[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago

What, is Google upset about having some competition?

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

Isn't FFXIV an MMO? I don't remember it being very Game of Thrones-y.

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago

I'm of the opinion that it really depends on the nature of the game.

For example, the children are super hyped for GTA VI, because even though GTA V came out before some of them had object permanence, they've been playing it for years. It's remained in their consciousness this entire time.

Compare that to Skyrim, which came out only a year or so before GTA V, and we haven't seen an Elder Scrolls game since... The young don't give a toss. They weren't playing it then, they aren't playing it now, so there's absolutely no attachment to Elder Scrolls as a series.

Games used to stay in the consumer's consciousness before by having sequels made every few years, sometimes even every year! Now? It's all live services, so it doesn't feel like the game hasn't had a new iteration for over a decade.

In other words: Kids aren't attached to franchises anymore because the game industry is stagnating.

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 49 points 2 weeks ago

Only 150 light years away?! Wow, that's practically next door! Now all we need to do is figure out how to go light speed and even then it'll take a further 300 years just to know if the colonists got there safely or not!

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 45 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So there's a few problems with that plan:

  1. If you leave Narnia, you will eventually forget Narnia. First it's like a dream, then a dream of a dream, and then you just completely forget ever having gone.

  2. The same applies in reverse. You will eventually forget Earth and spend your time in Narnia instead.

  3. You can't go to Narnia without Aslan taking you there. The Professor, who was infact one of the entities present at the creation of Narnia, tells the Pevensies that they won't be getting back to Narnia through the wardrobe again.

  4. Even if you could pass through to Narnia on command, there is a varying degree of time dilation between Narnia and Earth. The entirety of Narnia's 2,555 year existence is compressed into 50 years on Earth, but the first 1000 years of that existence was compressed into the first 40 years of the timeline, and the remaining 1,555 was in that final 10 years. Also, you can spend 10 minutes in Narnia and end up having been gone for weeks on Earth, so the time dilation goes both way and is pretty inconsistent then too.

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 100 points 3 weeks ago

That's a wildly optimistic take. ICE will kill you, whether you're obeying them or not.

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 119 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone who complains about code not compiling on the first try likely hasn't been coding for very long. Getting your code to do what you tell it is easy, getting it to do what you want is hard.

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 51 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't call her entrepreneurially minded. She fully intended just to make a single coat and keep it herself. If she were intending on making it a business, she should have been setting up a Dalmatian farm with the 101 puppies and then mass produce the coats. Inbreeding health defects don't matter all that much when you're just gonna be skinning any puppies born within weeks.

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 50 points 1 month ago

I want to enjoy Idiocracy, but there's this undercurrent of eugenics in there that I'm not ever so fond of...

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My dad has a pretty straightforward approach to Americans these days: They're the enemy. Every single adult US Citizen is the enemy, no matter what side of the political spectrum. Americans have the power, they have their precious 2nd Amendment to get rid of Trump, but choose not to use it. By not doing anything, they're complicit.

Tiny bit overboard if you ask me, but I can definitely understand calling for disassociation with the US, pulling all critical systems away from US companies. I would also suggest threatening to stop respecting all US copyrights just as a middle finger. It's now completely legal to steal any intellectual property from an American company. Distribute official cracks for Adobe Creative Suite, why not?

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 52 points 1 month ago

Dude must be a vampire or something because in the Bible it says you can eat meat, you just can't drink the blood, which is why you should drain the blood from any animal you slaughter before consuming the flesh. If we're going by Christian depictions of angels then I assume we're going by Christian afterlives and commandments.

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 59 points 2 months ago

The only times I've seen devs do inline comments in their code is when it's been done by AI, and I can tell it's AI because the comments are all useless and describing what's happening, not why.

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