Grzmot's recent activity

  1. Comment on As Denmark takes over the rotating EU Council presidency from Poland, it's hitting pause on one beloved tradition – the national Spotify playlist in ~music

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    Giving Joe Rogan 100 mill USD was definitely not a smart move, nor one that I support given that Rogan's a dick. The weapon investments you're gonna need to expand on, please.

    Giving Joe Rogan 100 mill USD was definitely not a smart move, nor one that I support given that Rogan's a dick.

    The weapon investments you're gonna need to expand on, please.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on As Denmark takes over the rotating EU Council presidency from Poland, it's hitting pause on one beloved tradition – the national Spotify playlist in ~music

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    I wouldn't call it deeply unethical. Yes, it benefits artists very little financially, but Spotify has merely monetized consumer behaviour that wad there before it in the form of music piracy....

    I wouldn't call it deeply unethical. Yes, it benefits artists very little financially, but Spotify has merely monetized consumer behaviour that wad there before it in the form of music piracy. It's something, I suppose?

    9 votes

  3. Comment on As Denmark takes over the rotating EU Council presidency from Poland, it's hitting pause on one beloved tradition – the national Spotify playlist in ~music

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    And judging by all the things that Lego has been recently doing, they're all out of tun too.

    And judging by all the things that Lego has been recently doing, they're all out of tun too.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on As Denmark takes over the rotating EU Council presidency from Poland, it's hitting pause on one beloved tradition – the national Spotify playlist in ~music

    Grzmot
    Link
    Oh man, this sucks. It's a fun tradition a way for the presidential country to show off their culture. I hope Denmark comes around!

    Oh man, this sucks. It's a fun tradition a way for the presidential country to show off their culture. I hope Denmark comes around!

    4 votes

  5. Comment on How technologies of connection tear us apart — Nicholas Carr's latest book in ~tech

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    I experienced the opposite of this; I conversed so much with my SOs via text that by the time I got home, we had nothing to talk about. The constant connection via our phones sapped us of the real...

    After that, I went through a series of s/os where we would constantly text each other about whatever mundane thing we were doing, so basically the same as posting about how my morning coffee was on facebook.

    I experienced the opposite of this; I conversed so much with my SOs via text that by the time I got home, we had nothing to talk about. The constant connection via our phones sapped us of the real life chit chat that sometimes blossoms into deeper conversations. While still in the relationship, I took a conscious effort to reduce my interactions via messages so that by the end of the day, there was a natural ice breaker to actually talk to my SO.

    Online connections are fantastic, when you are truly far away from your friends. But if you're close by, it's better to interact IRL and keep messages mostly to coordinating when and where to meet IRL.

    I do definitely get how not sharing memes in particular is a bummer, because it's one of my love languages lol. I have specific meme types that different friends get based on what they like, and it feels less bad because when I'm sharing a meme, I'm usually on my phone anyway so it's not taking away from anything else. It's mostly when I'm doing something and sharing would stop me from experiencing the thing, like photographing the food you got in a restaurant, that's when I feel bad about pulling out my phone and have to stop myself sometimes.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on On writing, and an MIT study in ~tech

  7. Comment on Hogwarts Legacy and designing games for the masses in ~games

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    I'd need to play the OG Arkham games to truly judge, but I've played the Shadow of Mordor games and Mad Max; and they are very different games to Hogwarts Legacy. Removing the setting and focusing...

    I'd need to play the OG Arkham games to truly judge, but I've played the Shadow of Mordor games and Mad Max; and they are very different games to Hogwarts Legacy. Removing the setting and focusing on gameplay only; Legacy is a ranged combat only game where you have multiple different classes of attacks (the spell colours) among your basic attack. It emphasises combos on individual targets much more than the Shadow games, where you have your light and heavy attacks and there's a bigger focus in changing targets constantly as the flow of combat demands it, which I've heard is very similar to the Arkham games. In Legacy, you can mostly stand still during combat and just hit dodge or block when the indicator shows up.

    Mad Max has the added car combat portions which are the main driver of the game (hah, pun). People generally agreed that the on foot portions were weak, but they are very close to the Arkham gameplay.

    7 votes

  8. Comment on Hogwarts Legacy and designing games for the masses in ~games

    Grzmot
    Link
    Disclaimer: I don't like Joanne Rowling. I don't think I need to explain why, but the start of the video has a little disclaimer portion about her. And while people should talk about her politics,...

    Disclaimer: I don't like Joanne Rowling. I don't think I need to explain why, but the start of the video has a little disclaimer portion about her. And while people should talk about her politics, this is not a video about that. It would be impossible to analyse anything set in the HP universe without removing her from the conversation, if that makes any sense. The video description includes some links to videos about Rowling and lengthy discussions about why she is a difficult person, to say the least.

    Hey folks,

    I made another video, centered around the interesting case study of Hogwarts Legacy. It's a game elevated by it's art design, artistic fidelity and clear love for the source material by those developers, who are then utterly betrayed by failures on director level.

    The choices that were made when designing Hogwarts Legacy unfortunately turn it into a husk of a game. It seems like while the art people loved making Hogwarts, the game designers and writers were completely uninterested in making a game set in Hogwarts. It is incredibly strange to me that a game director, given such a surefire success, would opt for such an approach. Maybe they were uncreative. Maybe they were held back by publisher committees. I don't know.

    Feedback is always welcome!

    11 votes

  10. Comment on Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and eleven other activists set sail on Sunday afternoon for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel's siege” of the devastated territory in ~society

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    Imho the smartest thing that Israel can do from its POV is to just let the ship in, distribute what little aid it carries and then let them leave again. Whatever atrocities they document are going...

    Imho the smartest thing that Israel can do from its POV is to just let the ship in, distribute what little aid it carries and then let them leave again. Whatever atrocities they document are going to get drowned out in the general level of atrocities being reported from Gaza. The other likely outcome is that they'll just be cut off at sea and diverted into an Israeli harbour so they don't even get to document the atrocities.

    One of Palestinian descent, which means Israel probably wants her dead more than the others, but still an elected official to the European Parliament.

    This is imho a bold statement. I'm convinced that there are elements within the Israeli government that want to genocide the people in Gaza for some sweet Lebensraum, and that Netahanyu tolerates, if not encourages, those elements because he strikes me as one of those despots that wants power for power's sake and will pact with anyone willing to give it to him.

    But it's a bold statement that the Israeli government would kill anyone of Palestine heritage if they are not actually on Israeli controlled territory, be it Israeli proper or occupied lands. The genocide has always been about expansion into lands that Zionists view as rightfully theirs based on their religion. That most people living in those lands have a cultural identity strikes me mostly as incidental to the killing. It's about expansion.

    Western governments in general have ranged from outright support to tacit tolerance of the Gaza genocide; to be involved in the killing, accidental or not, of a French politician of the EUP would be an incredibly stupid geopolitical move and actively against Israeli interests.

    Disclaimer: I haven't kept up to date with the Gaza situation. There's a good chance that good ol' Bibi has said some things that make it clear that he's a true believer rather than a power-hungry tyrant.

    12 votes

  11. Comment on According to online poll, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream in Israel in ~society

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    There is definitely a bug on the site, I opened it through archive.org (which is usually a good way to circumvent adblock-blockers, but even there it showed it. Then I tried with Chrome (no...

    There is definitely a bug on the site, I opened it through archive.org (which is usually a good way to circumvent adblock-blockers, but even there it showed it. Then I tried with Chrome (no extensions installed) and it still showed that apparently I was ad-blocking even though there was an ad right above that banner.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on The era of the business idiot in ~tech

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    That's how I read it as well. It seems like he views conversing about an episode as a replacement for having listened to it. It's just such an out there statement. Why do that? It's not like you...

    That's how I read it as well. It seems like he views conversing about an episode as a replacement for having listened to it. It's just such an out there statement. Why do that? It's not like you need to focus on driving, you probably have a driver. If it was a summary in bullet points and he's getting through 5 episodes in the normal duration of one then alright, but it doesn't even seem like an improvement in efficiency.

    9 votes

  13. Comment on The era of the business idiot in ~tech

    Grzmot
    Link
    A great long read about the state of kind of everything but mostly managers.

    A great long read about the state of kind of everything but mostly managers.

    9 votes

  15. Comment on Let’s talk about the bidet, the bathroom's best-kept secret in ~health

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    Idk about your specific model but if it helps your frugal heart, most bidets amortize themselves within a couple years simply because you buy less toilet paper.

    Idk about your specific model but if it helps your frugal heart, most bidets amortize themselves within a couple years simply because you buy less toilet paper.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on End of 10: Replace Windows 10 with Linux in ~tech

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    I used Win 10 LTSC a while back and legitimately the only issue was back then it came without Edge OR internet explorer so I had to put Firefox on a usb stick and get it on my PC that way. Also I...

    I used Win 10 LTSC a while back and legitimately the only issue was back then it came without Edge OR internet explorer so I had to put Firefox on a usb stick and get it on my PC that way. Also I used a script to get the windows store back, as EarTrumpet is installed through there.

    Other than that, it's a genuine improvement lol.

    6 votes

  17. Comment on Firefox now supports native vertical tabs in 136.0 release in ~tech

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    What dissatisfied you from using Sideberry? I've been using it for a month now and I'm very happy with it.

    What dissatisfied you from using Sideberry? I've been using it for a month now and I'm very happy with it.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on The great big pseudoarcheology debunk in ~humanities.history

    Grzmot
    Link
    Note: Have not watched this yet, though I saw it also posted on r/videos. There was a comment there from a (alleged) academic, who recommended other youtube channels that took a more nuanced and...

    Note: Have not watched this yet, though I saw it also posted on r/videos. There was a comment there from a (alleged) academic, who recommended other youtube channels that took a more nuanced and empathetic perspective on the issue.

    Since I haven't watched the video yet, but do intend to do so, I just want to repeat that I'm not calling the posted video bad. I'm literally just parrotting a reddit comment.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New subclasses, photo mode, and cross-play in ~games

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    My only playthrough was a good ending durge as a sorcerer. I think having a high charisma character act as a face really improved the playthrough, because I think that's what the party generally...

    My only playthrough was a good ending durge as a sorcerer. I think having a high charisma character act as a face really improved the playthrough, because I think that's what the party generally lacks. Plus duplicating Haste with sorcery points on Laz and Karlach turned them into absolute monsters. :D

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Creative short story writing contest—prize for winner! (2025-03-07) in ~creative

    Grzmot
    Link Parent
    It's a tight rope to walk, but a necessary one in my opinion. It helps spot mistakes and improvements before it's all written down, and personally I hate nothing more than deleting words that are...

    It's a tight rope to walk, but a necessary one in my opinion. It helps spot mistakes and improvements before it's all written down, and personally I hate nothing more than deleting words that are meant to be part of the story because I had to cut an entire scene.

    But I get ya, really. Plan too much and you feel like you're just executing your own story, instead of writing it.

    1 vote