DashboTreeFrog

@DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a unique origin story⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He was raised by an Indian family in Malaysia. Really fun teacher, he could switch between different accents very easily and naturally, but an Indian accent was his default way of speaking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a unique origin story⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a professor who looked Chinese but spoke with an Indian accent. Similar story. Made sense he got into linguistics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our brains developed pattern recognition for this⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look closer, she’s leaning back with a ball gag on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a non-american, yup…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is china as bad as america makes it out to be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have family in China, I have family in the US, and I live in neither. Your average person just goes about their lives no matter where. You can be a political activist and go about your business in the US but you can’t in China (and some other countries I’ve spent a few years in). Where I’m at, I can get spinal laser surgery and pay absolutely nothing out of pocket and well, US healthcare is memed the world over. Different countries, different worries.

  Governments and politics is one thing, but getting by as average people, I feel we all just do our best no matter where we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europa Clipper Launch Live Stream (Liftoff at 12:06 PM ET)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t realize this was happening right now! Thanks for sharing.

  Nice clean launch, can’t wait to see what kind of data it collects. Been hearing for years that Europa has the potential for life and stuff, wonder what Clipper will be able to tell us about that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, hard agree with what they’re saying and like the fact that they’re delaying prison architect 2 in light of that.

  Lately and because some early access games have fight my eye, I’ve been thinking about how I don’t have as much time for gaming and want the complete experience right away. If I play a game before it’s fixed or before all the content is out, most likely I’ll never play the game at it’s best because I’ve moved on already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds the culprit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, I bet Gwyneth Paltrow would be into it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds the culprit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been reading research on the gut micro biome for years and all this stuff related to it’s effects on the brain and overall health. We joke, but I legit don’t think we’re too far from pro and pre biotic enemas becoming a regular treatment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, exactly. A buzz in my pocket, pull out the phone, see a bunch of different distracting stuff vs glance at my wrist, know it’s a casual message from a friend I can respond to later or in rare cases, something I need to deal with immediately. It’s a lot less mental energy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheap but probably won’t work I’m guessing?

  If you really want a cheap smart watch there’s a bunch of reliable ones worth looking into rather than getting something random on temu. I haven’t tried the Pine Time but it looks good if you like fiddling with the tech.

  If you can put up with Xiaomi they make a ton of different options. I used a Mi Band for a few years and it kinda did what I wanted it to do better than my current Wear OS watch does

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me personally, I want to limit interactions with my phone by reading notifications on my wrist, only allowing certain apps to send notifications through, and maybe sending a quick reply through the watch if needed.

  That said, most smart watches now are overcomplicated bloat, it’s all been downhill since the Pebble Time IMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Smart alarms on a smart watch. Set a time window where it’ll wake you up at an optimal time in your sleep cycle. Been using the one built into Sleep as Android for years, which another person also mentioned, but a lot of smart watches have smart alarms built in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second this, been using it for years.

  The smart alarm feature that senses when you’re already moving around a bit is great too, especially when used with a smart watch/fitness band of some kind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re all ganging up at once, coming from all directions, I feel like it wouldn’t take that many to nip you in the nasties and go for the jugular.

  Assuming there’s some kinda animal instinct where they know to go for vulnerabilities (some animals know to aim for hamstrings and necks right?) I’m not sure I could handle 10 unarmed and in regular clothes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I know about using a wheelchair for the first time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend the style of crutches that don’t go to your armpit, forearm crutches. I was on crutches for months a few years back and that was much more comfortable for me at least.

  forearm crutches than the armpit kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted to bring up something like The Broken Earth series, but I suppose some people would find that woke too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Persona⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You joke but we’ve literally gone to Comiket together and compared hauls after, conventions and stuff were a big part of how we got to know each other (get yourself a partner with similar interests!). I forget exactly what we got but I know we both had questionable stuff with school uniform wearing characters. We were in our 20s so didn’t feel as creepy, but same issue as I mentioned before, a lot of good stuff is made around young people, but I’d love more good media with actual adults as leads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Persona⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll check it out! Thanks for the recommendation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Persona⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I both like anime content, but yeah, the high school stuff has been making me uncomfortable on some level for quite a while to the point where I don’t talk about anything anime related with people unless I KNOW their into it already.

  I really want more good stories told with older characters. For romance stuff there’s a lot of good office worker stuff like Sweat and Soap, Wotakoi. Action stuff is getting away from teenagers more with Kaiju no. 8 and Sakamoto days. But yeah, so much stuff is written for and therefore about teenagers and kids and it’s making us older weebs feel left out and creepy IMO… I get that “coming of age” is an important universal theme but still

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a hot take, but I liked The Pope’s Exorcist, hit all the right classic-supernatural-horror buttons for me. Didn’t know about this newer movie but now I wanna watch it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chevrotain⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You joke, but in Malaysia, they do have a car named after the local word for mouse deers, kancil (the “c” is pronounced as a “ch”). I learned to drive in one of those.looks like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Praise Ra⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my part of the world all we’re getting are heat waves. Please stop, Ra 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt Red still 'don't see a place for microtransactions' in singleplayer games⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah.

  Plus, was just having this thought recently, who needs micro transactions in single player games when mods exist? And CDPR has been great with mods.

  Even if it’s multiplayer, I can see non performance enhancing mods being OK, which then throws things like mtx skins out the window.

  Only micro transactions I’ve done have been on f2p games where I enjoyed what I was playing and wanna give money to the developer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schrödingers cat⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how it looks like the cat is looking at the empty box thinking "Yo wtf???”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That introduction...⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had the reverse issue, where I wanted to input a large amount of text for ChatGPT to work with. Tried to do a workaround where part of my prompt was that I was going to give it more information in parts. No matter how I phrased things it would always try to start working with whatever I gave it with the first prompt so I just gave up and did it myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That introduction...⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Took me a second.

  But man, I don’t right academic papers anymore, but I have to write a lot of reports and such for my work and I’ve tried to use different LLM’s to help and almost always the biggest help is just in making me go “Man, this sucks, it should be more like this.” and then I proceed to just write the whole thing with the slight advantage of knowing what a badly written version looks like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get over my ex?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finding closure of some kind I think. Keeping in mind why you broke up, why it didn’t work out, why there wasn’t a future in the relationship, etc.

  The relationship before my current partner of over ten years was really intense, I thought she was really the one, she was what I had imagined my ideal type was for practically my whole adolescence. But a spot of long distance and her parents disapproval had us in a bit of on again off again, where during one drunk call to me, she admitted to kissing other guys (at the very least), and that was enough for me to just go, “oh, I think our expectations are too different”, and I was able to put a hard end to that. Yeah, I occasionally think of her, but more in the curious way you wonder about an old acquaintance.

  I had a friend with a sort of similar situation to yours, he and his girlfriend mutually broke up when we were all graduating high school because her friends convinced her that long distance wouldn’t work out. It really messed both of them up, especially since they kind of stayed in contact. A lot of weird stories there, but not really mine to tell. But he talked a few times about all the “what-ifs” and it feels like that’s the hardest part in letting go of a relationship.

  On the other hand, if you can convince yourself that the answer to “what if?” is basically “nothing good”, I think that can help. Though, easier said than done, it’s kinda like brainwashing yourself by focusing on all the negatives about them. Easy for me because of the cheating, but not so easy for my friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Avatar Reckoning, it has been cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a decent Legend of Korra game by Platinum. Simple, short beat-em-up in the style of something like Devil May Cry or Bayonetta

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artists Draw Disney Characters as Dark Souls Bosses⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I discovered DeepBlueInk quite recently and was turned on to Drawfee from there. Feels like I took the wrong way down the road but I still love where it took me!