kryptonianCodeMonkey
@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Yeah I don’t know that Firewatch was a significant divergence from the rest of the walking sim genre, let alone establishing is own subgenre. But it is weird that there did seem to be a bubble of these sorts of experiential/narrative walking sim games for a minute. Some of them pretty popular. Firewatch, Gone Home, The Stanley Parable, etc. Maybe 10ish notable titles all within the few years between 2013-2017. Then nothing significant for nearly a decade now. But thank God we’ve had 40 more online battle Royale shooters since then!
- Comment on meat honey 4 days ago:
Lovecraftian horror.
- Comment on Make sure there is no bath salts in the milk before drinking. 1 week ago:
Thufir wore it better.
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 1 week ago:
When I was in Kindergarten, we would all race to get to our seats in the morning and call out “first”, “second”, “third” and so on as we sat down. We’d of course, always have the first two jeering and arguing about being in “First place!” And “First is the worst, second is best!” No idea how a bunch of 5-6 year olds knew this ubiquitous phrase.
But there was this one weird kid who kept coming in third, and he’d always say the same thing. “Well, actually, if you start counting at 0, then I’m actually second. So I’m the best.” And that guy was the worst. I wish I could say that that kid was destined to be a programmer and got an early start on the meme, but no… he was just just dumb and still is.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
Tom and I go way back. He’s never given you a thumbs up.
- Comment on I just want juice, is that so much to ask? 2 weeks ago:
Buy real fruit and a juicer and make juice. Or buy frozen concentrates and make juice (concentrates are just condensed juice frozen for longevity). Or just eat fruit. So many options that arent sugar water.
But for real, the reason things like this exist, apart from being cheaper to produce, is that shelf stable juices that dont lose all flavor over time is sometimes basically impossible. And fresher juices that arent shelf stable either will be heavily seasonal or need to be green house grown for off season which is rarely worth the overhead.
Slight tangent and fun fact, the old joke “why is lemonade made with artificial flavoring but floor cleaner is made with real lemons?” Actually has a legit answer. Check a not-from-concentrate bottle of orange juice at the grocery and you should see that it contains artificial flavors, even though it also contains real juice. There is a reason for that. Citrus juices can be preserved long term to make the supply of juices available year round. However, the flavor compounds in citrus juices oxidize overtime making it blander and blander. It will be fine to drink, but it will not taste like an orange/lemon/lime/etc. So they have to add that flavor back in with artificial flavorings. And the reason that floor cleaner has real lemon is that its properties that make it clean well are not diminished by long term storage.
- Comment on Diphalia 2 weeks ago:
Obligatory call out to Hank Green’s “The Fix” and his amazing fact-based intimidations: youtube.com/shorts/J8fmQ8E7rhE
- Comment on Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 3 weeks ago:
And… the other 10?
- Comment on Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 3 weeks ago:
The hard plastic ones tend to hurt my ears
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
I’m really not even a little bit following what you’re trying to say.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
In the example in from that what if, they are putting a universe’s worth of mass in the volume of the moon, so it would create a super massive singularity. That’s not what is happening in here.
If every atom suddenly gained an electron, they would indeed increase in mass. But a hydrogen atoms would gain the most relative mass as it is the lightest atom, and that would only be an increase of 1/1837th of its total mass now, so… not that much. Masses of heavier atoms and the macro level matter made from them would increase in mass even more marginally. It would be a negligible difference, definitely not be enough for a singularity to form from this increase alone unless a star’s core were already riding that edge.
So their original determination would still be correct, that molecules would fly apart (atomized) and explode outward into the vacuum of space. Now, maaaaybe if the explosive force were enough to cause atoms to collide in space and at relativistic speeds, tiny singularities might form. But their combined negative charge would be far more powerful than their gravitational pull, and they would decay almost immediately, so… no crunch.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
Extra electrons make atoms go 'splodey.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
Hey those fucking atom bastards are nothing but negativity. They know what they did.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
You know how when you put magnet faces together with the same polarity, they push against each other. If you squeeze them together they will pop away. When an atom has an extra electron, it makes its charge more negative. If all of the atoms have extra electrons, all of their charges will be more negative. Now imagine every single atom in the universe was suddenly the same polarity and began pushing all other atoms away. I’ll let your imagination take over from there.
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 3 weeks ago:
At one point in time advertisements were in dedicated sections of newspapers, magazines, posted in business windows and maaaaybe sent out in mailors. And that was about it. When TV broadcasts first started there was an dilemma over whether people would tolerate TV commercial breaks, and whether they were even ethical since you couldn’t just turn the page if you didn’t want to read the ad. We’re light-years beyond that shit now. Ads that try to appear to be anything but ads, individually targeted ads, unskippable ads on CPR instructional videos, ads in search results, ads on floating billboards among the beach, ads on your refrigerator, ads on your personal tablet or laptop, ads on the damn gas pump… it’s fucking dystopian.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t he already do that before? Am I imagining that?
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 5 weeks ago:
Taking off dress shoes
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 5 weeks ago:
Hello? Nena? You’re not gonna believe this… 🎈
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 5 weeks ago:
It’s all over and I’m standin’ pretty In this dust that was a city If I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here And here is a red balloon I think of you, and let it go…
Such a surprisingly depressing song if you’ve only heard the original and you don’t speak German
- Comment on Real NASA research papers 1 month ago:
That one feels the most relatable as one who works in tech. Everything is an acronym, man, and most have no idea what the acronym stands for.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 month ago:
I kept getting mixed up with Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds, and got really excited then disappointed when I heard about Outer Worlds 2, thinking that Outer Wilds was getting a sequel. So it was always a bummer to me even without actually playing the game.
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 1 month ago:
“Everybody knows […]” means my parent(s) had some weird or strict rules and life lessons that I had hounded into me which I internalized into my very being and never questioned, and now I have unspoken and often unrealistic expectations of people and the world that no one has absolutely any reason to know about.
- Comment on New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA 1 month ago:
Right? Also it’s not like the mechanic is universally loved. The good vs evil decision features of games (like in Fable, Infamous, Knights of the Old Republic, etc.) are often heavily criticized for being obvious, simplistic, forced, and sometimes even punishing to some play styles or mistakes by restricting some skills behind one alignment or the other.
I liked it as a mechanic personally, but I am also interested to see how the new evolution on the mechanic works. Maybe it’s shit, maybe it’s a more nuanced version of the old one. We’ll see.
- Comment on Butter 2 months ago:
I follow Paula Dean’s advice when it comes to butter. And only that one subject.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 months ago:
Inside a whole raw onion before shoving that up your ass
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 months ago:
Onions are vile and I’ll tell you where you can shove your judgement.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 2 months ago:
Hard pass.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 2 months ago:
Counter point. Onions are vile and make eating out a constant annoyance for me because they’re in everything.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 2 months ago:
I hate onion. I dont cook it. Can’t stand the smell of it. Best case scenario, I use onion powder in something. I still get these comments, so… no.
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
The set of Real numbers excluding the Naturals
