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- Comment on Just a little bit more 1 day ago:
You may also want to push on the valve-stem push valve with a “jesus stick”. This is literally “I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot-pole” territory, so go find an eleven foot one with a sharp point at the end.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 1 day ago:
Tires are the enemy.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 1 day ago:
Lot of people been asking me why my voice beeps all the fking time. The Torgue shareholders wired my voicebox with a digital censor, so I can’t say stuff like St ck py or fkin-dkballs. That’s like half my vocabulary, it’s goddamn bulls*t!!
- Comment on No brainer 1 day ago:
The text just says look 10 hours younger. To me, that means un-doing all the apparent signs of aging: superficial stuff. Less wrinkles, fewer sunspots/freckles, hair is back where it used to be, no more cataracts, etc. Meanwhile, your internal organs, bones, and muscles keep going with the usual aging process.
- Comment on No brainer 1 day ago:
I imagine this working in a monkey’s paw kind of way. First, the local gravel suppliers just keep mis-delivering things to places where you happen to be. Then they start talking and figure out how to get rid of you so you stop costing them so much business. You survive, skip town, only to start again. You get incredibly wealthy from re-selling all this free gravel. Eventually, mountaintops start dissapearing due to all the illegal quarrying going on…
- Comment on No brainer 1 day ago:
- Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
- This has been brought up before. Gravel isn’t cheap. This is basically infinite money.
- If used continuously, you’re basically The Flash.
- Just a bad idea unless you can put it inside your existing nose for double the sniff-sensitivity.
- Okay, that’s just fun.
- Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
- Only useful under very specific circumstances. Also, define a “container”.
- Unless the Khitan civilization knew things we don’t, this isn’t useful at all.
- Fast as he is now or when he was alive?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
As one of the horde of neurodivergent folks that love Hank’s content, Ikind of need it this way. Chris Boden is another one. Long, still, static shots, just punch me right in the attention span and are hard to get through. It takes way more effort than the occasional jump-cut to pull off.
- Comment on Electricity Consumption 2 weeks ago:
Rabbit hole time.
So there actually was some electrical research being conducted in 1705, but it was all static electricity. It could be argued that there was a non-zero amount generated and consumed, but it’s really, really small. ChatGPT threw out a value of “20 milliwatts” for this, citing that it was “about the power of a dim LED”.
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 2 weeks ago:
Good days are in short supply right now. Why you do this?
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 2 weeks ago:
Only if both spouses were previously married, and you ask first. With the right crowd, that’s a howler.
- Comment on Help. 2 weeks ago:
Jebus that’s awful. OpenAI took away his friend.
- Comment on Help. 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, cringy nomenclature aside, this is just porn that got a little too real. Some people are into the narrative, after all.
To me the story begins and ends with some user that thinks the LLM sounds a little too life-like. Play with these things enough, and they’ll crawl out of the uncanny valley a bit from time to time. Trick is: that’s all in your head. Yeah, it might screw up your goon session and break the role-play a bit, but it’s not about to go all SkyNet on you.
- Comment on Anon goes home 3 weeks ago:
You can never really go home.
Fuck.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Yeasty 4 weeks ago:
Yeast is anaerobic, meaning that it doesn’t need access to air to metabolize sugars into CO2. So it’s not gonna stop expanding once down the drain. Add to that the very sticky dough surrounding it, and you basically have a recipe ideal for clogging a sewer drain.
- Comment on Yeasty 4 weeks ago:
PSA: Kidding aside, never do this.
- Comment on Yeasty 4 weeks ago:
These look like a props from a Troma film.
- Comment on Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock 4 weeks ago:
One time, I had my shares reduced in value when my employer sold. I didn’t know they could just write them off at $0.
I suppose it could be argued that, as an “investment” stock’s value (even pre-IPO) is fungible and not guaranteed. Still, this smells like theft.
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 4 weeks ago:
IIRC, there were human survivors and hold-outs, but not many. Consequently, the vampire’s numbers were also rather small in turn. It was all a slow-moving apocalypse.
Really, it’s only just good enough of a backdrop for some really solid gameplay, set-pieces, and great voice-acting (well, for Soul Reaver anyway).
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 4 weeks ago:
also the Empire had a space program
Easily one of the best unintentional “easter eggs” I’ve seen in a video game.
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, in Legacy of Kain:
Vampires: Uh, boss? You corrupted the pillars of Nosgoth - which is great and all - but now the sun kinda/sorta doesn’t work anymore. It’s always dusk.
Kain: So what you’re saying is that we vampires can move around freely. All the time.
Vampires: Won’t that eventually kill all the humans? Yanno, with no food and all?
Kain: ::shrugs:: Fuck 'em.
- Comment on Something to think about 4 weeks ago:
And I took no offense: we’re good! And yes, these events are front-row seats for epic people-watching. The logistics make no sense, the vibes are sheer chaos, nobody is really prepared to take care of themselves for a few days straight, and these nightcrawlers just bring the strange in droves. it’s wonderful.
- Comment on Something to think about 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much. I mean, we all need space and time to be stupid, now and again.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
Of course not. You can’t monetize nature all that directly, so clearly it’s not “better”. /s
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
advertisers prove that they are absolute scumbags
I honestly didn’t believe that until, one day, a scumbag came calling with a ‘brilliant IT idea’ that only myself and my colleagues could build. I’ll put it this way: we realized that this guy would literally not stop until he covered the entire world with advertising, as though we were supposed to live in an environment modeled after a college dorm corkboard. No thanks.
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 4 weeks ago:
I was gonna say. It’s Eastern Europe. That’s like free bus passes for UK residents if they complain about the weather.
- Comment on Something to think about 4 weeks ago:
I think it all starts with asking the crowd. Once people catch on that’s something we all do, collectively, moving those discussions to a community is the next natural step.
- Comment on Something to think about 4 weeks ago:
Dozing off in my tent at a burn. Recalling the warm hugs and conversation from other partygoers tripping the light fantastic. My belly full of the wonderful food people brought just to share. The greasy bass of airport-noise-levels of dubstep lulling me to sleep.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 weeks ago:
On the home-gamer gameplay side, this is a solid list. On the technology side, I think there’s even more that makes sense for a curated museum tour. There were big leaps made in arcade tech through the 80’s and 90’s that were pushing all manner of graphics and sound, head-and-shoulders above the previous generation.
Sega’s “super scaler” boards come to mind, allowing for games like Hang-on, Outrun, and After Burner. Digitized sound samples started with Sinistar and Tempest. Dragon’s Lair amazed everyone with an interactive LaserDisc experience. There were also notable forays into AR with Time Traveler, and VR with Virutality. Lastly, we have the fully-enclosed and immersive cockpit of early Battletech simulators.
