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Ecco the dolphin

@ echolalia @lemmy.ml

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I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

  • Horses is back on the Humble Store: 'After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal'

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  • Where do you draw the line?

    I'm asking if its good or if its edgelord shovelware.

    Have you played it?

  • Horses is back on the Humble Store: 'After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal'

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  • So you're saying this game is a work of art that will endure the ages? Worthy of hundreds of years of praise?

  • Horses is back on the Humble Store: 'After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal'

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  • Horses, a first-person psychological horror adventure about "the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility" set on a ranch where nude human beings in horse masks are treated as livestock.

    Is this just a game for edgelords or is there something compelling under that mess of a description?

    Edit: We don't have to pretend every game is art - there's crap out there. I'm asking if anybody thinks this thing has redeeming qualities based on actual information about the game, not hypotheticals.

  • Trump's son-in-law almost certainly just broke the law: analyst

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  • If you experience consequences after the D u should see a doctor

  • Illinois officials warn rental car companies that it is illegal for immigration agents to swap license plates

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  • Yeah but it seems they are being rented by people in plain clothes, as apparently several companies are already trying to refuse.

    Seems to me (non-lawyer) like they can put out a form like "Are you renting this vehicle on behalf of a federal agency, or to accomplish work for a federal agency Y/N" and if the ICE agents lie on the form, the rental company can now sue the government for fraud. I imagine the individual ICE agent would also be in breach of contract or something.

    I know someone who works for a federal agency (DOI, not DOJ/DOD) and they rent cars on behalf of the government frequently when they need to travel to accomplish their work (or they used to, in the before times). But they're like, doing normal, non-reprehensible things with the car... not filling it up with detainees.

    Why can’t they just pull over the vehicle, impound it, and have everything happen like it would with anyone else?

    They can do both, and I imagine they probably will.

  • Just your typical...

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  • he's still training, IT forgot to get him his wizard staff account enabled

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • Idk what you mean "no significant features". I definitely needed AI integration in notepad.exe.

  • Why the real poverty line is $140,000, this strategist argues

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  • You don't need childcare if you're childless

    Childless person here. My partner and I had no ability to count on our families for childcare, or more basic things. Our choice to not have children was more about our (tenuous) mental health and lack of emotional support from family, but economics played a part too.

    You are lucky to have support from someone who has good health and the ability to watch your kids (they are retired? None of my family can afford that)

    Children aren't some sort of luxury. Our poverty line should allow for people to afford children.

    I don't agree with all of this guy's numbers but you absolutely should include the cost of children in the poverty line.

  • Philippines sentences 'Chinese spy mayor' to life in jail

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  • Running a scam center and using human trafficking to staff the place is evil. So, she's a criminal who lied about where she was born.

    The headline says she's also a spy, but there's nothing in the article body linking her to the Chinese government. Whats up with that? Is she actually a spy or just some sort of Chinese gangster?

  • What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China

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  • Friend, the totals are percentages, not absolute counts

  • What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China

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  • This poll annoyed me so much I googled it. It's just a really shitty poll. There is no reason to believe the 5 listed jobs is a subset of the answers. This is an infographic summarizing a single question from a survey that seems to be commissioned by LEGO.

    Article from the "Harris Poll"

    I couldn't find like, an academic paper describing the poll. There's no methodology for it I can find. It's just some corporate fluff piece, frankly.

    So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included

    Yep, only 3 countries. This is just a trash poll.

  • What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China

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  • It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers.

    Mmhmm, I also noticed that, which is why it's the second sentence in my post.

    Given the small sample size

    It's a survey of 3,000? It's still possible that only one person was giving the survey to the Chinese students.

    But yeah, it does look like the Chinese students got different instructions or had them explained differently or something. Just a strange poll.

  • What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China

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  • 18+52+37+47+56=210 for China. Each child could pick up to 3 answers. The average number of jobs the Chinese children picked was 2.

    For USA/UK the average was about 1. Very few children selected more than one answer.

    That's weird. What a weird poll. Were there only 5 possible choices? I would have told you I wanted to be a veterinarian at that age, if I answered at all. (I did not become a vet, I became a failure lmao)

  • Trump did some exterior decorating at the White House.

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  • Trump administration changes rules to exclude LGBTQ+ org workers from loan forgiveness program

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  • Haha no big deal. I don't even read the article half the time either, too many ads, paywalls, etc

  • Trump administration changes rules to exclude LGBTQ+ org workers from loan forgiveness program

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  • Donald Trump’s Education Department (ED) released a new rule to deny student loan forgiveness to people who work for LGBTQ+ organizations.

    It is based on the nonprofit they work for, not their gender expression/sexuality. So, basically the administration can just decide if he doesn't like the organization you work for, you're screwed. Obviously wrong and messed up.

    BTW that is the first sentence of the article. Seems like the people replying to you didn't read it either.

  • Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years?

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  • Have you ever woke up and felt like garbage despite not doing anything diabolical the previous night (drinking etc)? And you wondered why you felt like shit?

    The answer may surprise you

  • One of those days

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  • You right, I'm tired

  • One of those days

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  • This is from a Pearson online graded thing, if you don't happen to recognize it. It probably would have taken 161/4 (edited) as a correct answer as well (IMO 40 1/4 is ambiguous, improper).

    The software is more than capable of determining that 40.25=40+1/4 so its not really excusable (unless its specifically trying to teach fractions for middle schoolers or something)

    That said, A lot of my calc 3 homework (multi variable calculus) in college was run by Pearson, and while it wasn't perfect, the fact that it was autograded with multiple attempts allowed made learning the material easy. Immediate feedback is incredible.

    Fuck Pearson though, honestly. This shit is expensive and it's still got noticeable flaws. Last Pearson course I took kept trying to get me to use their shitty AI and pay extra for shit. I'm a student, not a potential customer to shake down.