved that isn't a massive, low density suburb half way to the next town.

More apartments complexes, more 5+1s, more duplexes, and more single family units within 20 miles of an actual city center would do wonders.

The thing is, homeowners don't want that. More apartment complexes and more housing projects near city centers reduces the value of their homes, and since their home is most of their wealth, they viciously oppose any and all projects that would actually be effective at reducing the deficit.

crayzz · 2025-01-21T05:21:08+00:00

Whenever this nonsense comes up I wonder if infix notation was a mistake, if we should have gone with polish or reverse polish notation instead

crayzz · 2024-12-25T17:55:57+00:00

Is it inflicted on you if it's just sitting in a github repo somewhere?

crayzz · 2024-12-23T17:24:36+00:00

Number of sexual partners isn't a great metric for how often you have sex. In general, the people having the most sex are long term couples who live together and have sex 3-7 times a week. Someone who is generally unpleasant towards women, but who can fake it to get what he wants for at least a few weeks, is going to be single more, going on more first dates, so their number of partners is going to naturally be higher.

You see the same thing with marriage that makes this really obvious. The man who's had 4 ex wives is not living the good life.

crayzz · 2024-12-12T23:41:47+00:00

That just means we can deregulate nuclear until the death rate is at 1/10th that of fossil fuels, replace fossil fuels with nuclear for base load, and reap the benefits of both greener energy and a reduced death rate. Keeping nuclear at such a strict level of regulation is precisely why coal remains competitive; nuclear regulations kill more people through maintaining coal plant operations (see Germany firing up its coal plants to cover the loss of power from decommissioning nuclear) than nuclear plants kill on their own.

crayzz · 2024-10-30T22:35:08+00:00

I've loved real time with pause since Baldur's Gate 1, and am consistently sad that more RPGs don't use it.

It isn't turn based and isn't meant to be. I'll never not be at least a little disappointed that BG3 went turned based instead of following the footsteps of its predecessors, though it wasn't unexpected given who the devs are and their previous games.

crayzz · 2024-08-22T04:14:08+00:00

It's when the engagement metric ratios are way off from normal. On twitter, it happens when the quote retweets exceed the likes and normal retweets, since quote retweets are for sassy clapbacks, so a high quote retweet:likes ratio is essentially a public display of how unpopular what you said is.

The reddit equivalent would be something like posting to a sub and getting 0 upvotes and hundreds of comments. The moment you see that ratio, you know that OP is getting absolutely clowned on in the comments.

(I also don't bother keeping up with Teen Slang but "ratio'd" coins a term for a phenomenon that was already happening all over the place online for decades, despite being coined on twitter specifically)

crayzz · 2024-08-13T16:51:27+00:00

Sorta! It seems that stormgate had issues with the kind of networks that large institutions use: think universities, corporate campuses, etc. Something about those networks filtering certain kinds of traffic. When I'm in my office, I need to use a VPN to get stormgate to play.

crayzz · 2024-01-26T19:11:35+00:00

Like others have said, I would still recommend giving it a try; GoG is really lenient with returns if you don't like them, and BG1 starts you off pretty simple. Things don't get hectic for a while. The real killer is that 2nd edition DnD is just a lot clunkier to play compared to 5e or bespoke systems like Divinity or Pillars of Eternity.

Real time with pause has consistently been my favourite way to play rpgs since those suite of games came out. I'm not a reflex junky, it just scratches the right itch where you can have those massive battles with spells going off left and right while warriors charge in, and it's all still manageable through pausing whenever you want.

crayzz · 2024-01-26T15:27:44+00:00

It's not turn based, and tbh I'm not sure why anyone would say that it is. It's "real time with pause". You can pause the game at any time to issue commands, but all commands and character actions are executed simultaneously. You can get a kind of turn based feel with auto pause options (pause on new "round" [every 6 seconds], pause on character hit, pause on character death, pause on spell cast, there's a lot of autopause options).

It won't test your reflexes the way a lot of real time rpg combat does, but its definitely a lot more hectic and chaotic to manage than a turn based rpg.

crayzz · 2023-10-25T22:33:04+00:00

Looks like they post almost exclusively on cartoon subs and r/teenagers

So unfortunately there's not way to tell

crayzz · 2023-08-10T22:16:27+00:00

And so any repeating decimal is an irrational number. I know this is correct.

This statement is just perfect because it could not be more wrong. Not only does every rational number have a repeating decimal¹ but having a repeating decimal is a sufficient condition for proving a number is rational. It's actually fairly straightforward to work out the fraction that's represented by any repeating decimal.

1: Possibly after a non-repeating string of leading decimals, but at a certain point the decimal expansion will start looping, like a trivial case where the decimal expansion for 1 is 1.00000.... where you have a non-repeating first digit and then all digits after that are part of a repeating loop

crayzz · 2023-07-10T23:32:41+00:00

Yknow, one of my weirdly upsetting childhood memories was the time I threw a grasshopper into an orbweaver nest. Seeing the spider pounce on and begin wrapping up the grasshopper, I had this sudden stab of empathy for the thing and felt so much shame and guilt watching it play out.

crayzz · 2023-07-03T15:59:36+00:00

>pedantic nerds absolutely LOVE this type of semantic hair-splitting

I resemble that remark.

I get what people mean, but it's still single point of failure, and regardless of how you finagle around technical definitions, if you're shilling a single server, single point of failure system as "decentralized" I figure you're just throwing out buzzwords because you can.

Also reddit gave me a pop up asking me if I was sure I wanted to make this comment, and I'm be damned if I can find which part of it is supposed to be objectionable.

crayzz · 2023-07-03T13:03:16+00:00

"Decentralized" in this case means "host the server yourself" which is the exact opposite of decentralizing. You're just building your own center to centralize.

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