the_wiz
@the_wiz@feddit.org
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Hey, who says i am not?!?
(serious: Thanks for the correction)
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I am pretty much as straigth CIS as it gets…
… but after my stint in the german army i - at least for a time - transitioned to something werewolf alike: I didn’t shave, did spend crazy amounts of time on the heavy iron and looked something alike hugh jackman going hobo. The “once a month” thing also applied: Got once a month heavily drunk and searched out fights…
Regarding the werewolf strap i can neither confirm nor deny anything…
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 week ago:
Why should we, as the collective west, spend soldiers lifes and money on “liberating” a population that hates us? Oh, and please mind: “Liberating” a country normally also includes killing a shitton of civilians in this process.
- Comment on Anon's grandpa does his own research 1 week ago:
I indeed have read somewhere a long time ago (i think back in Usenet days) the conspiracy theory that JFK INDEED was not killed but this whole thing was just a stunt to push his political agenda further and let him retire in peace (you know, like Elvis did).
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 2 weeks ago:
This is the reason why I had a long and bloody fight regarding the homepage of the company I work at. And I won.
Management wanted a new homepage, marketing wanted the homepage to be - and this is a citation - “Emotional!!! And we want ENGAGEMENT!!!” (For context: We are building industrial machinery).
Marketing got an external offer (behind my back) and a mockup of the homepage based on React with animations and an dynamic background which turned every PC we looked at it with into a space heater. And they wanted to spend > 15 k € on it.
I - as something yanks would call a CTO - said no.
Everything turned quiet “Emotional!!!” for a couple of months, but in the end I won with the argument that we are building FUCKING BORING INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY, our costumers seldom change and if so, they are also from some big boring industrial company who already know us because we are in this business since Ugh, the first CEO chiseled the first iteration of our landmark product with a flintstone in 15000 BC.
The rebuild of the homepage resulted in something that is quiet nice looking… but that can also work perfectly fine in fucking DILLO!
- Comment on Viewers like you 2 weeks ago:
Could we please stop calling this mediocre LARPers Nazis? My grandfather was a Nazi, party book, SA uniform and all… and he would be ashamed of the MAGAs et. al.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 2 weeks ago:
When? No idea, but all the sudden it was quiet normal to see Spacemarine and Orc figures appearing on the desks of nerds…
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 2 weeks ago:
$thing is Warhammer 40k
- Comment on Such a welcoming community 3 weeks ago:
A part of me is curious if something like that (uterus transplant to a trans person) is possible, the other part of me fears that people like anons
boygirlfriend would get one… - Comment on Anon is a game dev 3 weeks ago:
Anon is not entirely wrong though… we have become pretty lazy regarding optimizing software.
- Comment on Such a welcoming community 3 weeks ago:
Oookay, I think at this point I can feel the aneurysm building up in my brain…
- Comment on UAnon has a completely relatable reaction to his country's invasion. 3 weeks ago:
Well, there were weirder things computer guys did during a war:
- Comment on Such a welcoming community 3 weeks ago:
Is it a sign of getting old if I don’t get half the idioms he is using?
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 3 weeks ago:
Baaack in my day we got a driver for our mouse on a single DD floppy…
- Comment on Anon plays cyberpunk 3 weeks ago:
I would say “taking an RPG projectile to the chest” is surely traumatic and could lead to all sorts of crazyness…
- Comment on Anon is investigated 4 weeks ago:
Nah, they would simply disappear you if you were a nuisance
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ah yes, the good old “what is best in life” question:
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Never dreamed of being an victorious invader in a conquered citiy as a teen?
- Comment on Anon eggs her on 1 month ago:
Thank Wotan that i am not part of this diseased culture…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ahem… Atari Portfolio + Serial adapter + accoustic coupler and every phone cell let you connect to your BBS of choice
- Comment on Anon's road to coitus. 2 months ago:
About 25 years ago i dabbled into the pickup community (yeah, weird i know, but i think still better than the incel road). Sometimes my lair went to a town nearby to “work on our onfidence” by doing weird stuff in public (e.g. eating catfood publicaly or asking for directions to a place while standing right before said location… we were just morons).
One of those experiments was to ask exactly THIS question with a complete straight face to many, many women. And guess what… after asking this question perhaps 200 women this day one replied with “Oh yes, i am absolutely in the right mood, my flat is right over there!”
There i stood, being so dumbfounded by this answer that my super confident fassade crumbled away and fell into the gutter in an instant and my only reaction was “WHAT?!? You… you are supposed to say NO!”. Well, she walked sway laughing really hard.
Lets just conclude this story time by saying that i left this phase behind a long time ago and i am now married with kids for over ten years.
- Comment on Anon discovers a cheat code 2 months ago:
More of a shitcode…