Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 2 days ago:
I’ll see that and raise a Metroid Prime
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 1 week ago:
If universes were merging, how would snopes know anything about it?
What if snopes is under the control of big universe and is trying to hide the smaller universes that get merged into it??
- Comment on lik lik lik 1 week ago:
All cats are finely tuned stealth killing machines (though some are lazy). House cats are just optimized for rodent-sized prey, though they are still capable of putting up a decent fight against larger things. Though I’m curious if cats evolved to trigger “cute” recognition or if primates evolved to find things that include cats cute.
- Comment on Have you noticed 1 week ago:
When did you first start noticing these?
- Comment on Is there a name? 1 week ago:
Yeah just don’t go all in on any of those. Dip your toes in to see how long the interest lasts. In my experience, it usually lasts just about long enough to slow roll going all in on it and then it fades. So you don’t save any money, but you might get more time to enjoy it before it becomes another chore that must be avoided if possible. And even then, if you force yourself to do it, it can shift into a thing you enjoy but must stop doing as soon as a natural break occurs because there might be something else more enjoyable.
- Comment on What's the #1 most butthurt response you've had on here? 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is only better than reddit in that it was designed to work around the fact that humans can be shitty, even if they were previously not shitty, so a platform that can spread authority around rather than consolidate it in the hands of a few will offer alternative options even if an admin or team of admins becomes shitty.
It means that Lemmy has the potential to be more extreme in any direction as much as it has the potential to be less extreme in any direction. No one can dictate what all of Lemmy is but anyone can dictate what small pieces of it are.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the interface between the analog reality and its digital representation will always be the weak point. But, such a scheme could at least mean that whatever reality is going to be represented at least needs to be decided relatively quickly after the moment has passed, rather than it being possible to create whatever video helps the most well after the fact.
Like if someone is trying to frame someone of some crime, with video authentication, they need to create and authenticate a video based on when they want the supposed crime to occur. Without it, they could find out when their target has alibi gaps and just target that time after the fact.
Though another bit on reality’s side is corroborating with other nearby cameras. If my camera says you walked onto my property at 8:00 and left at 8:30, there should be nearby cameras I don’t own that pick you up before and after those times. Every camera that has an angle should pick it up. Though advantage goes to those with many cameras, since real footage or fake, they’d be better able to create a longer narrative and dispute conflicting narratives.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 2 weeks ago:
No, that’s an organ. You’re thinking of a musical instrument that uses piano-like keys to control airflow through pipes.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 3 weeks ago:
There’s a name for that: Madonna-whore complex. Might help find resources to help deal with that. Best of luck; it sounds like a hellish experience.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 3 weeks ago:
I think it means he’s not really that into her but just gets horny for her.
- Comment on Don't know shit in class 3 weeks ago:
My ex had an early grade school teacher hit the left handedness out of her with a ruler. Sometime around the year 2000.
Last year, my daughter missed lunch a few times because her teacher insisted on finishing the work before eating so she could say she never assigns homework. Luckily a meeting with the principal ended that quick, once we found out about it (poor kid thought she’d get in more trouble if we found out). Daughter did best when the old bag was replaced with a sub for a couple months while she dealt with some medical issue, since the sub actually cared. She’s got a great teacher this year and is thriving when she was previously struggling.
- Comment on OK so which is it? 3 weeks ago:
Crocodiles
Do not swim! Here - Comment on Subnautica 2 will have a bigger map and a silent protagonist, say devs 3 weeks ago:
I can understand it for the Cyclops. I love it in the first game but it’s a massive ship that needs a lot of space to maneuver, especially if creatures bumping into it can move it in ways it doesn’t normally steer while you’re driving it. Designing a game for the cyclops to get to the end means there needs to be a large path all the way to the end, or multiple large paths if you want to avoid that main path being linear.
Though on the other hand, they could put the cyclops in the game as a red herring where anyone who builds one ends up leaving it near the surface because it turns out to be impractical. I think it would fit the style of the game where you’re exploring an unknown area. Some resources could prove to be less useful than hoped for.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 weeks ago:
The higher the level of the course I was taking, the less test markers cared about the actual final answer. If you used the correct equations, simplifying the final answer to a faction rather than a decimal or leaving constants like pi and e in there was good enough for full marks.
Generally more accurate, too, because you’re not rounding the number but leaving it as the true value because 1/3 != 0.333333. It’s better to do it this way if there’s multiple steps, too, since you can gather or cancel out like terms if you leave them as variables instead of converting and rounding to some decimal.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 3 weeks ago:
Personally, once I realized the gamification wasn’t actually helping me learn the language, engaged or not, I started resenting it more than anything. The app cared more about my streak than I did and when I decided to deliberately let mine end, it would use freezes and shit to keep it going despite missed days. And then nag me to buy more freezes which it would just give me as rewards for doing a single lesson that day.
After that, all the gamification shit was annoying because it meant I had to sit through like 5 screens of “rewards” I didn’t give a shit about after each lesson.
The thing that made me dislike the gamification was the p2w mechanics of the timed challenges. “Oh you ran out of time, but you can buy an extension!” How the fuck is buying an extension going to help learn a language?
And from there I realized that the multiple choice form of the questions meant my test taking skills were carrying me as much as or more than any language skills I was developing. There’s only so many legal sentences you can build from a limited set of words and if they usually have only one verb option, it’s not going to help learn the different verbs.
- Comment on Anon visits a guy's house 4 weeks ago:
I got tired of wondering what the random particles were that ended up in my ice, plus that smell and taste, so I tried getting a metal ice cube tray and now my ice is just ice. Dunno what but something was leeching from the plastic tray into the ice. It was old, so maybe that had something to do with it.
But yeah, I agree that there’s not much difference from drinking from a plastic cup, which is why most of my cups are glass and my water bottles are metal. I still have a few plastic cooking utensils but have been transitioning to wooden and metal. I stopped using non stick pans, too. Dunno how much of a difference it’s making in my life but I make an effort to minimize all plastic use.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 4 weeks ago:
Mostly loadwords from dwarvish.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, “I’m busy” isn’t your roommate’s problem.
- Comment on What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence? 4 weeks ago:
Breaking Bad was good in this regard.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 weeks ago:
This strongly depends on both the area and the individual officers. And sometimes your skin colour, unfortunately. Also the condition of your vehicle, like a new porsche might be allowed to get away with a higher speed than a rust-bucket (or, on the other hand, that new porsche might attract more attention and/or envy).
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 weeks ago:
I try to drive in the rightmost lane where I can maintain my desired speed without needing to weave back and fourth, unless someone is coming up behind me, in which case I’ll reduce my threshold for moving to the right to let them by, unless they are driving aggressively enough that I think there’s a high chance they’ll pass on the right after I’ve passed someone but before I’m far enough ahead of whoever I just passed to move over.
Oh one more exception for if the right lane is clear but there’s an onramp with cars, I’ll leave them the right lane to merge into and move over once I’ve passed them. I’ll also avoid cruising in front of semis if I can.
- Comment on Stats boost 4 weeks ago:
Does this mean you gain a buff that lasts 8 seconds when using a single heavy attack under 10% health, or a permanent buff when you spend 8 seconds spamming heavy attack under 10% health?
- Comment on Stats boost 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I used to love min maxing. I wrote an addon for wow back in the day that would compare theoretical dps from switching an item you looked at by comparing all stats from your other gear and how it would affect frostbolt spam because I didn’t want to roll on stuff I didn’t need but also didn’t want to have to pull up a spreadsheet or something for any gear that dropped to be sure it wasn’t an upgrade before passing (for figuring out if it’s better to have 1% hit or 1.2% crit or whatever).
These days, I don’t have the patience to even figure out how all the different stats affect each other (in a different game) but realized that my character killed pretty much just as effectively when I switched to my resist gear even though the dps dropped by a lot and that min maxing was a waste of time and I shouldn’t worry so much about small differences.
But it did use to bring me joy (and tbf wow had dps meters where it’s essential to be at or near the top).
- Comment on Stats boost 4 weeks ago:
I started watching someone speedrun diablo 2 and it made me better at Grim Dawn. Kinda embarassing that it took that for me to realize that sometimes it’s better to just ignore the mobs and run past them. Don’t worry about missing XP, there’s always more mobs that give even more XP later on.
- Comment on Stats boost 4 weeks ago:
Alternatively, if you know the boss hits for 128 damage, you make a build with like 140 hp.
- Comment on Anon is an audiophile wannabe (he uses .mp3) 4 weeks ago:
Yeah and porn!
Actually, forget the flacjack. And the torrents. Ah, forget the whole thing.
- Comment on Anon is an audiophile wannabe (he uses .mp3) 4 weeks ago:
If you want true high quality, you need to first convert them to 48bit 96Hz wav files, and then have them etched onto vinyl because analog isn’t lossy like digital is, even without compression.
That’s why I blow up any jpegs I want to save on a projector onto a 5m screen and trace them to get better than original quality. Come visit my museum if you’d like to check out some sweet memes (because I refuse to ruin my effort by re-digitizing them).
Anyone know any good resources for giant scroll management?
- Comment on What causes this 4 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, that’s not a long term kind of problem.
- Comment on What causes this 4 weeks ago:
Seeing tubgirl, goatse, and meatspin put a temper on my curiosity to the point that I can say I’ve never seen two girls one cup, even though I think it was the most “popular” out of all of those except maybe goatse. Hearing the description was enough to sate any curiosity.
I also know that Rick rolls are wholesome because it replaced surprise links to those. Plus Rick Astley is a genuine treasure and I’m glad becoming a meme didn’t end up hurting him.
- Comment on Diagrams 4 weeks ago:
We’re going to need some more dimensions here…