whotookkarl

@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your teenager AND your husband⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Get some grapes nuts it’ll last for months

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow the rules!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My 2026 update after the industry wide layoffs over the past couple years would be sysadmin replaced with DevOps, qa and designer replaced with developer, and throw some infosec theater on at the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry buddy, you just ain't it anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they spot the machines and artifacts left on Mars and the moon and go with robotics or metal poly compounds. If it’s just Earth maybe plastic or concrete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Morrowind would be a GOTY release if it came out today and made it so 1. running stamina loss only happened in combat, 2. low combat skills caused lower damage instead of lots of misses, and 3. draw distance was further than 10 feet away then fog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buttcoin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Infinitely divisible deflationary assets can be used as currency and savings, if enough large markets like grocers, Walmart, Amazon, etc accepted it as payment the price would stabilize against speculative investment like trading in foreign currency. Right now I think it’s overinflated from speculative investment, but the cryptography is secure and public ledger is an improvement I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would anyone do this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re the man now, dog

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to cut the pinky finger off of infants instead. It hasn’t hurt them at all not having a pinky finger, it’s not the whole hand just the tip. And it’s not just cosmetic because I dislike pinky fingers aesthetically, it’s healthier too, do you know how many people get pinky finger infections every year?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He doesn’t give his kids the same advice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to be orchidding me!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s multiple species definitions and none of them are very satisfying because it’s trying to impose a clear distinction where one doesn’t really exist.

  species categorized by fertile offspring want to describe a situation like this with clear, district boundaries:

  abstract picture with rows of distinct colors with clear boundaries

  But evolutionary groups tend to be more like gradients & gaps like this:

  abstract picture with a few colors overlapping each other and areas with no color

  You can try adding specific boundaries to the 2nd, but there’ll always be some weird edges that don’t really fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to be orchidding me!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but the criteria is 1. Interbreeding is possible and 2. Can produce fertile offspring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to be orchidding me!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By this categorization llamas and camels are the same species as they can sometimes produce fertile offspring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐍 🐦 🪹⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Set to away

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beer is for GIRLS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sightly chilled, bubbly flower water is good, but what about some hot bush water, or hot seed water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was toys r us for me too, I was able to get a copy a week later but there’s no point to preordering if they don’t honor the reservation & when you’re a kid that week feels like forever so it sticks pretty brightly in memory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I pre-ordered ff8, they ran out anyways. Lesson learned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pokemon x Luigi crossover?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans aswell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Corn pie‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The gamer motivation categories they are selling are not exhaustive categories, and while they publish some graphs and excerpts I don’t see any link to their full survey data or methodology.

  My intuition is they are not against AI, they’re against trashy corporate LLMs filling their games with boring, uninteresting, slop instead of a well made directed experience (narrative games, rollercoaster type experience), an engaging open world simulation, or competitive round based games like king of the hill or arena shooter. AI dungeon was fun six years ago, if there’s nothing more advanced than that then the gimmick is already spent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think even that’s getting cheaper over the last couple years. Mid range guitars are getting premium features & qc out of Philippines and Indonesia is pretty solid, modelers are making a big collection of amps and pedals unnecessary for chasing tones. As long as you’re not a collector gathering signature serieses or looking at all the new releases giving yourself fomo it’s not too bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Turn based jrpgs like Final fantasy series games, octopath traveller, dragon warrior

  Sam and max beyond space and time, comedy point and click adventure style game

  DOOM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for a better future for ur children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks mostly grey to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the old scummVM adventure games; Sam and max hit the road, monkey island, day of the tentacle, etc

  For something more cinematic I’d look at platinum games like Bayonetta, god of wars, mass effects, gears, half-lifes, dark souls

  I would avoid something really puzzle heavy like professor Layton or tactical like civ or Stellaris I enjoy watching/listening to people play games but those usually can’t hold my interest unless I’m playing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the one where devolver digital does something goofy? That’s usually pretty fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Celebrities drum up drama about themselves to try to stay relevant when they shill whatever product they work on. He was talking shit about a couple actors in an interview or whatever and people defended the other person which just proliferated the fake drama further, he’s probably got something coming out in 2026.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mmm... tastes like chimkin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I got the search terms reversed

  extinct terror bird holding a horse in it’s mouth, but the size difference is goofy it’s holding the whole horse in it’s beak meaning either the bird is like 5 times bigger than actual or the horse is only a foot long

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no registration or registry with individuals’ information if guardians use parental controls and adult sites and apps identify themselves as adult for those controls, check what their kids are doing online, and talk with them about dangerous people or content they might see to teach them how to stay safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of a setting that would university apply to all games, like I’d be hard pressed to say a setting in Tetris that would apply to Minecraft. Vision and auditory accessibility is probably about it, but those settings would look pretty different I think depending on the game or genre of game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Economy” is almost always corpo newspeak for wealthy people’s money. If they actually meant the economy as in everyone’s stake in the economic system the phrase “cost the economy” would be meaningless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it gets better with practice to some degree, if I go for a long stretch reading more or less fiction I find it affects my imagination and ability to visualize with more or less detail and memorability. I don’t think it’ll bridge the gap to 5 necessarily, but it might bump a 4 to a 3 or a 2 to a 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a counter recommendary (anti-recommendist?), whatever they recommend look for the opposite instead