Bahnd
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- Comment on I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland! 4 weeks ago:
Well you see, the Vikings discovered Iceland and Greenland and named them accordingly.
My dream is that if the nordic league ever develops a space program and creates a colony on mars, they should name it Blueland just to keep up with the bit.
- Comment on If Republicans have Project 2025. Why don't Democrats have their own guide book? 5 weeks ago:
Because when the Republicans are in power they fall in line, when Democrats are in power they fall in love.
To explain that last bit, Democrat candidates tend to have more direct goals, more local or state policies or projects they would like to enact. So everyone of them arrives in DC with something they are trying to do, and nothing usually happens as it requires the party to agree on it. Gathering the will to collectivly push past the GOP is usually too high of a barrier for most modest bills, especially when they are being extra obstructionist.
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 5 weeks ago:
The games are a sequle, CDPR got the rights to make a game based on the IP in the early 2000s and just did their own thing.
W1 was a bit rough, plot wise it tried to incorporate a lot of the existing world but played the amnesia card so everyone had to explain shit to Geralt (and by extension the player).
W2 is a direct follow up to W1 and put CDPR on the world stage by being the high water mark for graphics requirements around 2010. Still a very good game, a bit on rails for modern standards, but still fantastic for how it handles branching paths.
W3 + DLC won all the awards in their respective release years for a reason, they are magnificent and with CDPR spending 15 years in the IP they make tons of call backs to the books without the players feeling like they are missing something if you didnt read them.
There are 2 (ok… 4) TV shows.
The netflix shows starring Henry Cavil, king of the nerds, (who is being recast by the least hot hemsworth because netlfix pissed off the books biggest fan) and what ever that second one was that we dont talk about (There is also an anime, which is pretty good) and the Hexer, a made-for-TV low budget show that loosly follows the plot of the early books, it in polish and I dont think it was ever dubbed (I managed to find it with subtitles years ago).
I know this is more than you asked for but, enjoy the games, enjoy the books, be aware of the fan opinions of the shows.
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 5 weeks ago:
Dont forget the DLCs, both won awards independently of the base game.
- Comment on (EVE Online, OC) If you understand even 1% of this video, it may be time to touch some grass 5 weeks ago:
EvE expert here, in addition to this, safe spots are created by warping between two points and using the “save bookmark” feature to drop a pin mid-warp. You then turn the ship around to warp to the empty location you saved. Making multiple safe spots and warping between them will drag you away from common warp vectors and celestial object allowing for some truly remote locations. This is important for being able to run and hide until your aggression or log-off timers expire (without a cloaking device).
Back in the day there were exploits that would allow people to throw themselves more than 14.3 AU away from objects you could warp to and make safe spots. Most of these have been removed from the game but the ones that remain are golden tactical tools for Fleet Commanders and are worth a ton to keep secret.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
A rushed game is usually pretty bad, a delayed game is eventually good. While I dont hold AC in very high regard, im glad they told people that it needs more time to cook instead of throwing it out there half-baked.
- Comment on Big Penny! 2 months ago:
Its even worse during Allston Xmas, the city in its infinite wisdom decided that most leases end on the same day. All the schools also have the new semester start right around the same time, and all the new students arrive within that few day window.
Lets paint this picture, the city is in panic mode as the student population makes up ~25% of the population of Boston, and they are all returning for the new semester. They likely have just moved as their old lease is up and their new one starts on the same day. They will take all of their worldly possessions and put them into the back of their friends sedan and drive to their new place, anything that wont fit is left on the curb. The previous tenant of the new place did the exact same thing. They put all the things they care for into their new place and decide which furniture from the previous tenant is good enough and put it back inside. Anything left on the curb by ~4 PM is fair game, and will be disposed of by the city next time the collect trash
The freshmen, whos parents are sending their spawn to MIT or BU have a u-haul (that they dont know the height of) carrying all their worldly possions, dispite their tiny dorm not having the room for it (and being told this repeatedly by the school). All it takes is one of these muppets to not pay attention and one of the major arteries into the city is blocked. Traffic will back up for miles, non-masshole drivers operating things that should require a CDL are trying to take short-cuts navigating the narrow boston city roads in small box trucks and every residential street will be a mass of double parked cars as the city collectivly shuffles the entire student population in a day.
Chaos is an understatement (its a lot of fun to watch).
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
0 Degrees Farenhight = very cold, 100 Defrees Farenhight = very hot
0 Degrees Celcius = very cold, 100 Degrees Celcius = dead
0 Degrees Kelvin = dead, 100 Degrees Kelvin = also dead…
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
Holy URLs Batman!
- Comment on Appropriate 2 months ago:
Also according to an angry Italians fanfic of hell, its not really that hot there either. Some little bits of it are, mostly revolving around people who were generally assholes in life, and a non-zero number of recently deceased (See the 14th century) popes the author had an axe to grind with.
- Comment on TIL 2 months ago:
And the bowl of petunias thought “Oh no, not again…”
- Comment on Twitter 3 months ago:
I go with “The website formerly known as Twitter” mostly for the Prince bit…
- Comment on love eating bread ties and bread tags 3 months ago:
Occlupanida (Occlu=to close, pan= bread).
- Comment on Somebody's got a case of the Mondays 3 months ago:
Could never get the hang of thursdays either.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 3 months ago:
Eccentric midwestern home owner has strong opinions about home designs, news at 11. I love his channel, did you see his trilogy about oil lamps?
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 in the works with Josh Gad starring, Mel Brooks producing 4 months ago:
I just felt the jokes landed differently when they are written by committie. They didnt have much teeth and they werent punching up as much, they were making fun of mundane things like alchoholism… (Which is now considered a mental health problem, less of a societal one)
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 in the works with Josh Gad starring, Mel Brooks producing 4 months ago:
I was unimpressed with Hulu doing a show for “History of the world Part 2”…
- Comment on PPSSPP has been approved for the iOS App Store! 5 months ago:
By the title alone, I though this was a joke app for cats.
PPSSPPSSSPPSSPPSS…
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
Entirely fair question and thanks for expanding, bit personal for online nobodys like us. Sorry if I came off as accusitory.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
Taxes alone is a valid reason. So long as there are social, financial and legal benifits to the institution then there is no argument to have. If you feel that love or religion is a requirment that I feel your concept of marraige is outdated.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
Question that pertains to general hosting at those scales. In your opinion what costs more, distributing a piece of content that will get 1M views, or 1000 pieces of content that will get 1000 each? I know the math wont add up, but I dont know where the cost bottleneck is. Is hosting something even though it isnt used or that viral spike in views that kills attempts to make a smaller service like this?
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
Pi-hole does not block content that is hosted on the same source as the ads. Youtube, hulu and friends host their own ad services so it wont spare you from those. However people using ad services like google adsense on their website will have content blocked as DNS will resolve to the place your trying to go and the webpage asyn-loading its ads will not.
- Comment on Smothsinian 6 months ago:
If thats actually from the smithsonian in Washington DC, its probably in the recently renovated american history museum. There is a section in the lower levels all about technology and products the changed regulations. So they have an old ipod and lawn darts… Its very odd seeing that stuff be called history.
- Comment on Next on the hydraulic press channel! 7 months ago:
Greetings fellow ISO-8601 fan club member.
- Comment on This is a Test 7 months ago:
ENGLISH! MOTHERF#$KER, DO YOU SPEAK IT!
[Said Mr. Jackson using his inside voice]
- Comment on A celebration of survival 7 months ago:
Any landing where you can walk away from the plane is a good landing.
Any landing where you can reuse the plane is a great landing.
- Comment on Next year's Christmas gift for that person in your life that you hate. 10 months ago:
Dont worry, Vogon poetry is third worst, the second being “Ode to a sticky green piece of putty I found growing in my armpit one mid-summer morning”
- Comment on Stop, minions of darkness! 10 months ago:
Oxtos the sun god?
If so, then prophet Gary is out of jail.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 10 months ago:
Dito, hopefully Invincible S2 finishes before it lapses. If not
- Comment on What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit? 11 months ago:
I feel like it makes the conversation feel less hive-mindy as people arnt hunting for upvotes, they just say stuff (for better or worse).