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  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldHalf Life 3
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    13 days ago

    I’ll believe HL:3 is real when it is for sale, purchased by me, and played in it’s entirety. And even then it might just be a particularly vivid delusion.

    HL:3 is gaming’s dark matter. Until all other possibilities are definitively ruled out, it’s not HL:3.




  • Looks like it’s just the brand it’s sold under in that market.

    I was more just pointing out that they are the same thing, since it wasn’t clear if you knew that or not and I think it’s important that people know what the drugs they’re taking actually are. Tends to be safer that way.

    Hopefully, you’re either taking it as prescribed or having fun responsibly. Benzos can be fun, but they’re also some of the most addictive substances on the planet.

    Also, these articles you’re posting are some quality writing.










  • At least as I understand it (and there’s a good chance I’m wrong) there’s nothing in US law preventing a state from seceding. It was determined that the way the southern states decided to do it in the runup to the civil war was unconstitutional (and possibly treasonous? seditious? Something like that), but there’s no law saying a state can’t secede. It’s just that there’s no defined process for it and the only way it has been tried was determined to be wrong.

    From what I’ve read on the topic, there is technically a way it could be done. The country would basically have to follow the same process as passing a constitutional amendment, just with an additional step.

    • The state in question would have to pass a ballot measure to secede
    • The state house and Senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.
    • It would have to be passed as a ballot measure by the majority of the country.
    • The US house and senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.

    So, not technically impossible just so difficult that it is effectively impossible.


  • I typed out the below as a response to you, then reread what you wrote. We might be making the same point just with different words. Hopefully I’m not coming across as overly adversarial.

    I think most people on social media, including lemmy, exist in an echo chamber that amplifies specific views to the point that it becomes easy to think those views are much more broadly held then they actually are.

    Changing the question around like you suggest might help some people realize that, but I also think that there are a lot of people who think that the views expressed in their slice of social media are actually indicative of broader trends.

    I also don’t think I’m immune to this effect, but I do feel somewhat compelled to point out specific instances of it when I notice it.



  • At the time I’m writing this there are 78 comments in this comment section. I haven’t read all of them, so let’s just assume that every single one of those comments represents a unique individual who believes that the Switch 2 and the Steam Deck (and related) are direct competitors.

    Given the nature of this platform and community that number is not even remotely surprising. It’s also an utterly insignificant number of people.

    The overlap between people who would buy a Switch 2 and people who would buy a Steam Deck is a tiny sliver of a Venn diagram. Those are two largely separate categories of gamer.