TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t the one I have, but something like this.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 2 weeks ago:
Some of my friends and I in a D&D campaign managed to talk our way out of so many encounters, and heist our way through so many quests, that we started calling ourselves Ocean’s Five. It was some of the most fun I’ve had in that game, improving our way through heists and getting away with it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Let me be a chainmail scrubber evangelist. These things are fantastic, like steel wool that doesn’t fall apart. Safe for most things (though I wouldn’t use it on non-stick cause you’ll ruin the teflon). Easy as hell to wash, cause it’s stainless steel.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Get you a stainless steel chainmail scrubber. Don’t use it on non-stick cause you’ll ruin the teflon coating, but on everything else it’s wonderful, like steel wool that doesn’t fall apart.
Something like this, although personally I prefer a more fine chain.
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 weeks ago:
I use em dashes…I think it’s sad that a proper grammatical construct is so thoroughly ignored by most people that now it’s a sign of inhumanity.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Adolphin, eldest son of Dolphinar, would never sport a Hitler mustache. It’s not fashionable.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 2 weeks ago:
I loved Descent: Freespace, but I liked X-Wing: Alliance better.
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 2 weeks ago:
The difference between a billion dollars and a million dollars is about a billion dollars.
- Comment on Eksbawks 3 weeks ago:
They want to integrate Steam with the console, from the rumors I saw. They’ve already integrated Steam into the Xbox app on PC, as I understand it.
More flexibility is a good thing. Console Game Pass and Steam on the same system? Yes please.
- Comment on Eksbawks 3 weeks ago:
Since when is Xbox gone? Microsoft would be silly to kill off their console, they’d lose a pretty significant chunk of Game Pass subscribers. The rumors point to a hybrid PC/console, but it’s still an Xbox.
Of course, Microsoft making foolish decisions would be nothing new.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’d recommend against it. The girls in the picture were 15 and 16 when the movie came out.
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
Oh man, so much worse. What an idiot, if they had just smiled and waved it never would’ve gone viral.
- Comment on Dik Piks 4 weeks ago:
I feel like it’s easier to tell English speakers to make an “eee” sound with their lips and then pronounce the vowel in question (ä, ö, ü) with the rest of their mouth (at least that’s how we do it in choral German).
- Comment on Plant Slurs 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this will work on brambles, but for pesky root systems I’ve had luck with Bovide’s Stump and Vine killer. You cut near the base of one of them, then paint the exposed stem with this stuff. It absorbs into the root system and kills all of it. Works great on pokeweed.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 4 weeks ago:
Other than the “not” part, yeah. “Mala” is bad, wrong, evil, wicked, ill, naughty, etc.
(Checked this to confirm before I posted, since it’s been several years since I’ve known Spanish well enough to speak it.)
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 4 weeks ago:
From Dungeon Crawler Carl:
I grumbled a bit about that three in intelligence. Yeah, I never did too great in math, but I never considered myself a slobbering idiot, either. I could fix most anything electrical after studying it for a bit. My friend Billy Maloney, now that guy was an idiot. Just last week we’d come out of a bar, and he’d peed right on a cop’s bicycle while the cop was giving someone else a ticket for drunk and disorderly. That guy deserved an intelligence of three, maybe two.
. . .
After I complained about my intelligence score to Mordecai, using the Billy example, he said, “Intelligence told you that bike belonged to a police officer. Wisdom told you not to urinate upon it.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 5 weeks ago:
My grade school bully is serving life in prison for attempted double homicide. IIRC he’s also a sex offender.
Obviously the decisions he made as an adult are his responsibility, but honestly I feel bad for him. He didn’t have much of a chance. His home life was terrible, and he took it out on those around him. He had no positive role models in his daily life besides those at his school, who were always punishing him because he couldn’t conform to a world utterly foreign to his own where people weren’t constantly shitty to one another, and the school didn’t have any better idea how to handle him. The kid had no support. His father was in and out of jail/prison, his mother was overwhelmed. He fell through the cracks.
It’s no surprise he turned out a piece of shit.
That doesn’t excuse his actions. Plenty of people come from difficult origins and are good people leading decent lives.
But I do pity him.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 5 weeks ago:
Some of that has disappeared with RCS support, fortunately.
But yes, Apple successfully positioned their texting app as a rich formatted chat app when used between iPhone users, behaving more like WhatsApp or KakaoTalk or other chat apps than like traditional texting. But when messaging people without iPhones, it was just standard texting (worse, since they would degrade the quality of MMS images more than necessary, as I understand). To the uninformed, this seemed like everyone else were the ones lagging behind. “How could your phone be any good? Images you send are terrible. I can’t name chats that have you in it. If I react to your messages it spams the group chat.” Etc.
Brilliant, but absolutely evil, move by Apple. Unfortunately it worked. The only reason I use an iPhone today is that years ago I got tired of being left out of conversations and media sharing by my family and my wife’s family, who all use iPhones. So when my OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Edition died an early, watery death (rest in peace, king among phones) and nothing else really wowed me in the Android space at the time, I bit the bullet and went to the dark side. I enjoy the iPhone, but I’m still bitter about why I got it.
- Comment on Just.....why? 5 weeks ago:
I cannot imagine the value to the company from whatever usage data they get from their toothbrushing app is anything close to the value they get from selling brush heads. So it would be immensely foolish to lock down the toothbrush.
The app is a selling point, and they do it because others do. They’d lose the portion of the market that wants to track which parts of their mouth they’ve brushed properly. But that isn’t their main market, and they’d be idiots to kill their product chasing that niche.
- Comment on Just.....why? 5 weeks ago:
If it’s anything like mine, it works just fine without the app. The app just does brush tracking and shit. I don’t need any of that, so I never set it up. But I suspect even if I had, it would still let me use it without being logged into the app.
I suspect the same is true here. That the function of the toothbrush is available regardless of whether it’s logging data to your phone.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 5 weeks ago:
fidely
I don’t want to be that guy but I suspect you mean “fiddly,” whose spelling derives from “fiddle.”
I only mention it because it took me a bit to figure out what you were saying.
- Comment on (Not so)Smartphone 5 weeks ago:
You can make it do a bunch of stuff if you get creative with shortcuts.
My action button silences the media volume (and the phone just in case) and then vibrates the phone to tell me it has done this IF the phone is in a face-down orientation. Otherwise it toggles the flashlight on or off.
I’ve seen people with dozens of actions tied to the button depending on focus mode, orientation, time of day, location, all sorts of stuff.
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 5 weeks ago:
I tried ordering a portion of a guy’s crop before it grew. Sadly the crop failed and I was refunded. I really want to try a gros michel.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 1 month ago:
Bruh, you’re on lemmyshitpost, not lemmybetakenseriously.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 1 month ago:
For someone on lemy.lol you sure take things too seriously. 😉
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 1 month ago:
Any of them are straight lines and decide the size of the star. Some of us are more refined and can handle diagonal sizing.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 1 month ago:
Yeah, I kinda agree. They got lucky. Thousands would have died regardless of the evacuation plan if the right conditions came up.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 1 month ago:
A proper company would instead be talking about compliance and how gifts of really any meaningful value have to be rejected outright.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 1 month ago:
As I understand it there have been a few towns over the years that have tried to ban them for pearl-clutchy reasons. “Oh think of the children!” or “how indecent!” type of thing.
Apparently they’re illegal in the entire state of Idaho.
And anything as harmless and silly as truck nuts that makes old uptight people lose their shit is something worth fighting for.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 1 month ago:
Most EVs have transmissions, they’re just usually single-speed. They have to adjust the RPM of the electric motor to a speed usable by the wheels.
Some have two-speed gearboxes, like the Porsche Taycan. This is needed because EV motors produce full torque at 0RPM and it stays there as the power increases, but eventually you reach a point where the power plateaus and the torque falls off. If you want more power at high speeds, you have to use a second gear.