umbraroze
@umbraroze@slrpnk.net
- Comment on 3 days 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 5 days 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Ah I see. These mushrooms have [hbomberguy] extruded [/hbomberguy].
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I can honestly say I’ve never been impressed enough to utter “ccooooooc wwow”
- Comment on cowabunga 4 weeks 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" 4 weeks 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.”
- Comment on Please the overlords 5 weeks ago:
I’m in Finland. We have pedestrian/bike paths that sometimes go under roads. Over here the underpass tunnels sometimes get flooded in the heavy rains.
In the Plague Years, I was on an app scoot when it was raining, noticed the underpass had water up to my ankles, so I said “YOLOoooo” out loud and pushed through. Even though the official app scoot company policy at the time was Will You Please Not Do That.
Hey, the scoot was completely fine! Received no complaints! You see, fleet vehicles like these are pretty sturdy compared to retail models. A little bit of water? No problem. I assume the scoots they have to fish out of the river, or find from under the snow banks when they melt in the spring, may have some mechanical problems, yeah.
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 5 weeks ago:
Of course conservatives go “only physical work is real manly work, young people are lazy, hue hue hue”.
…while Babylon Bee staff is mostly known for sitting in the office and posting low effort shit that can incredibly charitably called “attempts at humour”.
Hey, if you’re conservative, you’ve got to be contradictory and hypocritical, after all.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 5 weeks ago:
Sure, the guy has a ton of books in the shelves. But how many mysterious badly sorted storage boxes of books he has? Now that’s the real test of character.
Also ask probing questions about how many obsolete programming books he has. It may get awkward but it has to be done.
- Comment on Finally, we have the blueprints! 5 weeks ago:
2 STORY GRAND FOYER
Does it go to a 2nd floor?
… … …No
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 2 months ago:
Reminds me of Dogmeat in Fallout 3. I was really worried about the buddy when the wiki said Dogmeat can die. Bullshit. Every time I hit VATS after that, I didn’t see a dog anywhere, just a dog shaped cruise missile repeatedly flying at the enemies, killing stuff dead. In Fallout: New Vegas, they upgraded the doggo into a real dog shaped cruise missile.
- Comment on In these uncertain times, it's more important than ever to be discerning and to make sure to get your info from a reliable source. 2 months ago:
I’m old enough to have eaten burgers out of styro boxes, and IMHO it’s not one of the things I get nostalgic over. They held heat a little bit longer than cardboard/paper, but that’s basically the only advantage.
The places here that offer kebab/fries and sausage/grilled whatever to go still use larger styro trays here, and they’re less convenient and sturdy than the styro burgerware was. I’m actually hoping someone comes up with an alternative.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 2 months ago:
It baffles me people don’t call it a “clickity-clunk” genre.
Foreign terms always make things sound fancier than they actually are!
- Comment on I'm trains 2 months ago:
I sank quite a bit of time and money on Train Sim World on Xbox. Now looking at stuff on PC, will probably get SimRail or something
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 2 months ago:
Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.
I’m from Finland. It never stops being weird when Americans talk about 2 liter sodas. First, it being in liters, and second, 2 liter sodas are huuuuge. (Large bottles are usually 1.5 liters here.)
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 2 months ago:
By the way, speaking of changed colours of planets: if you haven’t been keeping up with the latest news in space imagery and want a real mindbender, check out what has recently happened to Neptune. You may have been thinking, ooooh, what an enthralling blue planet! - bzzzzzt, turns out it’s a pretty bland and boring gas giant, the colours were exaggerated on purpose because otherwise you can’t see shit.
- Comment on Quiver, ladies, quiver 2 months ago:
My girly thought process is actually quite similar:
- Comment on Any day now 2 months ago:
In YouTube, Berm Peak channel folks bought an e-bike from a bankrupt app company, and went on to replace the control unit (plus sensors and the panel). Doable but not painless. Folks in the comments pointed out that a lot of the control units are reprogrammable, though - swap the SIM card and send new settings over SMS.
- Comment on SlopOS 11 2 months ago:
I literally had to write a clock app on my own because Windows clock is pretty bad.
I was thinking that they’ll just replace the clock with Copilot eventually.
Windows 11: “It’s 11 pm sharp. I know that because I looked at the RTC.”
Windows 12: “It’s 11 pm sharp. That’s a phrase people like to say, apparently.”
…Don’t give Microsoft any ideas.
- Comment on It is a multi-purpose tool 2 months ago:
Maybe, just maybe, I use a lighter to light half a dozen candles, so I can get to the right headspace to play Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader?
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 2 months ago:
Another fun reptile fact!
Tortoises are mostly herbivorous. However, many species of tortoises will not stop munching on leaves where snails are sitting. They are happy to eat snails for the protein. And also to demonstrate the snails that turtles are significantly faster!
(Also I wish I had one particular video at hand, of Galapagos tortoises eating pumpkins)
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 months ago:
[insert that meme of a cat peeking behind a snow bank going “wtf they’re doing over there” or something]
Last time I was blown away by graphics was when I started up my brand new Xbox 360 and played Bioshock and was like “whoooa, reflections, water effects, whoooa”. Everything since has been a mild gradual improvement.
In fact, I expect this stuff to be mild improvements you can barely notice unless you’re specifically looking for it. Don’t make it big and don’t stir drama, Nvidia.
And just about the last thing you want to tell people is “you know what, we’re doing a giant leap here, you’ll better buy new hardware now.” …In this fucking economy.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 3 months ago:
Episode 230: Google
“…over there, you can see a YouTubeAI datacenter on fire. It’s not supposed to be like that.” - Roz, probably - Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 3 months ago:
My feeling on Xbox since Xbox One days has been pretty much “this is an awesome platform, you’re sitting on a gold mine Microsoft, what the fuck are you doing?”
The last bit of brilliance they did utilise properly was GamePass, and of course they cocked that up by getting greedy.
Last few years have been extremely rough. The only lucky thing about this is that instead of full Xbox exclusivity Microsoft was pushing Xbox/Windows cross functionality. …Yeah, I’ve been pivoting to PC, but Steam/GOG instead.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 3 months ago:
I was about to ask “I’m mildly concerned, are American Evangelicals okay?” but then I remembered there has never been a time when they have been okay, so I don’t know why am I even asking.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 3 months ago:
A significant chunk of American pop culture of the past decades is based on the premise that The Government is Hiding Something.
Trump’s going to throw a big wrench in that by releasing fucking everything. Except a few things. A few great secrets.
I swear American pop culture in the coming century or so is just going to be The Government is Hiding The Epstein Files, over and over and over.
