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- Comment on I hear we're ennui-posting 1 hour ago:
I think about this one every so often. I think I’ve only ever seen it on Lemmy and unattributed
- Comment on dashboard 2 days ago:
Something about the haze around the symbols for me.
- Comment on Cheapest sandwiches 6 days ago:
Bizarro falafel. I might try this.
- Comment on Cheapest sandwiches 6 days ago:
As a kid, the default sandwich in my house was hummus, tomato, cucumber, in a flat rolled sandwich. Plus whatever seasonal vegetables we have. Or parsley or watercress if we have too much of that. Or mint. Or thyme. Just throw virtually any leafy vegetables in there and you’ll be fine.
I’m guessing you’re talking more like loaves/leavened bread, but that shouldn’t be a problem.
You can also cut your bread into crackers/sticks (do thicker slices and then slice those into bars) and eat hummus with them. Might need to toast them though.
Now to make a suggestion that is radically different from aspirational Mediterranean fresh food from my childhood: Marmite if you can get into it. It’s not a thing here, but I picked up a jar from a British grocery in the Gulf once and most people in my life think it’s a disgusting curiosity. But as a backup, marmite with butter or olive oil (more our style), or with vegetables, or cheese, or literally with nothing else, if you can enjoy it, its a great backup. The tiny jar lasts forever and can be used as a flavor enhancer for hearty dishes.
Shout out to baked potato sandwiches with oil, lemon, salt, and leafy vegetables. Or boiled egg sandwiches. Or potato and egg, I won’t tell you how to live. But admittedly these make more sense to me as flat bread sandwiches.
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 2 weeks ago:
Sims players despite being thought of as casuals (and most definitely are) have been the canary in the coal mine for so much bullshit from EA.
They even brought back the widely hated and transparently cynical micro transactions from Sims 3 into Sims 4, get this, over 10 years after the launch of the game. These games are so indicative of so many aspects of the industry and trends and how audiences deal with changes in a way that I think a lot of people don’t realize.
Sims 1 was oozing with personality and is a pretty straightforward satire of capitalism 4 KiDz!! while 4 is not only beyond sterile but has pretty much gotten worse over 12 years especially when they reworked it into a free game. Yes I’m complaining about the themes and writing of a simulation dollhouse game mainly played by children. Children deserve good writing too
- Comment on Why don't people do Documentaries about the average person instead of someone who was in the news or pop culture? Like their neighbor or something. 3 weeks ago:
One of the most memorable documentaries I’ve ever seen was basically a guy’s zero-budget edited together home video footage of his centenarian grandmother spanning thirty years. I saw it in a pretentious artsy cinema in Beirut about a decade ago.
They exist! Limited appeal means anything with a production team will only get funded if the subject is known by audiences though.
- Comment on meal choice 4 weeks ago:
Truly the first human to ever look like an AI food poster parody of himself
- Comment on EU citizens on here, Ross Scott is warning about a draconian law in the European Unio. 1 month ago:
KYC laws should be mandatory for any service that allows you to type the terrorist codeword characters “Palestine” into a text box especially where someone under the age of 500,000$ stock portfolio can see it
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 1 month ago:
On device translation is amazing and exactly what this software should be approved for, I think it’s good that they let you pick this separately. I don’t care for surrendering my cognitive functions to an advertising panopticon machine, but translating pages without letting Google know what sites I’m looking at? Yes please
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 1 month ago:
See Dave the Diver for a corporate game people assume is indie because of its style
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 1 month ago:
I remember feeling bad about how the original PvZ was absolutely wasted on EA, who made sequels that are just mobile slop. Relatively recently I found out that a huge community exists to make more of the good stuff and it’s legitimately overwhelming how much community stuff there exists for this one game alone.
The other obvious example is Minecraft which for me has basically just been a platform for individual mod packs that are basically their own games. And of course, Skyrim. I’ll get back to that one day.
Am I turning into those people I used to see all over forums when I was a kid talking about games from the 90s that didn’t seem that compelling to me?
- Comment on Whomever mapped this is wrong 1 month ago:
This is a very very specific kind of body horror
- Comment on 1 month ago:
They opened in Beirut too for a while. I don’t know what marketing genius thought that would work here. I remember the place being empty all the time because it was very expensive (and also had the word slut on the sign which I don’t think most people found particularly appetizing.)
- Comment on Next to a church in Missouri 2 months ago:
Why did I watch all the way when I knew where it was going
- Comment on How would I go about turning this into a power-generating wind turbine. 2 months ago:
Simple answer: making it do meaningful work will make it harder to rotate (kind of like increasing the setting on a stationary bike) and something this size won’t be enough to power anything useful.
Maybe one of those solar garden lights? But those already run fine on solar.
I’d say leave it and enjoy the free spins in the wind, those are more valuable than the tiny bit of energy this can give you.
- Comment on lord give me strength 2 months ago:
They drew a real kid to sell their product. Cringe aside that’s not cool, like even if they pay him
- Comment on r/bald is whatever the male equivalent of a magical girl transformation is 3 months ago:
Oh if I was a student today I would be getting in trouble over those stickers. My sticker printing budget would be irresponsible.
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 3 months ago:
I never finished it but I jump into it every five or so years. It still gives me a bit of that open world magic that I used to feel. The world is just full enough of stuff to do without feeling like cheap padding, and the atmosphere is really nice. It just makes me feel like how I want these games to make me feel. The graphics and physics are dated but they are all I need for this atmosphere.
I think like a lot of people I wasn’t as enthused about the uniformed police missions. Especially because of the setting. The protests in Beirut and in HK had a lot of overlap so there was a lot of “tried and tested” safety measures we were getting directly from what was happening there. It’s not quite copaganda so it’s fine
Maybe I should make an effort to finish it already. I can’t keep relearning the combat every few years.
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 3 months ago:
Mom look at me I’m on the front page!
- Comment on Badge of Honor 3 months ago:
I’m on the list? That’s so fucking funny I’m just some random user. Amazing
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 3 months ago:
Boomer horror: the monster in the lake ate the campers Zoomer horror: you invited your friend into your house
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 4 months ago:
I’ve unironically had entire existential crises over noticing someone younger than me at work or volunteering looking at me with a similar respect. Nothing says I’m having a great time like having someone’s confidence in you create doubt.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 4 months ago:
They’re alluding to the inherent entitlement to systematic abuse that is a feature not a bug of capitalism.
If you think lefties being crass and exasperated online is us being batshit lunatics maybe Lemmy isn’t for you. Most online communication and aggregation that most people use on a daily basis is hyper-corporate, so the alternative being full of the people who don’t feel welcome there or are censored there or feel cast off from there shouldn’t surprise you.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 4 months ago:
Wow, sorry about the Playstation
- Comment on "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" 4 months ago:
We never had game shops around me that look like the ones we saw online in other countries, those looked like relatively cool places to have around. I also once told a friend coming from the US to buy me a whole bunch of used games from a Gamestop and I was amazed how cheap they were. We only had overpriced originals or super cheap pirated games here, used cheap originals were neat.
I wouldn’t hang out in such a place as an adult (and I’m icked by retail-as-community-space) but maybe as a teenager it would have seemed nice. Just being able to ask the people working there for opinions or recommendations was probably a big part of how games work for people I’d imagine.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I remember first encountering this in the Gulf and feeling quite bad for the birds, and then remembering they’re native species so it’s actually them feeling bad for me in the heat
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Not that there’s a big overlap of people who care about those games and people who use Lemmy, but most people bought the DLC on deep discount. And they’ve stopped doing those discounts like they used to.
They also re-introduced premium currency to buy micro DLC, which is something they did with the previous game that was universally hated and they didn’t re-implement in the current one for a decade.
- Comment on Why? 4 months ago:
This is the one that came to my mind. Much funnier
- Comment on Redditors hate humor 4 months ago:
It could be mildly funny if it was written in Hungarian. The translate button now being integrated into their UI might help.
Unfortunately they probably will just be banned over this
- Comment on indoor mushroom farming 5 months ago:
Finally. The mush room.