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by retsibsi 5y ago
Why Not Simply, collective action edition: > If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone jus
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by retsibsi 5y ago
> bunny-hopping is usually frame-perfect If you mean the timing of the jump, that's not the case in Quake and its (spiritual and official) successors. You can press the jump key early and hold it until after you land. (If you mean
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by retsibsi 5y ago
> for what It's fun and it adds depth! Bunnyhopping is easy to learn but hard to master, and (together with related movement mechanics) adds a lot of freedom and dynamism to the game. Of course, simply adding bunnyhopping to a game
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by retsibsi 5y ago
I admit I'm still getting my head around the diagram, but it is top-down and I'm pretty sure the 'wish direction' is perpendicular to the 'view direction' because the player is holding down the strafe-left key.
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by retsibsi 5y ago
> so that experienced players can transfer their skill Sure that's part of the motivation, but more importantly it's a fun, satisfying mechanic that adds a great deal of skill-based dynamism to these games.
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by retsibsi 5y ago
Which of his other books would you strongly recommend?
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by retsibsi 5y ago
To speak sensibly about what is good, we have to define what we mean by 'good' in this context. You can define 'good' as 'popular' if you like, but I don't think that corresponds with how most people use t
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by retsibsi 5y ago
I know this is a tangent to your main point, but in case you haven't already done so, check out some of the other Zachtronics games. SpaceChem is my favourite; it's not literally a programming game like TIS-100, but conceptually i
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by retsibsi 5y ago
If you care about this issue can you consider editing your first paragraph? It's likely to preemptively derail the discussion you're trying to get started.
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by retsibsi 5y ago
Some real estate agents will, if asked, agree to a more top-heavy commission -- e.g. instead of x% of the total sale price, y% of the amount over $z. (I don't know the exact details, but my dad did this when selling his flat.)
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by retsibsi 5y ago
This reminds me of some research[0] that found speakers of less information-dense languages speak faster, and vice versa, with the effect that all of the studied languages had roughly the same information transmission rate. [0] https:&#x2F
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by retsibsi 5y ago
> even if it might not be a hundred percent genuine I reckon there are a couple of ways we could define a 'genuine' smile. Most strictly, as a basically involuntary expression of emotion. More loosely, we could include voluntar
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by retsibsi 5y ago
But what do you want to ensure: that grandma only installs malware on her phone via mistakes she is individually responsible for , or that she doesn't install malware on her phone? Maybe for the abstract 'grandma' you would
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by retsibsi 5y ago
> all these problems get sorted out, (until they don't, then it doesn't matter) Problems can have very bad consequences without literally killing us all.
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by retsibsi 5y ago
I think there's a decent argument that 'bribe' still isn't the most applicable category. The gifts are certainly used as a manipulative tactic, but if their value is trivial and they are given unconditionally, maybe they
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by retsibsi 5y ago
> Many people call me by a common nickname, I personally never cared one way or another. This misses the point. If you would be bothered by an actually offensive nickname, surely you can empathise with trans people who feel the same wa
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by retsibsi 5y ago
I disagree that those are edge cases, but I'm happy to accept that we've had different experiences.
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by retsibsi 5y ago
I don't receive it very politely. It's clearly condescending, and from my perspective you are the one reading uncharitably. I explicitly didn't assume either interpretation of your statement; my point was that it was either
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by retsibsi 5y ago
If 'gender of partner' counts as 'details', that's a pretty extreme stance to take. (If not, the original point still stands.)
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by retsibsi 5y ago
I guess I was thinking of something in between a private conversation and a meeting. Things like chatting in a shared office (which I know is a distracting no-no in some contexts, but not all, at least when it comes to a slightly extended g
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by retsibsi 5y ago
Yeah, I realised shortly after posting that comment that there's no need to reach for a metaphor or analogy; almost everyone insists on having a certain set of pronouns applied to them. Usually there's no friction because people i
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by retsibsi 5y ago
This is a good example, I think. Just about everyone insists that other people use their preferred pronouns; it's just that most of us are lucky enough that ~everyone automatically does so. If you would complain if a colleague persiste
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by retsibsi 5y ago
The trans person is "dictating other people’s words" in one, very limited context: when referring directly to that person. Given that the only obvious reason to actively refuse to use their preferred pronouns amounts to a pretty d
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by retsibsi 5y ago
Which is fine, but small/personal talk is extremely common at work, and many people would find a workplace completely devoid of it to be rather cold. I don't think most people saying 'no politics' want to take that as fa
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Does gold affect the ranking of a comment (i.e. where it is displayed on the page)? I guess I never really thought about it, but I assumed not. If it's all about the icon displayed next to the comment header, I suppose that's a ki
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Thanks for specifying this. There's a typo/arithmetic error in the original comment, which led me to assume CPM must mean 'per 100'.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Come on, I'm trying not to dismiss your perspective just because it sounds a bit conspiratorial, but this is not convincing. Are you saying the YouTube execs (or whoever is leaning on them) are just acting emotionally with no strategy?
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by retsibsi 6y ago
In the short run they can get away with ~anything. In the long run though, anything that upsets users makes the rise of a true competitor marginally more likely.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> Again, they don't care if you stay on the platform. Why not? Even if you're right that they care more about propaganda than money, what's the point of propagandising to an empty room?
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Oh I know, I am pretty cynical and not exactly outraged here. But although they don't care about what's good for us, they do care about what will keep us on the platform. And if it gets harder to find good stuff and filter out t

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