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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homiesex is not real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus, how can anyone take those reddit posts seriously anymore? That wasn’t even creative in its creative writing assignment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they don’t quite have the subtlety I like though. The petard one is a good example. Imagine if they had just left the title without the fake update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t realize there were 7 games now, damn. I always forget the SNES and 3DS. If you want a similar game, down to the cheesy pilot headshots and text boxes while flying (with the oh so common roguelike progression and basic lack of story that modern games seem to love), you could try Whisker Squadron. The gameplay is pretty fun, if basic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not enough of them to matter, likely, just like covid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoosh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I’m 2 for three. One day I’ll have the spare computer to self host something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believed in your nonbelieving, friend!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It has some good gags. It definitely fits the whole trope like a large hand in a small glove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On second thought, let’s avoid lemmy.nz. 'Tis a silly place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fancy pants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I have ever made enough to afford the house you’d need for a sodastream to look right in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  /shakes_fist

  You come over here and say that to my face, you french sneeze!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I reserve sweltering for when you can see the heat waves in the air. It is a great word. New mexico is a weird one though, being high desert, right? Ya’ll actually get a wildly cold winter, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, this gag still makes me fondly remember when I would page through the player’s handbook looking at the weapons and armor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a personal thing, I’ve always detested that usage of the word big. More so than any of these ‘very’ replacements, there are so many words available to convey the meaning of that big.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say the humorous way very is used in children’s books is somehow lost as they transition from kid to teenager or so, but the use of the word sticks around. I wonder why that is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen, I need to introduce you to any hot climate’s weather terms (done in american and rest-of-the-fucking-world-but-liberia units for funsies):

  • >90/32 = hot
  • >28/82 = stifling (if humid) / little warm
  • >78/25 = warm
  • >75/24 = nice out
  • >22/72 = okay
  • >70/21 = cool
  • >68/20 = chilly
  • >60/16 = cold
  • <16/60 = freezing

  You can be very cold and freezing. You can’t be very cold and not freezing. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fry’s as in fry’s electronics? Didn’t they go bankrupt because one of the owners was embezzling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fancy pants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I constantly thank my parents in spirit, because fuck saying it to their hateful maga faces, for the no soda thing. I have seen far too much evidence for soda’s addictive qualities in my patients, and the prices at the store are simply insane. I’m sure the water only life I live is at least partly responsible for the lack of waist ballooning that seems common among my coworkers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fancy pants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I remember about a decade ago when the deal was fifty cent corn dogs. My coworker looked at me like I was insane when I got $10 worth.

  I think I ended up giving away like 6 of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fancy pants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t eat mushrooms on pizza because you don’t think their flavor meshes with pizza.

  I don’t eat mushrooms on pizza because their flavor is fucking nasty.

  We are not the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when my ex's dad told him this, this is unironically what i thought about⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a reaver’s.

  :0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wish i wasn't 3 15 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you weren’t, but in the places they were born they were quite massive. Enough that the rules officially said you could be banned for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with it, Libby.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me tell you the story of what you’re looking at. Once upon a time, that area was part of a larger spread with a nice home for its time (not pictured) where the farmer lived. As family sizes lessened and the children moved off to the city or were sent off and didn’t return from their war, the farmer split his property into smaller lots of a few acres, and either gave them to the children that were around now, flush with money in the post war era, or sold them as per a lot of advice from the locals who called him friend. The nice house where he lived was given to the most loved child, who promised to keep the farm running on the side, but only if it was smaller so it could still be done in between the normal day job (where he was probably the owner, using the booming economy as they all did to start businesses that didn’t need to be amazing to succeed).

  Eventually, those smaller lots had houses built in the style of simple rustic cabins because the timber was sourced locally, cheaply, and it was the style of the time. The folks moving in were the last of the generation of big families, where small towns were continually expanding. They were still able to get jobs nearby (within an hour or two for most) that paid well enough. They had enough free time and the knowledge (or help from friends with knowledge) to keep the roof up and the wiring neat.

  Now we fast forward 30 years. A depression has hit. The kids are grown up, and needing a place to stay. Their jobs don’t pay quite well enough to get a complete house and land. Maybe one or two will move away to a city where the opportunities exist. One of the various lots will have a family with a business that is still successful. Maybe it grows enough that both kids can work in the business and survive. But this house? This house (and tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, more in the county) has a different story. The family business was sold. Maybe one of the kids became an addict. The family won’t spread like ‘usual.’ So one will keep living in the house. Off to the side of the picture, about fifty yards, is a doublewide trailer where the other lives. Some of those situations will stabilize. The doublewide will be taken care of, the older house will be refitted with better insulation, appliances, expanded in some areas.

  But we can see what will happen the vast majority of the time. It’s 30 years later, again. The nearby factory closed up, the interstate rerouted traffic from the old highway, and the area stagnated. Now, 25 yards out of the picture, is a towed trailer with a bed and sink that the grandkid lives in. A second trailer is tucked under the tree that grew behind the doublewide, where Danny, the other grandchild, and Leslie, his on-again, off-again baby momma, can be heard screaming at each other every night. The house has decayed now, it’s interior slowly filled with bric-a-brac that is refused to be thrown out because it has the nostalgia of when they didn’t worry about money every day. The toilets haven’t been replaced in 45 years; the refrigerator is precariously leaning because the side was hastily patched with plastic and jb weld and the foot can’t be put back or the weak plastic will break. The window curtains rotted, and they put up the garbage bags to keep the sun out, and then realized it also kept the wind from blowing rain inside. Sometimes, the well pump doesn’t like to run, so they collect what water they can just in case.

  Meanwhile, that nice farmhouse? It still sits on several dozen acres, or might even be part of a mostly functional ranch now (because ag exemptions mean low taxes!). The few hundred in the county have been mostly sold though, as the rich want to find a place “away from the city” and its ‘crime’ and ‘dirty air.’ The ones that are still lived in are the few remaining businessmen, who now have all the restaurants, remaining stores, and often run the local part of an oil and gas company.

  Ninety percent of the local politicians live in those houses. Sometimes a few small positions will come from the weird, not-quite-urban neighborhoods that were built just outside of the county seat’s city limits. And those politicians? They tell the people who live in the house pictured that trump will bring back the factory jobs, and improve their lives, and they sit back and laugh all the way to the bank.

  So, yes, this is where humans live. The corruption of the system is built from the ground up. When poverty is the majority the corrupt have a large amount of power, and they love it. And this is the majority. Get off the main highway in any rural county, and it’s just like the picture, but stacked in rows of hundreds. Just look at satellite imagery outside of urban areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spitballin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A post a few days ago was a bisected picture of a person answering a question about why japanese culture includes photographs of burgers that have been ‘tilted’ or the various layers slid aside to look like a tiered pyramid. At the end of a very ‘reasonable’ sounding explanation of a few paragraphs, the person concluded with something along the lines of, ‘lol, I made it all up, I dunno.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I haven’t the best memory to simply name them off, but I know I have played games like that already. Maybe not in the boss focused rpg style, but enough that they wouldn’t really appeal on their own. But something like kingdom come or the witcher, but with all the goodness of elden ring bosses? I’d be down for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be pretty happy with just a ‘realistic’ dark souls setting. The wild views were great in the various games, but now give me a perfectly rendered recreation of actual castles and medieval villages to romp through, with the occasional huge reptile ripping through a village’s eastern quarter as I race to the well to raise the bucket of water that is its only weakness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that’s just the average modern zombie game. Everyone of them has a mall level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theories on Theories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Example, imaginary numbers weren’t a thing for a good while and some stuff didn’t work correctly

  And here’s Lewis Carroll to regale us with a tale that absolutely won’t be misunderstood and taken at face value by later generations about how foolish these silly mathematicians are with their wonky numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aye, it’s cheaper to keep’yer little peeper cub in its plane sleeper, and just have two cars for either end. Tiny planes are relatively cheap and could be afforded on an upper middle class salary like an engineer, mid-tier lawyer, or software coder, much the same way as a second car.

  I mean, maybe that’s not true anymore with how wages have been suppressed while costs have risen, but it was the last time I saw flying cars being seriously discussed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Hades hard to beat?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be hard to beat, depending on your ‘skill’ with that sort of game.

  If you’re really struggling, I would recommend getting the mod that allows you to ‘pick’ a particular god that you like, and it will keep giving you that god as the powerup choice. This lets you get the ‘rare’ upgrades more often, which is where the game really seems to peg its difficulty level at. RNG screws over a strategy more often than anything else in hades. Sure, if you’re really trying to be the best hades player ever, you won’t really have problems, but for more casual players it is more critical to have good upgrades.

  *If you do get that mod, remember that you can switch which god you’re being given, and find a combo power that you really like. Some good choices are demeter, zeus, artemis. Demeter’s laser beams, artemis’s criticals, those do well together. Zeus’s lightning combines well with several other powers. Demeter’s cool ‘upgrade the rarity’ power is also amazing which is why she pairs well with everyone else.