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- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 4 days ago:
Joke’s on you, the scale is from 3 to 17.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
I guess Maleficent didn’t want to fill one of the princess of heart containers with saltwater.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
Her actual age is unknown, due to nobody knowing what year she was born. But estimates put her at around 17 when she was taken hostage and forcibly married to a tobacco farmer.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
Pocahontas is also younger than labeled. IIRC she was like 17 when she was forced into marrying a tobacco farmer. She died only a few years later.
- Comment on Mmm... 1 week ago:
Yeah, CO2 suffocation is a legitimately awful way to go out, because it feels like you’re suffocating the entire time. Basically, there isn’t an easy way for your body to detect how much oxygen you have. From a biological standpoint, there aren’t many good (or accurate) ways to measure oxygen saturation.
But CO2 is a different story. When CO2 is dissolved in water, it forms carbonic acid. This is the same acid that gives carbonated drinks their characteristic bitter bite; flat sodas taste overly sweet because there isn’t any acid balancing out the sugar. On a biological level, carbonic acid is really easy to detect.
So that’s what your body does. It detects carbonic acid in your blood. And when those levels rise, you feel like you’re suffocating. If you hold your breath, that urge to breathe isn’t caused by a lack of oxygen; It’s caused by a buildup of CO2. So if you gas someone with CO2, it instantly sends them into “I’m suffocating” mode. And they’ll stay there until they pass out from the lack of oxygen. But that entire time, they’ll feel like they’re suffocating, because their CO2 levels are continuing to rise.
A more humane method would be something like nitrogen. It still allows the CO2 to be expelled, so the feeling of suffocation never starts.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 1 week ago:
This is one of my personal favorites as well.
My friend likes to use Hebrews 16:4… Because Hebrews only has 13 chapters. She uses it as a sort of litmus test to see if people actually know what they’re talking about. Apparently everyone she mentions it to just starts talking about how it’s such a beautiful verse, and they like it too. She said I’m the only person who has ever called her out on the fact that her “favorite” verse doesn’t exist…
I’m an agnostic atheist, and she leads her bible study group. She always jokes that I studied my bible better than anyone in her study group.
- Comment on I love bpd girls 1 week ago:
The mania also helps. Bipolar isn’t just a happy-sad thing. The manic phase is categorized in the same group as schizoaffective disorders. Some of the most common symptoms of mania are hyper sexuality and feeling invincible. Imagine being absolutely insatiable even while doing it. So you keep going harder and harder, trying to find something to sate the urge. And the entire time, you’re delusional to the point of thinking nothing will hurt you. If you’re a manic girl who just brought home a random hookup, he’s about to get sex so hard his entire genetic line will be impressed.
- Comment on Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know 2 weeks ago:
Or simply for hiding your IP when torrenting. Bouncing things off of your home network is fine for hiding your activity when using public WiFi… But it won’t do a goddamned thing to protect you when you’re torrenting at home. Plenty of people have ISPs and/or governments that care a lot about what they torrent, so using a VPN is a very easy way to avoid those bright red “we’re going to shut off your service if you keep torrenting. Also, we gave your IP to the authorities and you’re being sued” letters.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, plenty of folks encountered terrorist beheading videos when they were like 10. In the grand scheme of things, this video isn’t even that gory.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
For real though, the left one is 100% how Trump stands at a lectern. I’m not even kidding. The dude has his aides set a little wedge behind the lectern, to lift his toes and make him look like he’s standing upright.
Image - Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 2 weeks ago:
The FAA gathers taxes per person, not per plane. So a commercial flight has every single passenger paying, while a private jet only pays for a few people. But the air traffic controllers aren’t handling individual people; They’re handling planes. So private jets fund the ATC a lot less than commercial flights, even though they have just as much need.
This video says Canada taxes planes based on weight rating and distance traveled. So larger planes that can carry heavier loads (more people) get taxed more, while smaller planes (private jets) get taxed less. But they’re proportionally paying the same in taxes, instead of the rich people paying less.
- Comment on Byeeeeeee 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, taxonomic classification always falls short of the natural world. It may be the same taxonomy, but that doesn’t mean they’re exactly the same.
Hell, if we only had dog fossils to work with, different breeds would almost certainly be considered entirely different species. But as it currently stands, they’re all the same species, (canis lupus familiaris), because we know the different breeds can mate with each other and produce viable offspring.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 weeks ago:
It’s closely related to mustard, and mustard’s distinct flavor is from the seeds. So I’d assume that if you leave it long enough for the blooms to seed, they’d taste similar to mustard.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but the bombs would have dropped regardless. So still the same end result.
Supposedly, the game was supposed to have a lot more atmospheric storytelling. Radios playing in the background, with news reports about rising tensions between the US and some nuclear state. Newspapers left laying around with headlines of nuclear war brewing. TVs playing with reporters talking about some country (Iran or North Korea, maybe?) developing nukes.
These were supposed to be scattered all over the place in ways that the player would obviously cross paths with them. The cult was less “doomsday prepping for no reason” and more “doomsday prepping because they think it’s soon”.
But Ubisoft being Ubisoft, they cut a lot of content because they wanted to launch the game sooner.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 3 weeks ago:
Why are they using anything imported anyways?
Ah yes, let me just buy local from all of the American tea farms, American bauxite mines, and American aluminum refineries. Oh wait, America doesn’t actually produce meaningful amounts of any of those resources.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
I’m all for refusing to tip, but be up-front about it. Let the server know ahead of time that you won’t be tipping. You’ll still get served, but it’ll be with the level of service that the waiter thinks you should get, rather than with the level of service that you think you deserve (without paying them). If you’re going to refuse to tip, at least take the mask off so your server can do the same.
If you’re willing to do that, then more power to you. Believe it or not, many servers will be chill about it, and treat you the same as any other customer. Especially if you’re there when it’s slow. But if you’re afraid to be honest because you might get worse service, then you’re just a scab who is leeching from the tipping culture and only hurting the working class.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
On the surface, I can understand this. It’s not the server’s fault that they got the happy hour rush when everything is 50% off. If anything, they had to work harder because it was busier. Why punish them for that extra work with lower tip calculations? The drinks aren’t any easier or faster to pour just because they’re half off.
What does bug me is when the tip calculations are based on the after-tax total. Fuck that, I’m already getting taxed 10% on this, you don’t need your 18% calculated from that extra 10%.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
Every single time I see a fucking Square cash register… One of these motherfuckers:
ImageEvery single time I see that piece of shit, I know I’m about to hear the “it’s just going to ask you a few questions” line. And those “few questions” will be asking me to tip 25 goddamned percent on something that I’ve never tipped for before.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 3 weeks ago:
Flash isn’t a good long-term storage option. It relies on an electrical charge to store the data, and will discharge over time. It’s literally physically storing electrons, but those electrons are constantly trying to escape. Good flash may last 7-10 years without being plugged in, but the standard off-the-shelf stuff will be dead much quicker.
Tape or M-DISC are the gold standards, though both are more expensive than flash. Tape is by far the single most resilient method; it can even be reconstructed if it is physically damaged. But it’s also the least convenient and most expensive. M-DISC is a nice middle ground. It’s essentially just a burned disc, but made with materials that won’t rot over time like standard burned discs will. So storage is as simple as storing regular discs. Though if you’re truly trying to apocalypse-proof it, you’d probably want to consider bunkering/burying them somewhere to protect from physical destruction.
- Comment on Lemmy.World blocks VPN? 3 weeks ago:
VPNs don’t stop fingerprinting. IP addresses are nebulous and change all the time. All a VPN does is hide your traffic from your ISP. So they’re handy for things like torrenting, where you might otherwise catch a scary letter from said ISP.
- Comment on Lemmy.World blocks VPN? 3 weeks ago:
It’s just a basic IP blacklist, not a true VPN ban. They’re not going out of their way to block every VPN server. Shortly after the Reddit API exodus, some bad actors were using VPNs to spam CSAM everywhere, trying to get instances shut down. This was before automod capabilities were really fleshed out, and child porn laws made it illegal for the instance owners to have it uploaded or even cached. So it was a big issue where several instances started locking sign-ups and blanket defederating to try and avoid the CSAM getting cached via users scrolling past it. Attackers started finding abandoned instances with lax sign-up rules, and would create like a dozen accounts to spam from; many instances switched to federation whitelists (instead of blacklists), so those smaller zombie instances wouldn’t be federated by default. So if you’re on a VPN, you might be fine. But you also might be blocked, if you land on the same IP that someone uploaded CSAM from.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
This is why, during the mass exodus, many people were sharing scripts to edit your comments with random words before deleting them. Because deleting them leaves the content available in the database, but editing actually overwrites the data. So even if Reddit later decides to undo the deletions, (which they did), then they’ll just be a bunch of gibberish undeleted comments.
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 3 weeks ago:
and apparently the singer is a LGBT icon.
Anyone who sees this and doesn’t immediately go “oh they’re gay as fuck” needs to replace the batteries in their gaydar:
ctrlaltmusic.com/…/PVRIS-Press-Picture-2021.webp - Comment on JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip 3 weeks ago:
Even if we assumed every single third-party vote would have gone towards Harris (which isn’t true at all), there were only 2.6m third-party votes. That would just barely eke out Trump in regards to the popular vote, but still wouldn’t have won her the electoral college.
She was a fucking unpopular candidate. No way around that. She started off strong with a lot of excitement, but then failed to separate herself from Biden’s boring policies whatsoever.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 3 weeks ago:
There’s even a scene in the comics where Frank is cornered by some cops. Like they have him dead to rights, and there’s no way he’ll escape. The cops let him go, saying they’re a big fan of his work.
That has Frank going on a tirade about how they shouldn’t be cops if they’re fans of his work; He exists specifically to take down cops like them. His entire family is dead, and the killers walked free because of dirty cops.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 4 weeks ago:
Glad it made at least someone twitch. I got a good chuckle as I was typing it out.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 4 weeks ago:
I can’t even log in, because their 2FA system is overwhelmed. I’ve been waiting almost four hours for an email code to hit my inbox.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was going to take a guess. As someone who has dealt with random farmers in the middle of nowhere, at least one of the two are going to be true:
- That will be the best produce you have ever laid eyes on.
- The person misspelled things on purpose, to grab peoples’ attention.
- You’ll be able to fill an entire grocery bag with produce, for like $3.
There are a lot of places like this, where you’ll get some really high quality stuff for basically no money. As long as you’re friendly, they’ll usually give you some crazy good deals.
The best tamales you’ll ever taste? They come out of the back of a beat-up minivan in a hardware store parking lot, at the crack of dawn. Just cruise through a Home Depot lot as the sun is rising, and look for the car surrounded by people. Bring cash in small bills.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 weeks ago:
I would actually include both the original Castlevania and Metroid then follow it up with Symphony of the Night. Show the original Castlevania game to establish the series, then show Metroid which has the exploration and backtracking with new abilities. Then show SOTN, which shows the combination of the two (effectively establishing the entire Metroidvania genre). Then show a game like Hollow Knight or Ori and the Blind Forest, which goes on to embody the genre several decades after it has been established.
Zelda is a good one, and I’d follow it up with something like Okami, which follows the same dungeon formula in a radically different setting and art style. Again, showing the genre’s establishment, then showing how it can be adapted.
For Final Fantasy, I’d also include FFX, which follows a very similar turn-based playstyle. Maybe include a Dragon Quest game somewhere in there too, as that series tends to stick to the same basic gameplay formula. Then I’d take it in a different direction and show something like Bravely Default, which is still technically turn-based, but also has additional elements layered on top.
I’d chase Super Mario 64 with something like A Hat In Time. Again, showing the establishment of the 3D platformer, then showing the elements in use elsewhere.
You have Ultima on here, which I agree with. But I’d probably break the display for it into two different halves: For the RPG half, I would include some more tabletop-inspired games here too, as the early game devs were largely tabletop game fans who were simply adapting their favorite games into digital settings. Games like Fallout 1/2, or Baldurs Gate.
For Ultima’s one-point-perspective dungeon-crawling, following it up with something like Persona Q or SMT: Strange Journey could be impactful to show how it was adapted to more modern games.
- Comment on Bird 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s meant to be a block of code, not something that the user is able to interact with. The point of code blocks is that you can use special characters and have them rendered as plaintext, instead of actually working as special characters. For instance, here’s the classic Reddit shrug:
¯_(ツ)_/¯Notice that the left arm is missing? That’s because the backslash and underscores are both special characters. The backslash cancels out the underscore, making the backslash disappear. Now here’s the same shrug formatted as code:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯Notice that the left arm is visible, (or at least, it should be), because none of the characters were treated as special characters. If the left arm is invisible on your client, that is actually an error in parsing the MarkDown formatting.
