Bougie_Birdie
@Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on 6 hours ago:
Imagine being the diversity hire for the gay bukkake. Just going around the set handing out high fives and attaboys
- Comment on Do creatives maintain relevance because lay people can't edit AI generated works? 9 hours ago:
There’s also all those people who are rightfully pissed about AI who then call out human creators because they draw / write like AI. All the while, actual AI gen is getting more passable with each day
The situation is super lame
- Comment on [deleted] 16 hours ago:
Because people keep paying for blatant scams, terrible deals, and shit we don’t need in general. It’s why everything keeps getting so expensive, INCLUDING our necesities, and they won’t get cheaper until people stop buying. It’s why companies are allowed to get away with ripping us off or doing blatantly evil shit, and they’re not gonna stop until people stop buying.
I’d argue the reason why prices keep going up is due to the parasite class at the top squeezing people more with each passing day.
What do you view as people being smart with their money, like investments and bonds and stuff? I can’t afford groceries, I certainly can’t afford a 401k. Likewise, it’s rational to save for retirement, but with WW3 escalating, the climate crisis, and a general feeling that you might not live to see next week - people are going to ask what’s the point?
Although I will agree that the blame for rampant consumerism outside of necessities must lie at least partly with the consumers. It takes two to tango after all
More to your question: I’ve never actually heard someone use that phrase, but I have encountered the sentiment that someone can spend their own money however they see fit. That’s entirely true, and you’re not going to change their mind if you take an aggressive stance. If you call people stupid for spending their money on their own happiness then you’re not going to ingratiate yourselves to them and they’re just as likely to spend more to spite you, further entrenching their own opinion.
Gentleness, empathy, and education go a lot further in influencing people’s behaviour. Their opinion of how they spend their money feels correct to them, just as your opinion of how they spend their money feels wrong to you. In any conflict you have to allow that your opinion isn’t correct just because it’s your opinion - either side usually does not have all the facts or perspectives
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Botting on youtube
Too many requests in a short period will get you an error 429 and blacklisted from youtube. If you’re not banned, you’ll be rate-limited because they don’t want people using up their bandwidth - ironic considering their business model
Alternatively, I’m pretty sure most Invidious instances will let you download any youtube video. You go to a website, search for the video, and click download. This is arguably easier if you’re not comfy on the command line
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can download or torrent the Path to 9/11? Will buy if necessary. That movie/show is kinda my white whale. 4 days ago:
A quick search shows it’s available on YouTube
I’m not sure of the legality / community rules for giving technical advice on piracy, but there are ways of getting your own copy
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Honestly, I find the pitch can be the hardest part about developing a game. You want to be able to describe your game in twenty seconds or less while still pointing to something unique about it.
It’s way easier said than done, but that’s the attention span you have to deal with sometimes. Many people take less than a second to decide if they’re going to pass on a game.
- Comment on How come when people report something to the mod's in a community a one person can take care of it? Instead shouldn't it be voted on to remove content by the majority mod team? 1 week ago:
Mods are volunteers, and therefore will moderate however they feel like. The needs of the community might influence what that looks like, but at the end of the day it’s whatever they want.
Reacting in a timely manner but also requiring a majority are both things that we want to see, but they’re also conflicting ideals. Depending on the size of the community it may be an impossible ask.
If a moderator oversteps, the rest of the mod team could take action. If you can’t trust a single moderator to moderate, then maybe they shouldn’t be a moderator.
It’s not a perfect system, but things rarely rare.
- Comment on Types of Game Developers 1 week ago:
Can you turn down the volume on your dog whistle? It’s giving me a headache
- Comment on What would be an interesting magical effect for a pineapple that is displayed but not eaten at a fancy dinner? 1 week ago:
Everyone who attends a party with a rented pineapple later remembers it as a classy affair. However, you lose the deposit on your rental
- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 1 week ago:
All of the reasons above, plus sometimes the character just doesn’t have a name
When I’m talking about They Live, the protagonist is literally unnamed. Rowdy Roddy Piper is credited as “Nada” but even that is never used in the film (Great movie btw, go watch it if you haven’t seen it)
Then sometimes the actor is far more famous than the movie was, or the character wasn’t very memorable, or whatever the case is. Particularly true if the actor is appearing as a cameo
- Comment on A new hero for Heroes of the Storm announced at Blizzcon! 2 weeks ago:
Huh, I guess that makes this announcement less surprising then
I hadn’t heard they’d taken the game out of maintenance. Come to think of it, I hadn’t heard any news about the game, it’s like it dropped off the face of the earth
- Comment on A new hero for Heroes of the Storm announced at Blizzcon! 2 weeks ago:
For those who thought the game was already shuttered, HotS went into maintenance mode a few years ago - 2022 I think? Basically that meant that they weren’t actively developing it anymore, I think they stopped balance updates and only committed to patching major bugs or security vulnerabilities.
Of course, they never stopped taking your money if you wanted to buy their boosts.
This news has me conflicted. On the one hand, HotS was my favorite MOBA - it does several things right that other games in the genre consistently fail at and they took some major chances on unique character designs. On the other hand, I wouldn’t piss on a Blizzard exec to put out a fire, I don’t even want to play their free games
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 3 weeks ago:
I came here to say this
Maybe it’s the communities I’m in, but it sure seems like the fediverse skews autistic. Not only is RSD quite common in autistic people, but a lack of social grace is also pretty normal
- Comment on Italian place in South Africa, which means "counterfeit" in Italian (correct me if I'm wrong) 4 weeks ago:
So if that regularly happens, and it still goes to shit, does that make the fugazi snafu fubar?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m not an expert on the global legality or anything, but it looks like DNS is handled by ICANN
Even though they’re a global group, ICANN is headquartered in the USA, which means they’re probably obligated (legally, not morally) to carry out the block
It’s still bullshit, but it is what it is
- Comment on How do I identify someone who has deleted their post? 5 weeks ago:
Was this the one about video games playing it safe?
I wrote a rather detailed reply and it was deleted before I got to post it. Super lame
- Comment on Day 764 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 month 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 [deleted] 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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