AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana for scale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every country used a system based off body parts or similarly easy-to-measure parts. When the metric system was invented, most of them switched because it was the logic thing to do. Some just decided that the dumb system was better who knows why.

  Spain adopted the metric system in 1852 and by the time, they weren’t the most advanced country.

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

  I never understood why games could not work as books. I mean, when you buy a book, you own that single group of pages containing the words that make the story of said work. But you don’t own the work itself. Meaning that you own the unit containing it but, as you are not the owner of the work, you can’t profit from selling copies of it.

  With a game, it should be the same, when you buy a game, you own either the disc containing it, or (if digital) the unique keycode identifying your copy. You can sell your own copy because you own it, but it doesn’t mean you own the work itself so you can’t copy it nor claim it as yours.

  We really solved it long time ago, yet, for some reason (greed) we can’t use this method on games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meal choice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, like with a bag of salad, except the bag of salad won’t tell you that it’s poison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meal choice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d take the rat poison. It’s gonna give me food poisoning, true. But at least it’s honest about it. With the other “foods” you’ll get food poisoning too, but they don’t sell themselves as poison, so I find it dishonest and not worth of my money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fandom won’t allow adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Please allow ads on this site”

  LOL, lmao even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an user problem. SteamOS is already compatible with many pc’s, and there are other linux distros that work similar to steamos when it comes to updating. Users still want windows when for the majority of them, it’s a non-issue to switch to linux.

  People want windows but then complain that windows is awful. I mean, stop hitting yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Warframe is an MMO and plays fine. Final Fantasy 14 is an MMO and plays fine. So does FF11, so do the mihoyo lot, and a good bunch of gachas. And also many other MMO’s that I’m leaving behind.

  No, it’s not MMO’s, it’s a specific subset of them which is the competititive pvp ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even mmo games but rather competitive multiplayer games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The user does not need to type in password on boot, doesn’t need to update several parts of the system, no need to install drivers.

  That’s how it works on a steam machine/deck. You get an update from steam that updates your whole system. That’s it. If you install other stuff from outside steam then things change, but you can’t do that in a console anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close ad button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t say if this post is full of shit or not because it’s been years now since the last time I saw an ad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Flawed intelligence” what a weird way of saying “People dumb as fucking rocks in charge”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grant Approved⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… smells like a nice, warm, SCAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a bit of an adrenaline junky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t talk to me until you’ve grabbed a product in the supermarket that has the “Open here” text and, instead of opening there, you’ve opened it AT HOME, you coward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Level 5 boss admits using AI for Professor Layton, Yo-Kai Watch reveals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So let me get this straight: The most important part of a game while in development; the trailer, which is basically the “game seller” thing, the element that might make me decide if I want the game or not, it’s AI slop. But somehow, you are telling me the rest of the game won’t be? I mean, even the damn presentation itself, not just trailers, was AI slop. How the hell do you expect me to believe that you are not using it for the game if you used it (and poorly so) for the event in which you were supposed to show me why should I buy the game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Football.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t fall, they jump trying to land inside the hotel’s pool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Football.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a hobby: they get drunk and jump off their hotels’ balconies trying to land in the pool with different degrees of success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Football.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How Spaniards see British People: (Symbolic depiction using non-human parts) image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And not only. I can make a voice or video call to my family abroad with any IM app (whatsapp, telegram, signal, discord… pick your poison) for free because I have tons of gb of data in my cell plan. Meanwhile, making a phone call will cost me dearly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF?! Players in AU have to use a CC for age verification via steam just to view "violent" games!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks to me like malicious compliance. Make the gamers pissed so they protest to who can change the law.

  Also, at least they are not asking for a photo of your ID, so here’s that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because when Whatsapp was born, SMS were paid (and not cheaply). In my country, sending one SMS cost 0.19€ at the time and didn’t allow pics to be send. Meanwhile, with 10€ I could have 1-2GB of data that allowed for tens of thousands of messages to be sent while on mobile data and unlimited messages while I was on a wifi connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody is doubting that. We are just saying you are fucking nazis trying to exterminate a people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French:⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lo so, ma è “singolare” nel senso che la maggior parte dei sostantivi italiani finiti in -a o in -o sono singolari. Quando uno impara la lingua venendo da altre, risulta abbastanza confusionario perche una delle prime cose che si capiscono è che in base alla vocale con la cui finisce il sostantivo o l’aggettivo, si può evincere se questo è singolare, plurale, maschile o femminile ma con le parti del corpo questo non si applica.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French:⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.