pantyhosewimp
@pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on heh 4 months ago:
Damn. You never sent in the ROFLcopter? Not even once?
- Comment on Anon is baffled by Mel Gibson's continued career 4 months ago:
So interesting that you mentioned this film because when it was new to the rental market I watched it, and it was around this time that Mel had weird bigoted events in the news. I was indifferent and mostly ignorant of exactly what he did, and even so, I was skeptical and doubtful as well.
However, we liked Apocalypto so much that we started rewatching it with the director’s commentary. Mel was such a fucking ass that he ruined our enjoyment of the movie. He was incredibly disrespectful of the actors in the commentary. He was not so much disparaging of them, but he effectively communicated how unimportant they were to him and how they were nothing more than disposable objects to him.
Then I recalled those vague bad things I had heard about him in the press, and I thought, “Hmmm. Maybe this guy is a vile piece of shit.”
On the other hand, disturbed fuckheads can make great art. There might be good reason that in the old days, artists were kept on a leash by wealthy families.
- Comment on Terror on Shore 4 months ago:
Somewhere in Malibu, sunset:
Man: Honey, the Halloween decorations on the front lawn are missing!
Woman: Did you check out back? It was really windy this afternoon.
- Comment on Irresistible 4 months ago:
Since you know the math, how long before it evaporated? Also, at what distance would an object feel 1G of acceleration?
- Comment on Irresistible 4 months ago:
I’ll bet Eminem could find a way
- Comment on Irresistible 4 months ago:
So you are a hypothetical object.
- Comment on AI is ruining the internet | Drew Gooden 4 months ago:
He’s got 99 care-ofs but a percentage ain’t one.
- Comment on Annoying marketing practices 4 months ago:
If “mildly infuriating” is just a synonym for “annoying” then I’d say this post nails the theme perfectly.
- Comment on Casual reminder 4 months ago:
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway is set during this period. Just a side note.
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
If everyone should learn to read, it would not only ruin writing but thinking as well.
—some embittered philosopher probably
- Comment on The Final Frontier 4 months ago:
Am I the only one who heard this comment in Lil Johns voice?
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
We are in our suffix-punk arc. We’re such word-pilled portmanteau-maxxer.
- Comment on 4th rule 4 months ago:
They are named after the hero who goes back in time to save Sarah Connor from the Terminator.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 months ago:
synecdoche
I didn’t like that movie.
- Comment on Multiplayer Arcade-Style Indie Game Recommendations? 4 months ago:
Broforce
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone
SpiderHeck
- Comment on Did it hurt? 4 months ago:
One of the most valuable things my dad taught me was how to take good advice from an asshole.
- Comment on Like a prion 4 months ago:
I so much want you to be a person that didn’t realize Al Jankovic was writing parody songs of other popular songs.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 4 months ago:
Years and years ago at a house party, some woman from Cork and a friend of mine from Belfast were joking and they said, “Because Ulster says”, and I had no idea what they were talking about.
- Comment on Director Kevin Costner's Western "Horizon" poised to bomb at the box office 4 months ago:
Maybe he is expecting racial interactions to be more like what is in Shakiest Gun in the West?
- Comment on Irrational 4 months ago:
“Imaginary” was merely poor word choice from long ago.
- Comment on Jenkins. 4 months ago:
So in the OP’s original timeline there is a flexible CI pipeline tool named Adolph. Huh…
- Comment on When does investing become gambling? 5 months ago:
None of the answers I’ve read so far actually answer your question with basic facts.
When you invest then you are buying a tangible financial instrument: a share of a company or a treasury bill or a municipal bond and so on. There is the expectation that over time, the value of your financial instrument will increase in value but this is not guaranteed. The lack of guarantee is the risk. Some instruments are riskier than others. The level of risk does not define gambling.
When you walk into a casino and bet money on roulette, what are you buying? You are buying nothing more than a fleeting chance at winning more money. It is entertainment by thrill. There is no tangible thing that you own from gambling.
Investing is one way that companies can raise capital to expand their business. Business expansion can lead to greater employment and higher standard of living. For investing to work as an economic system there must be liquidity. Someone must be willing to buy your financial instrument later at a higher price or some town must still be collecting taxes to pay back your bond years later.
Hopefully you can see now why investing is encouraged and supported in society and gambling is either illegal or merely tolerated.
- Comment on Hidden by default 5 months ago:
Back in the day there were only re-tweets and bookmarks. Then Facebook likes became popular and Twitter changed bookmarks which could be private or public into fully public likes. So annoying. Likes should have never existed on Twitter.
- Comment on Anon interviews for a job 5 months ago:
Ding! Fries are done!
- Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser 5 months ago:
Elder Scrolls especially Morrowind will always have a place in my heart but I’ve moved on. If they ever release a better game I will come back. What ever is running Starfield won’t be it.
I’ve found New World and as far as MMOs go, it’s the best I’ve played in comparison to Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2 (in depth) and a few others (<40 hours).
But New World has the lore, baby. That’s what seals the deal. Superior gameplay: check. Great art design: check. The lore is the final block and New World is so interesting. I didn’t think a fantasy setting could have new and interesting lore but they succeeded.
How the Lost came into creation from
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trying to cure the Corruption
is so tragic. I’m still learning what Angry Earth is all about tho.
And it’s just fun! Like, I would have never guessed that I’d enjoy running around in a pilgrim hat getting killed by a giant turkey with laser eyes. And who would have guessed you could successfully merge the giants from Nasusicca Valley of the Wind with 1500s Caribbean aesthetic?
But if you’re thinking: “We’re talking about single player games, dumbass.” Yea, I know, I like New World so much that I wish the same dev team would make a proper single player game in the exact same setting.
- Comment on Workers Create Value 5 months ago:
I think it’s more like, imagine if all the shares of Amazon were confiscated from Bezos and his main henchmen and his original remaining backers, and then those shares were equally redistributed to Amazon employees and contractors. I don’t think the workers would disagree with that move.
- Comment on How do you know what a streaming service have available if all of them need you to subscribe before showing you. 5 months ago:
This is a very interesting question because it ignores the way that I wander into subscribing at all
I know of some show I want to watch and then after I already know about the show then I seek out the provider for it. After I subscribe and watch the show until I am satisfied with it only then do I bother looking at other shows available on that same provider.
I usually end up watching one or more shows I never would have known about or watched without subscribing for the original show. Eventually I cancel the subscription because there is no interesting shows left.
- Comment on Justice for Sid 5 months ago:
How about the whole villains-have-rotten-teeth thing? When this came out in the theaters the first time, my best bud had bad teeth from growing up poor and neglected. Fucking felt terrible watching it.
- Comment on Scientific dietary advice 5 months ago:
Bite all the way down, and it still reads “Brighton”.
- Comment on Did he find it though? 5 months ago:
Excellent replacement for:
Dave’s not here, man!