GooberEar
@GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
- Comment on Done this 5 days ago:
For me, there’s a uniquely difficult to find and ever changing line between not caffeinated enough to notice and “oh my god why is everything buzzing now I can’t think straight” when it comes to caffeine. Doesn’t matter if I’m drinking coffee, tea, or any other caffeinated drink. One sip too much and suddenly my ears are twitching uncontrollably, my heart is racing, and I can’t focus on anything productive. One day a cup of coffee is the sweet spot, the next day it’s two. Day three a glass of tea will throw me for a loop.
- Comment on What else are they hiding from us? 5 days ago:
The easiest way I can explain it is like this: All the sci-fi geeks in the world are familiar with parallel timelines, right? The idea that there’s another RymrgandsDaughter out there living in a world where apes with goatees are the “people” but otherwise pretty much everything else is very similar to how things are for us here and now. But like in perpendicular time, nearly everything is completely different than this current timeline, and yet somehow there’s a point within where I, Gooberear, took the time out of my morning to completely make up this explanation from thin air and which has no basis in actual fact or reality. The end.
- Comment on What else do you need? 1 week ago:
Hello, nurse!
- Comment on What else do you need? 1 week ago:
Slaughtered? In THIS economy? Best I can do is have a fairy steal all your teeth.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 week ago:
According to ChatGPT, the result is 355.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 1 week ago:
To be honest, I don’t get a lot of time to game as an adult. For the past several years, my gaming is mostly restricted to fall/winter, like November through early March and even then, it’s primarily around the holidays when I have extra time off work. Even during my “gaming season”, I’m usually only able to get in a 45 minute session a few times a week. The rest of the year, I’m lucky to have the down time more than a couple times a month.
So, the big thing is: I have to really consider my time limitations and that restricts the types of games I play. No point in trying to play games with super complicated control schemes, complex story lines, or which require a lot of time dedication to “get gud” because I’m going to forget how to play, what I need to do to advance, and I’m just going to suck compared to kids who play 18 hours a day 7 days a week.
The Steam Deck actually did help me do a bit more gaming. Like you, I sit in front of a computer all day for work, so being able to game elsewhere and in a variety of locations is nice. Plus, I can fire it up when traveling.
I also stick to games that I feel like there’s a good chance I can “beat” over the course of my gaming season or games with simple mechanics and limited stories. Like this past winter I played Doom. The year before it was Cult of the Lamb. The year before that it was Hades. Short enough games (at least the main story line) and simple enough controls. Then there are games like Vampire Survivors that offer short, simple, self-contained and satisfying mini gaming sessions if and when I have a random bit of down time and feel like playing something.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 1 week ago:
I don’t think that photo is from 1886, not with those vehicles in the background. So I assumed it was a joke comment or AI, but all the subjects had normal finger counts, so I assumed joke.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 1 week ago:
Is that a joke I’m too dumb to get?
- Comment on Anon finds a hut 2 weeks ago:
Point of clarification: I believe there’s a good chance of “aliens” in the universe (i.e. life on Earth isn’t the only life in the universe). When I used that term, I was referring to people who think aliens are visiting the earth.
Regardless of what I need to do, I’m going to do it. I do lots of things I don’t need to do.
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 2 weeks ago:
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******SCOR******E - Comment on Anon finds a hut 2 weeks ago:
One of my most embarrassing habits is that I sometimes go to the R-word site and read through the comment section there. Way too often, there are askr-word (or other sub r-word) posts where the comment section ends up being a bunch of bullshit supernatural responses. This one kind of reminds me of that. If you believe in ghosts or extraterrestrial aliens, I think less of you. You are dumb. Sorry, but it is what is is. I still drink alcohol sometimes, even knowing it causes cancer, so I’m not claiming I’m better than you. We can both/all be stupid. But if you believe in that supernatural crap, you’re stupid, too.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 2 weeks ago:
The real question is: Do I care? And the answer is no. No I do not.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is my partner’s behavior, even when his kids have/had friends over. No amount of coaxing or attempting to shame altered the behavior. But to give him credit, wearing briefs (aka tightie whities in my part of the world) is 110% improvement over my stepdad’s behavior. He was a “sleep walker” who slept nude. I thank the heavens and David Bowie for this, but I only ever saw him nude once, it was from behind, and in near complete darkness.
- Comment on Say when 2 weeks ago:
Wish I could but I’ve avoided these despicable “businesses” like the plague for decades by virtue of being too poor to afford them so I have no idea because I literally don’t recall the breadsticks from decades ago when a date took me there trying to impress me.
- Comment on Roommates 2 weeks ago:
Roommates is we describe ourselves to the nosey Trumpian electrician. It’s not a lie. We do share a room. And a bed. Amongst other things.
- Comment on HBD 2 weeks ago:
Lovely whiskers did she get them from you
- Comment on fruit flies are not ergodic 2 weeks ago:
I’ll have to read this some other time when I’m feeling a little smarter and can understand the words. But I do love some home made fruit fly traps! When there’s a teenager in the house and it’s warm outside, they are a miracle.
- Comment on Silksong announced for 2025 on the Nintendo Direct 2 weeks ago:
For me, Hollow Knight started out a bit rough, got fun and interesting, but ultimately, I lost interest in trying to finish. There were parts which were a lot of fun, but eventually it became nothing more than a chore. And I’ve got too many other REAL chores to let a game like this stress me out. So I set it aside without finishing it.
Despite that, I’m looking forward to this sequel. I likely won’t be a day one buyer (but who knows???), but I’m still pretty sure I will eventually play it. I’m hoping there are some nice game play and story improvements, but even more of the same could be nice.
- Comment on Motorcycle knowledge 2 weeks ago:
Where do you find vaginas large enough for motorcycles or motorcycles small enough for the vagina? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on Say thanks 2 weeks ago:
We go, Vey.
- Comment on That’s enough for today 3 weeks ago:
Let’s roll motherfuckers.
- Comment on Anon gives a former president some feedback 4 weeks ago:
Gonna be honest, the idiom/meme “had one job” is almost never correct or appropriate and the role of president is certainly a situation where it does not apply. I find it irksome, most of the time, when people say/type it, without actually thinking things through and applying it appropriately. Don’t care if it is an unpopular opinion because it is a fact that it is used incorrectly the vast majority of the time and haters gonna hate, only true appreciators gonna appreciate.
- Comment on Not today 4 weeks ago:
Back in late 2023 or early 2024, I was doing chat support with one of the major US e-retailers due to a return & refund situation that I was honestly expecting to be a problem because that type of thing pretty much always is for some reason.
I ended up getting escalated to a higher tier tech named Muhammad who was miraculously able to quickly address the problem that his peers seemingly could not. At the end of our interaction, Muhammad thanked me for my patience and kindness, and replied something along the lines of “see you on the other side.”
For some reason that random and otherwise meaningless expression has stuck with me ever since. Hardly a week goes by without me thinking about it at least once.
It was a reminder that our time here is limited. And while I’m not a big believer that there is another “side” like I assume someone named Muhammad believes, it was still somehow comforting and an important reminder of perspective.
- Comment on Anti-Extinct Creature Language 4 weeks ago:
Instead of: “They’re a disgusting troglodyte” Say: They are clearly ingenious enough to recognize the utility of having a stable living environment to retreat to for protection that’s superior to any structure they could possibly build using the technology and techniques available to them at the time.
- Comment on Moltin' 4 weeks ago:
Ssssssweety, are you losing weight because you look so sssssssskinny.
- Comment on Today we Walk 4 weeks ago:
And if it weren’t for that fucking asshole fish, I wouldn’t have to sell feet pics and host an Only Fans to pay my student loans.
- Comment on Favourite 90s platformer? 4 weeks ago:
If it’s got platformer elements, then it’s a platformer, right? Yes? Then Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is it for me.
I won’t say it’s my favorite, but I didn’t see it mentioned, yet, and it definitely deserves at least one mention: Earthworm Jim
- Comment on danger noodles 5 weeks ago:
I love, love, love, love, love hognose snakes!
I was a young kid the first time I encountered one in the wild. The hognose lifted the front half of its body off the ground, flattened its neck, and hissed at me like a cobra when I got a little too close. I was the type of kid who just HAD to catch them all, and I knew for sure it couldn’t be a cobra, so I persisted. Then the snake rolled over on its back, opened its mouth, stuck its tongue out, and slobbered in an ill fated attempt to appear dead. It was so “dead” that when I rolled it back upright, it immediately rolled over on its back again. Like any dead thing would do.
Just overall super neat behavior and comical to say the least.
Certainly a much more entertaining deterrent than most of the other snakes in my area that just seem to shit themselves and emit disgusting smelling mess in the process.
- Comment on kmk 1 month ago:
I kissed a sphere and I liked it.
- Comment on Do It! 1 month ago:
A little too ironic.