My neighbor Steve says he knew Robinson personally, even went to the same church, and it was a brain parasite that caused him to go crazy and shoot someone.

I’m just gonna print that in the New England Journal of Medicine, because after all, it’s the information I have, and I can always retract it later, right?

/s 🙄

Misinformation is deeply dangerous and respectable journalists have a duty not to print bullshit in the first place. Sure, mistakes happen, but we don’t just hand-wave it away with “well, they said sorry sooooo 🤷‍♀️”.

Yes, that’s why I still participate in grassroots campaigning. I even have an idea that has been incubating among myself and a select few friends and former colleagues on how to tackle this. But we’ve yet to find the last two things we need: a political finance expert and a constitutional lawyer, both willing to stick their necks out to passionately disrupt the very industries in which they thrive

Absolutely not. This is like how they want people to believe climate change can be stopped my everyone compostin, when something like 60%+ of emissions come from 10 known polluters

Democratizing blame is a tactic of manipulators to avoid accountability.

As I said, fault and responsibility are different.

It is clear who is at fault. And it is clear we are responsible for purging the societal parasites.

We can talk about improving future mitigation against abuse, but victim blaming under the pretention of “cultural responsibility” is bullshit. America’s car-centric culture is demonstrably NOT a naturally occuring phenomenon like bigotry but a deliberately manufactured environment for the benefit of moneyed interests

There is a difference between fault and responsibility. Moneyed and selfish interests are at fault for taking advantage of every opportunity to profit at the expense of the peoples ’ well-being. They will pull any and every lever possible to get elected despite their misbehavior. But it was and is our responsibility to resist them.

Sadly we have reached a point in this country where any larger metropolitan area (like where I live) really doesn’t give a shit even at local levels, because the vast majority of their constituents respond more to propaganda than real political action, and big money donors have the most influence there.

Your comment is still right, it’s just looking real bleak these days. Until we can sort out how to get money out of politics (or, you know, capitalism as the driving ideology) were in trouble

I travel a lot. My brother lives in Amsterdam. I’ve visited several times and rented an ebike. I intend to leave ASAP but my ongoing divorce and career make it impossible at the moment. :(

Your solidarity is appreciated.

It’s mind boggling how much people outside the US don’t realize the barriers we face to doing the things they suggest we do. “Why don’t you riot and blockade your congress?” Because it would take me 8 days of driving - 4 there and 4 back - to protest at the capital for just a single day, and I’d lose my job for being gone that long. “Why don’t you walk more?” Because I’m 100x more likely to get killed by a car due to street design, and the store I need to go to is no less than 5 miles away if I’m lucky. Etc etc etc.

Sure, this is just an example of how complex “feel” can get in game development. The video includes several examples where player perception changes drastically from very minor gameplay design changes

There are so many things that go into whether a game feels responsive or not. Your experience could be explained by anything from access to stable Internet, to trends in game design philosophy, and vary from game to game based on implementation.

Here’s one of my favorite GDC talks that looks at just one small part of what goes into making a game feel responsive: https://youtu.be/h47zZrqjgLc

Ehhhhhhhh that’s generally untrue honestly.

Many people have the capacity. And there are enough shitty people that they will take advantage if given the opportunity.

But most people are just trying to live their lives as best they can, and much of their selfishness can be unlearned, or isn’t really selfishness anyway, just survival instinct and misinformation

I provided a proper explanation for the silent observers ;)

Don’t even get me started on Dilbert’s “The TTP Project”

Or what happens when you Google “recursion”

The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.

That’s why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they’re looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can’t even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.

From passing out. Locking knees can reduce blood flow

Seattle and Portland do make up the PNW hippie culture, which I’m sure plenty of respondents find unfavorable

What are the chances Washington gets dinged for having the same name as DC?

Uhhhhh you overestimate the knowledge of the average user

Sincerely, anyone and everyone who has worked IT help desk

Also F12 to open the developer panel, then check the “network” and “sources” tabs where you can see every single asset that is loaded (may need to refresh after opening the dev panel) and interact with them in a list

I feel bad for all the opportunities you’re going to miss while you’re more interested in modeling your life based on the behavior and opinions of others than what is good and satisfying for you, independent of others. I hope one day you are able to move past whatever anger is driving you to prioritize rebellion over utility.