GreyEyedGhost

@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With a lot of companies no longer doing physical games, then would that give rise to more Piracy? How will video game preservation work then?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably been about a decade since I bought a game on physical media, and that would have been a Nintendo product. I don’t think I’ve purchased a PC game on physical media for a couple decades, and yet I keep hearing about pirated copies of them. I don’t think physical copies disappearing will have a significant impact on the level of piracy in either direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨foil⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be confused with yoots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do tires have the width and diameter they do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gyroscopic effect for bicycles is neither significant nor necessary. How are bikes with 12” wheels or less going to take advantage of that? There are some functioning bikes on this page whose gyroscopic force would be less than 1% of the mass of the bike and rider. They’re certainly a contributing factor, to varying degrees, but even on bigger bikes they aren’t substantial. Some guys at Cambridge went out of their way to prove that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on your definition of veganism. There is no animal product in it, but to use it in the quantities we do requires the destruction of a lot of habitat that certain animals require to survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen two, and can describe them. Please do me the pleasure of describing what these 0 cats look like. Perhaps I can recognize them if I come across them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The number sets have names that are reflective of that. Whole numbers are positive integers and 0 while natural numbers are only positive integers. You never see 0 cats, and the number of places where the number of cats is 0 is infinite (or approaching the number of places in the universe). Neither of those are really natural (not unlike cats) and are particularly hard to explain to younger people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betrayal (Sound on)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, because they have bad judgement. That ride is awesome!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem when people quit smoking years later they get lung cancer or some sorts of cancer? Like alcoholic's quit drinking and usually die of something they'd die of while drinking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if I enjoy your questions to raise engagement strategy, but don’t stop just because of me. If I decide I don’t enjoy it, at worst I’ll simply block you and hope you continue to succeed with whatever you’re hoping to achieve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been a number of posts on Lemmy about how to get it to work with non-Steam games, particularly if you also have Steam installed. This may be easier on Linux than on Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows users think about Linux all the time. “Why is this web site down?” “Whats happening with Cloudflare?” etc. They just don’t realize it’s Linux and don’t notice it all unless it happens to stop working. Them not thinking about it isn’t lack of concern or interest, it’s complete ignorance of the reality they live in. In fact, they probably have a computer with a *nix derivative OS that they use every day, whether their smartphone is Android or iOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just something of a shitpost, mostly directed at me. I’d care a lot less if I didn’t catch myself doing the same thing more than once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Troof⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This picture is the intersection of the two groups of people you normally see wearing leopard print clothes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Redundancy, and not like the good hardware kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Support Greater Saskatchewan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would make it so I was living in Saskatchewan, which is intolerable since mocking people from Saskatchewan is very important to me.

  The best joke I heard, I was talking about Saskatchewan and a guy said, “Saskatchewan?” and literally threw a pack of cigarettes on the ground and continued, “Stand on that and you can watch your dog run away for 3 days.” Way better version than sitting on your front porch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate when people use “also” and “as well” in the same sentence, and I die inside when I catch myself doing it. Not hating on you, just suffering flashbacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta say, Withers does not have a fool for a client, yet still somehow ended up with a fool for a lawyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of research has shown that people will drive at a speed that feels comfortable. Narrower lanes are known to cause people to slow down without additional discomfort or fining speeders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for helping me pop my Lemmy block user cherry. You made it easy to give in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Become a threat to my safety, and suddenly I don’t give a shit about your my safety.

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a buddy who would time his driving so that he could go through green lights at full speed. All well and good, and perfectly legal, but none of that helped him recover when he T-boned the guy who ran a red light. Sometimes a little prudence goes a long way, even if you’re in the right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Example 24,582,835,739 of simple solutions for complex problems not working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Chinese Factories Staple Real Cash to Cables⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually an ingenius and relatively cheap way to verify the authenticity of your product with a serious legal penalty if it’s faked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any free game like net hack ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that’s for NetHack, not Hack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insomnia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But she’s working on it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do "assassins" or whatever always have a Copy of Catcher in The Rye on them or with them? I read the book and nothing about taking out people, well prolly catholics but that is it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There were a few assassins/mass shooters who had a copy with them, if I recall. It became a weird coincidence, kind of like criminals with the middle of Wayne. I think Conspiracy Theory found a semi-plausible reason for having this happen, which would be far simpler today than it was then, and also coincidentally made fun of Catcher in the Rye - about the only people buying it are programmed to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A kid in my semi hometown in arkansas said he was going to shoot up a wal-mart if we went on a hanta lockdown. He was arrested and everything. Can you really be charged fed for typing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uttering threats is a crime. Libel and slander are crimes. Surprisingly to some, there are in fact things you can say (or write) that are illegal. Being charged for committing crimes is by definition not precrime. Also, they may be out to get you, but if you don’t know enough about the law to even be sure if you’re breaking it or not, you will make it very easy for them to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Feeling this. My preferred method to acknowledge people when talking is to look at them. Bad enough, in my opinion. About the only time I use a person’s name is in a greeting or, more often, to get their attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use a mason jar first and you can slip the lightbulb in and out as easy as pie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon needs a good response⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone is behaving poorly, there are two broad reasons. They know and are choosing to (for some value of choosing) and they don’t know and are doing it anyway. If someone is being a dick and doesn’t realize why they’re being a dick, pointing it out can cause them to realize they’re being a dick, at which point they can choose to stop (again, for some value of choosing) or they can not, which puts them in category of knowing and choosing to. All that assumes that they accept your assessment of the situation is correct.

  Now, as for your specific alternative? Having been in this type of situation, I would go with something along the lines of, “Aww, honey that sucks. Let’s stop arguing about how your feelings about the state of the kitchen aren’t my problem. Now, do you want cuddles before or after I tidy the kitchen, and where does chocolate and/or ice cream fit into this process?” Now, granted, my wife has learned to accept that my stupid, overly-specific ass is just that and is willing to say things like that on occasion since subtle is only a theoretical concept around here.