zikzak025
@zikzak025@lemmy.world
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 12 hours ago:
I just assumed they were the weird emphasis quotes people do for some reason
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 12 hours ago:
I had to look up his bio (where I learned that he had just died, this post makes more sense now) and found that he actually had no biological children, so he would actually be eligible for a Darwin Award.
- Comment on Is this even a question? 6 days ago:
Why did this immediately start playing in my head as soon as I saw this picture?
- Comment on Xbox Developer_Direct Returns January 22: Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation to be shown 6 days ago:
Playground is planning to fill their games with AI slop, so I can’t say I’m overly interested in anything they have to say or show off.
That just leaves Gamefreak, which simply cannot make a good game if a gun was held to their head, so I don’t have much interest in them either.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
I count it as a handheld because every switch can be used as a handheld, while not every switch can be used as a home console.
It’s like calling a phone that you can plug into a monitor with peripherals a “desktop”
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
Plus the Switch is a handheld, which makes it a weird distinction to make.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 week ago:
Switch has a good chance of overtaking PS2 before the end of its lifespan. The Switch is still selling and still getting game releases.
- Comment on Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I wish my wife could play subnautica with me
Well she’s too busy taking care of young Molly to be able to make the time. Maybe have Worf babysit?
- Comment on I added new config options called "outline" and "Shadows" for my action roguelite game 2 weeks ago:
Jisho.org is a fairly helpful site for finding words like that. Sometimes you have to scroll a bit to find the “loanword” version of a term, but it helps with showing different nuances of translated words when looking them up.
Unfortunately I think it’s EN-JP only, but helpful if you know the English word you want.
- Comment on I'm disappointed to the max 2 weeks ago:
The less colorful tufted variety common around here are actually my favorites.
- Comment on I'm disappointed to the max 2 weeks ago:
Honestly one of my favorite birds, though. They’re just adorable.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a linguistics expert and this is just me offering an unsolicited layman’s opinion, but perhaps the nuance comes from whether or not one might still conceive of the words being related despite the acknowledged difference in definition?
For example, “bat” (the animal) and “bat” (the implement) are homonyms that are used to describe two clearly different things. But maybe one might think of “scale” being connected between its various uses when it is not. “Scale” (the measuring tool) uses plates which are similar to the flat plates of fish scales. Or that to “scale” a distance is like measuring a “scale” of height. Something like that.
- Comment on The feed is about to get much crustier 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Sometimes it do be like that 2 weeks ago:
I think if you surgically remove a rib, yeah
- Comment on The Lioness does not... 2 weeks ago:
FWIW I initially just took this in the context of the source material, Game of Thrones.
Cersei Lannister (pictured) comes from a noble house whose sigil is a lion. They use a lot of lion metaphors. One of the quotes from her father Tywin (in the show at least) is “The lion does not concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.”
Cersei as a character, though, is a bit of a hot mess who makes it her business to concern herself with everyone.
- Comment on Large House 2 weeks ago:
My 90’s childhood trauma resurfaced here.
I pressed + a few times to keep making the horse bigger, which made me happy, and wondered “How far can I go with this?”
So I pressed it a few more times, with diminishing results, and then I thought “Wait, this is a setup. How long until it turns into a horrifying face and screams at me?”
Too many old gimmicky sites/flash games that cause users to focus more intently/rush on through before throwing in a jump scare. Always hated that stuff.
Based on the other comments though, I’m relieved it seems to be an innocuous site that just helps a horse achieve its dream of becoming as big as it can possibly be.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. It will require careful redistribution of labor and resources to ensure stability with a declining population.
But nations typically want to hoard their resources, and the value of labor is measured only in overall utility to the billionaire class, so I don’t believe it will be a graceful decline for the majority of the world in practice.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 weeks ago:
How do I un-read something?
- Comment on The ID_10_ts 2 weeks ago:
Even young people who grew up with technology.
There is now a middle sweet spot of computer literacy that spans Gen X and Millennials. When you go younger than that, you start running into people who never owned a normal computer growing up and only ever used smartphones/tablets.
By making devices simple enough for grandma to use, we inadvertently fostered a new generation of people who are as computer literate as grandma.
