Khanzarate

joined 2 years ago
[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, fair. I dont do a ton of that, myself.

I build a heavy cargo ship with a bunch of raw supplies, assemblers, roboports, and ingredients for a rocket, go to the planet, slap down a rocket, some solar, a roboport, and logistics chests, and leave.

If I have to return in person, I have failed my challenge.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What didn't you like about the expansion?

Biggest complaint I've heard (besides Quality complainers) is that they don't like that T3 modules got retconned into needing other planets to get.

I personally find that a good change, and also quality is ignorable. I don't have nearly the hours you have into it, but a respectable high triple digit number, and about 200 I'd guess of those has been post-space age. Haven't actually played base since space age launched.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Its also been proven that people who've had alcohol, just the proper one or two glasses, form better and longer-lasting bonds and are less inhibited, reducing social anxiety. In the context of a business dinner, that IS a productivity boost. Even if no one loses themselves completely, that sales client or coworker thinks better of you and knows you better, because of that.

Booze has been key in human social interactions since the beginning. Shame its literally poison.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago
[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I love this. I'll definitely be using this next game.

If it's not too much trouble, it'd be cool if the name took you to the aonprd website entry for the thing in question.

But this is great.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

How was the 1st bacon? As cooked as the Sausage?

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That hasn't been true for years now

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These shenanigans are exactly why most spells with an otherwise-unlimited range are limited to their plane of existence.

Good loophole, would also allow it, RAW it should in fact work, although depending on the afterlife in question it may not produce a useful result, the person might be a lemure with no memories or something similar, depending on how long they've been dead.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, I don't know exactly what google can or can't track if the app developer doesn't specifically enable them. I don't have specific evidence that they'll even be able to tell if the user was verified or not

What I do know is they have repeatedly shown that they're happy to hide or lie about what and how they track people, and more broadly about their business as a whole.

Again I cite the drug analogy. Google is in the business of tracking people and harvesting data for ads. It's like inviting the cartel to the DARE program and expecting everything to go swimmingly.

If they want their age verification app to actually be anonymous, they shouldn't force people to use a tracking service to use it. The app specifically won't be functional on degoogled android phones and won't be offered on desktop computers. Maybe Google can't spy on anything going on in the app, but even so, they could correlate "used verification app, roblox usage went up" or "used verification app, continued to use Tinder, concluded adult, ignoring 'do not track' preference as it doesn't violate laws about tracking minors".

It's true that a minority of users have taken the steps where this inferred information would be particularly helpful to google, but not having the option to opt out is going to get harder and harder, and this service doesn't provide enough good to give the information cartel that is Google any more information, even inferred, in my opinion.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It can't be anonymous if you need a google or apple account to use. I'm not concerned about what the government tracks (well, not in this context at least), I'm concerned about who and what they're working with to do the tracking. If the app verifies me as an adult but I couldn't use the app without google butting in, google now has yet another data point in a secret ad profile that the government should be putting a stop to, not helping them build up. It'd be like announcing a plan to stop illegal drug usage by partnering with the cartel.

If they wanted a government-sponsored age verification sort of thing, it should've been an app whose only job was to type in a code you got from going in person to some government body and verifying in person. Town office, DMV, somewhere like that.

More fundamentally, though, "protecting the children" shouldn't go anywhere near anything that can be used for identity theft. Showing my ID to the cashier at the cigarette shop is significantly safer than showing it to any business on the internet, because sharing a high-quality picture of something is giving them a copy. The cashier gets to see it, but it never leaves my sight and isn't recorded in any way except probably some dodgy security camera where you can't read it anyway.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a bag, and I got one of those quick disconnect keychains, so that I can attach the keys to the outside of the bag that always has my cards and ID and phone.

No poke, but I can see they're there visually instantly, and while I have the power to misplace anything, by attaching the keys back to the bag in the car, I make it so that I'm only ever looking for something the size of a cat instead of the size of a rat. Much easier to find.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Alright I admit it. I'M the one who misread it as tankies, I just asked Quilotoa to say it instead because I was scared to say it.

 
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