binarytobis
@binarytobis@lemmy.world
- Comment on God speed brother 1 day ago:
I haven’t run into one at all yet. Either proton got better before I switched, or I’m lucky.
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 2 days ago:
I was prepared to go through hell when I switched recently, since Windows was making me so mad. Everyone told me my geaphics card wouldn’t work, gaming would be hard, etc. Then Mint just worked. 🤷
I did have to troubleshoot why my speakers were muted on startup, but it was worth it. Oh, and volume up defaults to 5% instead of the standard 2%, that took some fixing. Games just work, though.
- Comment on battlecheat 3 days ago:
According to the rules (which also state you can’t stack ships. Lol) you’re supposed to state which ship was hit.
TIL I’ve never played by the rules.
- Comment on battlecheat 3 days ago:
what are you going on about, that probability depends on the number of turns you get? last I checked it, no it does not depend on that.
I didn’t say this or anything like it. I suspect you didn’t read my comment at all.
The point you are making is that you are less likely to hit one 5 point ship than one of any among 17 points of ships. This, while true, has nothing to do with anything.
What the rest of us are talking about is whether stacking ships would help you win. The only factor in winning is if you sink all of your opponents ships before they sink all of yours. The % chance to hit the first shot is, frankly, irrelevant. Objectively, the more ships you have the longer you will last, and the higher your chance to win.
- Comment on Funni video 3 days ago:
Every time someone sends me a link to a Technology Connections video, I open it and think “Yeah right, I’m not watching an hour long video about humidifiers! I am curious about his conclusion so I’ll skip to the end.” Then, suddenly, it’s an hour later.
- Comment on Funni video 3 days ago:
The intro coming on the second time is what made me actually laugh.
- Comment on Take that, Scar! 4 days ago:
Maybe he’s punching the dye out of his hair, like in Scott Pilgrim.
- Comment on battlecheat 4 days ago:
How odd!
- Comment on battlecheat 4 days ago:
There’s a lower chance of getting hit on turn 1, but it takes more turns to sink a five space ship and all of the others than just one five space ship. The goal is to last more turns with at least one boat, not avoid getting hit for the longest. I don’t see the advantage.
Unless you add an extra rule requiring you to shoot the same space multiple times.
- Comment on battlecheat 4 days ago:
If you had a ship on every possible space, they would have a 100% chance of landing a hit, so by your logic this would be worse. But it would take 100 turns to sink you, which is the best possible outcome.
Having only one 5 space ship is objectively worse than having one five space ship and all the others. Unless of course you also created a new rule that they have to hit the same spot multiple times, once for each ship.
At that point you’re just playing Calvin Ball, though, and you might as well put the ships under your chair and claim “You never said floor!”
- Comment on what even is the purpose of life? 5 days ago:
It might be the tunnel from Exit 8
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
A few months back I was visiting my retired parents, and I wanted to break the routine a bit and decided to sit at a lakeside table we never used because it was redundant.
As I walked up to the table and sat my stuff down, I heard a “FWOMP” followed by a sound I can only describe as “chitinous rubbing”. I slowly checked my surroundings until I noticed an almost basketball sized mass of wasps waking up that had fallen with part of a hive underneath the table. In a moment of extreme calculation I decided the only one of six things on the table worth risking stings for was the tablet, and I sprinted for the first time in years to get away.
So, I guess thanks to the wasps for the fun new core memory.
- Comment on Well said 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been calorie counting for a while now, and one of the things I’ve found is that if you get one average burger and medium fries, the fries are often more calories. A medium fry at Chick Fil A is 560 kcal. Personally, I’d rather get a second sandwich.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 2 weeks ago:
Loved this game when I was younger.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 2 weeks ago:
I wish Vangelis’ other music had been like their Blade Runner music.
- Comment on Boots 3 weeks ago:
My first job out of college my boss told me to machine something out of “teflon impregnated delrin”, which is like slippery machinable plastic. Just stared at him for a while to see if he was serious.
- Comment on Feelin like a snack 3 weeks ago:
Last week I accidentally put my melatonin in the “8am” slot of my pill divider for each day, thought I was dying or something with how incredibly tired I was while still not being able to sleep at night.
- Comment on Lefty tax 3 weeks ago:
Clearly you weren’t ready for the lifetime career of being a Walmart cashier.
- Comment on Lefty tax 3 weeks ago:
One time I was the only one of four people scheduled to show up on Thanksgiving, and there were at least twenty people at my register while the manager just stood off to the side and watched me. One of the customers yelled at me to “Stop smiling!” when I politely greeted the customers as I scanned like hell, and the other people in line just nodded along. I’ll always regret not quitting on the spot.
- Comment on Lefty tax 3 weeks ago:
Every customer service job I have worked has had managers like that. This was before smart phones so maybe they just weren’t worried about getting caught.
- Comment on Call me ,maybe... Or not. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had “Bleak Sublime” stuck ij my head for days, and this finally dislodged it.
- Comment on Lefty tax 3 weeks ago:
My very first customer as a grocery cashier only bought 1 of a “2 for 1” item. My trainer was standing behind me, and had literally taught me nothing except how to unlock the register. It rang up at full price and the guy was instantly irate. “This is supposed to be half price!” As if I had any way to even know there was a sale. He pointed at the item so I walked over and looked and saw the 2 for 1 sticker. I glanced at my trainer and he just looked on dispassionately, so I told the guy “Uh, I think you have to buy two for the ‘2 for 1’ deal.”
Immediately started screaming at the top of his lungs. My trainer comes up and starts apologizing to the man “I’m so sorry this cashier is stupid. I’m not sure where he got the idea that he shouldn’t discount you. I trained them better than this. It’s so hard to find competent workers.” Then he swiped his badge (which I couldn’t have done without him), and changed the price manually.
After the guy walked away happy having saved 50 cents on his kinder egg, the trainer turned to me and said “Don’t waste my time again. You should know this all already, you fucking moron.” and walked off. We had spent exactly two minutes total together since training had started, and he spent most of that insulting me for not somehow knowing how to cashier already.
I had to call him back over two minutes later to show me how to process a check, and he was so angry.
- Comment on Lefty tax 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know, down the road they have buy one get one free at $0.40.
- Comment on Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill 3 weeks ago:
I played male V on my second playthrough when the DLC came out, and regretted it immensely. Finally got to romance Panam though.
- Comment on Splinter Cell designer says “one of the difficulties with modern stealth games” is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much “harder to read” 4 weeks ago:
Honestly games focus so much on unimportant nonsense to keep the feeling of realism, then you clip through a wall and see your character’s teeth from the inside.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
That guy gets banned a lot.
- Comment on Boomer comics 4 weeks ago:
The media really gave me unrealistic expectations about how much money my dislike of avocado was going to save me.
- Comment on Cant order new shiny things 4 weeks ago:
Not really related, but recently I ordered something I need urgently from another country, and they offered to ship it three weeks faster if I paid an extra $30. When the payment cleared they immediately sent me a notice that shipping was delayed by three weeks.
- Comment on We are so close 4 weeks ago:
I visited my brother recently and his downstairs fridge was completely full of diet caffeine free soda. I tried a few and they tasted shockingly close to their normal counterparts. I don’t trust it, there has to be a cost I don’t realize I’m paying.
But also, jesus christ at least sometimes drink some water. The whole family just hates water. They even have top notch H2O there, I’m jealous.
- Comment on Dammit! 5 weeks ago:
I graduated college right as the economy tanked dramatically. Local companies were rabidly trying to recruit me, I had a dozen legit job offers.
Then, a week before I graduated, they all pulled their offers one by one. Everyone I knew by name at all of these companies was laid off at the same time. Spent the next two years temping because I was “overqualified” to work at companies like Best Buy.