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- Comment on Home cooking 3 hours ago:
Yeah that chicken is absolutely not cooked.
- Comment on be 400 pound fat fuck 16 hours ago:
They can’t, they’d have a heart attack from the strain.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 17 hours ago:
Friendly fire incidents are still fairly common even in the modern era…
… ask any Brits deployed to Iraq how they feel about the A-10…
… Pat Tillman was hyped up in the media as an early Iraq War 2 US casualty who died valiantly… when the truth was he was actually killed by friendly fire from his own unit, oh and he actually thought the entire operation in Afghanistan was “fucking illegal”… because Congress is supposed to declare war, not the President…
Even in the RussoUkranian war, right now, in the past few years, there have been tons of incidents of Russians accidentally shooting their own at fairly close range, due to poor coordination, and I’m sure its happened with the Ukranians as well… and thats to say nothing of accidentally drone or arty striking a friendly infantry squad or tank or IFV or what not.
Just go play any modern semi-realistic war game (Squad, Arma 3/Reforger, etc) that doesn’t have a pop up HUD with blue for friend and red for foe, and has friendly fire enabled, and you should be able to see that friendly fire happens all the time with noobs.
…
As for fragging… that term, as it originated in Vietnam, specifically refferred to tossing a frag grenade into an area (often their bunk) where an officer or NCO was.
It was a form of mutiny, essentially, against officers that kept sending men into meat-grinders…
…chewing them out for not maintaining their early M16s which were unreliable as fuck due to being rammed through the production pipeline by McNamara, shoddy quality control from Colt, and everyone just pretending swapping to a new kind of powder in the rounds wouldn’t blow past the designed tolerances of the weapon…
… or just, you know, fuck being drafted into this bullshit war.
In the modern day, ‘frag’ is mostly a gamer term that basically just means ‘killed a guy’, and the origin of that term has been obscured, forgotten.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 22 hours ago:
Have you ever been to a very dense jungle or forest… at midnight?
Ok, now, drop mortar and naval artillery shells all over it.
For weeks, or months.
The holes this creates are commonly used by both sides as cover and concealment.
Also, its often raining, sometimes quite heavily, such that these holes will up with water, and you are thus soaking wet.
Ok, now, add in pillboxes and bunkers, as well as a few spiderwebs of underground tunnel networks, many of which have concealed entrances.
You do not have a phone. GPS does not exist.
You might have a map, which is out of date, and you might have a compass, if you didn’t drop or break it.
A radio is either something stationary, or is the size and weight of approximately,.slightly less than a miniature refrigerator, and one bullet or good piece of shrapnel will take it out of commission.
Ok, now, you and all your buddies are either half starving or actually starving, beyond exhausted, getting maybe an average of 2 to 4 hours of sleep, and you, and the enemy, are covered in dirt, blood and grime.
Also, you and everyone else may or may not have malaria, or some other fun disease.
Ok! Enjoy your 2 to 8 week long camping trip from hell, in these conditions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Also, for what its worth, the OLED Decks literally sold out today, as in, Valve doesn’t currently have any more to sell in the US.
gamingonlinux.com/…/supply-chain-issues-are-makin…
Also also… I realize this is a silly comparison, but the Switch 2 has not outsold all variants of the Deck, yet.
Its at about 3.5 million, Steam Deck is at about 4.5 million since 2022.
Also, the Switch 2 is apparently already sold out as well, as in no more units available at US retailers.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 day ago:
I wonder if any if the Axis even bothered to have such a system to check for Americans.
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- Comment on Eating shit is for alphas, am I rite guise 1 day ago:
… he said, with a shit-eating grin…
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 day ago:
weamwork is my new favorite word, ahahah!
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 day ago:
=D
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 day ago:
I was gonna say something similar, I have heard a LOT of people pronounce Mississippi as if it does have an R in it.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 day ago:
Obligatory ‘lore dump’ on the word lollapalooza:
That word was a common term in the 1930s/40s American lingo that meant… essentially a very raucous, lively party.
Note/Rant on the meaning of this term
The current merriam webster and dictionary.com definitions of this term meaning ‘an outstanding or exceptional or extreme thing’ are wrong, they are too broad. While historical usage varied, it almost always appeared as a noun describing a gathering of many people, one that was so lively or spectacular that you would be exhausted after attending it. When it did not appear as a noun describing a lively party, it appeared as a term for some kind of action that would cause you to be bamboozled, discombobulated… similar to ‘that was a real humdinger of a blahblah’ or ‘that blahblah was a real doozy’
So… in WW2, in the Pacific theatre… many US Marines were often engaged in brutal, jungle combat, and they adopted a system of basically verbal identification challenge checks if they noticed someone creeping up on their foxholes at night.
An example of this system used in the European theatre, I believe by the 101st and 82nd airborne, was the challenge ‘Thunder!’ to which the correct response was ‘Flash!’.
In the Pacific theatre… the Marines adopted a challenge / response system… where the correct response was ‘Lolapalooza’…
Because native born Japanese speakers are taught a phoneme that is roughly in between and ‘r’ and an ‘l’ … and they very often struggle to say ‘Lolapalooza’ without a very noticable accent, unless they’ve also spent a good deal of time learning spoken English (or some other language with distinct ‘l’ and ‘r’ phonemes), which very few Japanese did in the 1940s.
::: racist and nsfw historical example of this
www.ep.tc/howtospotajap/howto06.html
:::
Now, some people will say this is a total myth, others will say it is not.
My Grandpa who served in the Pacific Theatre during WW2 told me it did happen, though he was Navy and not a Marine… but the stories about this I’ve always heard that say it did happen, they all say it happened with the Marines.
My Grandpa is also another source for what ‘lolapalooza’ actually means.
- Comment on Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot 2 days ago:
No questions from me, just wanna say:
Excellent goddamned work.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 2 days ago:
Heres a gamer brained analogy:
You know how all the manosphere types describe 90% of women as only being willing to date the top 10% of men?
This is that.
90% of all the money in gaming is going toward developing a game with a 10% chance of being rhe next Minecraft, the next Fortnite, the next big huge thing that will generate a stupid amount of money by functionally acting as its own MTX ecosystem with widespread adoption.
It is: We don’t sell consumer model economy cars because our financial situation is so wound up in financing that we can actually only afford to sell high end luxury models, otherwise our profit margin is too small, and then we can’t afford our operating costs and debt obligations, so then we have to downsize and fire everyone and most importantly, our shareholders don’t get as much
wealth extraction, I mean profit.)The … problem with this obviously is that if 90% of the money in gaming is shooting for making basically the same kind of game… well then it is all competing with itself, thus causing a gametheortic prisoners dilemma situation where everyone acting out of maximum self interest actually results in the worst possible outcome.
Another problem with this is that these games are very expensive to make, and they must be made very fast… so, everything other than the MTX system in these games will be buggy and sloppy and garbage tier…
So, yeah. Game companies are the same kind of delulu that the manosphere thinks 90% of women are, chasing a wildly unrealistic outcome via wildly unlikely to work means.
(Disclaimer: I am not saying I endorse or believe in this manosphere idea, I am using it as a gamer-brained analogy, assuming it is true for sake of argument and comparison.)
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 2 days ago:
Well said, eloquently said!
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 3 days ago:
I disagree that ignorance can be bliss in this case.
Look up the Carrington Event.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing that would prevent that from happening again at literally any time.
And if the Carrington Event happened now, it would most likely knock out the vast majority of the world’s power systems and telecommunication systems… possibly for a very long time, depending on how much chaos ensued.
Even without a one in a million even like that… the world is literally on fire. Climate change is out of control, and it is consistently worse that consensus projections from 5 or 10 years ago.
Disasters will intensify, infrastructure will be knocked out, the food supply system will buckle, governments will become more authoritarian, and be more likely to go to war with each other.
It will be a very rude wakeup call for the totally smart device dependent people when their region goes offline… they will have as much of a mental breakdown from not having access to tech and the web as they will from ‘how will i eat, where will i live?’
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 3 days ago:
I agree with most of the points you are making, but I think the main point the person you are replying to… their point was that … younger generations simply are not able to remember things they have read, either online, or in a book.
It used to be the case that you could not just pull up literally any information, out of your pocket, on demand.
That knowledge had to exist in your brain.
Historically, it gets even worse.
Many cultures had dedicated members of their society who had memorized an ancient tale that would take one hundred pages to write out on paper.
Of course, they did not remember them 100% accurately each time… but humans do seem to be losing a capability for mass information storage in our own brains as technology enables us to… not need to develop that capability.
The GPS navigation example is maybe easier to grasp: Before everyone had a GPS homing beacon and navigation telling them where to go, how to navigate through a city or country…
People knew how to read road signs. People knew how to read maps. People knew how to avoid high traffic areas and take shortcuts… all on their own.
Now, if you take GPS away from literally those same people, 20 or 30 years later, they would end up lost even in places they’ve lived in for decades.
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 3 days ago:
I mean, imo, you got it correct with many of your descriptions:
Fear, Anxiety, Panic, caused by the lack of access to the internet.
Now, I thought I was going to have to coin a term here, but something pretty close already exists:
Nomophobia, fear of not having your your smartphone.
Other proposed terms from other people over the years:
discomgoogolation
abinterretephobia
macriapodiadictuophobia
These have all been proposed as words to mean, basically, fear of not having access to the internet.
Now, you are describing more specifically a fear of an entire, past world without widespread internet access, which is a bit different… as it isn’t just you personally not having your internet device, but the total lack of them, the lack of societal norms built around them, etc.
I would point out that there are still roughly 3 billion of people on Earth, right now, who live without consistent and reliable access to the internet, who cannot afford a smart phone or any kind of internet device.
But yeah, as others have said… before the internet was widespread… we used libraries, we read books and articles and physical newspapers… sometimes, you would have to hunt down a particular rare book, or ask a library to get it loaned from another library, you could wait weeks or months.
I remember an actual physical voicemail machine, an actual physical caller ID device, I remember having to commit my friend’s and family’s 10 digit phone numbers to memory, or carry a small personal contact list with me.
I remember when getting a cordless phone, that would let you go sit down on the couch instead of having to stand or sit within 3 feet of the wall mounted phone… was a completely mind blowing innovation.
And I was born in the tail end of the 80s, before the Berlin Wall fell.
I remember being forced into typing lessons, on an actual keyboard, as one of the very few things my dad forced me into that was actually a good call, and now that the vast majority of younger folks use touchscreens… an increasing number of them have no idea how to actually type, which blows my mind because for the vast majority of my life, not knowing how to type was an extremely stereotypical Boomer attribute.
And now its getting far worse, with an absolute epidemic of students of all manner of subjects who just do not know anything, because they are reliant on some kind of AI to answer all their questions and generate all their answers.
It has been argued before that a human with a smartphone, which they have at all times, is functionally a kind of ‘soft’ cyborg, as the smartphone is a part of so much of their thinking, their culture, their way of life.
So, I suppose its understandable that a ‘soft’ cyborg is terrified by the idea of having part of their brain ripped out, and cannot comprehend how a society could function with everyone not having their portable thinking and communication augmentation.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 3 days ago:
If you sit on a toilet, take a shit and use your phone at the same time, and then only wash your hands…
Your phone likely now has bacteria from your butt on it.
If you now touch your phone after washing your handsz without washing/cleaning the phone screen… your hands now have your butt’s bacteria back on them again, negating much of the point of washing your hands.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 3 days ago:
Unironically this is a basically true thing as well.
If it routinely takes you so long to shit that you… need to read something?
You have some kind of serious dietary deficiency, and/or some kind of gastro-intestinal or possibly musculature problem going on.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 3 days ago:
It is that bad, because most people do not continue to finger their assholes when their not in the bathroom.
Touch butt. Touch phone.
Only clean hands?
Touch phone again, you’re touching your butt again.
Touch face after touching phone?
You have stuck your finger in your butt and then directly in to your face.
Put phone in pocket?
Yeah, now your pocket has your butt in it.
Bacteria adhere to and will keep growing on a phone.
Just think of how clean rules work for a surgeon doing prep.
Now, the danger is not as extreme as contamination isn’t going under the skin… but you are consistently touching a dirty, potentislly infectious surface all the time, and then touching everything else.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 3 days ago:
Difference being that you generally throw away a newspaper, whereas the surface of your smart phone is almost certainly the object that most people spend the most or second most time touching during a day, they rarely wash it, and they also carry it with them everywhere.
It is astoundingly unhygenic to use a phone on the shitter.
Oh, you washed your hands afterwards?
… Did you wash the phone screen?
- Comment on British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery 3 days ago:
I was a copy editor at a small newspaper for about a year.
This shit isn’t hard.
Its a willful choice for journos to go along with copaganda phrasing… or, well, now that they done it willingly for so long that a fascist is in charge… well now maybe you could call the use of copaganda due to the chilling effect.
Great job journalism majors from two decades ago, you failed us all.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 3 days ago:
Yep, same, agree, I will never understand how this has become normalized.
- Comment on British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery 3 days ago:
Non-lethal?
Less-lethal?
…
Potentially Lethal, restructures the phrasing to be less disarming and reassuring, more worrisome and concerning.
‘Maiming Munitions’ has some alliteration to it.
Both of those phrases are just as if not more factually accurate.
This is how you play the language manipulation game.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 5 days ago:
… spunk snatchers.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 5 days ago:
Fair enough, lol.
I had a bidet at one point, honestly do recommend for cleaning your pooper… ends up saving a lot of toilet paper money after not too much time.
You don’t have to get a whole new toilet, there are many different kits you can get that you can install into a normal toilet… however, if it gets fairly cold where you live… either you may want to also get one with a seperate tank, or… endure the polar blast, hahah.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 5 days ago:
I’m trying my hardest to picture how one would attempt to wash a vagina with a bidet, and the only conclusion I’m getting here that makes any sense is that you probably don’t even know what a vagina is.
I have a potential solution:
She executes the Riker Manuever, and sits on the toilet facing the tank… or more crudely, she mounts the toilet in cowgirl position.
Granted, she’d probably still have to do a bit of angling… and… probably not gonna actually get much water actually into the vagina, unless the bidet is… dangerously poweful in psi terms, basically?
… or possibly she is still considerably aroused?
Disclaimer: I do not posses a vagina, but I am at least aware of basic human anatomical configuration.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 days ago:
… Yeah…
Yeah.
I mean, Scott didn’t do anything physical beyond making out with her, if I remember right?
In both the movie and manga?
But uh… yeah, she was a minor, he was not, she was basically a star struck superfan and he absolutely emotionally abused the shit out of her and took advantage of his micro-celebrity status.
Really shitty.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 days ago:
I guess I am still mad about it, a decade and a half later, rofl.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 days ago:
So, it was initially uh… perhaps, outsized in its popularity, more popular than it should have been?
…because it actually captured, pretty accurately, the basically underground video game nerd culture of the time.
Up to that point in time, gamers, now basically a dirty word, but back then, it was… a whole bunch of mostly socially awkward and mostly socially ostracized nerds who had their whole own set of lingo and memes and references that… nobody had ever really portrayed genuinely, accurately, in a movie before… and basically all movie adaptations of video games were horrendously bad.
Like absolutely yes the film and plot have not aged well… but a lot of that is because what was once a very niche, not publically acknowledge culture… is just now pervasive everywhere… basically everyone plays video games now?
whereas a few years before the movie came out, you had jack thompson going on a very public crusade to just try to ban every video game he could, half of america doing moral panics over various video games.
Scott Pilgrim coming out as a movie arguably represented roughlt the turning point at which video gaming as a culture/hobby became, or rapidly began to become, much more broadly accepted and embraced by society at large, without just constantly shunning and mocking them for it.
I dunno, thats my ‘thesis’ there, could be wrong.
Maybe… maybe you could use something like total PAX attendance by year as a rough numerical backing for this?
Back before the movie came out… PAX only had one location, one event per year, and the lines were not stupendously long. Now it has what, 3, 4 locations per year, and the lines are godawful.
