CrazyLikeGollum

@CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  used to go once a month or so, but then covid lockdowns happened and the barber I liked actually complied with the regulations (which is a good thing), which made it more inconvenient than I though it was worth to get a haircut. At first I figured I’d go back once things started returning to normal, but then that took a while and I never did. So, I haven’t gotten an actual haircut in almost six years.

  I did start getting the ends cleaned up every six months or so about a year ago though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid Sexy Scientists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First contact’s gonna be kinky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know your place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The minimum is about 80 Jupiter Masses. Smaller than that and you can’t start fusing.

  Maximum size is harder to answer. It’s determined by the Eddington Limit. Which describes the luminosity at which radiation pressure is enough to overcome gravity for a certain mass.

  It’s thought that the maximum mass of a star is somewhere around 150 solar masses, but there’s some evidence to contradict this, as we’ve seen a handful of very old stars with masses or luminosities higher than they should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just math and turtles all the way down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw in British Columbia and Alaska while you’re at it. Just take the entire west cost of North America.

  And what should be the east coast, since if the international date line didn’t do that weird curve at the end of the Aleutians, Alaska would be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True art is polarizing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of other dictators were way more effective mass murderers. I’d argue Hitler was middling at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OKBuddyGalaxyBrain⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just Warp 10. You might also devolve into a salamander thing and have weird babies with your CO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I read “shoves it into the faces…” as “shaves it into the faces…” and the horror of the scenario was amplified as I imagined a crazed, naked, Greek witling a duck into some kind of fleshy Mount Rushmore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the differences between 1) probabillities, 2) possibillities, and 3) plausabillities?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Probabilities - The mathematically determined chance that something will happen given a specific scenario.

  2. Possibilities - The set off all things with a >0% chance of happening given a specific scenario.

  3. Plausibility - The outcomes of a specific scenario, that when presented to a reasonable person, that person would determine that they are possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's gooooooooo!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One rule of thumb for cybersecurity is that if an attacker has physical control over your device for any period of time you should treat that device as if it is already compromised, because that is how generally easy it is to compromise something you have physical access to.

  However, do you actually have reason to suspect your roommate of being an attacker? Just because they have a degree, a job, and maybe some level of skill doesn’t mean they have the motivation, lack of integrity, and criminal intent to actually carry out such an attack.

  If you’re concerned about something like that, there are things you can do to mitigate risk, like setting start up passwords, using disk encryption, powering off devices you’re not actively using, and physically securing unattended devices. However, basically nothing you can reasonably do will stop a determined attacker if they live with you and thus have or can easily gain physical access to your devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_(United_States)

  The term village is used to describe certain categories of populated areas, either colloquially or legally, in 27 states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With regards to Ciri’s age, she’s 21 during the main events in The Witcher 3.

  At the end of the books she’s 17.

  No idea if they’ll play down the salaciousness or not, but given when the game will likely take place that at least won’t be any issues with the main character being a minor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More importantly what would a dead salmon know about people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it means a return to random encounters, no absolutely not. There’s a reason I don’t go back and replay the older games even though I have fond memories of them. That reason is largely Zubat. Fuck you Zubat.

  But also, aside from a handful of bugs and performance problems Scarlet/Violet and Legends: Arceus are the best the franchise has ever been. I’d rather they refine what they’re already doing and keep making things better rather then regress purely to appease someone’s misguided nostalgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life 3⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll believe HL:3 is real when it is for sale, purchased by me, and played in it’s entirety. And even it just be a particularly vivid delusion.

  HL:3 is gaming’s dark matter. Until all other possibilities are definitively ruled out, it’s not HL:3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prehistoric sex toys are kind of hard to look at⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the tools on display in the article are anything to go by, there is a distinct possibility they just got up their own ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #12⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like it’s just the brand it’s sold under in that market.

  I was more just pointing out that they are the same thing, since it wasn’t clear if you knew that or not and I think it’s important that people know what the drugs they’re taking actually are. Tends to be safer that way.

  Hopefully, you’re either taking it as prescribed or having fun responsibly. Benzos can be fun, but they’re also some of the most addictive substances on the planet.

  Also, these articles you’re posting are some quality writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #12⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact “Velium” is just a brand name for Diazepam. As is Valium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. You’re supposed to use it anytime you’re about to turn or change lanes, including if you’re sitting in a turn lane at a red light or backing out of a drive way of parking spot.

  Not doing so makes you a road hazard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least as I understand it (and there’s a good chance I’m wrong) there’s nothing in US law preventing a state from seceding. It was determined that the way the southern states decided to do it in the runup to the civil war was unconstitutional (and possibly treasonous? seditious? Something like that), but there’s no law saying a state can’t secede. It’s just that there’s no defined process for it and the only way it has been tried was determined to be wrong.

  From what I’ve read on the topic, there is technically a way it could be done. The country would basically have to follow the same process as passing a constitutional amendment, just with an additional step.

  • The state in question would have to pass a ballot measure to secede
  • The state house and Senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.
  • It would have to be passed as a ballot measure by the majority of the country.
  • The US house and senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.

  So, not technically impossible just so difficult that it is effectively impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is an excellent episode. It would probably have been my fourth pick. That or Arena, the Gorn don’t get enough love and while the episode is cheesy (more so then the rest of TOS), it’s a classic. But I had to go with Mirror, Mirror. The mirror universe episodes in any trek are some of my favorites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, which of your three TOS episodes did I miss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TNG: Drumhead, I, Borg, and Chain of command (or if you don’t want a two parter, take your pick of Q who, Measure of a Man, or Yesterday’s Enterprise)

  DS9: In the Pale Moonlight, Inquisition, and It’s Only a Paper Moon.

  VOY: Living Witness, Tuvix, and Year of Hell (or again, if you don’t want a two parter, go for Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy)

  TOS: The Devil in the Dark, The City on the Edge of Forever, and Mirror Mirror.

  ENT: Similitude, Regeneration, In a Mirror Darkly (don’t really have a good non-two parter to suggeat over In a Mirror, Enterprise doesn’t have a lot of great standalone episodes IMO)

  Movies: if you want to use these as examples, The Wrath of Khan for TOS and First Contact for TNG.

  And I don’t really have a list for LD, PIC, DIS, SNW, or PRO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some slow acting poisons?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on your setting and desired outcome for the poisoner, uraninite (aka pitchblende) might be an option. It has historical uses in glass making and pottery glazing, which could provide justification for why someone would have it.

  It contains Uranium, which is radioactive, but I don’t believe will bioaccumulate, but can build up on surfaces, tools, and clothing providing a source of long-term radiation exposure. In addition, it contains lead, which does bioaccumulate, providing a source of gradual long term poisoning as well as radium which also bioaccumulates and is radioactive, providing an additional source of longterm radiation exposure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’ll have you know there’s no pusseeee!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends more on your instructor rather than the region you’re in. When I was in HS I took two years of Spanish and our teacher was from Spain, so her instruction was in line with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was more thinking of the N64 and GameCube games (Stadium 1&2, Colloseum, and XD Gale of Darkness) when referencing older games with poor graphics specifically. All four of those games were graphically inferior to other titles on the same consoles.

  However, every single release has been plagued by bugs that can result in completely corrupted save data, softlocks, and a wide variety of other unexpected behaviors. Major examples being MissingNo and the other glitch pokemon, bad eggs, a wide variety of exploitable, but potentially save corrupting bugs like the infinite item glitches in gens 1-3, and a whole host of bugs that break how moves are supposed to work in battle.

  Hell, shinies were originally a graphical bug in gen 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree that the graphics could and probably should have been better. I do disagree with the idea that it’s anything more than a minor annoyance with no meaningful impact on the game.

  However, regardless of what I think about it, my point was that at this point in the franchise, Gamefreak, the Pokemon Company, and Nintendo have demonstrated repeatedly since the very first game that optimization, stability, graphical fidelity, and any semblance of good development practices are not something they’re willing to commit to. Expecting that to change at this point is unreasonable and continuing to complain about it is demonstrably unproductive and just introduces pointless negativity into the pokemon community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because graphics are the most important part of a game?

  If the games are fun to play who cares if the graphics are bad? Scarlet and Violet were the best pokemon games since P:LA and that was the best since Gen 5.

  Based on the limited information we’ve gotten about ZA there’s no reason as of yet to doubt that it won’t be comparable to P:LA and S&V in terms of enjoyability.

  Complaining about the graphics of pokemon games or the bugginess of pokemon games is like complaining about CoD being an FPS or Assassin’s Creed having traversable terrain or Souls-likes being hard. At this point it’s a staple of the franchise with 40 games between the mainline games and major spinoffs establishing a trend of the games being thoroughly buggy messes and/or having shit graphics. There is absolutely no reason to expect any of that to change and constantly hearing complaints about it with every new game is getting fucking old.