MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Assumptions 1 day ago:
LOL sounds like that game gets it right too! In Cataclysm DDA there’s something called an “antlered horror.” Basically undead moose.
Sheer. Friggin. Terror!
Obligatory:
“A Møøse once bit my sister …”
“Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…”
“We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.”
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 2 days ago:
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
I’m grateful to your mom, and I’m glad you’re here. <3
- Comment on Assumptions 2 days ago:
Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.
In the season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.
I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose(s?) too lol.
- Comment on Insulin 2 days ago:
It truly is amazing how an entire industry makes billions by literally avoiding delivering the most basic service it’s paid for at every possible turn.
- Comment on Insulin 3 days ago:
Unless I had already reached my annual deductible, that is.
“Hey good news! After about 35% of your annual income is spent on medical bills on top of your triple digit monthly premiums… That health insurance starts to kick in!”
(Until it resets at the end of the year. Teehee!)
- Comment on Insulin 3 days ago:
Either that, or maybe they don’t have diabetes there. (Lol joking)
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 1 week ago:
That’s awesome. Like he was really hoping for some dismal and dark exposé on “savage human nature” a la “Lord of the Flies”, and at every turn, proven wrong by people who were happy to just get along and cooperate for mutual benefit…
… Which should come as a complete shock, social species that we are! /s
I think these desperately dark tales of people turning on each other in sociological contexts is another propaganda tool to put this idea in our heads that without “qualified leaders” we’d all just be grunting and beating each other over the head with rocks.
Nah, someone to gain has to motivate us to fight each other. What if we just said “lol, anyway” and kept getting along on the raft?
- Comment on snail lyfe 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like they were designed by a Spore player. 😂
- Comment on Fight me 5 weeks ago:
So does our Colombian red tail boa! :D
- Comment on Smells Great 5 weeks ago:
It got dissed.
What it did to deserve that, we might never know. . .
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
“BEHOLD. A MAN!”
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Heroic is so freaking… Well… Legendary. :D
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 1 month ago:
Fantastic reference :D
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
Much appreciated! Have always loved wacky ass sci-fi things! :D
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
Appreciate it, thanks! :D
- Comment on oh cool 2 months 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 3 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. :)
