CoderKat

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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It should be that easy. The US is such a bizarre place. They call themselves a developed country and have a GDP that outpaces most others, yet they can't even offer the things that many developing countries can.

But sadly, I don't think it's as simple as you hope. About half of the elected US politicians want nothing to improve. The president can't do that much on their own. If Americans gave a shit, they could fix this in a single election cycle by electing some actual progressives, but Americans are pretty fucked up and most either don't give a shit, or give negative shits (as in, they want to see things get worse for certain people).

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait, so I know furries exist, but do people really crush on the statue of Liberty, of all things??? I've literally never heard anyone say they crushed on that before.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah. It's frustrating seeing the right act like their view is somehow scientifically correct or whatever, when it's actually against medical consensus.

They love to make claims about how they're all about "facts don't care about your feelings", which they'll back up with stuff they learned in 6th grade science while pretending college level science doesn't exist lol.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

You definitely still want locks because most people have no idea how to pick a lock and a lot of crime is crimes of opportunity. But I don't think there's that much of a difference in most locks. A slightly better lock might dissuade a thief who learned how to pick cheap masterlocks, but someone who truly wants to get in doesn't even need to pick a lock. I'd hazard a guess that break-ins happen far more often by breaking the window than picking locks.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

You can get laptop "hubs" which usually have a few USB ports, a video connector or two (often HDMI and/or DisplayPort), ethernet, and some will function as a power cable, too (one of mine does and one doesn't).

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

Fuck Biden. He's the old school "tough on crime", cop bootlicker type. The only thing he has going for him is that any candidate the GOP puts forth (especially Trump) is even worse on all those things.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's not the Democrats who focus so much on trans people. It's republicans that are passing laws to try to ban their existence and wellbeing.

It's bizarre that there's people acting like Democrats are all about identity politics when it's the core piece of the GOP's platform to the point that they barely seem to have any policies beyond it (and the occasional "reduces taxes on the rich and corporations -- it'll trickle down, we promise!"

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I still use Reddit to read episode discussions of TV shows and such. Those largely don't exist here, outside of a handful of shows. And probably would struggle to take off even if the threads existed, as they need a lot of people and good SEO.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

You can't test it. It's Lemmy.ml that has the extremely strict filter.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Even without robbing people, video games are often heavily oriented around plundering abandoned dungeons. Not a lot of those in the real world. Heck, they don't even make sense in game. If there's dungeons full of gold, surely they'd be plundered to death by now? A couple of draegr aren't gonna keep people away from life changing wealth.

For games with no combat, the economy is usually just hyper exaggerated. Like Stardew Valley. You can spend an in-game month or two farming by hand with no automation and you'll make enough money to double the size of your house.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The action system is definitely way better. It's simultaneously simpler and more flexible. No confusion about whether something is an action vs bonus action (and how movement ties in). You just have multiple action units and abilities have a written number of action units they use (and some are variable).

I also like how Pathfinder approaches levels. Proficiency bonuses add your character level in, so higher level characters feel much more powerful at what they're supposed to be good at.

And critical success/failure is neat. You need 10 over/under DC to have a crit success/failure respectively, but nat 20/1 moves you up a class. If you're 10 over DC, a nat 1 becomes a normal success. Plus many abilities have modifiers on crits success/fail.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, what the fuck is that number? Are we just straight up lying in court now?

I decided to see how long it would take me to find out how to change it with no help. Took about 30 seconds. In mobile Chrome, it's basically the first setting on the settings page. So the steps are (1) open chrome, (2) hamburger menu, (3) settings, (4) search engine. Even if I have to count turning my phone on and opening Chrome if it wasn't on my home page, it still wouldn't even add up to 10 steps.

I checked Firefox and it has one extra step. There's still a search option literally at the top of the settings, just it goes to a page with multiple search related options (default search engine is still at the top). The fact that it worded it as "default" also made me immediately realize you can tap the Google icon in the address bar to choose another option, which must be what you used. 2 steps in that case.

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