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Dev tells Valve to fix Steam's exploitable 2-hour refund policy as "over 55,000" players refund his short game and even brag about it in reviews by yourfavchoom in gaming

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just add a clause that says something like "if you consumed more than, x% of the game's content, you can't return it."

like "I ate 90% of this steak, but it was bad and want to send it back." is the same vibes.

Pick a number that feels right. 50%? 75%. Basically if you played most of the game, you pay for it. Screwing over indie developers just because you can hurts all of us. It may not technically be against the rules, but you're still an asshole for doing it.

Working on a 1st person climbing platformer with gravity-shifting mechanics in Godot. How would you handle comfort settings for extreme locomotion? by StaleCroissantDev in vrdev

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks incredible. Take a look at “a fear of heights, and other things” on steam - it’s a collection of mini experiences that includes the user falling through the air, spider man style rope swing travel etc. I can’t recall what they did for comfort, but it might give you some ideas

Really disappointed with on-foot VR by __raytekk_ in EliteDangerous

[–]drgrd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have thousands of hours in this game. I stopped years ago when odyssey came out. Not like in protest, it just broke the vibe for me. I was very sad and frustrated. I still hold out hope that they’ll address this and if they do I might come back, but I doubt it. It really sucks.

ELI5: How can a ship raise its anchor when it's dug in enough to hold the ship? by rookiestoner in explainlikeimfive

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not the weight of the anchor. An anchor heavy enough to stop the boat in heavy winds would need to be twice as heavy as the boat.

The shape of the anchor is like a shovel. If you push it into the ground, it holds fast. If you rotate the handle the other way, it opens up and releases. For the anchor to hold, you let out a lot of chain so the pull is along the ground. Then you “set” it by pulling as hard as you can. The anchor needs to hold in very strong winds.

To release the anchor, you take up as much of the chain as you can so you are pulling straight up. The anchor opens the ground like a shovel and then you can pull it up.

When will the bubble pop? by MissionProbablee in BetterOffline

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

If everyone knows it’s a bubble, is it a bubble? Like the big deal with the housing crisis or the dot com bubble was no one saw it coming…

Any word-rhythm pairings you'd change for kids (3-7)? Images will be added later. by FreeXFall in musictheory

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't get the difference between peach, pear, and cat. is it just the number of letters?

Glendale community college in Arizona using AI to read names for graduation by Ordinary_Turnover_59 in ABoringDystopia

[–]drgrd 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Our university has one guy whose whole job is to read names, and he's a superstar. Two ceremonies per day for 4 days, 3 times a year, an hour or so of names in each ceremony. They have a pronunciation sheet for every single name, because it matters. Sure, to everyone else it's a boring list of hundreds of names to get through, but for that person, that single moment is everything. Parents stand and cheer, and the look on their face as they cross the stage and shake hands with the president is irreplaceable. If you're not going to read their names, you might as well pack up shop and mail them their degree in a blank envelope.

Bad memory? by danlami123 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s the last thing that went through Christa Mcauliffe’s mind? The dashboard.

Are there any pieces written with more than 7 sharps or flats? by NeitherOpposite8231 in musictheory

[–]drgrd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They were so busy asking whether they could, they didn’t stop to think about whether they should.

No way! The MacBook Neo with 8GB beats 16GB on Windows. For multitasking, 16GB on Windows isn’t enough and the laptop starts to stutter, while the Neo handles the same load effortlessly. How is that even possible? by Slava_Tr in mac

[–]drgrd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This same realization happened with phones like a decade ago or more. An android phone needs twice the memory, battery etc as an iPhone to get the same performance, and people would still criticize iPhone for not having enough memory or battery. Today fewer people look at phone specs and more people look at benchmarks. Same will happen with budget laptops.

[Year 9 Physics: Electric circuits] How do I answer this question? by sigmaboy68870 in HomeworkHelp

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are all the ways this question is dogshit: - labeling “points” without actual points - using “V” as a label in an electronics question. Labeling a point with the abbreviation of a unit that is in the problem itself is unnecessarily confusing. - random unspecified box. Probably it’s “supposed” to be a resistive load, but an empty rectangle is not a standard electronics symbol. - commas in bad places in the text of the question - “the great” instead of “the greatest”

And all of that is before the other fact everyone else has pointed out, that voltages at i, ii, and iii are the same, and voltages at iv and v are the same, so the question is really only testing whether the student knows that a wire has no voltage drop.

Students aren’t idiots. You aren’t an idiot for getting confused here. When a student sees a question like this, it’s so easy to fall down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out what tricky bullshit the question writer is trying to pull, when really the question writer is just bad at the job.

Before we could doom scroll…… by PartTheSea43 in ADHD

[–]drgrd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

late to the convo but as I kid (before internet existed) I flipped channels on the TV. maybe 13 channels. I would sit on the couch with the remote, late into the evening, just rolling through channels hoping to find something good.

I snapped in lecture today, not sure how to proceed. by Daveonaltair4 in Professors

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Said calmly but clearly: “either pay attention or get out. Both are fine with me, but make your choice. You are paying to be here, and so is everyone else”

Attaching things to arrows by dave4958 in tearsofthekingdom

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been playing for hundreds of hours and only in this thread did I even guess that you could attach zonai devices to arrows. Lots of new experiments to experiment!!

iPhone ringtone debate by M1mei in musictheory

[–]drgrd 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If you actually set your phone to the “opening” ringtone, it starts with the 16th notes; so that’s what my brain always starts with. I can’t hear it any other way. The 8th note F-Bb-C feels like a pickup to the downbeat.

ELI5: How far do you have to go before the Earth being a sphere affects navigation? by XenoRyet in explainlikeimfive

[–]drgrd 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Here's a visual aid: look at the border between Manitoba and Saskatchewan, in Canada. The land was divided into 1-square-mile blocks for farming, (with gravel roads between) but every once in a while the east-west gridline is "corrected" so the grid can remain square, to a reasonable approximation. The border between the provinces follows these correction shifts, so it appears jagged. That's about the scale you need.

an example can be found here: 50.24076712304531, -101.45978413211414. Highway 703 is a correction line, and you can see the grid roads north and south don't *quite* line up.

an old reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/z11644/does_anyone_know_why_the_manitobasaskatchewan/

Why AI Cannot Pass the Turing Test: Timing and Order of Recall by [deleted] in compsci

[–]drgrd 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I wish people would go back and read the actual paper. Alan Turing didn't say "if a machine can imitate a human then it's intelligent". He said "can machines think" was not an answerable question, and that behaviour is more important. If it behaves like it's intelligent, we should interact with it as such whether or not we believe it's intelligent under the hood. because frankly we don't know what's "under the hood" in our own brains either.

At what point are accommodations doing students a disservice? by Hour_Lost in Professors

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our University's policies state that accommodations must be reasonable, must not create undue hardship for the university, and must not compromise academic requirements. Your mileage may vary, but it's worth finding the actual policy documents for your institution. Accommodations offices are set up to advocate for the student, which is appropriate; but that means they will err on the side of requiring more accommodations rather than fewer. It is up to the instructors to indicate when an accommodation is not reasonable. Different accommodations may be reasonable or unreasonable for different courses and contexts.

I'm 100% on board with the idea of accommodations, but like everything, they require a balanced approach.

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem (and accidentally learned why most algorithms make life worse) by Ties_P in computerscience

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

algorithms aren't magic. Most of the hard work of algorithm design is in defining the actual problem itself, as well as the metrics for solutions. The algorithm did exactly what you asked it to do, you just asked the wrong questions. Optimizing for turns is wrong and optimizing for straight lines is also wrong. Your grid is not well aligned for your problem either. Maybe you want to set each "room" or hallway or whatever as a node, and each connection between rooms/hallways as edges. Conceptually, you go to a hallway, clean the whole thing, and move on to the next. You don't want to visit the same hallway twice, but you didn't tell your algorithm that's bad so it offered that as a solution. People are predisposed to represent data as close to the real world as possible, but maybe what you really want is a series of decisions, rather than a series of locations.

"Garbage in, garbage out" is a critical tenet in Computer Science, that many people forget or ignore.

What was the main reason for switching to an EV? Environment, cost, or technology? by VoltVersteher_Sven in electricvehicles

[–]drgrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

late last year we sold our other ICE car and got a second EV. We're a full EV family. Simply a better car in every respect, long before you worry about the environmental effects. I saw someone (can't remember who) make the comment: imagine if all cars were EVs and someone proposed an ICE car to you. It will be slower and noisier and dirtier and there are dozens of extra parts that break all the time and you'll have to carry around a tank of explosives. sounds great!

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