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- Comment on Antz in my Pantz 7 hours ago:
I guess, they’d have a tendency to look goofy, so they can stick their snouts into ant hills, and then we might’ve named them accordingly?
- Comment on 20 hours ago:
I walk to the shops with robust cloth bags and it often happens that I’ll have a bag with glass jars or cans or thicc 1L reusable juice bottles.
And yeah, the thought has crossed my mind that if someone were to threaten me, I’d just start flailing them. Would need to take care, though, so I don’t accidentally kill them…
- Comment on all models are wrong, some are useful 1 day ago:
That is kind of funny, since there is genuinely a decent chance that someone who’s unwell is also obese or unfit or old…
- Comment on Civilization 7 is getting auto-explore for scouts, reminding me that I both hate and love auto-explore 2 days ago:
Wow, that’s kind of wild that they didn’t have this feature until now. Like, yeah, occasionally you need to start from scratch despite people’s expectations being higher than the last time around. But that still feels like a relatively basic feature to not have…
- Comment on it's just science 6 days ago:
On a definitely related note, I’ve recently been thinking it’s wild how we build foot paths out of rocks and then put on rubber socks for actually walking on them.
In other words, asphalt is a scam by Big Foot to sell more shoes.
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 6 days ago:
I imagine, they can still get inflamed gums or similar, if something gets stuck in there…
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 6 days ago:
I believe, you have to take turns pushing down individual teeth. By random chance, it will close the mouth when you do that. So, you lose when you get bitten.
- Comment on oops 6 days ago:
I feel like it’s just capitalism doing a capitalism. People are self-conscious about their skin, so you can sell them all kinds of crap.
Even a basic washcloth does a decent job with exfoliating, if you use it regularly. Rub your face dry with a scruffy towel, if you need more than that.But of course, there’s hardly any money to be made with reasonably priced products, so you won’t see TV ads for them.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 1 week ago:
I mean, they do have the infinite money glitch, a.k.a. being owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft’s investors think these Fallout 5 will make its money back, it’s more lucrative to get started on it sooner rather than later.
And it does also need to be said that they can’t keep remastering Fallout titles forever. They need to develop a new title at some point.
Bethesda Game Studios has so far always only had one game in development at a time, which should be TES6 right now. If they are working on Fallout 5, we’re likely talking pre-production stages. So, it might very well be the case that the two remasters come out in roughly equal spacing before Fallout 5 comes out in a few years.
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
A local shop here only has shopping carts, no baskets. You can get smaller shopping carts, and in fact even shopping carts for toddlers to push around, but you still need a coin for those.
And yep, I’ve genuinely been stood in front of that shop and went back home, because I didn’t have an appropriate coin. I think, even twice already.
I could have bought a small item to have them hand me out coins and then done another loop with the shopping cart, but yeah, there was just no way, I’d waste that much time. - Comment on Join the "beehaw" seeded Luanti server (Minecraft clone) 1 week ago:
I agree that the default isn’t great, but from the link that @tal@lemmy.today had posted, there is actually a way to move the inventory button to where you want:
ImageSo, they go into the menu, then press the “Exit” button.
Unfortunately, that video is already out of date again, as there’s now a general “Settings” button where the “Touchscreen Layout” button was. But in those settings, you can select the “Touchscreen” category and then that button is near the top.
Then it works like in the video again, by pressing “Add button” and so on. - Comment on (~_~;) 1 week ago:
At first I thought, this was the same beats, just with staggered emphasis, but no, that’s 30 eighths in the timespan of 14 eighths.
So, it’s like the bassoons are playing sixteenth notes, except that they’re decidedly not in sync with everyone else.
At first it’ll sound like they’re too early. Then their offbeat sixteenth will sync up with the on-beat for everyone else. Then their offbeat will sound like it’s too early compared to the on-beat, until they sync up properly again. Well, and then you do that cycle a second time, because they have to fit two extra notes in there.Yeah, that does seem quite impossible to conduct, but even if you set up two metronomes, that’ll throw even good orchestras quite easily…
- Comment on Join the "beehaw" seeded Luanti server (Minecraft clone) 1 week ago:
Oh wow, so it’s kind of suffering from success, in that you might have understood it better, if it didn’t have a translation for your native language… 😅
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
Interesting. Presumably, enough of their customers now show up without the appropriate coins, due to electronic payment methods being available otherwise, that they decided to not require coins.
Here in Germany, where we hold onto cash a bit more dearly due to our Stasi-past, I don’t know any shop where I can take a shopping cart without sticking a coin in…
- Comment on Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work 1 week ago:
From what I know of large corporations, I’d honestly be surprised, if the Microsofties they met, knew that this was happening…
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
Yeah, this is a rather US-specific meme…
- Comment on Join the "beehaw" seeded Luanti server (Minecraft clone) 1 week ago:
Hmm, is there a way to improve that, like a different word that’s normally used? I could probably contribute a fix for the translation to the project…
- Comment on Join the "beehaw" seeded Luanti server (Minecraft clone) 1 week ago:
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 1 week ago:
Yeah, so much of it is a mediocre/old joke overlayed on a generated image.
I’m guessing, there’s people out there, who genuinely just flood social media with these mediocre posts to try to grow accounts or similar…
- Comment on How do you all keep the area around the toilet paper dust-free? 1 week ago:
I was also surprised how well it works, but you genuinely just sploosh water with a mild bit of pressure at it and it comes off.
I’ve been using a hand-operated travel bidet, which is basically just a squeeze bottle with a nozzle, and that still gets me perfectly clean. Definitely much cleaner than with toilet paper.
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 1 week ago:
Does cow milk bubble in some special way? Like, you can make bubbles rise even in water, but I’m guessing, that’s not what we’re talking about…
- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 weeks ago:
Proper ants only have 6 legs, though. But yeah, these spiders-turned-to-ants would have 8 legs.
Well, and crabs technically have 10 legs, with their foremost pair typically equipped with pincers. 🙃
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, sometimes I wonder if they do these bad names for the free publicity of people complaining about them. But then there’s plenty examples where the name isn’t just clunky, but rather actively confusing for potential users…
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality…
- Comment on Custodians 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s great. Farmers need to use pesticides and monocultures to stay competitive, since other farmers are using them. Also, pesticides and monocultures kill the ecosystems that provide things like natural pest control, pollination and humus. So, you probably don’t get an increased yield from pesticides and monocultures when they’re employed in wide areas, while you do still get the destruction of ecosystems.
- Comment on Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry. 3 weeks ago:
It is similar to Bluesky, yes. They both got a lot of inspiration from Twitter (before Musk turned it to shit/X).
And I would say that the discussions are more shallow than on Lemmy. Even though Mastodon has a higher character limit than Twitter and many Mastodon instances effectively remove the character limit, it’s still fundamentally a platform for shortform interactions. Infodumping is rarely seen, because you need to create a silly number of chained messages.
On the flipside, though, you get to know people. I do appreciate the time I spent on Mastodon, because of that. It’s a very different perspective as not everything is about discussing cold hard facts, but rather also people’s hobbies and struggles and whatnot.
- Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative? 4 weeks ago:
I find ants and bees and such interesting in this regard. They work together more seamlessly than humans do and arguably have a higher form of sociality.
Especially in Western cultures, we humans like to think of the individual and compare ourselves to the individual of other species. But that is a logical fallacy.
Are you smarter than an ant? Sure. But are you smarter than a human-sized ant hive? That’s a far trickier question to answer… - Comment on Fuck off Babish 4 weeks ago:
My favorite is when you get told to cook something in water and there’s always just this implicit “with salt” in there.
Except when it isn’t. For example, you should only add salt to lentils after cooking, otherwise their hull turns hard.
Well, and they also don’t tell you how much salt to use. Yesterday, I cooked millet and just added as much salt as I would add to noodles.
But then I had to leave them in the pot to soak for half an hour, because they wouldn’t soften (is that also from the salt?). Which meant they had soaked up all the salt water and the millet was far too salty in the end. - Comment on Marathon is delayed 4 weeks ago:
I could imagine that they didn’t want to do something called “Destiny 3”, because people would expect that to be better than Destiny 2, which is virtually impossible, if you’re gonna start over from scratch, with how many years of development have gone into Destiny 2 by now…
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 4 weeks ago:
I think, that’s not a coral, but rather a tree next to a stream…
