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- Comment on Sleep well 4 hours ago:
Ah yes, I heard about that one when I was a kid, forgot to mention it.
Damn headless chicken stayed alive for weeks… months I think?
It would walk around attempting to peck at things with a head it didn’t have… they used a little dropper to squirt some mushed up food … directly into its throat…
…and it actually died because one day it choked during this kind of feeding session, concievably it could have lived longer had that not happened.
- Comment on Sleep well 8 hours ago:
Thats probably the most likely explanation for a deer attacking a tree for seemingly no reason, and messy chunks of flesh getting everywhere… but yeah, the standing on two legs thing…
… not strictly impossible, but… rather unlikely?
Deer can rear up on their hind legs, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard of one that can actually… locomote, ambulate, walk in that manner.
- Comment on Sleep well 8 hours ago:
Animals, and people, can and have continued to be alive and… somewhat, or even mostly functional… with portions of their brains obliterated or removed.
Go look up Phinneas Gage, or the history of lobotomies and brain surgeries.
Now, this person could be describing bloody chunks of the skull and skin amd fur, but it is not strictly impossible that the deer could have actually managed to loose chunks of its actual brain, and still remain capable enough to keep functioning…
… for a while, at least. If it did really cave in its own skull, it would almost certainly die from cranial hemmoraghing soon afterward, if not that, infections.
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 16 hours ago:
Yep, used to work for them, this is a very accurate and succinct analogy to use.
True pioneers of corporate neofeudalism.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 day ago:
Hey, anybody remember when MGS 2 came out, and the mass of NA gamers were raging about having to play as Raiden, because he was a … well in modern parlance, a beta cuck soyboy?
Kinda flew over all their heads that Raiden was basically a more realistic reflection of the NA target demo for MGS games, and oh he also goes through legitimate character development, gains maturity and confidence, oh well now, more lately, he’s basically a badass fucking cyberninja.
… Passing the torch off to Ciri fucking entirely makes sense within the world and lore of the Witcher series… and I thought we liked having an attractive gal booty to ogle at in third person?
Or is that now gay?
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 day ago:
That is very true, Japanese corporate business culture is on a whole other level.
Somewhat ironically, all my experiences with actual Japanese people are via Karate… in the Dojo, very strict, formal, no nonsense.
But uh, just casually hanging out? At least the ones I knew,… much more rowdy, haha.
Unrelated to my earlier Karate experiences, about a decadr after I’d gotten my black belt, and had since laid off Karate a bit… I once randomly befriended a Japanese man… who claimed he had been an actual Yakuza, a Yakushi… he explained to me that he had fucked up some operation, and instead of losing a finger, his superior struck him with the blunt side of the… I guess it would have been a waki-zashi?.. stuck him on the knuckle, and that finger of his was pretty messed up.
He took that, and permanent exile from Japan, over… losing a finger, and then likely just getting killed… he’d pissed off another group pretty severely.
… We then got to talking about Anime, Yokai, and of course Karate… said he was a 4th Dan, 4th Degree Black Belt and uh… yeah, he was very, very significantly skilled in a few basically play fight, not even proper sparring bs we got into a few times.
Initially, he said he wanted me to prove I wasn’t bullshitting about my black belt. Gave him my Style and as much family lineage of it that I remembered… and he then, almost totally without warning, threw a punch right at my face.
I did nothing.
His fist stopped about a half centimeter from my nose.
He laughed, said ‘You blinked’, I laughed, and he believed me after that.
- Comment on You may hallucinate, but not like me 2 days ago:
- Comment on Punctuation 2 days ago:
Shiba-inEWWWW!
- Comment on Some people have it worse 2 days ago:
Yeah…
I am an American but have had a lot of friends from all over the world.
We are kind of exceptional in the extent of normalized, utterly disingenuous ‘standard social interactions and phrases’ that we use.
We talk like NPCs using throwaway, canned dialogue lines, and if we don’t do NPC talk, well then that is actually viewed as antisocial…
Even though basically everyone else in the world would view this all as the opposite, inverted. Such forced bullshit conversations are generally viewed as bullshit and disingenuous.
- Comment on As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’ 3 days ago:
Fuck off Randy, you creepy, pedo fucking hack.
We’ll just wait for your dumb ass to leave another flash drive at in another bathroom you’re getting a BJ from one of your marks in, again.
And hey Randy, if you can get all the media headlines to include the word ‘exonerated’ in the headlines which describe your completely confididential settlement reached outside of a courtroom, I can make shit up too.
Fuck this fucking hack.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 6 days ago:
Yeah… you can tell this guy ain’t a TNG fan.
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life."
- Jean Luc Picard
What is happening here is techbro is now subject to a similar level of ‘trying to find a decent job related bullshit’ that the poors, the formerly middle class, and even the vast majority of other tech workers have been experiencing for… what, at least half a century, if not basically all of the history of capitalism?
His privelege has been nulled, and it affects him personally now, so now its a real problem.
- Comment on Her hook job marks the spot 6 days ago:
Its ok, I don’t think I will actually be running into any female pirates with actual peg legs any time soon.
Also, to reciprocate your knowledge sharing, I also remember now a video of a guy fucking a girl who … basically just had a layer of skin over the part of her skull where her eye would have been… in said psuedo eye socket.
Also a very bad idea.
- Comment on Meme of Theseus 1 week ago:
Perhaps the meme creator doesn’t realize it, but he could be said to be having it ‘my way’ with his customized, Subway derived meme, commenting on the over customization of memes.
youtube.com/watch?v=7VLDUyDVAhs
Sorry Zoomers, you’re too old to have this as a core memory, so it won’t make sense.
But if you do have this context, voila!
Now the entire thing is a meta-joke.
- Comment on Her hook job marks the spot 1 week ago:
… Does the pirate gf… have a pegleg?
Just asking.
No particular reason why.
- Comment on Yet exactly the same 1 week ago:
Beardtie.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
Remember when games used to, at least sometimes… do actual internal beta testing to iron out performance bugs and such?
Now we are all alpha and beta testers, all the time.
Sometimes even AAA and ‘AAAA’ games release, and then unrelease before the alpha or beta is even done!
Yeah, patient gaming for me, haven’t preordered or gone into an early access game in almost a decade now…
- Comment on Anon gets investing advice from Isaac Newton 1 week ago:
'Markets can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.'
- Some other hoity toity British guy
- Comment on Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy 1 week ago:
Ah.
Yes.
That… is a little bit more insane.
Welp.
- Comment on Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy 1 week ago:
I am no fan of this at all…
…but…
Hasn’t… basically every internet capable console been capable of hardware ID level banning itself, upon detecting being tampered with, at least to some extent?
Like I have no interest in a Switch as a gamer, but this basically reads as a gauntlet off the hand, thrown to the ground challenge to hardware hackers.
- Comment on Lemmy when it finds out the beans aren't ready yet 1 week ago:
Sorry I’m late!
- Comment on Search GTA 6 Requirements 1 week ago:
You got it.
Its time to stop acting like all game devs are somehow totally free of responsibility from all this.
I say this as a person who at least used to personally know game devs, mod devs, and I have been modding (as in making the mods) games since the mid 00’s.
Yes, of course management is shitheads.
But there are many game devs who don’t whore themselves out to corpos they know will do this dumb shit.
There are many indie or AA or other devs who build games that are a little bit less graphically fancy, but run 3x as fast.
Go right now and play Titanfall 2, built on a fork of the Portal 2 Source Engine variant, and tell me that any modern, comparable game really looks like it is so much more impressive it needs all the horsepower and cost that goes into getting it to run at the same resolution and framerate.
- Comment on Life is Strange road-trip 1 week ago:
Yep, tons of beautiful scenery along the Pacific Coast Highway, and environs!
Otherwise known as highway 101, from WA down to CA… though I think it becomes Highway 1 at some point in Cali.
I’d seen much of these and similar places in camping/roadtrips/fishing trips as a kid prior to playing Life is Strange though, so I guess it wasn’t as impressive to me, having seen it irl before the games… though the psuedo impressionistic landscape art style is a neat way to depict it.
Either way, great pictures OP!
- Comment on Genius 2 weeks ago:
Omae wa mou shindeiru.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
I am not saying that homes shouldn’t have good construction and maintenance standards.
I am saying that in general, an occasional spider in your room is very likely there because it is hunting other pests that would pose far more risk to your home and yourself than the actual spider.
Please actually read the link I provided and educate yourself.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
… I want to hear this story of ‘that one time I got chased by a massive iguana.’
But I don’t get or really understand the squeamish reaction to… any of those things you just mentioned.
Like, I know they are common in other people, but none of that ever made any sense to me, seems like irrational phobias.
I grew up in the PNW with a lot of outdoor and wild life activities… basically an exurb bordering the boonies, with a highway into a bigger town.
Any time I went anywhere new, some new biome… I would just learn about the local wildlife first.
I used to just play with newts and garter snakes, caught and released different bugs for fun.
Only snake I’ve ever been ‘squeamish’ around was a goddamned actual Northwestern Rattler, which I happened to get tooooo close to by accident once, out on the eastern side of the Cascades.
By too close, I mean, I am trudging through shrubland on a hike on a friend’s property, and suddenly, from somewhere, yep, can’t see it, but I can definitelt hear a persistent rattle, time to freeze, figure out where it is by ear, and back away very, very slowly, hike is done for the day lol.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
On a similar wavelength:
This is why you generally don’t just stomp the shit out of any indoor spider you see … unless you very specifically live in an area where there are actually human-dangerous spiders.
www.thespruce.com/why-spiders-are-good-8690795
Unless you live way out in the boonies, or you really have not been in your basement or attic in a while…
(and lets be real, we’re almost all urban renters now, nobody has a basement or attic rofl)
… chances are, any spider you see indoors is actually only really capable of living in or very near a warm building, and when/if you do see them, it is hunting actual pest insects, and is just shy of totally harmless to you as a human.
Just learn what black widows and brown recluses look like, and if it isn’t one o’ those, you’re fine.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
Oh no I don’t find that idiotic, that is very annoying, literally anywhere, between any two countries.
I guess the workaround is to plan ahead and do your currency exchanges before hand, but at least in the US, if you do that in cash, well now you’re a drug smuggler or something if you’re brown and/or not in the best mood.
I mean, everybody just has the ability to open up bank account debit/credit cards in multiple currencies, right?
Your bank doesn’t do currency exchange?
Not my problem, pleb, stay in your geographically confined area with a particular force of monopolized violence.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
So, I’m from Seattle, basically, and for the longest time I thought no, I do not have an accent.
Then I learned that the reason I thought that was because well, the accent I have is basically the least distinct from the ‘General American English’ or ‘Region Indistinct American’ accent, out of all other regional accents…
With that ‘General American’ accent being what nationwide newscasters, voice actors and movie stars either developed on their own, or were trained into, for being easily intelligible to any other American accent/dialect speaker, or as just sort of a rounded approximation of ‘American’, with no specified regionality to the character.
Thats not to say the PNW or Cali or just general US West accents are all exactly the same as ‘General American’… they are not… its just that they are the least difficult to understand from a general audience perspective… or at least that is the explanation I’ve heard.
As I am aware, the main difference between PNW/Cali English and other US regions is that we have completed the cot-caught merger. Absolutely no difference in pronunciation, the verb sounds are the same… whereas in much of the rest of the US, these are different, distinct vowel sounds. We just use the ‘cot’ pronounciation for both.
Bot cot thot slot thought caught fraught not spot dot.
All the same. No rolling or bending of the first vowel into the u to make a more complex vowel sound, all just ‘bot’ or ‘dot’.
That and pop vs soda vs coke.
For whatever reason, I usually say soda, but that did make me an oddball of most people around me near Seattle saying ‘pop’.
…
There are a few things that I remember being distinct to Californian accents/dialects as compared to Seattle:
One is the rising tone at the end of the sentence… thing.
I always called this a valley girl accent, and this is because no one I knew as a kid spoke that way… unless their family had recently moved north, from Cali.
Now though, it is more common generally in the PNW, at least in my own experience… but also that could literally be because a lot of Californians have migrated north.
Another silly, but super easy tell someone isn’t from Seattle: Their accent may be essentially indistinguishable from a PNW accent… but they always, always refer to I-5, as ‘the 5’… instead of ‘eye-five’.
No one born and raised near Seattle does this.
I-5 is the main highway that goes all the way down from Vancouver BC, through Seattle, Portland, San Fran, LA, and runs through all of those cities, so its a major reference point of conversation in all those places.
And yeah, the regional vocab difference for how people refer to it is an example of a difference.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
Coming soon:
What do you mean my US dollars aren’t accepted at any big intl. tourist locations anymore… I have to actually exchange them?
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 2 weeks ago:
lol, Committee for the Extermination of Eternal September.
