MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on betrayal 2 days ago:
Why would we do that to ourselves? I’d be willing to bet the proportion of people who watched the film who also regularly played the game at some point is less than 50%
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 days ago:
Recommend PowerToys if you’re forced to use windows at work, it has heaps of neat stuff including find my cursor.
It makes windows 11 somewhat more bearable
- Comment on Population per capita of US states 4 days ago:
#DIV/0
- Comment on You've Seen Too Many Trump Memes Today, Rest Here Weary Traveler 4 days ago:
Voyager works fine for me (Android stock)
- Comment on Spicy spicy 6 days ago:
This is why I hate coins. Good luck keeping them neatly sorted in your wallet.
Notes only gang~~~ (sorry coin collectors)
Just gonna take a moment to hate on UK bank notes being different sizes in both dimensions, though. Wtf is that?
(From Australia)
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 2 weeks ago:
I feel mean, but at first I thought it was subtle CGI to indicate mutation over generations due to radiation living in the vaults.
Hope she never reads this comment. She is very good looking, just has comically large eyes.
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 4 weeks ago:
lol serves its own grammatical function now I reckon.
It’s a marker for response to irony (actual irony, Americans…), or as a way to indicate you think something is stupid to the point of humour, or as a kind of “that tracks”.
Or at least, that’s how it’s used amongst people my age in Australia.
I don’t think I use it in a positive sense at all any more
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Some. Many, if not most, are just flawed human beings.
I don’t enjoy this “everyone sucks” mentality you see online a lot.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Is the Sabbath Sunday? I thought it was Saturday. But regardless, some countries start the week on Sunday.
It’s cursed as heck when we call Saturday and Sunday the weekend.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
2015 can be written as Y-2.015E3S4
When would this ever be required, wtf hahaha
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I routinely do this in emails and documents. No one has ever questioned me on it because they’re used to it from folder/file names.
Please do join me in slowly changing the world over to year, month, day order.
(Though I prefer the non-standard dots instead of hyphens, as they are non-line-breaking, and allows for hyphens to be used as separators for other parts in a file along with underscores)
YYYY.MM.DD is my fave
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
This was excellent. Disappointed the YT algorithm doesn’t agree
- Comment on Tankie 2 months ago:
I assumed it was a second bag.
I miss the days of a skillful photo edit
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 2 months ago:
This comment is way too far down.
- Comment on Woops 2 months ago:
Back in my day, whoops had an h, which was the style at the time.
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 2 months ago:
“Magic system” is a bit of an oxymoron
This is just the currently accepted terminology in world building: rebeccashedd.com/…/the-worldbuilders-toolkit-buil…
I’m just extending this to sci-fi also, as have many others, because they’re basically the same thing, only that the sci-fi magic systems are vaugely based on real-life science (but vary wildly how closely).
Think Stargate with their loosey-goosey ancients and accession, vs the much more grounded The Expanse.
I’m just not a fan of magic systems without any rules at all.
Hence why I find supernatural stories less interesting, which streaming services, book shops, and movie theatres, frustratingly categorise under fantasy. They are very different from sci-fi and fantasy, in my opinion.
If your magic is purely “mysterious”, that’s boring, and lazy story-telling (In my opinion).
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 2 months ago:
Just joking around, but yeah, I personally enjoy what I call “supernatural” stories less than sci-fi and fantasy with proper world-building
- Comment on They can't keep getting away with this 2 months ago:
Wait until you hear about How Vodka Ruined Russia
Tankies ought to be frothing at the mouth about alcoholism, since apparently they love Stalin. And Stalin brought back alcoholism to Russia (Not a socialist at all, in my opinion)
(Disclaimer, I’m in general much further left than the YouTube channel Kraut, but he makes some quite well put-together videos)
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 2 months ago:
Soft magic systems aren’t any fun. Change my mind.
Christianity, stranger things and paranormal activity are equally as uninteresting to me because it’s “because I said so”. Boooooooo, come up with some rules for your world.
Can we make a new category of fiction called “supernatural” SEPARATE from sci-fi and fantasy? Thanks, that would be nice.
- Comment on On dasher! 2 months ago:
Dashing through the bush in a rusty Holden ute. Kicking up the dust, esky in the boot. Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs, It’s summer time and I am in my singlet, shorts and thongs. Oh
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Christmas in Australia on a scorching summer’s day, Oh, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut. Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden ute.
- Comment on Anon thinks everyone should grow up 2 months ago:
Jokes on you, my parents never used physical punishment, so this hasn’t stirred me to action. So, take that!
- Comment on My Religion 3 months ago:
Out of curiousity, which one is this?
And whether you look under the rug, is that true in all texts of the religion?
- Comment on idk 3 months ago:
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 months ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 months ago:
Applying selection bias to the reply
Insert inception bwwwwaoww
- Comment on 3 months ago:
This is the first useful example of fahrenheit I’ve ever heard.
Doesn’t really beat 0°C being freezing (great for weather), in my opinion, but still nice!
Thanks
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Does this mean the big bang happened in -273.15 BC?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 months ago:
I dunno, seems pretty rock solid that the majority of people aren’t praying to the Christian god, seeing as nowhere even close to a majority of people on earth are Christian.
There are all sorts of religions out there, and many who don’t believe in religion at all.
I do agree that all humans are prone to bias, that’s why it’s so important to be aware of it in order to mitigate it.
The OOP making some stupid religious claims, definitely is not aware.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 months ago:
It’s because they missed the point of my comment. That it’s selection bias to claim that everyone is praying to the Christian god, when statistically, that can’t be true, even if they are praying.
The selection bias had nothing to do with selecting the planes that crashed, but selecting planes that crashed in the US, which is a much more Christian country than many other places.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 months ago:
This mfer has never heard of selection bias.
What are the bets they’re in the US, and hearing about crashes mostly in the US?
Christianity may be the largest religion in the world, but it’s a plurality, not a majority.
