RedFrank24

@RedFrank24@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a plot hole⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yahtzee’s book Will Save the Galaxy for Food actually covers this, in a sci-fi way. In the future, all transportation is done via Quantum Tunnelling, so guess what job suddenly became obsolete? Space pilots. Space pilots now only exist because people have nostalgia for the old days, reducing pilots to little more than tour guides and adventure holidays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ferns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, back in the day, you couldn’t just look up ferns on the internet, you actually had to go looking for information on ferns specifically, and it’s very likely that after a lot of really annoying visits to various libraries looking through botany textbooks, an author (or a group of authors) decided they were going to collate everything they found about ferns and stick it in one collection.

  So when someone else comes along and goes “I need to know something about a very specific fern”, the librarian can go “You want that 8 volume encyclopedia on ferns over there” because they know that it has every single fern on the planet in there, and you don’t need to spend 8 hours looking through every botany textbook and making the room smell like cheap coffee.

  What I’m saying is it was probably done out of spite, not genuine interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What would I even SAY to goth baddies?

  “Hey do you like tabletop? I do, I like playing Barbarians because it makes me feel strong”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to find a game that has a mounted turret with infinite ammo and then tape the button down. The warthog in Halo, or the Street Sweeper in Mercenaries (with the infinite ammo cheat on).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming they’re a teenager, you trusted your parents not to search through your stuff a lot more than most. Parents aren’t going to give you any lectures or punish you for having a PS5 controller in your room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …So what learning styles are there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies, all lies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll listen to it, it doesn’t mean I’ll like it. If you can tell me what you like about it, maybe I’ll also like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arriving⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  British summer is nice if you have air conditoning, otherwise it’s hell. British winter is nice for exactly 24hrs if it ever snows. You know that first 24hrs when it’s deathly silent at night because the snow is deadening all the sounds, and when you get up in the morning and the snow is still fluffy? That’s when British Winter is good. The rest of the time, the snow melts but not enough so it just turns to ice, you’re slipping everywhere, it’s freezing cold and extremely wet so you’re just completely soaked at all times.

  Autumn and Spring don’t exist. You have Cold, Hot and Overcast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, I’ve been suffering through Capitalism and now I have to learn that it’s not even real Capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not fair to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs got hit by a meteor, humans are destroying themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not, that would never happen. Why? Because there’s a load of stuff that runs on Windows that is ancient and only exists as legacy software and never receives updates.

  If anything, Windows is the last operating system that will have locked bootloaders, because if they do, there’s gonna be some bank somewhere in the world suing them because their ancient counting software was originally made for Windows 3.0 back in the day and Microsoft has had to build their entire operating system around making sure that software continues to run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care enough to have an argument with you about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the social housing that’s the problem though, it’s specifically the tower blocks. Social housing by-and-large worked pretty well, with some pretty nice council housing being put up and people living in them without too much issue. The thing is, there’s a big difference between a socially isolated tower block and a council house in the suburbs, a lot of which was eaten away by Right-to-Buy because it turns out they were really nice houses so people wanted them. Almost nobody wants to buy a flat in a tower block.

  The 'Stay Put thing for Grenfell Tower was actually good policy… When the tower was built. Each apartment acted essentially as its own fireproof box, so under the original design, staying put is actually the best policy to have, because you knew a fire was only ever going to exist in one of the boxes. It’s when those boxes are compromised that things become a problem, stuff like unauthorised knock-throughs and especially the flammable cladding (that was added later) on the outside of the building. It turned all those fireproof boxes into fireproof boxes except on one side, so when that cladding caught fire, it just set fire to all of the boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except a lot of the brutalist architecture in the UK looks like shit and the towers are shit, which is why they’re being knocked down. Those tower blocks are SUPPOSED to have shops and amenities inside them, but the British ones don’t, so they exist solely as shitholes nobody with a choice wants to live in.

  It also doesn’t help that tower blocks very quickly became a dumping ground for local councils to throw unwanted tenants into, so troublemakers, those who can’t be housed anywhere else. The image of a tower block became one of high crime, social isolation and poor construction. Couple that with Grenfell Tower and you’ve got “Death trap” added to the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s not like there’s much else.

  Lemmy is dominated by exactly three topics and nothing else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shamelessly stolen from Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time I would give a military discount would be if you are a military member that meets the following criteria:

  • You were conscripted for a defensive war OR
  • You volunteered (as in you weren’t paid) to fight a defensive war
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They may end up having to, because the landlord will only take ‘verified renters’. So unless you’re the only one making a bid, you will never get the property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what your museum is trying to convey. If it’s moments of gaming history and games and consoles of significance, I’d go with:

  For the earliest video games, I’d show the Tennis for Two on the DuMont Lab Ocilloscope, released in 1958.

  You should also include the life of Warren Robinett, because he was the first ever game programmer to receive in-game credit for a game he made, because Atari never gave their programmers credit, but he snuck one in as an easter egg. He then went on to found the Learning Company which made all those Reader Rabbit games.

  For the Crash of 1983, you have to include ET for the Atari 2600 as the posterboy, but “Pitfall!” should also be included. Pitfall was a good game, but it was the breakout hit of Activision and therefore proof that third-party video games were viable, leading to the glut of video games which, in combination with ET being such a colossal failure, caused the crash.

  For the resurgence after the crash, the Nintendo Entertainment System, but specifically the one that came with the little robot to help you play games. It’s essential that you convey that Nintendo intended to sell it as a toy rather than a games console because the games market in the US had completely died in the crash, but the toy market was very much alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You say that, but… Iraq was a dictatorship, and they weren’t all that efficient at anything other than killing Kurds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ill take a double scoop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …That’s worse, gimme a country where everyone wipes with toilet paper, rather than a country where roughly half the population are walking around with shit in their trousers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Demons are meant to be tempting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a sloth demon would take it a step further. You’d be enticed to napping, until one day you wake up from a nap, your face is wrinkled, every one of your friends has forgotten you, you’re alone with only the sloth demon. Your life has been wasted away lying in bed.

  Remember that time you said you were gonna travel? You were gonna go to Japan, you said. Too late now. You’re too tired, you don’t have any money. All you have is the Sloth Demon.

  One day, your girlfriend calls you for your third nap of the day, and little do you know, you won’t be awakening from that nap.

  Your funeral has no attendees, at most you’re a minor headline on a social media post about mental health. Your girlfriend? Gone, gone to find her next victim. Sloth Demons may not go through as many victims as their lustful cousins, but they get every last morsel out of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got some weird teachers. My teachers were all pretty keen to nurture curiosity. When we’d just learned about combustion and how fire needs oxygen, I asked my teacher after the lesson about the sun and how it could be burning without oxygen, and she just explained nuclear fusion and what the sun actually was, and that the word “burning gas” is a bit of a misnomer because that’s not what’s happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can reliably predict what’s going to be in your field, it’s only a matter of time before you work out a machine for harvesting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much of it is mismanagement on behalf of Microsoft itself, and how much of it is small-time devs suddenly getting more budget than they’ve ever seen before and deciding to get super ambitious with their next project and then having to scale it back when they can’t actually handle the project?

  It’s what happened with EA and Anthem. Bioware suddenly got a shitload of money, couldn’t hack it, had to scale back the project, and it all fell apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I 100% guarantee the people who wrote that statement don’t know or care how much effort it would take to build the infrastructure to run their server-side components.

  I’m fairly confident that any AAA production uses Infrastructure As Code to spin up infrastructure in their dev and qa environments, so it’s literally just a matter of handing over the Terraform or BICEP and some binaries for any custom code they need to use. I also highly, HIGHLY doubt that the vast majority of game servers are hosted on-prem. They’re most likely either using Azure or AWS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live wasted lives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wanna be one of those old timey blacksmiths hitting things on an anvil and getting paid for it. Nowadays though it’s all like “Throw the glowy thing into the bang bang thing and it does all the work for you!”. What if I wanna hit things with a hammer, huh?! What if I like the catharsis that comes with hitting something?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves The Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Yakuza series I guess? Granted I’ve only played zero, kiwami and kiwami 2, but it all seems to be completely sincere in its craziness. It doesn’t appear to pretend to be anything more than it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to find another job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Empty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to find another job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My office just used to have milk delivered so everyone had it. The benefit of everyone there drinking tea!