wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on TinyLetter Shut Down by Mailchimp, So I Built the LetterDrop 2 days ago:
Even better, this is GPT generated code that hasn’t been thoroughly tested and doesn’t even handle actually sending the emails! 🤡
- Comment on Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year 1 week ago:
Just like the “tesla hyperloop” or whatever they’re calling it, it’s not about innovation. It’s about keeping his brands in the public eye as a form of marketing. Even if on a logical level we all know it’s horseshit, it still keeps himself and Tesla salient.
He can afford to burn an incomprehensible amount of money on stunts for outcomes most people would consider inconsequential.
I’m not saying it’s 4D chess, it definitely isn’t. He’s not particularly intelligent in that way. That said, I do think there are some very simple reasons for him to do this that go beyond his absolutely insane delusional ego.
He has enough money that he can continue funding whatever he wants regardless of public opinion. He literally exists at a level where any press is good press as it keeps him fresh in peoples’ minds.
- Comment on What does your booger feel like rn? 1 week ago:
Man, ya’ll can fit with just one?
I’ve got 2 around the outside with 4 in the middle and 5 in the back dripping down my throat
Fuck sinus infections.
- Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing that he definitely didn’t leave the company years ago then!
He released his Coda, he’s washed his hands of the setting.
- Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser 2 weeks ago:
lore
Friendly reminder that the original “loremaster” of Elder Scrolls left Bethesda before they released Elder Scrolls Online, and they replaced him with someone who has apparently been making pretty questionable decisions with ESO lore.
I mean, they always have the out of dragon breaks rewriting reality/making multiple conflicting timelines simultaneously canon (see the events of daggerfall as referenced in later games) to handwave away retcons, but overusing that just means that no lore actually matters.
- Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser 2 weeks ago:
It didn’t help that Starfield didn’t release with any of the normal modding toolset for Bethsda games. It literally didn’t get it until this month.
- Comment on The First Borderlands Movie Clip Looks Like An SNL Skit 2 weeks ago:
are they supposed to just have a billion guns in every shot or something?
Fucking. Yes.
I mean, not every shot, but the variety of firearms should absolutely be a big part of every action scene at least. It’s Borderlands, and that was it’s original claim to fame: countless combinations of procedurally generated guns.
Have your prop department whip them up as different parts that they can stick together, like how the games do it. Firing effects can be added in post.
- Comment on Socrates 2 weeks ago:
Man, every time one of the comics from this creator gets posted, I have to fight the urge to edit it down. They’re good, just overly verbose.
Like this one only needs Panel 1, 3, 5, and the last one for the same message/punchline. Could probably trim further by somehow combining 3 and 5.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 will add official mod tools this September, making it even easier to play dungeon master 2 weeks ago:
You should take a look at the mods that already exist. Pretty sure some of what you listed is already available.
- Comment on anonette works in IT 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s 4chan. People have very little qualms being as disgusting as humanly possible when behind the shield of full anonynity.
- Comment on No, I don't want to design a logo for a coffee shop in fucking skype. 3 weeks ago:
It went from direct connections between user computers to all routing through Micrsoft’s centralized servers. I wonder why everyone started having connection and lag issues after that.
- Comment on why not both? 3 weeks ago:
“Sorry, you’re the wrong kind of issue. You need to sit in the back of the bus while the right kind goes first.”
- Comment on Glad I was too dumb to finish college... 3 weeks ago:
Yep, bible has a lot of sections about having the faith of a child. Believing without needing proof.
- Comment on Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors 3 weeks ago:
This sounds like an inherently solvable problem. Start making mirrors that blacklist Amazon/AWS IP ranges.
- Comment on Even the fish are turning soy 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I couldn't even edge my skibdi to this one 3 weeks ago:
Mmmmmmmmm… shitpost with a side of shit post
- Comment on Co-op tower defense beat 'em up ChronoDojo adds various Steam Deck improvements 4 weeks ago:
“Co-op tower defense beat 'em up”
Well that’s a genre mashup I didn’t know I needed in my life until today
- Comment on step 4: wait for it to get better 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes you can’t just wait for things to get better, you have to act. Other times all the actions in the world won’t do shit but waste your energy.
Wish you luck in telling the difference, and in making it through whatever you’re going through.
- Comment on Masochism 4 weeks ago:
… then what was the point? It’s literally the only thing you said, and it’s incorrect
- Comment on Usernames in the Fedivers 😫 4 weeks ago:
Man, it seems so alien to me to use anything related to your legal identity as a username online.
- Comment on Big Science 4 weeks ago:
I feel like this is a very “shoplifting, public intoxication, nuclear warfare, and jaywalking” way to present things.
- Comment on And it went Gold 4 weeks ago:
“I’ve my mind set on you” or Weird Al’s take “This song in just six words long”
- Comment on Tacos. 5 weeks ago:
It absolutely confounds me how Christianity has become a stereotypically right-wing thing when in the context of the time Jesus’s actions are mostly that of a radical progressive who amassed such a following that the power structures of the time had him killed.
Like how in the hell can you run around hating homosexuals and immigrants when you account for the company Jesus kept in the context of the time? Only if you completely fucking ignore it.
My wife’s grandfather was a pastor, and a saying that has passed through her family is “On the day of judgment, there’s going to be a lot of Christians facing a very unhappy surprise”.
Signed, former apostate who has found his way back to being an incredibly frustrated Christian.
- Comment on Maths 5 weeks ago:
Likewise in one of the later books they visit “God’s last message to the universe” or something like that and if I recall correctly it’s “Sorry for the inconvenience”
Great great author.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s a skill like anything else. It comes easier to some, harder to others, and it can be improved over time through repeated effort and experience over time.
Small talk is a good low risk situation that can give you opportunity to practice.
Also, not living in the same place too long so you don’t build up a reputation of being awkward and oh god they know they all know I’m just a hairless chimp in a human suit why did I think this was a good idea oh shit oh fuck what do I say–
“I’m doing good, how about you?”
- Comment on Beans 5 weeks ago:
would just
Farmers have been rotating crops for hundreds of years man. Corporate farms rotate crops too. Step down off that soapbox for a moment.
The whole joke is that the person in the image would have made fun of the idea in ancient times, killing the food supply of early civilization and setting us all back by thousands of years.
- Comment on "Features" 5 weeks ago:
If by “only so much” you mean every BS thing in OP’s image, sure.
- Comment on Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like your IT team messed up the setup. In their defense, Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to set it up well.
A “good” setup hides all this shit from the end user. All your “library” folders (Documents, Desktop, Pictures, etc) can be invisibly made into OneDrive folders. Still save your shit where you normally do, navigate in the file manager like you normally do, no lag for changes you do locally to show locally, minor lag (like 1-2 minutes) for changes to propagate to OneDrive itself (and other machines you are currently logged into). Just now everything is backed up to the cloud.
- Comment on Congrats to all 2024 college graduates! 1 month ago:
That fucking sucks, but don’t apply your anecdotes as general truths. I have the opposite experience.
Wife and I built a new home with family help on the downpayment. Doubled sq ft, 1.5x previous rent, house increased value significantly between contract and move in. Farther from work but closer to highway so commute times unaffected. Saved up enough to pay back the downpayment help over the course of a year.
I’m a massive outlier, and most people have experiences closer to yours, but it’s not an across the board thing. So fucking much of the housing market depends on location.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 1 month ago:
Yep, take some ideas from single player colony management games.
It’s astounding how much you can “automate” when fully using the filters and rules options in vanilla Rimworld. Mods increase that exponentially. Granted, different genre, singleplayer, and pausable while you configure things.
I think the challenge is balancing that with the real time events you have to react to, so it doesn’t further compress the meta to an even smaller set of “optimal” options.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a series of coincidences... 1 month ago:
Would this not be something Wikileaks could handle dispersal of?
It’s my understanding that they are well set up to handle stuff like this. Both dead man switch style “if you don’t check in, we’ll get to work” stuff, and with widespread news industry contacts and social media accounts.