CrabAndBroom
@CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
- Comment on nothing really matters 3 days ago:
I don’t even know what blast my microwave is at. I just put stuff in it, run for 45 seconds, if it’s not hot when it comes out = another 45 seconds. Repeat until food
- Comment on ard 5 days ago:
According to etymonline, it’s from the French estandart meaning a military banner, or from the Medieval Latin standardum. These in turn possibly come from the old Frankish standhard, so literally to stand hard like a flag or a long-standing tradition.
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 1 week ago:
It’s called Hey Ash, Watcha Playin?
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
Announcing the Xbox One 2 SL XLS SE Pro, which is the basic version, and the Pro version, the Xbox Two 1 SE SL XS SLB Enterprise, both of which are vibe-coded Windows apps that stream Gamepass games without installing anything but take up 100GB of hard drive and still run your GPU at 100% somehow. The latter costs twice as much and you get a different Minecraft cape with it. They update on a completely separate schedule to the rest of Windows, but if you run either one and the updates aren’t in sync it deletes your Documents folder.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
I can only hope.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
The only thing that makes me think it might work this time is that for some reason Microsoft has this magical ability to take a bad idea, make the shittiest possible iteration of it and have it mysteriously become the most widely-adopted standard against all logic.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
I could do the various incarnations of the Doctor in Doctor Who. An example info-dump from memory without looking stuff up:
So the first Doctor was played by William Hartnell, and later Richard Hurndall and David Bradley after Hartnell passed away. Second Doctor was Patrick Troughton who (tangent incoming) originally pitched playing the second Doctor in black-face which thankfully got nixed. Third Doctor was Jon Pertwee, Fourth was Tom Baker who is still the longest-running Doctor by episode count, Fifth was Peter Davidson, Sixth was Colin Baker, Seventh was Sylvester McCoy although (tangent 2) he also played the Sixth Doctor for the regeneration because Colin Baker got fired and refused to film his last scene so the Sixth in that scene is just McCoy in a wig. Eight Doctor was Paul McGann who was the longest-running Doctor chronologically even though he’s only been in one full episode (the 1996 TV movie) because the show didn’t come back until 2005. He’s done some cameos in the show since though. Ninth Doctor in canonical order is John Hurt, although he was added in retroactively during the 11th Doctor’s tenure so he’s referred to as the War Doctor instead of the Ninth. Tenth Doctor canonically is Christopher Eccleston, who is referred to as the Ninth Doctor because of the aforementioned retconning. Then it gets complicated. David Tennant is the Eleventh, Twelfth and Sixteenth Doctor because he regenerated into himself and then came back again later on, which we’ll get to in a bit, but he’s referred to as the 10th and 14th Doctor. Thirteenth Doctor is Matt Smith, who’s referred to as the Eleventh. He was also supposed to be the Doctor’s final life because Time Lords are only supposed to have 13 of them, but then he got a new cycle of regenerations because it would be silly to end the show because of some arbitrary plot point from the 1970s. So then Peter Capaldi was the Fourteenth (or First if you want to start counting again from the new cycle, which nobody does) and is called the Twelfth. Fifteenth (or Second) was Jodie Whittaker, who in the show is called the Thirteenth. She then regenerated into David Tennant again (hence him also being the Sixteenth/Fourteenth) for a couple of specials, and then he split into two separate Doctors, the other one being Ncuti Gatwa who is the Seventeenth or maybe co-Sixteenth or maybe Fourth but is referred to as the Fifteenth in the show. He then (SPOILERS if you haven’t caught up to the last episode) regenerated into Billie Piper, who played Rose Tyler previously in the show and also a sort of sentient bomb called The Moment and who might not even be the Doctor at all, we don’t really know yet. There’s also all the Timeless Child stuff which throws off the numbering even further, and Jo Martin who plays the Fugitive Doctor who is possibly some sort of pre-First Doctor Doctor but the show never really explained it. There are also some other pre-First Doctor Doctors shown in flashbacks and things in The Brain of Morbius and The Timeless Child, but who knows if they’re even real or not. There’s also another David Tennant who is a sort of human clone of the Doctor who lives off in some parallel universe, and another Tom Baker who is a character called the Curator who seems to be some far-future retired version of the Doctor who revisits some of his old faces.
I could go on but you get the idea.
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 2 weeks ago:
I mean the other day on the bus someone was having a full-volume face time conversation on speakerphone about the groceries they were about to buy, I wish people were just playing Nintendo DS in public these days.
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 2 weeks ago:
There was one kind of DS that could detect other DS’s nearby, and you’d get little rewards for things like how far you walked and how many other people you walked past that also had a DS in their bag. One time I got home and I’d apparently walked past a Nintendo employee at some point and got a special achievement thing for it!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I worked retail for a decade. There is no bottom to the barrel. There are people driving around in cars who genuinely shouldn’t be left unsupervised with metal utensils.
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 month ago:
I had an idiot friend as a kid who set some off by hitting them against a metal gas canister and I ran away 'cause I thought it was going to explode lol
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 months ago:
As a side note, if you’re on Linux you can pirate it because the Linux version doesn’t have Denuvo on it. At least that’s what I read when I was searching for ways to not pirate things because stealing from big corporations is wrong
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 months ago:
It’s still so weird to me that they did that. AFAIK Humankind did okay, wasn’t like a massive hit or anything, but the makers of Civ seem to have decided to drop everything and chase it around for some reason.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 months ago:
In case anyone has a Steam Deck - you can also get that as a decky plugin, so if you go to the store page for a game it’ll tell you at the bottom of the screen if you can get it cheaper somewhere else.
- Comment on Word. 2 months ago:
That was my first thought too. Somehow they seem to be able to make the shittiest possible version of everything they attempt, and yet it almost always becomes the standard that everyone uses.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Pretty much lol
- Comment on Anon writes an essay 2 months ago:
I had that thought the other day about keys, as in like physical door keys. Essentially nobody has a problem with keys but if they were invented today at least 1/3 of the population would lose their shit and go around being like “OH SO I HAVE TO JUST CARRY THIS PIECE OF METAL AROUND WITH ME NOW?!?!?!?!?” and performatively dropping and losing them everywhere and posting TikToks of themselves crying because they can’t get into their houses and shit like that.
- Comment on Anon wants to be fatty 2 months ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve been there, but IIRC Burger King used to do the onion rings and chicken nuggets in orders of either 6 or 12, so you’d go in and order 6 chicken nuggets or whatever.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
There was an episode of some TV show (maybe Broadchurch?) where David Tennant microwaved his tea and it genuinely upset enough people that it made the news lol.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
Reminds me of this old story:
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 months ago:
I feel like you could still do very well in life if you controlled literally all the gold in the world, but also he is Warren Buffet and my current wallet is one that I found on the ground, so I am willing to defer to the experts here.
(NB, the wallet was empty, I’m no savage)
- Comment on WHY??? 2 months ago:
Saturn’s butt is made of Bitcoin, got it.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Yeah I’m a very patient gamer, I’m perfectly happy to just play games on my Steam Deck years after they come out. If there’s something I want, I’ll usually just wishlist it and let it sit there until it goes down to a price that seems reasonable. Much better to get it for $15-20 with all the DLC and bug fixes than paying $80+ for an unfinished buggy mess IMO.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 3 months ago:
It really does feel like we’re in the final season of a TV show and the writers have just given up.
- Comment on How to find 3 months ago:
The other day I experimented using an AI to troubleshoot a laptop issue I was having. It produced a detailed step-by-step guide which essentially boiled down to: install this software from the AUR and then make this edit to a config file. Being healthily skeptical of AI, I first searched the AUR for the software, which didn’t exist. I then went back to the AI and said “this doesn’t exist.” It then replied “You’re absolutely right, that’s not a real thing and editing the config file would do nothing.”
The experiment has concluded.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 3 months ago:
Food is literally free, it just grows out of the ground. If we weren’t such dickheads we could just take it in turns picking potatoes or whatever and spend the rest of our time fucking about doing whatever we want. Probably
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
Not a thing yet AFAIK, but Trump proposed the idea this week. You can get 30-year ones here in Canada too, but I’m not sure what the lowest fixed interest rate is currently.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 months ago:
As a Gen X person, this is kind of my response to any sort of right-wing nonsense now. Especially that thing where you say something that’s obviously true and they ask what your source is for that so they can nit-pick it and exhaust you with irrelevant bickering until you give up.
“Society seems to be degenerating into fascism again”
“oH yEaH wHaT iS uR sOuRcE”
“Outside.”
Or I’ll just be like “no” if I even bother responding at all. You’re probably just arguing with a bot to drive up engagement that benefits some rich dickhead somehow anyway. 100% not worth it IMO.
- Comment on But why 4 months ago:
According to King, at the height of his cocaine use he wrote the entire novel Cujo and doesn’t remember writing it at all.
You could also make a strong case that the director credit for the movie Maximum Overdrive should go to cocaine rather than King lol.
- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 4 months ago:
Yup, it has a dark mode! And in the settings it lets you set the background and text colour to whatever you like, they’re just hex codes.
