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Comment on Dr. Glen Jeffery: Using red light to improve your health and the harmful effects of LEDs [Huberman Lab] in ~health
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Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech
V17 Link ParentI agree, plus this should be up to company policy and not forced by Slack, if it was done for security reasons, but the important part is that unfortunately this happens. It's the reason why we...I agree, plus this should be up to company policy and not forced by Slack, if it was done for security reasons, but the important part is that unfortunately this happens. It's the reason why we switched to Mattermost on a small project where Slack was not forced on us, but often one does not have this choice.
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Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech
V17 Link ParentSlack is used by companies and therefore often for sharing information that needs to be secure. I don't know if it needs some specific security features, but it does only support last I think 3...Slack is used by companies and therefore often for sharing information that needs to be secure. I don't know if it needs some specific security features, but it does only support last I think 3 major versions of Android and refuses to launch on anything older for supposedly security reasons.
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Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech
V17 Link ParentThis is the only area where I'm much less pessimistic than you are. I think that PCs are generally in a much better state than phones despite the TPM thing, for a couple reasons. Firstly there is...I think eventually we'll see a company like Intel deciding to make their consumer-grade CPUs (i.e. not their server hardware, where Linux is basically unkillable) only run properly when they're using approved hardware and OS (Windows), otherwise throttling for "security reasons".
This is the only area where I'm much less pessimistic than you are. I think that PCs are generally in a much better state than phones despite the TPM thing, for a couple reasons.
Firstly there is some financial incentive to not give Microsoft and Intel a monopoly and fight it. Valve has been fighting this fight with some success and is not giving up. They've been pushing hard to not only make Linux a viable alternative for a small but financially intersting segment of the market, but also to slowly create the possibility to move from x86. Their x86 emulator is still an early version, but it's brilliant because due to the combination of using native, non-emulated Proton libraries and emulating only the actual non-library parts of the code it has a potential to be fast enough to be good enough for the average user.
Secondly, while I hate the move from proprietary software that we do not technically own but that at least still runs on our computers towards SaaS that we interface with using web browsers, for many reasons, its one advantage is that it's platform agnostic. So while on my phone I do have to run either the official ROM or an alternative ROM with a hack that emulates Android's security features and may stop working in the future just to run a two factor authenticator for my banking app, or pay for less secure one time SMS codes, I can open the actual e-banking web app through a completely OSHW Power9 PC running OpenBSD just because it has Firefox. And I don't need wine or x86 emulation for that. OpenPower is expensive and has no mainstream support, I'm just mentioning it because it's obscure and works for this usecase regardless, but ARM has gotten more powerful and accessible over the years and RISC-V has been steadily increasing its market share as well, though not breaking any records in computing power yet.
I do think that phones are fucked for the reasons you describe. Outdated hardware I don't think is a big problem, but the need to be connected to the whole ecosystem and high cost together with becoming obsolete faster than PCs surely are.
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Comment on A post on X claiming that Denmark has introduced an IQ threshold of at least 85 for sperm donors has sparked confusion, debate and memes, but ultimately is misleading in ~health
V17 Link ParentDefinitely not true and being precisely one standard deviation from the mean the number of people with IQ under 85 is still quite large. For reference, this is certainly opening a can of worms,...An IQ of 85 is pretty low, that person would likely be disabled
Definitely not true and being precisely one standard deviation from the mean the number of people with IQ under 85 is still quite large.
For reference, this is certainly opening a can of worms, but at least as recently as late 90s black people in the US scored an average of 85 in IQ tests and approximately the same scores were derived from widely administered tests with known g-loading, like the SATs. I assume the gap has narrowed since then (because I assume the result is for the most part environmental and those tend to shrink over time), it's difficult to find current data because of how controversial it is naturally, but it still exists, the data is pretty clear and it comes from official institutions, not from "racial science" (which is why it's hard to find current data, understandably nobody wants to brag about this).
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Comment on Dr. Glen Jeffery: Using red light to improve your health and the harmful effects of LEDs [Huberman Lab] in ~health
V17 Link ParentThey tend to have a spectrum similar to daylight, the differences being that those with warm color temperatures (say 4500K and lower) have less blue than daylight, and they have literally zero...Would you happen to know where high CRI LED bulbs stand relative to halogen counterparts?
They tend to have a spectrum similar to daylight, the differences being that those with warm color temperatures (say 4500K and lower) have less blue than daylight, and they have literally zero deep red and near infrared. So they do not provide any of the benefits that halogen or incandescent lights (or straight red lights) do, but I don't believe there's a reason to think they're harmful.
From what I've seen Philips Hue do have a big blue light spike in their spectrum unless ran on the most warm settings, but I only checked very briefly and there are different kinds.
I’m also curious where red and full spectrum light and bright light intersect.
I have also explored this in the past and my knowledge is partially based just on anecdotes from DIY people treating their seasonal affective disorder, but it seems like in that case while full spectrum neutral white bulbs are best, brightness is the most important thing and any white light will work. You just really need a lot of it.
My DIY solution was to get 8 4000K high-CRI bulbs, 60W equivalent (I'd prefer stronger but these were really cheap, unfortunately not on market anymore), put them all under a relatively big (60 liter?) milky-colored translucent plastic box that acts as a diffuser and stare into it. This shines 4000 - 8000 lux directly into my face depending on how far I sit from it. For reference, this is the amount of light that you get outdoors when you look up during a completely overcast but not totally dark day, and it's about 10x - 20x more than you typically get at home. There are free apps on your phone for measuring light intensity (like Phyphox) and they tend to be very roughly accurate - finding out just how big the difference between indor lighting and even relatively "dark" outdoor lighting is can be quite enlightening (yes, I know).
Anyway, I don't suffer from SAD, just from daytime tiredness and drowsiness, and this does wake me up very efficiently in the morning... But so does red light from a panel it seems like (though the panel is about 3x stronger I think). I'll do more experiments once my new panel arrives from China.
Based on the video, if the dude is correct (and this is not a given either, there's a lot of data but I think some of it is extrapolation), a good economical option might be to get high CRI bulbs everywhere, spend some time exploring the market and wait for a good deal, because many (especially from anti-blue light shops) are overpriced as shit and there really is no need to spend as much money. The goal is to reduce harm. And then get a halogen lamp or two, with a dimmer, as a supplement for a place where you spend the most time. Possibly a work desk or even next to your bed if you read books before you fall asleep. The goal is to supplement every day and get some of the long wavelength benefits.
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Comment on Dr. Glen Jeffery: Using red light to improve your health and the harmful effects of LEDs [Huberman Lab] in ~health
V17 LinkRed light therapy seems like something that's very obvious woo, until you spend an afternoon looking through some portion of the many studies and realize that no, while it is indeed overhyped in...- Exemplary
Red light therapy seems like something that's very obvious woo, until you spend an afternoon looking through some portion of the many studies and realize that no, while it is indeed overhyped in some online circles and just sounds hard to believe, it is very real.
I borrowed a mid-sized panel with visible red and near-infrared (NIR) light for a month and found out that while it does nothing for my energy levels directly (I have chronic fatigue syndrome), it immediately suppresses my chronic pain, which is quite mild but otherwise nearly constant, heavy feeling in my legs and daytime sleepines, and it also improves my sleep. Oh, and my eyelashes became longer after the month (expected, it is also used for hair growth, it delays the tellogen phase), which is a bit of a pain because my glasses now get dirty much faster, from the inside. As a result I have now ordered a similarly sized panel from China, because literally all the red light therapy companies are just resellers of chinese panels, and ordering it directly was about 60% cheaper.
Despite the amount of science there is still a lot of folk lore around this topic on reddit etc., so I was happy to see an interview with an actual scientist on Andrew Huberman's podcast.
It's over 2 hours long, so I made a tl;dw. Many of the points are not just about shining narrow-band red/near infrared light as the panels, most popular tools for red light therapy, do, but about long wavelenght (red and infrared) and short wavelength (blue) components in various types of everyday lighting and their influence on us. Behold:
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Red light works directly on mitochondria, making them work faster and more efficiently. Blue light seems to have the opposite effect on mitochondria than red light. Red light exposure during eating reduces blood glucose, blue light increases it and "slows down" mitochondrial activity.
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Lighting in general is about balance. Unbalanced frequency spectrum that contains too much short wavelenght (blue) light seems to be very unhealthy in the long term.
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Low quality white LED bulbs all have a large blue (short wavelength) spike and no long wavelengths (deep red and infrared), whereas all natural and artificial lighting used throughout all of history until about 30 years ago was either balanced or unbalanced in the other direction, with much more long wavelength energy (note: I think he's forgetting fluorescent lighting, but that's been vanishing anyway). This "cheap LED bulb" type of light is starting to be talked about as possibly quite unhealthy due to the influence on mitochondria, vision and possibly other things. Incandescent lights are healthier, this includes halogen bulbs. Even a weak halogen bulb on a dimmer (to save money) can be used to supplement long wavelength light efficiently.
- Careful here: this only applies to low quality LED bulbs (edit: to clarify, unfortunately this is nearly all of them, anything with CRI of 85 or lower). Good high CRI (90+, ideally 95+) LEDs with neutral or warm light do not have the blue spike (usually the manufacturers publish their spectrum) and in fact contain less blue than natural outdoor light. These bulbs are often even quite cheap, they're just uncommon, you have to actively seek them out. They do not radiate any infrared, but there is no evidence for them being harmful.
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Improving eyesight with red light is real. It works like a switch - enough red light exposure to the retina and some metrics (like distinguishing similar colors) suddenly shoot up. It lasts for days after just one session (!) and then falls back down. The amount of light needed is surprisingly low. There is also a long term effect in preventing natural age related degeneration which only shows in older people.
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Full spectrum light balanced towards the long wavelengths, like incandescent or halogen bulbs, works better than pure red light for improving color perception. I'm not talking about looking at colors under the light, I mean that being regularly exposed to this kind of light improves your color recognition in general, in any setting. In the study they used incandescent desk lamps used for normal work every work day, not anything you directly stare into. Improvements were stronger and lasted longer after removing the lamps than with red light flashlights. Strong long wavelength or full spectrum light also likely lessens the probability of myopia developing.
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Long wavelength (red and NIR) light penetrates very deep, IR specifically passes through bone and pretty much everything in your body. It also passes through clothes, so going outside even when clothed is beneficial.
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Long wavelength light is beneficial for many ailments, mentioned is for example Parkinson's and macular degeneration, but it only works as prevention and in early disease stages. As soon as significant neurodegeneration is present, it does not work. It needs to be caught early, in the "I have some pains, but not bad enough to see a doctor yet" stage.
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RLT panels that many of us use are not that well built. Often the wavelengths they radiate are not what the manufacturer claims, or they drift over time. Their cost to benefit ratio is not very good. However other information in this video implies that the specific wavelenghts are not crucial, plus we know from GembaRed (a youtuber who sell his own panels and does measurements of various 3rd party models) that the radiated spectrum tends to be not that far off from what is claimed.
- I think the takeaway from this point is: don't forget that many studies focus on narrow band light specifically because they use easily available RLT panels, and RLT panels exist because they're a good business, not because we necessarily know that they're the best thing. There is evidence that either broad spectrum red/infrared or sun-like full spectrum lighting is just as or more effective in some mechanisms, possibly not in others. That said I don't think there's any evidence that RLT panels are bad and studies very clearly show that they work, we just don't know whether in some cases better methods exist, yet.
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There's not enough research to say for sure, but it seems like simply balance is key. If you spend enough time outside in the natural and balanced light spectrum, there's a good chance that you're fine and low quality LED bulbs are not harming you in any way. If you spend most of your time locked inside behind windows which block infrared (common, for climate control) under low quality lighting, getting a weak halogen bulb on your desk or otherwise supplementing long wavelength light might bring subtle but real health improvements, especially long term.
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Dr. Glen Jeffery: Using red light to improve your health and the harmful effects of LEDs [Huberman Lab]
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Comment on I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging all the lactose in ~health
V17 (edited )Link ParentActually no, the gas often happens when shifts in your gut microbiome happen, and as you adapt and the bacteria stabilize it usually reduces to normal. 3 days ago I made a big pot of beans and...Actually no, the gas often happens when shifts in your gut microbiome happen, and as you adapt and the bacteria stabilize it usually reduces to normal. 3 days ago I made a big pot of beans and I've been like a baloon since, but people from countries where beans create the foundation of their diets are not constantly walking around blowing ass.
This is confirmed by the girl in the video, the gas significantly reduced after those two weeks of suffering.
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Comment on I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging all the lactose in ~health
V17 Link ParentI'm actually thinking about that right now. 3 days ago I made a big pot of beans and I've been eating them since then. I've been blowing ass nonstop and my bowels have been evacuating a tad faster...If I suddenly developed a bean intolerance (one of my favourite foods), I'd probably also want to fix it or at least make them tolerable again.
I'm actually thinking about that right now. 3 days ago I made a big pot of beans and I've been eating them since then. I've been blowing ass nonstop and my bowels have been evacuating a tad faster than I'd enjoy, so naturally I've been wondering: what if instead of giving my ass a break I made another big pot of beans, and then another, and kept eating them for two weeks? I have a chance to suffer shortly and then possibly be fine for a long time.
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Comment on A post on X claiming that Denmark has introduced an IQ threshold of at least 85 for sperm donors has sparked confusion, debate and memes, but ultimately is misleading in ~health
V17 LinkThe whole story: One sperm bank in Denmark does indeed filter out people with below 85 IQ or with a criminal record. It's just that it's the one sperm bank, whereas some complete rando on twitter...The whole story: One sperm bank in Denmark does indeed filter out people with below 85 IQ or with a criminal record.
It's just that it's the one sperm bank, whereas some complete rando on twitter claimed that it was a nation-wide rule.This is a short mediocre article which reacts to a literal shitpost on X that was seen by less than 20k people, the title is somewhat clickbaity because it doesn't say in what way it's misleading, and the decision not even that controversial.
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Comment on I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging all the lactose in ~health
V17 LinkThe most fascinating thing about this is that it's a piece of evidence for a broader observation about the gut microbiome: you need really strong interventions if you want to change it, but if you...The most fascinating thing about this is that it's a piece of evidence for a broader observation about the gut microbiome: you need really strong interventions if you want to change it, but if you do it right, the results come very quickly.
Slow gradual introduction of lactose without too much suffering doesn't seem to work. Neither does supplementation of bifidobacteria on its own. But tell your gut "you will digest lactose and you will enjoy it!" and you're done in two weeks.
There are more and more pieces of evidence like this. Recently the preindustrialized tribe-inspired NiMe Diet, which changed multiple blood markers significantly for the better (on top of changing the microbiome itself) in just a 3 week study, but the subjects ate nothing but foods from the diet. Or probiotics: finding probiotics that work for a specific ailment is an incredibly difficult task because there are hundreds of possible bacteria available, at the same time most pharmacies just have a couple most common multi-strain probiotics of questionable quality at best and getting anything else is expensive and complicated, and there's a good chance that you need one out of just a couple very specific strains. However anecdotally when people do find what works for them (whether based on microbiome sequencing or just randomly), it tends to work in just a couple days.
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Comment on Carmageddon: Rogue Shift | Announcement trailer in ~games
V17 Link ParentThe thing is, Carmageddon was not just outrage bait. You could win the race by running over all the people in the map, but it was much easier to instead win by racing or by destroying all the...The thing is, Carmageddon was not just outrage bait. You could win the race by running over all the people in the map, but it was much easier to instead win by racing or by destroying all the opponents' cars, which was fun and well made and the AI adapted to what it assumed your goal was. So it was edgy, but within that it was a really good actual game with fun physics, damage modelling and also silliness. You're correct that this seems like a different game - no pedestrians, closed tracks and also no staple Carmageddon weapons, like rotating spikes at the front of the car to increase ramming damage or silly things like jumping lightning bolts etc.
I do understand that such explicit edginess in current realistic 3D graphics would hit a bit harder than Carmageddon, but I still think it's kind of crazy how in many ways we now self censor more than we did in the 90s. I'd love to see a full-on Carmageddon sequel with everything, done in a retro 3D style similar to Old School Rally for example.
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Comment on r/art subreddit under new management after an artist was banned for mentioning their art prints in ~arts
V17 Link ParentI enjoy seeing this, but at the same time it's one subreddit out of probably hundreds that have the same problem, but their problems are not bad enough to create strong negative publicity either...I enjoy seeing this, but at the same time it's one subreddit out of probably hundreds that have the same problem, but their problems are not bad enough to create strong negative publicity either through user's reactions or through mod meltdown, so they're not going to get better.
So for me this highlights that there are huge problems all over reddit, but there's no process to solve them and when it happens it's essentially random and requires someone to fuck up comically badly.
During the API changes mod strike I spent some time in /r/theoryofreddit after some years because it became temporarily unmoderated, so random people started to come there and complain about the state of reddit, and many subscribers were reddit mods, often powermods of active in multiple subreddits or activist metasubreddits, pushing on admins to be more strict on certain issues etc., and they engaged with the random users. This led to very interesting discussions because you could see the opinions of mods and powermods on various topics related to the state of reddit.
Thanks to that I rearned that some of the very active powermods truly are a walking "reddit mod" stereotype and it's no wonder the situation feels as ridiculous as it does. Although I find some of your language kind of annoying, what you say seems to be the reality. And over the years it's been getting worse, not better.
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Comment on r/art subreddit under new management after an artist was banned for mentioning their art prints in ~arts
V17 Link ParentThe issue is not the rule itself, the issue is that the way in which it's enforced is idiotic. If the situation was "we removed your comment mentioning your store, which breaks rule 9, don't do...The issue is not the rule itself, the issue is that the way in which it's enforced is idiotic. If the situation was "we removed your comment mentioning your store, which breaks rule 9, don't do that again" or "we removed your post for breaking rule 9, you may resubmit without mentioning any socials or store", this would be a non-issue.
Remember that this is the same subreddit that removed the post of an actual digital artist for being AI generated, and when the artist submitted a .psd evidence with layers etc. the mod doubled down and told him that his art sucks because it looks like it's AI generated and to not post again. This is doubly ridiculous considering how low the average quality of /r/art posts is and considering that obviously generative models were trained on digital art, so they're literally designed to create output similar to actual digital paintings.
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Comment on r/art subreddit under new management after an artist was banned for mentioning their art prints in ~arts
V17 Link ParentThe cynic in me says that the quality of /r/art, whether we're talking about moderation or about the submissions, is so low that this is one of the rare instances in which whoever runs the sub is...The cynic in me says that the quality of /r/art, whether we're talking about moderation or about the submissions, is so low that this is one of the rare instances in which whoever runs the sub is free to experiement because either they succeed or little value was lost anyway.
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Comment on The lossless scaling plugin is officially on the Decky Store in ~games
V17 Link ParentEither something improved massively or this must be highly subjective. I tried Lossless Scaling about a year and a half ago on PC with STALKER Anomaly: GAMMA to get more smooth 60+ fps (I normally...STALKER Anomaly
Either something improved massively or this must be highly subjective. I tried Lossless Scaling about a year and a half ago on PC with STALKER Anomaly: GAMMA to get more smooth 60+ fps (I normally get about 50), and I don't even think I tried framegen at that time, just FSR scaling to keep the latency down. Yet the input lag made it unplayable. I felt like I was playing Skyrim with triple buffering using a controller, not a fast first person shooter with a mouse.
Generally I think the manual recommends using scaling/framegen to get from 60 fps to 120+ on fast displays, because any way to get from 30 to 60 brings too much input lag. Not an issue with slow games, but I don't think it works with first person shooters.
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Comment on Pluribus S01E01 - “We is Us” in ~tv
V17 Link ParentI only mentioned the "average stupid person" because I think there's a lot of delusion and denial present in people in general. But I don't think the other unassimilated are necessariy stupid...I only mentioned the "average stupid person" because I think there's a lot of delusion and denial present in people in general. But I don't think the other unassimilated are necessariy stupid either, they're not really presented as such. They are clearly presented as delusional and in deep denial though.
I don't think Carol's lack of people skills is astounding at all. I think it's a result of being in shock from being thrown into such an absurdly overwhelming and hopeless situation. So far for me, until episode 3, she seemed like she was a normally functional if a bit cranky human before the apocalypse. She's obviously blameless for the first disabling of the hive, the second one not so much, but again, I do think going through a crisis like that would be realistically expected for many completely normal people if they were suddenly thrown into a situation like this one. It seems much more grounded and realistic than whatever the others are going through.
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Comment on Against 'Metroidbrania': a landscape of knowledge games in ~games
V17 Link ParentMy issue with this whole topic is that "traditional roguelikes" play so, so differently from anything else, and with the bastardization of the term it became so much more difficult to find them...My issue with this whole topic is that "traditional roguelikes" play so, so differently from anything else, and with the bastardization of the term it became so much more difficult to find them outside of forums and social media/steam/etc. groups focused on the genre. You can call Diablo a roguelike if you want, but generally people who are in the mood for Crawl or Brogue or Caves of Qud are not satisfied by Diablo and vice versa, that's the problem.
Also there's no need to call diablo a roguelike because pretty much everyone already knows what a diablo-clone/ARPG is. The label would perhaps be useful when Diablo came out and created a new subgenre, but at the time roguelikes were more niche than now, so even then... I'm trying to talk about the roguelike label from a practical perspective, and from that point of view talking about Diablo is kind of pointless.
"real-time procgen+permadeath hack-and-slash"
This thread is going in circles because you can just write this as "hack and slash roguelite". I know some people proposed that roguelites need to have permanent progression, but I think it serves well as a "with some basic roguelike elements" term, and in any case "roguelite, just without permanent progression" is a smaller deviation than "roguelike, just without the core roguelike gameplay style". Permanent progression is just the default feature added to roguelites as a substitute for the lack of complexity, but there can be other features instead of it.
Obviously Nethack is a far more complex game, with a massive truckload more game mechanics, but I don't think "how many disparate systems does a game need to be a roguelike" is a road either of us wants to go down.
I'm not interested in arguing about where the line is, but I do think it's a key element, yes. Many game qualities are a sliding scale, where on one end the game is clearly one genre and on the other end the game is clearly a different genre. Yet the genre labels are still useful and work for 95% of games. This is also the case in roguelikes vs their complexity.
Here's a question: is Noita a roguelike? It's not turn-based (or tile-based, if you don't take an incredibly perverse definition of "tile"), but ticks pretty much every other box: it has procgen+permadeath, tactical gameplay, and a huge variety of deep, diverse systems.
My point is "it makes sense to call it a roguelike if a fan of these days so called traditional roguelikes is likely to enjoy it when they feel like playing a traditional roguelike, otherwise the term is not useful". Therefore no, Noita is not a roguelike. I don't think that the fact that it labels a niche genre is an issue at all, that seem a bit silly.
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Comment on Pluribus S01E01 - “We is Us” in ~tv
V17 Link ParentI just watched that episode and I've seen opinions similar to yours on reddit as well, but it seems way too charitable to me. I don't think the others are meant to be realistic, I think they are...I just watched that episode and I've seen opinions similar to yours on reddit as well, but it seems way too charitable to me. I don't think the others are meant to be realistic, I think they are meant to be clearly irrational and deep in denial (and by that I mean more than you would expect the average stupid person to be) with regards to some obvious truths about the hive, in order to make the main character even more lonely and in a way betrayed. And this is supported by the fact that the one hedonist with mildly psychopatic traits suddenly looks like the only companion with at least some humanity and some ability to see things as they are.
I haven't looked into it, but when researching the spectrum graphs of various bulbs I have stumbled upon some Philips Hue bulb that had a very prominent blue spike in its cold setting and a minimal blue spike in its warmest setting, but I have no idea what model specifically it was.
If you look through the spectrum graphs of various LED bulbs, you'll quickly understand what the typical blue spike looks like, and you can try looking up you specific model. Often the graphs are a part of the manufacturer's technical specifications of the product, that's probably the easiest way to find them.