noughtnaut

@noughtnaut@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they evil attack squirrels of death? If so, one should be plenty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry about the surprise prussians. I was never any good at typing on glass, I much prefer an actual keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dune II - basically the grandfather of every RTS game or there. Teams, resource collection, tech tree, fog of war, et cetera. Or preussiske it was (not World of) War raft, it’s been too long and memory gets fuzzy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Joaquin Phoenix Drops Out of Todd Haynes’ Gay Romance Film, 5 Days Before Production⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An actor pulling out of a movie five days before shooting leaves a lot of people on the hook. According to an inside source with knowledge of the film’s finances, multiple stakeholders on the Haynes project — from financiers to crew — still need to be compensated.

  Weird (and, from the producer’s side, careless) that lead actors can do this with apparently zero consequences - at least the article is mum on whether Phoenix will be on the hook for any of that bill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is French⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not bad with numbers, just at naming them. 😉 But that’s why we pretty much always use abbreviations.

  Abbreviations. Of numbers. Don’t think about it. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children is bugs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get rid of my dead name in iPadOS settings?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad you ask about things you don’t know. You’re a smart person.

  A dead name is a person’s given name, in the context of a person having transitioned to a different gender and also changing their name to match the gender they identify as. It is bad form to then continue to call them by their birth name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are business cards still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I carry some because it’s no longer a thing. My card has only the information that I know will not change: my name, email address, and mobile phone number. On the back there’s a QR code.

  I hand out perhaps one per month so not super often, and many times the most appropriate thing to do is to simply tell people my phone number. But sometimes, especially when we’re in a situation where phones are not nearby, it’s quite effective to hand over a pre-made card with that info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has nerdy hobbies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Read it again. This self-proclaimed man uses ‘women’ to describe some people, and also uses ‘females’ for how some other people describe them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has nerdy hobbies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for this. You are eloquently and (hopefully) non-threateningly (is that even a word?) stating a message that really, really needs to be said again and again until everyone friggin’ gets it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life pro tip!!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “A lethal dose is a lifetime supply.”