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  • Spiderto196Ranking sonic games
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    3 days ago

    That’s cool that you broke up F tier into 5 subcategories. Don’t often see that level of detail talking about fake blue hedgehog.

    Shadow Generations is the only good game ever made.





  • By reaction, i mean the sum total of their relationship with their parents. Whether they were the golden child, spoiled, neglected, whatever. Parents very often treat one kid more favorably than the other, and that teaches certain lessons on accident. I don’t find it surprising that the golden child takes after their parents for example, but it doesn’t mean their less favored siblings did. And don’t count out the influence on teachers, who can also teach unintended lessons on accident.

    I was replying to the main article that was like was sounding like this was an automatic W for right wingers, when its much more complicated than that.

    If there’s evidence that kids are necessarily following their parents political beliefs, id like to see it. But i doubt it, because that would imply the age gap doesnt exist in politics.

    So far, indicators for turning right wing have to do with personality elements like fear of new things. Thats not necessarily a nature-by-birth thing - life experience influences this, drug exposure, and so on. Id argue that humans in childhood are predisposed to like exploring new things and then something happens for them to unlearn it.

    I also dont take it as a optimist thing. I think its more of an always and forever thing about humans. Its impossible to genocide right wingedness out of the population, and still impossible to do the other way around. Because humans adapt to the life they’re given, and not to the life that their parents think they’re giving them.








  • I dont watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of the stuff taking itself seriously tends to suck. There are a few absolute gems, but most of everything else is like, petty, or bullshit, or garbage in some other way. There was this wave of reality-show fever when it feels like every damned TV show had to shoehorn some contrived petty drama that sidetracked from the interesting stuff and i got so fed up and checked out of the medium. It absolutely felt like every channel was doing it, inescapable.

    Except for stupid cartoons. There’s something about a show not taking itself seriously that makes it perfect. And the serious kids media wasn’t made to cash in petty, mean spirited bullshit, its made as a reminder of some important lesson that we should not forget to pass on to the next generation. Yeah i prefer cartoons.



  • Yes this’ll be unstoppabe because tech money always invests in software security, enthusiastically listens to real engineers over their own uninformed opinion, and always makes good investments and that’s why all tech stuff is unhackable, unbreakable, and nothing ever goes wrong ever.

    Don’t feed the notion that its possible for a human, even if stupid rich, can overcome entropy after making an enemy of the entire world. It takes a society to make the world ordered enough for something like this to exist. Their need for control is a mental illness, not grounded in any real ability to reality. It’s hot air. Don’t make their delusion your delusion.



  • SpidertoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 months ago

    Learning to code isn’t it. Spending so many hours practicing Dijkstra’s algorithm and object oriented programming is relevant to building software for other people to use, not controlling it or maintaining your own things.

    If you want control of your own machines, learn the terminal, learn operating systems and how to understand network APIs. Learn how to use WireShark to examine how your own devices talk to the internet so that you understand how they work. A generic programming course will not take you in this direction.



  • The first half of this story made me wonder if we were colleagues.

    The second half was different though. Our guy was a personal friend of some high up, slandered the existing codebase without so much as even speaking to the existing devteam, and then took the better part of a year claiming he could replace the entire decade old codebase while making vague promises that it was coming soon. Meanwhile upper management was taking the slander seriously, punished my department and got a new manager for it. It wasnt until the new manager outed him as a fraud for his ass to finally get caught.

    I doubt he was able to read the legacy codebase at all.


  • Disadvantages of Gerrymandering:

    • the number of representatives for each party elected do not match the population’s actual preferences.
    • reduced competetion between political parties means the population’s needs receive less attention.

    Disadvantages of a one party dictatorship:

    • The number of representatives for each party elected do not match the population’s actual preferences.
    • Absent competetion between political parties means the population’s needs receive no attention.
    • no checks and balances means no bill of rights exists.
    • no checks and balances also means no regulation to protect the population’s needs.
    • possible human extinction in nuclear winter.