Lost_My_Mind
@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 17 minutes ago:
I don’t. And I don’t understand why I’m the only one who just in general would rather hear silence then music.
- Comment on I asked for no sauce and got these instead 20 minutes ago:
No money, mo sauce!
- Comment on I asked for no sauce and got these instead 20 minutes ago:
It’s a waste for MOST people. Then there’s people like me. I don’t have uses for everything I get. They go into storage.
Then one day, someone is like "Hey, remember MC Hammer? Ha! It would be funny if we could listen to his 1991 album right now.
And then I’m like “be right back”.
And then people are like “why do you HAVE this???”
And I say “I was using it as a doorstop. I needed something I didn’t care about that would just end up in a landfill.”
- Comment on I asked for no sauce and got these instead 24 minutes ago:
I mean, to be fair…you DID go to taco bell. That’s kind of your fault.
- Comment on When someone asks for help/asks what something is on Reddit and the top comments are just stupid jokes that don't answer OP's question 2 hours ago:
How old is this post??? Reddit awards havent been a thing for 2 years!
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 2 hours ago:
…I think your wife wants to dress you up in dresses?
- Comment on I'm sorry... the last place I want a surprise is while using the toilet... 19 hours ago:
Ah yes. The five nights at freddies skibidi toilet bidet.
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 1 day ago:
I think that’s called having depression.
- Comment on The good old days 1 day ago:
How’s your back pain?
- Comment on Is the cure to male loneliness shitposting? 1 day ago:
Everybody get naked!
- Comment on I dropped more food. 1 day ago:
…are those seriously 5lbs dumbells??? I’ve never understood who would get any gains from 5lbs. Why do they even exist???
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 day ago:
Remember when Retro Game Corps almost had his youtube channel shut down by Nintendo for showing Nintendo footage on these handhelds?
Yeah…he’s probably thinking to himself “Welp. Time to retire.”
- Comment on If I subtract a semitone (100 cents) from 1 Hz, what is its frequency in Hz after that? 2 days ago:
Sir, this is No Stupid Questions. You can’t just ask a question so advanced that I literally have no core concept what you’re even asking.
Questions for this sub are like “Should I drink bleach? Is it safe?”
The answer is no.
Your question…uhhhhhh…
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 2 days ago:
I still find it hilarious that about 15 years ago, the WWE introduced a new wrestling character. His name was “Abraham Washington”. A name that, yes, it is a combination of exactly the two names you think it is. So who did they get to play the role of Aberaham Washington? A black guy. He played the role of a TV talk show host, who legitimately got fired, and this is true, for going off script and saying “Titus O’Neil (A wrestler) is like Kobe Bryant at a hotel in Colorado - HE’S UNSTOPPABLE!” which referenced some 2003 legal issues Kobe had involving a sexual assault case.
Abraham Washington everybody!
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 2 days ago:
I’d love to see how it compares to that one president who was stuck in a bathtub. C’mon. How do you NOT ridicule that???
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 2 days ago:
I love how even though your answer is “this one”, it’s not based off of angry emotion with nothing else behind it. You make a logical point where it’s hard to make the argument for any other president. It also means future presidents will probably break the current levels as more efficient technologies emerge.
Notice, the question was NOT “Who’s the most ridiculed POTUS in history by humans?”. There’s a lot of wiggle room for still being correct while also artificially stacking the deck. There’s a little over 8 billion humans on earth. You could create 88 billion bots, and now you’d have the bots united message of ridicule heavily outweigh and thus manipulate the narrative to other real humans.
“President Tom Smith is absolutely HATED by everybody…everyone online is saying it. It must be true.”
And now suddenly a real human has made up their political views, based on one corporate entity shaping the online message. That’s why musk bought twitter. You can claim bluesky and mastodon exist, and they do, but in the mainstream they do not replace twitter. Twitter is still the dominant way for that microblog style communication. bluesky and mastodon combined don’t come near their real numbers of twitter.
But how much of modern day twitter is actual real humans? See where I’m going with this?
- Comment on The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat 3 days ago:
Why do linux games not support anti-cheat?
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 3 days ago:
Ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck.
My sister the trump supporter is calling. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Oh, it went to voicemail. Luckily I keep my voicemail full.
- Comment on Businessman Josh Kraft, son of Billionaire Robert Kraft, is running for Boston Mayor. He is accusing the mayor of worsening traffic by building bike lanes 3 days ago:
No no no. That’s not how campaigning actually works. You need quick sound bytes, and promises that sound good if you don’t ever think about them. They don’t even have to be true. They just need to make the voter feel good. Just quick promises that can be said in 2-3 seconds, and doesn’t require you to think. Once you try to introduce free thought and critical thinking into politics the whole concept of elections falls apart if your whole agenda is to herd the masses.
Which is why if you elect me president, I promise that no more airplanes will be used to hit the twin towers. Also bacon.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 3 days ago:
I’m happy he’s dead. I wish he died as a miscarriage.
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- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few? 3 days ago:
…ok, now, you say literally. Do you literally mean literally? As in we’re shipping people there with the intention of killing them?
Because that’s both shocking, but also believable. There is no floor for this administration.
Soooooo…I don’t WANT to believe the government is using official government resources to kill people. But at the same time, we literally have had two government officials do nazi salutes on tv this year.
A maga death camp would be shocking, but not surprising. As sad as that would be to say.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few? 3 days ago:
They built it so fast, I’m still not sure what these new buzzwords even mean. I’ve seen these terms for the past 7 days. Everyone but me seems to know them.
Before 7 days ago? Never heard that term before.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few? 3 days ago:
Their life is over unless they have all of their stuff!
I’m ok with these peoples lives ending.
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 4 days ago:
My body is made of trees.
I can say that. I can offer no evidence. I can do no work to prove it. I can ignore how half the country knows I’m full of shit, and still have half the country believe my bullshit.
And if the situation changes, I can always move the goalposts.
Either way, I gain nothing by trying harder, and face no consequences either way.
What motivation do I have to even try to be more secret in my corruption?
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 4 days ago:
raises hand
Literally in the top 1% of karma users in 2023. Banned in 2024 for…
checks notes
…posting a comment that my bike was stolen when I was 7.
Reddit claims the ban was done by a human. However I just cannot see a human looking at the post I got banned for, and saying “This guy deserves to get banned”.
My best theory, based on the timeline, is that they offered me a presale enter IPO offering before it went public. At the time I was on cancer treatment, and had $0 income, with my two sisters and mom paying for my apartment.
I had no ability to buy an IPO.
3 days after it went public, I still didn’t own stock, and was banned. Because I said my bike was stolen 30+ years earlier.
- Comment on A Donkey Kong film is seemingly in development at Universal Pictures and Nintendo — registered at the US Copyright Office 4 days ago:
I mean…I feel like that’s enough, honestly. Jack Black voiced Bowser just because he can sing. Chris Pratt voiced Mario…for reasons I still don’t understand.
I was never a Charles Martinet fan, and Capt Lou Albano is dead. But at least Arin IS a voice actor. Shit, he could probably do what The Simpsons and Family Guy do, where one guy voices like half the characters.
He could do Mario, Toad, DK JR, and Sugar Bear. I know Sugar Bear isn’t a Nintendo property, but fuck it, ya know? Have you seen him voicing Sugar Bear and Granny? I could legit watch a weekly 30 minute cheaply animated show where they keep having Sugar Bear steal Grannys cereal.
Although I do think he, and JackSepticeye, and Markiplier and Danny Sexbang all spread themselves a tad thin at times. Taking on too many projects at once.
I can’t blame them though. Their lives look fun. Basically they wake up and get to ask themselves “Ok, what stupid shit do I want to do today?”
And then we get the 10 minute power hour, where they learn to do cirque del soil, or they order a bunch of kit kat flavors from amazon.
I’d be much fatter, but much happier if I was told "Your job today is to eat chocolate in the morning, and at 3pm you’re going to talk in silly voices working for Nintendo.
Imagine living THAT life.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 4 days ago:
Blame Nintendo.
Back in the early 1980s fresh off the video game crash of 1983, Nintendo was on the verge of releasing the Famicom in Japan, and needed a way to market the console in America.
There was just one rule. In America, video games were dead. A fad. Disco was dead, and so were video games. So it wasn’t a Famicom. It was a Nintendo Entertainment System.
In stores like Woolworths (think Walmart but not terrible) and Hills (think Target, but also a bit shady) they tried marketing the NES as an Entertainment system. It wasn’t a video game. It was an appliance. Like a VCR. It was the only way to get stores to agree to stock the damn thing. No store wanted the risk of a video game.
Well, after a year of selling, and research Nintendo found kids were the main target of their product.
So they shifted away from the electronics section and into the toy isle. There was just one problem. Toy stores in America were divided. Some isles carried toys for boys, and the other half of the isles carried the toys for girls.
A bit of market research showed that interest in Nintendo shifted slightly more towards boys. 55%‐45%.
What happens next is the key to the PS2 ads.
Nintendo chose to carry the NES in the boys section of the toy isles. Which had an IMMEDIATE influence over not only the marketing in America, but also the direction developers took their games.
There was a clear shift towards the games AND the marketing being geared towards boys 5-13.
Nintendo then DOMINATED the video game landscape. Seriously. If your mom today is roughly 80 years old, theres a pretty good chance she calls all video games “Nintendos” (regardless of brand), the same way she calls all tissues “kleenex”. Or if you’re from the south (especially Georgia) all soft drinks “coke”. Could be orange soda, it’s a coke. Just like it’s one of those Xbox 1080p Nintendos.
Well by the time of the PS2 days, that influence, even though Sony had nothing to do with it, had caked over. Video games were now very male centric, and the age range grew up with them.
In the late 80s, you were 5 years old playing super mario bros. In the mid 90s, you were 13 playing tomb raider and argueing with friends over the validity of a nude cheat code. And by 2001 you were 18 and horny, and…hey, look at these ads for the PS2. They’re edgy!
And that is my TedTalk on why raunchy dreamcast ads, and raunchy PS2 ads goes all the way back to the atari 2600 game crashing the whole industry worldwide 20 years earlier.
That, and puberty.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 4 days ago:
Tickle tickle!
- Comment on A Donkey Kong film is seemingly in development at Universal Pictures and Nintendo — registered at the US Copyright Office 4 days ago:
Please tell me it’s a sequal/spinoff to the Super Mario Bros movie.
And please tell me Arin Hanson voices the role of Donkey Kong JR.
Now, in case you’re confused about which one DK JR is, there was a 1982 game called “Donkey Kong JR”. It was a sequal to the 1981 game game “Donkey Kong”. He also made an appearance in the SNES game “Mario Kart”.
And then we never heard from him again.
The Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong Country is actually Donkey Kongs grandson. Which would make Cranky Kong the original DK…AND THUS THE COOLEST!!!
I just want Arin Hanson to guest cameo as DK JR.