wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Rent is due in 14 days 7 hours ago:
Painkillers are free if you’re brave enough
- Comment on Day 609 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 18 hours ago:
One thing that Mario Kart DS has that didn’t carry forward to other games is mission mode. Definitely worth a look.
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 2 days ago:
It’s not possible due to how lemmy and federation work. Potentially your instance could hide it from their own web ui, but any other instance could just choose to not respect that flag and display your profile fully through their instance’s web ui. All the comments have to federate anyway, much like votes which are also not private at all through lemmy.
The only reason it’s even partially possible on reddit is because the only copy of your comments as data are on reddit’s db. They aren’t sent to other instances. So when reddit hides it through the UI, there’s not another server to surface the comments. And reddit killed the third party API, so it’s not trivial to just ask the API for all comments from a specific user.
It is however, trivially easy to just use a search engine for results from reddit with the username in question and find all the comments manually. It’s a deterrant, not a real solution.
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 2 days ago:
I think thatcs more because no one really cared about disqus. It was just a solution for comments on news articles and blogs, right?
- Comment on relatable 2 days ago:
I have a playlist of somewhat relaxing (wife disagrees on it being relaxing) music I’ve heard a billion times before (mostly instrumental game music). Paired with a “soft” EQ preset that also drops the volume. Put it on with a sleep timer for 30 minutes.
Over top of that, a set of ambient relaxing noise, set so it almost, but not quite, drowns out the music. Basically I have to focus a little to pick out the music. Set that with a sleep timer for 45 minutes.
Into one headphone in whichever ear isn’t against the pillow.
All the noises are relaxing, and the need to focus to hear the music helps keep my brain from getting wrapped up in other thoughts. Once I focus on the music, it’s stuff I know intently so eventually it filters out into no thoughts and I’m out.
If I’m having a particularly rough night, jerk off first and/or melatonin.
Also, blue light filtering and reduced brightness on all screens starting at least 30 minutes before you lay down.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 3 days ago:
I am now vacuum sealed. This is, perhaps surprisingly, not one of my fetishes. Send help.
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 4 days ago:
Man, I can’t be the only one that feels like it’s just a little creepy to talk about someone any of us only barely know through the internet like that. Especially knowing she’s literally 18 vs the average age around here seeming to start at the upper 30s.
Anyway, from what I can tell she doesn’t have much issue getting it, she’s just still horny. Having the collective of lemmy effectively cheering her on probably doesn’t help, even if her posts are legitimately entertaining.
I remember being a sexually active 18yo. Hormones are a motherfucker. Young, dumb, and full of cum. Had a long term GF who was just as much of a freak as I was. We used to try and beat our “high score” of orgasms per day. I was in no way “deprived” yet it was still easily 75% of what I thought about at any given moment. I found an old reddit account of mine from that time, and it is embarassingly horny as hell.
So cut the (quite) young adult some slack and don’t be parasocial about it please.
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 4 days ago:
I assume you must have blocked the anime lemmy instance, or ml doesn’t federate with it. It’s not contained to reddit by any means.
There’s a small cadre of users posting fan art of various shows and games on lemmy too, where I regularly can tell at a glance that whatever artist they’re posting also does hentai. Sometimes what they’ve posted is even just the one SFW image from a set. Thank god for the block button.
- Comment on you won't regret it 5 days ago:
My last wife isn’t into sharing, sorry. You’ll have to fight to the death.
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 5 days ago:
Juh-feg
- Comment on Anon misses flash 6 days ago:
People don’t even talk about Shockwave any more. Early 3D games in the fucking browser! It was amazing.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 6 days ago:
How are you finding decent free games on itch? Every time I go it’s a flood of visual novels, shit “horror” games, or whatever the latest streamer bait is but poorly copied 1000 times. And the filtering tools are just limited enough that I can’t seem to get a good “feed” going.
Newgrounds was far from a neverending fointain of pure quality, but I feel like finding quality stuff on it is an order of magnitude harder than it used to be in the days of flash. Used to be curated lists and sites with new quality stuff like every week.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 1 week ago:
Great callout! That’s where the audio player app I use, PowerAmp, gets its presets! I was blanking on the source of them when I made that comment.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 1 week ago:
There is no fucking way that anyone can sum this shit all up in a simple sentence like that, which would apply to every situation.
Different headphones and speakers have different frequency response. If you’re using speakers, the acoustics of the room can have a large effect as well. Are we supposed to go out and buy the same equipment the person mastering used? Build a specific room layout for the specific acoustics intended per track? What if the person mastering already took responses of different equipment and rooms into account? It’s not like you get “intended listening guidance” notes with most music.
Personally, if I can tune the EQ towards a flat response graph for my particular headphones I will (Poweramp for Android has these presets built in for a ton of headphones, but you have to apply them yourself), otherwise I don’t fuck with it unless some section sounds particularly blown out. My car overenphasizes bass, which is fun most of the time, but I turn it down for some tracks where it drowns out finer details.
Ultimately there’s a shit ton that is up to taste.
- Comment on Did you know traffic cones are free to take? I have 78264 traffic cones at home. 1 week ago:
Much like ducks at the park.
- Comment on Admin dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 1 week ago:
As others have said, welcome to lemmy.
Dessalines is one of the lead devs, admin of the flagship instance lemmy.ml (and mod of many of its comms as you’ve seen). He is known to be incredibly heavy handed in his admin/moderation choices.
As far as using communities goes, just steer clear of .ml comms if it’s a problem for you. Plenty of equivalent comms on other instances.
And if you don’t like using software made by someone like that, piefed is interoperable. Made by a user that goes by rimu.
The takeaway is that this isn’t unusual or concerning behavior for dessalines.
- Comment on Attention! 1 week ago:
My understanding is that it’s not the phone signal, but bluetooth low power mode, which is how many countries did covid exposure tracking.
So not full location triangulation, but more a hypothetical that a business or government could very easily set up bt low power beacons and identify devices that got in range like they did for covid tracking.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 1 week ago:
I would look at mod collections on nexus or wabbajack. Beyond that, there are mods that allow you to have a different start to the game than “so you’re finally awake”, which delay the main quest until you effectively start it yourself.
- Comment on Me when I installed a game on Steam with only 150 downloads 1 week ago:
Likely Yakuza members, or people imitating the style (which is a dangerous game to play).
- Comment on I know an invitation when I see one 2 weeks ago:
Legs up to where?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What are you doing, leaking the next Gray Leno guest like that?
- Comment on The State of the Union 3 weeks ago:
I get you, but the fediverse is small enough that you can get by with just blocking accounts that do stuff like this. Complaining about it is just pissing into the wind, unless you want to start another resistance movement spamming corn. Probably overdue for it again.
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 3 weeks ago:
Do your part! Reduce, reuse, recycle!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They’ll refill it forever too, even if it was supposed to just be a recovery aid. Seen more than one elder become addicted.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What he said was that training humans takes a lot of water too, in defense of AI. This is a shitpost take on that.
- Comment on Never make plans that far ahead around Hercules 🥶 3 weeks ago:
You mean HUNK-ules
- Comment on Day 584 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The switch supports usb ethernet adapters. Look up the supported list. They plug into usb ports on the dock.
It’s pretty much mandatory for any online gaming on it.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know where the ones my parents bought me were from, because they were always surprise gifts. But I sure as hell remember where the ones I bought with my own money were from, and where a I bought a few particularly important to me games. Not address off the top of my head but I could pretty easily look most up now, or even years ago with the internet.
Kirby’s Dreamland 3 was from a discount bin at the Walmart where my family lived until I was 8. Death and Return of Superman for the SNES was from the video rental store we used to frequent after we moved, when they started selling off their old SNES games. Lots of games from one particular Gamestop in between the grocery store and the movie theater. Midnight release of Smash Bros Brawl there. Got a used N64 and some games for it there during the early 360 era too. PSP and some games for it was my first “real” purchase completely with my own money (no birthday or christmas gift money towards it) and was done at a Gamestop in the corner of a local mall. Moved 8 hours away with a GF and picked up Aladin, Starfox, and Super Metroid for the SNES for prices that would now be robbery from a local retro games store before the collectors started getting into retro games (still haven’t checked if they’re legit or repros, and I should because that store sold a few romhacks on physical cartridge from a different display area in the store). Moved back with my folks after a rough break up. Bubsy 3d from a new store that sells all sorts of used stuff out of what used to be an old Border’s book store where I had previously been to for a midnight Harry Potter release (cut me some slack I was like 10 for the Potter and it was long before any of the drama). Switch from a Gamestop in the town where my wife grew up.
Yes, I wish I remembered more important stuff, but I think people have forgotten what buying video games was like in the “old days”. You had word of mouth, experience with previous games in the series, cart and box art, and maybe a review from a gaming magazine to go off of. So it was an experience. Unless you were one of those kids that was going out to buy a brand new game, you used to actually browse and decide. It was a big deal because you’d get maybe one new game for 6 months at a time. I used to strecth things by trying to get a few used games instead of just one new one. Sometimes you got a flop, like when I bought Croc and Croc 2 because they looked fun and I liked the humor on the back of the box. Not bad games, but I already had experienced Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro 3. Early 3D platformer controls like Croc just weren’t my thing by that point.
In some ways I miss it. On the other hand, I have a lot less “meh” games hanging around now.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That’s disgusting! What are you, some kind of pervert?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Not a problem if you already walk around Costco full mast. Got some wondeful memories of many moments of passion in the Costco restrooms finding out just how many $1 hotdogs I could fit into my rectum. Just try going soft with half a dozen of those delicious meat tubes all up in you.
