umbraroze
@umbraroze@lemmy.world
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 1 week ago:
Never mind the old flippediroo of the day and month. What I want to know is why is there a dash in front of the date. I thought the separators went between the things to be separated.
- Comment on Lawless society 2 weeks ago:
Anarchists do believe in board game rules. Just that they think that using house rules everyone agrees on is a great idea.
- Comment on Facial Recognition 4 weeks ago:
I had taken a photo of the pile of junk in my home.
AI facial recognition in ACDSee swore it could pick up my father’s face in the jumble.
I feel like I was visited by a ghost.
Rest in peace, dad. (sigh) No, I know you would not approve of this mess and would tell me to hurry up and clean the thing up.
- Todd Howard's exclusive 1,000G Xbox achievement appears after years of secrecywww.trueachievements.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on perspective 1 month ago:
Somewhere in late 2000s I saw one of the most mind-melting GIFs I’ve seen that compared the Solar System objects to the largest known stars at the time. This kinda reminded me of that.
- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 1 month ago:
One of the reasons I love XeTeX, because it just spits out straight up PDFs and you can use any OpenType font. I can just typeset everything in Garamond, like how things are supposed to be typeset, dammit.
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- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, me aboard a train: “Oh you can get whole massive meals on restaurant cars these days? No thank you, I’ll get a coffee and one of those overpriced naff sandwiches.” (Well, the Finnish train sandwiches are pretty good, but they are hella overpriced. Like 7€. WTF.)
- Comment on I didn’t know geese can own cars 1 month ago:
No, can’t have been written by geese. Geese cannot read or write, they just straight up honk.
This is a clown car. That’s the most reasonable explanation.
- Comment on I too love watching CP 😍 1 month ago:
Cyberpunk Edgerunners (the Netflix anime) is pretty damn great and well worth the watch.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a pretty decent game too. Not a masterpiece it was originally hyped up to be, and a lot of things in the game just painfully remind me of things that other games do better, but it’s still a pretty damn gripping game with pretty incredible atmosphere and style. Probably pretty high in my best games of the decade list.
- Comment on Animals are not gifts. 2 months ago:
One of my favourite tragicomical video game achievements was in Firewatch:
Adopted a turtle as a pet. The average lifespan of a box turtle is fifty years. It will outlive you.
And this is why I will not get a pet. I’m by definition incapable of taking care of them because they might outlive me.
- Comment on Damn it Salmo 2 months ago:
Salmo has two AI packages commanding him to take five loaves of bread to the Two Sisters Lodge at 10am and to the West Weald Inn at midday, but the packages never execute as he has no bread in his inventory and the packages are of “escort” type, meaning he doesn’t actively seek any out. It’s possible this bug was introduced to avoid another, more serious one: if bread is given to Salmo using the console or CS, he will walk to one of the inns as commanded, take a bite of bread, and the game will crash. (UESP)
Right, this is classic Bethesda stuff right here.
- Comment on Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome 2 months ago:
Oh, but the power of American superhero comics is that you can just start reading them wherever. Sure, there is deeper lore, but you’re not required to know all that. There’s this bat-dude, see? He punches crooks and does awesome shit in the night. There’s also a bunch of wacky villains. See? Just go read it, you’ll pick up the rest of the details as you go along!
And I also love a lot of European comics because most often they have a pretty good balance between complex writing and manageable size. And publishers here tend to be more lenient toward artists making one-shot kind of comics, without any expectations that it’ll become the next endless blockbuster cash-cow property.
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 2 months ago:
Ah!
Now let us never discuss it if we can help it.
- Comment on Benny 😍😍😍 2 months ago:
Hey now, you just can’t call him “Benny” out of the blue. His birth name was Benjamin. That’s what he should be called. That’s exactly according to his own rules he’s espousing. /very sarcastic of course
- Comment on Oh sweet, my old Empire Earth box! 2 months ago:
Pro tip: if you have a physical copy of a game and it’s also available on Steam, try registering the CD key. (Obviously doesn’t work if the game doesn’t have a CD key. Or if the publisher is a dick. looking at you, EA)
- Comment on Jenkins. 3 months ago:
I prefer this version: Wikihistory
- They were first recorded in the dawn of history. They are well recorded in the modern days. And mark my words: they shall outlive us.lemmy.world ↗Submitted 3 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Turtle Shells 3 months ago:
That’s illegal, if I were to be a dictator! Look, if were to be a Dictator of the World, there would be only one overarching Law: If Turtles decide to go out of their shells, they shall leave a little sign around that says “out for lunch” or something equally thoughtful.
- Comment on Tacos. 4 months ago:
You’ve not understood to Existence until you’ve gone “oh good. foo-ood.”
Source: Been a student, subsidised, unsubsidised, employed also, then left alone too. Unemployed, Also an intern, and not as much.
Foo-ooood is goo-ood. Just grab it. If you can. Tacos are better than death.
- Comment on Seriously, Wikibooks? 4 months ago:
In Wikimedia projects (and MediaWiki systems in general) you actually have to pay attention to other people’s usernames (when working with histories and in article discussions), and at least in Wikipedia long long time ago there was a lot of trolling/vandalism where people impersonated other users (particularly the admins) and made bunch of sockpuppets with tiny variations in names when they got banned. So this rule makes sense.
- Comment on Never Forget 4 months ago:
The weirdest shit about this is that JSTOR apparently has a very expansive social media presence.
They have an official Tumblr account.
I had to follow it out of morbid curiosity.
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 4 months ago:
Proto-Italic? Well that’s just someone’s amateurish, slanted opinion.
- Comment on Strange goblin creature 5 months ago:
Ugly giant bags of mostly water?
- Comment on turtles 5 months ago:
One of the most tragicomical science notes I’ve ever read comes from Gilbert White:
We put Timothy into a tub of water, & found that he sunk gradually, & walked on the bottom of the tub: he seemed quite out of his element, & was much dismayed. This species seems not at all amphibious.
Timothy was luckily fine afterwards! This watery misadventure got retaliated in the most turtle-rific manner imaginable: Timothy was determined to, and succeeded in, outliving White. In fact, memory and legacy of Timothy is even more alive now - everyone can go look at the 3D scan of Timothy’s shell on the internet. Did Gilbert White’s works get 3D scanned? No, only 2D scanned. So old-fashioned.
(Also kind of tragic that Timothy was only found to be female after she died. And some time later, another tortoise was named Timothy after her, and it later turned out she was female too. Something tells me humanity is never going to completely figure out this whole sex/gender thing.)
- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 5 months ago:
I’m from Finland. I don’t smoke and I don’t do patio stuff. But yeah, almost time to go into the Spring Mode.
[Fires up a little fan]
[Cracks open a can from an unrefrigerated pallet]
WEEKEND, FOLKS
- Comment on Food Delivery Apps: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 5 months ago:
They stated that they will be releasing full episodes on YouTube in regions where they don’t have an exclusivity contract.
I’m in Finland, can see the full episodes. I don’t think the show is on any terrestial/cable channel here, only HBO Max/Nordic.
- Comment on A celebration of survival 5 months ago:
Trains are better than planes, because in the railroads, blowing a whistle is just a normal safety practice
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot 6 months ago:
I’m, like, oof? History repeating itself much?
There was this little RPG company, BioWare, that made this little known game called… uh… Baldur’s Gate or something. Then they made Baldur’s Gate II. And all was fine. And then they said “you know what, we should do something really cool and innovative and creative!” …And they did! They made Neverwinter Nights. And Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro was a real drag in the process, wanting them so many compliance meetings regarding the content and canon and game mechanics. So Bioware was like “OK this is the absolute last time we work with this kind of nitpickers, we’ll create our own fantasy RPG setting and system.” …and that’s how Dragon Age came about.
WotC/Hasbro isn’t any easier to work with these days, that’s for sure. Except this time, even the tabletop fans know that.
Hopefully Larian gets to eventually make the epicest dream game they can and, uh, not get bought out by EA or something.
- Comment on I just want my nuggies 6 months ago:
Over here, the only thing that has “resealable” plastic bags is… candy.
You know what they say - candy famously becomes completely inedible if you keep the bag open even one second too long.