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- Comment on Minor inconvenience 4 days ago:
Maybe remove that last sentence, in case someone else does too and wants it more than you do.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 week ago:
Absolutely. For example:
seralth@lemmy.world said:
…Hitler… …sounds good.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s a sad tale that would be amusing if it wasn’t real people, and has occupied a lot of brain time at 4chan and among gamergate-involved persons. If you want to know more, knowyourmeme has a reasonably objective article.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Randy’s twitter poll was stupid. He should have asked “if BL3 is exclusive, will you buy it on that platform?” With the options
- Yes, if it’s steam
- Yes, if it’s Epic
- No
- STFU Randy, your breath smells like farts
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 2 weeks ago:
The writing in two was really good. I didn’t and still don’t care who got the writer’s WiiU, I just cared that the story was fun.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Phil Fish struck me as someone who needed to huff either his own farts or copium to get through the day. I hope he’s doing ok now.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 2 weeks ago:
Same in ours.
Myself and another guy went to a tech junket that was by invite only and they gave away a laptop to one person from each company who attended. My boss tried to take the laptop from the other guy saying “that was a gift and you need to turn it over to me”
I’d already cleared it with our corporate conflict of interest ombudsman - if I’d accepted it, it would have been an issue because I had purchasing authority, but other guy was “just” a tech who couldn’t sign off on anything or even make recommendations to anyone other than me, we didn’t have an existing business relationship with the vendor, and we’re not obligated to conduct any business with them as a result of the gift.
I told my boss to take it up with head-of-department (whom I’d copied in on the ombudsman comms.)
Other guy kept the laptop, and boss got ‘audited’ for gifts received (they pulled his emails) and was demoted into a position he wasn’t able to handle (more technical than he was capable of, but on paper should have been able to do) and pushed out of the company soon thereafter.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 4 weeks ago:
Are you talking about the rusty iron texture plate?
- Comment on American Popemobile? 2 months ago:
I mean, the details on the gun mount make sense if it’s remotely operated. Usually AI ‘fuzzes’ the details and I see what looks like an ir window and some other things I’d expect to see on a remote controlled turret. 🤷Not sure though.
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 months ago:
Fair. Worf did a lot of shitty things, I think the PIC writers were trying to have his character attone a bit, but then he also murders an unarmed ferengi…so 🤔
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 months ago:
Are you referring to the story he told about accidentally killing a kid in a soccer match when they both tried to headbutt the ball?
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 months ago:
He was kidnapped by humans and not raised properly. No big surprise he has attachment issues.
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 months ago:
I’ve decided Ship of the Line is canon and that Montgomery Scott was on the engineering team for construction of Ent-E
- Comment on Anon finds a hut 3 months ago:
Thank you. I was trying to figure out which developmentally disabled site they were referring to.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 3 months ago:
What are you on about? CD-DA, aka audio CD, aka red book audio, is uncompressed 16-bit PCM @44100Hz. It is lossless.
MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer III) is a lossy encoding standard commonly used for online audio distribution and steaming. MP2 usually refers to MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2, which was most commonly used in Digital Audio Broadcast.
Neither are used in ‘regular’ CD audio.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 4 months ago:
I don’t know what we you’re referring to, but in the part of central Ontario where my nephew attends school, the French immersion schools are most definitely teaching Quebecois French.
I tried speaking real French with my nephew and he reacted as if I was a space alien.
- Comment on Sun God 4 months ago:
Screenshot from Rick and Morty S6E9 Bring forth the sheers of stumping!
- Comment on Murica 4 months ago:
Because instead of risking bodily injury I can be there in 10 minutes? Public transport in my town is a joke. I have to walk 5 minutes to the nearest bus stop, take it to the central station which is an hour, then another hour bus to work.
- Comment on Murica 4 months ago:
It was minus seventeen degrees celsius when I got up yesterday. In the time it would take me to bicycle to work on clear paths/roads - assuming no accidents - I would have frostbite on all of my face unless I was also wearing a full-face helmet.
- Comment on It really is like this 5 months ago:
Wheat is a pretty big export from Canada. Over $8B per year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exports_of_Canada
- Comment on Multiverse 5 months ago:
Fair enough. The ice runways in Antarctica seem like a good example of ‘no intersections,’ don’t they?
- Comment on Multiverse 5 months ago:
Taxiways would like a word.
- Comment on Typical from my so called imaginary friend 5 months ago:
Oh, I like that a lot.
- Comment on Typical from my so called imaginary friend 5 months ago:
You’re right, let me prefix with that.
It’s not unusual for normies to casually throw out a self deprecating statement when fishing for a complement; eg., “Ugh, I’m such an ugly cow today” - to which the expected response is something like “no babe, you look SOOO good!”
Personally, I’ve tended to ignore such statements entirely, which has shrunk the number of people who speak to me significantly…and I am just fine with that.
Do with that information what you will, but I’m also neuro-spicy - so don’t use my behavior as a measuring stick.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 6 months ago:
Except the 20 core laptop I have draws the same wattage as the previous one, so to go back to your bulletproof vest analogy, it’s like doubling the stopping power by adding more plates, except the all the new plates weigh the same as and take up the same space as all the old plates.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 6 months ago:
My 4 year old work laptop had a quad core CPU. The replacement laptop issued to me this year has a 20-core cpu. The architecture change has already happened.
- Comment on Caveman technology 6 months ago:
That was clever. Thanks for the share.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 6 months ago:
No, but being in Spain during the summer lends itself to doing as the locals do. I couldn’t have given less of a care about what time zone I was in.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 6 months ago:
I spent about a week in Toledo, Spain for a wedding a few years ago during the summer. We were taking siestas on our second day there and eating dinner at 10pm.
It was actually quite enjoyable operating on the Spanish time-conventions.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 6 months ago:
He had one of the few treatable forms of pancreatic cancer and skipped the only known treatment in favour of homeopathic.
If he had “normal” pancreatic cancer I’d maybe give him some slack. It’s just not treatable. But what he had was probably survivable had he treated it immediately.
