Semi_Hemi_Demigod
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
- Comment on Autism 1 day ago:
The only real difference is for below age 24. Then its pretty much the same if not less prevalent for autists.
By 24 we learn that people find it weird and stop doing it
- Comment on Futures 1 day ago:
My plan is to use concentrated sunlight to tunnel directly through an asteroid and use the material to build a small O’Neill cylinder inside. The rest of the rock would provide radiation shielding so the cylinder would be cheaper to construct, and we can send sunlight into the cylinder from either end using the same mirrors we carved the asteroid with.
- Comment on Futures 1 day ago:
It would be dumb unless we leave earth and turn it into a nature preserve
- Comment on ITS. DAMAGED. 1 week ago:
The expression on the dude’s face is priceless
- Comment on Innovation 1 week ago:
I’d like to have spaces a bit like karaoke bars, where you can rent a room with some friends and watch TV or play videogames and order food and drinks. And maybe even karaoke. I hate theaters because the general population is insufferable, but watching a movie with friends is still fun.
- Comment on Dawkins 1 week ago:
I’m sure there’s regions where people have pigs and donkeys and there are bears and tigers in the woods.
However, it would not end up well for the pig or the donkey if they hung out
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 1 week ago:
My high school mascot was the Indian, and after a lot of debate and pitches they decided to change it to Tribe. Because that’s better somehow.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Half of the beef in America is eaten by just 12% of the population, mainly men between 50-65.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
The most depressing thing I’ve seen related to this topic. A small team that worked incredibly hard were lucky enough to achieve the impossible, and now they watch without any control as it is taken from them, for no other reason than greed.
KSP’s original team must feel the same way
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Take Two interactive is really lucky this happened right after they sacked the KSP2 team, otherwise people would be talking about that instead.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
The fact that they released a game with wobbly rockets and then charged $50 for it shows they didn’t know what the hell they were doing. It should have been free for early access with a simple way to report bugs. I’m not gonna pay that much to do QA work for them.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
They did manage to use a modified battleship cannon to fire things into orbit. I think the main problem is not knowing how much explosive power you’ll get for a given eruption.
- Comment on Tomorrow 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Geography is neat 2 weeks ago:
It would be awesome if it was a big monument to peace and cooperation
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
As always the real pro tip is in the comments 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m proud to count myself amongst the people who didn’t vote for Biden in the primary. Now I only have to vote for him once.
- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if that was a case of a lack of genetic diversity. Potatoes are indigenous to the Americas, so there’s a lot more diversity which can help protect against disease.
- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 4 weeks ago:
And they’re prolific. With intensive cultivation you can get hundreds of pounds a year out of a hundred square feet.
- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 4 weeks ago:
You can do a lot of the same things you do with potatoes: Boil 'em, bake 'em, fry 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew
- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 4 weeks ago:
Not only are they versatile, they’re easy to grow in marginal soils without extra irrigation, store for a long time without refrigeration, can be dehydrated and stored even longer, and if it starts sprouting you can just plant it again and get more potatoes.
If there’s two plants you should learn to grow for the apocalypse I recommend potatoes and pumpkins and if you can pick one it’s definitely potatoes.
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been looking for a reason why I find them unpleasant and you found it for me. They look like the decaying Nazi bunkers I got to explore on a Danish beach when I was a kid.
Though I also don’t like massive towers of glass. Or rowhomes. Or really cities in general. Give me a nice cave in a swamp any day.
- Comment on Getting old sucks 4 weeks ago:
In high school the class that graduated before me took a class picture, and all the jocks lined up in the front with their uniforms on. Then, when they took the “crazy” picture they pulled off their uniforms and had “DEEZ NUTZ” written on their shirts. They lied and said it was an inside joke, and when the faculty got all the pictures they realized what they did. So they had the entire yearbook committee draw Zorro capes and masks on them, and attempt to change the shirts to say “ZORRO” for some reason.
This was in 1999.
- Comment on Getting old sucks 4 weeks ago:
It’s sad that so many animations from the Golden Age of Flash are lost forever
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
Well at least all the restaurants will be Taco Bell
- Comment on Return to monkey then? 4 weeks ago:
The rabbit that my cat brought home today was definitely not vibing
- Comment on Whoops 4 weeks ago:
Tech products often use stainless steel bolts, which are a lot softer than a normal steel
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
We are all space machines on this blessed day
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Mass bends spacetime so one could assert that a time machine could anchor itself to a sufficiently large mass, just like how things in orbit are still bound to the earth’s mass.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 5 weeks ago:
I think the big reason everything is a reboot these days is that it makes marketing it a lot easier. If you told me there’s a new sci fi show coming out I might watch it. But if you told me they rebooted SG1 I’d definitely watch it.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 5 weeks ago:
One thing I’ve noticed with newer movies is they do a lot more “tell, don’t show” than old movies.
For example, compare the live action Disney Cinderella to the original animated version. The live action version is mostly a voiceover telling the story of Cinderella. They literally say “Her stepsisters weren’t very good at art or music” and then have a scene showing them being bad at art and music. The animated version spent the first 20 minutes or so like a Tom & Jerry cartoon.
And this is across movies. I watched Predator recently and there wasn’t a lot of exposition about how they’re there to fight communists or whatever. You pick that up in snippets of dialog in between the action.
It really does feel like movies are dumbing down.