BarbecueCowboy
@BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world
- Comment on master manipulators 1 day ago:
Mice and some other pests have evolved an instinctual aversion to the smell of cats, it triggers their fear response. Just having the cats around might have been good enough.
- Comment on Ewww 1 week ago:
Can say the same about the forks in my house.
Because I stole them from those restaurants.
- Comment on How do I win a fight with a lion? 1 week ago:
If you’re fighting a singular male lion on it’s own… They’re not brave without their pack and they’re way more ‘bark’ than bite. It’s just like a black bear, be as big and loud as you can. Alone in the face of a fight it’s not sure it can win, the Lion will want to run. That will just buy you time, closing the gap and actually winning the fight will depend on circumstances, but you can get the upper hand in a lot of ways.
Whatever happens, be thankful you’re not fighting a Tiger.
- Comment on Anon visits the Philippines 3 weeks ago:
I always find it interesting that people outside the US think this is a complete joke when really it’s just… only slightly exaggerated.
Many gas stations have 64oz cups by default. I haven’t seen it in awhile, but the 128oz soda was real and used to be widely available.
- Comment on They nailed it 3 weeks ago:
Ecstasy of gold is this one, Metallica played this too with the San Francisco Orchestra and it was as epic as you’d imagine:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYI09PMNazw
One we’re looking for today though is this one (the main theme):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9EZGHcu3E8
Doesn’t quite have that same riff, but some of the musical themes were reused in ‘The Trio’ which finished up the movie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIe2znA1ao
Admittedly, it’s hard to find a song based on someone just writing out the sounds they think it makes and I feel like any Ennio Morricone score really should be thought of as a singular piece in harmony with the movie itself. This was one of his best, one of those movies where the dialogue could be optional, sometimes you didn’t even need to open your eyes to understand what was going on.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 weeks ago:
Not sure if this was above posters point, but this was pointed out to me once…
As a guy who typically dates girls, you’re asking a woman to go out in the woods alone with you to a place that likely has no cell service and no way to contact anyone and is typically for the most part isolated from civilization.
- Comment on Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years 5 weeks ago:
It is very obvious this studio does not know what they are doing and has learned little from their previous releases and from other contemporary games.
I think they’ve learned that they don’t have to care about that to be successful. We have to keep reminding ourselves that success by these studios does not have to be defined by ‘making a good game’. Starfield was a great success financially and there’s no reason they should change gears from that perspective. Starfield has made around $700 million.
- Comment on Deep Discounts 3 months ago:
My friend, if you don’t think that’s scummy then I think you’re a little bit too acclimated to marketing scams.
- Comment on Darren Aronofsky in Talks to Direct ‘Plastic Man’ for DCU 3 months ago:
After Joker/etc, they seem to be trying to pivot towards more artistic movies. I’m definitely interested to see where it goes.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 4 months ago:
It’s ethical relativism y’all!
- Comment on Ah sweet! 4 months ago:
It’s unethical because it’s gross and I don’t like it.
- Comment on Stop wasting my time 4 months ago:
That used to be the place to get quadcopters/drones when they were first becoming a thing. That was mostly just chance though, they were temu before temu was temu.
- Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day? 4 months ago:
The talk around weight loss is kinda crazy and a lot of it is dominated by pseudoscience.
However, we are pretty much positive that eating at a calorie deficit will result in weight loss in 99.9% of cases and you aren’t going to be the 0.1%. There’s a lot of anecdotal data about how eating too little will make you stop losing weight or even gain more weight because of your ‘metabolism’, but no controlled studies that show that to be a significant contributor without other causes. It’s not some magical metabolism trick, you’re just cheating on your metrics and doing less because you’re tired and cranky and have no energy because you aren’t eating right.
Saying that, eating at a massive deficit can definitely make you feel like shit and will make it hard to exercise, do not recommend. You will also likely have a part of your brain dedicated to fantasizing about food 24/7 and your libido will likely be in the trash if that matters to you. This will be very hard to maintain, and you have to remember that there’s never going to be a day where you can go back to eating like ‘normal’. Your current normal is why you need to lose weight and your goal is to eventually establish a new baseline.
Lastly, highly recommend against adding calories back due to exercise. We don’t have a lot of good data about these being reliable indicators of actual calories burned and you’ll find a tremendous amount of super variable answers when you find instances where people tried to actually test these estimates. The time you put into exercise isn’t about weight loss, it will help, but it’s a bonus just for you because you deserve to have the body that you want.
- Comment on On Bears 4 months ago:
Rhymes don’t matter if it’s a polar bear.
- Comment on Ingredience 4 months ago:
Carnivores tend to taste like their diet which can obviously vary a lot. You’ll find a hundred different answers, but mostly it’s not great, if we had something like a ‘farm raised’ option it might at least be consistent.
- Comment on NASA Ping 4 months ago:
I’m obsessed with the idea of a slow-paced FPS game now. Imagine logging in once or twice a day, picking a shot and seeing if whoever it is is still there the next day.
- Comment on The food delivery bubble is bursting — and maybe that's not a bad thing 4 months ago:
Until recently when a bill was passed drastically changing how their retirement accounts had to be funded, the USPS was usually run for profit and was even usually actively profitable year over year. I think they’re still dealing with the fallout of that bill meant to hobble them, but I can’t imagine they’d operate at a loss purposefully.
- Comment on I drew the Mexico states by memory 4 months ago:
I spent way too long thinking the biggest problem was that Argentina was in the wrong place. Technically, it was in fact in the wrong place.
- Comment on I still crie evrytiem 4 months ago:
Whenever I see writing like this, I imagine it’s being told by one of the peons from the original Warcraft.
- Comment on Humble Games announce ‘restructuring’, laying off entire publishing team 4 months ago:
It’s a hell of a severance package.
- Comment on Before it's too late! 4 months ago:
I kinda feel like that’s the entirety of good parenting. Some things have higher or lower priorities, but ideally, I want my children to be more competent than me in everything I know how to do and more.
- Comment on ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis? 5 months ago:
Not wrong, but poor dude probably just wants to get hired to make another movie someday.
- Comment on Anon freezes time 5 months ago:
If momentum was something to worry about, I feel like you’d have to worry about the movement of celestial bodies/etc too.
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 5 months ago:
I know it was a typo, but a lime break does sound great. Maybe a gin rickey?
- Comment on The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads 5 months ago:
It’s not hard for someone to become at least… a small whale too.
‘Microtransactions’, when you’re spending a few bucks at a time, it’s real easy for someone to lose track of how much money they’ve spent overall.
- Comment on TolkAnon talks about Shelob 5 months ago:
She mostly successfully pivoted to legit work.
She had a few non-adult movies and she’s a columnist with Slate now.
- Comment on Anon questions the magic box 5 months ago:
home.howstuffworks.com/magnetic-air-conditioner.h…
Maybe not far off.
- Comment on sounds like he's fun at the office 5 months ago:
Man, I’ve had more than a few coworkers where discovering their online life was a bit of a shock.
- Comment on Star Citizen devs Cloud Imperium fined for discriminating against autistic programmer over work-from-home request 5 months ago:
Welp, they’ll have to sell one more ship bundle to cover that.
- Comment on Ironing 5 months ago:
If I have to choose between keeping nature around and not having to buy an iron again, is gonna be a tough choice.