wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on At the airport. The TSA thought my daughter's Hello Kitty carry-on was suspicious. [More in body.] 1 day ago:
For the record, C4 is a putty. You’d just mold it like a piece of play-doh.
Plenty of other very dangerous things easily smuggled all sorts of ways. Get creative (but seriously DON’T).
- Comment on Just think about it 2 days ago:
The information is accurate. Your interpretation of my wording is so off and away from the rest of the conversation it’s hardly worth engaging with.
This isn’t debate club, a news room, or some scientific paper. You don’t “win” anything by trying to pick apart minor word choice.
I have an incredibly hard time believing you truly misunderstood the intended meaning and weren’t just excited to score what you thought was some sort of easy dunk.
In the past, the type of jobs that older generations tend to categorize as “dead end jobs meant for students” had a significant chunk of their workforce made up of students. The stereotype didn’t coalesce out of nowhere spontaneously and entirely out of the imagination of privileged assholes.
Feel free to keep on this track if you feel the need, but I’m done.
- Comment on Just think about it 2 days ago:
Awesome! I can put another hole in my “nitpick of minor detail that doesn’t change the main point” punch card. Two more and I get a free icecream!
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 days ago:
My guy, open the article for a moment. Just like TikTok, when you open the app it simply gives a message that they cannot operate in the US.
So no, the apps are not functional unless you use a VPN to get a non-US IP address.
- Comment on Just think about it 3 days ago:
If you contribute 40 hours of labor to the country’s GDP, you should expect to be able to have shelter, food and medical care. That’s not asking a lot.
That’s 1000% true, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are jobs you can do from walking in off the street with an hour or two of training, and there are jobs that you need more training/background/skills to do.
All full time work should provide enough for a basic standard of living. But arguing that there isn’t a difference in required skill between stocking shelves in an Amazon warehouse and say, diagnosing and treating cancer is absurd.
That’s going to significantly undermine your argument with a lot of people.
As far as your parents go, historically a lot of those jobs were populated primarily by high school students or people trying to make some side cash, and it wasn’t as hard to find employment in a more stable “career” job. The economy worked in a way where having dead end “starter” jobs still “worked”.
They just probably aren’t as aware of the fact that more and more people are getting stuck in those jobs due to no fault of their own. The idea is truly and utterly alien to them if they haven’t had to navigate job hunting since they started their “career” job.
The idea that people who didn’t make poor life choices are trying to survive off working at McDonalds doesn’t mesh with their understanding of how the world works. The idea that someone working at Walmart full time can’t afford to live without government assistance doesn’t seem real.
The last time they had to directly deal with that sort of stuff, no one was trying to survive that way because you could much more easily move to a job you could survive on if you just put in a small amount of effort. It might have been another shitty job, but options were there if you just looked. Not too long ago you could survive off Walmart.
All you can really do is to keep insisting that times have changed. Jobs aren’t just waiting for someone to ask to speak to the manager, and pay has not kept pace with costs of stuff increasing.
Trying to argue that a fry cook deserves to be paid as much as a skilled position will always be a non-starter.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You must have a very different experience with social media if you are seriously able to say that with a straight face.
Most moderators use those criteria exactly the same way I have, and many other sites and communities restrict posting privileges on new accounts as an effective measure to curtail spam and astroturfing. The only reason that isn’t being used on Lemmy is a lack of moderator tools to do it.
Additionally, shitpost is not some catch all category. Traditionally shitposts are intentionally false, misleading, or low quality posts done for the sake of humor or to try and elicit an emotional response from others (see: trolling). But fair enough, this particular comm has been becoming a catch all lately.
Anyway. You want to look more natural? Go participate in other comms. Make comments on a wide variety of topics, not just about the latest social media site that’s clamoring to profit off the current situation.
Until then your response amounts to little more than an indignant “nuh uh!” with nothing behind it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
OP joined six days ago, and this is the only post and comments they have made.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I think believing that any one of these platforms isn’t trying to maximize what they can get out of the TikTok ban is a very naive assumption.
- Comment on A totally normal figure of cancer signaling pathways 5 days ago:
How in the fuck did this pass peer review?
- Comment on U.S. Employee engagement sinks to 10-year low 1 week ago:
I’m still in awe that the business real estate market is such a big deal that companies are fucking scrambling to kill a worker productivity and morale tool that is effectively free for any company that maintained operations during covid.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched 1 week ago:
Does Ross/Accursed Farms, the person who started this movement, not count?
- Comment on Same 1 week ago:
Hey, the GPU plugin in runelite that adds lighting effects can absolutely EAT GPU power.
- Comment on Day 177 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
Yeah, I get that the devs probably don’t want to rehash the same level editor mechanics ad-naseum so instead they made the far more complex/in-depth Dreams, but I think there’s still value in simpler creation tools. I’m sad they moved away from LBP.
Simpler tools lower the bar for entry and can make creating things easier. For LBP it also enforced a cohesive art style, and unless the creator was insane it enforced a specific set of game mechanics.
With Dreams you have no idea what you’re in for, and there’s countless people taking time poorly reinventing the wheel for basic gameplay functionality. You can’t just go and use a highly polished “platformer mechanics” pack created and tested by a professional team like you got with LBP or more recently (and far more restricted) with Mario Maker. Every “starter kit” is going to have differing levels of amatuer jank.
It’s a great “intro to game development” tool, but I personally think it’s lacking in the “play high quality user created content” realm because there’s less quality content as a result of the complexity.
- Comment on So many options, such excitement 1 week ago:
How the fuck did you sum up my day today? Why do I hear movement in my walls?
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
It’s an emulation device made in the style of an SP. Got X and Y buttons.
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 2 weeks ago:
It was stupidly warm a day or two after Christmas here, and a neighborhood kid got some sort of drone that follows them around. I legitimately thought someone was running an electric weedeater.
I shudder to imagine what the old plan for Amazon delivery drones would have sounded like. You know that fancy gated communities would ban them for noise pollution or something.
- Comment on Anon trying understanding women 2 weeks ago:
For anyone legitimately confused, there’s potentially two different things going on here:
There is a very small chance that she is now more attracted to him, since he’s been “screened” by someone else as an acceptable boyfriend.
What’s infinitely more likely is that now she’s more comfortable interacting with him because she feels he’s not as likely to take friendly interaction as anything more, now that he has a girlfriend.
- Comment on The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor 2 weeks ago:
Where have you guys been? Half Life 3 was confirmed December 13, 2007.
I’m sure it’s coming any day now.
- Comment on The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor 2 weeks ago:
They have been “working” on Half Life 3 for over a decade, with many promising leads found through datamining things left in other source games over that time. There is almost always absurd levels of speculation over the smallest crumbs of datamined material.
For example, there’s been an unfinished NPC worked on for Episode 3 left in Half Life 2 that was first shown in a tech demo in 2006, literally prefixed with “Ep3_” in the code. It’s been around for nearly 20 years and the most that was used was graphics for the gels in Portal 2, vs all of the speculated things about it.
The recent documentary they released had what was effectively a post-mortem section where they talked about why Episode 3/Half Life 3 never came out.
I can see why you might think that their new controller and headset might be enough of a game changer that they feel like making 3 is worth it again, but the overall feeling I’ve gotten from them from following all of this closely since the pre-Orange Box days is that: 3 isn’t happening due to the immense pressure and expectations that have built up over the many years people have been waiting. Maybe we get Alyx 2 or some other spin off, but the only thing they’d accomplish with 3 at this point is disappointing a wide variety of people with countless conflicting expectations.
At the very least you also have to contend with “Valve Time”. What would take a normal studio a year takes them four due to their obsession with polishing everything. Team Fortress 2 started development in 1998 and didn’t release for 9 years.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to see where they go next, and I hope this means more than a voice actor sending a fun new years message. But you need to understand that “definitive evidence” of 3 coming based off datamined material has been floating around for 15+ years now.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Talking to NPCs and running around takes no energy, and the only way bedtime effects energy level is if you stay up past (I think) midnight.
Plus, almost all the townsfolk are in the bar in the evenings.
It’s pretty obviously set up so that you run arpund talking to people once your energy gets too low to work.
Lastly, that “talk to everyone” quest doesn’t gate any gameplay content, only social scene content with the people you don’t talk to.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
I volunteered at a university radio station a few times and was taught how to cut out AC/Heater/Fan noise from a recording using audacity on what I think was my second time going in. Recorded a PSA about cancer screening.
It’s been almost a decade and a half so I don’t remember exactly how, but the point is that it was something they taught people effectively walking in off the street.
I’d imagine it’s different with a non-constant fan, but you can force computer fans to a consistent 100% speed through a handful of different ways.
- Comment on Anon gives a piracy history lesson 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is that it’s torrent and direct download caching on a massive scale, by file hash or something like that.
- Comment on Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page 4 weeks ago:
At least that one has a simple solution: delete your saved card.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 5 weeks ago:
The term Ante in the game is used instead of “round” or “level”. It’s a measure of how far you’ve gotten. Each “ante” is made up of three “stakes”, point totals you need to beat in a set number of hands played and cards discarded.
There’s no aspect of choosing how much you risk, or how much you “ante up”. You either beat the points goal (called “chips”) or you lose. There’s no playing of your hand against other hands, bluffing about how good your hand may be to convince others to fold, etc. It’s just you against the score goal.
The game has no elements where you stake chips for rewards or anything like that. It borrows basic elements of scoring mechanics from poker, and uses a lot of poker terms for other purposes, but the closest part to gambling is the ability to buy random card packs between rounds (to customize your deck instead of just having the standard 52 card deck).
You can learn most of this in about 5 minutes with the demo, or by taking some time to watch someone else play on youtube.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 5 weeks ago:
And people pretend that only American ratings systems pull this kind of bullshit.
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 5 weeks ago:
“Cranking your hog” could be used as euphemism for male masturbation, but the “joke” is that it’s probably the most ridiculous way you could refer to jerking off.
It also could be used to mean cranking the throttle on a motorcycle.
So THE PACK is kind of a mix of taking the piss out of: edgy/hardcore biker t-shirts/culture, ridiculously over the top support groups, occasional “wife bad” boomer humor, and the fact that a lot of “strong male” branded stuff is just a hair away from being extremely homoerotic.
I DON’T MIND DOING THE DISHES BUT I’D RATHER BE CRANKIN MY HOG WITH MY BROS
- Comment on okay.. 1 month ago:
There’s a difference between tempering, and making sure the artillery is aimed at the most valuable targets.
We need this energy to stay pointed at the 1%, and to not get mixed up in the weeds. The last time we had energy like this was Occupy Wall Street, and the momentum was killed by attempting to expand the scope from the initial target of the 1%.
- Comment on okay.. 1 month ago:
It is. But if the world and life were so simple we wouldn’t have anywhere close to the amount of problems that exist.
Houses require maintenance over time, and there are people who need a place to live but can’t afford sudden repair costs, which can be absorbed by a landlord. There are people who prefer not to own for a variety of reasons. Maybe they like being able to make repairs someone else’s problem, or they like the freedom of being able to uproot and move easier.
I have an Uncle that makes bank doing contract work all over the place who falls into that last example.
I agree that everyone who wants a home should be able to have and keep one, but there are bigger fish to fry (CEOs to shoot?) before it’s worthwhile to start in on smaller scale landlords etc.
The rich want us squabbling over differences of wealth at these lower levels. It helps distract people from the biggest offenders.
- Comment on okay.. 1 month ago:
Don’t waste your effort. You see similar in every discussion on this site about landlords too. No nuance allowed.
The local guy renting out his late parents’ home at below market rate is just as despicable as the slumlord lackeys of the investment companies that don’t do any upkeep.
- Comment on There's a storm hitting us in about 6 hours. We're going to find out who's who. 1 month ago:
There’s an official The Thing game that has gotten a remaster that will be releasing soon. If it hasn’t already come out and I just missed it.