OhStopYellingAtMe
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 1 day ago:
I like to imagine that This song was playing when he was catching them fists.
…with his face.
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 2 days ago:
I play MK8 against my kid, and never realized that the choice of carts makes a difference. Do the tires and glider make a difference too? I always just used the Mii Mercedes.
I rarely play it with him anymore, he prefers “Wreckfest” - which is a lot of fun too, but I find MK8 more challenging.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 6 days ago:
I feel like there may be some missing information. For example, if the customer had a coupon or other discount. The tip should be a percentage of the total before the discount. If they’re “adjusting” to tip less- based on the post-coupon price, fuck them.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 week ago:
They’re not wrong but they are an asshole. (You’re is short for “you are,” your is the possessive pronoun)
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 week ago:
- Uncharted (series)
- RDR2
- Minecraft
Honorable mention: No Man’s Sky
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 1 week ago:
This isn’t a design problem. It’s a maintenance problem. The panels were put back in the wrong order.
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 week ago:
Bee sexploitation free honey
- Comment on Dirt Man 1 week ago:
Took me too long to remember “Arctic” and “Antarctic” and I kept wondering how “North Pole / South Pole” translated to “Bearlandia / Not Bearlandia”
- Comment on Yeasty 1 week ago:
When I was a teen working at Little Caesar’s, we set up a giant elastic band in our back door, and would launch our expired dough balls at the Burger King drive-thru window across the street. Then they’d call us and yell. Fun times.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 2 weeks ago:
Replace rain with “more stew ingredients” and you’re describing Perpetual Stew - a soup that is forever cooking, forever being eaten, forever being added to.
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 2 weeks ago:
That man’s name? Albert Einstein.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 2 weeks ago:
When I was a kid, we used to keep the plastic bags from bread once we ate the loaf and in winter we’d line our boots with them. To keep our socks dry.
- Comment on Everything is just an ESP32 away 3 weeks ago:
You know what? Fuck all that. I’m a tech worker and my whole house is automated.
Because I’m lazy…
…like any decently efficient tech worker.
- Comment on Please tell me 3 weeks ago:
Can I have one?
- Comment on Please tell me 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Its a draw🗣️ 4 weeks ago:
A drawer drew a drawer drawing a drawer.
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 4 weeks ago:
Well if you’re comparing 333 Commerce St building (topped out in 1993) with Barad-dûr, as depicted in Peter Hackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy (released in 2001-2093), then you maybe should ask why Peter Jackson’s art inspiration (specifically illustrator Alan Lee) based their depiction of Sauron’s tower in the AT&T building (although maybe the architect of the building in Nashville did also draw their inspiration from Alan Lee’s art).
I could find no other depiction of Barad-dûr prior to Jackson’s which had that same forked design, most artists drew a sinister-looking but traditionally spired tower design, with the eye peering through a window to some effect.
Tolkien’s book describes the tower like this:
“Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. All hope left him… …and then he saw, rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dûr. One moment only it stared out, but as from some great window immeasurably high there stabbed northward a flame of red, the flicker of a piercing Eye”
No mention of the two-prong fork design that I could find.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 4 weeks ago:
1993 Dodge Caravan
- Comment on Panama Proxima 4 weeks ago:
New Zealand is the Gen X of countries.
- Comment on It’s the little things 4 weeks ago:
I know a guy who drank some WaterWetter and got pretty sick. He was an idiot.
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 5 weeks ago:
Aw that’s Shane. My kid loves NFS Heat. It’s his most favorite game.
- Comment on I can fix her 5 weeks ago:
I once dated a girl for a while but we stopped dating because she was just too BPD for me to handle. The passion & sex were great, but the mood swings, lies, paranoia, etc. were just too much.
We remained friends though for a very long time. Went out separate ways but were always in touch. Eventually she got into drugs & dating real bad dudes, and I tried to get her to get a grip and stop the drugs & ruining her life. She ghosted me. Eventually she responded (or rather her boyfriend did) that she was in a psych ward for rehab. Or friendship resumed when she got out.
A year later she died. I met her family at the funeral, befriended them. One day I mentioned her psych ward stay. Her mom said she was never in a psych ward. Her mom pulled up texts on her phone from the date range when she allegedly was in the ward.
The whole thing was a sham. She told me she was in the psych ward / rehab to get me off her back. The txt from her bf was just her.
I miss my friend dearly, but finding that out broke my heart.
- Comment on I can fix her 5 weeks ago:
Girls with grippy socks give the best blowjobs.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 5 weeks ago:
I use discarded cat food tins. Pour the grease into the tin, wait for it to solidify, toss in trash.
- Comment on Can you guess, chat? 5 weeks ago:
“it’s a dildo. Of course it’s company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Always use the indefinite article a dildo - never your dildo.”
- Comment on Oatmeal 5 weeks ago:
Butterscotch Pudding is a big boy!
- Comment on Which one are you? 5 weeks ago:
…or veer into a person, which happened to me (yes I was struck by a runaway cart, no I’m not proud of that). I was not seriously injured.
In my defense, I was distracted- and that cart was running on silent mode or something.
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 1 month ago:
Really?! lol that’s great. I didn’t see that episode.
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 1 month ago:
The concept of “Señor Chang” - the incongruity of an Asian man teaching Spanish in an American community college, never ceases to make me chuckle.
It reminds me of my own days in community college here in the US, and sitting in an English Literature class, taught by an Indian woman (Mrs. Banerjee) whose accent was so thick, the whole class probably dropped a letter grade just because we couldn’t follow much of what she said.
