Godort

@Godort@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't want to pay child support. Denies he is the father of this boy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When you need to be absolutely sure of something, “looks like” is not sufficient evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤷‍♂️ → E⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is owning your own video games to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a complicated topic for me, I think.

  With console games, no. I will only ever buy a physical version because taking the game out of the case and putting it into the machine is a quintessential part of the experience. It’s the same reason why I like buying music on vinyl. There is a whole little ritual involved that makes it so much more enjoyable.

  I’ve somehow deluded myself when it comes to PC games though. Digital distribution is just so fucking convenient. Putting a CD/Diskette in the machine and then running an installer always felt more like a chore than part of the whole experience.

  I like the middle ground that GOG is trying to foster, (we’ll host these as long as possible, but we welcome you to download and save them forever) but realistically, I only play through most games once, and sometimes it takes me months or years to finish. So for me, an $80 rental with a multi-year lease time is something I would personally consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If a bad person supports a good cause, that doesn’t make the cause bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mood⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wait until you start seeing athletes.

  Basically every Hockey player looks like a child now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #268 Time for a Commercial Break! SpongeBob Adventures is brought to you by...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But those are clearly wasps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new mini fridge's lock instructions are helpful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Self-imposed rules are useless because I know the guy who imposed them and he’s full of shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally PS6⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus, that video is 17 years old. I started following LRR right around when this came out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delish 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s a rinsing machine. It’s rinsing the inside of those cream puffs with pastry cream

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuq⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn from my mistake.

  When you go to buy a belt and it says 34", that means it’s 34 inches. Not “This is the belt to buy if your pants size is 34”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The best way I’ve heard it described is like if Sherlock Holmes was written by Tom Clancy.

  Reacher is not a thinking man’s story and comes with the baggage that the story is delivered through the lens of a stereotypical Republican hero, but I had fun with the TV show despite all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering planting it in my garden at this point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have something to try next time I have some fresh mint in the house

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering planting it in my garden at this point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mint in pasta?

  I’m intrigued. Explain further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An impossible choice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $19 right now, obviously. If I get hit by a bus and die between now and tomorrow, then I’ll have ended up with nothing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was their own suggestion 🤷🏻⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, you could pay me double and I still wouldn’t take my boss’s job. The amount of bullshit meetings and sales/marketing shit that guy has to endure is not enviable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How would this even be enforced?

  Like, it seems like it would be a trivial process to just install a firmware package without the blocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WeChat is like Facebook and Venmo combined into one app. I understand that it pretty much replaced cash entirely in China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I could quit AI anytime I want to⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The loss of AI would barely be noticable for the average person. A bunch of developers would have a bad day trying to remove all that integration they were forced by management to add, but beyond that, people would move on.

  Removing the Internet as a whole at this stage would be basically impossible without halting pretty much every economic force on the planet, I think. The Internet acts as the backbone of pretty much everything related to monetary transactions or logistics in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨keep scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, why the fuck did they take all the donuts out of the box and just put them on the table like that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certified post about shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When this happens, the only thing that can make you feel remotely human again is to fully shower afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This shit's stupid as hell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The customer is always right.

  If people buy the thing, then it wasn’t stupid to make or sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Greed has been a problem in the AAA game space for a long time. It’s just that before reliable Internet connections, it was harder to exploit people.

  Before this, it was lootboxes and gambling Mechanics, before that, it was microtransactions, balancing the game to incentivise spending money, and before that it was chopping bits off the game and selling it as DLC.

  Prior to that, the worst we got was cheap sequels and shovelware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, you’re who Bad Dragon goes to for those size comparison photos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apu sitting in the corner out of picture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tord from Eddsworld

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Several of my guests requested them. I didn't know how to make one. So I called the help line⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  • Pick a good amount of mint leaves and place them in a highball glass (use more than you think you need. Somewhere around 12)

  • Juice a lime and add one of the halves to the glass

  • Use a muddler(or the back of a spoon) to express oils from the lime and mint(you want to bruise the leaves but not pulverize them)

  • Add 2 Oz of a good white rum(this is the star of the drink so make sure it’s good. I recommend Havana club if you live outside the US.)

  • Add 3/4 Oz of the lime juice you squeezed earlier

  • Add between 1 and 2 Oz of simple syrup, depending on how sweet you want it to be. (Personally I go for 1.5)

  • Add ice and stir until the glass is uncomfortable to hold(about 60 seconds)

  • Top with club soda until the glass is completely full

  • Add a straw and garnish with a lime wheel and a mint sprig

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally HR does something right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct. HR is not your friend and they are there to make sure that the company is not liable for any damages. If you are in the rare position where upper management is not your opponent and whatever shit is happening can float up to them, then HR can be used as a weapon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The store that sells them is not dumb enough to use them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best argument I heard for getting one of these was an appeal to laziness.

  Either the robot vacuum cleans the floor, or it simply doesn’t happen unless it gets bad enough to justify the time spent doing it. It’s better to live in a house with perpetually clean floors rather than one where the floors get bad enough until you’re forced to take action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still waiting for a response...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The text was sent back in the wild west

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a shockingly common view of this movie. In fact, most media that features a villain protagonist tends to have this problem. Look at Breaking Bad, Fight Club, or American Psycho.

  They present the reasons why the villain makes the decisions they do, in a way that is sympathetic to the audience, then it turns into a bit of a power fantasy before their fall at the end. A lot of people seem to look at the power fantasy portion as fighting against an unjust world, rather than an abuse of normal people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, I can’t wait to pick up a copy of Project Hail Mary on VHS. I’m sure that will be widely available and easy to purchase