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- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 day ago:
While the characters are based on Charlton Comics characters DC had recently acquired (Dr. Manhattan ≈ Captain Atom, Rorschach ≈ The Question, Nite Owl ≈ Blue Beetle, Silk Spectre ≈ Nightshade, and possibly also Quality Comics’ Phantom Lady and DC’s own Black Canary, Ozymandias ≈ Thunderbolt, The Comedian ≈ Peacemaker), Moore’s story is mostly original, inasmuch as stories can be.
- Comment on Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims? 2 weeks ago:
Colonizing: definitely. Warlord: 100%, if that’s what you’re into. 20 cats: only the one, I believe; and a dog, if they can get along. But there are mods. Perpetually horny: oh, yeah. Practically the name of the game. Unless you become impotent, of course, or live in Byzantium and get on your liege’s bad side. Getting your house on fire: metaphorically…? Sure, constantly. Literally? I don’t think there’s an event for that, but there’s that one with the basement full of manure…
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t trust books when it comes to hunting mushrooms.
Don’t go hunting mushrooms unless your family’s taken you hunting mushrooms since you were a kid (and even then only in regions you’re familiar with, and even then don’t pick any mushroom you’re not 110% certain of, and if you’re not an idiot), or accompanied by someone with that experience verifying every single mushroom you find before picking it up, and telling you why and how it’d’ve killed you or why it wouldn’t’ve tasted good.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
Death flights have quite a long history, sadly, and were a favourite of far right South American dictatorships promoted by the USA…
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 1 month ago:
Shark’s only smooth from front to back. Otherwise shark’s sandpaper.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 1 month ago:
Some lectures and instruction videos are only watchable at 4x or higher.
Luckily there’s extensions and alternative apps that provide a much better user experience than the default one, including being able to increase playback speed as much as you want.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Well, there was that little thing called the black death, if I recall correctly…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century
Hm… wasn’t there like a 33% dip back in the fourteenth, not counting subsequent migration to the cities and whatnot…?
- Comment on I was there... 1 month ago:
Unless your name was Sarah Connor, of course.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 2 months ago:
There are two main issues with incest: 1) offspring, which should be avoided unless you check the embryos for issues and discard any that would have health problems due to inbreeding, and 2) the possible existence of power dynamics that might make consent too questionable to be acceptable.
Two sufficiently mature (I think this excludes about 90% of the population, but that’s probably my cynicism talking) adults, who have the means to live independently (so no dangerous power dynamics), and at least one of which is naturally or artificially sterile (or who physically can’t have children for other reasons, for instance due to having incompatible genitals), sure, go ahead, have fun.
Otherwise, there’s too much risk of harming one or both of the participants, or their potential offspring.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 2 months ago:
As someone with thousands of tabs currently open on about a dozen windows, just open more tabs.
And if you can’t find an adequate window in which to open them, just open them in a new window.
If even that becomes unmanageable, open another browser.
And if you don’t want to switch from whatever tabs you’ve got open and are already using all your monitors, open it on your phone.
Just make sure to set all your browsers to reopen all tabs after closing, and a session manager extension for when the browser refuses to reopen them (not that you should ever be closing the browser or most programs, or shutting down the computer, of course, but just in case.
Also, if you’re on Windows the SysInternals RamMap utility comes in handy when things start to get sluggish and you need to free memory in a hurry (paginate, really, but same difference). Killing dwm.exe also helps.
- Comment on Sunday feeling 2 months ago:
Oh, hey, my spirit animal.
- Comment on IF NO HEN 2 months ago:
No eggs?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The stuff those things eat, they’re surely toxic as fuck. Plus, they’re parasites animal cruelty shouldn’t apply to them. And birds. Should’ve gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of their ilk.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
just throw them away
If I get my hands on one of those things I’m not throwing it away before repeatedly smashing it as hard as I can against the most solid surface I can find in the vicinity. Or against another seagull, if possible.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 months ago:
In the conditions in which they made it, porridge was often also beer(ish).
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 months ago:
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 months ago:
Same here. Old PC (though quite good for the time), no issues whatsoever.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 months ago:
The most horrific part, is that we can’t tell the difference.
Controlled by LLMs or not, their actions would be indistinguishable.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 months ago:
We’re talking execs here, not people.
Of course they’ve got smart people they’re still in the process of getting rid of, but they’re not who the OP was asking about, and they’re mostly irrelevant anyway (and have been since long before LLMs became a problem), since they’re not the ones making decisions.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 months ago:
No. They’re drinking their own coolaid.
They’ve offloaded what little thinking they did to LLMs (not that LLMs can think, but in this case it makes no difference), and at this point would no longer be able to function if they had to think for themselves.
Don’t think of them as human people with human needs.
They’re mere parasites, all higher functions withered away through lack of use, now more than ever.
They could die and be replaced by their chatbots, and we wouldn’t notice a difference.
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 2 months ago:
That’s German engineering for you.
- Comment on Off the Rails 2 months ago:
They’re called sperm whales because of the spermaceti organ, which is probably used to make them loud as fuck, and which contains a liquid which whalers mistook for sperm.
- Comment on Off the Rails 2 months ago:
But we made bananas (and most other fruits) the way they are!
Fucking good for nothing gods, always taking credit for things we humans did all by ourselves…
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 2 months ago:
Noo, the Bagger 288 is designed to fight off godzillas and doom robots from the future!
Any incidental global destruction is mere completely unintended collateral damage.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 2 months ago:
Whenever I can hold them flat and horizontal without bending when grabbed by a corner.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 2 months ago:
From the anime adaptation of the manga Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Explain how protein folding software, which predates “genAI” by decades and has as many similarities with it as with Tetris, has anything to do with this conversation.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 2 months ago:
