scutiger
@scutiger@lemmy.world
- Comment on vultures 23 hours ago:
I don’t need you to tell me how good my bones taste.
- Comment on To deter predators... 1 week ago:
Same here. Evolution doesn’t work that way. It’s basically the opposite. Species don’t evolve to solve a problem, they evolve randomly and sometimes that solves a problem for them. Or sometimes, it pushes the species into a very narrow niche where its survival is ensured as long as the current extremely precarious situation they find themselves in doesn’t change.
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 1 week ago:
It runs fine on Linux.
It’s true that most people wouldn’t know, and probably wouldn’t look that far into things before buying a game. Fortunately Steam’s refund policy is pretty good for this kind of situation.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s time you got into SFF PCs. Or maybe it’s best you don’t.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
How else do you plan to knock them over?
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
Your math is wrong.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
That was the Arecibo observatory
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 3 weeks ago:
Which is kind of funny because of miscommunication, they thought they were naming a grisly bear.
- Comment on Anon plays a guessing game 3 weeks ago:
“The left one?”
- Comment on Since when does a clock need a privacy policy? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you should think on that a little.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 5 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting they’re not good with cheese?
- Comment on Do you have what it takes to become a geologist? 5 weeks ago:
You think you’ve got the stones to become a geologist?
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 5 weeks ago:
Who’s the indie company going under here?
- Comment on Anon has a plan 1 month ago:
Okay, McPoyle.
- Comment on dream job 1 month ago:
200-300 kilograms, or a small sedan
A small sedan weighs about twice as much as that
- Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played 1 month ago:
Why does Hayden look like he wants to consume my magical items?
- Comment on What do allergies feel like for you? 1 month ago:
Mine are similar to yours, but only two relatively short periods per year. It hits me mid-spring, and end of summer.
As for your allergy testing, it’s likely you’re not really allergic to all of the allergens you were tested for. In many cases for those tests, if a few of the allergens trigger a reaction, then all or most of the injection sites will react rather than just the ones you’re allergic to. It helps when you can tell in the moment which one started it, since reactions happen quite quickly.
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 2 months ago:
Alton John, a famous musician who sings about food.
- Comment on Too many looks. 2 months ago:
650,000 decades, yes.
- Comment on Anon pretends to be a girl online 2 months ago:
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
At that point, what even is the purpose of defining it? It’s such a specific term that was designed to only apply to their hardware. It’s like creating a new word for a car because you added air conditioning to it.
Sure, they had the first GPU because they coined a term that only applied to one specific product.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
The first PC that I bought myself has a TNT2 with 8mb of memory. I upgraded it some time later with a GeForce 2 and the difference was shocking.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
And also the concept of your collection of souls being recoverable from your last point of death.
I know the “death bag” mechanic had been done before, but the disappearing cache is a core element of Soulslike gameplay that has been repeated so many times since then. It adds a sense of urgency and FOMO to the recovery of your stuff. If you die again, it’s gone for good.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999
3dfx cards like the Voodoo and Voodoo2 were 3d accelerators that predated nVidia’s offerings.
And even from nVidia themselves, the Riva TNT was a GPU released before the GeForce models.
- Comment on My Empire of Podsols 2 months ago:
but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else.
Some people are into that. Who’s to say Reznor wasn’t?
- Comment on Remote Walmart Employees Slam Company After Being Forced To Relocate To Arkansas; Several Already Quit 3 months ago:
Constructive dismissal often still allows collecting unemployment. Possibly even severance in some places.
- Comment on Remote Walmart Employees Slam Company After Being Forced To Relocate To Arkansas; Several Already Quit 3 months ago:
It’s called constructive dismissal. They’re not technically firing anyone, but they are trying to make the work conditions unfavorable so that people quit. Many places will allow you to get unemployment, and often also severance pay, if you can show that this is what’s happening.
- Comment on On Bears 3 months ago:
You could try, but odds are it would run away before you could get close enough.
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
I’m full of plasma, bur they never stopped me from flying.
- Comment on Is Palworld a “dead game”? Who cares, says the game’s developer 3 months ago:
It’s still in Early Access, it hasn’t even officially released yet, how can it be a dead game already?