jackothy

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by jackothy 4y ago
And even more so when it was 100% driven by technological limitations. The original Hollywood filmmakers of the early 1900s didn't choose not to film at 1000 FPS. There was simply no feasible way at the time to get above 20-30 FPS. T
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by jackothy 4y ago
I agree that higher is objectively better and more realistic. I think in a few years we will start seeing media catch up with this. The current trend is higher refresh screens. All new phones support 120Hz, and next generation MicroLED TVs
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by jackothy 4y ago
I use GrapheneOS too. I had that same Play Store prompt to install the purple AR app. "Google Services for AR" or something. For me, I'm pretty sure it was a dependency for Snapchat. From my limited Googling at the time it se
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by jackothy 4y ago
Oh, my bad, I see how I miscommunicated the "forcing" thing. In my head I was imagining an alternate world where video games simply didn't exist, so there people would have no other option than to (be "forced" to) r
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by jackothy 4y ago
I don't think I'm getting my point across. First of all: It certainly is my own cup of tea; Like I said, I play lots of video games myself. On a societal level I'd say there are basically two reasons why I think video games m
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by jackothy 4y ago
Video games are dopamine machines like few others. I fear they might cause us to waste more mental capacity than older pastimes. I'm inclined to think of it as stealing too much of people's brain power for too little return, like
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by jackothy 5y ago
So the title should really be: "Spotify deletes AN ADDITIONAL 71 Joe Rogan episodes" Seems 42 episodes have been gone since around the article you posted (March-April 2021). Now 113 episodes are gone in total. So are Spotify likel
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by jackothy 5y ago
Some advantages that Steam will still have: 1. Steam provides a system for user accounts and profiles 2. Steam handles payment securely for both buyers and sellers 3. Steam handles social networks/friend list/multiplayer 4. Steam
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by jackothy 5y ago
Even though the world is deterministic it is beneficial (or even necessary) to treat people as though they are responsible for their own actions, both in good and bad. We send people to prison even if the chance of further crime is ~0. We g
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by jackothy 5y ago
"The false idea that you can’t steal copies" alright semantics, semantics. Breach of copyright clearly has negative consequences for the copyright holder. Whether that is because the copyright holder is then being stripped of cont
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by jackothy 5y ago
It's not stealing if it's an idea, if it's just a concept. I am not taking your hard drives, I am not ripping you brain cells out of your brain. I am simply no longer allowing you to restrict my usage of something that you ha
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by jackothy 5y ago
Developers are bootlicking Github when they keep deciding to host stuff there.
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by jackothy 5y ago
Re: Boredom eSports players spend a lot more time playing than normal athletes. You can only be physically active for a few hours per day. eSports players can do a lot more, like tyler1 who consistently streams for 10+ hours 5 days a week.
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by jackothy 5y ago
That is partially true but not entirely. Twitch still has a somewhat strict TOS and regularly bans streamers. The audience is not always allowed to watch what they want. I'm guessing this is because Twitch needs to be advertiser friend
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by jackothy 5y ago
Well, I mean, he makes it clear enough that those are just examples for the sake of argument. I found the examples useful to understand the scenario he was proposing.