ButteryMonkey
@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
- Comment on *Yawn* 2 days ago:
You saw an animal open their mouth big? Have fun.
- Comment on challenge 2 days ago:
Take a day off, or like, just quit instead.
- Comment on Definitely how it went for me 2 days ago:
Apart from the front panel connectors on a motherboard, of course. Those fiddly little bastards can get straight to hell.
I’m so excited to understand what this means! (Just did my first ever build… or rebuild I guess using a case from 2012)
I mean I’m not excited excited, because yeah fiddly little bastards.. single pin connectors on that scale should be illegal.
- Comment on Not impressed 1 week ago:
Then why is the mushroom (that we see) called the fruiting body?
It’s obviously a fruit.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 week ago:
Why not grassroots? Let’s start the movement!
- Comment on Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event. 1 week ago:
My state had it all lined up and funded and everything decades ago, and a republican came in and scrapped the whole thing. For no good reason.
It would be operational by now and would have connected all the major urban areas in the region. 45 min trip instead of a 5 hour drive.
I will never not be salty about that.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 2 weeks ago:
Probably. Her standards weren’t that high; I’ve met my dad.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 2 weeks ago:
Which is reasonable from what my mom told me. She agreed those were the best.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 weeks ago:
Do you have any links to these, or names I can look for? I’m genuinely into that sort of social norm bucking, as a comfort-in-skin-over-propriety sort of gal myself, and learning stuff (mostly any science-adjacent stuff) is my special interest - my degree and life focus is in science communication (I can’t help but infodump so I learned how to do it properly!)!
I mean naked news was(is?) super popular; why not fuck-me-branded science?
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 weeks ago:
Is there a video of this talk? I’d love love love to see it if possible!
I like ladies in sparkly things being smart. I do it sometimes myself, anlong with bright colors and vivid patterns, and it’s wildly fun! Clothing doesn’t matter, so have fun with it!
- Comment on Male Mar-a-Lago face 2 weeks ago:
Oh my god it’s political bimboficiation.. that’s fucking fascinating.
- Comment on Is it wrong that I want one? 3 weeks ago:
Oh man now I’m imagining having two tanks set up side by side, one labeled “before” with the little prop suspended on fishing line somewhere around the middle of the water column, and a second one labeled “after” with a crushed craft little chunks scattered all over the bottom..
- Comment on it 🆗 3 weeks ago:
I’m the opposite. My witching hour is the hour after I wake up. Apparently I don’t fart in my sleep so I wake up inflated like a parade balloon. I greet the morning with my very own rendition of reveille.
It used to be a big problem but my most recent partner was just like “just fart”, and then would giggle like a schoolboy every time I did, which took all the pressure off (literally and figuratively).
- Comment on anime titles be like 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard sort of the same thing but not related to some website or whatever. Idk which is truthier, so I’ll add my understanding as well.
What I heard is It’s a category of actual books called light novels, they have a picture here and there but it’s mostly text, and they tend not to be super long. Think YA (young adult) books.
But what I heard largely agrees; that it’s such a popular category with so many options that that’s how they are named to give you a rough idea of what you’ll be reading at a glance.
- Comment on Fight me 4 weeks ago:
I used to do it for SETI@home and a few other projects. Haven’t in a while now but maybe I will again since my server pc never shuts off anyway.
Back in the day I used boinc or some such to interface, it sort of looked like a torrent page, with progress bars on the tasks and stuff. It was kinda neat having an impact.
- Comment on sold my first painting 1 month ago:
Oh is that who is behind the painting? I was wondering.
- Comment on paint job 1 month ago:
She should have used grape or green apple so he could actually see the change!
- Comment on Smöl 1 month ago:
I wanted to listen to it, so I went looking.
And I am wildly disappointed that the only human-read video I could find is a freakin’ ASMR video. I can’t watch that shit.
The computer-read versions make it sound like it would make a great tongue twister memory sort of thing. I’m honestly a tiny bit surprised it hasn’t been done.
- Comment on At 1% 1 month ago:
At this point, I’m more impressed that there’s always someone ready to share the relevant xkcd, than I am that there happens to be a relevant xkcd for everything.
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
3 looks like my grandmothers sugar spoon from one of those little jar and spoon sets
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You missed out on the tomb raider demo disc that came with PlayStation magazine (probably issue 73 based on the fact I have it and I wasn’t subscribed very long while demo discs were a thing) Same era.
If you went for a swim in the pool, and swam into the side, you’d not only get a constant intense vibration, you’d also get to see her swimming motion, and I don’t think it had breath mechanics yet (or at least she wouldn’t die in the demo zone), so you could take your time. Win win.
There was also a vibration test in the menu if you just wanted no frills.
- Comment on Truly 1 month ago:
Me too, and it reinforces how much I’d not want to actually gamble.. because no-stakes game gambling is often slanted in your favor, so if you play long enough you’ll probably hit big. It’s kinda fun.
I played one game (no clue what it was anymore) that had a “semi-realistic odds” setting with a big warning that while you’d still probably manage, you’d have to dig much further into your reserves to do so. And it wasn’t an easy win even with the setting off, it was fucking obnoxious because it was needed..
I went to a real casino a year or so ago, because it was a cheap hotel stay, and I got $10 free money for signing up and being a veteran (a demographic often plagued with gambling problems).. I played it and won $120 on the last pull, cashed out, and haven’t touched it since. It felt like a hook, because it was all done on tracking cards, and it gave me the icks big time.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 months ago:
Did you come across a bunch of power tools where the cord screws in to the base, so it’s real easy to replace?
Like the tools come full apart, that’s insane! They also probably had guides with them to fix them!
Like I can probably still use those shock factories! I certainly do not -want- to use them, even though they almost certainly still work (other than maybe corrosion), but the documentation to repair them probably still exists and that’s amazing!!
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 months ago:
Sweet, mine is proper. TIL my basement is also a proper garage.
My grandpa was a high school shop teacher after serving in WWII, so I have an absolute gob of early power tools and, more importantly, a ton of manual tools. I love using the manual tools. They take for-fucking-ever, but they don’t intimidate me the way power tools do.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 months ago:
They’ve got the showroom floor; it’s just for show.
The tools always look completely unused, like the antique kitchen tools my mom hung on the wall for decoration.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure the biggest one is to measure a horse dick since it says “good for a mare” or some such.
That’s gotta be accurate, right? With that kind of benchmark?
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 2 months ago:
The music of the universe is a symphony, damnit. That’s inherently complex!
It’s a genuine shame the vibrating strings of reality sound like tinnitus to me.
- Comment on Debatable 3 months ago:
I really want to know what it looks like when it’s not all done up.. like at least a Karen cut with a band goes to being an ok style when it’s down.. I imagine this looks fucking horrible after a shower..
- Comment on Byeeeeeee 3 months ago:
Have you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 3 months ago:
In fairness, some of the weapons they have been strapping to their drones are also pretty heavy.