GlendatheGayWitch

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's only outdated to the rich families who can afford brand new games for their kids. Excluding discs is a great way to force many out of the market.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Not only does the love triangle not make sense, but it really only serves to erode the significance of friendship of Legolas and Gimli. They were supposed to be first friendship between an Elf and dwarf in a long time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Concrete Genie also had some beautiful moments!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Video game

Horizon has some beautiful moments

Back in the day, I thought Oblivion and Skyrim had some beautiful spots although it may not be as impactful now as it was upon release.

Board Game

Sagrada is a game where you are building stained glass windows and I think it's pretty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw an article on lemmy about this yesterday, though not sure whether I'll find it again.

Hotels, flights, retailers already have an abundance of price discrimination. Target shows higher prices when your device is physically closer to a store and lower prices when you are further away. IPhone users tend to pay higher prices because they assume that since you had the extra money to pay for an expensive phone, you'll be open to spending more at other stores.

Likewise, if they see your device or other devices on your network/near you making several searches for hotels/flights the price will increase.

It's just another way to build greed into the system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lol, you have to use fractional measures because each degree is further apart. I thought I had made that point. Sure you won't ever get rid of all fractional measuring in any system, but it's much easier if you don't have to use as much

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I pointed something similar with regard to thermometers to a group of European tourists. In Farenheidt, 98.6 is the normal temperature and if you are getting sick, people will say that 99 is a low-grade fever. While that is a. 4 degree difference in F, that's only a .2 difference in C.

Likewise for weather, F is much more precise and easier to communicate given that there is a smaller interval between units. There's more than 2 units difference in F for every 1 unit difference in C. That's huge when you're talking about the difference between 38 and 39 C

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm using Connect and it provides an option to block an instance

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The right has always been very organized. The church helps keep then organized. Fox News keeps them organized as they are all fed the same crap. Politically, the Tea Party helped organize the neonazis and neoconfederates, giving them a louder voice and recruited more of the like. Then the Tea Party rejoined the Republican party shoving it much further to the right. Around that time, they also figured out social media, which gave them an even louder voice.

When Obama was in office, the news wasn't as focused on them, so people that were living in Blue states weren't as aware. In the south, it was still a battlefield as you lived next to people with these beliefs.

It's their level of organization that has made the Republicans such a force to deal with. Before social media, the fringe groups stayed on the fringe of society and weren't given a voice through various forms of media. Since social media, they have a much stronger voice and we have discovered how easy it is for people to be manipulated, like with the Jade Helm scare in TX. If you don't remember this, there was a social media scare going around that Obama was going to take over TX and imprison those who didn't vote for him. The posts claimed that there were a bunch of Walmarts that had been emptied and were going to be used as makeshift prisons. The posts also claimed that Obama was hiding his plan from the public by claiming it was a training exercise named Jade Helm. So effective was the scare, that Greg Abbot (who still remains governor of TX) ordered the TX National Guard to watch the US army perform its training to prevent the army from arresting civilians. In reality, the US army was just performing practice exercises around Fort Hood, which is a little north of Austin. Years later, it was revealed that the scare was the work of a Russian troll farm experimenting with social media to see how disruptive they could be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's interesting, my labels and inbox, outbox etc are all underneath those

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Interesting, I've seen that on desktop and mobile app for nearly a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Gmail sorts email by tab. Click the triple lines and you'll see Primary, Promotions, and Social. Basically Gmail didn't like the word spam, so they named the folder promotions.

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