Krudler
@Krudler@lemmy.world
- Comment on In one week, Lemm.ee will shutdown 3 days ago:
I’m just leaving this whole platform.
It’s nothing special. Every fucking idiot you’ve ever met in your life on Reddit is coalescing here.
Have you had a meaningful conversation here? An informative one? I’ve been here 2+ years and I can honestly say no.
Have you seen a link that isn’t effectively a complete recycling of what you already know to be true?
It’s the same recycled bullshit you have seen for the last 20 years.
The whole format of a “democratic” link dump site is fundamentally broken. I see that now.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 3 days ago:
Prone?
Hell, they are almost designed to break. They are utterly shabby in terms of build quality.
I was one of the early adopters going back to November 2015
I am not lying when I tell you I have been through 17 of these controllers. It’s the right bumper almost every time.
I have a giant handful of the dongles. I was saving them thinking they would go up in value but now like $2 knockoffs are available LOL
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 1 week ago:
Yeah because you’re totally a 65 year old that buys electronics at Best Buy
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
2 that make fans go bananas.
Torchlight 2; Grim Dawn
Right in the middle of the middle part of the middle part of the middle pack.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
So you are both a liar and semi-literate.
- Comment on Steam Deck and SteamOS hit 20,000 playable games 1 week ago:
Are 12,000 of them “anime girl fuck fantasy girl love sweet dating woman simulator love sex” game?
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 1 week ago:
First off, you cannot attend any kind of event where women are involved.
I’m not doing a battle of the sexes thing, but the reality is that social dynamics massively change when opposite sex are involved. It is fundamentally impossible to have genuine interactions with other men, when women are around.
Before you get all triggered and decide to hit the downvote, remember I am not doing battle of the sexes…you cannot take women’s wine night for example, deposit a man in the group and expect the social dynamic to remain the same.
So go find something where women are not allowed. Find a clubhouse with a crudely written sign that says “no girls allowed” and the R is backwards.
Find a place where men are not in competition for the attention of women.
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 1 week ago:
No they’re horrible environments for meeting on socializing with other people.
If you’ve ever been to a socializing board game night, you would be aware that there’s effectively zero chance to communicate, talk, have a conversation - a group of people can’t focus on two things at once.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 week ago:
Well it is in another dimension. We analyze spatial dimensions in a 3D framework, but it’s very obvious there are additive forces that we don’t understand.
We don’t live in a 3+1 dimensional universe, at minimum we live in a 4+1 universe.
- Comment on Drunk Hulk Hogan wants to body slam Kamala Harris 1 week ago:
That was the beers talkin’
K.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 2 weeks ago:
I’m actually very fond of elements of the pilot wave concept.
I think there is a pilot wave, and I think it’s in an inaccessible dimension, and I also think whatever drives it also obeys quantum weirdnesses.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 2 weeks ago:
I cannot intuitively grasp that I’m holding a ball in my hand that is 10 to the umpteenth power particles, each of which is made of smaller particles, each of which is everywhere in the universe at the same time all at once.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 2 weeks ago:
Entanglement is a fucked up concept that I’m just starting to grasp.
Parametric down sampling, say, causes particles to split, and then certain states of the resultant particles must respect conservation.
So if the source particle had no spin, but the resultant particles must have spin, one will have minus half spin and the other will have plus half spin. Equals zero, which was the total spin of the source particle. Same deal with charges.
But they are not resolved until this wishy-washy “measurement” thing comes into the picture
- Comment on what is north? 3 weeks ago:
You better believe I’m here for this squabbling
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 3 weeks ago:
Being able to function on the deck does not make it a good game, just saying
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 3 weeks ago:
Torchlight is so highly spoken of… Am I the only person that thought it was pretty pedestrian?
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 3 weeks ago:
The last feature Epic added that was meaningful was the ability to look at my own game library.
They still have a storefront without reviews… They have ratings “captured from the ecosystem”.
They remain a joke.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve read a lot of comments.
My personal experience is very different than what people are saying, maybe it applies to you, maybe it doesn’t.
I have the same thing over my life with different types of pain. I would be given different pain relievers from surgeons, dentists, doctors, etc. For the most part it did fuck all.
Now that I am decades older and I’ve gone through all this bullshit, I basically learned that I’m immune to most painkillers. I metabolize caffeine very quickly and codeine and morphine are in the same family - so they’re useless on me!
Freezing at the dentist always took double or triple. And very often the dentist would have to stop mid procedure and reapply freezing.
These are just a few, but certainly not all of my experiences, being completely baffled at the ineffectiveness of painkillers.
My friends could never understand why I was so blasé when I was prescribed heavy duty medications. And I could never understand why they were doing flying cartwheels to get them off me. It makes a lot more sense now that I figured shit out.
And like you, I turned to alcohol, actually at the advice of one of my oral surgeons who finally just said “look go home drink a 6 pack you won’t feel any pain”.
Let’s leave all the completely unethical recommendations out of the discussion for now, and accept the fact that we now have more knowledge about painkillers than we did back in the day.
All of this to say, you may be just simply immune to painkillers. There’s a variety of reasons for that, and it’s no sense trying to explore those in the comments with laypeople like myself.
But on to any advice that I might give you? Perhaps not advice per se… but to tell you that what I did which helped me and perhaps it will help you.
I finally got over all my chronic pain by stretching and strengthening. I’m not going to sugar-coat it, certain parts of it were hell. I went to an athletic therapist who made me cry, but made me stand up straight. And I devoted myself to doing all the exercises and stretches… yes… 45 minutes every 2nd day for like 10 weeks. But damn did it pay off. That initial investment (not trying to half-ass it or go through the motions) got me to a certain plateau where I barely have to stretch anymore, my body is pretty happy.
I sincerely hope any of this applies to you and can be used but if not oh well maybe it will help someone else!
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends. 3 weeks ago:
It wasn’t groundbreaking, it was a bad design decision.
And they weren’t even the first.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 3 weeks ago:
As somebody that created and moderated communities for almost 20 years you nailed it.
Nobody should actively want to be a moderator, it’s a hell job.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 weeks ago:
End the friendship now.
She doesn’t want you plus the suicidal ideations complicate matters.
Don’t make it a thing, just stop being in her life slowly. It doesn’t need to be an event, just stop being around her.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 weeks ago:
The whole world is better off without you and your shithead remarks
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 3 weeks ago:
No I think it’s bang on.
The show is what you said, some clever witty writing, peppered with way too much “omg let’s all squirm at how inappropriate this is and how close we get up to the line teehee”
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends. 3 weeks ago:
Bastion is an absolute stinker of a game.
It’s completely pedestrian, and there are so many bad design decisions it’s hard to even take it seriously.
It’s a game where marketing really did its job because the game could never carry itself based on its presentation or mechanics.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 3 weeks ago:
Oh hell you just teleported me back to Reddit like 20 years ago with that term! Yes, cringe, that was it! And that was not for me!
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 3 weeks ago:
I’m honestly not familiar enough with it all to really know if I’m criticizing the right thing.
But over the years people have insisted that this show called the office is one of the wittiest, most clever shows ever
I watched a little bit to try to see what the hype was, and my feeling inside was that it wasn’t far removed from the type of humor that edgy teenagers think is grand. Lots of being provocative and inappropriate which is I guess… Funny? Hehehe gay. Hehehe race. Am I really that far off?
I can’t completely tar and feather it, there was some clearly humorous situations, but overall I just thought it was wayyyyy overblown.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 3 weeks ago:
I agree with that.
I feel like I could already sense the “holy fuck, this thing’s popular, let’s stretch this fucker out as long as we can” vibes in the writing and overall direction in early S2
Honestly by the end of it I was just so thrilled it was over, it was sort of a show that my wife and I watched together but I was fully disinvested by S3
- Comment on [Announcement] The community and its future 3 weeks ago:
Please, no more “I’m posting screenshots every day because I need attention”
Take your fucking screenshots and go to hell already.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 weeks ago:
This is really truly the best advice.
I am a straight male. But by definition I’m gender fluid. I have endured through my life no end of abuse for this, and it’s nothing close to what my trans partners in the past have experienced.
But in the end, it comes down to having a spine and being able to assert yourself.
Especially in trades, there is no end of ball-breaking and risque dialogue. If you are not able to defend yourself or say okay dude the joking has gone far enough, you are not going to have a happy life and you need to find something else to do to make money.
If we live in the online reality where “ideal” behavior is constantly advocated and expected, we are never going to connect to the truth of life which is that bullshit is everywhere and we have to learn to stand up to it and flow with it.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 4 weeks ago:
Squarez Deluxe
Originally a paid DOS game and the developer is a cool dude who changed it to freeware. You can download it on myabandonware or archive. Then grab a free copy of DOSBox.
In my view, it is the best shape packing game ever made, and it never really got its due, possibly in part to somewhat extra complexity, and partly from the time it came out.
You learn the ropes in the early modes, but you really need to play on EXTREME Mode. There are many different special pieces, and you decide how to move them in the playfield and rotate them.
There are mud traps and acid pits and missiles and bombs and traps. And you have to not only play the shape packing aspect, but you have to continually think about how to deploy these hazards, to your best advantage, or least disadvantage!
Over the years, I continually come back to this game, and I have probably sunk over a thousand hours since I was young.