umbraroze

@umbraroze@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never Gonna Give You Up⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my 40s, and last time when I was at McD I saw some 20-somethings sitting at their table, looking at the liner notes of an AC/DC CD they had no doubt grabbed from the second hand store one block over.

  I almost went over to say “oh wow, am I ever happy to see you kids enjoy classical music, eh?” but I didn’t, because this is Finland and talking to random people at McD is considered weird, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen a PS2, never had one. I’ve also seen an IBM PS/2.

  (I have a PS1 somewhere, too. And the first computer I ran Linux on was an IBM PS/1.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going Back ↪️🏨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  During the Plague, I had plenty of experience with both meal delivery apps (finding weird new ways how befuddled immigrants get scammed) and app scoots (it’s like public transport, but more unreliable and more expensive).

  Don’t do app shit under normal circumstances, being the main lesson here. It’s going to be full of weird fucking shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stereotypes.

  Americans are incredibly obsessed about which European countries their distant ancestors came from, even if they basically know nothing about these countries or how they are today.

  Meanwhile, in Europe, friendly neighbour ribbing is alive and well. Everyone slings mud over the border, and it’s fine, usually, they’ll do the same to us, you see.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s the neat part, they do, so I rarely need to test them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a legit use for Edge: if I have to test out how a website looks on Chromium, I don’t need to install Chrome, yay.

  For everything else, there’s Firefox though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The War

  Yes, The War is making us all very anxious and we hear nothing but horrible news about it all day long. Please stop The War. That’s the only way we can ever be happy again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitch McConnel's Wikipedia page has been heavily edited the last few days, with the last ones being 4 hours ago. So around 1PM EST. What could that mean?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He never was. He’s a bad turtle. A disgrace to turtles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (Insert that thing from The Simpsons)

  No, the most hated US president so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spot on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the locations of the buildings are a simple result of this having been made with genAI.

  That, or the fact that it’s a political cartoon, and nobody expects political cartoonists to do meticulous, impeccable research what comes to the appearance of people or buildings or geography or whatnot.

  If they were required to do that, Ben Garrison would have been smoked out out of job decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨look⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  [Starts the umpteenth playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins]

  …It’s called Sword Therapy, you dumbasses, you wouldn’t get it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know examples of mistranslations of in-game dialog from cutscenes via subtitles whilst playing in another language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My memory is hazy, but I think the original PC release of FF7 fixed a bunch of translation bungles. I played that version first and was surprised how many errors were found in the PlayStation version.

  I can’t remember if they fixed that particular mistake though. Or if the newer PC releases incorporate any of those fixes, haven’t played much of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an Xbox fangirl (a resentingly disappointed one, of course), and the recent industry shenanigans made me get apprehensive about whatever is going to come out next from Microsoft’s direction. They could turn the direction around. Not sure if they can.

  I liked Nintendo Switch, but Switch 2 was pretty much “yeah, I’ll probably get a Steam Deck at some point, sorry”.

  This PlayStation stuff basically switched my opinion of them from “Nnno” to “Oh hell no”.

  I will be back to PC gaming! And will be building a new PC once the industry quits being stupid for a moment. Until then, my 2020 laptop will have to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Library Apps are GOATed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I visit the library often.

  Not that I check out many books, but I love the fact that the local main library is a giant big concrete building with air conditioning and nice quiet desks with power strips for laptops. Immense productivity.

  The library was closed for renovations last summer and the heat waves really put a huge dent on my work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play mostly shooters online.

  Somehow, living next to a country which is invading one of its neighbours, and seeing a bunch of actual real war footage from real wars on the daily basis, made me reconsider if shooters actually qualify as “fun” these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where does your bus line bring you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Finnair used to have flight AY666 from Amsterdam straight to Helsinki (HEL) but only every Friday the 13th.

  They do still have flights from Singapore (SIN) to HEL. But that’s just normal. Don’t worry about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨humans in space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Witches and mysticists say “as above, so below”.

  So, according to this pic, in practical reality, it’s actually “as in tiny, so in big”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Artemis II astronauts going around the Moon: “I have two Outlooks, neither of which works”

  Astronauts during the first Mars mission: “I previously had two Teams versions, neither of which worked, and now there’s apparently a third one, and it doesn’t work either”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yay, sponsored emojis!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dammmmn, that’s an ugly ball. Let’s call it the Curseball Games insted.

  (Fun thing: The football you usually see in emojis is also based on an official World Cup ball, but at least that one’s a classic for a reason. Looks distinctive. Looks cool. Can’t say the same for most of the recent ones, it’s all a blur to me!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve had to say “Microsoft, guys, you’re sitting on a giant pile of amazing IPs and you have so many glorious studios. You’re sitting on a goldmine, folks. So why are you all so bad at this?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You need to think long term⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an email address that’s kind of tricky to read aloud. As decades went on, it’s less and less funny, to be frank.

  Luckily the service also gave me a firstname dot lastname type alias. I’ve lately been giving it out if I have to say it over the phone or something. …Also I guess it looks more professional in CVs or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well damn. Glad he's dead.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I know, I first had a bit of a whiff of him being weird when I read The Dilbert Principle. Otherwise a fairly amusing book, but the chapter on female coworkers was… uh, to put it in modern parlance, fedoraèd. This was supposed to be a funny book. Wasn’t laughing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well damn. Glad he's dead.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no. PHB is Elon Musk, 100%. Trump is like the CEO of Dilbert’s company (a lot dumber than the PHB, but fortunately too stupid to function most of the time, so his direct subordinates have to do the actual day-to-day fuck-ups, leaving only the most gigantic massive fuck-ups for him to handle personally).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha AF⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to believe only a few years ago, we had this concept known as “parody horizon”. People used to say super wacky shit and you had to use your brain power to figure out if they were Beyond the Parody Horizon. Are they saying hilariously stupid shit for sarcasm points, or are they saying weird shit that is just telling?

  Unfortunately, the horizon is dead. These people are just… too gone. They can say stupidly telling shit from time to time, but what the hell are we supposed to do about that? Nothing’s gonna work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨indoor mushroom farming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I see. These mushrooms have [hbomberguy] extruded [/hbomberguy].

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking buying physical media is great and shopping for physical media is so much more interesting.

  Using physical media is a hassle, I much prefer to rip the contents.

  …Books are an exception. I just recently rediscovered that reading isn’t annoying actually, because you don’t have weird technical and DRM issues with physical books and you can keep reading the pages for hours and hours. My tablet sucks, but physical books don’t keep freezing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Find Cow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can honestly say I’ve never been impressed enough to utter “ccooooooc wwow”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cowabunga⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy World Turtle Day, everybody! 🐢🌍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me: “The Final Shape, huh? Is this going to be the final expansion? I’m several DLCs behind.”

  Bungie: “We’ve got another one planned. And a Star Wars crossover too.”

  Me: “Oh fuck off now. Peace out.”