SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lil fella 4 days ago:
So it’s a dulcimer.
- Comment on Video games 6 days ago:
Got it, fire everyone after the film is completed.
- Comment on legg 6 days ago:
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 1 week ago:
Thunder is encoding the percent-signs, which are used for the original encoding of the dash. Which of course bungles the url.
- Comment on Disgusted 1 week ago:
“I find your previous comment somewhat ignorant.”
“Does purple viscosity glorify embarrassed shuttering of the sinister toes?”
— this conversation.
- Comment on Disgusted 1 week ago:
Yeah, Ukrainians are in such wonder anytime people from a distant and foreign culture like Russia come visit, that they kowtow and shower the tourists in gifts.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
Don’t know if I can trust him since the photo shows he’s playing the graphical version of the game.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
There are of course LLM ‘games’ that pretend to create a story in which the player does arbitrary actions. They’re utter dogshit, because a) they can’t keep track of their world for a prolonged time, since LLMs were never made for such coherent reasoning and keeping track of objects; and b) they just string the player along forever without any particular objectives, since their whole modus operandi is endlessly generating text that seems coherent.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
Idk, it’s quite a regular trope in discussions on travelling that USian tourists don’t eat local cuisine and instead go to McD because they know what they’re getting.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
McDonald’s is actually famous around the world because no matter where you walk into one, you get pretty much the same ‘quality’ of food. So USians love eating McDonald’s abroad.
- Comment on negativity 1 week ago:
Sharks are cartilaginous fish, with the skeletons made of cartilage. So while they’re vertebrates, I’m not sure that the vertebrae function the same as bony ones.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
Eastern-European food often can’t be attributed to any one country. Pierogi are identical to Ukrainian varenyky, and in case of meat dumplings also Russian pelmeni (borrowed from Komi and Udmurt cuisine). It’s hypothesized that dumplings originated in China and spread from there to Europe via the Silk Road trade, possibly via Turks; and to Siberia via Mongols.
- Comment on negativity 1 week ago:
Orcas: “write it down, write it down”.
Orcas love shark liver, to the extent that they will eat the liver and leave everything else. It’s not a small snack either:
Pretty understandable why they don’t find humans tasty in comparison.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
This also skips on how his sister edited his yet-unpublished works after his death, to include her German ultranationalist and antisemitic views, while he was opposed to them.
A kinda similar situation to that of Kafka, wherein Max Brod, who was supposed to burn all of Kafka’s manuscripts, instead e.g. rearranged the chapters of ‘The Trial’ for no good reason, such that it probably reads way more surrealistically. I’ve recently listened to some kinda restored edition that attempts to put back the intended order, and while it’s still a mess at times, the happenings are pretty understandable.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
“Russian soldiers are just doing things to feed their family and escape poverty.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Counterexample: cheetahs. They sort of meow instead of roaring.
- Comment on Interesting movie detail you've never noticed 1 week ago:
extracts the IP of whoever posted them
Yeah, it just ‘extracts’ the IP from the username.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 2 weeks ago:
I’ve also been recommended something called ‘Holiday Special’, they say it’s an item of particular interest.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 2 weeks ago:
Bit of an odd choice to cut it off at ‘Revenge of the Sith’.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 2 weeks ago:
The only thing I’ve seen of ‘Star Wars’ is ‘Attack of the Clones’, but I was thinking of watching the new trilogy sometime. Are you saying I should’t do that either?
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
I mean the player giving orders in the HQ and on the field. In the 2012 quasi-remake they’s addressed by staff and soldiers as ‘commander’, if I’m not forgetting anything. (The 2012 version is available on PS Vita, which happens to be convenient for me.)
Gotta say, your tactical approach sounds bloodier than mine. I just have them run from cover to cover nearly always, keep the squad vaguely close but separate, and then shower the targets with bullets. But Wikipedia says that the remake places more emphasis on the cover, and I don’t quite remember how it was in the original games.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
I thought the same, but then the main character in X-Com games is the ‘commander’. I’m still chugging along and dunno if he has any unpleasant fate himself, no spoilers please.
- Comment on I want to ride my bicycle 3 weeks ago:
NOM are great, but in this case I prefer Blümchen’s cover (unfortunately not in any way composed by Blümchen, as she was sixteen at the time of the release).
- Comment on I want to ride my bicycle 3 weeks ago:
If you’re perplexed by that, check out ‘Entertainers’ Choir of the Conductors Reserve’.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 3 weeks ago:
Check out also Psygnosis’ role in PS1. They had some superhits like ‘Lemmings’, were directly involved in the development of the console, ordered cheap test kits for it instead of custom workstations, made ‘Wipeout’ which singlehandedly changed the audience of consoles from schoolkifs to college students. Under Sony, they were the liaison with third-party developers and stayed semi-independent, publishing other people’s games. Until they were rewarded for all this in 2001 by being relegated to the ‘Wipeout’ and ‘Formula One’ series. (‘F1 '06’ was so goddamn hard that the player could straight up become a support driver and needed to do test laps and display consistency after that. But they lost the license to Codemasters the following year.)
- Comment on The legendary PS2 3 weeks ago:
Sega CD might have even caused the PS to exist because Sony and Nintendo were working on a joint console that was going to be CD based but then Nintendo backed out and made the N64 instead.
That’s Nintendo and Sony, Sega has nothing to do with this. There are known SNES-based PlayStation prototypes. Nintendo then turned around and bungled the deal, consequently invoking the biggest gaming brand into existence.
- Comment on Low rating 3 weeks ago:
Zero sexual content with the name like ‘Gabi Belle’? I’ve jerked off already, no need for anything extra.
- Comment on I need an adult 4 weeks ago:
For bonus points, terms for colors are developed differently but similarly in different languages: see e.g. ‘Color term’.
- Comment on onions 4 weeks ago:
By the way, try Georgian ajika if you ever have a chance: it’s chili pepper mixed with a whole lot of other spices, and is great even in commercial varieties.
- Comment on onions 4 weeks ago:
Eh, there are like five or so different kinds of ‘hot’, acting upon different tastebuds. Aside from peppercorn, i.e. black pepper, you’ve probably heard of Sichuan pepper, mustard, and horseradish (i.e. what is typically sold as wasabi). If you ever want to really clear your sinuses, get yourself some Russian mustard and chow down half a tablespoon of it, preferably on bread. I know for certain that it’s available in the US via some shady importing companies.
I have it in my ‘try sometime’ list to mix all the different kinds of hotness, and perhaps add mint since it’s felt by separate tastebuds that apparently still work through the numbness.
