CidVicious
@CidVicious@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Pika Pika 1 week ago:
Yeah I just think it’s kind of neat how the names of English pokemon are formed in a similar way to how they are in Japanese.
- Comment on Pika Pika 1 week ago:
I think these are the same root?
- Comment on Peas plz 1 week ago:
Usually directly feeding animals is looked down upon because decreasing their fear of humans tends to be a negative for their survival, and it might impact their ability to forage for their own food. With birds specifically, though, putting up feeders is more mixed. Migration takes an enormous amount of energy and and human sprawl has removed a lot of natural food sources. And especially in wintertime, food can be quite scarce for birds. But at the same time bird feeders can actually be big spreaders of disease and I know that there was guidance that people should take down feeders at the height of bird flu.
Now when it comes to mallards, they’re honestly a species that is incredibly urbanized already, so I don’t think directly feeding them is doing a great deal of harm.
- Comment on Pika Pika 1 week ago:
Pika is pronounced “pie-kuh” generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for “sparking/sparkling” usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).
- Comment on It's the Lord's problem now. 1 week ago:
Yes, I’m pretty sure this is a fake gift box that The Onion used to sell.
- Comment on Who did this? 1 week ago:
Hm, I can’t remember the name of it, but I do recall some discussion about why smiles look fake with regard to “hide the pain harold”. The conclusion seemed to be that it’s just how his face is.
- Comment on When it hits you.... 4 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel better, I have no idea who that is because I was already an adult when it came out and had no desire to see it.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
LOL. I mainly got the idea of using genetic modification to increase diversity of a small population from the book Seveneves.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
It seems very plausible that if you can make a generation ship, you could make something like CRISPR to artificially increase genetic diversity/eliminate potential birth defects. Or perhaps just store genetic material for more people than the actual colonists on the ship. You’d probably want to hedge your bets in case there’s a low survival rate. There’s a lot that could go wrong. Ecosystem failure, negative effects of radiation, or just good old fashioned murder.
- Comment on Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone. 2 months ago:
Nest parasitism is not unique to cuckoos and you can’t really put a value judgement on evolution. Brown-headed cowbirds are the most common nest parasites in North America. There’s lots of species where the parents kill their own children if they either think they aren’t strong enough to survive or if the food supply is too insecure to care for them. It’s just nature.
- Comment on It's a masquerade 2 months ago:
Oh good it’s the New 52 Joker bird.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 2 months ago:
Well it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but Randy Pitchford is really good at providing ammo for these types of headlines. Guy needs to learn to keep his mouth shut sometimes.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 2 months ago:
Oh no, boobs.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
And by inverted you mean inverted from their proper inverted position.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 3 months ago:
I think life situation is probably more important than strictly age. If you’re an independent 30 year old working a full time job you probably don’t want to date a college student that lives with their parents.
- Comment on CUSTAAAAAAAARD 3 months ago:
There are a number of substances in the body that could be refined into glucose.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 3 months ago:
A lot of eBay buyers purchase a thing and either get buyer’s regret and want to cancel it entirely, or somehow get you to knock more off the price. This sounds like them trying to weasel out of a bid they regretted.
- Comment on So if it's not crabs (carcinization), I guess it'll be anteaters? 4 months ago:
How many times have they evolved into grass eaters?
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 4 months ago:
Perhaps, but in my mind a haircut is a service you pay for. You go somewhere for a haircut, you cut your hair at home.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 4 months ago:
Makes sense. Outside of people who get unibrows, it really would not have been typical for guys to do eyebrow maintenance when I was growing up. Not sure if that’s changed now…younger guys seem more into fashion and grooming these days in general.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 4 months ago:
I stopped growing hair and now I shave my head.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 4 months ago:
Do most younger men groom eyebrows these days?
- Comment on Cat > Chat every time 4 months ago:
CatGPT is it your dinner time?
- Comment on Digitalcore.club 5 months ago:
It’s scene stuff, probably taken from usenet. They use it there because files are often incompete and you want smaller chunks for parity purposes. There’s no real advantage for torrents.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 5 months ago:
That whole survival crafting genre seems very hit or miss to me, and I’ve noticed that people liking one game in the genre is a very poor predictor of whether they’ll like another one. Subnautica, Don’t Starve, Minecraft, and Ark are all theoretically the same genre but very different games.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 5 months ago:
I thought the people fired were executives, not creatives.
- Comment on Which one are you? 5 months ago:
Where does “slammed into someone’s car” fall?
- Comment on Looks delicious 5 months ago:
Really seems like you should’ve gone with the single hamburger
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 5 months ago:
If I saw that in America I’d think it used to be a Starbucks.
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 5 months ago:
I’d love to see another more standard turn based FF, but people also have to realize that the last pure turn based game was X in 2001. FF changing shit with every game is what FF does.