Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A warning from Norm Macdonald⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say “never”. Eventually, some of them will get old and understand it firsthand.

  Though the worst part is how perception of time is inversely proportional to enjoyment of said time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bummer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim came out closer to 9/11 than to today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Who knows, maybe he decided to repent and is just still holding the sign because dropping it would be littering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a no⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll merge early but also try to go a bit slower than the person in front of me to open a gap which allows me to absorb some of the traffic wave (where flow alternatively speeds up and slows down from people trying to get up to speed only to have to slam on the brakes because some car ahead wasn’t going fast enough to maintain that), as well as leave space for others to merge at speed.

  Though I sometimes close the gap if I notice people pulling into the right lane to try to skip the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flipper!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they are stupid enough that they believe appeal to authority has any meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Though changing content goes both ways. Just this past week I was looking at the new releases on Netflix and saw they had added a new season of Harley Quinn and checked the info to see if it was the 3rd like I remembered and it seems that they simultaneously removed the earlier seasons.

  And in general, I think there have been more good things lost than added, not to mention the way Netflix writes shows for people who aren’t paying attention is annoying as someone who does. Fuck off with repeating all the relevant information every single time it comes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lol she's gonna die laughing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a team effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lol she's gonna die laughing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the lights that really make that picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That reminds me to add some lemon juice to my water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays World of Warcraft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and some of the less common ones were fun or even more optimal.

  Like I had a paladin tank in classic. It was difficult holding threat especially if the targets weren’t undead, but it was so rewarding to succeed.

  My mage was a frost mage like so many were after Molten Core basically pigeon holed mages into frost spec. But holy shit could fire/arcane mages put out dps. The PvP spec was incredibly bursty but the PvE spec could do more damage than frost spec (outside of MC) plus was more interesting than constant frostbolt spam.

  Though affliction warlock was probably my favourite spec out of them all, due to the different durations of each of the dots making you have to constantly think about spell order. I didn’t play one in classic but switched to my affliction lock as my main in WotLK and remember getting in the top 3 dps on that PvP zone raid boss, desopite being a filler that wasn’t even max level.

  I brought my all in that game and if I was trying to join a pug raid, it was because I knew that character was ready for it regardless of spec or gear. But I did get tired of raiding on a schedule with a guild and pugs could be shitshows, so I kinda understand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neo, wake up!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  According to Agent Smith, humans also stink inside the matrix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neo, wake up!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The crazy mass orgy dances happen outside of the matrix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They just made the winning bid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how well you specified the requirements. Like not leaving out things you might consider obvious. Eg if you’re specifying a sight that includes a range scale, make sure you include that the ranges should be calibrated such that calibrating it at one range will make it accurate at the others instead of just adding random lines and numbers that look like it shows correct range dropoff, and that the ranges correspond to the ammunition that will be fired instead of just copy/pasting from a .22 range sight.

  Think of it like making a wish from a genie (folklore genie, not disney).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices realism in GTA6⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Calendar stores have whole aisles that also beg to differ.

  School playgrounds, too, but they wouldn’t know what the question means and would start talking about pokemon before returning to their game of tag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a killjoy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The incest issue is actually an artifact of the religion initially not being monotheistic. Each region had their own religion and they were all treated as equally valid (at least by early Jewdaism), so the creation story was basically “God created a paradise (and everything else) and two people in that paradise, but then they got kicked out and had to go live with all the other people made by all the other gods”. Adam and Eve had Cain and Abel, Cain killed Abel, so it was pretty much just Cain that carried on that legacy.

  Then, eventually they went monotheistic but didn’t/couldn’t resolve the issues that introduced with the earlier stories (Noah’s story also has similar issues, though I’m not sure it also once had a resolution of “other gods made more people” or if the resolution involved smacking anyone who brought up the question).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve got a ps5 and psvr2. I did spend a little money near the start of having the VR on a couple games I bought through their online store, but have since given Sony $0. No psplus subscription (or even much temptation to get one; I have no idea what it even gives you and don’t really care either way), no new game purchases, though I have given EB games some money for used games.

  Not sure how typical of a user I am (eg someone else did buy all of those used games new at some point), but loss leading would have just been giving me cheap hardware for no other benefit to them.

  It shifted into “fuck you no more money” when I broke one of the VR controllers and found out that there was no way to get a new one without buying a full VR set and getting it serviced involved sending the whole VR set to them. Ended up fixing it myself but the thing left a bad taste in my mouth. So greedy, wasteful, and/or lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s also the case in a lot of north american cities. If you’re pumping your own well out in the country, then it’s “free” (plus costs of running the pump and any well maintenance you need, also depending on availability in your water table), but if you’re in a town or city you have a matered water line that gets charged to cover both the clean water supply and waste management (at least that’s how it works in the Canadian town I live in, maybe other locations meter the waste side, too).

  My water bill gets lumped with my power bill but they are itemized seperately with usage graphs for each of them.

  If someone needed water, I’d give it to them without even thinking about the cost because my whole month of water use is only like $50 (and the metered bit is only $20 of that, though that does imply the lighter users are subsidizing the heavier ones, but that’s a seperate issue).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got an RO filter for my drinking water at home. I haven’t tried a bottled water that I like as much as my RO tap water. I suspect that even if I filled a plastic water bottle with that water and let it sit for the expected duration a bought one would sit for, it would also not be as good. I don’t think plastic is as inert of a material as we like to pretend it is, or that BPA is the only bad plastic chemical to avoid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive Interview with Remedy’s New CEO: “Alan Wake and Control Should Have Sold More"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have both of those games in my library haven’t gotten around to trying them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh that is BRUTAL⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure you could involve a torch in there somehow to raise the stakes even more. Grilled Cheese Flamble has a certain ring to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robbed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A different thread for ways I like to cook eggs that aren’t just scrambled:

  Poached/boiled out of shell: Just bring a pot of water (plus some salt and vinegar) to a boil and crack the eggs into it. Use a slotted spoon to make sure they all move in the pot, or it might stick to the bottom. Technically, poaching is done at a temperature below a simmer (so like 70-80 °C), but personally I prefer the texture you get from simmering/boiling them. Everything ends up firmer. There’s an art/science to getting the yolk right; IMO perfect is catching it right as it transitions from runny to hard, so it’s still kinda gooey but won’t just spill out of your sandwich as soon as you break the yolk. Even if you want to keep it at a boil, reduce the heat from max or it will bubble over. You get an egg that is soft but firm, burning is pretty much impossible.

  Fried: Heat a pan, add a bit of oil, let it heat up to the point that it evaporates water on contact and add the eggs. Don’t stir them or anything. They’ll stick to the pan at first, but after they cook for a bit, the bottom should harden up and come loose. If not, just scrape it with a spatula (assuming you aren’t using some kind of teflon pan; if you are and have eggs sticking, it’s probably a good idea to throw that pan out before you consume any more of that coating that has been coming off into your food). If you add other things to the eggs while they are liquid, they get cooked into the eggs, like solid scrambled eggs. You can cover the pan to help cook the top part quicker, or try flipping the eggs at your own risk. Sunny side up is when you don’t flip it (I think?).

  Hard boiled: Easy method is to use an electric burner (any other will affect the timing). Put the eggs into a single layer in a pot, then add cold water until the eggs are covered. Add some vinegar to make the shells easier to hable. Then heat to a boil on high heat. Once the pot reaches a rapid boil, turn off the heat and remove the pot from the heat. Set a timer for 15 minutes and once that has passed, move the eggs to an ice bath to stop the cooking. If you do this right (and your local conditions are close enough to mine), you end up with perfectly cooked hard boiled eggs (great for deviled eggs, though I might let it cook a bit longer for egg salad), where the yolk is right at the transition. Stop sooner if you want soft boiled with a runny yolk.

  Omlette: whisk eggs with milk, then add to a preheated and oiled wide pan with shallow sides. Then, as it cooks, push back the rim of the egg mixture towards the centre, with the goal of letting all the liquid run to the edges and come in contact with the pan so it cooks. Then, once all the liquid has run to the sides, the hard part: you gotta flip the omelette. Make sure you have enough space vertically, the trick is to swing the pan such that the omelette slides off the back side, though obviously moving mostly vertically. That sliding off is what gives it a bit of torque to flip. But many an omelette has become scrambled eggs at this point. If the flip is successful, add toppings while it cooks, then fold over and serve.

  Other tricks:

  • You can often just add an egg to whatever you’re cooking. It might affect the texture, but eggs cook very easily, do don’t be too concerned about the food safety. I’ll poach an egg with ramen I’m cooking (like boiled raman, not the “just add hot water” ones) or add it when I fry it at the end (adds some texture to the noodles).
  • Use (metal) cookie cutters while frying eggs to give them fun or convenient shapes. Like egg mcmuffins use round ones so they easily fit on a sandwich.
  • don’t forget to season your eggs. If you’re frying them, you can do so as they cook, but poached eggs need it when they are served, otherwise the water just washes it away.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robbed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Breaking: I just realized I have no idea what “over easy” refers to with cooking eggs. I’m curious, but admit that my starting point is “this sounds like a stupid name for a cooking method”, so there might be a bit of bias to work with or against if you want to discourage or encourage favour, respectively. Updates will be posted here, should anyone decide this is sufficiently interesting to allow to develop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember to follow OSHA 1904.39(a)(2) and report any loss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I knew about the stuff explained in the first comment but not about the followup stuff. Please continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨all vegetables⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, peas, beans, squash, eggplant, spinach, onions, garlic, corn, and many varieties of these. Not saying you should grow all these, just adding more to the list (though hot peppers might be good bang for the buck).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda sexist. I know it’s a joke and you’re just trying to get a rise out of them, but why not try to get a (bigger) rise out of the men in the family, too?

  You could also confuse the hell out of the dogs in the family for a few seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨power generator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s peltier devices, too, which use heat traveling via different metals and maybe some sort of sorcery to generate a voltage.

  Also teslacoils use a different mechanism (friction I believe), though that’s a static voltage.

  In theory, you could translate a magnet through a coil instead of just rotating it to produce a current. Lol spinning a ring magnet through a rounded coil could be a different way of using spinning magnets (assuming it isn’t already done).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone should have stuck one of those shot pouring nozzles in there, would have been pretty funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Follow that cab!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ever create an account just to leave a negative review?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the frustrating part of the sex worker morality debate. While it can be argued that a decent portion of sex workers don’t really want to be doing it, their motivation is the same as the rest of us and sex work is the best option they see for surviving, either because they genuinely like it better than other options or because they don’t see other options (though the ones who are forced into it are a different story, though the laws against sex work make things even harder for them rather than protecting them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ever create an account just to leave a negative review?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, some OF models clearly automate posting ad videos because there will be a video that has a caption and tags that have nothing to do with the content. Probably AI-based, though it might even just be a simple script that randomly picks from a list of captions and tags.

  Makes me wonder if that’s even effective. Like are the thirst traps there because the women desperately want to gain traction and think that’s how, or are they there because it is an effective way of gaining traction? Because for me personally, it’s more of a turn off or at best neutral if I’m really attracted to her.