Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on I can't figure out if this is a baby, or a cat 9 hours ago:
And holy controlling! She (or one of her flying monkeys) checks on every single shit he makes and even makes comments to him about them!
Though he does handle it like a boss and either acts like he didn’t even hear or sometimes blows raspberries at her.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 4 days ago:
Yeah, it’s not about the choice of language someone uses, it’s about simultaneously wanting to use a word but also not use it. At least for the self-censors.
And it’s about someone else wanting to show others that thing, but for whatever reason deciding that some words used are too bad or something. And then doing it on words where the “problem” comes from the meaning rather than the word itself (unlike “fuck” or “shit” where they are “ok” topics but “unacceptable” terms to use and frequently used outside of their original meanings anyways).
Censorship is dumb in general (other than redacting personal information to prevent harassment), but this whole “I want to use words but not really use them” and “I think people should see this content, but they can’t handle it without hiding some things” are extra dumb.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 5 days ago:
Yeah, for me it was Alex Jones presenting this idea that the world elites had a plan to depopulate the world, saying that he had a solution, but then leaving that as a cliffhanger for his next video. I was left thinking, “wait, this seems more urgent than ‘wait for my next video’, if that’s really happening, it should be a ‘we gotta stop this now’”.
And then I thought about the high production value of his videos. They were professional level, which would take a budget. Someone threatening such powerful enemies wouldn’t have a budget, they’d have problems created by those enemies (because I never ended up in that “our enemies are simultaneously strong and weak” mindset). I didn’t realize at the time how profitable his schemes were and that he could easily pay for professional-level feature-length videos, but by the time I understood that, I saw his grift for what it was.
Lol I remember being frustrated by the normies that kept dismissing it, but getting caught up in the denial shit from within sounds even more frustrating.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 5 days ago:
As someone who went down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole in the 00s but realized Alex Jones was full of shit by 2010, I was incredibly baffled to see the movement align behind someone who could be an avatar of everything it feared.
That said, the racism and bigotry in that movement had gone right over my head and I generally dismissed the more out there shit like lizard people or aliens being involved because it sounded stupid. I believed (and still do) that that shit is part of a real strategy to use ridiculous claims to generate noise that makes real things like MK ultra more likely to be dismissed along with them.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 5 days ago:
I’m baffled as to how anyone other than asshole bosses saw him as anything other than another asshole boss. The Apprentice gave me a strong negative opinion of him, similarly to how Shark Tank gave me a strong negative opinion of Kevin O’Leary.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 5 days ago:
Kinda like that undercover boss show where they tried to show how great these CEOs are by throwing some money at specific employees that are struggling, ignoring that better leadership and compensation that lines up better with the value being created would improve things for all of the other struggling employees that weren’t lucky enough to be assigned to boss babysitting duty (assuming the whole thing wasn’t staged entirely).
- Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 5 days ago:
On the bright side, food safety laws are set to protect people with weaker immune systems. That one person that died was older, so if you’re younger and healthy, you probably don’t have anything to worry about beyond maybe a more vigorous and fluid shit session or three, at least with e coli.
That’s also something to be aware of if you frequently ignore or stretch food safety rules at home. Just because you haven’t died from it doesn’t mean grandma or junior will be able to handle it the same. Or that guests that haven’t spent however long building up that immunity won’t have issues. It might also explain mysteries gut issues that keep coming up.
- Comment on Anon reviews a game on steam 5 days ago:
Becomes a top player just to advise others to stay the fuck away from the game.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 1 week ago:
Lol if that game is ever finished, I bet there’s going to be some people who paid way too much for a ship that turns out to completely suck but seemed ok on paper. Kinda like a PT cruiser, except it looked ok on paper.
- Comment on hard to argue with 1 week ago:
Wait, so does this God create everyone or do women create everyone?
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 1 week ago:
I’m curious what the rankings of all the star trek doctors would be.
Like for competence, would Flox (sp?) or EMH top the list?
Or for charisma, would it be Flox or Bashir?
For not taking shit EMH or Bones?
Closest with the captain, Bones or Crusher?
Most victim of the writers, Pulaski or Fitzgerald? (First one at least got a season but the second one didn’t even get an actor)
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 1 week ago:
Didn’t Zoidberg once successfully attach Fry’s head to Amy’s body (or something like that)? Not sure any of the others on that chart have done something that impressive.
- Comment on The 1900s 1 week ago:
I come from a time when our telephones were teathered to the wall and had no screens or apps at all. Later on, there were machines that would answer the phone and let someone record a message if no one was home.
If you wanted to watch something that wasn’t a movie or recording, you had to pick one of the options someone else had picked, and if you missed the time, you just missed it until someone decided it was time to play it again (at a different specific time you could miss).
And if you did record something, you’d have to seek through the recording to find the start of it.
Movie rentals involved going to a physical store and grabbing physical media with the content on it. If too many people wanted to rent it at a time, there just wouldn’t be enough and the later ones would have to pick something else to watch. Just going to one of these rental places was a borderline magical experience full of wonder and possibility. Oh and it was considered very rude if you rented a movie but didn’t seek it back to the beginning for the next person (which you’d have to physically return to the place with the physical media or you’d get charged late fees).
And even though everyone’s name, address, and phone number were published in regional “phone books”, the closest thing to phone scams you’d (normally) see were prank phone calls, which were done for laughs rather than profit (albeit sometimes maliciously).
Christians actually cared about being good people rather than thinking they can somehow be victims of an apocalypse they are trying to make happen and teleport to heaven because they’ve said the required amount of hail Marys and took advantage of the “just confess the horrible shit before it die and you’re forgiven” loophole (and probably not thinking about what happens if the rapture ends up happening too quickly for them to confess their latest batch of sins). Actually, the crazy ones might have been around then, too, they just weren’t so fucking loud back then.
That second millennium was something else, I tell you what. You third millennium kids won’t ever understand.
- Comment on Mine's a Juicer 1 week ago:
I know I wouldn’t recommend one of those electric hand mixers, like the one that just has a tiny blade it spins fast (the ones that spin two “interlocking” things might do decently). The potatoes are too thick and the blades just end up pushing the potatoes away and spinning uselessly. I’d take the one pictured over that kind.
And tbh, I like that style because you can still get good smooth mashed potatoes and the masher is easier to clean vs the grid style ones. Though for either of them, the trick is to dip it into the dish water and shake it around (clear out fragile stuff first obviously).
- Comment on Anon reads a book for school 1 week ago:
Considering they won’t even hold kids back a grade here anymore, I could see it. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the curve of home schooled kid intelligence has two peaks, one corresponding to parents who make their best effort and another corresponding to the ones you’re talking about.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the Flight Simulator and Hitman crossover expansion.
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 week ago:
We’re going to need two kilometer inches worth of markings for this football field!
- Comment on Tough Shit 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t call that a forgettable kind of story. Sure I forget most of the details, but the main points would probably even survive Alzheimer’s.
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 week ago:
Variables can be in arbitrary units. If you put the units through the same steps as the values, you’ll end up with the right unit, plus you need the values to be in compatible units for the operations to even make sense. At least as long as any constants are also given the correct units. This can also help discover cases where you accidentally mix similar but different units (like litres and gallons).
I also find it very satisfying to do those equations on the units, adding ones that get multiplied in and cancelling ones that get divided out, and then ending up with a unit that makes sense, given what the equation was supposed to express.
Though we might be saying the same thing, because while I don’t think variables need units, expanding that variable with a value absolutely should involve a unit, as should any examples of that equation’s use.
- Comment on Anon watches a movie with a girl 1 week ago:
That’s good because if you play with it before the piercing has a chance to properly heal, it can get infected.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 2 weeks ago:
Sounds more like they are turning them trans than gay. So like a test run of the leftist plan for Republicans. Oh wait, are we allowed to talk about this outside of the secret meetings yet?
- Comment on Joy & Curiosity 2 weeks ago:
Oh come on, humans aren’t that unnecessarily cruel! We just cut the feet off several thousand peasants back in the day to determine the average length of human feet and then made a bunch of sticks that length so we don’t have to be so cruel each time we wanted to measure something. We just had to do it that one time.
“Why cut their feet off instead of just measuring them?”
It was necessary for scientific rigor, so that others could go back and verify the final result. It’s very important to be accurate using a measurement that is completely relatable to the average human. Funny enough, we later realized that about 300 randomly selected feet would generally get within 5% of the true average, so that makes it even better that we did do that because how else would we have discovered something like that?
“Wouldn’t that just give an average for peasant feet in that region? For average human foot size, wouldn’t you need to take feet from people who aren’t peasants, like nobles, clergy, and scientists?”
Well, you see… Hmm. I guess to be completely accurate… That does sound right. Hmm.
You know, I’ve been hearing great things about the metric system! I mean, who really thinks in terms of how big their feet are anyways?
- Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad I’ve had a few epiphanies over my gaming time that have resulted in no desire to spend any money on P2W or content skipping.
First one was in the first Turok game on N64. I was playing normally but at some point looked up the cheat codes for things like unlock all weapons, unlimited ammo, and unlocking all levels. There was one weapon that you needed to collect hidden pieces of from each level, and then you only got 3 shots with it that would pretty much AoE clear an area. There was another gun that you’d only find 2 shots of ammo for at a time that was similar. I had fun for a bit running around and shooting those guns at will, but after that it was hard to get motivated to play the game without the cheats because I knew the big weapons were basically just temporary consumables, which meant I’d probably never use them while trying to ration them for moments they’d be most useful. Using those cheat codes ruined the game for me.
The second epiphany was after raiding for a while in WoW and thinking about the loot motivation. It was a circular motivation: you get better loot so that you can raid more to get even better loot. If the loot was the main motivation, then it was pointless because the loot didn’t serve any purpose outside of the game. So it only made sense to do raiding because I enjoyed the process, not because of the rewards. And this applied to most reward mechanisms in games. Taking that logic just a bit further made me realize that P2W is actually paying money to avoid playing a game and short circuit right to getting the rewards, which was kinda pointless when the rewards were meant to improve the experience of playing the game. Either a) you don’t want to play the game at all, or b) you don’t get as much satisfaction from using the better loot or whatever because you skipped the part where you had to do it without those rewards.
And then the last one is finding PvP less satisfying when the game mechanics give significant advantages based on either time spent grinding or paying money to avoid grinding. Did I just win because of my skills or because I’ve acquired better gear? Did I just lose because the other player outplayed me or because they got better gear? And I didn’t even want to give any satisfaction to those who just paid money to win and don’t worry about what it does or doesn’t say about their skills. It’s similar to the line of thought when you know cheating is possible… Did I get beat by someone skilled enough to aim better or someone using an aim bot?
- Comment on Ok boomer 2 weeks ago:
That would be nice, though I’ve got some questions.
- Do you bag as you shop, then?
- Do you need to involve staff if you change your mind about an item?
- Do they have a bag/receipt checker doing random searches in many stores?
- Are all stores like that?
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 2 weeks ago:
Tanks have the right to self-defense, too!
- Comment on Ok boomer 2 weeks ago:
I like them because it makes my bagging more efficient. At the lanes, if I’m getting a decent amount of groceries, I usually end up bagging for a while after I’ve paid and feel like a dick because I’m in the way of the people getting rung up behind me.
At self checkouts, I take it out of the cart, scan, then stick it right in the bag. Even better if they don’t have the stupid weighing thing that assumes I’m trying to steal shit if they don’t micromanage every item going into my bag.
Also, in this case, management is telling workers to not make fun of people who don’t want to use self checkouts.
- Comment on Why No One Will Get Fired Over ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ 2 weeks ago:
Great song but they just end it when it’s supposed to be good!
- Comment on Why No One Will Get Fired Over ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s enough to quash any curiosity I have about it. I wonder what the overall sentiment is for musicals.
Personally, I’ve always hated TV episodes that turn a non-musical show musical.
- Comment on Anon gets a pizza 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, owner was probably thinking “wtf is that doing here, I could lose my license!”
- Comment on Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies 3 weeks ago:
It’s because trickle down-style policies give more wealth and social power to those at the top while allowing the argument that the economic activity that results from that wealth benefits everyone down the pyramid (which also creates a dependency on more instances of these transfers as businesses grow to accommodate the extra demand).
Social programs do that without giving more wealth or social power to people at the top.
The effectiveness that they care about isn’t the economic benefit or allowing people to become more independent, it’s about funneling money to the rich in the hopes that they will funnel some of it back in a way that won’t look so much like corruption.