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[pisskop]

Havent played since I stopped modding it.

I kind of want to, but I liked the tongue in cheek side of it, and Im not sure if thats gone.

[McTraveller]

Someone claimed in a social media post that

the 15% increase in egg prices in January accounting for ~two-thirds of grocery inflation

Unless you are Gaston, how on earth could a 15% in one food item account for two thirds of grocery inflation?  Eggs are literally like at most 3% of my total food purchases. So if that two-thirds is correct, then total food inflation is ridiculously low, like less than 0.7%.

It's astonishing how poorly people understand basic math.

[pisskop]

I mean, I could eat 4 eggs a morning, and more if I was hard boiling them for power snacks.

I imagine they were prepping and doing some kind of weird keto flush.

Doesnt seem reasonable, but does see possible.

[Lord Shonus]

So if that two-thirds is correct, then total food inflation is ridiculously low, like less than 0.7%.

I don't have the figures on hand, but that's entirely possible. Inflation at the grocery store was falling for most of 2024 (note that this means "prices stopped going up", not that they went down). Then eggs started skyrocketing independently because of the bird flu problems.

[Starver]

Products that rely upon eggs probably also pass on a proportion of the rise. Perhaps they have better buying power than the individual egg-end consumer, but they'll already have used that to make the margins between cost-to-make and price-sold-as a decent proposition, and they're unlikely to have tied into an inflation-proof deal so a nudge-up at the supply end will probably cause a nudge-up of the onward market price (as wholesale and then retail...).

Interesting to imagine what effects this has on non-egg products (including non-egg-containing), as it could actually push them either way, depending upon the market relationships (exactly what "accounts for 2/3rds of the inflation" means[1] might need to be questioned). But then we're getting into what goods are in the "basket of goods", apart from the actual literal eggs themselves, as to how it changes the grovery bill (or shopping habits) of what is eventually taken home.

[1] Could be that thirty products in the basket have gone up in price, twenty of them have (by as little as a few cents) gone up in price due to the eggs. Which doesn't mean that it would only be 1/3rd the increase if eggs were back to normal, or various other treatments.

[EuchreJack]

Havent played since I stopped modding it.

I kind of want to, but I liked the tongue in cheek side of it, and Im not sure if thats gone.

I'm sure there are mods that still have that.  I would say the mainline forks are more serious these days.

[heydude6]

For today's WTF, the wiki for Cataclysm DDA is gone:
Reddit Community Commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/1crug62/what_happened_to_cdda_wiki/


Another amazing source of information on this game, which sorely needs all the publicly available information that it can get, is gone. 

Remarkable. I remember that people complained about the wiki a lot for that game, they said that it was hopelessly outdated. I guess the owners decided to finally put it out of its misery.

Honestly, this is a bad omen for so-called "wiki-games". When a game and its community finally dies, who will pay to support the website? Who will maintain it? For a lot of "wiki-games", the knowledge contained in a wiki is invaluable if you actually want to play it, instead of stumble around blindly and accomplish nothing.

Will wiki-preservation become an issue in the same way game-preservation has?

[Duuvian]

I don't know how the internet archive works but maybe that would be able to find it.

If there is a browser addon that saves page for all the links on the main wiki page that could work maybe. I don't know of any.

[EuchreJack]

I don't know how the internet archive works but maybe that would be able to find it.

If there is a browser addon that saves page for all the links on the main wiki page that could work maybe. I don't know of any.

Yeah, you can still access it via wayback machine. The reddit discussion that I linked to contained it, but here it is:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240324103752/https://cddawiki.chezzo.com/cdda_wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[Great Order]

Youtube has finally caught onto the fact it's not been attempting to shove right-wing grifters down my throat. Now my recommendations are getting a fair few "TEN TIMES WOKE INTERVIEWERS WERE DESTROYED!" and such videos, even though I keep telling Youtube to fuck off with them.

[None]

kind of reminds me how tumblr's 'for you' algorithm will show you more of whatever you reported as spam, or whatever you've blocked recently, since you have to stop and look at the post and reporting it or blocking someone qualifies as engagement

[pisskop]

Speaking of algos, Ive been taking to blocking everything the youtube algo recommends.  I watch a lot of news, esp live earnings/whitehouse stuff.  I also watch a lot of whatever you funnuggets post, and much weirder stuff from other forums even.

The result is that my decade old youtube account has revert to offering me a huge variety of mostly unintelligible nonsense.  The more I block the more it tends to recommends stuff I remember looking at years ago.

Examples pulled off the page with a few refreshes:

Pet Lobster Series Actually I remember enjoying this.
Doom Wads.  Note I havent looked at this stuff in years.
Some synth simpsons hotline miami nonsense
I dont actually know what
Some RPG Philosophy video
AI voices singing, Hank Hill in this case
Skits

I also get a lot of animal videos, japanese weather station stuff, and some Hardbass, as well as tons of stockbros.  It's really a rabbit hole, and sometimes I do get tempted to click.

[Loud Whispers]

Youtube has finally caught onto the fact it's not been attempting to shove right-wing grifters down my throat. Now my recommendations are getting a fair few "TEN TIMES WOKE INTERVIEWERS WERE DESTROYED!" and such videos, even though I keep telling Youtube to fuck off with them.

Outrage bait has always done very well with the algorithm. Even low effort right wing commentary channels with relatively low viewcounts will get prioritised well and beyond some indie animation someone spent 2 years making just because the low effort commentary:

1. Generates lots of engagement (angry comments count as engagement according to the algorithm)
2. Lots of viewer retention measured in time watched (lots of people watch to agree, or hate watch to disagree)
3. Lots of viewer retention measured from people watching one video to then watch another video from the same channel (lots of related content in the same style, easy to digest and move on to the next fast food content)

This also killed a lot of films and games relying on marketing guys because the marketing guys would get all sorts of good engagement metrics from social media without clarifying it was good engagement or bad lol. To quote hbomber guy if you haven't been recommended alt right videos on youtube you haven't been on youtube

*EDIT
I don't have recommends because I turned off google tracking (it's still probably tracking me). But my sidebar recommendations are about indonesian noodles manufacturing, two leftists talking about the alt-right and economics, something about aliens, the revival of the German left party, CECOT prison, Sky News australia mocking leftists LOSING IT, elden ring, SC2, documentary on how the UK is becoming a 3rd world economy, clickbait on Chinese slaughterbots, hydraulic dam engineering explained (noice), a whole bunch of current event politics and really shitty surface level hot takes, bunch of sick history stuff from the 19th century. Kinda surprised that besides SC2 no scifi. Also no shitposts. I miss when my yt recommends were all just low poly res rotating animals

Blessed content

[Starver]

I seem to not have it too bad. I get recommendations on this device for various space-related channels: WAI, VideosFromSpace, NasaSpaceFlight[1], Marcus House, The Mars Guy, another few like that. (One of them is pretty good on his industry coverage, but is clearly core-MAGA when it comes to issues where that counts, and that's pretty much as far as I get into recommendations towards that disagreeable end.)

Occasionally I get recommended other stuff (aircraft landing in crosswinds, and music videos that don't have "Save To Wishlist" on the recomendation (alongside directly playing), but "Remix", whatever that is, but easy to ignore), but they seem not to be consistently anything other than neutral.

Interesting thing is that I rarely watch the Wishlisted things, on this device, just use it to build up... well, a wishlist... so that I can go and hunt down videos/channels that I like the look of on a totally separate computer (unfettered by mobile bandwidth and quota). No link at all, between the two, really (except that I probably got to know some of the 'other machine regulars', and actively sought them out,cby learning of them from the above method), and I do find I'm being recommended for things it looks like I've already picked up and watched on the one I watch with (not sure what sidebar recommendations come up there, I totally blank them out, at least mentally, when checking for anything new). Plus not everything I pursue there, like Kruggsmatch, xkcd (a number of WhatIf?s have been nicely animated/narrated by Randall) and some other non-space/not-entirely-space things. Which is as good a proof that the Algorithm hasn't worked out I'm the same person, and that I'm not too in deep to the system. Yet.


edit: didn't notice, until after posting, but I've got two notifications/recommendations currently in the Android top-bar: "World's largest petrified reefer bud circa 1925"(?? ...grasping at straws, if trying to get my interest), which I'll side-swipe away, and "SpaceX Starship Updates! Starship Flight 8 Ship & Booster Static Fire Te…[sting?]", which I'll probably Wishlist, but may already have seen (that's from TheSpaceXFans, though... I don't think I checked that channel, yesterday, would depend on when I saw the (maybe WAI?) equivalent review of operations). Anyway, it'll be at least a couple of days before I start to catch up again. Just in time to actually learn if Flight 8 is actually going ahead on Monday, which was the apparent plan.... Sorry, maybe I should have saved this for the Space Thread...

[1] NSF aren't (themselves) NASA, and cover every other launcher/etc, but that's their name... Probably made more sense when they started, must remember to check out their early stuff.

[pisskop]

I make bookmarks of wiki pages and videos I find interesting and force myself to sit down once in a while and clear out my bookmarks.

Same thing I do with my stock watchlists; force myself to look at them and make a choice about if I really want to spend the time on them.

Im finally reading pride and prejudice because of one such wiki link that referenced Mr. Darcey