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  1. Comment on Norway on the verge of abolishing Video Assistant Referee from domestic football league after clubs in the country's top two divisions recommended formally that it should be discontinued in ~sports.football

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    This is simply not true. In some sports the decision can literally determine the end of the match. Nagayama vs Garrigos It can cause psychological shifts that tilt players so they can no longer...

    Umpire decisions are part of the game. You're not going to win or lose based on a single decision, even if that decision is the point (or goal or whatever) that puts you behind at the end of the match.

    This is simply not true. In some sports the decision can literally determine the end of the match.
    Nagayama vs Garrigos
    It can cause psychological shifts that tilt players so they can no longer perform well.
    Tiafoe vs Safiullin
    Players can be ejected creating impacting the rest of the game
    Duncan vs Crawford

    7 votes

  2. Comment on What is your weirdest kitchen appliance and what do you think of it? in ~food

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    It’s not weird at all really, but as a Luddite chef who loves to do things manually, it’s personally weird for me to own and regularly use an electric pepper mill. It’s simply undeniably useful to...

    It’s not weird at all really, but as a Luddite chef who loves to do things manually, it’s personally weird for me to own and regularly use an electric pepper mill. It’s simply undeniably useful to be able to grind pepper using only one hand.

    Maybe more conventionally unusual would be my silicon pie crust insulator rings.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on What is your weirdest kitchen appliance and what do you think of it? in ~food

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    It would be a shame to ruin the balance of a dish, in my opinion, because of the arbitrary size or amount of an ingredient.

    It would be a shame to ruin the balance of a dish, in my opinion, because of the arbitrary size or amount of an ingredient.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on TikTok is coming back online after US President-elect Donald Trump pledged to restore it in ~tech

  5. Comment on Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It’s now a $200 million fiasco. in ~tech

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    The products themselves are ads. Food companies pay supermarkets to decide where their products are shelved. Any one with kids or anyone who was went to the market as a kid probably knows about...

    The products themselves are ads. Food companies pay supermarkets to decide where their products are shelved. Any one with kids or anyone who was went to the market as a kid probably knows about appealing cereal boxes can be.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It’s now a $200 million fiasco. in ~tech

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    Now I am wishing quick service and fast food restaurants start getting rid of their dynamic tv menus. I doubt it, but I'll remain hopeful.

    Now I am wishing quick service and fast food restaurants start getting rid of their dynamic tv menus. I doubt it, but I'll remain hopeful.

    9 votes

  7. Comment on Nintendo Switch release reactions in ~games

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    I thought it was really dumb. I had every Nintendo console until Wii which I thought was dumb too. But I was also at an age where I didn’t keep up with new games as much. I thought Wii U was even...

    I thought it was really dumb. I had every Nintendo console until Wii which I thought was dumb too. But I was also at an age where I didn’t keep up with new games as much. I thought Wii U was even worse. And then the switch looked like a joke after.

    Honestly now I don’t really know why I thought that anymore. I borrowed a switch from a friend to play Zelda. And then bought one when I got a new job to celebrate. I love it! I enjoy it a lot more than my steam deck. I thought I would never use it he portable mode, but I go through lots of phases in life that I only use it in portable mode.

    One thing is that the catalogue of games compared to Wii and Wii U in general is just a lot better to me. Obviously Zelda, Mario, and Smash were just fantastic, especially compared to the Wii U iterations in my opinion. But then hollow knight and all the other incredible indies just shined. Of course all of this has been said countless times already

    3 votes

  8. Comment on How UI helps you hate breakable weapons a bit less in ~games

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    It disincentivized me from fighting in general. I did t want to participate in the economy from the beginning. Getting better weapons made me want to spend that durability even less. I hate using...

    It disincentivized me from fighting in general. I did t want to participate in the economy from the beginning. Getting better weapons made me want to spend that durability even less. I hate using consumable items!

    18 votes

  9. Comment on If your games library disappeared, which games would you repurchase? in ~games

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    I believe AoE1 is the popular iteration in Vietnam. They did kind of add AoE1 to AoE2DE through a DLC and that had the added Vietnamese civ, Lac Viet.

    I believe AoE1 is the popular iteration in Vietnam. They did kind of add AoE1 to AoE2DE through a DLC and that had the added Vietnamese civ, Lac Viet.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What goals or ambitions do you have for 2025? in ~talk

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    I want to just spend as much time as I can with my first child who is now about half a year old. Part of that is staying off Reddit which I have been really enjoying since the us election ended.

    I want to just spend as much time as I can with my first child who is now about half a year old. Part of that is staying off Reddit which I have been really enjoying since the us election ended.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on US President-elect Donald Trump refuses to rule out force to take Greenland and Panama Canal in ~society

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    Please tag as politics.

    Please tag as politics.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I hear that the Ichiban games are turn based because he's such a huge fan of Dragon Quest that he conceptualizes everything he encounters as if it were part of a Dragon Quest game.

    I hear that the Ichiban games are turn based because he's such a huge fan of Dragon Quest that he conceptualizes everything he encounters as if it were part of a Dragon Quest game.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I had the exact same experience when I played about 6 years ago. I did not want to hang out with these people. But as someone who grew up in Los Angeles, going through the city was wild. Figuring...

    I started playing the Grand Theft Auto 5 singleplayer campaign this week; I first started it 10+ years ago and never made it very far, as I found the character just so unlikable. I'm still pretty much there and hating the characters and having not made it very far, but I'm trying to take it pretty slow and just enjoy the character of the city. When I have played (which hasn't been a lot lately), I've actually just been walking to objectives/missions and trying to enjoy the atmosphere and set the characters aside. I'll probably continue, but it hasn't been the primary thing I've been playing.

    I had the exact same experience when I played about 6 years ago. I did not want to hang out with these people. But as someone who grew up in Los Angeles, going through the city was wild. Figuring out all the references and all the things they kept and left out was the most fun part of the game for me.

    I haven't played Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (just don't really have a lot of time right now to get into something like that), but it seems like the antithesis of GTA V. I've heard multiple critics describe the main character as the most endearing character in any video game. I enjoyed walking around the pseudo Kabukicho in Yakuza too. While the scale is not the same as GTA, the density of things to do and buildings you can go into is pretty great!

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? in ~life.men

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    Is this true? It was certainly not the case when I went to college about 15 years ago. Premed students were consistently under the most pressure at my school.

    Biology is now often considered the “easiest” of the STEM majors.

    Is this true? It was certainly not the case when I went to college about 15 years ago. Premed students were consistently under the most pressure at my school.

    10 votes

  15. Comment on App that asks “Why?” every time you unlock your phone in ~tech

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    That is a factor, but businesses often love to have a very predictable amount of revenue each period. They love to say each user is worth X revenue over a given period of time, therefore if we can...

    That is a factor, but businesses often love to have a very predictable amount of revenue each period. They love to say each user is worth X revenue over a given period of time, therefore if we can acquire a user for B cost, they will more predictably convert the revenue. Their income will be more consistent which businesses tend to love.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Amazon’s latest seller squeeze - Amazon changes terms of compensation for lost third party inventory in ~tech

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    Have there been any major efforts to boycott Amazon from sellers and customers? It seems like there’s a decent amount of people interested in organizing that.

    Have there been any major efforts to boycott Amazon from sellers and customers? It seems like there’s a decent amount of people interested in organizing that.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Why gen Z is drinking less in ~health

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    My wife stopped drinking last year when she got pregnant and I stopped drinking with her. Other than a trip in Japan (I absolutely love drinking draft beer in Japan), I have had almost no desire...

    My wife stopped drinking last year when she got pregnant and I stopped drinking with her. Other than a trip in Japan (I absolutely love drinking draft beer in Japan), I have had almost no desire to start drinking again. Money and calories is definitely a huge plus for me though! Even better I realize now how bad I feel the next day after drinking. It's like when I realized I felt like a had a cold the next day if I bummed a cigarette while drinking the night before, I never smoked again after that.

    I am enjoying all the new and higher quality non alcoholic beers. I went to a bar with friends the other day and the bar was actually sold out of NA beers!

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Tracing the anti-establishment shift among podcasts and the role of platforms in ~tech

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    I think it's worth mentioning Joe Rogan had the largest podcast long before his political views were overtly presented. Though he has always loved talking with anti-establishment guests, they were...

    I think it's worth mentioning Joe Rogan had the largest podcast long before his political views were overtly presented. Though he has always loved talking with anti-establishment guests, they were from across the political spectrum.

    10 votes

  19. Comment on Apple TV Plus will be free to stream from January 3rd to 5th in ~tv

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    There are some good movies as well. I really enjoyed Boys State and Girls State which are documentaries of high school students at a statewide government building camp. And then CODA was deeply...

    There are some good movies as well. I really enjoyed Boys State and Girls State which are documentaries of high school students at a statewide government building camp. And then CODA was deeply moving for me.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Exit Generation Alpha, enter Generation Beta in ~life

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    I thought growing up pre internet childhood was a defining feature of the millennial generation

    I thought growing up pre internet childhood was a defining feature of the millennial generation

    4 votes