Kraiden
@Kraiden@piefed.social
Reddit -> kbin.social -> kbin.run -> kbin.earth -> piefed.social
5th times the charm, right?
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 10 hours ago:
If anonymity is your goal, then surely you wouldn’t want a unique last name? you’d want Smith, Nguyen or Wang
- Comment on How could I prepare for this market scenario? 13 hours ago:
Pfft. Learn to time travel n00b. Skill issue.
- Comment on Wowee 5 days ago:
Americans will use anything but metric
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I hate how close that guess is 🫠
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Dark Souls/Souls likes in generals. If I want to bang my head against the same problem endlessly and get hopelessly frustrated, I’d just do my day job
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 1 week ago:
My dad used to be a police officer in South Africa. He had several interesting artifacts from his time there.
One such artifact was an unmarked black cylinder with a spray nozzle. One day after school, I had managed to get locked out of one section of the house and could only get into the kitchen and my dad’s office. (Houses in SA often have security gates inside locking off sections of the house.)
It was sitting in this office, waiting for someone else to get home and let me in that I absent mindedly started playing with this cylinder. I sprayed a small bit out. It made made a really cool heat haze effect in the air. Awesome, but what the fuck was this stuff? Well I’d just had a highschool science lesson on how to test an unknown gas… you waft it towards yourself, you do not sniff it directly. So I sprayed out a bit more and wafted it carefully towards my face…
Instant regret. My nose felt like I’d just done a netti pot of hot sauce. Eyes streaming, snot dripping.
Lesson 1 learned. Don’t play with random cylinders of mysterious chemicals.
I found out later that it was tear gas.
Hey pop quiz: What’s the worst thing you can do if you get tear gassed?
That’s correct! My dumb ass ran straight for the kitchen tap. Lesson 2. DO NOT USE WATER to clean off tear gas. I will say that I knew IMMEDIATELY that I had fucked up a second time. Felt like my entire face was on fire. Baaaad times!
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 1 week ago:
The Witness is polarising. People either think it’s incredible, or they think it’s dogshit. There is no in between.
(I am in the latter camp, sorry)
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 1 week ago:
Games similar to portal: The Talos Principle 1 & 2 Antichamber Superliminal Viewfinder Manifold Garden
Similar to Firewatch: Umurangi Generation Return of the Obra Dinn
Other stuff that might interest you that I haven’t seen already recommended: Journey Abzu Exo One Wytchwood Cairn (tentatively. This game can get stressful) Dinkum Untitled Goose Game A Lego game (Any of them. They all follow the same formula) Flower
No idea if any of those work on Mac though. If you have an intel based mac you can use bootcamp to dual boot windows, and unlock maaaaany games.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
is that bugs bunny on the podium?
- Comment on Double Fine Is Unionizing 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on normulize leguana 1 month ago:
Had this conversation a while ago with some friends some rich douchecanoe was trying to start an “enhanced games” where performance enhancers are allowed.
Yes, imho, these should be legalized too. People are gonna use them anyway, just like recreational drugs, and there isn’t a drug on earth that isn’t made safer when it’s users can get pure, known quantities of their substance of choice. It also frees up researches to study the shit that people are absolutely going to put in there bodies anyway. Real science is better than bro science.
to be clear, I’m not saying all sports should now allow performance enhancers, but I think a class for enhanced participants would be hella interesting. Assuming it was backed by legit science and done relatively safely
- Comment on At the park, and it's such a beautiful day! 😃 1 month ago:
I’m afraid to ask what this is from, because it seems everyone knows…
- Comment on The Sounds of Silence 1 month ago:
Not a movie, but a music video for a great song
- Comment on I hate the best way to get rid of an old mattress? Wrong answers only. Worst idea I'll actually do. 1 month ago:
g’luck op. Remember, one bite at a time
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 months ago:
I have a friend who works for Transpower (company in charge of NZ electric grid) and occasionally goes into their control rooms. Apparently they have set ups like this. It gets worse, because there are several computers hooked up to the different monitors, so not only do they have a wall of monitors, they have a bunch of different keyboards and mice (mouses?) that they have to hunt through if they want to actually interact with something
- Comment on My brother has or had now a drinking problem. Now he is asking for the worst tasting crap that he can take a cap full like an airplance bottle so his body whenever he thinks about it will remember 2 months ago:
Definitely not what op is looking for but an NZ brewery did a pickle sour beer for a while (they might still be doing it, not sure.) link
It wasn’t bad! It was novel, and it was sold as a paired beer for just about every burger in an annual burger competition in Wellington one year. Unfortunately that meant everyone that participated in the competition got real sick of it though lol
- Comment on Looks fine to me 2 months ago:
As someone who is currently feeling disheartened at… gestures wildly… I thought a nice, light piece about a botched art restoration in Spain would be a safe reprieve… But nope, you managed to tie it back in to world politics. Congrats I guess.
I think I need to get off social media for a bit.
- Comment on All this for a banana bread recipe 2 months ago:
Hey, I’ve replied to the parent comment with a description of how it works
- Comment on All this for a banana bread recipe 2 months ago:
Sure! I’m far from an expert, but this is my understanding of how it would work for age verification:
There are 3 parties in this scenario. The Estonian state, Meta, and a 3rd party (which is currently a real 3rd party, but work is being done to allow this to be a digital wallet on your device, that you control)
The state issues your 3rd party a magic cryptographic cert that has all your personal data like dob
Meta issue an age challenge: Not “what’s your dob” but rather “Are you old enough to use this service?”
3rd party show you exactly what Meta are requesting and give you the option to approve or deny the request
If you approve, the 3rd party generate a new cert that JUST says “Yes I’m of age” and nothing else.
Because it’s been generated from the states magic cert it can be verified with their public key.
Meta don’t get more info than they need, the state can’t see that you’ve logged into Meta, but you’ve successfully proved you’re old enough to use the service.
The current weak point is that the 3rd party can absolutely see all of it, but there’s no reason the 3rd party has to be an external service. It could absolutely be an app on your device.
You still need to prove yourself to the state, but you’d have to do that to get an id card in the first place. It’s WAAAAY better than trusting all the different porn sites and social media services individually to not leak or misuse your data
- Comment on All this for a banana bread recipe 2 months ago:
So yes, given the state of the everything in the US right now, yes, do this.
But please know, the problem with age verification is VERY much in the implementation. It IS possible to do age verification without having to identify yourself to Meta/PornHub/Whoever. It IS possible to maintain privacy, AND restrict things like porn and social media to those who are of age. Look at how the Estonian system works, it’s brilliant. The problem isn’t age verification, it’s the blatant data grab that is currently trying to destroy your online anonymity…
Having said that, for fuck sake don’t let the current people in charge do this! It will be a fucking Big Brother style surveillance nightmare.
- Comment on pls? 3 months ago:
the text only this meme makes Saul look like an eyeless, mouthless lovecraftian horror… I love it!
- Comment on Sick days 3 months ago:
Ok, ye! That sounds like a better system! I mean it’s essentially the same, but our “couple of weeks” is cumulative, which is worse
- Comment on Sick days 3 months ago:
I’m curious what that looks like in practice. I’ve heard about places that offer “unlimited sick leave” but really in practice that means that you’re basically scrutinized every single time you take it, and people end up too scared to use it because they don’t want to be seen as abusing the system. At least with a set amount, you’re only really looked at funny if you go over. (or if you take it all at once, but then you need a medical cert)
So if you have a cold, and just need a single day, do need to produce a medical cert? What about culture-wise, do people look at you funny in that case?
- Comment on Sick days 3 months ago:
Where’s here if you don’t mind me asking?
- Comment on Sick days 3 months ago:
At that point ACC would kick in. I think it’s up to 80% of your pre illness income, and there are probably other benefits I don’t know about
- Comment on Sick days 3 months ago:
NZ: We’re legally entitled to 10 days paid sick leave. If you’re out for less than 3 consecutive days you can be asked for a medical certificate but your employer must pay for it. Even then I’ve never been asked for a medical cert.
this is an American problem I’m guessing
- Comment on I'm Cooked, Right? (FTL) 3 months ago:
This guide might help
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 3 months ago:
I was gonna pick bar shot for similar reasons. I feel like the flexible chain would allow for too much loss of energy. Pure guess though, IANA 18th century naval warfare expert
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 3 months ago:
Jan 2024… so yes, 5 years is about how long ago that feels.
- Comment on Day 565 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
I love Cult of the Lamb! Such a vibe! You should check out Wytchwood. Completely different game but similar aesthetic. It’s a good time