jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

Perhaps I should have written "simple" instead of "easy".

But yes, the road to implementing solutions is blocked by rich people and class traitors.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

People online often use "introvert" interchangeably with "social anxiety" and "agoraphobia". Someone will be like "if I have to make a phone call I have a panic attack and vomit lol so introverted right?"

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I've used example.com in tests because my understanding is that domain is for examples and tests, and it's pretty harmless if something accidentally really sends an email

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Break them up. Fine them for anti competitive practices. Bar their leadership from working similar roles for life. The solutions are easy.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's not an insult. Your writing does not seem native, with errors and unusual phrasings, and was hard to decipher.

Sturgeon's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law ) is jokey but pretty well known. Not sure why you think I'm insulted.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, what? This reads like it went through a machine translation.

Are you trying to say that mods are good, and thus players have good ideas?

If so, I'd respond with a reference to sturgeon's law. Many players are idiots. There's a small minority that have good ideas. So my original claim that players are, on average, idiots, would hold up.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 2 weeks ago

Business Idiots. Microsoft and other large corporations are run by idiots who are out of touch with customers and the product.

Microsoft should be broken up. None of these corporations should be allowed to get this big. It's a simple solution, but it would make some rich people upset.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 22 points 2 weeks ago

I'm still very happy with Linux. Microsoft can fuck off.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 18 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think "the market" is good at directing companies to make good products. Maybe we shouldn't rely on it so much.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yeah. I've seen some players' ideas. Players are, on average, idiots.

I'm reminded of when players want to add critical miss effects to DND. "I added critical misses to my DND game! On a natural one really bad things happen! Like you drop your sword!" -> "But fighters make way more attacks, right?" -> "yeah" -> "so they're going to critically miss a lot more" -> "...yeah" -> "so a fighter making four attacks a round has a 18% chance of dropping their sword every round" -> "...what?"

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

I had a negative impulse because it initially read as "I was there once but I have wisdom on the topic". It sounds like they're weighing in on something they don't have lived experience with.

Also, NYC is one of very few cities in the US that supports a car-free life

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