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[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

As a person who hates phones, I love this game. I got accepted into the beta a week or two ago and having a game that doesn't require me to touch my phone all the time is my favorite thing.

The only thing that would make it better is integration with other smart device step counters. Being able to play (more like progress I guess) a phone game while not even carrying my phone would be hilarious. I am sure you're getting hounded by people about this non-stop.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I don't they were holding back. Hitler isn't particularly known for his restraint. It was just more rudimentary technology. There were only around 2000ish planes on either side, and they weren't committing everything every day. The planes were smaller, the bombs weren't as destructive, and targeting was pretty basic. They absolutely did tons of damage, but it took months.

Carrying out a similar engagement today would level a city in hours, maybe days.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Hail LinkedIn, full of grace.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I liked it as well. The opening is great. It subverts expectations in the same way a lot of D&D campaigns do. Missing judge will be a co-conspirator, maybe in disguise? Nope, just a bird.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

I stopped Amazon Prime because it when from being "your package will be at your house in two days" to "your package might leave our facility in two days and arrive to you some indeterminate time later."

I also feel like anytime I get on Amazon now, I might as well be on Alibaba, but it's 10x the price. It's hard to find good things because there are so many cheap factory direct products with smashed-my-face-against-the-keyboard brand names. There's a Jansport backpack for sale, but you have to sort through all the bags from JDOEBG, AHIXBX, and PRJAGG first.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Poster shows the metric system giving Uncle Sam giant balls of steel?

Imperial emasculates.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago

I hate this approach to business.

Coupling subscriptions with forced obscolecence is a nightmare. If HP made the best printer money could buy, using it with a subscription model would be a hard sell. But they make shit printers that die at the drop of a hat, so coupling them with a subscription is asinine.

Logitech makes a decent mouse, passable webcams, and shit keyboards.

Just in case anyone from Logitech ever reads this, I own 2 MX Verticals, an MX Ergo, and an MX Master 2S. I love them all, but I'd rather use an OEM bog standard Dell mouse than pay for a subscription.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

Intel has been on the i3, i5, i7 naming scheme for a while though. I think the oldest ones are probably ~15 years old at this point.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We live in a world right now where people can do good things but don't, and they can also do evil things, but they don't. That's free will.

What I am saying that free will is an internal condition, it's yours. If an external force is placing hard limits and boundaries on your will, it fundamentally cannot be free. Best case, it's limited. Worst case, it's nonexistent.

The traditional definition of evil for many religions, particularly the Abrahamic ones, is anything that runs contrary to the laws/decrees of God is evil. Forced conformation to that, regardless of how it's done, cannot leave people with free will. God creates laws. God creates a law that forces compliance to his laws. By forcing me to choose to comply, there is no real choice (another paradox), and that fundamentally is not free.

I don't think that God in this case needs people to choose evil to punish them, but there are billions of people who think Hell is super real and probably want for both of us to burn there, and they'd probably disagree. I think it is an safer assumption to simply say if that people who make a choice, whether it's good or evil, are better in aggregate than people who can make no choice at all.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, probably would have been better to use dividing by 0 instead of 0=1 as the example, but the point still stands.

Yes/no isn't a valid answer to a paradox. Can God create a universe where there is freewill and there isn't freewill? Can God create a rock so large he can't lift it? Can he shit so big he can't flush it? All interesting, but in the end invalid questions. But shoehorning in a yes/no when the real answer is just undefined is incorrect.

It's good fun for an internet comment section, or irritating some youth group leader, but in the end not a useful question.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

My bad, that baggage is the capital G God primarily referring to Abrahamic tradition God. Zeus doesn't pass the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent religion check, but Yahweh and Allah definitely have those claimed tied pretty innately to their being.

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