skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 1 day ago:
There was a thread recently where someone called it “Flipper gray”, because it’s actually being done by boomers trying to flip houses.
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 3 days ago:
there was a whole song about it in the Netflix cartoon
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 3 days ago:
yes well done
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 3 days ago:
judging from the downvotes, it was a more obscure reference than I thought.
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 3 days ago:
Bread makes you fat.
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
not so much; the topic had kind of become a whole thing within the comedy/entertainment circuit on account of Hari Kondabolu making a documentary about it.
It was a detailed and nuanced discussion about the wider nature of invisible racism, and therefore attracted a ton of kneejerk reactions from people who hadn’t watched it but sure as hell had opinions. In the end it was just easier to let it lie than get tied up in an intractable discussion on whether an Indian person playing up an Indian stereotype for the entertainment of a mainstream audience is still harmful or not
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
bless you for that
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
Is there a word, possibly German, for when you discover that the person you got douchey vibes off for years but couldn’t quite pin down why, is revealed to be exactly what you suspected? I just had flashbacks to Will Smith at the Oscars.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
yeah I really fucking hate how this particular meme format seems to subtly imply we can just stop making an effort. Always downvote whenever I see it.
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 3 weeks ago:
well done OP, you really stuck it to those stupid scientists
/s
- Comment on good idea, no downsides 3 weeks ago:
the worst part is that said electronic component will have been the cheapest one to physically manufacture, but because it’s the hardest to copy they can charge whatever the fuck they like
- Comment on More chickens! 3 weeks ago:
I had a pair of tweezers confiscated. It’s all arbitrary, and everyone who has ever worked airport security is a wanker
- Comment on Let it sink in. 3 weeks ago:
lol, I guess I was wrong then - I was about to say that OP seems to think the joke is a lot more difficult (with the post title and ‘wait what’ reaction) than it actually is.
- Comment on good idea, no downsides 3 weeks ago:
Could go either way I reckon, acoustically coupling the walls of your house to a big spinning drum
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
You’re just grasping now.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
So you’ve never run out of space on your HDD, or replaced your machine, or wanted to lend or sell your game? You’re in the minority.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
Publishers have proved time and time and time again that they can’t be trusted to keep that download available to you after you’ve handed the money over.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
Discworld (1995) came with an actual t-shirt in the box. But there was an insane period in the early 2000s where they’d stopped doing manuals, maps and other extras but still packaged the disc in a box the size of a 450g cornflakes packet.
I’m ok with manuals not being a thing, because it’s a reflection of improvements in both software and game design where you don’t need to read 24 pages of text before you can play a game. But I’m not ok with publishers basically killing the secondary market.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 3 weeks ago:
Hey now, I know not everyone is a Beatles fan, but you can’t deny Brian played a big part in their success; I think he’d give good advice.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 3 weeks ago:
“The end of civilization”
: shows image of the peak of civilization
- Comment on Peak HR 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this on every platform out there and someone shared it at work, but always as a deep-fried jpeg without a link to the source. Does anyone know if it’s actually a real job posting?
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 weeks ago:
Same. AI/ML background long pre-dating GPT; trying to navigate my career is sending me to an early grave from the number of charlatans and rich idiots flooding every part of the industry, talking complete nonsense, and getting an army of devoted fans who make shit memes dissing “luddites”.
I can’t participate in any AI-related forums any more because of the sheer number of twats pontificating about nature of sentience, who think “backpropagating” is something you’d find at a swingers’ party.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 weeks ago:
The misguided notion that you can find some sort of truth by meeting verifiable falsehoods halfway, is like 90% of the problem.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I still can’t find Ultra HD discs in the shops either - it’s easier to find low res DVDs in 2026 than 4k discs even though most TVs sold now are 4k.
I have become convinced that Sony are deliberately sabotaging their own format because Sony Pictures ran the numbers and concluded they’d make more money if everyone had to stream.
- Comment on Y'all remember the Bloodhound Gang? 5 weeks ago:
It’s Photoshop. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
- Comment on Men against bush 5 weeks ago:
To extent maybe, but not really? I remember very clearly that one of the objections was that both US and UK Governments were refusing to produce any evidence of Saddam’s supposed WMDs.
If you want to drag many countries into a major land war of aggression, destabilize a whole region, and cause the deaths of millions, you still need to show your working out first - even if it means jeopardizing an individual operation or two. The fact that it turned out their “evidence” was cooked-up bullshit, is almost secondary.
- Comment on Men against bush 5 weeks ago:
in hindsight
- Comment on he might be using me to fulfill his younger woman fantasy, but I’m also using him to fulfill my daddy fantasy, so we’re even 5 weeks ago:
Gives me the ick.
That’s your ick, not theirs.
At some point you need to acknowledge that every detail of their relationship you’re imagining, you’ve invented from zero other information in order to gross yourself out.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I bought a 16Gb laptop in 2012, which is out of the noughties, but still 14 fucking years ago.
14 years before that I had 32Mb; a 500* multiplier.