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Comment on Steam Replay 2025 in ~games
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Comment on Steam Replay 2025 in ~games
Requirement Link ParentIf you need another recommendation: They just released Mosaic of the Strange! Same developer, similar puzzles, new twist to it by having something of a narrative. Very good so far!If you need another recommendation: They just released Mosaic of the Strange! Same developer, similar puzzles, new twist to it by having something of a narrative. Very good so far!
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Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
Requirement Link ParentThanks for answering! I, too, find the tech-bro association to be problematic (ish? Not really problematic, per se, but I can't think of a better word... maybe "kinda icky?") Especially knowing...Thanks for answering! I, too, find the tech-bro association to be problematic (ish? Not really problematic, per se, but I can't think of a better word... maybe "kinda icky?") Especially knowing the founder of Soylent is kinda a libertarian douche. I have dabbled in the meal replacement drinks on and off for quite a while. I did do a few-day experiment on consuming only the drinks. It went... fine? Like you said, there's no joy in it (something I am fine with on a per-meal basis in a lot of ways and you can find me advocating for in a lot of ways in other comments). I don't think every meal needs to be a joyous little treat but some of them should be! I don't think switching fully over treats anyone's GI tract particularly well though, there's something about consuming only liquid that my body just never really liked. I do occasionally buy a case of the Soylent coffee flavor though just as fast and easy breakfast replacements (with caffeine!). I try to de-center the heavy focus on making every meal a treat (finding that to be in a lot of ways just dopamine seeking) and the replacements are a little lifehack to make that more painless while, at least allegedly, being "nutritionally complete."
I can not fathom wanting that level of blandness in the "hot food" variety of things! When Huel released that stuff, I couldn't even imagine their marketing pictures being any good to eat. I just can't think of why I would want to maintain only one aspect of the eating experience, while foregoing the rest of the good parts. Way too on brand for some tech-bros: "Oh, people must surely be missing an aspect of the old ways and that's why our product isn't going gangbusters. I suspect it's the chewing they miss!" -
Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 becomes first indie game to win Game of the Year at The Game Awards in ~games
Requirement Link ParentI don't think the medals thing works particularly well here. That would be Michael Phelps taking all three medals in a single event. I'm arguing that game of the year is the medley relay,...I don't think the medals thing works particularly well here. That would be Michael Phelps taking all three medals in a single event.
I'm arguing that game of the year is the medley relay, representing a whole team working together. But just because Team USA won the medley relay, I don't think they should be penalized in individual events. Should Michael Phelps have been penalized in his individual event for winning the team medley? Should the other competitors view it as unfair that Michel Phelps existed at the Olympics in the same year? -
Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
Requirement Link ParentI really wish a lot of non-cooks could get past the stress of cooking to be able to see cookbooks not as separate, individual stories but as an over-arching, interconnected narrative so that they...I really wish a lot of non-cooks could get past the stress of cooking to be able to see cookbooks not as separate, individual stories but as an over-arching, interconnected narrative so that they could move onto the "wall of index cards" method of mix and match cooking. It really opens up the ability to make faster, easier meals. Especially when you change your mindset to the "just eat lunch" one.
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Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
Requirement Link ParentOut of interest, have you considered products such as Soylent or Huell? It seems like one of these tech-bro meal replacements might be up your alley, at least from the nutrition, no cooking, and...Out of interest, have you considered products such as Soylent or Huell? It seems like one of these tech-bro meal replacements might be up your alley, at least from the nutrition, no cooking, and budget standpoint.
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Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 becomes first indie game to win Game of the Year at The Game Awards in ~games
Requirement Link ParentConversely, how is it fair to the GOTY winner to be kneecapped in other categories? Just because they won game of the year they now have to be x% better than the next best soundtrack?Conversely, how is it fair to the GOTY winner to be kneecapped in other categories? Just because they won game of the year they now have to be x% better than the next best soundtrack?
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Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
Requirement LinkI love food. I have been a professional chef, even owned my own catering company at one point. I can cook circles around most people. The most important thing I have learned for meal prepping...I love food. I have been a professional chef, even owned my own catering company at one point. I can cook circles around most people. The most important thing I have learned for meal prepping should be abhorrent to me: stop giving a shit. Make a square meal, make five of them, and shove them in your mouth for lunch. You don't have to make them bad, make them good! But the need for novelty for my weekday work lunch is absurd. Once you commit to just eating "a" lunch, it gets so much easier! That out of the way:
Every Sunday morning at about 8:15am, I go to the grocery store. I go that early, regardless of how I feel from the night before, because that's the most enjoyable time to go to the grocery store: there are fewer people, the staff is freshly stocking produce, "manager special" stuff is freshly marked down. I buy all my breakfasts and lunches for the week on this trip and I rarely go with a list.
For breakfasts, I eat one of two things every day. I either have overnight oats (easy to transport to the office) or a breakfast sandwich (I have this down to about a 5 minute process to scratch make one, though this kind of has to be at home). I make three jars of plain overnight oats with chia seeds and when I pull them out in the morning, I add some mix-ins, a bit of yogurt and I'm set. The oats are nice because you can vary the stuff you mix in from fruit to chocolate and peanutbutter, to plain (gross.) so the blandness of them never gets too exhausting.
For lunches, I usually take a lap of the store and find out what's marked down the most. Chicken is usually marked down on "manager's special" (i.e. - about to expire) which is a nice cost-saver. This usually lets me use the nicer brand chicken for the same price or a little lower than the basic brand. Veggies are all over the place. Sometimes you can catch a good deal on packaged greens or mushrooms, but veggies I'm usually judging based on how good they look. Once I've decided protein and veggies, I think about what dishes bring those two things together. Chicken thighs and broccoli/kale? Sounds like some General Tso's. Chicken Breast and tomatoes/basil? Sounds like some kind of Italian pasta. Any chicken and I want vaguely Indian food? Sounds like tikka masala. It's pretty much always chicken, just based on price and ease of adapting to recipes. Once you have a stable of ideas of chicken+sauce, veggie prep method, and potential starchy base (potato, pasta, rice), it's pretty easy to just mix and match.
I'm usually done with prep, packaged everything up, and am gaming by 10:30 or so. Then all week, I have affordable, reasonably good food for breakfast and lunch. My coworkers all are flabbergasted that I eat the same thing for lunch for the whole week but, to sum up the first paragraph: who gives a shit. It's about having lunch, not a novel little treat every day for lunch (that's for my mid-afternoon snack!) Like others have said, this is the way I manage to eat reasonably healthy. I have portioned, reasonably healthy, and non-hyper processed meals.
Dinners are a bit of a different beast though. My wife and I use EveryPlate (a less-expensive subsidiary of HelloFresh) for three dinners a week. I really like that three of my meals are just planned, done, and ready to go. We both work a lot and removing any need to plan three of the meals (while keeping them easy enough to cook that my wife can step in and do it when needed) is a god send. The other four meals are a mix of "not home" and "eat whatever we feel like". I find that when my diet is maintained across breakfasts and lunches, the little splurges on dinners, both monetarily and nutritionally, feel more special and more intentional. -
Comment on Whatever happened to _____? in ~talk
Requirement Link ParentI think there is a business opportunity but with two caveats: The market for replacement N64 joysticks is pretty small 8BitDo has a drop-in, hall effect replacement stick for $20. That's a pretty...I think there is a business opportunity but with two caveats:
- The market for replacement N64 joysticks is pretty small
- 8BitDo has a drop-in, hall effect replacement stick for $20. That's a pretty hard price to compete with! Even if the steel sticks would have been very nice, maybe much nicer, your market for premium stick replacements is even smaller!
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Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung in ~tech
Requirement Link ParentWhile breaking the license? Arbitration. That's a regular contract dispute. My problem isn't with contract law. My problem is with the patent system.While breaking the license? Arbitration. That's a regular contract dispute.
My problem isn't with contract law. My problem is with the patent system. -
Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung in ~tech
Requirement Link ParentAgain, practically no school. You found a school - suspiciously with no authors quoted from their school of thought - that argues for copyright while acknowledging that the other four schools may...Again, practically no school. You found a school - suspiciously with no authors quoted from their school of thought - that argues for copyright while acknowledging that the other four schools may believe that copyright is a "second best option." Also the paper starts by essentially saying "economics isn't a science," to make sure that it can ignore all the science that exists in economics. The affiliation of ITIF with many tech companies and the tech sector in general leaves a suspicious taste in my mouth as well that they should be so adamantly in favor of copyright.
Becuase to me, the actions of entertainment and then tech companies surrounding copyright over the last hundred years has soured the idea of copyright for me. While I strongly disagree with the notion that economics isn't a science, I can agree with Robert D. Atkinson in some ways that there exists an greater amount of personal philosophy within economics (I would argue that is because we went wide with the definition of economics a couple hundred years ago when we dropped the "political" from the field of "political economics" and just kind of said everything from hard numbers to political theory can be economics. I digress....) and, as something of a idealist and someone with a sense of fairness, I would like a copyright system that actually does benefit and protect creators in meaningful ways. Any ideas I have on copyright though, I argue fall outside my knowledge and training in economics and fall further into political or social justice. Most economic schools (arguably since the majority of the more well-known ones fall squarely under the flag of "capitalism") would argue that government intervention is an inefficiency introduced into the system.
And just kinda stream of consciousing here: copyright certainly isn't as economically dubious as patents but the two are in the same basket and that, without much better language to describe the situation, sucks. When we think patent and copyright, we think of defending the "little guy": the artist down the street, or the the garage inventor bringing new products to market. Unfortunately, we're stuck with giant, behemoth corporations abusing the systems to stifle innovation, to prevent the little guy (or even the big guy) from bringing new products to market. Or, with enough money, you don't need to worry about someone else's copyright, you can just infringe on it and drag it out in court. Or worse, you can keep taking others to court for "infringing" on copyright. One of the legitimate complaints regarding economics as a science is that studies are hard to conduct, but I would argue that the current system of copyright has been a long enough real-world study that we can call it a bad system. -
Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung in ~tech
Requirement Link ParentWhat is preventing companies from negotiating that without copyright? I see that a company has a technology I want and I have a couple options: license it or recreate it. Those options are the...What is preventing companies from negotiating that without copyright? I see that a company has a technology I want and I have a couple options: license it or recreate it. Those options are the only two options in either system. The only difference with copyright is that the copyright holder can use the government's guns to prevent me from doing the latter.
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Comment on 1977 theatrical cut of Star Wars coming to theaters in 2027 in ~movies
Requirement Link ParentI think it's also just "cool." I feel like I get more from seeing the original in theaters the way it was seen in 1977, certainly from an understanding what the theater-goer was experiencing. As...I think it's also just "cool." I feel like I get more from seeing the original in theaters the way it was seen in 1977, certainly from an understanding what the theater-goer was experiencing.
As others have noted, it's also just surprising that we would ever get an official rerelease of the original! -
Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung in ~tech
Requirement Link ParentPatents are using the government's guns to make sure no one else can produce what you do. Just because a patent holder has to (sort of) disclose the process/product does not put them in any...Patents are using the government's guns to make sure no one else can produce what you do. Just because a patent holder has to (sort of) disclose the process/product does not put them in any obligation to allow any other firm to use that process/product.
I agree with you, there is no way to stop a company from having secrets but using the government to protect those secrets is not a viable answer. -
Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung in ~tech
Requirement Link ParentPractically no school of capitalist economic theory holds that copyright should exist (trade secrets are arguably different because those are things that can just be stored in your head, you are...For what it's worth, conventional economic doctrine holds that the ability to protect a trade secret/copyright spurs innovation, not stifles it. The idea is that there's an incentive to create new technology if you know you can profit from it.
Practically no school of capitalist economic theory holds that copyright should exist (trade secrets are arguably different because those are things that can just be stored in your head, you are under no obligation to supply competitors with your knowledge). Most capitalist theory argues that all markets trend to zero economic profit in the long term, with economic profit only being possible in the short term. Therefore, being first-to-market is all the economic advantage one should get, allowing you the ability to have realized profit before competitors can spin up production.
Economically speaking, from a capitalist perspective, ASML would have spent billions of dollars without copyright because there was money to be made. They do not continue R&D because they hold a copyright to their current technology, they continue R&D to continue to make money on future technologies (because, believe it or not, there could be a competitor that could enter the market, however unlikely). Unless you are a crony capitalist, you can only really argue that copyright stifles innovation as fewer competitors can enter the market at current levels - enforced by government decree. This means that if a competitor were to enter the market, they are already at a minimum <number of years copyright holds> years behind ASML and/or must spend an inordinate amount more money to innovate the next technology. While there certainly are a lot more intangibles, China's rejection of honoring copyright has arguably been an aspect of why they have been able to join the international community in manufacturing, even if they are still a few years behind in the engineering and innovation categories. To your example, sure they weren't able to precisely copy ASML's processes, but no one else can even try to copy the processes. Surely, that gives Chinese firms some level of advantage over any other potential entrant to the field. Similarly, sure Chinese produced GPUs are not yet at the level of Nvidia or AMD but the fact that they are producing any GPU is a step above practically any other firm (Intel aside... they have their own problems.)
Interestingly, one of the things most schools of economics might agree with is that copyright inherently leads to monopolies - they do likely disagree on whether that's a good thing or not! -
Comment on I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging all the lactose in ~health
Requirement LinkIt would be really great if there were greater access to actual tests for lactose intolerance (or more correctly, lack of lactase persistence). It would also be great if there were more...It would be really great if there were greater access to actual tests for lactose intolerance (or more correctly, lack of lactase persistence). It would also be great if there were more standardized methods of testing foods for lactose content. It would also be great if there were more research done on lactase persistence in humans and the actual effects in the body. I feel though that since most people experience it (and talk about it as) just being gassy and bloated, it is regularly treated as a "just live with it" or "just take the lactaid" problem.
I say this because there's also very real milk allergies that are ignored because lactose intolerance is so prevalent and a lot of people in discussions when the topic of lactose intolerance comes up really sound like they are describing milk allergies. -
Comment on I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging all the lactose in ~health
Requirement Link ParentAs an additional point: it's not just milk that's incorporated into so many products. In America, we directly incorporate lactose sugars into a huge range of products, from expected (baked goods)...As an additional point: it's not just milk that's incorporated into so many products. In America, we directly incorporate lactose sugars into a huge range of products, from expected (baked goods) to the "makes sense if you think about it" (a lot of beers) to the wildly unexpected (sausages?!).
So not only is it hard to avoid milk products but you can't avoid the direct thing your body can't digest! -
Comment on How to brew solar powered coffee in ~food
Requirement Link ParentJust fly your kettle to the sun! I can't believe I have to spell this out.Just fly your kettle to the sun! I can't believe I have to spell this out.
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Comment on [SOLVED] USB hub with a detachable cable? in ~tech
Requirement LinkWhile I also use the UGreen KVM (just KM?) switch that u/ShroudedScribe linked, I needed even more USB ports (well, I needed them to be accessible for my standing desk so that my mouse cord length...While I also use the UGreen KVM (just KM?) switch that u/ShroudedScribe linked, I needed even more USB ports (well, I needed them to be accessible for my standing desk so that my mouse cord length wasn't just randomly changing). I use this Anker USB hub. It works without plugging in the power cord for me, though I run it with the power plugged in. So long as your devices are high power draw, it seems to be fine. Pretty much every USB hub will start to encounter problems without additional power at some number of devices/power draw however.
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Comment on Weird Al Yankovic 2026 tour of ninety cities in ~music
Requirement LinkThis is truly a weird list of cities. I don't envy that tour schedule myself!This is truly a weird list of cities. I don't envy that tour schedule myself!
I'm something of an evangelist for the game (and developer)! I'm glad there are so many Tildeans playing puzzle games!