binarytobis
@binarytobis@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's happened to me many times 1 day ago:
My family was always open to anyone to visit as much as they wanted so my friends came over 95% of the time. Like the third time I visited one friend’s house his mom came in, looked at me, and gave a long sigh before saying “Again?”. She also made him stop what we were doing and immediately shampoo the carpet which his did nearly every day, I assume to get the smell of weed out.
Most families I’ve witnessed were dysfunctional, but I didn’t notice until my twenties.
- Comment on When they get the bill too 5 days ago:
Looks like an Onion photo.
- Comment on challenge 6 days ago:
I can imagine the genie thinking “Bwahaha I tricked you!” and then getting increasingly frustrated that I never fix a door hinge again even though I didn’t notice the trick wording.
- Comment on Not impressed 1 week ago:
Sometimes teachers repeat a lesson plan over and over, and a small innocuous statement grows in intensity with each retelling and each argument with students as the teacher digs in their heels, until it’s ballooned into something silly. I’ve also heard that suction and centrifugal force aren’t real.
OK, I understand that you’re trying to make a point to better my understanding of the material you are currently teaching, but now I’m hung up on this weird thing you said. It usually comes down to something “the language to describe this thing is insufficient when expressed this way” but the way they say it is like “this concept is a lie, full stop, no more thinking.”
Maybe they initially wanted to use more definitive statements to make students listen in class or something.
- Comment on Not impressed 1 week ago:
I’ve never once voiced this thought out loud, but every time someone says something like “I don’t want fish, I want to eat meat” I think “Well, you’re wrong, but OK.” There’s some arbitrary dividing line people assume is logical, but I don’t think it would hold up to serious scrutiny.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 weeks ago:
When I was 14, I got in a flame war with another kid in the pokemon forum. I dropped a “What do you know? You’re probably 12!” He replied “Yeah, I’m 12. This is a pokemon forum. What are you doing here?”
I felt so thoroughly burned that I stayed out of internet arguments as much as possible from that point forward. A real valuable lesson early on. Thanks, GameFAQs!
- Comment on You should start doing this today 2 weeks ago:
I regret not causing at scene at the last few jobs I left. I even gave two weeks notice? Lame. Wish I was more like my idol.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny, I literally downloaded that one last night.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
I enjoyed Blue Prince, I’m exactly who it was made for, but it was definitely much worse than people would lead you to believe.
The game makers had no respect for players’ time. You solve one of the large, run-independent puzzles and it all clicks, then it could take you several hours to playtime to luck into the conditions to actually test your solution. Everything takes longer than it should. It’s obvious that I’m going to toggle security settings every time I’m in the Security Room, why do you make me go through this slow as hell PC every time? It’s not for realism because no PC back then had such fantastical functionality, so why not make the PCs load screens faster? How does the slowness enhance the experience? Why not just put buttons on the wall you can toggle for the security settings, at least? There were times where I figured something out, and rather than spend ten hours trying to actually do the thing, I just looked up that part of a walkthrough to get the next info.
Really interesting game, but I did some napkin math and I wasted 25 avoidable hours during my playthrough (long unskippable loads and such) that could have been spend completing an entire different game.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 2 weeks ago:
I go in between the buttons to cut them into 1 button tall max slices.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 weeks ago:
I was going to say, this is one job that actually makes sense to automate. I don’t know any QA testers personally, but I’ve heard plenty of accounts of them absolutely hating their jobs and getting laid off after the time crunch anyway.
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 3 weeks ago:
They did say bad, I suppose.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 3 weeks ago:
The problem with anime soundtracks is they get me excited about the source band, only to find out they don’t have any other music like it.
Had the same problem with the Blade Runner soundtrack.
- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 3 weeks ago:
The “ass apocalypse” was caused by that unnaturally large butt plug in the picture.
- Comment on reaction 4 weeks ago:
At a lot of BBQ places, if you order a sandwich it’s literally just a small normal slice of white bread with the same amount of meat sitting on top of it as you would get from a “platter” option. I’ve had a real pulled pork sandwich before, and it was a actual sandwich you could pick up with your hands. What you have given me is a crime against common decency and language.
- Comment on Oa oa a 1 month ago:
I’m in this picture. My main medication seems to have pretty mundane effects, and there’s a chance that it will completely shut down my liver. However my quality and duration of life have gone way way up and I have no regrets.
- Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors 1 month ago:
- Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors 1 month ago:
I’m with you. It may be that it’s “technically legitimate use of language” according to linguists, but that doesn’t mean my distaste for it isn’t any less legitimate either.
- Comment on Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) U.S. anti-fascist short film 2 months ago:
Tbh “Worst Generation” isn’t nearly as bad as “Last Generation” or “Still Not the Worst Generation”. I’ll take it.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 2 months ago:
It always seems weird to me that they didn’t market it for its true potential, as a D&D and board game medium.
I built one myself with diffusive plastic, a short throw projector, and a PS3 camera, and it ruled.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 2 months ago:
It’s pretty clear to me that anon carefully crafted this story, no matter how much of it is actually real, to cast himself in the best possible light and show this woman as evil. It’s telling that in doing so he didn’t even realize that it reflected poorly on him to shame her for having sex with someone who wasn’t him.
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?? 2 months ago:
Thankfully I made it through the first season of the Office, which is now a favorite show. If I can make it through that when every episode gave me psychic damage, I can make it through anything.
- Comment on The devil made me do it 2 months ago:
No joke last week I made 48 deviled eggs for a dinner party and as I was piping the filling I got a text rescheduling the event, leaving me with 48 deviled eggs and no one to help eat them.
It was a dangerous time for me.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Some real TIL gems in this thread.
- Comment on Not stealing 2 months ago:
Unless you are wearing a hi vis vest, I hear. Then they let you walk right on by.
- Comment on human geography 2 months ago:
True
- Comment on human geography 2 months ago:
“Sun shower” or “The devil is beating his wife”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you are concerned, you could start by inviting him and his friends to something first.
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Pre-Order Trailer 2 months ago:
People said good shit about cyberpunk 2077 at release.
And after a lot of work it’s one of my favorite games.
I’m not going to pre-order this one, but I’ll stay cautiously optimistic.
