CoderKat

I'm personally all for banning smoking in public places (besides designated areas and specialty clubs). I agree that exposing people to secondhand smoke is rude at best and a health risk for them at worst. But I do think that especially in the comfort of your own home, you can do what you want (with the caveat that if vaping has similar odor issues as smoking, I see it entirely reasonable that renters can be required to smoke outside).

I can't remember anything about that movie except thinking it looked good. Did it have a plot? I don't even know.

How are cult classics like that scored so low by audience score? Critiques I can understand cause being elitist is like their whole schtick. But audiences at least have self selection to filter to people who like the idea in the first place.

Incidentally, I always felt that films need two kinds of ratings. One for people who view the movie as "their kind of movie" and one for people who don't. Because it's completely meaningless to me if, say, my grandma doesn't like the new Marvel movie. That's not her thing. I wanna know what people who like other Marvel movies think!

Them being mixed feels like the worst part of that.

Did everyone else just stand by while this guy did this? Or was he fired as soon as it was discovered?

Yeah, an internet comment is a bit whatever, but if you're a student, a plagiarism accusation could get you expelled. That's life ruining.

I picked my own carefully. Federates with the biggest instances, has downvotes, and no manual verification of signups.

Yeah, that setting was great. I wish more games would have granular difficulty settings.

Strongly agreed. To give a comparison, I'm a decently well informed Canadian. I don't know any of the judges in the Canadian Supreme Court. I can name every single one of the American Supreme Court judges and the various issues with several of them. The difference is night and day.

It feels like the obvious first step is for the people with many followers to start posting all their content on multiple sites, so that the second point no longer applies.

The trickiest part is the lack of a fully agreed upon alternative. Do you go to Mastodon, instagram, threads, etc? While some folks might have an alternative that they view as a no brainer, it's pretty clear that there isn't overwhelming consensus. Mastodon seems perhaps the most popular as a direct Twitter alternative, but it regularly faces complaints about usability and discoverability. If people post to both Twitter and some random alternative, if that alternative varies wildly, followers will stay on Twitter cause it's where all their favourites are.

Your comment has a vibe of complaining about that, but I like it for the exact reason you're replying to. It's a little overtuned (I'd like a couple of minutes before being given a hint), but I don't have the patience for getting stuck for long periods of time, especially if it's because of game limitations (ie, I can think of alternatives, but the game doesn't let me use the alternatives because that's not how video games work).

I also really like when games make it clear that I can't do something right now. Horizon has been great about that, with Aloy remarking that she probably needs some tool or should come back later. I always hated spending 10 minutes trying to get to some obvious treasure, googling it, and being spoiled because the Google result will tell me (in too much detail) that it's a late game thing.

They're refundable if you actually buy it. It's like a down payment. They only lose the money if they decide to cancel the order. That helps reduce the risk that the business will pay for an expensive car only to no longer have a buyer for it.

When these trucks are like $90k new, spending a few thousand to hedge your bets on which one will arrive first is nothing. It's like paying for faster delivery. Electric vehicles are in insane demand and sellers cannot keep up. Though honestly, I'm not sure dealerships are gonna have issues as a result.

Taking a guess, your instance (not the authors) has the profanity filter mentioned in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622 in effect. You can switch instances to avoid it. IIRC, it's disabled by default now (and isn't active on my instance).