TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@piefed.social
- Comment on You nomster! 11 hours ago:
The key is to not only do this, but also compile this quick autohotkey script to an exe, hide it on their computer, and set it to run at startup:
#NoTrayIcon
m::n
n::mThat way it’ll fuck with touch typers. And when they look down to confirm that something’s wrong, it won’t look wrong. It’ll drive them nuts!
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 11 hours ago:
I don’t like raw onions. But if you sauté or grill those tear-jerkers, they’re amazing.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 day ago:
In my understanding, 4 sounds like the word for death and 8 sounds like the word for wealth, so 8 is considered lucky.
But I don’t speak any version of Chinese, and could very well be wrong.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 day ago:
How? It’s a well defined term. If you don’t have a publisher and are independent, that’s what indie means. It has nothing to do with budget. Even an indie game can be AAA, because the term AAA refers to how expensive it was. These are two different subjects.
That’s not how the term is used. Definitions are descriptive, not prescriptive. Wikipedia’s definition is far more useful.
Take the game “Animal Well.” Go look it up if you haven’t heard of it. Animal Well was programmed by a single person, Billy Basso, as developer “Shared Memory.” It was then published by Videogamedunkey’s company “Bigmode,” the very first title Bigmode published.
By your definition, Animal Well is not an indie game. But it’s exactly the kind of game meant by the term “indie game.” So your definition isn’t a useful one.
- Comment on Sea Level 2 days ago:
Only in Western cultures. In East Asia, it’s 4.
- Comment on Apple reminding me my iPad sucks 4 days ago:
The iPads with AI support are the Pro ones with M processors, same series that the MacBooks use. (Believe it or not, iPad actually got the M4 before the MacBooks did.) Unless they’ve enabled it in the newest iPads running A series processors, which may have the AI cores that the iPhone 15 Pro and later have. I don’t know, I haven’t followed any iPad news in a while. My iPad Pro is mostly an extremely overpowered sheet music device that I occasionally use for productive tasks or Moonlight/Xbox/video streaming. 😅
- Comment on Apple reminding me my iPad sucks 4 days ago:
(eg Apple AI on iPhone 15 Pro, not plus, but it’s all in the cloud anyways)
It isn’t, though. Apple does a significant amount of their AI processing locally. It’s part of why they’re “behind” the competition, but I actually see it as a plus due to the privacy advantages.
(When they do go to the cloud, that is, when the on-board models are insufficient, first it goes to Apple’s servers, where the request is reportedly handled without any tracking or logging. If Apple’s AI isn’t good enough, it will ask if it can send the request to ChatGPT, and then even that connection goes through Apple instead of through your account so tracking is minimized.)
Apple cares about privacy, or at least cares about appearing to care about privacy. They’re obviously not at the level of GrapheneOS or something, but for a mainstream retail phone company, they’re better than most in this regard.
- Comment on Battle Bun 5 days ago:
The Long Patrol, wot-wot!
- Comment on Fair's fair. 6 days ago:
Quid cobiet ipsos cobes?
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 6 days ago:
I can understand this hesitation, but I don’t expect that from Larian, they’ve delivered in the past and I suspect they’ll deliver again.
(So had CD Projekt Red of course, but Cyberpunk’s launch issues were largely stability/performance related, IIRC. Whereas Hello Games over-promised and under-delivered core features on No Man’s Sky.)
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 week ago:
No, it sounds like the proper tool for your use case is a spoon or squeeze bottle.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 week ago:
Sure, and that general purpose tool works fine. This is just the tool specifically designed for honey. It’s not necessary, just useful.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 week ago:
You keep slowly rotating it as you move it from the honey to whatever you’re going to put the honey in so the viscous liquid essentially “orbits” this thing instead of dripping onto your countertop. Then when over the target you stop rotating and let it pour off.
- Comment on I assume it's corn 1 week ago:
It’s Cornachu!
- Comment on Relevant username 1 week ago:
Or use the popcorn button. Try it! Sometimes they work!
- Comment on You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood. 2 weeks ago:
Which was wonderful, and a breath of fresh air. But Rothfuss’s prose is what makes his books as good as they are, in my opinion.
- Comment on You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood. 2 weeks ago:
I absolutely love Brandon Sanderson. He’s my favorite author. So keep that in mind when I say this:
I don’t think Brandon Sanderson is up to the task of mimicking Rothfuss’s prose.
- Comment on Google AI is great. 🙃 2 weeks ago:
LLMs are really bad with letters, and in my limited understanding that’s because they don’t see words as strings of letters, they see them as tokens. It’s all numbers by the time the LLM is processing it.
- Comment on Anyone else fotklift certified? 2 weeks ago:
How much cough medicine was involved in the creation of this video?
- Comment on Anyone else fotklift certified? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 weeks ago:
He does such a good job. I wish he’d be a bit less clickbait-y, but I understand private equity investment means he kinda has to play the game, like many other very good YouTube channels (Veritasium springs to mind).
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 weeks ago:
Like the flight where the pilots got lost above Kathmandu and flew right into a cliff like driving into a wall.
(I saw an Air Disasters/Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode about that one years ago and it really stuck with me. Recently Mentour Pilot did a good episode about it.)
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 3 weeks ago:
Starstruck Vagabond, Yahtzee Croshaw’s game.
It’s a well-designed game, and he documented much of the development process on YouTube. It has a dopamine-laden primary gameplay loop that involves either manually piloting your ship around a star system to complete missions, or letting the autopilot fly while you run around your ship making repairs as needed.
I wouldn’t say it’s fun, but it’s not necessarily supposed to be fun, in the way that Papers Please is not meant to be fun. It’s mostly about the living as a star freighter pilot. What plot there is is driven by other characters coming in and interrupting the drudgery.
But I love playing it before bed. It winds me down nicely. And it’s perfect for the Steam Deck.
I used to use Stardew Valley as my wind-down game but I found I was staying up much later because “just one more day-itis” sets in. Starstruck Vagabond I can just save and put down whenever.
- Comment on 😥 😥 💔 💔 4 weeks ago:
*sage nod* Wise words.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 4 weeks ago:
I was going to say, “I’m sure technology connections has done a video on this.”
- Comment on challenge 4 weeks ago:
You don’t need wood glue? Just the toothpicks?
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 5 weeks ago:
Patternless. Plain white. Which works well, because if you break a plate you don’t have to worry about whether they still make that pattern.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 5 weeks ago:
(Sorry, I didn’t intend to write an essay here. It just sort of happened. This is a subject I have some amount of passion about.)
I can see where you’re coming from. I’m probably a little triggered by the word. I find the idea that any use of or participation in another culture is “appropriation” to be problematic.
Culture and language (which are largely inextricable from one another) are meant to be shared. That’s their entire purpose. If you participate in aspects of someone else’s culture in a respectful way, that isn’t appropriation. Appropriation, rather, is one part of the broad spectrum of behavior with regard to other cultures.
Humans do this innately. We adjust our manners of speech and behavior subconsciously to better reflect that of those around us. We are social creatures and by nature will act like those we interact with.
Societal views operate on pendulum swings, going from extreme to extreme around the nuanced truth. We went, as a society, from “acting however you want about other cultures is fine, even if it’s offensive,” an unhealthy extreme, to “participating in a culture not your own is not okay and is always offensive,” an equally unhealthy extreme. We like extremes because they are easy to categorize and require much less brainpower to contemplate. They are mental shortcuts our brains make.
But the world doesn’t operate on those extremes. The world is a nuanced place.
An example: a Nigerian-American opera singer was telling me about a time he was teaching a spiritual to a choir of white people. He corrected them when they said ‘they’ instead of ‘dey,’ saying, “The West African slaves who sang these didn’t use the ‘TH’ sound, it didn’t exist in the languages they had grown up with or the accents they had handed down. The proper way to approach this song is to sing it like they would. So you should say ‘dey’ instead of ‘they.’”
But this idea made many of the white singers uncomfortable, because we have shifted to seeing that type of cultural mimicry as offensive. I have seen white people even suggest that they shouldn’t sing spirituals at all, an idea that same Kenyan-American singer found silly. Singing is a way that humans connect with one another, and the best way to do it is to do it as genuinely as possible. It’s a shared experience. But where we are as a society these days, we find that uncomfortable.
And it’s understandable we do, because the extreme, blackface minstrel shows, is rightly seen as horribly offensive. But accurately performing a spiritual is so far removed from the horribly offensive and inaccurate mockery that were minstrel shows that the comparison isn’t a useful one.
We should strive to understand context, strive to be respectful, but also strive to share in the culture of others in constructive ways.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but the steak breakfast Crunchwrap (with extra creamy jalapeño sauce) is still the best fast food drivethru breakfast I’ve found.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 5 weeks ago:
The use of the word “appropriation” and “appropriated” seems unnecessary when discussing someone’s name, IMO. Especially given you also used the phrase “a celebration of the Western Australian aboriginal culture.”
The connotation of “appropriation” just doesn’t fit.