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- Comment on Woah, there's a cool little spider on my wall. I wonder what it's called? 1 day ago:
Oh hey, who’s this spider in the corner of my house
House spider
Oh okay.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 5 days ago:
Right wingers believe everything should be up to the individual, you should get no help from anyone else. Typically with the ironic championing of corporations over people.
Left wingers believe we’re stronger if we work together in the public interest.
Healthcare is just one small slice of the political pie, which is such an obvious human right that only the fascist fuckos you have over there think it’s up for debate
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 1 week ago:
I’d say most RTS games I can think of can be played with just a mouse
Older diablo-like ARPGs didn’t really rely on the keyboard too much IIRC, the modern ones do tend to rely on the keyboard a bit more
If you don’t mind older games, basically the whole genre of point and click adventures is this by definition
- Comment on Royal Mail trials postbox with parcel hatch, solar panels and barcode scanner 1 week ago:
Seems like a good idea, but I worry this will be used as part of an excuse to close more community post offices
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 1 week ago:
Yeah, you’re completely right, I was more going for not impossible, but it’s even more luck than I realised
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 1 week ago:
Well, impossible to do with certainty.
But people are paid to try and do it at investment banks, and with enough outsider knowledge they can often get it right
Of course that’s practically just gambling at a much greater scale
- Comment on Purple Petunias 1 week ago:
Adds NIF genes
oh no
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 1 week ago:
Turkey is an amazing country with amazing people in it
The unfortunate part is their leader is the opposite and is currently holding their country and people hostage
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 2 weeks ago:
I never actively sought this life, but I can definitely advocate for it
- Comment on Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll 2 weeks ago:
Yeah 100%
This was a public poll after all so it smells a bit like fandom bandwagoning
- Comment on Anon takes an exam 2 weeks ago:
You’ve hit the nail on the head.
There’s precisely a 3 minute window of time between the churro being the temperature of the sun and it being unpleasantly cold.
Also it must always be served with the chocolate sauce, even in the window they’re a bit lacking without
- Comment on Every fucking video... 2 weeks ago:
They hate VPNs
Well, that’s because they get less data about you when you use a VPN. Google being Google are not gonna love that are they?
- Comment on Clean butt 2 weeks ago:
Japanese toilets are so far beyond what we’re doing anywhere else in the world it’s not even funny
Wtaf have our toilet scientists been doing for the last century in the western world?
- Comment on Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome” 2 weeks ago:
We tried and failed, you’re on your own now
- Comment on papa I need the borger 4 weeks ago:
oh no
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 4 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty good film, worth a watch if it’s the kind of thing you’re into
- Comment on 🐴 :) 4 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Good evening I choose being well informed. 4 weeks ago:
Also, whilst we’re on the subject, cement lube is not safe for cement toys
- Comment on There is no method to this madness 5 weeks ago:
I really should go and get checked, eh?
- Comment on Ultra Gullible 1 month ago:
They did those starter sku users dirty
But yeah this was Microsoft’s strategy for a while (and may still be): they attempted to push small business users to their server products for running servers by limiting the ram and core counts on the non-server skus.
- Comment on Why are entertainers paid so much? 1 month ago:
Firstly it’s a fraction of a percent of the pool of people working as entertainers that get paid anything close to a comfortable salary—many don’t even make it a few years and make basically nothing before they change careers.
The successful ones get paid a load basically because the people that invest in funding TV shows & films know that you can generally multiply your investment by attaching a household name to the project. Now this is for several reasons, firstly a household name will generally actually be a good actor. Secondly, people recognising a member of your cast means they’re generally more likely to watch it. Finally, there’s the effect on the rest of the casting—some studios might take the opportunity to push the compensation of the “no-name” actors down because they have an opportunity to work with a star, others might go the other way and use the first star in negotiations to get additional starts signed on to the project.
So essentially, the big projects make a lot of money, and executives attribute a significant part of that generated value to having the big star involved.
There’s also the negotiation factor on long running shows, main characters end up in good negotiation positions for more money if a show is successful and their character isn’t easy to kill off. This is also why Netflix tries to cancel stuff before the 3rd season—that’s about the point who holds the power in negotiations shifts away from the studio.
Tl;dr capitalism
- Comment on Would you rather be trapped in Groundhog Day or the Truman show? 1 month ago:
This brings me some more questions tbh
Like how is he remembering the previous loop?
What of him gets sent back?
His brain? His whole body? His thoughts are a product of the chemical and physical state of his brain and body, so gotta be his body to some extent
In the film he’s shown learning not just knowledge but new skills requiring dexterity you assume he doesn’t already possess
Could he work out in the gym and have the physical benefits in the next loop?
I’m starting to think the film might have a couple of plot holes
- Comment on Would you rather be trapped in Groundhog Day or the Truman show? 1 month ago:
Groundhog Day
Infinite time to do hobbies and no lasting consequences to my actions? Where do I sign up!
Also I viscerally hate the idea of being watched 24/7 so the Truman show would be probably my worst nightmare
- Comment on I give my money to hard working entrepreneurs 1 month ago:
I was going to say that Affinity, DxO and DaVinci are right there as free/non-subscription options.
But yeah, going open source is even better, though sometimes a bit of a workflow shift if you’re already used to something like lightroom and you go for darktable, for example. There’s also Rawtherapee for photos but I never tried that one.
I hear kdenlive is a very capable NLE, though I don’t do much video work myself, so I’ve not used it.
InDesign has never struck me as doing much different than any other DTP software, of which there’re plenty of open source options, scribus gets cited a lot
Inkscape has always been pretty decent for vector stuff
Audition has never been much more than a fancy audacity
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
Well I’m very excited to see the injection of life this hopefully gives c&c modding
I wonder how many of the old guard are still around, I’m glad the cncnet project is still going strong
- Comment on The Wipeout-like racer BallisticNG gets Steam Deck Verified 1 month ago:
Wait this game has been around for 7 years and I’m just now finding out about it?!
- Comment on Just Need To Hover A Mouse Over It 1 month ago:
Well what do you think happens when goths reproduce?
- Comment on Just Need To Hover A Mouse Over It 1 month ago:
Goth kids need clothing too, jeez
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ has the MCU’s lowest Cinemascore ever 1 month ago:
I was gonna ask what happened to that godawful Thor film I had the misfortune of catching
I’m impressed they’ve managed to surpass that
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
You had me curious so I just went on Facebook marketplace and searched “bike”
The first screen of results was all bikes under £100
You realise you don’t need to buy a carbon fiber Tour de France bike to get around a town, right?