jedibob5

@ jedibob5 @lemmy.world

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4d ago

What game do you personally have the most hours played in?
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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 4d ago
The most that I can prove is Europa Universalis 4, just north of 1100 hours on Steam. However, I strongly suspect my playtime in Guitar Hero 3 from high school likely exceeds that. Runescape might be another contender, but that was so long ago at this point that I don't really have a good idea of how much play time I actually put into it.

3w ago

Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI compute in sign of a totally normal and healthy economy

Echoes of when the Long Island Iced Tea company rebranded to "Long Island Blockchain" back during that particular craze.

4w ago

Ggs lol

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 4w ago

Why does this meme seem to indicate that humanity has already had a nuclear war in the past?

2mo ago

Gameforge is bringing back another old browser MMO – this time it’s Wild West MMORTS WildGuns

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

It looks like a Facebook game, ngl.

2mo ago

stages of mitosis

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

The pinching of the cytoplasm when it starts to split in mitosis is known as cleavage.

2mo ago

Age verification is the new digital ID

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I feel like that's pretty meaningfully different from the original claim that the US government allows cigarettes to be advertised to children.

2mo ago

Age verification is the new digital ID

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Didn't they close up the loopholes in advertising regulations that Juul exploited?

2mo ago

Age verification is the new digital ID

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

What? Tobacco is like, the one thing that actually has extremely stringent advertising regulations in the US. When vaping products like Juul came around, they were able to exploit loopholes in those laws, but I think those have pretty much been patched up by now.

2mo ago

Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microslop

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

In the context of the 1st Amendment it's not illegal censorship, as private entities aren't bound by the 1st Amendment in their own private spaces in the same way the government is. But in a more general sense you are correct, I think my brain just strongly associates accusations of censorship (in a US context at least) with accusations of 1st Amendment violations. I'll adjust the phrasing.

2mo ago

Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microslop

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

The moderators of online communities have every right to manage the content of those communities as they see fit, as long as they're within legal bounds.

That said, individuals also have the right to call said moderators a bunch of clueless asshats when they make dumbass decisions, as long as they're abiding by the policies of the space where they're saying it.

Microsoft banning the word "Microslop" from their Discord ~~isn't censorship~~ is well within their legal rights, but they are a bunch of clueless asshats for thinking that it was a good idea.

2mo ago

The Game Archeologist: Majesty, the 2000-era RTS [x kingdom management hybrid] that flipped the script on the MMO concept

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Yeah, "micromanagement" wasn't really the right choice of word, and I never beat a lot of the more difficult SP scenarios anyway, so I can't really say that I'm GOOD good at it. I just appreciate that it doesn't make you deal with managing the positioning of individual units, which is something that usually overwhelms me pretty quickly in traditional RTSes when things start to scale up.

2mo ago

B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

You know, I don't really think that raising a concern about the possibility of kids getting hit by cars that I hadn't heard discussed much before really falls into the same category as religious wingnuts scaremongering about "subversive" books or drag queens or whatever.

I didn't even present it as some sort of urgent, insurmountable problem, I just didn't have any rebuttal for it in the moment when I heard it. The other replies have brought up good points that could help make it work. Was that really warranted?

2mo ago

The Game Archeologist: Majesty, the 2000-era RTS [x kingdom management hybrid] that flipped the script on the MMO concept

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Love Majesty. It's such a different and unique take on an RTS. The hands-off approach to unit management has a nice side effect in that it doesn't require a heavy focus on APM and micromanagement to be good at it.

2mo ago

ard

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

So a lizard must be an excess of Liz?

2mo ago

blinker checkpoint

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Oh, that makes more sense. It's a joke about the fog, then. If rain is God crying, then fog is God hitting the vape.

Edit: Looks like you got it at about the same time I did lol

2mo ago

blinker checkpoint

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

What does "take a blinker" mean here? Guessing it's a regional thing, I've not heard that one before.

2mo ago

B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time

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jedibob5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I actually heard an argument against permanent DST that I still haven't really been able to refute. The reasoning was that darker conditions in the mornings during winter could make things more hazardous for kids walking to school. In places with properly pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, it probably wouldn't be an issue, but at least in more suburban areas, I can't say I disagree. Changing back and forth twice a year is still silly, but I feel like I might prefer permanent standard time over permanent DST in a lot of places.