johannesvanderwhales
@johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 2 days ago:
Well most of them are also dead now, which may or may not be related.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t really buy pc games before they fall below a certain price point, anyway. So I don’t really care about these limited exclusive periods.
I wonder how much these deals are paying off for epic. Outside of exclusives and the weekly free games I’ve basically never even thought of buying a game on EGS. Definitely the worst launcher experience. Easily ignorable.
- Comment on Stupid Sexy Mice 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’ve read enough press releases if you think this is fake.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
Probably because if your business is based around profiting from American tourists, you’re probably going to need to know some English. It seems to me like when money is involved people tend to find a way to communicate what they need to regardless of what languages they share, though. And obviously this does not excuse rude tourists.
- Comment on shoe 2 weeks ago:
This is like a PBF comic
- Comment on Pass the football 3 weeks ago:
Right on, brother.
- Comment on Anon creates a business plan 3 weeks ago:
And then no one goes because it’s too expensive. People are super, super price sensitive when it comes to food and restaurants go into a death spiral very quickly when business drops off.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
Because most people don’t actually know any trans people, and find unfamiliar things to be weird and scary.
But also because terrible people have weaponized those feelings for personal political gain. Most people probably wouldn’t give a fuck, even if they found them weird, if talking heads weren’t stoking the flames of bigotry.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 4 weeks ago:
It is slightly the fault of the email clients for the sender that often don’t show BCC by default. It probably would be reasonable for email clients to put a warning up if people are sending to a large number of people without using BCC.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 4 weeks ago:
The solution is if you’re sending a mass email that shouldn’t be replied to you use BCC. So it’s really the sender’s fault
Outlook does give a warning now if you’re sending to a distro list
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
I guess we’ll see.
- Comment on If someone dies unexpectedly, how do you find out? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve found out from Facebook before. But sometimes you don’t find out until years after the facts.
Obituaries exist too.
- Comment on Absolute slander 4 weeks ago:
I also think that they’re underestimating the effects of parallax in these photos.
- Comment on "I never asked for this" 4 weeks ago:
Don’t think any of these characters are exactly role models.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 weeks ago:
Empirically, Final Fantasy 14.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
It basically exists for brands to advertise and avoids things like actual news. User counts are way overinflated. Heard multiple people say their algorithm is garbage.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
Mastodon may or may not be good (I don’t use it), but the fact that it segments off users into different groups means it will never be a twitter replacement. The fact that twitter is essentially “public” and all sorts of people from different areas interact was basically the whole point of it.
Bluesky seems pretty nice so far and it has real momentum.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes we take the hot rocks and ship them to other planets too.
- Comment on I swear to god 5 weeks ago:
Hands would be a lot less evolutionarily useful if they couldn’t reach your mouth.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 5 weeks ago:
Coloradans be like “just look at the mountains smh”
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 5 weeks ago:
Do they actually dam everything or just build a nest?
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 5 weeks ago:
If I’m sore I probably take 3 ibuprofen every 4 hours.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 month ago:
Even if trump doesn’t do everything in project 2025, the supreme court picks mean we’re basically ultra fucked. Like, that’s best case.
- Comment on Did Trump vote? Could he have? 1 month ago:
Which doesn’t matter anyway because he hasn’t been sentenced.
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 1 month ago:
It’s just a completely different use case. It may or may not continue to exist on its own but it will never replace twitter because it does not have the core thing that makes twitter special among social media (the fact that it is essentially “public”). “A bunch of small communities of nerds talking about niche topics” is something you can find friggin anywhere on the internet.
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 1 month ago:
Honestly I find it a little weird that Lemmy is so pro-Mastodon. Like a lot of people when the twitter implosion started I went and parked a username on a few potential replacements. And like a lot of people, when I saw that mastodon was all little specific instances, I didn’t bother because the whole point of twitter is that it’s a big public thing with everybody and everything. I haven’t really seen anybody outside of Lemmy mention mastodon in months. Everyone is going to bluesky.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 1 month ago:
Looks like a projection set, so no, they’re pretty bad for games.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 1 month ago:
I know baseball does this in the US. Dunno about football.
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- Comment on still cute tho 1 month ago:
