TexasDrunk
@TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on robots 43 minutes ago:
Dangling modifiers or dangling participles. I think both are correct.
- Comment on Birds of a feather 5 hours ago:
“Which door would your brother point to if I asked him who prefers a donk to a heinie?”
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 22 hours ago:
Striker was a lot of things to a lot of people. But, looking back, the number one thing I can say about him is this, and simply this: Striker was my friend.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 day ago:
2/10, mostly for the condescending use of “sweetheart”. Without that, 1/10. You can do better trolling than that.
- Comment on So which is it? 3 days ago:
If you add enough mayo to anything it magically becomes a salad in the Midwestern US.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 1 week ago:
I’m curious what other succinct terms people would use to describe the act of doing the bare minimum and not engaging beyond what is required and asked for.
Working. Doing the job for which you were hired.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 week ago:
I tried Stadia. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I played Cyberpunk mainly and didn’t have 90% of the problems that other players had. It was very enjoyable.
I likely wouldn’t sign up for another similar service simply because now I have a library on my Steam Deck (purchased with the Stadia refund) and that’s how I’m used to playing at this point. But it sure was a nice service while it lasted. I thought they were selling it to someone but I guess it didn’t end up happening.
- Comment on George Takei was on Colbert yesterday 3 weeks ago:
The thing is they’ve almost gone too far to satirize. I don’t really blame people for falling for it considering there are folks with paintings of TFG pasted on Rambo’s body seriously hanging in their houses (and in at least one case that I’m aware of, their bar where RATM gets played pretty regularly).
- Comment on teachings 3 weeks ago:
Lost me at “I think”. I don’t, apparently.
- Comment on Prosecutions of Fake Electors for Trump Gain Ground in Swing States 3 weeks ago:
I just wanted you to know that you can’t just say the word “elector” and expect anything to happen.
- Comment on High quality channel 4 weeks ago:
Yep. Chewing tobacco (go check out Red Man), or chaw, is coarsely chopped. Dip (fucking Skoal wintergreen, I can still smell it just thinking about it) is much more finely chopped. I believe chewing tobacco has fallen out of favor, but I still see a lot of dip rings in people’s pants.
Chaw is usually chewed a little to release some flavor before putting it between your gums and cheek. Dip is just placed directly there. You get flavor and nicotine. Always spit, never swallow.
I’m actually jealous of people who have never had the need to know the difference.
- Comment on High quality channel 4 weeks ago:
I went to school with both of them dudes in Texas.
- Comment on Anon needs lighters 4 weeks ago:
I get it. I’m the guy in old 8 but RPGs who hiccups to show that he’s drunk and sometimes says nonsense.
- Comment on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) 5 weeks ago:
That’s a great movie with some pretty awesome quotable lines.
- Comment on California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours 5 weeks ago:
I used to get in trouble for missing calls and texts out of hours because they expected it. They expected it because I usually answered. I stopped and got in trouble a few times. Then they started calling someone else.
- Comment on How to know you're in Indiana. 5 weeks ago:
And a group of non-truckers since you can only have one driver per shower.
- Comment on On a scale of 1 to 5, where do you shop? 5 weeks ago:
They must have Gemini deciding how to position the answers. Makes as much sense as asking else that piece of garbage does.
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 1 month ago:
They’re all a lot of fun. The only ones I have kept up with long term are building and playing guitars and working on motorcycles. The rest were passing fancies.
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 1 month ago:
Man, I wish I had heard this decades ago. Most of my hobbies are entirely unconnected except building guitars then playing them. I have a garage full of woodworking stuff that’s only for that, a garage full of tools for working on motorcycles that don’t overlap, a bunch of tools for cooking outdoors, a room full of entirely unconnected gear for playing pool, rock climbing, a shelf full of tabletop games, gardening equipment, fishing gear, and equipment to make a beverage that is illegal for me to make at both the federal and state level.
You have a good system.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
It’s a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it’s perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.
A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.
- Comment on Anon gets drunk at the movies 1 month ago:
It ain’t a real movie theater unless I’m in danger of losing a shoe.
- Comment on Anon gets drunk at the movies 1 month ago:
I am not generally a movie goer. I prefer watching at home where I control the temperature, food, volume, company, and amount of floor stickiness.
That being said, my friends drug me to the Alamo Drafthouse a couple of years ago to catch a movie and I LOVE that place. It’s comfortable, the food is edible (not great, but not gross), and I can get completely schnookered while watching their throwback movies or the graveyard shift.
So now I actually hit the theater from time to time.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
I get that you believe that and it’s a cute hill to die on, but that does not change the fact that a D&D video game did poorly and subsequently Hasbro shit canned a bunch of stuff. Larian got a pass because their shit was already in early access.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
What are you talking about? Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance was a whole ass game. It got kind of shitty reviews (currently sitting at 50% on Steam, 4/10 on IGN, 53% on metacritic).
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
Considering there were rumored to be several games in the pipeline that all got scrapped at the beginning of last year, I think you’re right. Dark Alliance didn’t do great so I’m sure the execs freaked out.
Hopefully you’re right about the message they received.
- Comment on MOOSEY 1 month ago:
I never thought about that. Those fucking catfish are just hunting without a permit.
- Comment on Yeah UPS, that's proof 1 month ago:
Accurate. I get pissy about my deliveries (FedEx is notoriously bad here) but the truth of the matter is that the drivers are way overworked. They time shit down to the minute but assume traffic is constantly as good as the best days. So yeah, they build in time for bathroom breaks and to get everything where it goes as long as no one on the road has wrecked, is driving slow, and there are no construction zones gumming up the works. Then they penalize the drivers if everything isn’t done. So you end up with shit thrown over the fence, boxes that look like they were run over, misdelivered packages, and pictures of the corner of a porch.
- Comment on Shawn Fain: Workers Deserve More Time for Themselves 1 month ago:
Good news, that’s the reason my city has the worst possible public transportation. So now you have to take a car and get all of that time to yourself! They’re just looking out for you and your well-being.
- Comment on I'm my own grandpaaaa 1 month ago:
I knew a family like this. They had like 5 generations living in one house plus a trailer out back. They were thrilled when my classmate got pregnant as a young teen.
So baby, plus 13-14 year old classmate and her younger sister, plus her mom and dad in their late 20s, plus early 40s Grandma, plus great grandma. Other than dad it was a string of guys dating my classmate, grandma, and great grandma also living there on and off.
I don’t know this for a fact, but I heard that my classmate’s great great grandma was also alive at the time. So the baby’s great great great grandma.
I didn’t think there was any inbreeding going on like in this story though. At least that rumor never surfaced.