CarbonatedPastaSauce
@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
- Comment on I fucking hate modern design and modern designers. 3 days ago:
We use Skype.
No you don’t.
- Comment on Did I just dream this? Wasn't some kind of Steam app available on PlayStation some time ago? 1 week ago:
There are some websites that say you can stream from your PC to your PS5 using Remote Play, but I’ve never tried it.
- Comment on This was Alex Jones once 1 week ago:
No sweat, I see two replies! I wonder if he actually believed this any more than he believed anything else he spouted. I’m inclined to believe he’d say whatever makes him money.
- Comment on This was Alex Jones once 1 week ago:
Did they re-use one of his actual speeches or was he just cast to play this character and read these lines? I haven’t seen the film yet.
- Comment on This was Alex Jones once 1 week ago:
I had also never heard of it. It is available on usenet. I will be viewing it in the near future!
- Comment on Is Catholic dating culture often mistaken for incel-style pessimistic desperation? 1 week ago:
It’s where you try to find a partner that hates themselves as much as you do.
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 1 week ago:
Nope. I’m good.
- Comment on Does humanism lead to tolerance paradox? 2 weeks ago:
No. People who call out the ‘tolerance paradox’ are misunderstanding social tolerance. Tolerance of other humans is part our social contract to live with each other without violence. If you abandon the social contract by being hateful or violent to others, you are no longer protected by it. There is no paradox.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but they had to start somewhere. Reach is the 6th Halo game.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 2 weeks ago:
Green is the universal color of soldiers. The regular soldiers in Halo were wearing green. Master Chief’s armor was green because he was a soldier. It made perfect sense to me.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, this. I have medications I need. When the pair of contacts in my eyes fall out eventually, I’m functionally blind. All that aside, I’d probably starve quickly since I don’t know how to make weapons and other humans haven’t made it to where I live yet in 1375.
I’d probably look around for a couple days and then when I got super hungry just find a cliff to jump off.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
You can name some upcoming events between 1375-1376 that would get you enough fame to make a living, off the top of your head?
- Comment on Can big tech and privacy coexist? (00:36:21) 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
Yes I know. Real sports have “motor” in front of them. lol
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint- all sports are silly. That’s why they are called games.
I don’t dunk on wrestling fans anymore because people are free to enjoy whatever they want. But it’s always been like this. It didn’t change - you did. Personal growth!
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 3 weeks ago:
I mostly played video games in between intense bursts of productivity to get work done.
Yes, I was doing this before remote work was a thing. You just have to be slick. I once set up a “lab” of three PCs to “test some new software” in a back room and then played Birth of the Federation on one of them while the other two ran perf counter output, for 3 months straight. This was an act of desperation to keep my mind busy. They had laid almost everyone off in the company so I didn’t have much to do, but it started a tradition that carried me all the way to retirement!
- Comment on Who can I ask or where can I find help in moving to a new country? 3 weeks ago:
Reddit is garbage. The end.
- Comment on Who can I ask or where can I find help in moving to a new country? 3 weeks ago:
You forgot the -
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 4 weeks ago:
Ah yeah not much you can do about that unless you put an aftermarket cooler on it and that’s a PITA.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 4 weeks ago:
Very unbiased source there.
I’m primarily a PC gamer but I buy ALL THE VIDEO GAME THINGS, so I have every console that comes out, even if I’m only going to play one game on it (looking at you, Returnal). Who is he trying to convince? Cause he’s full of shit.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 4 weeks ago:
Stop buying cheap fans?
My last two PCs I built were top of the line and they’re basically silent just with Noctua air cooling.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 weeks ago:
It was cardboard with red and yellow paint on it.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 weeks ago:
Those things used to be on every single bank drive-up teller booth in the 80’s and 90’s.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 weeks ago:
Truth. Whatever they did 10-15 years ago made it tolerable. Not great, but tolerable.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 5 weeks ago:
Counterpoint - you can boycott whoever you want for as long as you want whether the world is getting saved or not. Try not to give a shit what other people are doing. You don’t have to change the world. You just have to stick to your own principles. And if enough people do that, the world will change anyway. But all you can control is your own actions.
I have a long list of boycotted companies that I have never gone back on. Started with Blackjack Pizza in college when they wouldn’t refund a pizza that had oven cleaner all over the bottom of it. Facebook gone for 15 years now, and I go without the cool Quest VR stuff. Walmart kicked to the curb around the same time for their gross abuse of their employees. Amazon ditched 3 years ago, don’t miss it. I’d love to have Starlink to put on a vehicle when I travel the country, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before Muskrat gets a dollar out of me. Canceled all my Target shit (20 year card member) a couple months ago over their DEI bullshit and won’t set foot in one again. I shop at Costco as a single adult. The list goes on.
And while I wish other people would give these companies the finger so real change would happen, it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that I am sticking by what I believe.
- Comment on purpose 5 weeks ago:
Ok but I still think the mosquito thing is worth a try. I’m even willing to live alongside wasps but mosquitoes gotta go!
- Comment on am i insane? 5 weeks ago:
!lemmygold for this guy, damn that was a good post
- Comment on What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made? 5 weeks ago:
One of my absolute favorite science documentaries as a kid!
- Comment on When did movie credits move from the beginning to the end? 5 weeks ago:
George Lucas pulled some heat for not having credits at the front of Star Wars, IIRC. So mid 70s would be my guess.
- Comment on What's that science show where the bird flies through the museum? 5 weeks ago:
I did mess with Lightwave a bit but never got proficient. I cut my teeth on Imagine for the Amiga. IIRC it was like 2-3 hours to render a single frame of a starship flyby animation I made. I remember it took me a couple weeks to render the whole thing.
I only ever did it for fun though. I actually have a lot of respect for those artists. It’s a lot harder than it looks.