AceCephalon

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You know, I thought about it after reading the comments here, and I've thought of one possible explanation for MM-DD-YYYY, that being the order you effectively get the useful information from a date.

Going by DD-MM-YYYY, you read the first part, and that tells you the day in a month, but not which month, just skimming that first section gives you no actually useful information about how near or far it is without reading the second.

Doing MM-DD-YYYY on the other hand, you first read the month, which immediately tells you what part of a year it is, and if it's relatively sooner or later, and then reading the second part of the date just gives more precision, rather than the whole useful answer.

So basically, it makes it easier to skim dates within a year with more useful information listed first, whereas putting the year first would just delay or offset that same skimming method.

Day first gives a range of error between 0 and roughly 330 days without reading further, whereas Month first gives a range of error of only up to 28 to 30 days depending on the month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Citrine red text flashbacks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Suppose I'll perish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Laughs electronically

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been seeing it in several places, as comments and replies, unrelated to whatever it's about, and always from users from discuss.online. Perhaps someone trying to use bots that the instance hasn't removed yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Is that term Memes, the DNA of the soul?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Wait, what's getting jesus'd...?

Oh, I did not think of the implications of making that a verb.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Wait a minute, something feels off...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Think of it like this: Arrowhead, the developers, spent almost 8 years developing the game, getting funding throughout from Sony, which managed the publishing side of things so they could focus on game development.

Then, around 6 months before release, over 7 years of development up to that point, Sony wanted PSN to be required for the game, and clearly by release time, that was not enough time to even implement or test that well enough.

Their hands were tied years in advance, they couldn't just let almost 8 years of their development time go to waste over one decision by their publisher, nor could they reasonably go against the publisher or get a new publisher only about 6 months before release.

On their end, they didn't do anything particularly wrong, unless they could see the future over 7 years before and realize Sony was going to practically pull the rug out from under them with everything in Sony's favor, a decision only actually made far more recently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In Helldivers 2's case, say a cheater forces everyone in that mission to max out samples/medals/super credits, it entirely kills the progression and takes away a reason to keep playing unless it's reverted safely, which then means that mission was pointless because someone else used cheats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What's odd is I instantly recognized how to type on that type of phone, but I'm from roughly gen Z.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

What's funny is, one time I had someone consistently just shooting me every time I got reinforced. After the 3rd time, I headshot them with a counter sniper once, reinforced them immediately, then went back to what I was doing, and they just stopped shooting me after that. Absolute mystery to me really.

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