Sami
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Sami@lemmy.zipto
Games@lemmy.world•Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale?English
1·1 year agoDishonored 2 and Blood: Fresh Supply
Sami@lemmy.zipto
Movies@lemmy.world•Can we just talk about how Speak No Evil was one of the highest rated yet worst movies we've ever seen?English
41·1 year agoIt’s so incredibly heavy-handed with its plot devices to the point that it feels like its genuinely doing it for “engagement” like you said. I enjoyed the acting by the host couple and could definitely see a good movie in there if it wasn’t for the 2 protagonists’ grating personalities and the combination of tropey and non-sensical descision making.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•For those who work at night... Do you have any problems to falling asleep and waking well rested during the day?English
7·1 year agoBlackout curtains help a lot from my experience. I have a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep to begin with and those make a big difference with or without an offset sleep schedule.
Melatonin can also help with sleep duration/quality but its also easy to become dependent on it to fall asleep so not ideal for long term.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do different ethnicities/races look different?English
6·1 year agoI think the impact of wealth and access to nutrition and an environment that does not stunt development plays a major role here as well. A good example of this is height in Europe post-industrial revolution and improvements in medicine:

Most notable being a 20cm increase in the Netherlands in just over 100 years as well as changes in places that industrialised quickly like China:

Not to say that geography plays no role but it’s closer to 10cm gap than a 30cm one.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Arabic text on AOC campaign flyers is disconnected, printed backwardsEnglish
22·1 year agodeleted by creator
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran says it has right to defend itself after Israeli strike kills soldiersEnglish
8·2 years agoIncredible how Israel poofs into existence in your framing. I hope you one day see the humanity of others. Goodbye.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Iran says it has right to defend itself after Israeli strike kills soldiersEnglish
11·2 years agoIsrael should stop occupying territory in violation of dozens of international resolutions and blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state. Belligerent occupiers are in no position to be “provoked” by those who they are occupying. How many wars do the Palestinians get to wage because of the nakba (or countless other massacres) and subsequent colonization of remaining territory?
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran says it has right to defend itself after Israeli strike kills soldiersEnglish
9·2 years agoInto Lebanese (some consider it Syrian, doesn’t change the dynamic) occupied territory before and after Oct 7th. Gradual escalation (with 80% of those attacks coming from Israeli side) expanded the scale of the northern/southern front to what we see today. Israel has killed 2 orders of magnitude more civilians than Hezballah has and has sought escalation at every stage.
Before Oct 7th, they would exchange fire in occupied Lebanese land and tensions would rise then fizzle out about once a month.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Israel says it's conducting 'precise strikes on military targets' in IranEnglish
62·2 years agoDifferent statements were made in the past month:
Iran’s General Staff of the Armed Forces said in a statement carried by state media that any Israeli response would be met with “vast destruction” of Israeli infrastructure.
I believe the Iranian ambassador said something of the same vein at the UN security council meeting as well. Either way I still agree that they likely wont respond to this type of limited strike as things currently stand.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Israel says it's conducting 'precise strikes on military targets' in IranEnglish
32·2 years agoI don’t think they said they would not retaliate against a limited attack though that might end up being the case depending on the nature and scale of the damages.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Israel says it killed Hamas commander who doubled as U.N. aid workerEnglish
195·2 years agoRemoved by mod
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News@lemmy.world•Israel had real-time intelligence Nasrallah would be at meeting, military saysEnglish
125·2 years agoThat’s not what a normal person would conclude, no. Then again normal people don’t have destroyed homes as their profile picture.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
Palestine@lemmy.ml•[Rumor] Lebanon: 10 Days Ago, Pagers of American Hospital Doctors Were CollectedEnglish
2·2 years agoThis was AUB’s statement about this

Sami@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attackEnglish
54·2 years agoYes, a funeral procession for 4 members.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some astroturfed or biased online spaces (ie. subreddits) that newcomers would not know about?English
163·2 years agoAny popular posts that involve a minority/enemy of right wingers doing something bad or sticking out get brigaded. A blatant example is PublicFreakout where threads are usually fairly normal unless it’s a black/arab/Indian person doing the antagonizing then pretty much all the top comments are dog or regular whistles. Similar “brigading” can happen even in a city subreddit similar to r/Canada even if they are regular users otherwise. If the post is good enough fodder the subreddit will suddenly resemble a klan meetup even if it’s usually otherwise “normal”.
ActualPublicFreakout is an alternative that doesn’t need brigading because it’s already similar to WorldNews.
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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.world•ELI5: Why is cheating in online games seemingly so prevelant?English
3·2 years agoYeah, like the other person also mentioned Counter Strike has had a major cheating problem for two decades and it’s still pretty bad today. Valorant is a very similar type of game: twitch shooter that needs fine motor skills and reaction time where one player can dominate an entire match. Valorant has a more intrusive anti-cheat and a lower ratio of cheaters but both game still have cheaters and cheats. People will pay large monthly fees for access to premium, not-yet-detected cheats to compete in competitive circuits.
What’s distinct about twitch shooters is that the core gameplay is very simple (just click on everyone’s head) but it can take thousands of hours to become really competitive at them. People who are not at the same level as their opponent may think they are cheating if they outskill them enough which leads to a feedback loop where new players feel like they need to cheat to be on equal footing because the other person HAS to be doing it too.
Players with a lot of hours can usually tell if someone is cheating with relatively high accuracy (except at very high skill levels where the cheaters are also incredibly good at the game) but newer players tend to consistently call cheats on players that are just better at the game. Competitive drive, lack of trust in other players playing fair and high skill ceilings all create the demand for cheats which in turn creates lucrative opportunities for cheat developers.
Ruining other people’s fun is also another popular reason like you said but I would say most cheaters justify it to themselves in some way.
Sami@lemmy.zipto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Reddit Undeleted all my posts and commentsEnglish
463·2 years agoAre you sure it was previously deleted stuff? I thought the same thing had happened to me but it was due to subreddits being private at the time of deletion then later coming out of private (some weeks or months later) preventing those then privated posts/comments from being deleted. I think running another automated tool again should do the trick at this point.
I’ve curated a list based on my own preferences. A couple caveats are that I haven’t played most of them, some stuff like DBZ and Yugioh are whatever if you’re not into those franchises and some stuff has better ports elsewhere and isnt included: https://pastebin.com/Fv2RtN61
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World News@lemmy.ml•Activists prepare to defy Israel naval blockade of GazaEnglish
251·2 years agoOn May 31, 2010, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla comprising of the Mavi Marmara, Sfendoni, Challenger I, Eleftheri Mesogios, Gazza I and Defne Y vessels, departed with the aim of delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza but were confronted with an illegal raid and intervention by Israeli military forces. The vessels were only carrying humanitarian aid and aid workers. During this attack and in its aftermath, 10 humanitarian aid workers lost their lives and 56 were severely injured. Nine of the 10 were brutally killed during the attack, and the 10th victim died after spending a prolonged period in a coma

















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