Wolf
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- Comment on Eurythmics straight-up kills that guy 1 day ago:
There used to be this cashier at the local bodega. Always such a huge grump. I tried to be extra friendly to him because he was clearly not enjoying life.
One day the video store I worked at got these bomb ass fancy lollipops I bought a bunch and happened to have some in my pocket the next time the cashier waited on me.
He was in one of his moods of course so I spontaneously decided to offer him a lollipop. He looked more pissed than every and just said “I’m Diabetic”. I stopped trying to be extra nice to grumpy people after that.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 1 day ago:
This person trying to blue themselves.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 3 days ago:
That’s my secret Cap.
I’ve always been insane! 🤪
- Comment on A real lifehack 5 days ago:
You’re not sure when you went to middle school?
You are saying that there was a young lady who was drunk at school and what- flashed you? And the teachers saw this and or knew about it somehow and were fine with it?
The juvenile in me is slightly jealous that your school was so relaxed. The adult in me is horrified that the people who were left in charge of children were unconcerned by an alcoholic 13 year old.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 6 days ago:
As cringe as this gal is (I don’t watch her videos either) I can stomach her easier than the 77 Million people who voted for Trump. I’d much rather focus on fixing whatever is wrong with them over this neo-hippie.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 6 days ago:
If you want good American food, when you get here go to a Chinese restaurant.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
Oops, I worded that funky. I didn’t mean to accuse you of doing that, just talking about people in general.
I just think it’s an interesting fact.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
Did you know Dr. Seuss name is actually pronounced more like Zoyce or Soice (rhymes with voice, not moose)? And he wanted people to pronounce it correctly?
I’m actually usually unconcerned by how people pronounce things, but I think taking a man’s own name away goes a bit far.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
It’s ‘Guh doh’ I believe.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
Mostly I was just joking around though, pronounce stuff however you want.
😉
I usually pronounce Volkswagen as “Vee-Double-You”
I say actually say Hyundai just like you around normies, but my bff and I have an In-joke where we call them “Hyun-uh-Die” because one time when she was on the phone with someone from the Insurance company, they corrected her pronunciation to that.
I actually love to mispronounce things on purpose, it might be why I chose “Jif” as my little hill to die on lol.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
If the vast majority is wrong it doesn’t make them right.
Sure, but who decides which one is right and which one is wrong? In the case of .Gif the people who made it said that it should be pronounced Jif, like the peanut butter, but a lot of people have an issue with that.
Koreans pronounce Hyundai as “Hai-un-dai”, but if you say that or Volkswagen the ‘right’ way in America people look at you like you are crazy.
One not being korean, it’s acceptable to approximate.
Ok, but it’s not hard do say “Hai-un-dai”, even though most Americans say “Hun-day”, even in official TV commercials from Hyundai themselves.
In Japan they pronounce sandwich, like Sandoichi. Is it acceptable for them to approximate? Does it being acceptable equate to it being ‘correct’?
These are all very questions.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
Tell that to the SQL folks.
I did, they say they agree with me.
How do you pronounce Porsche? Do you say “Por-shh” or “Por-shuh”?
What about Volkswagen? Is it Volks-wah-gen or Volks-vah-gun?
How about Hyundai? “Hon-Day” or “Hai-un-dai”
If you look up the ‘correct’ way to pronounce them, I bet you will get a different answer to what you thought it was. Are the former pronunciations only correct in the U.S. but when you travel to Germany or South Korea they become incorrect?
Your argument is a descriptivist one, but how do you determine which is the ‘right’ pronunciation if both ways of pronouncing a thing are commonly used?
And yes, it’s “sequel”. And “gif” like “gift”.
Interesting, so what do you think of the people in this thread who say that LaTeX is pronounced “Lay-tech”? Would the ‘right’ way to say it change if enough people started pronouncing it ‘wrong’?
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
The PB is spelled Jif, not Jiff.
The acronym isn’t ridiculous, it’s how the creator of the acronym pronounced it. People should be able to name their own babies.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
Yoosey mothers use yiff!
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
the people who pronounce GIF like the peanut butter.
I call it ‘Jiff’ and will defend it to the death, for no other reason than I think it’s hilarious to have a very strong opinion on something so irrelevant. People get soo mad about it :D
- Comment on Anon does the shopping 1 week ago:
Come over to my place sometime.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, he was a cracker. Here’s the thing though, in other ways he seems like a perfectly normal and decent human being.
We passed by an Amish produce stand and he had me stop. He got a bunch of fresh Veggies and then we stopped at a Chinese restaurant where he went inside and gave the lady working there a bunch of them. As we were leaving he even had a short conversation with her in Chinese. I’m sure it was very simple things like “Have a good one” and “Goodbye” or something similar, but I thought it was cool he had learned it. That kind of thing is pretty rare around here.
In the car he was telling me how they had recently lost one of their children in a car accident. It was heartbreaking. Sounds like he has known them for quite while.
He then had me drive to a neighboring college town that has people from all over the world come to go to school, so it’s a fairly diverse place. He was telling me he liked it there because there were so many different kinds of interesting people. We stopped by his Dry Cleaners which was also ran by Chinese people and he left them with the other half of the vegetables.
Then on the way out of town he had me stop at the International Market. He asked me if I had ever tried Eel before and when I said I hadn’t he bought me a couple of cans (it’s ok, nothing to write home about imo).
So yeah, he was an old white redneck, but he wasn’t a total piece of shit and fairly open minded about some things. I’m not sure why he hates roundabouts, but that attitude is super common around here, among all sorts of people.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘can’t figure it out’ as much as ‘don’t like change’. We’ve been putting them roundabouts in my shithole state and the number of people who complain about them boggles the mind. They will successfully navigate them, but they’ll whinge about it the whole time.
This happened to me just the other day as I was chauffeuring some good old boy around. Mind you he wasn’t even driving, but still had to let it be known that he disapproved. There was no traffic so I barely had to slow down to navigate the intersection and his input was “I hate these things, they just slow you down!”. I tried pointing out that if it had been a 4-way stop we would have had to stop, so it was actually faster this way. I don’t know if he was immune to logic or just unwilling to admit that something that was different than what he was used to had a benefit, but he just repeated that he hated them, so I dropped the subject.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 weeks ago:
When a problem comes along, you must lick it Before the cream sets out too long, you must lick it When something’s going wrong, you must lick it
- Comment on Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16] 2 weeks ago:
Bill Burr has been saying a lot of ‘woke’ things lately, and I’m here for it.
- Comment on RIP 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 weeks ago:
Same rules apply. If you don’t want it there, it’s a weed. If you don’t mind it being there, it isn’t.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 3 weeks ago:
My very first blowjob was the best thing ever. I’ve never disliked them afterwards, but I can relate to what you are saying.
None of my other girlfriends had been into it, which was fine. I would never pressure someone into doing something that they didn’t want to do. Then I met this woman and we hit it off almost immediately. On our fist date I brought her a Red Rose and did my best to behave like a gentleman. This impressed her and she asked me to ‘wait until she was more comfortable with me’ before having sex, to which I happily agreed.
Over the next week I saw her several times, and each time our make out sessions would get more and more steamy. Finally just a week later it had been enough time. Turns out she was kind of a Nympho and waiting was just as hard for her as it was for me. She texted me at work to let me know and asked me to pick her up after I got off. On the car ride to my place she made a speech about how I shouldn’t expect blowjobs because she reserves that for very special people and she wasn’t going to be just anybody’s ‘Blowjob Queen’. I said that was fine with me.
I was all gross and sweaty from working a full day, and when we got back to my place I told her I needed to hop in the shower real quick before we got busy. She said that it didn’t matter to her and that she was ready to go. I insisted though because I didn’t feel sexy being that sweaty. I have never washed myself faster in life, but less than 3 minutes after getting in the shower she opens the shower curtain and was standing there in a black see through negligee, asking me what was taking so long. That finally convinced me that I was clean enough so I hopped out of the shower and said just give me 30 seconds to brush my teeth.
You can probably guess what happened next. Standing there in the bathroom with toothpaste still in my mouth and brushing like a madman, she decided to be my Queen after all. It was so hot, no one in life has ever made me feel as attractive and wanted as she did that night.
I should have married her.
- Comment on we are creators 3 weeks ago:
Only thing I, as a European, know about MLK is that “I have a dream” speech and that he has something to do with rights for black people in America. My memory stops there.
Unless this is a joke and I’m just being dense, I believe Natanox was talking about Martin Luther, and not Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (MLK).
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
Cool, I’ll check it out. I’m not a dev so I mainly use GitHub to download and install other peoples work. It’s nice to know that there is a decent alternative for people who need it.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
That used to be the case, it is enabled by default now.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
Those instructions are about how to reinstall SteamOS on your deck. A little further down the page it talks about how to install on other handheld PC’s like the Legion Go and ROG Ally.
Currently, expanded support includes devices with AMD hardware and an NVME drive, targeted toward handheld devices. Please note, support for all devices that is not officially ‘Powered by SteamOS’ is not final (currently anything that is not a Steam Deck or Legion Go S)
While you technically can download it and people have been able to install it on their PC’s, Valve doesn’t recommend doing so.
They probably will (hopefully) have a version targeted toward PC’s in the future, but it’s not there yet.
If you want a SteamOS style experience on desktop you would be better off using Bazzite since that is what it’s designed for.
You are correct that it is possible to do, but it’s not recommended.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
If you are going to compete with AAA games it’s going to require a big budget, which not all Devs have access to.
A high quality AA game would probably do great, but would be unlikely to outsell a AAA with hundreds of millions of dollars for budget.
Obsidian made a fantastic game with Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire but it was considered a ‘failure’ sales wise (at least at launch), despite being well received.
Obsidian sold to Micro$oft despite making very high quality games and their crowdfunding campaigns consistently earning more money than they were asking for. The stated reason was they found it hard to keep their employees paid consistently and they didn’t want to lay people off. Also that they thought they could do just as good as other big players in the industry if they had access to larger budgets.
I think it was a bad move. They managed to survive the massive round of 9,000 jobs cuts to Microsoft’s gaming division (this time), but you just know that Microsoft would cut them in a heartbeat if they though it would save them a dime in the future. That being said I think it’s understandable to want to see your employees paid, and it’s just a sad fact that AAA games require huge budgets nowadays, so I can kind of understand why they sold, even if I don’t agree with it.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
You Don’t Need a F-ing Publisher*
*unless you do.
It would just require smaller teams making lower budget games that are more focused on Art than sales, which I would be really happy about honestly. Too many people are in this industry solely to rake in the big bucks.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
Very often they do, but now always. In this particular case they do.
