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justafrog

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Full-time amphibian.

Strongly committed to treating all individuals of the most common primate species fully as valid persons as much as possible.

Concerned about covid19, climate destabilization and economic equality.

Likes complete information abstract board games which have been played for centuries, straight into this modern time.

Middling at chess, kind of okay at baduk. Into the second year of taking shogi seriously.

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indie gamedev is spending 3-5 years working on a game with probably at least a couple other people and then you release it and if youre fairly lucky you gross like 20-80 thousand US dollars which works out to $5000 a person a year before tax. it's a very cool and sustainable industry

justafrog ,
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@eniko If you account it properly, you might even manage to keep most of that sweet profit under the taxation threshold!

This is a clear indication of how lucrative it is.

justafrog ,
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@eniko Enough money to retire 1/24 of the year for life, surely.

Wait, split that between 5 people, it's 1/80 of the year.

Four point something days a year of financial independence! Maybe 10 if you live modestly.

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I really wish box fans existed in europe

justafrog ,
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@eniko You can cheat with a window fan?

Some of them do over 2000 cubic meters per hour.

Not the exact correct format, but nothing you couldn't defeat with duct tape and cardboard.

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just really cannot deal with the fact that people are like "wow this airborne vascular disease that's as contagious as measles, greatly increases your risk of potentially fatal cardiovascular events, gives you permanent brain damage, and harms your immune system sounds just like the common cold!"

justafrog ,
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@eniko They'll change their mind when someone they know dies of it, or when they get long covid.

Of course, that's way too fucking late to matter.

justafrog ,
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@eniko It needs to be severe before the sudden, surprising realization sets in.

Past the point where one could fool oneself.

Accepting one is disabled is heavily resisted by most individuals.

Needs to smack em in the face with a harsh wall of reality.

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sorry for being angry on main but someone who should really know better than to slide into my mentions with "actually covid is no big deal" really threw off the start of my day

justafrog ,
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@eniko Some people just love being "contrarian" like that and they need to be told firmly and unyieldingly to fuck right off.

A bit of anger is proportional to that.

eniko , to random
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so apparently the big secret to tasty fries is ... peanut oil. you cook em in peanut oil. or toss them in it and airfry em. that's literally all you need

justafrog ,
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@eniko I have tried different fats for fries, and really it makes a difference which one you use.

People really ought to try a bunch of different ones, to find what works best for them.

Rice bran oil, corn oil, sunflower seed oil, canola oil, olive oil, peanut oil, walnut oil, sesame oil, soybean oil, and so on all work, and leave a different taste.

Note they don't all cost the same either, so maybe consider the price a lot when deciding what to fry in.

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wait. has the text in the steam app always been this fucking tiny? i feel like it got tinier...

justafrog ,
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@eniko I basically just move it to a 1080p screen to read it.

justafrog ,
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@eniko It's awful, yeah.

Worse is that there's no zoom.

Basically, the reason I can read it is because I'm often too stubborn to get my glasses and thus have extensive experience with barely being able to see things.

What's new is that this has become useful with glasses on, too.

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pretty sure if you store your backups on the same service that houses your live data you don't actually have any backups https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/

justafrog ,
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@eniko Someone probably said "You have to keep it in at least one additional physical location." and they made a second volume on the cloud so it was okay.

justafrog ,
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@eniko They had two offices which both used the same cloud service to store the backups.

I fucking guarantee it.

eniko , to random
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note that a reduction in reaction speed is probably not (solely) a function of aging because there's been studies that point out that after retirement age reaction speed actually increases*

seems way more likely that working age adults being more stressed, overworked, and ill rested reduces reaction speed to me. meanwhile retirees who have no job and functional UBI won't have nearly as many of those issues

*no i will not cite my sources on this since it was years ago i was looking into it, if you want to find the study i recommend you hit up a search engine (if any functional search engines remain in our AI-tainted present)

justafrog ,
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@eniko After working 12+ hours straight, I definitely had issues.

Like, standing in front of my home's door, trying my hardest to use a key to open it.

In a well-rested state, it is absolutely not hard at all.

I'm fairly sure I might simply not have reacted to a sudden thing in traffic on the way home.

Second to that, if I haven't rested well for several days, lots of cognitive tasks are harder, even if on a full day of not work.

Rest is severely underrated.

eniko , to random
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finished another boss in 1 day instead of the 2 scheduled. am now 4 days ahead of schedule

justafrog ,
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@eniko Finishing bosses like a boss.

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What good is AI if you don't have a planet to use it on?

Microsoft released its 2024 Sustainability Report on Wednesday, and it's mostly bad news. Last year, Microsoft's emissions went up 29%, and it used 23% more water, primarily due to "new technologies, including generative AI."

https://au.pcmag.com/news/105283/microsofts-emissions-spike-29-as-ai-gobbles-up-resources

The Great Lying Machine is eating our environment and spewing out toxic misinformation. Big Tech has become a clear and present danger to all our futures.

justafrog ,
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@chu @Brad_Rosenheim @gerrymcgovern It's my experience that people generally don't think about a lot of things.

Just not.

I find it bewildering.

justafrog ,
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@chu @Brad_Rosenheim @gerrymcgovern Caring about things that other people don't care about is always a harsh experience.

Most people sincerely feel that once they've paid the utility bill, that's their whole responsibility taken care of.

Even just the concept of keeping the utility bill down is a big stretch for many.

It's a little depressing.

eniko , to random
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do not enjoy having 1am to 2.30am work meetings =A=

that is to say the time, not the people involved or the meetings themselves

justafrog ,
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@eniko Petition to move the entire world population to one meridian.

If we all line up neatly, it should be doable.

eniko , to random
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Implemented an entire boss fight today start to finish. Pretty pleased with that. Had two days budgeted for it

justafrog ,
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@eniko It's better than the Mario Bros ones, isn't it?

eniko , to random
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i dont know why but i absolutely hate working on bosses. it makes my brain scream. up there with GUI work for least enjoyable gamedev activity for me

justafrog ,
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@eniko Yet it's the boss fights which are by far the most memorable part of an action game.

Like, as soon as I see a boss from Toki, I remember how to fight it.

Haven't played it in over 20 years, but how could I forget?

It's worth the nyeeeeh~ to make the boss fights good.

Promise.

justafrog ,
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@eniko Maybe.

Could be Kitsune Tails ones are better.

eniko , to random
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you ever feel so stressed you worry you may literally die?

haha yeah me either

justafrog ,
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@eniko Worst part is when you don't die the entire time.

The constant pressure is made worse by the certain knowledge of survival.

eniko , to random
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one thing i wanna do when kitsune tails is out and i can take some time off is replay final fantasy X but i can't decide if i wanna play the PS2 version or the PC version

justafrog ,
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@eniko You could do both?

justafrog ,
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@eniko Spare time does not have performance metrics.

eniko , to random
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did you know coleslaw was apparently invented in the netherlands? who knew!

justafrog ,
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@eniko Bolesław is clearly of Polish origin, though.

eniko , to random
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For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well

yuzu kitsune tails, a purple haired fox girl, picks up samurai armor in a tower that's rapidly filling with lava. she jumps away from the rising lava and sticks her spear in the wall, doing a dashing twirl to get on top of it. she walks off the spear and into a new scene, fighting a ghost fox with armor and spear. it stabs and she jumps over, but is caught by a follow up stab. the ghost fox over extends and its ghostly powers wane, giving yuzu a chance to bop on its head

justafrog ,
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@eniko :nkoPeek: hhhhhhyyyyyyype...

eniko , to random
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I stopped doing my multiple 5 minute walks for a couple days and my foot swelling came back. So you mean I gotta keep walking forever if i wanna stay healthier? This is bullshit

justafrog ,
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@eniko If you stop exercising the tamagotchi, it will get sick and die.

eniko , to random
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every year i find myself paying closer attention to the weather than the last. wonder what could be causing that. some kind of change in climate, maybe? nah. that couldn't possibly be it

justafrog ,
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@eniko I am literally terrified of the "several meters of water from the sky" event happening local to me.

I can't find any conclusive inhibiting factor which will stop it from happening.

eniko , to random
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what's the current state of PSX development? >_>

justafrog ,
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@eniko

Did you ever find out which one?

@0x0961h

eniko , to random
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fuck it post deleted it's not worth the risk just to vent about the gatekeepers of success in gamedev

justafrog ,
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@eniko Have you tried just being really famous?

justafrog ,
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@eniko Gosh, it almost seems like established big players are trying to pull up the ladder behind them.

justafrog ,
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@eniko Yeah, I think it's publishers trying to corner the market like a 1970s music publisher.

justafrog ,
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@eniko That's even worse than I thought.

eniko , to random
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a pox on whoever came up with the fucking byte order mark

justafrog ,
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@eniko Corporate loves useless overhead, as a show of dominance.

eniko , to random
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Our instance is back up. I've missed you, fedi friends! 😭

justafrog ,
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@eniko Good thing it has a back up function.

eniko , to random
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starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel on this crunch. it's gonna be a while longer but at least i can see the end

justafrog ,
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@eniko
:nkoPeek: hhhhhhhyyyyyyype

morgandawn , to random
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Dr Ruth Ann Crystal: "A new report from the Economist shows the enormous economic costs of Long COVID in the US and in other countries because people with Long are no longer able to work.

In the United States, Long COVID is estimated to cause a whopping $152.6 Billion GDP loss this year due to lost work hours. In the UK, the equivalent of US$15.5 Billion is expected to be lost in 2024 because of .

The report also reports data on expected economic losses from Long COVID in Brazil, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Spain. Preventing COVID infections and Long COVID disability should be a priority for all countries for many reasons"

https://impact.economist.com/perspectives/health/incomplete-picture-understanding-burden-long-covid

justafrog ,
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@eniko I think for schools, installing active filtered ventilation all over the building would already more than break even from lower teacher sick leave.

Getting substitutes on short notice ain't cheap.

justafrog ,
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@eniko [holds up hand, as if warding off something truly awful] Please. We don't do long term thinking.

This quarter ONLY.

eniko , to random
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as someone who has lived in both the US and EU i think the standard date formats are confusing as fuck and everyone should switch to ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd

justafrog ,
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@eniko If I have any control, it's 2000-feb-02 because I never stop worrying which one is the month.

eniko , to random
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in the games industry you can make a hit like kerbal space program and still have your entire shit shut down and everyone go out of work

justafrog ,
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@eniko I'm starting to think large game companies are a hindrance to the process of making games, which kinda sucks, because that's where most of the funding goes.

eniko , (edited ) to random
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"The market will efficiently allocate resources where they're most needed!"

Meanwhile, the market: we're putting this "AI" thing that doesn't seem to work and everyone hates into everything you use including your mouse. We're sure this will make us rich somehow. Do you like this? [Yes / Ask me again later]

justafrog ,
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@eniko We make more than twice as many clothes as needed, and some people get none.

We make more food than is needed, and some people get none.

We can build however many homes are needed, and some people get none.

We have enough medical supplies for all, and some people get none.

Where's this good allocation they speak of?

eniko , to random
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i dont understand achievements. i dont understand why the act of playing literal video games needed to be gamified

note: please don't explain achievements to me. it will not help me understand, it will only annoy me

justafrog ,
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@eniko If they are there, shrug.

If they're not there, shrug.

If they randomly appear and disappear, I'll get one hell of a trapezius workout.

eniko , to random
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i really like the weight and feel and accuracy of logitech G pro mouse but jesus fucking christ why dont they make these in a way where the left click doesn't die every 1-1.5 years?

EDIT: tbh this is one of the rare occasions that i wouldn't mind suggestions for alternatives. just, don't recommend shit that is significantly heavier or a different form factor from a bog standard office mouse, thats why i like the G pro

justafrog ,
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@eniko Got tired of Logitech and went with Elecom instead.

It's a Japanese domotics/peripherals/gadgets company with really anaemic presence outside of Japan.

Some of their good points are, the buttons don't die anywhere near that fast, they have different sizes for some models, and a lot of their pointing devices have a mirrorred version for lefthanders.

Probably extremely impractical since you're bound to need to mail order the specific model which meets your needs.

eniko , to random
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im not working through my weekend for the first time in many weeks but i dont actually have energy to really do anything so instead im just watching youtube videos all day and feeling like im wasting my time :/

justafrog ,
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@eniko Resting up for future battles is also part of revolutionary action.

You can't win anything if you're exhausted.

eniko , to random
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"this code has a several hundred case switch statement, disgusting" said the people who have no idea what the industry standard for coding programming language interpreters is

justafrog ,
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@eniko What's their fix?

Writing case checks in a different format? Like ifs or foreach loops?

Stop testing so many cases?

Trying to see why they think that's a reasonable criticism.

eniko , to random
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making the terribly wise decision to just not do any further work this weekend. not because i know its the smart thing to do but because i've racked up enough environmental damage over the last several days that i just fucking cant

justafrog ,
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@eniko Severe heat is no joke.

It worsens everything for me.

And I definitely need a while after to recover from it.

justafrog ,
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@eniko If you could just invest a mere 50'000 you could make it have a filtered air intake, good insulation and airco.

This amount of money simply arrives whenever you need it, obviously.

justafrog ,
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@eniko Don't worry. You can simply buy a home if you just want it really hard.

There is no noticeable difficulty with funding the purchase.

Just pull on your bootstraps!

eniko , to random
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It's sad that my brain goes "well maybe people would mask again if there were overlapping bird flu and covid pandemics" and then follows up with "no I guess that's probably too optimistic"

justafrog ,
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@eniko I know people with pollen allergy who refuse to mask during severe pollen times.

I am fairly sure that nothing short of a properly enforced legal mandate would make it come back.

And then only because of the fines and/or jail, not because of any consciousness.

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Heatwave: finally breaks

Me: opening the bedroom cause it can finally cool down instead of heating up

Heatwave: psych! I'm still here and I just warmed everything back up by 3 degrees centigrade!

justafrog ,
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@eniko This heatwave is clearly a sine.

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