TheAlbatross
@TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 1 day ago:
This game looks interesting. After playing the demo, I think they got something really solid on their hands if they can figure out how to keep the procedurally generated events and alternative storylines interesting
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 1 week ago:
I didn’t forget about them, I’ve just met many tech illiterate gen-x’ers which has informed my opinion here.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 1 week ago:
Yanno I thought about ending my post with “of course there’s exceptions for every generation”, but I thought as much would be common sense and could be assumed.
My father, born in the 50’s, is also very tech literate, but his existence doesn’t mean there’s not a trend with boomers to be technologically challenged.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 1 week ago:
The computer literacy of the younger generations is also alarming. While they’re pretty intuitive about using an app’s advertised features, they don’t seem interested in “exploring” computers and their capabilities like slightly older people.
What I’m saying is that the ability to convert to PDF lies exclusively with Millennials
- Comment on When We Sleep Our Mind Creates A World In Dream Then Can't We Believe The Power Of The God? Human Birth Is To Attain The Supreme 1 week ago:
It’s worse than stupid, it’s proselytizing.
- Comment on I just want to rush down a steep ramp, jump, hear whooshing sounds and land (with skis on my feet and in first person) for points. 1 week ago:
Annnnnnd now I miss playing Tribes.
- Comment on need games recommendation 1 week ago:
Aotenjo: infinite hands is essentially balatro but with mahjong. There’s many more hand types and ways to specialize your Wall (deck). I highly recommend it
- Comment on Is it? 1 week ago:
If I had a nickle for every time someone who knows I keep kosher offered me butter chicken “because it’s not pork”, I’d be a rich man.
- Comment on As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads 2 weeks ago:
Canceled my sub via the handy link in the 50% price hike email.
Microsoft can huff my piss
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 weeks ago:
That’d really be great. I’d love making red bull cocktails without caffeine in them
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown looks like a field day for micro managers in its first gameplay trailer 3 weeks ago:
Looks neat! I got a chuckle when the trailer said “rewrite history” and immediately showed you can decide to not split Tuvix
- Comment on Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds 4 weeks ago:
That was my nickname in college!
- Comment on Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds 4 weeks ago:
We gotta return to our roots
- Comment on Is English just badly pronounced French? 4 weeks ago:
Save ya a click, lmao no. English is a Germanic language.
Weird to even suggest it
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That’s largely what the pre release reviewers said, too. It’s light on RPG elements but feels like Dishonored. They didn’t say it was bad, just unexpected and a different kind of game than the first.
- Comment on this is what my date just served..... 4 weeks ago:
Posted within a minute of each other.
Someone’s making a joke.
- Comment on Who were the key figures at the ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London? 4 weeks ago:
The Unite The Right rally in the US should have been a more dire warning of what’s to come than it really served as here.
England, don’t fuck this up, this is your warning sign. You need to squash your fascist elements ASAP or join the US on the path to a new nazi regime
- Comment on Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part? 5 weeks ago:
To save y’all a click, the organ came first, sometime in the 14th century, as a mix of the words for womb and egg. It wasn’t until the 16th century that we see the first recorded use of kidney bean, so the name of the bean references the shape of the organ.
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 5 weeks ago:
Yeah this is a concern as well. That’s the other thing keeping me from upgrading. The advantages of newer models are only slight compared to this phone which works perfectly fine. The longer I wait, the better the tech becomes. Eventually it’ll reach a point where upgrading makes sense, but it doesn’t seem like it’s gonna be this year or even next.
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 5 weeks ago:
I’m in this situation with my Note 20. I see no reason to upgrade just yet, though. Thought about a foldable, but the Samsung ones are too expensive and the Chinese ones look amazing but tricky to import and use in the US.
- Comment on Incest causes narcissism, apparently 5 weeks ago:
I’m usually skeptical of psychoanalytics of any kind but this is pretty fascinating
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 1 month ago:
The middle class is a fabrication. It’s an income bracket created by capitalism, not a true analysis of one’s association to the means of production and labor. It’s “real” in the sense that many people identify themselves to it, but it’s not real in a Marxist sense.
A vast majority of people in the middle class are the proletariat. Some of the people in the middle class are petite bourgeois.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
On the whole it doesn’t sound like the worst idea and obviously you know your kid best.
But c’mon, you never hid stuff from your parents as a teenager?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What would you do if you were a 16 year old with their own apartment?
I think if you can rent an apartment for your kid, you can get a hotel room in which to bang your girlfriend.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
The “issue” seems moot to me, personally. Between the facts that no one is transitioning in order get an upper hand in the sports world and that there are plenty of documented incidents of cis women athletes being falsely flagged as trans women due to their high testosterone levels… I just don’t think it really matters. It isn’t like there are record breaking trans women dominating the sports world. This “issue” mostly feels like an overt attack on trans people in general than genuine concern over the alleged purity of sport.
The people spearheading these attacks on trans people aren’t interested in some nebulous notion of sports integrity, they simply want to further denigrate and attack an already maligned minority. They are concern trolling on a national scale and that I find deplorable and transparent.
I might be biased here, as I really couldn’t care less about some Olympic notion of athletic purity, the idea itself feels somewhat eugenic adjacent, but I also think the impact of accepting trans women in sports is ultimately very minimal on the sport world, but huge for the progress of trans rights, something that I think is very important, especially in this day and age.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
OHHH wait I remember this conversation from Disco, lemme see if I can still do the spiel.
I think it’s good if it brings more fans to series and in a way I envy the idea of them wanting more Star Trek and finding out about TNG, DS9 and VOY.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Monogamy isn’t important to everyone.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 leak is "authentic" say publishers who benefit the most from that leak 2 months ago:
Dang looking at that feature development slide is depressing…
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 3 months ago:
We do? I’ve had one for over a decade
- Comment on Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing? 3 months ago:
While I agree with you that it should be an option to turn it off, who is telling you that you need to send a full message if someone sees you were typing?
We’re the ones making the rules for this world full of technologies and we create the social rules for them daily with our own actions. Fuck that expectation, I’m sure other people can surmise what happened even if they noticed you were typing for just a second, they’re working with the same limited software.