GooberEar
@GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
- Comment on Puff Variety 9 minutes ago:
So long as we all still agree to call their poop “scat”, I am okay with this.
- Comment on Predation 27 minutes ago:
No worries mate, as long as you’re not the weakest and the sickliest, you’ll probably fare okay.
- Comment on 🐕 🦴 3 days ago:
I live in a rural setting, so 90% of the time the answer to that question is wild animal poop or some dead critter. Sometimes though it’s a bug or random fruit/veggie.
- Comment on Speaks to me tho, sigh 4 days ago:
I take the hot hairy ones quite seriously. Especially the ginger ones.
- Comment on Reuters: New research backs up that video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety [interactive article] 4 days ago:
To be honest, most of the games I’ve played in the past 5+ years since I’ve started to get back into the hobby are stressful in various ways. That doesn’t mean they aren’t “quelling” stress and anxiety for me, just that when I’m playing them, they stress me out and give me anxiety.
Take for instance my current game du jour: Doom 2016. When battles are going, I’m for sure sweating and amped up, stressed, anxious, and what have you. It’s anything but relaxing while playing. But still quite enjoyable.
So, perhaps the “quelling” comes after? A bit like a workout, where you’re hyped up and exerting yourself, but after the fact you mellow out and relax?
- Comment on It's coming 4 days ago:
It’s a meme pic, so I’m just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it’s the “mushroom” fruiting body that’s doing anything in this research. It’s almost certainly the mycelium or we’re dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don’t produce mushrooms at all.
Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.
- Comment on Rolling Stone's List of 50 Best Video Games of All Time 5 days ago:
So, looks like I’ve played 19 of these games. Although not all of them were my thing and some of them I’ve barely played more than once briefly, I’ll agree that they were all pretty solidly good.
A few of the others are on my wish list (especially now that they’re available on PC) so maybe one day I’ll be able to agree or disagree.
I enjoy seeing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on these greatest games lists because back in the days when it was originally released, it seemed like it was practically ignored in my social circle. At the time, if a game wasn’t using low fidelity, standard definition polygon-based graphics (aka 3D), it had to be a fighting game or it would be completely ignored. Yet, that particular game was one of my favorites of the era and I didn’t get to enjoy it with anybody else at the time because they just saw it as a lame 2D game.
- Comment on Rolling Stone's List of 50 Best Video Games of All Time 5 days ago:
Doing the lawd’s work, so I also thank you.
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 5 days ago:
Look at the privilege showing through, able to afford eggs for more than one meal a day in the USA.
- Comment on I've studied most of my life for this moment. 1 week ago:
I’ve always wondered how accurate those tests are to begin with. I have to imagine, based on my experience, it’s not great.
When I was young and dumb and hanging out with the wrong crowd, I was a regular drug user, including the most dangerous thing of all … marijuana. GASP.
I worked several jobs that did regular “random” drugs tests during those years. And I passed each and every time. It makes me think the tests are heavily flawed and/or there’s something unusual about my metabolism.
One time, my employer did a random test right after I got back from spring break. Let’s just say, I probably wasn’t sober more than 5 minutes for the past month at that point. Strangely, they let us go into a private bathroom that had a toilet and a sink to produce the sample. I literally just pissed a tiny bit into the cup, then filled it up the rest of the way with warm tap water. That was apparently good enough. I even knew they supposedly tested for things like creatine levels (to detect dilution) and chlorine/chloramine (to detect tap water), but I was hoping for the best. Apparently, it wasn’t an issue.
On the flip side, a friend of mine who rarely smoked weed got busted. She’d literally smoked up the night before, for the first time in over 6 months.
Shit’s fucked up.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
Childhood trauma® unlocked.
I was promised that if I got good grades in school one year, that my parents would take me to go see a movie in the movie theater. I grew up barely middle class poor, so while I was never starving growing up, going to a movie theater to see a movie was a huge freakin’ deal. The opportunity to see any movie I wanted was the icing on the cake, because most of the time I got to see movies in the theater it’s because other family members were taking me and they wanted to see “kids stuff”.
So, the time comes to pick my movie. I was ecstatic about seeing People Under The Stairs and so ready to experience that. Last minute change of plans, though. Somehow or another, my mom got forced into taking my cousin. He was absolutely terrified of anything remotely scary, so People Under The Stairs was completely off the table, but he was adamant that we needed to go see a different “horror movie”, Earnest Scared Stupid.
I’m still pissed to this day. It’s obviously not Wes Craven’s best known horror movie, but it was and still is a decent movie and I missed out on seeing it in a theater.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
I finally got around to watching Deadpool & Wolverine over the weekend. While I enjoyed aspects of it and don’t regret watching it, the movie was a reminder of how and why I have Marvel / super hero fatigue.
Also finally got around to watching The Substance and that was much more my cup o’ tea. Maybe my standards are just terribly low, but I really liked brief but thoroughly creepy final act. It reminded me of the creature features from the 80’s and 90’s and their practical effects, even if it was CGI in part.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
I was out and about today and drove past a drive-in theater that’s showing Sonic 3. If it wasn’t so freakin’ cold in my part of the world, I might’ve considered going there to see it … for reasons. Granted, I barely remember the first Sonic movie and I haven’t gotten to see part 2 yet.
- Comment on I too am an expert 1 week ago:
Top one is a Loaper.
Middle one is an Armored Mugfish.
Bottom one is a Badabong.
- Comment on Conservative people are the moist toxic and aggressive people for no reason 1 week ago:
I was vising a family over the weekend. I mentioned that the only reason I had time to make it over to their house to help them with some work this weekend was because I was off on Monday for MLK day.
Their response was to scoff and roll their eyes while sarcastically saying “mLk daY”.
It’s stereotypical yet anecdotal, but they stopped working in their 50s and moved around the country shopping for states that would grant them disability. Other than a short-term odd job here and there, they haven’t had a job since. But yes, they are exactly the same folks that complain how nobody wants to work anymore and it’s everyone else who is lazy.
- Comment on No one actually listens to what you said 1 week ago:
A Killer Klowns from Outer Space game was released somewhat recently. I sort of wanted to give it a try but I suck at that general style of game. The movie is absolutely terrible, but definitely one of those “so good it’s bad” type cult movies that I adore. Probably helps that I watched it dozens of times as a kid, so there’s a bit of nostalgia factor going on there.
- Comment on Anyone for some fizzy egg??? 1 week ago:
Speaking of which, why do the brown eggs cost more than the white eggs? I would like to see more equity in the egg offerings. Especially when I’m paying over a quarter per egg.
- Comment on Might be time to move 1 week ago:
I can understand why that bugs you.
- Comment on A totally normal figure of cancer signaling pathways 2 weeks ago:
Turn around, bright eyes.
EGFR and AFATINIB
And I need you now tonight.
And I need you more than ever.
- Comment on A totally normal figure of cancer signaling pathways 2 weeks ago:
If they did it would be nuts.
- Comment on He died trying to suck his own penis, RIP. 2 weeks ago:
What color is the hair in that photo?
- Comment on He died trying to suck his own penis, RIP. 2 weeks ago:
He looks like a Jessica, no offense to other Jessicas.
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 2 weeks ago:
Neck tie, but I’d love to see it comically long or at least more proportional and realistically sized. Right now it just doesn’t take up enough space, in my opinion.
That being said, if we’re “stuck” with these two options exactly as they are, the bow tie works better because it’s a more fitting size and better proportions. For me, it makes the design a little unbalanced with too much going on above the neck, too little going on below. Coincidentally, if you made it comically small, that might actually work out better, but I’d have to see it before I could be certain. However, that’s a fairly minor drawback.
- Comment on Thank you for your service 2 weeks ago:
But like so many things, I feel like this feature has gotten worse over the years. Seemed to be fairly accurate for some time, but it honestly wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve made it shittier with “AI”. Now I get more false positives than anything, and the one time recently I did actually forget to attach a file, the message didn’t even show up … I guess because I said “I’ve included the latest copy” rather than “I’ve attached the latest copy”?
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate game? I have not played it much at this point, but what little I piddled with it seemed enjoyable. For what it’s worth, I’ve played Hades and Cult of the Lamb and really enjoyed them both. I have not played Slay the Spire, though.
- Comment on This could be the costume for a New Super Hero. What would you name him? 3 weeks ago:
Victorious Secretion
- Comment on The surprises found just moving a mattress 3 weeks ago:
Memory foam remembers everything. EVERY THING.
- Comment on Photons 3 weeks ago:
From the perspective of the photon, this all happens more or less instantaneously. Or so I have been told. I was also told that my tongue has 5 or 6 zones where different aspects of flavor are detected and I now know that to be wrong. So maybe fuck your ice cream.
- Comment on Are Asian Americans in the US more likely or less likely to get harassed by law enforcement compared to other racial groups? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have a ton of anecdotal evidence to know for sure. There was one time I was riding with a friend who got pulled over for speeding while I was with her. She was Asian. She managed to talk herself out of a ticket in a town that is a notorious speed trap. Prior to that, the only time I’d ever seen or heard of someone not getting a ticket after being pulled over was the time my boyfriend got pulled in a Walgreen’s parking lot because he did not turn his lights on before he started moving the car out of a parking spot at night. So, the friend talking herself out of the speeding ticket was kind of impressive at the time. Granted, I’m not sure if her race contributed to it or not. She was a pretty woman and even if it’s cliche, I’m pretty sure it makes things a little easier some times.
Me on the other hand, I’m not Asian. I’ve gotten tickets before for various things. But I digress.
- Comment on Warm tips 3 weeks ago:
I was having had this sort of familiar with what because there has not almost whenever but truly for sure it evermore to very inanimate procedure.