monotremata
@monotremata@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 1 day ago:
For me it’s “An Animated Description of Mr. Maps” by The Books.
- Comment on Take the pledge! 1 week ago:
I seriously admire this level of commitment to the bit.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 1 week ago:
oops! Sorry. It’s a recent parody/homage/whatever of the poem:
-This is just to say
-I have eaten -the rich -that were at -the golf club
-and which -you were probably -saving -for class war
-Forgive me -they were delicious -so white -and so old
It was posted on Twitter by “your friend Helen” (@hels) many years back. I assume they were the author but I really don’t know.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 1 week ago:
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
For me, Birkenstocks slip a little bit no matter what. If I don’t wear socks, the rubbing eventually makes me bleed (usually just under the ankle). If I wear socks, that doesn’t happen.
I’m not sure why that happens to me and not to most people. Maybe my skin is too dry? But yeah. When I wore Birkenstocks, it was with socks. These days I just don’t wear sandals.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 1 week ago:
A derecho, flooding, and tornadoes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Gary_power_outage
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 1 week ago:
I would have transcribed it as “Demnn Fennìrós.” But yeah. Sloppity slop.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
chambermaid, maybe?
- Comment on Hell yeah. 1 month ago:
They absolutely do want to get rid of state and national parks, though. There’s valuable minerals on some of that land, and other land that can be repurposed for grazing cattle. They’re whittling it away as fast as they can already.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
And presumably it had never occurred to the kid that one might want to turn off a radio for any reason.
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 1 month ago:
My family had two volvos that behaved like this. One was an '81 Volvo 240 DL manual, and the other was a '92 Volvo 740 automatic. Both of them could get up to highway speed noticeably faster if you turned off the A/C. (My dad used to say they’d “do 0 to 60 on a leisurely afternoon.”) There’s some chance that A/C was aftermarket on the '81, so maybe that’s a factor? But the '92 did it too, and that was definitely stock.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 2 months ago:
They do very occasionally blunder into something that has merits. Like, they rescheduled marijuana, and they’re fast-tracking research on therapeutic psilocybin and MDMA. Those are positive things, broadly speaking. Removing the tax on tipped workers was also helpful for some working-class people.
I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head, but part of that is probably availability bias: the vaguely positive stuff that they do is a lot less emotionally charged, and therefore less memorable, than the wildly awful stuff they also constantly do.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
I thought of another one. This is an odd one, because I think the dev is actually quite well known: it’s Yahtzee Croshaw, formerly of Zero Punctuation and now of Fully Ramblomatic. He’s made a number of games over the years, but one that almost nobody ever mentions anymore is Poacher. (Note: link is to Archive.org rather than Steam; I don’t think the game is available on Steam.) I didn’t actually beat this one, as it ramps up quite a bit in difficulty as it goes on, but the basic controls and whatnot are very nice, and the humor is great. Here’s Wot Rock, Paper, Shotgun Thought about it, since it’s a bit of a faff to actually install at this point and Archive doesn’t offer reviews and whatnot.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
I’ve recommended this before, so it’s possible people will have heard of this from me, but Gateways by Smudged Cat Games is pretty great. It’s a puzzle platformer but it gets very, very complicated as you go on, especially once you unlock the ability to use all the different mechanics at once. It’s a pretty smooth learning curve up to that point, though.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“Do you guys not have phones?”
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 months ago:
I’m not sure it’s AI. There are people who build screen-accurate prop replicas as a hobby. Here’s a post by a guy who made a version of the beads. www.therpf.com/…/the-rock-vx-gas-build.332887/
- Comment on literally 451° 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s the person I was replying to who was saying that Bradbury made a mistake by saying 451°F, and that it should have been 451°C. I cited the range to demonstrate that Bradbury’s number was roughly correct and 451°C is very much not.
- Comment on literally 451° 2 months ago:
This does not appear to be correct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoignition_temperature gives the point for paper as “218–246 °C (424–475 °F)” which roughly matches the title as published.
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 2 months ago:
I didn’t know that. I guess that gives me a little more confidence in Bethesda, but it still suggests a woeful mismanagement of TES under Microsoft.
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 2 months ago:
I used to be a big fan of the Elder Scrolls games, but they haven’t released anything actually new in 15 years. That’s frankly impressive. Everyone wanted to make a game that could be “the next Skyrim,” except, apparently, Bethesda, who could literally do that.
And it’s only gotten worse since the Microsoft acquisition. I never played Starfield, because it didn’t look like they understand their own gameplay model. I didn’t play the Oblivion remaster, as they seem not to understand their own art direction either.
At this point I kinda doubt they’ll actually release TES 6, but if they do, I’ve not got much hope for it.
- Comment on Can't prove environmental issues if you don't have the data 2 months ago:
Yep. They cited it as a source of climate panic. Which, like, yeah, knowing what’s actually happening with the climate right now definitely will freak you out, but…
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 months ago:
It was definitely the first. I don’t own and have never played the sequel. They called them “digital trips” or something like that. It was supposed to be like an in-universe computer game, I think? There wasn’t a lot to it–you piloted this tank thing and had to clear a level, by jumping around and sometimes killing some enemies until you reached a checkpoint, in a certain brief time limit. But I found it kinda weirdly compelling.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 months ago:
I didn’t like that game for the most part, but for reasons I find difficult to explain, I really enjoyed that minigame with the robot spider.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 months ago:
Oh, the brand on mine is “Solar Shield,” fitover is just a category. I’ve also used some of the “Cocoons,” but those are mostly orange sleep hygiene glasses. Solar Shield are cheaper but I don’t think they make orange ones. Clipons do also work for night driving, I have a pair of those too.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 months ago:
In my experience they help, but they don’t totally fix the problem. I’d still rather have them than not, though. I use fitovers.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 3 months ago:
I think they care a lot about the lawful axis and not at all about the stupid axis.
- Comment on Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should 3 months ago:
Is this what “I double-dog dare you” refers to?
- Comment on Hands On with the Anbernic RG Rotate: Weird, Unique, and Instantly my Favorite 3 months ago:
Does it support adoptable storage for its SD card?
- Comment on Hands On with the Anbernic RG Rotate: Weird, Unique, and Instantly my Favorite 3 months ago:
Note that it only has 32GB of internal storage, which could be kinda limiting for general Android use.
