Underwaterbob

@Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember your princiPLEs, he’s your princiPAL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Having less fun, though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I’ll have to check it out. Not sure I’m willing to give up my current workflow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not tried Bitwig yet. Reaper is my jam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pew pew!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha! I refuse to even look at modular. Well. I did once or twice, and got frightened off pretty quickly. So much coolness. So much money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cries in synthesizers.

  At least there are a bunch of great budget options these days. Still not cheap though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you hate AI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is trained on the Internet. Look at the bullshit on the Internet. AI will take some random schmoe’s bullshit opinion and present it as hard fact.

  That, and it just re-introduced the problem of being able to see search results without visiting any of the resultant websites. The last time, sites ended up burying answers down the page to avoid being able to see results in search previews. Making everything shittier. What kind of response is there going to be to AI summaries? Everything will undoubtedly get even shittier as sites try to get people to visit and not just read the AI summary. Hello even more obfuscation. We’re taking the greatest method of spreading information around the globe ever devised and just absolutely filling it to the brim with bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always wear protection, folks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always? OK, I guess. It’s probably going to make teaching hard, though.

  Oh shit, this is that stupid fucking comic again, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This song, it's infectious⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha! I live in Korea and have a daughter who was not-so-briefly completely obsessed with this movie. I know all of the words at this point. English and Korean. I didn’t mind at first. It’s starting to drive me a bit nuts, now. Also, it is some pretty blatant propaganda for the grist mill that is the Kpop industry. Despite the subtle nods to the contrary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemon Toss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the first pictures, the knight would clearly be of the “upper” class. Your chances of being some peon in a field are much, much higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy isn’t continuous. Aside from races, the occasional character name, and some thematic elements, the games are not connected at all. PS2 has two of the best: 10 and 12.

  Of the two, 10 is a more traditional turn-based experience with notoriously awful-in-a-good-way voice acting and a very typical FF plot. It’s not really a spoiler to say that you end up killing god. It features some of the most egregiously awful mini games to grace the franchise. And if you want some of the best gear in the game, you will be committing a not -insignificant amount of time to frustrating button mashing.

  Square tried a whole bunch of new stuff with 12 including realtime, MMO-like combat and a much smaller and focused narrative that is mostly a side story occurring inside a larger narrative. The voice acting is infinitely better than 10’s, and there are no obnoxious mini games.

  They’re both still worth playing. The PC ports don’t add all that much to the games over what you can do with them emulated. In fact, I bet save states make some of the mini game awfulness of 10 better.

  I did not intend to write an essay…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piegoth Ur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bocca Della Verita!!

  Stick your hand in there and say something. If it’s a lie, lose your fingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THEY'RE EVOLVING⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THEY'RE EVOLVING⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I’m a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to play through it recently. Game was OK, but fuck their stupid launcher. I want nothing to do with GTAO, so why do I have to load into its menu every single time I go to play the game and suffer through a bunch of ads to play a fucking single player game I paid for? I uninstalled about ten hours in. I might pirate it. It’s probably a better experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They won’t because the bullshit is profitable. Yeah, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong are all fantastic games and sold very well, but their numbers don’t even come close to something like Grand Theft Auto or Fortnite. The bullshit will continue as long as “gamers” keep foisting money at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play inverted. If it wasn’t inverted, I’d flail around helplessly. Then one day, inverted didn’t feel right, and I had to switch. It’s been that way ever since. Sometime during the PS2 era I think. I played equal numbers of PC and console games up to that point. Dunno why it happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I remember a few sad runbacks with populations looking pretty sparse…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quiet place⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and the waterfall blocked their hearing entirely. Might be a good idea to go live there, even. Especially if you’re, y’know, pregnant.

  And some random guy in his house discovers the sound that messes them up. Apparently the military failed to try playing loud sounds at aliens with super sensitive hearing. Just never occurred to them to try that I guess.

  Annddd, if their hearing is that crazy sensitive, they’d be jumping at every random raccoon fart and bird dropping. There’s no way they could pick humans out over any distance. Sound is just a pressure wave through a medium, and doesn’t actually get that far with an appreciable amount of energy left over. These things would have to be everywhere to be such a threat, yet you hardly see any in the movie.

  Maybe entertaining, but it holds up to precisely zero scrutiny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The run to Blue Smelter nearly gave me a coronary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something we all can agree on⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the George Carlin bit about driving, “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha! Now you’re just taking the piss. Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and any number of modern composers have composed plenty of music in 4/4. Whatever bias you have against western music, there’s no denying they knew their shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, 4/4 is definitely the easiest to dance to. It’s also the easiest to ignore in lieu of whatever else is going on musically. It appeals to the lowest common denominator. Not that 4/4 has to be boring or predictable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to argue this stuff online. I had to quit for my sanity. If anyone wants a sample of the absolute insane beliefs and the staggering amount of handwaving these people are capable of, I suggest checking out evolutionfairytale.com. They will unironically claim to be objective, then a sentence later tell you that “proper science literature” is to be discredited because it has a pro-evolution bias. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fast-forward through the songs...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once More with Feeling

  It’s possibly the only good example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WrestleMania was running wild on you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It took approximately an hour after Ozzy Osbourne died for every single Black Sabbath video on YouTube to be inundated with “R.I.P. Ozzy” comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm intrigued⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An ex and I were on a bus trip to a city about an hour away from where we lived while we taught English in Korea. The subject of there being a “subway” in said city came up randomly. She said she thought she had seen one the last time she was there. I had been there more times than she had and said there was no subway. She doubled down. No, she was quite sure she had seen one near the university. I doubled down, I’ve been there quite a few times. There’s no way they have a subway. It’s not even big enough for one! It got pretty heated. This went on for some time. Feelings were hurt.

  She was talking about the sandwich restaurant, and I was talking about underground trains. We were both right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Xarelto”, or alternatively “cereal with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, crushed peanuts, raisins, dried cranberries, and Greek yogurt” if medicine doesn’t count.