Kiernian

@Kiernian@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike most people, I get my information from a vetted, trusted source.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My eyes are such that I can’t tell if the script on that cardboard container is Tamil, Thai, AI, or something else.

  This is made more difficult by google search continuing to suck out loud and returning results that include nicknames for people and TikTok home recipe challenges instead of historical facts on international menu items.

  Even “verbatim” barely works anymore.

  Anyone know what other names the McTaco may have gone by in the past?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  terraria for minecraft + metroidvania

  This…shines a totally new light on a bunch of decisions that originally made me fairly upset and caused me to quit playing the game.

  I played the game with nearly every free moment I had between the time I bought it in 2012 and the 1.2 release in October of 2013. Multiple worlds. Multiplayer sessions with players in several countries possibly requiring port forwarding and VPN tunnels if I remember correctly, and all of it stopped dead for me when I had to quit focusing on creating and exploring and was instead spending most of my time struggling to survive.

  There were enemies before, and you could find one of the three bosses and just… Not go there, but 1.2 really made combat the forefront of the game and killed it for me entirely.

  In the intervening 12 years. I’d be surprised if had more than a couple of hours into the game.

  Viewing it through the lens of a metroidvania where you craft your own progression is not something I’d considered before.

  I might actually go back to the game on the rare occasion I’m in the mood for something like that.

  Thank you for the insight, while it probably sounds silly, it gives me some perspective into something that was so jarring it still causes me to panic when a game announces combat where combat was not previously the focus (I’m looking at you, Dyson Sphere Program 😄) and I really appreciate that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I'd fix Windows as a retired Windows Engineer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Use it without telemetry Use it without mandatory notifications that turn themselves back on if you turn them off Use it without file grouping by date if I so choose

  There’s a giant list of configuration options they took away from 10 to 11 and more that they keep making more and more difficult to find, and this trend has been going on since aero was introduced in xp.

  Some of us liked the power user options in win2k and feel they should have been expanded, not removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alambre

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise words⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, to a degree.

  She’s no billy strings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise words⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I legit wasn’t sure if this was a real thing she did that started as a friendly joke or something.

  Actually, I’m still not sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I actually MISS intros on shows that don’t have them. I forget when in the 2000’s or 2010’s they started that, but it aggravated me almost as much as the cutback from 20+ episodes a season to fewer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I ALWAYS skip enterprise, I never skip the others.

  I get that they were trying for something different, I can even appreciate using a folksy ballad that doesn’t have all is the “formality” of classical music the same way Starfleet of the time doesn’t have all the formality of later treks. I even personally find it to be a cool idea on paper, but for some reason it just didn’t land with me.

  It’s jarring when it SHOULDN’T be. Even the closing credits get a "WhoOoAawhatthefuuuuOh."reaction out of me every time the music starts. Like, it takes until almost the fourth note on the credits before I go "oh yeah, they do this.

  I still watch the credits, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its crime time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its crime time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it said “Grimes” and it was making a joke about how ugly and comical the cybertruck looks.

  Oops.

  LOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I thought some abbreviations/emoticons meant vs what they actually meant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was the original meaning when it was brand new and still very niche.

  Part of me wonders if it made it onto one of those “Parents! Know these abbreviations!” memes where they purposely list the acronyms incorrectly (LOL–Lots of Love) and then got more popular that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I thought some abbreviations/emoticons meant vs what they actually meant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Back twenty years ago when I first started seeing “SMH” it was “So. Much. Hate.”

  As in “I really dislike that.”

  As in “So, everybody unanimously said they want sheet cake for office birthdays and management decided to double down on the day old donuts again anyway? So Much Hate.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone else wondering, it’s

  github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do i need to install a driver?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was actually impressed when I took a bus across state lines in the U.S. recently.

  Someone was complaining about the charger on their seat not working.

  Turns out that the driver has full control of the power to the USB ports on the bus and can turn them off and on at will… and they apparently they turn them off BY DEFAULT.

  If someone WERE to figure out a way to get from the USB port in the seats to the CAN Bus on the vehicle itself, having a hard-wired physical switch that cuts power/signal to the ports is potentially a fairly effective security measure as long as there’s not a memory buffer you can compromise and run stuff from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A perfect article reading experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m working to overcome a particularly troublesome piece of technology right now and enjoying a cold, refreshing, Diet Dr. Pepper, so I guess the sentiment stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're all dead now, I wonder who got the last laugh?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say, I saw the name “Lister” and wondered if there was any connection to “Listerine”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't do the forbidden math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  the Laundry Files

  Sweet, Thanks.

  I just checked The Atrocity Archives (first book in the series) out of my local library’s e-book program.

  I’m looking forward to reading this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh. the terror of waking into a cave and seeing nothing but inky black darkness and four lines of text pop up all at once

         Corp Por
  
                       Corp Por
  
                                                     Corp Por
  
  
          Corp Por
  

  Always reminds me of this little ditty –

  …on regs and runes I drift in the night

  any place it gates is right

  gate far

  gate near

  by a dungeon I reappear

  well

  you don’t know

  what

  we can find

  why don’t you die for me little newb

  on a magic Corp Por ride…

  Credit where credit is due – www.digiphobia.com/ultimasongs/html/magic.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's move this along, future boy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard the Elderly Man’s words in the voice of Kris Kristofferson’s Whistler character from the Blade movies.