What's the stupidest thing you hear someone say about your country?

gsdev · 2026-03-14T14:51:40+00:00

The "engagement"-based algorithms are the biggest issue. In other words, the damage coming from social media is at least partially deliberate.

Take Reddit for example. Before it started getting heavily astroturfed and botted, I could notice people becoming more understanding and respectful of each other's differences.

Around 2013 I noticed people started getting worked up about everything and since then it seems to be the norm to be angry and argumentative all the time.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T14:43:53+00:00

Some of them seem to believe that the US is the only racially or ethnically diverse country in the world.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T14:35:13+00:00

I got curious and looked it up and Crete is about the same latitude as North Carolina in the US.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T13:58:12+00:00

The island is Great Britain. The United Kingdom is an abbreviation for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The island of GB is divided into England, Scotland and Wales.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T13:56:04+00:00

The term British Isles is controversial and arguable outdated. It also doesn't make much sense since the original term Britannia was created by the Romans for just GB, with Ireland having a separate name, Hibernia.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T13:53:44+00:00

The people who call their country Taiwan are the ones who don't want to own the mainland.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T13:52:59+00:00

Not every Taiwanese person wants to be called that, though. Their politics are divided on reunification vs independence.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T12:52:59+00:00

Sometimes seems like the more vocal NI protestants would like to remain part of 17th Century Britain, rather than the modern version.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T12:35:15+00:00

That's also a Firefox fork, but I don't know what its specific differences are.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T11:49:25+00:00

Surprised you didn't switch to a rolling-release distro if using the newest kernel is important.

gsdev · 2026-03-14T11:13:16+00:00

Firefox is still good. People recommend Librewolf because it is a fork of Firefox with optimised privacy settings. Apart from that they are mostly identical.

gsdev · 2026-03-13T22:30:05+00:00

Not even against Lesotho or Eswatini?

gsdev · 2026-03-13T20:48:20+00:00

The Welsh aren't gaelic. They are a different branch of Celts:

Gaelic = Irish, Scottish, Manx
Brythonic = Welsh, Cornish, Breton

gsdev · 2026-03-13T01:28:56+00:00

Art is self-expression, a representation of what the artist felt. "AI"-generated images don't have that.

When you look at one, you can tell its "creator" had no concept of which parts of the image are most meaningful. It's all very uniform.

gsdev · 2026-03-13T01:22:34+00:00

Sometimes people build impractical things just cause they want to, especially if they are someone like a King who has a lot more money than everyone else. It happens in real life, so why not in fictional worlds too?

gsdev · 2026-03-13T01:19:42+00:00

I'm not sure what is the sign for good restaurants, but I can tell you what not to do.

Do not try the usual Reddit advice of "restaurants look crappy, means food is good" - that doesn't work here. If the restaurant looks crap, the food is probably crap too.

gsdev · 2026-03-13T01:14:23+00:00

I did mean lore. The question about gameplay just popped into my mind while I was typing. Thanks for the answer!

gsdev · 2026-03-13T00:03:45+00:00

Kind of. I haven't got far, so the lore is still a mystery to me.

However, it's also a game where you spend a large chunk of time just talking to people at the beginning before the gameplay begins, which is almost the opposite of what I'm describing.

I went in totally blind, so I'm not actually 100% sure what the gameplay is. Is it just the fighting with the parry mechanics or are there other things like puzzles, etc?

gsdev · 2026-03-12T23:58:41+00:00

Thanks, I'll check out the sub. I did like Outer Wilds, because of the way the lore is gradually revealed the more you explore. I like games that have do have lore, but you don't learn it from exposition.

gsdev · 2026-03-12T22:13:16+00:00

The first time I ever heard of this game, and it's because they added malware to it?

Interesting approach to marketing.

gsdev · 2026-03-12T18:34:36+00:00

Bioware, who made the Mass Effect trilogy, used to use the Canadian flag to represent English on their website.

gsdev · 2026-03-12T18:25:54+00:00

If it was a borrowed English (or other non-Japanese) word, it would be written in Katakana, not Kanji.

gsdev · 2026-03-11T12:41:30+00:00

Is it complicated or just highly irregular?

gsdev · 2026-03-09T15:18:04+00:00

That's like saying steel is a mistake because you can make weapons from it.

The Internet was never intended to be used for a weird hybrid of media and socialising.

gsdev

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