Bougie_Birdie

@Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 764 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I just say: love the outfit, it’s iconic

  Peak OSRS drip right there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s about 400 beans in a one-pound can, and a blackhawk has an internal cargo limit of 2600lbs. It could alternatively carry a 9,000lb load via sling.

  That’s either 1,040,000 or 3.6M beans

  Of course, some of that is going to be in packaging, and the average dried bean is about half the size of a ready-to-eat bean. I’m guessing you could make it between 4-10 million beans depending on how you want to optimize

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your MarioKart character and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Dry Bones, because just like real life, if you call in DOA the boss will still want you to show up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bummer. The industry gets by on misrepresenting its product, so I guess that doesn’t really surprise me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is often a symptom of a razor-thin labour budget. Management tends to view rotation as a cost, and any cost that can be ignored probably will be.

  If the milk is off so quickly past the best-by date, I’d imagine they’re having trouble with either the fridges not keeping temperature, or literally stocking the shelves in a timely fashion. I’ve been places where pallets of frozen food keep getting taken out of the freezer and can sit out for hours while it’s being worked. I’ve had management tell me it’s fine as long as it’s less than four hours - the generally accepted safe maximum time limit - and they fail to realize that’s a cumulative time per product.

  Here’s a complaint form. Apparently Hy-vee is employee-owned, so they might actually care to do something about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s acute philosophy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude says he asked AI who one of his employees was instead of reaching out to HR

  Truly an example of trash humans failing upwards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it weird to have your own religious beliefs system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s normal and healthy, if it’s not taken too far. Same goes for mainstream religion.

  Religion is ultimately about answering the unanswerable. Why are we here, the meaning of life, what happens after we die, that kind of thing. Nobody is able to answer these questions with evidence, so therefore any established religion has just as much credence as whatever you come up with yourself.

  Denying objective reality or restricting the rights of others is where you have to draw the line though. That’s where things become weird.

  Regarding mixing christian and pagan rites, there’s a fascinating history of how catholicism in particular incorporated pagan beliefs into their own pantheon. If it’s okay for them to pick and choose what to believe, then the same goes for everyone else too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you feel like you’re drowning in tasks, this one platform is the only reason I’m getting 4 hours of my day back.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well thank GOD this has a free online image cropper, because I surely couldn’t have figured that one out on my own

  If you need to use the Business Name Generator to name your business, I don’t have high hopes for your business

  If you need to use one of the dozens of templates offered here, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just use your own template. Ditto for the QR/Barcode generator/scanner - surely you already have some way of doing those things that doesn’t upload all your data to the cloud for who knows what purpose

  If this suite is saving you half your work day, either you’ve never taken the time to set up your tools or you don’t have a real job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could use a Rube Goldberg like contraption on any task you find extremely strenuous, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, she was diagnosed a few years ago and suddenly a lot of things made sense.

  I’ve tried to help her by putting her laundry away, but that doesn’t really work either. Her organization scheme is chaos to an outside observer, and if something goes in the wrong spot it’s like it’s gone forever. Easily leads to a meltdown when she’s trying to get ready for work and can’t find the specific thing she was looking for.

  I don’t really know what to do about that. Can’t win either way, so I guess she just has to pay the neurodivergence tax on her time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could use a Rube Goldberg like contraption on any task you find extremely strenuous, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to put away my clothes, but my wife prefers piles.

  She can’t stand to spend twenty minutes folding the laundry, so she spends ten minutes every day digging through piles trying to find things. The math doesn’t really check out, but then again laundry is brutal for a lot of people so I get it

  Personally, if I leave things in piles I go bonkers and it makes getting dressed every day a big chore. So you do you, but I guess it’s a matter of preference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good ole review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually I love Jupiter Hell, so there’s at least three of us. I’m glad you guys got some joy out of it

  I wouldn’t have thought either Turn-Based Doom or Classic Roguelike, But Oops All Guns would work, but it’s unironically great. It really does feel thematically like Doom, it has a surprising amount of depth and build variety, and it entertained me for far longer than similar games have.

  I love that there’s classic 90’s Boomer Shooter protagonist callouts, and that you’re able to customize them to be less cheesy or profane or even disable them entirely. They’re just the right amount of cringe, and they know it’s not for everyone

  My first clear I had a chainsaw, super shotgun, and BFG. If that’s not Doom, I don’t know what is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet if you tell them to stop, they’ll prove they aren’t so well adjusted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m bad at games, so they should be illegal. Instead, let’s drink wine!”

  Wild take, but it takes all sorts. Incidentally, I do totally agree with her about Two Truths and a Lie, although I wouldn’t really call these forced ice breakers ‘games’

  I find it interesting that she finds games to be so isolating and distracting from socializing, when the board game industry relies almost entirely on people getting together to play games and… socialize.

  I wonder if she knows co-operative games exist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this an anxiety disorder?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That aligns with my experience. But for medical advice you really should talk to your doctor

  Here’s a free online assessment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  Here’s another one for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  If those links don’t work for whatever reason, they’re offered online free from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

  Filling out these forms does not constitute a diagnosis, but it gives you a starting point for talking to a doctor. Normally I advocate for people trying to self-guide their way through therapy when they can, but you really should talk to a doctor, especially if you’re having panic attacks - they’re a serious health concern.

  I know it isn’t easy. The nightmares especially leave me feeling pretty fucked up. But I’m rooting for you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m supposed to be taking my pills and I keep forgetting and opening a new tab instead

  I guess I better eat those before I submit this comment. Call this your good deed for the day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has their ever been a movie or documentary that shows a person running for an office at the very beginning, the show the middle (and if they get bribed) then to the election night?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the situation’s not great

  Bribery is also already legal through lobbying. That doesn’t make it right, but what are you and I going to do about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has their ever been a movie or documentary that shows a person running for an office at the very beginning, the show the middle (and if they get bribed) then to the election night?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could picture an organization bankrolling a candidate in exchange for political favours when they win.

  But yeah, usually the bribery comes after the election

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone said I post an average of 6 posts a day. Where did they get that type of information? Not upset curious cause it's another way I can compliment others with facts about them.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember seeing that comment. I got the impression it was pulled out of the air and wasn’t based on a calculated metric.

  To be honest, I would have put your average higher, but I guess that depends on if you’re looking at the mean average, the mode, or even just a recent trend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Australia tend to ban or censor video games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a big fan of both games, Jacket’s the best. Talking with the tape recorder is a nice touch because I can just imagine the inner monologue

  “Ah geez, I’ve got to tell them. Let’s see which tape was it again… I think it was Learning German for International Businessmen? Oh wait, it was my Spanish tape. Ah shit, rewind rewind… wait, maybe I want the B-side… Ah, here we go!”

  “Ayuda!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, on the bright side, at least this teaches you the real value of AI is that it tells people what products to avoid:

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  If it wasn’t AI it would be something else though. Working for the man always sucks.

  We will watch your career with great interest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many new programming languages being developed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Each time I show up to post the relevant XKCD it’s already here. Truly an efficient service

  …is there an XKCD for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I’m for it. I hope all the major players adopt this so we can watch the pillars of the gaming industry collapse.

  From the wreckage will be a renaissance of developers whose priority in making games is that they’re good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been a long time fan of the series and never took the time to learn this. I also never knew it was ported to the Saturn, so doubly neat. We’re having a two-for-one special on the fun facts today.

  For a long time I held the belief that it was renamed for american audiences to play up the haunted house aspect (The RESIDENT of this abode of the damned is EVIL). Which made it all more amusing when the franchise immediately pivoted away from exploring mansions by the time the second game came out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contemplating on playing a controversial developer's bought game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got a lot of replies already advising you to play this game because you’ve already paid for it. I’ll add on to it.

  I completely understand how you feel about contributing to their power. I have my own struggle with blizz because while I despise them, they make the only game that all of my friends want to get together to play. It’s infuriating.

  You are correct that they get something out of you playing the game after you’ve paid for it. A video game company basically trades on sales, market presence, and monthly active users (MAU). The first two are essential to their success, but MAU is a bit trickier for them to extract value from. The strategy is that MAU is a metric by which they can curry favour with investors, or it gives them an idea how much they could earn from continuing to support the game or creating a sequel, or the potential value of crossover events.

  However, MAU also comes with direct costs to the company. As you say, the game runs on their servers even when played against no human players. You cost blizz money every time you play it. That cost, honestly, is pretty negligible. But, the benefit that they get from one single active user is also negligible.

  Something I think about is how difficult it can be to protest a game. The saying goes is that even bad publicity is still publicity, and this is true of games. For instance, when people talk about boycotting a game, the name of the game ends up in the news where it will have a wider reach - potentially to people who don’t care about a boycott and are hearing about a game that everyone’s talking about.

  This is something that comes up in the piracy community too. A common defense of piracy is that it’s actually good for the company: people who weren’t going to pay for your game are still playing your game and talking about it. They inspire their friends and strangers to play this game, and if they really like it then they become potential customers when they can afford to do so.

  My belief is that the two best ways to support a game are through purchase and word-of-mouth. You already paid for the game, so there’s nothing you can do about that. However, if you don’t want to feed the beast, the best way to deprive them would be to simply not talk about the game. Don’t name it, even to shame it

  This is a rare case where keeping quiet can ease your conscience.

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  Is the game you’re thinking about a famous real-time strategy game? They have a few that I’m nostalgic for but I’ve never been able to get running on my computer in recent years. Modern RTS games tend to be a bit different, and they just don’t scratch the same itch. Happy to be proven wrong if someone knows some indie darling though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Liquor stores being closed on the weekend always bothered me. It sounds like a minor inconvenience, but if you’re a hardcore alcoholic then being cut off from your supply for a weekend can kill you.

  It feels like a thorny thing too, because like, I get their mission. Drunk driving kills people, so campaigning to stop people from getting killed feels noble. But banning substances has been proven time and time again to cause more harm than good because if people can’t get their fix safely, then they’ll get it unsafely.

  A bit of a tangent, but I think about people who campaign against needle exchange programs and injection sites. They probably believe they’re doing good because it’s very easy to see how drugs can ruin lives. I think it’s also a natural but naive outlook to think that if your city is facing a drug problem then these programs can be seen as encouraging drug use.

  But shutting down these programs doesn’t fix the reasons why people struggle with addiction. A person will continue to get their fix, even if that means they have to share needles, even if it means injecting in a public bathroom or at the library. Shutting down those programs makes the drug problems more visible, more dangerous, and can lead to a public health crisis. Not to mention being away from medical staff makes overdoses deadlier.

  Back to booze, you can look at the Temperance movement and the Prohibition era as a fine example of when things go too far. There you had people who thought they were doing the right thing - but their actions indirectly (and sometimes directly) lead to more deaths.

  Do I think MADD is going down the same road? Today, probably not. But if they keep shifting the goalposts, then who knows where their future leads?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have nothing to apologize for, my guy

  I’m just watching the language I grew up with shift while my bones turn to dust

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it bombs pretty well

  This threw me off because when I think of something that bombs it means it didn’t go over well. Unless it’s “the bomb” which means it’s “the shit” which means it’s the opposite of shit

  Your mom’s soup sounds pretty sick (the good sick)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radicality⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you can’t just drop a bomb like that without backing it up

  What the actual fuck is this misbegotten creature? It pumps blood into its hair, and it can break its toes to make Wolverine claws

  Nature is metal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see basically two nefarious reasons for bots to pretend to be people on lemmy. I can’t think of a good reason why you’d want them.

  A company shilling it’s product by appearing like a regular person. Bots have already ruined user reviews for products in basically every consumer industry. The best way to discover decent products now is word-of-mouth, so I could see a bot that pretends to be a user so it can show up in recommendation threads, like in Ask Lemmy or Buy It For Life.

  The propaganda potential for bot users is tremendous. Kind of like the company shilling its product but on a grander scale. This could be orchestrated by those with economic interests, like promoting car-centric culture or climate change denialism which is of great interest to the oil industry. Or it could be as grand as foreign or domestic influence interfering with elections.

  The fediverse isn’t a huge place, but it’s not nothing either. Operating costs are technically lower because you wouldn’t need to use as many bots to infiltrate communities. You could even spin up your own instances so that your own bots don’t get banned. I’m not really sure how you’d go about countering this sort of problem.