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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • If people aren’t property, why would damaging property be so severe?

    Sorry in advance for defending the concept of defence of property. It’s not that I think it should be that way, but currently it is.

    Property can easily be equated to either work or status. In today’s society, we work to earn our property. Damaging property is then damaging work, or at least the value of the work already done.

    On the other end, status is something we already know that the elite value above all else, so it makes sense that attacking someone’s status is going to get punished.

    So it’s not so much that people are property, but that harm to property is harm to its owners.


  • The 3 ways to make money in gaming are to a) be exceptionally good at games, b) have an entertaining personality, or c) do something that nobody else does.

    For a) either you’re good enough to make it in esports, or you’re good enough that people want to watch you stream. For b) gaming is really just a small part of what brings people in. c) might be doing things like challenges or other niche gaming related stuff.










  • That’s a misunderstanding. CRTs technically don’t have refresh rates, outside of the speed of the beam. Standards were settled on based on power frequencies, but CRTs were equally capable of 75, 80, 85, 120Hz, etc.

    Essentially, the speed of the beam determined how many lines you could display, and the more lines you tried to display, the slower the screen was able to refresh. So higher resolutions would have lower max refresh rates. Sure, a monitor could do 120 Hz at 800x600, but at 1600x1200, you could probably only do 60 Hz.