Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Any time you want hot water, you need to wait for all of the water between your house and the heating facility to drain before you get hot water. It can help to coordinate with your neighbours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, Sebulba was one of the positive influences Anakin Skywalker had in his early life.

  You mean Sequin Pants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Skyrim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, I don’t think such an AI exists in any game, even if some Fallout games have some things like that scripted in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Skyrim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to play a game one day where it has a character AI good enough to be able to point out something like that and have it affect the flow of that character’s story.

  “Oh hum… you… make a good point. Ok, pivoting: let’s block out the sun but only on Tuesdays and Thursdays!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon earns achievements⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, though I don’t really like the ones that can be missed by playing the game too well, like the “die to boss x times”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon earns achievements⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It gives a point of reference for the others. Though it should probably just be the base for calculating the other percentages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does trump know he cheats at golf?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be so hard on yourself. It is a bit cringy but who cares? It’s a game where you basically just play against yourself for fun. You fill out your own score card and you can write down any number you want without affecting anyone else in any real way. I’d find someone getting upset at your cheating at golf when you were a kid even more cringy.

  When I was a kid, I played t-ball one year. My only memory from it was one time I was on defense but was more interested in drawing in the sand than paying attention to the game.

  Or when I was a bit older, I was playing softball (parenta really wanted me to be interested in some baaeball variant I guess). I was on 2nd base and the pitcher missed catching a throw from the catcher and it rolled towards me. Instead of stealing 3rd, I stepped off the base and stopped the ball with my foot to be helpful. Lol the 3rd base coach wasn’t impressed. Technically I should have been out, but it was just a recreational game so they let it slide. I was really embarrassed at the time and would remember that moment for years with regret. But eventually I realized it didn’t matter in the slightest bit and I can laugh at how much of a dork I was.

  Because the reality is all kids are dorks and doing stupid shit is a part of growing up and learning to be a bit less of a dork going forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antidepressant of the masses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it doesn’t actually keep them away but just gets them too high to be interested in biting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can any scientists confirm this important fact?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ancient Egyptians: That cat makes a great point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hand cranked and twisted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In general, if there’s an abbreviation that doesn’t make sense given the English word, Latin being involved is a good guess.

  Like the elements on the periodic table that have symbols completely different from their name, like Au, Ag, Pb, Sn, K are all from the Latin name for those elements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Contact with anything will result in trace material being exchanged. It’s not acutely dangerous but could be contributing to the buildup of microplastics inside us. I donated the ones I had rather than junk them so that someone who disagrees can still use them, plus I’m aware restaurants still use them, but at this point I’m trying to minimize the amount of plastics that contact my food. Which also involves avoiding plastic utensils while cooking. I’ve got a mix of metal and wooden utensils, avoiding teflon means I can use the metal ones whenever, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the eyes have it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jermaine!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microwave it for about 15 seconds when you’re done doing the dishes (after you’ve wrung it out) and it will take longer before it gets stinky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also if you want to avoid plastic, get rid of the Teflon non-stick pans. Once you use stainless steel wool to clean, there isn’t much of a downside to using stainless steel pots and pans anyways.

  There’s cooking tricks to get the stuck on stuff off while you’re cooking, too, though I forget what it’s called.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SNAIL PRO TIPS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just pick them up without tapping their shells first. I read somewhere that that is a good way to kill them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though not all games were playable, or at least not on the small TV I was playing on. The resolution was low enough and text small enough that I couldn’t read what was going on in some RPG I was playing, which resulted in me buying my first high def panel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, old memory unlocked, we had that exact tv (or maybe another model that looked very similar). It was the good TV for a long time but never made it to be the less good TV in the basement because, well look at it, it’s a tube TV built into a fucking cabinet, just throw it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨workflow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though I’d bet that any that tried arguing against the “sacred privilegness” had some sort of severe physical punishment, perhaps against them directly or perhaps against the people of the region they were from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe all that “I worked at blizzard” and “my dad worked at blizzard” turned out to be lies. Even his claims about being a current game dev were based on some vaporware looking shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't a Microsoft fan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, it was my familiarity with their products that drove me to Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'd need to calculate the compound interest⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh but the fees are non-zero!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallium⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah so it does, didn’t even notice that X all detached from the login prompt like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallium⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone got a mirror that doesn’t require a fucking Instagram account?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't ask.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah +1 on “it started slow but got better”. Not amazing or anything, but good enough that I wished there was more when I got to the last ep. But I do remember thinking it was bad early on and just kept watching out of boredom more than anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been on this path since at least hubble. Though it might have accelerated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The universe spontaneously popped into exitence in the current state it’s in when you’re reading this, the only things that exist are what’s in your line of sight, all the memories are made up, and it’ll shortly pop back out of existence only to return a few billion years or femtoseconds later with a new line of sight and memories, along with something to let you know what’s really happening but with enough plausible deniability that you’ll laugh and try to move on before popping back out of existence.

  This is your eternal punishment for something you can’t even remember, or can’t verify even if you do remember.

  How would you even know this? you might wonder with a hint of uncertain dread, but the truth is I don’t know anything because I don’t even exist. It’s all you: punisher, punishee, neutral observer, entertained by this meaningless repetition that bored you out of your mind lol.

  Or shall we let this one play out a bit longer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Luckily there was a loophole in those rules that I (omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient) made.”

  If that doesn’t scream, “made up by the clerics trying to avoid contradicting each other and bringing the whole house of lying cards down as they went”, just keep sending money to your church. Because if a god needs anything, it’s obviously worldly riches and unquestioning loyalty. We need these churches to impress everyone with the power of our god, but he’s sleepy after making it all and throwing tantrums bigger than we can imagine because people were acting like the way he made them capable of acting, like cartoon villains in some cases, like a whole city whose first reaction to seeing an angel was “Let’s all rape it!” So that’s why you need to send your money without any questions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m convinced the superstition is a misunderstanding over time of things that were, on their own, bad luck. Salt used to be expensive, so spilling some was bad luck because you would have rather kept it all for use instead of wasting it.

  Mirrors would have also been expensive, especially when they needed to be transported before the time of smooth suspensions. The whole 7 years thing could be from it taking around 7 years for one particular broken mirror to be replaced.

  Or the ones that invite accidents, like walking under a ladder (which usually implies someone is working at the top and might drop something, so odds of death are a bit higher under ladders). Or opening an umbrella indoors, where things are more crowded and you might injure someone or break something.

  Though the black cat one is probably just racism.

  Anyways, I bet that’s where they started and then humans being kinda (or very, depending on the circumstances) stupid and liking jumping on bandwagons they don’t always understand to fit in, left us with some people thinking those things cause ghosts to haunt you or whatever dumb shit superstitious people think happens.

  Though I do think it is a bit wasteful to just dump salt out on the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't ask.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a series on Netflix that used this. It was alright though probably got cancelled. Can’t remember the name of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was getting paid peanuts for designing and building an essential system for the running of the park all on his own, working for a guy that constantly bragged about sparing no expense.

  IIRC the only interaction between Hammond and Nerdy went something like “you should have negotiated a better contract! Stfu gbtw”, which can pretty much sum up the whole wealth divide between the owners who gain most of the benefit and the workers who actually do the things under capitalism. Except if they aren’t getting the better of everyone on average, they just shut the whole thing down or find others that they do get the better of.