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- Comment on 1 day ago:
Blowing a car off the ground with pressurized air is hardly flying, so it doesn’t count… I’m sure some special effects guys did this way before Tesla.
- Comment on For all restaurants who uses AI to generate pics of their own food 1 week ago:
The AI pictures an Indian restaurant in my area uses, really look like slop. Not like AI slop, but regular slop. Grey goo in tinfoil trays. I have no idea why they do that, the actual food looks better.
- Comment on Are you able to tell which language is which by looking? 1 week ago:
But Egyptian Hieroglyphs aren’t a logographic system. They have logographic elements as well as alphabetic, syllabic and ideographic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And yes, you absolutely are supposed to judge a book by the cover. That’s the whole point of cover art/dustjackets- to tell you what’s inside.
For real! Unless it’s the reprint of a classic. Then they slap just any old picture onto them. I have a Yasushi Inue novel that looks as if it was a pulp samurai-western. The book does at least heavily feature samurai, though.
- Comment on Sweet 2 weeks ago:
True. It’s amazing what they could do with a bit of rope and some sticks. Thumbscrews were the most technical thing.
Even torture itself was only employed in trials very late in the middle ages. It was quite a step forward from trial by ordeal or reputation.
- Comment on What's the science behind erratic driving? 2 weeks ago:
For the health of you and everyone around you, you should stop driving.
- Comment on You are undecided on buying a house. But this convinces you to buy it 2 weeks ago:
Funny. Over here no real estate agent would ever put a sign in front of a house for sale. They don’t even tell you the address until you message them so you can’t look at the house on your own.
- Comment on Truth about schizophrenia 3 weeks ago:
I regularly talk with a schizophrenic who thinks our company is stalking him. He’s kind of chill about it, but still insists that we stop it. Man, I wish we had as much personell as he claims is spying on him.
- Comment on Fall is here 5 weeks ago:
You can have soup all year.
- Comment on Sheeple... 5 weeks ago:
To be fair his team did an hour worth of diagnostics. And it was covered by public insurance.
- Comment on Sheeple... 5 weeks ago:
Me too. I ended up having to go to three neurologists and the last one told me that I either have some kind of polyneuropathy or nothing and his money was on nothing. It has been some years and I hope he was right.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 month ago:
What you gain throug these “5 minutes” is the illusion of control. You repeat a manual task over and over just to tell yourself that this changes something. You don’t have the choice not to pay. You don’t have more control over what you pay.
I check my account movements every months. It really only takes five minutes. If there was a mistake, I’ll have the bank to check it or call the company myself. You have to do that too, in addition to doing the bills yourself.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 month ago:
That’s the “free” market for you. God forbid that the consumer can make an informed decision on where to buy.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 month ago:
Also, never, under any circumstances, allow a company to automatically withdraw funds directly from your bank account.
What? And pay your utilities manually every month? At some point you have to ask yourself what the monetary value of your lifetime is.
- Comment on NOOOOOOOyeah that feels goodNOOOOOOOO 1 month ago:
It may cause strokes, but current chiropractic-funded studies say otherwise.
- Comment on NOOOOOOOyeah that feels goodNOOOOOOOO 1 month ago:
It may cause strokes, but current chiropractic-funded studies say otherwise.
- Comment on Does it make much difference healthwise if you were to split your meal unti 2 parts? Have all your carbs at once then an hour later have your veg and protein? 1 month ago:
From a dental health standpoint it’s worse because you’re having more individual meals.
- Comment on Can I do something with this? 1 month ago:
It’s a stick for recieving digital TV.
TrekStor is an old Aldi brand form the 2000s, if I remember correctly. So you probably live in Europe. That means that the device most likely doesn’t work anymore since around 2008. European broadcasters switched from DVB-T to DVB-T2 back then. I don’t know whether you can recieve anything with it today, I had to upgrade to a news set at that point in time.
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 month ago:
Meanwhile the Nazi officials feared that Catholics may cause a civil war if they didn’t put just the right amount of pressure on the Vatican. And Protestants tried to become the official state church of Nazi Germany.
Lets, not forget either that the biggest monstrosity of WWII was the religious cleansing, who had a beef with the Jews? I think you should take some history lessons. Being Jewish wasn’t a religious definition for the Nazis, we’re not talking about the Spanish Inquisition here. And it’s not like Catholics were more (or less) antisemitic than Protestants.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 1 month ago:
Why should they use some kind of filter to achieve the same fuzzy, plasticy look that bad AI art tends to have? It’s not like that magically appears when you make 3D art.
- Comment on The Vancouver Police 1 month ago:
So they did something good for once: traffic education.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 1 month ago:
Papers Please. I think I could do that job better in person. I would be fine, but my memories would bite me in the ass twenty years later.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There was a concentration camp near my hometown in Germany. It was a “work camp” not a “destruction camp”, which just meant they had no gas chambers and people were murdered through extremely hard labour in a quarry. The museum there has a collection of letters that show the interactions between ordinary people and the camp authorities. As far as I remember they had the following conversations on display:
- people asking for forced labourers for their private projects
- camp authorities reprimanding the public not to leave potato skins and other leftover food out when prisoners were marched through town
- people compalining about the stench, thick, oily smoke, as well as blood and bits of bone in the creek
People saw a lot and people talked
- Comment on On Jail websites they let you know the exact address where a Pedo lives. But tells you not to go out and harm them. Has anyone ever used it as a list to go hunt down pedo's? 2 months ago:
So you want to know whether people here commited a capital offense?
- Comment on Siren and Siren 2 2 months ago:
I can see that, but honestly, Kuon is just slow and clunky. Deliberately, yes, but way past the point where it can be enjoyed by anyone but the most hardcore fans. The developers overdid it. It’s one of the main reason why the game wasn’t well recieved. To avoid combat you have to play the game the slowest way possible, while the movement is already slow to begin with. At some point the decisions you make in the game are less driven by aspects of the game’s world, but by how much of your own time you want to invest.
When I played it back in the day, I really wanted to like it but just couldn’t, because I felt like the game tried its best to waste my time.
- Comment on Siren and Siren 2 2 months ago:
The Siren games are really unique in my opinion. There was such a lot of effort put into the environment alone that always makes me come back. I never finished one though.
- Comment on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes 2 months ago:
Yeah, when you look at it, it’s not very good craftsmanship. You can see the traces of the rotating tools. Since it doesn’t look bad overall, that’s a sign of someone not really putting a lot of effort in it. The creator could, but didn’t really want to.
- Comment on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes 2 months ago:
For that price, it has a really, really bad surface. You can see the marks of the rotating tools.
- Comment on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes 2 months ago:
Isn’t “artisan” supposed to mean “made by an artisan” and not “mass produced trash”?
- Comment on Day 762 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I think Remedy always manages to make their games just slightly too long to be completely enjoyable. It’s sill a great game, but the DLCs felt a bit dry to me.