MirthfulAlembic

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[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

A classic dick of Theseus dilemma.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've never played a game where aim assist was done well enough for me. It's either too little or too much. That is probably me though.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Definitely agree. I used to be a KB/m only person, but have changed my opinion since using a controller for a while out of necessity. Some games are simply better with a controller.

Some are much worse. FPS will never translate well to controller for me. No idea how CoD people play on console. It feels like trying to throw a ball with someone else's hand by manipulating their elbow.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

The solutions here don't seem to really be solutions in my opinion, especially the third one. It's like if the problem a patent solves was "being able to individually package sandwiches on a conveyor belt" and the solution was "have a machine that recognizes where one sandwich ends and another begins so it can stop and start packaging appropriately." Like, no kidding, but how?

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then it's not a binary system. It's a system with two extremely dominant members. Those are different things. You can be more binary in specific contexts e.g., gametes and egg vs sperm.

I'd be very cautious about the healthy description in reference to intersex people. I don't believe you are trying to say anything nefarious, but there's a reason it shows up in eugenics arguments.

I didn't say sex was a spectrum, though perhaps someone else you were speaking with did. I wouldn't use spectrum for sex, since there are multiple differentiating factors with differing measures.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm not quite certain the point you are making here. Is the implication that because humans typically have two hands, those that do not are not a group that can be described? Or that they can be, but only should be as the product of developmental errors?

We don't generally, where we know exceptions exist, refuse to acknowledge their existence. Saying sex is a binary is saying there are only males and only females. That's literally what binary means. Like binary notation either uses 0 or 1. If it was possible for sometimes to have a 2, it wouldn't be binary anymore. That's a different thing.

This is especially true for something like sex that is based on a grouping of traits, genes, expressions, etc. which are not universally 0 or 1. Sure, we generally agree on a category when some are different, but there's some points where it's not so stark. Hence, the binary fails because there can be overlap and grey.

Nobody is saying we have to stop using male and female to describe sex in most cases, especially in a medical setting. But if you had a child born intersex, and the doctor turned to you and said, "Nah, my gut says male. Nothing will be different," you'd probably ask for a second opinion.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I was going to say who cares if they're selling a mount skin, but if on-the-go access to the auction house and mailbox isn't normally accessible, this seems shitty.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have no clue how he's this quickly been able to have such a positive attitude and sense of humor about it. I'd be despondent in his shoes.

I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised; Clint always brings such enthusiasm and positivity to his videos. He's a go-to when I'm sick. He's like chicken noodle soup in video form.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I believe he had a new in box Apple Newton that sustained a bunch of water damage. Not sure how rare those are.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I can confirm it occurred in my experience about 20 years ago. We had a set of color vests, but those were for the girls.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

St. Matthew Island with polar bears instead of reindeer.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

It was pretty useful as a kid for feeding my Gameboy and Game Gear with batteries I rescued from the junk drawers of friends and family. If they were low, I knew I had to save more often to avoid losing progress if they went dead while I was playing.

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