MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Discuss: 1 week ago:
I immediately heard this in Link’s voice.
I can imagine a sparrow hopping back and forth now:
“Hup, hup hup, (wing flap) hyaahh!”
- Comment on functional 1 week ago:
Wait, you’re totally right! I had it turned around!
Quaternions avoid the gimbal lock issue, and are more efficient overall, but they’re a bit more complicated to understand.
Euler is more user-friendly on the editing side of things, and easier to understand, but it’s got some shortcomings.
Both are an option in Blender and Godot for instance, because one might suit a given situation better than the other.
- Comment on functional 1 week ago:
Oh sweet! That’s the magic that makes rotations work intuitively in Blender and game engines! :D
… Still can’t say I understand it but I sure am grateful!
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
What a coincidence! I had a very similar path! My elementary mis-education was largely a fundie school using Abeka as well. Their weird religious nationalism was so crazy when I look back on it. It’s amazing they could actually publish this crap.
I wish I still had all the old books we had to get because that would make for a good laugh (and possibly an embarrassment campaign.)
Like c’mon we were kids how were we supposed to know? But also it just felt so bullshitty, like a written form of that awkward feeling you got when it was really obvious adults were lying to manipulate you and thought you were stupid.
It was in California, so eventually I had to move to the state curriculum also, around middle school, for my grades to actually count.
Honestly, that requirement saved my intellect. I went to a secular charter school where I was pushed into interacting with so many different people of different perspectives, and I would be a much crappier person without that experience.
Even today the damage isn’t gone, there’s still so much untangling and deprogramming to do.
These “curriculums” are child abuse.
After all that, I still kept my faith, not because of that upbringing, but in spite of it.
- Comment on data transfer 1 week ago:
9 months later:
Wife: (goes into labor)
now playing: E1M1.wav 🔊 - Comment on Dandelion cannon 2 weeks ago:
🎵Da-doo da-doo…🎵
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
Those are all really interesting factors to consider and I appreciate the response!
I’ll come clean, when I wrote it, I was just making a funny, like… A “decaying vacuum” would suck less over time. . .than a black hole. Lol XD
To your point though, less likelihood of finding other life is such a wildcard, for sure. (Less likelihood of meeting cool benevolent spacefarers…but also less likely to be spotted by something like Mass Effect’s Reapers, or accidentally bring home Xenomorphs or extragalactic pathogens lol)
And…not being able to ever see the beginning of everything…my curious mind says that’d be such a bummer but also…oddly beautiful? I’ll have to ponder that…
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
Well, that might suck slightly less in the long run?
- Comment on I LIKE CORN! 3 weeks ago:
“Hwat in cornnashun!?”
- Comment on Our dancers have infinite curves 4 weeks ago:
Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn’t put “engineer” on their resume. :(
(This is not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this “degree market value” idea.)
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately same with Bill Nye. He seemed so pissed at getting recognized by people at a Symposium.
Like geeze dude sorry you inspired people as kids and encouraged them to pursue science and they’re excited to meet you.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 month ago:
Not enough people talk about this.
When I found out how that worked I was like
“Lemme get this straight…they get whatever they want out of you, as long as they want, exempt from overtime, for a flat yearly fee? But of course you get benefits and vacation time you are socially stigmatized from using…Yeah that’s a scam.”
What’s with the obsession with renting/owning people?!?
- Comment on The Elder God 1 month ago:
“Everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time… … Dancin’ in the desert, blowin’ up the sun-shine…”
–System of a Down, “B.Y.O.B”
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 1 month ago:
And here we see this buffoon once again viciously attacking his political enemies…(Flips papers)…
…“Anyone with half a brain who works for a living.”
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 1 month ago:
This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl
- Comment on Radio transmissions 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, the dolphins decided to sneak out the back.
… At least they thanked us for the fish.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 month ago:
This sounds like a way to die in one of the Space Quest games lol.
- Comment on Innövative sölutiön 2 months ago:
“That’s like 3 yards of class notes! That’s ridiculous!”
“What? Oh this? No I just got a pack of gum at CVS real quick.”
- Comment on they come 2 months ago:
It’s more kinda pitiful. They’re just really bumbling and clumsy so you’ll occasionally just hear a little thunk against a window like a lightly thrown acorn or something hahaha.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
I kinda feel like we’re 75% of the way there already, and we gotta be hitting with everything we’ve got if we’re to stand a chance against it…
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
I don’t think they meant that. Probably more like
“Don’t upload all your precious data carelessly thinking it’s un-stealable just because of this one countermeasure.”
Which of course, really sucks for artists.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
I wonder, can I serve it ads and get paid?
…and it’s just bouncing around and around and around in circles before its handler figures out what’s up…
Heehee I like where your head’s at!
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
I feel like the down-vote squad misunderstood you here.
I think I agree: If people made software they actually wanted , for human people , and less for the incentive of “easiest way to automate generation of dollarinos.” I think we’d see a lot less sophistication and effort being put into such stupid things.
These things are made by the greedy, or by employees of the greedy.
Ever since the Internet put on a suit and tie and everything became abou real-life money-sploitz, even malware is boring anymore.
New dangerous exploit? 99% chance it’s just another twist on a crypto-miner or ransomware.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
Isn’t it insufferable? Agh!
I hope my version was at least sorta funny while making the point and highlighting a lot of those stupid tricks they use. I should drop a few lines though so it’s not so malicious lol…
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
As evidenced by his preposterously plagiarized company naming schemes that obnoxiously demonstrate to the world how profoundly he missed the point of Lord of the Rings, by going team Mordor and thinking he’s the hero. . .
When above all else, he desires power.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
The only reason employers still do shit like this is because individuals either don’t realize that they can sue for it, or don’t realize that lawyers will take their case.
Is this one of those instances where the corporation will do stuff like deploy their lawyer army to tie up the victim and wait them out with expensive and time-wasting legal process…before offering them a $50 gift card to shut up and hold them eternally blameless forevermore?
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
Yo. That’s pretty extreme!
That’s another human being just like yourself, posting their likely well-intentioned observations on a situation to a public discussion forum. They’re not being actively hostile to anybody. Please try to have a little grace.
If the idea presented is wrong, attack the idea, not the individual.
The internet is savage enough as it is and we can make it better.
I sincerely hope you have a good day. <3
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
I hope it was at least satirically entertaining and perhaps a touch cathartic! XD
I’m sure you’ve also had that experience where you ended up scrolling and scrolling those stupid websites to see what their deal was, even though you knew it was 100% nonsense lol.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure…
You’re not gonna believe this but…
I think it all came from web marketing guru types.
And it circlejerked with business types to capitalize on shorter and shorter attention spans.
I was like you. I was a normal guy. And one day I decided to take a guess at why this irritating “writing style” came from…
…and you won’t believe what I came up with…I think it’s because…
People scroll, and short little paragraphs keep you reading.
In bite-sized little chunks. So you keep scrolling and scrolling waiting for it to get to the point…
…so what are you waiting for? Lame call to action by clicking the button below to get added to my email list with 900 days risk free…
…and one day you too can have a Lambo.
…Ugh that made me physically sick writing like that even as a joke LOL.
- Comment on Something something far-left 2 months ago:
Hehe, that’s how pathetic things are here.
Retirement accounts? Since we’re talking minimum wage workers here, most of them have probably never even heard of those. I know I don’t have one, because I’ve only held part time employment while self-studying a bunch of other skills. I have just a savings that gets cleaned out whenever the car makes an expensive noise I can’t fix myself.
We pay into “Social Security” that you’re supposed to be able to pull from when you retire, but that’s been an iffy thing for years now and it’s definitely not something that can be lived off of anymore.
Over here by default if we hurt ourselves at work we get workers comp and outside of work we have salary continuance insurance
Yeah I didn’t even mean at work, just y’know, life happening can absolutely tank your finances with medical bills. Insurance is an absolute scam here, where the affordable ones can have a “deductible” in the thousands you need to pay before the company even pays out a time.
At work? Yeah, workers comp is a thing, but to your job that’s like declaring war on your employer, the way I understand it. Often you’ll need a lawyer and they’ll send private investigators to stalk you trying to catch you being “not disabled” so they can kick you to the gutter.
(Allegedly lots of people to try to scam the system, like anything else, but dystopian employer paranoia is comically ridiculous.)
If you’re curious about the situation here, there’s a book called “On the Clock, what low wage labor did to me and how it drives america insane” or something like that. Super eye opening.
Screw amazon but this is the first link I found because I’m literally rushing out of the house lol.
www.goodreads.com/book/…/42779084-on-the-clock
Hope this illuminates things a little. Pray for us plz. :)