Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I'm losing my patience with how comments are downvoted on HN. He's right. People are dying from common illnesses in the US because of a lack of hospital beds/staff. "Elective" surgeries cover a lot of essential surgeries that prevent much suffering, high health costs and even deaths.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

> It sounds like if you had your way, you'd be quite the authoritarian. Do you hear yourself?

So every forum that has mods to moderate the posts that are made is "authoritarian"? Do you listen to yourself? It's not authoritarian to ensure a certain level of quality or level of discourse. And what's going on in these comments does not meet any reasonable bar.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

Well, good thing they didn't have to compete with today's mobile OS's back then. Android back then was abjectly terrible. They definitely had a shot at the second spot behind Apple, especially in low-income countries.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

Honestly, I wish I could delete at least half the comments here, including yours. It's as if the moment somebody mentions "government", the majority of HN that is American goes "bu-bu-but it's authoritarian!!!!" and cries about freedom. It's ridiculous.

The CCP is an authoritarian government. Yes. Is this being proposed in the US? No. Why all the whining and insane amount of pearl-clutching then?

Frankly, I was hoping to see more discussion about the (potential) effects of (excessive) gaming or the potential/unforeseen consequences of the ban, but apparently people here seem to go braindead the moment China, government or freedom is mentioned. It feels like I'm back on Facebook or Reddit again. Has the level of discourse really become that much worse on HN over the years?

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

What? Antitrust isn't solely about marketshare and having a monopoly. You can behave in anticompetitive ways that break antitrust laws without having a monopoly.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I'm more concerned about people who doubt science as a default point of view more than the people who trust the science. If you don't trust science as a process, then you're just putting your faith in random crap that gets through your arbitrary filters. That's how we get stupid stuff like Qanon and Pizzagate.

We're always putting our trust in one thing or another. Personally, I'd prefer if we put our trust in a method that, over the long-term, strives towards some sense of "real" truth as opposed to some contrarian anti-science, anti-intellectual bull. Yes, be critical. No, don't reject science just because it suits you or because it might be uncomfortable.

The best thing about science? It's falsifiable. If climate change suddenly turns out to be wrong tomorrow, I don't have to cling to "oh, but yesterday the consensus was that it was real". It's "oh, these smart people are discovering new things that are giving us a new/deeper understanding of something we didn't quite understand correctly, time to update my understanding of the world".

If your point of view is dependent on your not understanding something, then it doesn't matter. You'll cling to your beliefs, which become a part of your identity, no matter what evidence is presented.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

Bowser only joined Nintendo in 2015. I'm fairly sure Bowser, the character, has been named Bowser far longer than that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

In fact, it can be helpful to treat the symptoms first, because the symptoms might make it impossible to productively approach the core issues one might have. They might be feeding back into each other in a never-ending loop of negative interpretation/emotion.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

Imo, we didn't evolve to function in a vacuum and it has severe emotional/psychological effects if we're in that situation (involuntarily). If loneliness isn't a purposeful choice with the mental stability and maturity required to create your own structured life, it can be quite harmful.

It isn't just about "eating at a regular time", it's the social aspects of eating together, or seeing or interacting with people around which you can structure parts of your life.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

> I might rather be depressed.

After experiencing both, I vastly prefer being on SSRIs, no contest. Probably wouldn't be here right now without them.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I remember RX 580s going for 170 Euros before the pandemic. I can only hope that prices reach sane levels sooner than later, but I suspect we're going to see at least another year of outlandish prices.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

You'd think so, but somehow it hasn't happened. I'm just waiting for PCSX2 to mature a bit more on Xbox, then I'll be playing PS2 games on my Xbox too.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

The only game I've had to buy was Forza Motorsport 7, which is deeply discounted because it's leaving the service. Oh, and I couldn't resist Splinter Cell (the original Xbox version) and Beyond Good and Evil, which are also discounted to like 4 Euros. I might just end up buying the whole Splinter Cell series.

Otherwise, I have a list of 100 games installed that I'm slowly playing through that Game Pass has given me access to. Now today we're getting Humankind (on PC) and in two days Twelve Minutes. It's a ridiculously good deal.

Revenant-15

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I've happily taken their advice and have moved to an Xbox Series S for a good 80% of my gaming needs. What gaming I still do on my PC consists mainly of older games, emulators and strategy games. Although I've been messing with Retroarch/Duckstation on my Xbox, and it's been quite novel and fun to be playing PS1 games on a Microsoft console.