teamonkey

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by teamonkey 4d ago
> If the plebs are unemployed and unemployable, they (the billionaires) are going to be lynched. Hence the robot dogs
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by teamonkey 6d ago
This is very cool, but what mechanism lets me see the roof of the cars on the big wheel? The cars seem to twist towards me as they approach and away from me as they recede, but from my initial stationary position, which is below the roof of
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by teamonkey 7d ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. It’s difficult to measure objectively, due to being physically younger and in an earlier stage of my career and so worser-paid, but adjusting for that, I think quality of life 20 years ago was p
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by teamonkey 7d ago
Where are the taxes coming from? If people’s wages are below subsistence levels they’ll sell their investments to survive. There can be no possibility of upward class mobility in this scenario.
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by teamonkey 7d ago
In general that’s correct and you can generally estimate sales over the life of the game before the the end of release day. But there are also early access games, which are completely the opposite. Not very much in between those two extreme
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by teamonkey 11d ago
Also telling your expert employees/servants to do something for you.
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by teamonkey 15d ago
Yes, absolutely. US games developers are paid a lot more than elsewhere. There has been a growing trend over the past couple of decades to outsource more and more game development to cheaper parts of the world, trending towards keeping only
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by teamonkey 15d ago
Revenues overall are rising, but the only real growth right now is in China + East Asia, and in Roblox. https://www.matthewball.co/all/presentation-the-state-of-vid...
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by teamonkey 17d ago
Or 3
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by teamonkey 17d ago
Yes you’re right, of course, I was conflating the ability to move freely within the EU member states with the Schengen Agreement which was not correct. Border control was always necessary between Britain and the Schengen area, it was just s
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by teamonkey 17d ago
I do not expect it to happen in my lifetime. I dearly hope we manage to strike a deal that restores our freedoms to live and work within the EU, but I’m not holding my breath.
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by teamonkey 17d ago
Because the UK had a preferential agreement with the EU and a leadership position. It would be impossible to restore that state. Even if there were a UK referendum where a clear majority voted to rejoin the EU as a member state, not at the
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by teamonkey 17d ago
More like “we won, don’t mention it” It was recently the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote. Not a single firework.
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by teamonkey 17d ago
Turnout was about 72%, so really it was (approx) Leave 37%, Remain 35%, Don’t Know/Care 28%. Also worth pointing out that the hard Brexit we got, where we left Schengen and abandoned much of our cross-European programmes, was almost
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by teamonkey 18d ago
Adversity forces a scientific budget and for jobs to be created in related research areas. For some reason we don’t find it important to maintain that level of funding when there’s no adversity.
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by teamonkey 19d ago
They are cheaper, that’s why in most of the world, datacentres are being built where there’s copious solar or wind power. The problem is that they need full power 24/365.
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by teamonkey 21d ago
“There's no body. NOBODY. There's nobody in the study.”
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by teamonkey 22d ago
I’m not sure free will has anything to do with it. If you don’t have enough upward velocity to escape earths gravity, hitting the ground is also inevitable.
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
Steam doesn’t need a AI disclosure label for things that are not player-facing IIRC.
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
This is true, but you don’t want people to bounce off the game immediately, so they have a bad time and refund it before giving it a proper go. This can happen if they feel it’s easier or harder then expected.
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
What is ‘normal’ is unfortunately subjective and can mean a lot of different things to different people. Also often what is listed as ’hard’ is often normal, because most people will see ‘normal’ and decide they’re better than that and have
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
Apples to oranges, I think. Blue Prince was self-funded and solo developed for much of its long development time. Publisher funding was sought to polish and market the game. The developers in the article are taking about seeking upfront pub
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
That’s a weird value to get funding for right now. If a publisher wants to fund something cheap and niche, maybe a bit of a gamble, it’s too much. If they want to fund a more fleshed-out title that is likely to succeed with a bit of marketi
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
PCG is authored, its usage has intention.
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
> Because what loosened those patients’ grip on reality was prolonged exposure to a voice that sounded informed and assured, and always felt supportive and patient. Elites have been surrounding themselves by Yes Men for centuries. Is thi
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
Yes, but the testing bit is what makes it a scientifically-proven method and not a folk remedy. There are also a lot of folk remedies that have been disproven as medicine. They too were ‘common sense.’
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
This is a misunderstanding of how scientific research works, why it is done and how it is done. Reducing the number of people who can do science will not pay off in the long run.
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
The purpose of hiring grad students isn’t to advance science, it’s to train experts.
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
In a thread talking about the Dunning-Kruger effect, no less
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

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