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  • brsrklf@jlai.lutoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    13 days ago

    Seriously?

    1,739 jihadi videos, “a phenomenal quantity of scenes of decapitation, throat-slitting, shootings,”

    Oh yeah, you know, being curious online.

    Adult moderators for social networks/content platforms get serious trauma from less than that. The kid needs help, he’s being cut from that shit and followed by educators. And no, that’s not “police custody”.



  • brsrklf@jlai.lutoGames@lemmy.worldSuggestions for mouse only games?
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    15 days ago

    You’d be lacking shortcuts obviously, and very rarely (mostly when you ask for it) you might be prompted to input a name for something, but almost everything else has mouse controls.

    Now that I think about it, there are two keys that might be a bit inconvenient not to have, spacebar for emergency pauses (there’s a screen button but it’s harder to hit in a bind) and shift that let you queue an order instead of replacing the current one.


  • My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:

    • Rimworld. Almost any top-down PC management or (not too fast paced) strategy game should work, but, I really like the crazy random shit that happens to the characters you’re slowly getting to know in Rimworld.

    • Almost any of the Zachtronics games, if you like to torture your brain. Open-ended sort-of-engineering puzzles.The bigs ones like Spacechem, Opus Magnum and Shenzhen IO in particular, last call BBS for a bit more variety inside one game. Not Infinifactory, since while it doesn’t have any kind of fast paced action it still requires navigating in 3D so mouse only wouldn’t work.



  • Humans are bad at probability, and that’s mostly why they gamble too.

    Every wheel draw is supposed to be independent (it’s not totally so because computer “random” is really a pseudo-random algorithm, but close enough). So every time you draw, the odds are 1:4. Previous draws don’t matter.

    On an infinitely large number of draws, you’d see a 1/4 success rate. This doesn’t mean you can’t fail a dozen times in a row (the probability of that is (3/4)^12, about 3%… It happens).






  • I had a pokémon phase around gen 6/7 including ORAS, and partly to complete dexes I got previous DS games around that time too. Got Pearl/Diamond and Black/White and shared one of each with my sister so we can play in parallel and trade.

    I had a blast with black, but pearl… Not so much. It felt like a boring crawl. Mostly because of the terrible pokémon distribution. Seriously, there’s a fire-type elite 4 and there are literally not enough fire-types in the game for him to have a complete team, even counting the fire starter! And one game doesn’t have any access to dark type until 6th gym or so, while the other has one in a very early area.

    And the pokémon that are there feel like they’re always the same, in good part because they decided to keep a lot of pokémon exclusively for the post game area.