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[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

No, I interact more on Reddit. That's where the community conversation is. Ideally, it would be on Lemmy, but the difference between our ideal state and reality isn't bridged by wishing it to be the same. There'd need to be practical drivers that push the two into meeting and those drivers don't exist for Lemmy to reach kind of critical mass that would allow it to be a replacement for incumbent social media platforms.

Lemmy is for people who don't want those social platforms, or an "also-ran" platform that exists in parallel with them. The federated model which gives it survivability and freedom is also the reason that it won't have the broad appeal that would allow it to scale to incorporate input from all of society.

Many will rationalize that it's good to keep the rest of society out of Lemmy too, and I'm not getting into whether or not that's good, but either way it means that Lemmy will not have the broad adoption that makes the big social media platforms interesting to most people.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is correct. Real estate prices don't mean anything to the vast majority of companies since most of them are not in the real estate business and likely even lease their office spaces. It could have a minor impact to the balance sheet if deemed impaired but it doesn't amount to something that matters in valuation which cares more about P&L, cash flow, and working capital.

Business leaders are human, they don't know what the fuck is going on, or how to "increase shareholder value". So for lack of better ideas they can just tell employees to go back to the office.

Basically, if you don't know how to stop a ship from sinking, you can at least change the curtains on the windows so you look busy on the way down.

They first, make the decision to go back to the office, second, they tell their team to go find reasons to rationalize the decision. There isn't a nuanced logic to arriving at the conclusion, they make these calls off-hand on gut feelings. The thinking comes in later from the direct reports trying to fill in the logical gaps, even if the decision wasn't a logical one to begin with.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah this really helps. I sit down when I get tired of standing and that's fine. But when I leave the desk, I raise it to a standing position so I remember to continue standing when I come back.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

2d art and pixel art survive well because of the inherent abstraction being part of it's aesthetician. The greater the graphical fidelity, the less the game leans on abstraction, and instead on fidelity, and then a remaster adds more visual appeal.

A game like slay the spire or katamari damacy gains very little from a visual remaster, but a game like Crysis would get a lot. Its worth noting that katamari damacy did get a remaster anyway...and its aesthetic is still what makes it look good, not the resolution. Crysis on the other hand had low aesthetic emphasis and heavy technical emphasis so refreshing the technical graphics does a lot for the game.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, thanks for the tip, I gotta try this

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On barbell, it's becomes a bit dangerous, you don't want to fail asymmetrically and drop the bar, it's a lot of weight. On a smith machine, a small weight variance is no big deal, go for it.

With dumbbells, yes you can assymmetrically load, it will greatly decrease your overall power output but increase isometric demand on abs, obliques, and spinal erectors to maintain stability. For example, some people like to do lunges carrying a dumbbell on only 1 side at a time for that kind of challenge.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Supporting Ukraine IS anti-war.

It's a war of aggression and the fastest and ONLY way to stop such a war is to stop the aggressor. Appeasement simply allows the aggressor to continue perpetuating or expanding their war aims.

The waste is trickling arms to them instead of surging it. We need decisive Ukrainian victory to spare the lives of Ukrainians and Russians from Putin's war.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

All of them intend to vote for Trump in November, regardless of legal court findings, if they have any chance to vote form him, through legal means or otherwise they will all do it.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago

You might want to read about tooth to tail ratio on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth-to-tail_ratio

In a sense, war is mostly logistics. It doesn't matter how strong your unit is, how clever you tactics are, or brilliant your strategy is. None of those things matter if the unit is not where they need to be, with the supplies to be effective.

Most countries have limited ability to project military force outside their country because the logistics become so hard to support. Russian military relies heavily on rail transport, which doesn't extend into Ukraine anymore, and trucks what it can't rail...but the supply depots need to be hundreds of km behind the line because of long range precision missile strikes. With long supply chains supported to heavily stretched trucking, guys at the front won't get everything they want.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This comes off as very "Old man yells at clouds".

People will watch what they want to watch. It doesn't matter if you want them to watch something else. He's free to make non-superhero movies, and people will watch it if they prefer it. You can't dictate "taste" to people.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No, it explicitly does not work that way. If you share a game to another family member, and that family member plays that game, you are not allowed to play any other game at all on steam.

"A Steam library can only be used by one user at a time to play one game at a time. The same is true if that library is being accessed by another user via Family Sharing."

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/57A7-503C-991F-E9A8#:~:text=A%20Steam%20library%20can%20only,another%20user%20via%20Family%20Sharing.&text=Rate%20limit%20exceeded-,A%20Steam%20account%20may%20authorize%20Family%20Library%20Sharing%20on%20up,in%20a%2090%20day%20period.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Came here to post this one. I saw that movie on the airplane without knowing anything about it, and immediately thought, "This movie was made by the guys who filmed the 'Turn Down for What' music video." I didn't even know their names, had to confirm my guess after landing.

Because the music video and their directorial style are that distinctive and memorable. It was not surprising at all that they got showered in awards, those guys are creative AF.

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