toynbee
@toynbee@piefed.social
- Comment on A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons 1 day ago:
My kid is still young and is growing up with a lot of their gaming done on a tablet. They’re remarkably adept with touchscreen controls, but it just seems so limiting to me.
I eventually connected a Bluetooth controller to their tablet and suddenly they’re amazed by how much easier gameplay is!
- Comment on i can’t believe it 1 day ago:
To be fair, it does seem like web-swinging would be pretty difficult to do underwater.
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 2 days ago:
Are you picturing, like, a spring?
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 days ago:
Theoretically, something, but work has put me in a position where I have extremely little not only to do, but that I can do within my mandate. I’m fulfilling my one obligation, but it involves a rather lengthy wait.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 2 days ago:
I wish you could have heard it directly from him! He’s a much more talented storyteller than I. Regardless, it’s great that you enjoyed it!
- Comment on who came up with this plot? 2 days ago:
It seems likely you would enjoy Lost Girls and Love Hotels.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 2 days ago:
I usually just take the minimum offered. I don’t mind a bit of spice but it’s never been the reason I enjoyed a dish.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 2 days ago:
This story is secondhand.
My brother’s first wife was Indian. As a result, he experienced many cuisines he wouldn’t have locally in the US. Apparently, she once took him to an Indian restaurant which offered a variety of spiciness levels; he, having been exposed to Indian cooking in the past, thought he could handle it. As such, he ordered the spiciest level of whatever he was eating.
The owner of the restaurant apparently came out and tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted. They prepared the food as requested and he ate it. At the end of the meal, his eyes and nose were running. Per his telling, the owner came out after he had finished it to ask how he had liked the meal. He said that he liked it but that it had topped out his spice tolerance.
According to him, the owner then responded “I thought so. That’s why I only gave you medium spice.”
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 3 days ago:
Are you my brother?
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 3 days ago:
That’s a really excellent point.
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 3 days ago:
I suppose it depends on what you value. Language is more of a creative venture while math is more of a technical one. “Credit” is also somewhat of a nebulous term.
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 3 days ago:
My brother has a PhD in pure mathematics. Sometimes I get in trouble (yes, hyperbole) with him because, while I’m pretty decent at arithmetic and I like numbers, he knows so much more about either than I do. For example, I recently said that 57 was a boring number (I tried to connect it to 17, which I like, but was thinking of 19, which is fine) and learned quite a lot from both him and some lemmings.
Another time I told him that I thought there was debate about whether 2 was prime and got quite a lecture on the nature of primality.
Point I’m trying to make is, give at least some math graduates at least some credit.
- Comment on such a cold answer i felt bad for him 3 days ago:
Well, be careful and take care of yourself.
I know you only from your posts and barely that (I look at them as they come up in my feed mainly to go “is that violet?"), but the situation you’re describing could easily go wrong.
I don’t begrudge anyone whatever ethical fun they might wish to have, just be aware of red flags.
- Comment on such a cold answer i felt bad for him 3 days ago:
Did you witness the wife saying that?
- Comment on Tomb Raider: Catalyst Delayed to 2028 1 week ago:
Is she wearing raycons?
- Comment on Day 737 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I also have taken to proximity mine trapping vents and double tapping any creatures. I feel more like I’m the antagonist here to be honest. It’s fun though.
I forget which Jedi game it was (Academy maybe?) but I used to setup laser mines, then use Force powers to pick up enemy units and drag them past the mines. It was very effective.
- Comment on Male ejaculation travels at an avg speed of 28 mph. How come it doesn't blow the back of a woman or male neck out or cause other serious damage at that speed? 1 week ago:
See also: Hancock deleted scene.
- Comment on My wife would still say its not clean enough 1 week ago:
Some robot vacuums have mops built into them.
Actually, some non robot ones as well.
- Comment on The edibles didn't wear off. 1 week ago:
This video is how I learned that he was a professional dancer.
Looking at his Wikipedia article to verify that just now is how I learned he was also a professional lion tamer.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Like I mentioned, I honestly kind of enjoyed it as I was able to explain away the lack of reality. What really bothered me was, I think right before it, Whistler comes out with some sort of big firearm, then just stands there while a ninja knocks it out of his hands and slaps him in the face.
Again, I explained it away to myself (vampire ninja has superspeed, standing still was just meant to demonstrate that) but, even if that was what was intended, it just wasn’t very well done.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I actually quite liked all of them to some degree. I even enjoyed the awful CGI rubber ninjas fight scene; I know the movement was unrealistic but I was young enough that I figured it was superhuman vampire flexibility. However, I agree that the first one was the best.
Trinity was my second introduction to Ryan Reynolds, so that helped some. (I’m pretty sure I first saw him in Van Wilder.) Also Wesley Snipes saying “gootchie goo” to a baby was pretty hilarious, though reflecting on that I’m not sure they ever explained how he got that child back to its mother.
Also, I think Natasha Lyonne was in that. I knew I recognized her when my wife started watching OitNB, but it took me forever to figure out why.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Pretty confident it’s from Deadpool and Wolverine.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’s really a way to post videos to Lemmy other than by posting them elsewhere and linking them here.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I felt sorry for this happening to someone once. I started a job and he theoretically was in charge of training me, but it quickly became apparent that I was better at the job than he was and that he wasn’t very respected. Shortly thereafter he quit (ironically, perhaps, to fill the absence I had left at my previous job).
A few months later he had an assignment that brought him back to my then-new job’s premises. He tried to arrange lunch with us but no one was interested.
- Comment on Consider the following 1 week ago:
Oh, that also makes sense! Thank you.
- Comment on The pinnacle of Commonwealth culture. The trifecta of kids entertainment. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧 1 week ago:
The use of “tripe” here is absolutely splendid.
- Comment on Consider the following 1 week ago:
I think there’s at least one word missing there, but also your username suggests I should mistrust you on this matter.
- Comment on Posting everyday until my brother takes a shower day 355 1 week ago:
No, @HughMann@piefed.social.
- Comment on If Vampire's are semi dead, then how come a steak thru the heart kills them if they are dead already? Do they still pump their own blood? 1 week ago:
Same thing, really.
- Comment on If Vampire's are semi dead, then how come a steak thru the heart kills them if they are dead already? Do they still pump their own blood? 1 week ago:
If only.