AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Italian: many body parts are male gendered in singular, like arm: “braccio” and use the relative article; so “the arm” is “il braccio”. However, to make the plural, you use the female gendered SINGULAR version of the word and the female plural article. So “the arms” become “le braccia”. But that only works for some body parts, as others work differently!

  Eg: with foot and feet, we use the normal rule: foot (piede) is male so uses the male singular article (il piede). And feet (piedi) remains male and uses the male plural article (i piedi). However, hand (mano) is considered a female gendered word (although it ends with -o which generally means it’s male gendered) and uses female articles.

  Also: we don’t talk about accents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad, was probably a typo when typing while talking IRL 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Italy, socialized healthcare:

  Last year I got involved in a crazy car accident that left me with serious injuries.

  1 hour after the accident I already had the first MRI done, a specialist surgeon saw me, determined that my injuries needed a second MRI and a CT scan but that they were not life threatening. A couple of hours later I had all the required tests done and assigned a bed in a room to start recovering. 3 days later I had back surgery and some more days in the hospital to rest. My injuries were not life threatening but the OR was ready for me from the moment they called the hospital saying they were bringing a multi-trauma patient.

  In a few months from now, I’ll have to go back to remove the bars they put in my back to keep the vertebrae in place.

  The total cost of the whole ordeal was exactly 0€ (unless we want to count the book I asked for to read something during my stay).

  Fuck the US healthcare vigorously with a spiked stick. If this happened there, I’d be better death because the debt I’d have now would be insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying new trends is a choice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  KeeperFX is a modern port of the game that makes it run on modern pcs. It needs the jase game of course but it comes with mod support so after you install keeperfx, mods are basically plug&play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pauline Hanson still doesn't like Mardi Gras, says sexuality should be 'behind closed doors'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! Yes! Which is why whatever I have between MY legs and whatever I like to do in MY bedroom, which is closed to you, should be NONE OF YOUR AND YOUR CREEPY FRIENDS’ FUCKING BUSINESS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work rule⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my job, the philosophy is: if you can’t end it bè the end of your shift, you are understaffed, and if so, then the problem is not yours, so go home and finish it tomorrow.

  Unless it’s a real emergency, obviously, but those are so rare that I rarely end up a year with more than 10 hours of overtime at the end of december.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Its only problem is that they called it “blue”, had they chosen a different name that had nothing to do with “blue the game” it would have been an awesome movie.’

  Every single time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PANAMA CANAL: COMING SOON⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see him forcefully open the canal during El Niño. I’m gonna laugh so hard when ships start sinking and the canal must close for an even longer period that it would have been without his meddlings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indie doesn’t mean “small and pixel art game”. It means the studio is independent. Kingdom Come and BG3 were made by independent studios with little to no help from pubblishers (if any at all).

  The rest you mentioned at max could be considered AA or simply A games IF there was a pubblisher behind them helping with development. What you said was a world of AAA games aside those mentioned is actually a world out there aside AAA games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The gaming industry is truly messed up…⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The big studios keep giving me reasons to never ever buy one of their games and not even pirate them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turn off the internet, go outside and if it doesn’t work, seek help. You are hating the wrong people here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you ok? Because you don’t seem to be ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You say this as if that weren’t the desirable option…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Tesseract and why are people upset?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Long story short:

  A snowflake created a frontend for lemmy in which they added a hidden blacklist of communities, people and even words that were shadowbanned for everyone using it without informing first, so if you used it, you’d be seeing a censored version of the fediverse based solely on one person’s opinion about what you should be seeing there.

  Some smart people discovered this and the community didn’t take it too well for how it was made (in particular, how it was not optional but forced on the user).

  The dev of the frontend wasn’t happy about it and ragequitted with a letter in which they basically say that we are all mad here (except them) and that the fediverse can’t be saved because we are all pissed about this (as if they were our one and only saviour or some crap).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deja Vu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, who said I hate it? It’s a great list of users worth following and knowing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got regex-ed. The idiot is making sure I am not seen on their shitty app even if I jump instance, I guess I have pissed them enough. Checking the list of banned words I probably called the orange turd a bunch of them and said the rest a frequently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo is not your friend. It has no interest in passing any of its potential savings onto you, and the only reason it’s ever interested in your bank account is when it’s thinking about how much money it can get out of it.

  Some (too many) people fail to understand this extremely basic concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't worry guys, it's just cosmetic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no. The now now would be a barebones game with half features cut and bugs galore, a roadmap of dlc’s announced (with a couple or 10 season pass programmed) that will be scrapped a month after the launch because the game is not profitable enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the spelling for me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  W’erh’e

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Keys you buy on amazon for ps5 are created by sony so they dictate the price. Devs on steam can create their own keys to sell outside steam. That’s why you see keys in bundle on humble or fanatical for steam and you don’t see them for ps5.

  Unless you have an extreme FOMO, you can get many games for pennies when they bundle them or when they go on deep sale (something that, btw, is not dictated by steam but by the dev/pubblisher).

  Just see this month’s humble monthly or last month’s and tell me you can find that many games for so little money on physical.

  On top of that, as I said, GoG, itch and epic exist, and they are not Steam so you don’t need Steam to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Although pc is only digital, there is athuge difference between it and consoles: you don’t have to buy from steam to get your games cheap, There is a huge amount of stores that sell steam keys at a fraction of their cost. There’s bundles and if you don’t want steam, there’s also gog, itch…

  If sony goes all digital, you’ll only have sony to buy games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Urine Luck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh… I learned that when I was a kid thanks to a cartoon series that explained how the body works in a friendly manner for children. Did you really need to get to the college to learn that kidneys filter your blood to produce the urine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does dried pasta have an expiration date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in Europe (but I suppose it’s the same in other places), what you have in packaging is either expiry date or best before date.

  There is a fundamental difference between the two that everyone should know to understand how those dates work:

  On expiry date, it means that after said date, there is microbiological contamination risk of the good. So you shouldn’t eat/use it after the date. It applies to fresh goods, cosmetics and others.

  On best before date, it means that the product, after said date will be most probably safe to eat but it’s organoleptic properties might be altered (e.g. change in colour, funny taste…). After a best before date, you should check for the item to see if visually there’s something wrong on it (especially if packaging is open), but if it’s been kept in it’s packaging unopened, it’s almost certainly safe to eat. Pasta and other dried foods generally fall into this category and, if you look at the packaging, you’ll see that unless is fresh pasta, it includes a best before not an expiry date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What if they run out of bytes because everyone is downloading at the same time? Preordering allows you to have your bytes to download already assigned., right?

  I like to imagine that this is the answer they give if you ask the reason to preorder a digital game several months ahead its launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of news should be paired with the pre-order numbers of GTA6. To better understand how many of the Sony users actually care about this.

  Hint: it’s not a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to see a 2D MMORPG of Aincrad, one with proper scale.

  Ragnarok. I still miss that game in the state it was in the early 2000. Those years were the golden era of the MMORPGs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not literally, but it’s kind of a joke that the anime paints an MMORPG world and, in the best cases, you can only play with a few friends. It would be nice if we actually had a non-lethal Aincrad MMORPG instead of the sorry excuses of a cash-grab they are making every time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t, until they do. Or until you drop them and fall in a bad way and break, or until you forget them somewhere or lose them. I mean, I don’t really care, you do you; but you seem really hostile to the idea of carrying a small wallet with your cards while trusting everything to an electronic device that might fail for no apparent reason.

  I already got once in a situation where my phone died and having my cards with me made the whole ordeal way easier than if they had to figure out who I were without any kind of id. I really hope you don’t ever get in one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you live that you think you have the same odds of getting hit by a meteorite than of getting hit by a car while crossing the street?

  Again, if your phone fails, how do you pay? How do you get identified? Without physical cards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. But you said that you can leave your wallet at home, hence leaving all your documents on it and carrying just your phone. You can get involved in a car crash without driving by being a passanger or simply someone walking on the street or biking.