greedytacothief
@greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I bought a steam deck when they came out (the cheapest one so I could upgrade the storage myself), and it’s a pretty nice device. But I honestly couldn’t come up with a use case for it. I think I just don’t like games as much as I used to.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
100% Orange Juice and those types of games. It’s not super popular but also people love it. Personally I couldn’t think of a more boring type of game, even with friends there’s boardgames I’d rather play.
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 1 week ago:
Gaming has gotten so huge that investors want to target the most lucrative segments of their market. It’s not that you can’t make money with games. It’s that exploiting addiction is better at wealth extraction.
- Comment on Boomer comics 1 week ago:
If you leave them alone in the forest, they’re great at making babies. Put them in captivity and they don’t.
- Comment on Don't forget the hoodie too. 2 weeks ago:
Damn, this picture has been around so long the kid in the picture looked a lot older when I first saw it.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
Well I don’t think the vocabulary is particularly important here, since they likely didn’t use the words in the same way we do. Like some scripts like batard or English secretary hand were evolutions of the formal script that reduced pen strokes to be faster to write making them more cursive.
But I’m curious about the history of connected letter scripts like Italian round hand. But most of the books I’ve read about handwriting have been in the American tradition, and it helps they are easy to find on the Internet. Some cursory reading on the subject seems to point to it coming from Italy in the form of old Roman cursive. To my eyes old Roman cursive seems related but is too different for me to call a flowing connected letter script. This isn’t surprising though since it was used to write on wax tablets.
It seems like something we would recognize in the modern world as a connected letter cursive originated in the late 15th century Italy out of italic script. But I don’t speak Italian or Latin so I don’t know how to find any primary sources on this.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
As a person who’s special interest is calligraphy, what do you mean by cursive? I had always thought that scripts were on a spectrum between gothic and cursive, with more strokes per letter or less strokes respectively. Though I mostly practice ornamental penmanship (fancy spencerian), so I don’t know much about the history of hands in Europe.
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I was thinking, a probe would gather some information. Maybe we would send a probe of our own in their direction.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
I love not having worms in me exactly as much as I love ivermectin, basically a miracle drug for that. They must be getting the dosage wrong tho because they’ve clearly got brain worms.
- Comment on A handy reference guide for you 1 month ago:
Just like humans their emotions change with the environment. When it’s hot out and it’s been dry for a while, there’s not much food for them and they get very irritable. That includes honey bees.
- Comment on AI Slop 1 month ago:
Could you not make it sound so awesome?
But also replace Artificial God with hallucinating chatbot and now it sounds dumb again
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 months ago:
Got no idea about the size of my amygdala, but I’m really good at being anxious and depressed. Small but mighty I guess
- Comment on 🍌 GET YER NFTS HERE 🍎 2 months ago:
Mangosteen
- Comment on World’s Biggest Gaming YouTube Creators (2025) 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think it was slowbeef if my memory isn’t failing me. But I think people were doing long plays before then? I could have the two mixed up.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
I don’t think this story is about that. It’s about making games more expensive based on how much they think you’ll pay.
This specific study in the article is about making games cheaper to see if that makes people more likely to spend, but you just know they’re going to also make them more expensive if this works out
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 months ago:
Shit, my steam account is older than most of the highschoolers I work with
- Comment on 2022 was a bleak year 😢 2 months ago:
The breading they used is all wrong for tofu. Just deep fry it as is,or cover it in corn starch and spices
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 2 months ago:
The old “we don’t want to put any effort into creating anything good, we just want to milk this for cash until we can’t anymore.”
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 2 months ago:
Nope, it’s always cloudy. Or like some valleys are cloudy and some are sunny. But they are predictable.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 3 months ago:
I dislike the French for normal reasons, not weird nationalistic ones.
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 3 months ago:
They’re all pretty much the same except for a couple, like nix, Gentoo, slackware, etc. maybe stay away from those. fuck around and find out is the best way.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 3 months ago:
Outer worlds 1 was fine. It was goofy, had character, but no depth to it’s story. The gunplay was not good, not for me anyway. Can we not do bullet sponges and leveled lists? Can levels give you abilities instead of numbers? Honestly would have been a better game if it was an isometric RPG, which obsidian is good at making.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 4 months ago:
Breaking news! Zenimax is still completely out of touch with it’s fan base.
- Comment on Who care about book 4 months ago:
I am thinking that maybe this is a sarcasm? A little jokey joke perhaps?
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I feel my social battery recover when I have positive experiences with friends and even with strangers. But I used to think I was introverted because working up to do anything social was a huge drain. Turns out the problem isn’t people, it’s my anxiety…
Are there any introverts that don’t have much anxiety? What’s the opposite like?
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 5 months ago:
Let me dream
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 5 months ago:
That’s what I was thinking, it’s not even a glass fiber-optic. Works fine for audio though and lasers are cool, so it all balances out
- Comment on 5 months ago:
What are they called is Basque?
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 5 months ago:
We got some fun ones by me too, like Ausable river, that comes from French. But we pronounce it Ah-sable(but sable like a sable hair brush)
- Comment on Bread mold 5 months ago:
So I can’t actually find anything from a quick search that tells me what “bread poisoning” is. Searches show results for both moldy bread as well as ergotism. Just about every source on the Internet tells me that eating a bunch of moldy bread should just give you a bad case of shits or vomits. But if someone is immunocompromised or has gut issues it could be worse.
But if this was ergot poisoning that’s different and doesn’t have much to do with ordinary bread mold.