MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on snail lyfe 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like they were designed by a Spore player. 😂
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks ago:
So does our Colombian red tail boa! :D
- Comment on Smells Great 2 weeks ago:
It got dissed.
What it did to deserve that, we might never know. . .
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
Okay, so eat the fucking coffee cup. I’ll wait.
Bortus enters the chat.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
Let me know so I can hand them my Blender models I’m too lazy to RE-topologize. Ugh! Lol
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
“BEHOLD. A MAN!”
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 3 weeks ago:
I remember everyone freaking out when Spore was gonna have SecuROM that limited it to like 5 installs on a disc, and you were gonna have to ask EA for more if you needed them.
Some of the oldest DRM was weird little cipher wheels or puzzle books required to answer a challenge every time the game booted before it would actually start.
I dare say what GoG is doing is better than we’ve ever had it!
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 3 weeks ago:
Heroic is so freaking… Well… Legendary. :D
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 4 weeks ago:
Fantastic reference :D
- Comment on oh cool 1 month ago:
Much appreciated! Have always loved wacky ass sci-fi things! :D
- Comment on oh cool 1 month ago:
Appreciate it, thanks! :D
- Comment on oh cool 1 month ago:
That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in “Vikings.”
(cautiously checks for weird features like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking…)
What’s this from?
It looks pretty rad.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
Oop oop hrk! >=[
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.
I always say: “The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn’t have been for everyone .”
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
There it is. Now you can all see it! This is the violence inherent in the system!
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
You’re right, I try to remind myself to marvel at the incredibly cool science we wield every single day.
But I’m also pained because I understand where the “boring future” folks come from too:
Where would we be if all this incredible technology was actually designed for humanity and not simply for profits at all cost? If optimizing for humanity was the target instead of exploiting it?
Smartphones, for instance. Small, networked computers! In your pocket! Wow! I’ve always wanted a pocket laptop! But they sure don’t feel like it. They’re designed to be content (mainly ad) delivery devices and data miners first, and useful machines second.
(There are some tiny niche actual-computer palmtops now which are pretty cool.)
I think that’s the part that gets people kinda depressive about modern science breakthroughs. The coolest stuff, the working folk don’t even get to tangibly feel much benefit from.
Discovery is locked behind paywall research journals and implementation is marketed in the interests of capital and used against us to make us work harder for longer hours for less pay.
What’s happening to space is a VERY stark illustration of all this. NASA unifying humanity and working globally on projects like the ISS was INSPIRING.
Now it’s all about private interests and their stupid desires, like space hotels for the elite.
I bet we’d marvel at technology designed for human beings, and not sheer exploitation.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 months ago:
“You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby…”
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 months ago:
“They said I could become anything, so I became everything.”
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 months ago:
Bursting through the doors OUTSIDE in a panic.
Looking at some random shocked person pointing toward the park.
Rushing to the park to see grass.
Sobbing uncontrollably feeling all the grass.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 2 months ago:
The worm is calling the shots here.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 months ago:
Oh goodness, it’s mounted to his HIP. At first glance I thought this was a whole other level of parody product lmao.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 2 months ago:
“But this supplement was just researched and developed by an exceptionally clever homeschooling mom who wanted to take on big pharma!”
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
That’s something I hope to bring to the table as a digital artist someday.
I already know there’s plenty of hyper-introverted socially awkward artists who could absolutely flatten what I can do, but I feel very comfortable empathizing, working in teams, and figuring people out. I hope that’s seen as an asset some time.
But for now, I aim to just do it for myself, and talk too much. :)
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
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RhinosColleges don’t play, they freaking charge your ass.” - Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 2 months ago:
Looking at OpenWRT, good Lord I still want this for routers.
For printers would be nice too though. I’m honestly surprised we can’t just build kit printers the same way we can build 3D printers, I mean, could we?
Using something like Klipper but more kinda like CUPS?
Get toner or ink in generic containers that attach to print heads? I dunno it doesn’t seem far fetched.
I’m honestly done caring that “the normies won’t want it because everything that isn’t a smartphone with a one-button app scares them.”
What will start as “enthusiast printer kits” should force openness on the printer industry at large.
- Comment on Go on, keep them. 2 months ago:
- Comment on 🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨 2 months ago:
On the pain scale.
- Comment on On Black Holes... 2 months ago:
I had a few in highschool that scared me big time!
But I had to give them back at the end of the year.
- Comment on On Black Holes... 2 months ago:
Wish I had answers, but converse to your handle, people expressing this kind of vulnerable, raw curiosity so that we all might learn something, is exactly why I love the Internet. :D
- Comment on Help. 2 months ago:
As a Christian Anarchist, I often find myself lonely and without a third place as well, because of what churches have become.
Yeah, I still haven’t found a church that I felt I belonged in. I got close once, but they couldn’t pay skyrocketing rent hikes and got taken over by a larger, faker, church. One that was more about feel-good seminars and recruiting free labor volunteers than anything Jesus actually had to say.
Churches of old in the US used to be based. People of today wouldn’t recognize them. They helped the poor and were a third place and looked out for each other, they were also pro-union, and this became a huge “Problem” for capitalists, who saw Christians as annoying leftists who didn’t share their pathological obsession with money.
There was a VERY concerted and well documented conspiracy by the moneyed class to infiltrate and rot American Christianity into the often capitalist, Republican-talking-point drooling zombie it is today.
Highly recommend Behind the Bastards: How the Rich ate Christianity to see just how deep this goes.
The Church used to be a threat to these barons and tyrants and bigots, rather than their lapdogs.
