SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 9 hours ago:
Thanks, I’ll avoid flying with Lockheed Martin.
- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 22 hours ago:
Murder Death Kill.
- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 23 hours ago:
We found them! The person who had the 3DO!
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 23 hours ago:
carbon-fiber barrel
My immersion is ruined by the mention of the material that cracks if someone sneezes too hard nearby.
- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 1 day ago:
How about you tell us the ‘actual name’, sucka? Because anyone who was a gamer in 1997-2000 knows of the mystery behind that name.
- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 1 day ago:
PS1 did a lot to legitimize gaming, probably more than Wii. Up to the SNES/Genesis generation, consoles in particular were perceived as kids’ toys. With PS1, Sony and Psygnosis (who did a lot of legwork for Sony) advertised it to college-age folks, hiring The Designers Republic to make the marketing materials and the style of ‘Wipeout’, they put contemporary edm music in the game, made some edgy ads, and organized gaming rooms in fifty nightclubs in the UK alone. PS1 singlehandedly changed the audience of consoles away from just kids, for which Sony thanked Psygnosis by renaming them to SCE Studio Liverpool, making them develop just the ‘Wipeout’ and ‘Formula One’ series, and shutting them down altogether in 2012.
Now guess what people who were in college in 1995, were doing in early-mid 2000s. And note also that Nintendo never really switched away from targeting their games to kids.
- Comment on My Private Key 1 day ago:
Yes, you failed all of us.
- Comment on unfactorizable 2 days ago:
Not to be mistaken with furry transfem.
- Comment on unfactorizable 2 days ago:
Very cool if so. Because DDG tells me that the comic was published on Feb 9 2007, while the Debian vuln was announced May 13 2008. (ExplainXKCD is down, and I don’t know any other sources that cite the dates of XKCD comics, so idk if it’s accurate.)
- Comment on unfactorizable 2 days ago:
- Comment on We thought it could never get better than this 3 days ago:
Damn, now I understand when exactly I stopped doodling, with both the pencil and the mouse.
- Comment on What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat 1 week ago:
I didn’t like onions in my childhood. I grew fond of them when approaching adulthood, particularly when I moved out and started properly cooking for myself and buying my own fast food. Now a sandwich without onion doesn’t taste right.
So I think it’s rather a matter of a particular configuration of tastebuds. Just like I grew out of liking overly sweet foods.
- Comment on What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat 1 week ago:
Yall have some wrong kind of onion. Where I am, raw onion is crunchy like fresh cabbage. Do yall buy onion only after it has been lying around in warm air for a year?
What really has awful texture is boiled cabbage or onion.
- Comment on Surpreisenheimer 1 week ago:
You could gently dip your toes in the water by starting with ‘Barefoot Gen’.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
Convenient because afaik all images produced by the US government are automatically in the public domain.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 2 weeks ago:
My argument is, what am I supposed to be entertained by, if the number of USian political posts is brought down to zero?
- Comment on epic_prank.gif 2 weeks ago:
The whole point is to slip someone the link. Not a random video.
As for ‘the game’, I’m to far into my path to enlightenment to care about it.
- Comment on epic_prank.gif 2 weeks ago:
Alternative links don’t count.
- Comment on It's boogey wednesday, my dudes! 3 weeks ago:
Iirc the rods that see in grayscale but are good at light perception, have quicker response than cones that do color vision. However, rods are most engaged in low-light conditions, which here is true for the frog, so this part kinda contradicts the response time.
- Comment on Slash. 3 weeks ago:
Can’t fix ‘Sherlock’, though.
- Comment on Never clean 3 weeks ago:
I started thinking that surely you’re right, remembering that alkaline bile helps digest lipids. But, hard soap does in fact contain over 70% fatty acids while ultimately somehow being alkaline.
- Comment on Never clean 3 weeks ago:
Pro tip: use actual soap, the one you wash your hands with. Works way better for oils.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
IMO it’s rather that ‘Adventure Time’ and other cartoons were inspired by Don Hertzfeldt. Afaik Pendleton Ward was in CalArts right when Hertzfeldt’s shorts came out. ‘Adventure Time’ ran at pretty much the same time as ‘Regular Show’, and they had similar style and mood — not surprisingly, since Ward befriended J. G. Quintel (and Alex Hirsch) at CalArts. These three worked on ‘The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack’ together before launching their separate series.
- Comment on el tigre 4 weeks ago:
Pet a cheetah instead, they’re chill.
- Comment on el tigre 4 weeks ago:
But consider: which appendages can you yanl on a tiger for your amusement if you’re a gibbon?
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 4 weeks ago:
Except DeLorean’s reputation was as unreliable and lame.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, basically all electronic music was invented in the nineties, little remained to discover. Idm and breakcore already came about with the crazy structures. Dubstep is the one major missing link, but it’s pretty straightforward evolution from dnb.
Fun fact: Scorn’s ‘Greetings from Birmingham’ came out in 2000 (made by former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris), but somehow the dubstep genre got entirely hijacked by the London people later on.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Activision actually did publishing for Bungie through the 2010s.
But the cherry on that hypothetical cake is that Sony currently owns Bungie.
- Comment on Lil fella 1 month ago:
So it’s a dulcimer.
- Comment on Video games 1 month ago:
Got it, fire everyone after the film is completed.
