chaogomu
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- Comment on Cup cake 1 day ago:
Yup, Gin Ekiss had said that the name was just a random word.
- Comment on Cup cake 1 day ago:
Back in the late 80s and early 90s we had these things called malls, and they all played music without lyrics, because a mall is a noisy place and any lyrics get lost.
Also I think there were performance fees for playing copyright music. The laws are obtuse.
Anyway, most of the malls settled on this mass produced milquetoast “smooth jazz”. And then piped that into all of their stores.
This story has nothing to do with the creation of that pattern, which was made for a Sweetheart Cup Company internal design contest. The designer needed a name that wasn’t just Gina’s submission, and so a random word was picked.
The fact that most malls had started using those same sort of pastel colors might have had some subconscious impact, but that’s just my thoughts on it.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 day ago:
The driving was kind of janky compared to previous games. I didn’t mind the random hangers on that you’re saposed to care about, it was the driving that got me.
How do you fuck up driving in a Saints Row game?
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 day ago:
The first game had a phone number to call, that would bring back dead characters as zombies.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 day ago:
Was that the reboot?
I stopped playing fairly early, and I also didn’t buy that game at full price.
It might have been part of a bundle…
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 2 days ago:
The real answer is that yes, they were red, but no it wasn’t because they were poor quality.
It’s because the world’s largest exporter was Iran, and Iran had a blanket policy of dying their pistachios red.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 2 days ago:
Pistachios are native to Iran, and until the 1970s Iran was the world’s largest exporter. They dyed their exports with a food safe red.
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 4 days ago:
I’m going to throw an unrelated wiki link from my clipboard.
- Comment on Which one is it!?! 5 days ago:
- Comment on Sacrifice for the greater good 6 days ago:
I doubt the Torment Nexus would be this benign. Unless it’s just a lie and everyone gets the non-stop ads but are told repeatedly that they’re helping others. And every now and then, they get a message from one of the “viewers” telling them how great they are, and then the company gives them a minute of actual content, which is just an add for their higher priced subscription tier of highly rated adds.
- Comment on Which one is it!?! 6 days ago:
My friend. I think we all know that abuse is more about the power over another than any sort of twisted lust.
ICE agents regularly engage in sexual assault of abductees.
- Comment on it's just science 1 week ago:
Another factor here is that Epstein was obsessed with physics and being friends with physicists.
While Epstein was always a monster. He could hide it around certain people.
But from everything I’ve read, the monster always comes out. And we all know what being Epstein’s friend eventually entails.
- Comment on Welp straight to the bin 1 week ago:
Probably for the best, then. After all, you didn’t send any mice or birds for them to eat.
- Comment on Welp straight to the bin 1 week ago:
Unless you sent two, that’s not going to work. It probably wouldn’t have worked with two of them, Bob Barker and Drew Carry have been preaching the Spay and Neuter message for as long as that show has been on the air.
- Comment on AI Fails at 96% of Jobs (New Study) | ColdFusion [12:48] 1 week ago:
From my experience and reading, a human plus AI is actually slower at an given task than a human alone. Mostly because a human usually has to fix all the shit an AI got wrong. It’s almost always faster to start with a blank slate and do it right the first time.
This only really applies if you care about quality in the first place. If all you want is slop, AI can deliver.
- Comment on Where can I get a set of furry train tracks to complete the scene? 1 week ago:
I’d argue that he only needs to hold that position for seconds.
He’s standing with his back fairly straight, and is supporting some of her weight on his thighs. The natural way to hold a weight like that is bent elbow, held close to the body.
- Comment on Where can I get a set of furry train tracks to complete the scene? 1 week ago:
I’d argue that it’s more of a Snidely Whiplash sort of situation. One of them is going to be tied to the rails and railed.
- Comment on grass 😾 2 weeks ago:
I think I’d like for him to be in a locked room with his full cabinet and richest supporters, and then start shitting himself until he experiences complete intestinal prolapse.
Basically, anytime he shits himself on live TV I just hope that he keeps going until he physically can’t anymore. And then shits just a bit more.
It would be fitting for mango Mussolini to go out that way.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
There are good appliances being made now. They’re just much more expensive than the cheap and “midrange” which is usually the cheap stuff with a coat of paint.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 weeks ago:
Vibe pricing.
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 2 weeks ago:
On a completely different note… Have you ever heard of Point Nemo? It’s the point in the ocean furthest from any land. Somewhere in the south Pacific.
Also there’s a type of nonsense that crops up among right wing jackasses every few years called sea steading. It’s a bad idea for a lot of reasons unless done in some very specific places and in some very specific ways.
Point Nemo would be a very bad place for sea steading.
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 2 weeks ago:
I never said where the jail was. My idea for that will also get you banned.
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 2 weeks ago:
Girls, it also undresses young girls.
And apparently the grok website/app or whatever will generate explicit and/or violent videos of anyone.
So yeah. One more reason to take all of Elons money and put him in jail forever.
- Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 3 weeks ago:
I did that for my entire time in school.
I used to think I was just very smart. Now I know that it was mostly attention deficit and a near perfect memory. A memory that I had trained by with this beat up self-help meditation book that I found. It taught a real method of meditation, but also promised magic mind powers. I found it when I was like 7, so I practiced the fuck out of those basic techniques.
These days, I train my memory by reading 20-30 different webnovels that update anywhere between daily and once every 2-3 months. Still haven’t gotten a real handle on that attention deficit though…
- Comment on Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore' 5 weeks ago:
Hard to unionize when you’re the only person working the store.
But yes, the company is also anti-union.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 month ago:
Except you really don’t. Hiroshima was a tiny bomb compared to what’s currently aimed at you.
A thermonuclear missile can start a fire storm, that’s a fire that creates it’s own weather patterns. This fire storm will be the size of a US state. From a single missile.
Each state has dozens of missiles aimed at it, just waiting for the launch order.
The same sort of devastation will hit all of Europe, Russia, China, and basically the entire northern hemisphere.
It doesn’t matter if you’re in a hardened bunker either, because you’ll just cook alive inside. That’s if your bunker survives at all, because there’s no bunker on earth that can survive a direct hit. Not under the White House, not NORAD, not even most deep mines.
And since every single nuclear power is “launch on warning”, we’re likely fucked. At any time, we are less than 30 minutes from complete extinction.
But since there’s literally nothing we can do about it, I just don’t think about it.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 2 months ago:
If you want to make your own version. There are a couple tricks. Take an entire head of garlic, place it on a solid surface and crush it with the heal of your palm. Then throw the entire mess into a mason jar, or even two matching bowls closed up. Then shake the piss out of it for 10-30 seconds.
Then dump the contents and pick out the fully pealed garlic.
Then just finely chop or crush the garlic and put it into an ice cube tray. You can then add a thin layer of olive oil to help cut the freezer burn, or just cover the tray.
A food processor and a spoon can also be used to keep from touching the garlic juice.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 2 months ago:
It is the tastiest science. Now, I have not personally tested that statement for every science, but I have licked a lot of things over the years.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 2 months ago:
It’s also important to note that allicin breaks down with time, acid, or the application of heat.
An important note here, it takes time for the allicin to form. So your maximum flavor is about 10-15 minutes after crushing the garlic. After that, you start losing flavor.
That said, allicin is only one of many flavors. And different preparations can highlight those flavors. A rich tomato sauce that has simmered for hours is elevated with garlic, but fresh garlic is a waste. Use jarred or even powdered (soaked in room temp water for a few minutes first) and it will taste much the same.
- Comment on Where do you all get your (indie) gaming news from? 2 months ago:
Kitfox games has a YouTube channel where they show off a bunch of their current and upcoming games. Often videos by the developer themselves.
I don’t have a more general type site.