SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on 11 year old girl telling Abraham Lincoln to grow beard so more people will vote for him (it actually worked) 9 hours ago:
- Comment on Who also enjoys this? 15 hours ago:
New books are simply a bit stiff, and the pages stay in the semi-closed configuration initially. You just need to stretch it a bit by bending the book back and forth when open on the desired page, and bang on the middle to make it conform to the new shape.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 16 hours ago:
For sysadmins, it’s one of these pocket-sized things to plug into the kvm and figure out the issue.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 19 hours ago:
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 20 hours ago:
Hmmm, you’re right, it now tells me to “search to get started”. Guess the onslaught of total unmitigated crap as the default page for a region was rather embarrassing. That’s the downside of using the greatest common factor as the starting point.
Thankfully I have my own interests instead, and taught them to Youtube. Works like a charm.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 22 hours ago:
I understand the sentiment, but gotta say YouTube is one service that is much better when logged in. I have my history and personalization disabled everywhere except YouTube. If I open YouTube’s front page in an incognito tab, it’s wall-to-wall trash on the level of Jerry Springer. Meanwhile I’ve been getting recommendations to my precise taste for years. Lots of good music found in the recs.
I don’t even open random YouTube links from social media under my account, so as to not mess up the recommendations. Always using an incognito tab instead.
- Comment on Woke 23 hours ago:
Ah, of course, Canadians must show up and fight your fight for you.
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 23 hours ago:
fermenting a strong belief
On the offchance, the word you want is probably ‘fomenting’.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 1 day ago:
Five or more monitors is typically for traders watching charts and news simultaneously. Those rake in a bit more than grunts.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 1 day ago:
I’m vaguely sure this was already in MacOS when I got my Macbook in early 2010s.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 2 days ago:
Soichi Terada is cool.
Also it’s jungle rather than drum’n’bass.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 2 days ago:
- Comment on Just shave it bro 3 days ago:
Do they open in browser? Many Lemmy instances seem to be behind CloudFlare, so it could be that you just have some problem with connectivity to CloudFlare, but only for some of their ips.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 3 days ago:
Neat. Took me a while to make out the title, though.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 4 days ago:
Designers Republic art detected.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 4 days ago:
There’s also Race Driver 2006, which is a pretty good and content-rich port of ‘TOCA Race Driver 2’. SBK 09 works as a bike sim, and Colin McRae Rally 2005 is a decent rally sim. Formula One 06 is a port of Psygnosis’ frustratingly demanding PS2 game, made in-house so without particular simplification. The NASCAR game is weird but serviceable.
Vita has a few too, namely F1 2011, MotoGP 14 and the WRC series. Although the F1 game is straight up too easy if one practices the tracks.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 4 days ago:
Retroarch is a bit bloated for more intensive emulation, though. You can play N64 games on Vita, but they run better in standalone emulators than in Retroarch.
- Comment on One stop shop 5 days ago:
Doesn’t quite beat the “otolaryngologist and wiener sausages”.
- Comment on where? 5 days ago:
Check out his ‘An Evening with Kevin Smith’ talks. He’s actually pretty chatty.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 5 days ago:
Ah, so you’re saying that some portion, perhaps very minuscule, of the audience, would be enamoured with the bad guys as role models.
But, you see, that’s quite different from what I quoted originally as: “[these artists] romanticize the mafia and army nonetheless, and in general media glorifies its subject matter regardless of the author’s intent“.
You seem to agree with me that a small share of especially stupid people would derive their own messaging from the art. This doesn’t change the fact that this media, in general, does the critique quite alright, as opposed to what the above quote says.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 5 days ago:
You seem to agree with my position in the first paragraph.
No one is saying it’s ‘not allowed’ for people to make those things.
It’s remarkable how you apparently listened in on my comment exchange with the aforementioned other person. Truly impressive capability. Could you please cite the exact argument they presented, since you know it so dearly?
- Comment on Anon is emotional intelligence. 5 days ago:
Just to clear it up for people who apparently don’t realize it: I wasn’t actually discussing Rowling with the above comment.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 5 days ago:
Why are you talking as if this argument doesn’t generalize an interpretation on some section of the audience to general treatment of any and all such media wholesale? Did you miss the part where it says that the media in question romanticizes the depicted practices regardless of any intent of the author, or interpretation by the generally intelligent audience? You’re saying that the stupidest possible understanding of the media is what all media should aim for, otherwise by that commenter’s argument it shouldn’t exist. I don’t think you seriously realize how deranged this take is. It’s straight up advocating for the ‘Idiocracy’ society.
Good art doesn’t pander to the common denominator, it lifts the audience above it.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 5 days ago:
From what I’ve heard, ‘TMNT’ is basically a wide-reaching parody of the comic genre at the time. ‘Daredevil’ was one of the influences, just like noted in the Wikipedia article:
The concept parodied several elements popular in superhero comics of the time — the teenagers of New Teen Titans, the mutants of Uncanny X-Men and the ninja skills of Daredevil — combined with the comic tradition of funny animals such as Howard the Duck.
They developed a backstory referencing further elements of Daredevil: like Daredevil, the Turtles are altered by radioactive material, and their sensei, Splinter, is a play on Daredevil’s sensei, Stick.
Idk how you read that article to have missed that. It’s also been noted more than once before that the ‘radioactive spill’ or whatever by which the turtles are affected is supposedly the exact same incident that is Daredevil’s origin story.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 5 days ago:
Yeah, I think I’ve heard of the ‘no anti-war films’ sentiment before, and vaguely heard that army recruiting increased after ‘Full Metal Jacket’, of all films. However, I don’t agree that idiocy of some part of the public is a reason to write off army, mafia, or any such quasi-satire media wholesale, as the aforementioned commenter did. That position essentially says that it’s not allowed to do critique of institutions and practices as part of ‘entertainment’ art.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 5 days ago:
I’ve seen one Lemmy bigbrain recently argue that even when artists are showing mafia or army to be terrible for people in them, they romanticize the mafia and army nonetheless, and that in general media glorifies its subject matter regardless of the author’s intent. This schmuck would probably say with a straight face that ‘Helldivers’, or whatever this post is about, actually advocates for its model of utopia even if it pretends not to.
- Comment on Anon is emotional intelligence. 5 days ago:
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 6 days ago:
I remember reading that one of story shooter games had a particularly great mission where the player descends on a city from the surrounding elevation or somesuch. And I’ve heard multiple times recently that ‘The Line’ is quite outstanding with its story and gameplay. Is it the same game, by any chance? I don’t think there’s any elevation near Dubai, so probably not, but just to make sure.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 6 days ago:
Not quite the same, but: more than a few classic films are remakes. The 1959 ‘Ben-Hur’ is a remake of the 1925 film, which itself was the second cinema adaptation of the novel, after the 1907 film.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 6 days ago:
Speaking of Kurosawa, ‘Ran’ is based on ‘King Lear’, and also “includes segments based on legends of the daimyō Mōri Motonari”.
