Weirdfish

@Weirdfish@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but the question was, who is more hated? I do not think that globally at the moment the population thinks about, let alone actively hates, Bush Jr these days.

  Yes Trump has his core base, but man, it really feels like if you don’t love him, you hate him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to keep perspective over the decades. I was more passionate back then, and he really did some horrible things, but I don’t remember feeling like he was so, I don’t know, disgusting of a human being as Trump.

  Time will tell I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to remember how much we hated Bush II back in the day. The fact that he is now just lumped in with the other surviving presidents today for me is the real demonstration of just how much worse Trump is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a teenager learn to "eat out" a women without doing it like a dog at a water bowl?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a grapefruit or an orange, heat it for about 20 seconds in the microwave.

  Then cut it in half, throw both halves in the garbage, and do like everyone else suggests and listen to your partner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First American Woman Rows Solo From California to Hawaii⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with every modern convenience, GPS, safety equipment, and I’m sure support craft, this is absolutely terrifying to me. Good for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried playing at launch, on a PS4. Only time I’ve ever really felt a game was unplayable.

  Year or so later, tried on a PS4 pro, but still wasn’t any good.

  Today after a friend bugging me for like week, I’m giving it another go on a PS5, and this time, it looks and plays the way they promised.

  First game I’ve played that makes use of the trigger feed back, going to have to get used to that.

  Just finished the tutorial, really hoping it lives up to the hype. Do have to say it’s the best looking game I’ve played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ???⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For perspective, me at 22. Kicked out of the military, recently divorced, and living on a couch in my parents basement.

  By any measure, I was WAY behind anyone else I knew.

  Now, at 50, I have a job I truly love, a nice apartment with just me and the cat. Have a couple motorcycles, game consoles, and my time is my own.

  I’m not rich, but I make more than I spend in a given month, have enough savings that I’m not living paycheck to paycheck, and an emergency expense won’t ruin me.

  It took a long time to figure out what happiness looked like for me, and to stop judging my life by those around me.

  Sure, my siblings are more “successful”, but I can’t say they seem happier than I am.

  I don’t use any social media aside from Lemmy, I don’t follow anyone, and experience people the old fashioned way, in person or through phone calls.

  Look around your life and see the things you do have. Not to post, just for you to recognize.

  Think about what it is that makes you happy, both day to day, and in say a five year plan. Make a goal, make it achievable, and then do it. Just for you.

  Go see a live show, buy yourself a present, take a short trip to see a place you’ve never been, invest in a new hobby, take up a musical instrument.

  And for fuck sake stay away from AI chats and social media!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The closest thing to multiplayer I touch now days are Fromsoft invasions.

  I play exclusively on consoles, and enjoy a slower pace to gaming.

  Have a huge backlog of games I haven’t touched, and a few that I just keep coming back to.

  Really gotten into permadeath gaming, which slows things down even more, but makes every decision and hour of gaming truly count.

  Factorio, Cities Skylines, Far Cry 2, Subnautica, the Fromsoft catalogue, Mass Effect, I’ll do a full play through at least once a year.

  Finally playing the Witcher III while listening to the book on audio.

  I get why people enjoy multiplayer games, but it hasn’t been for me for a long time.

  I think the last one I really spent any time on was America’s Army around 2006.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it was because the windshield was littered with too much HUD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a very specific skill set so my experience may not apply, but I’ve had the best results going through technical head hunters.

  Tempt to perm positions lasting six months to a year, then they decide if they want to hire you.

  Yes spam away, it’s not like your credit score is getting dinged each time you send one.

  My only caution to this approach is that you want to be sure to research the company before any interview, don’t show up and be like “Well, ya’ll were the only one of the 500 I sent out to reply, what do you do?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went through the No Mans Sky turn around, and ended up loving the game. I always thought Cyberpunk would rock, given the team behind it.

  You’ve convinced me that it’s my next big play through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve bounced off this game twice, the early PS4 disaster and another attempt admittedly before all the fixes.

  I have a PS5 now, so maybe it’s finally time to give it another try

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $300 something for the system, $60 for the game, not sure how much a pair of pro controllers cost, but I walked out spending close enough to $500 for the point to stand.

  US dollars, don’t remember what year I bought it. I’m guessing around 2018, it was shortly after breath of the wild released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something around that, I don’t remember exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a Switch, which for a long time I call “My $500 Zelda machine”, as I really only played Breath of the Wild on it.

  Now with Factorio and the classic N64 library, I feel better about buying it.

  There isn’t anything technically speaking about the Switch 2 I want, as I just got a PS5 and it blows that out of the water.

  Shame this isn’t on switch, I’d have liked to play it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really "need" friends?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are going to limit yourself to what your romantic partner is interested in, I suppose it could work, but feels very confined.

  I have many hobbies and interests not shared in full by any romantic partner I’ve ever had, though there have been some notable exceptions.

  One woman I dated for many years rode motorcycles and snowboards.

  Another shared my interest in Fromsoft video games.

  I doubt anyone I would seriously date at 50 is going to share my passion for skateboarding, though I’d love to be proven wrong on that one.

  I don’t have many close friends, and only two live within visiting distance. Most have spread across the country. We stay in touch with a phone call every month or two, catching up, sharing stories, discussing common interests. The ones in town I’ll see maybe once a month as well, for dinner, drinks, or a motorcycle ride.

  They all bring ideas and experiences into my life I wouldn’t otherwise have, and by maintaining friendships with a wide variety in background and education, it keeps me from becoming too narrow minded or stunted.

  Could I live my life without my friends? Sure. Would I want to? Absolutely not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way I can become Baptized a Catholic without going to school or memorizing all the saints I am 37? Always thought it would be an honor to be Catholic. Like being knighted.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was raised catholic, and the steps you need to complete, the sacraments, would be baptism, which I would think is a freebee as they do it to babies, first communion which we did around 1st grade. I went once a week to a school in the evening until the third sacrament, confirmation, which is your “I’m an adult and chose to be a Catholic” . That was around 15 or so, similar to a bar mitzvah.

  There are a total of seven sacraments, last rites at death and a Catholic wedding are two others I believe.

  There really weren’t tests and such, I could name a few more saints than the average person I suppose.

  I’m sure a local church will have adult classes, I can’t imagine it being a difficult process, though how long it would take I have no idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still haven’t played this one through, just downloaded it for like the third time.

  I don’t know why it hasn’t hooked me, it’s just the sort of game I should enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does. | A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no idea, why did I think he had passed? I swear I remember this.

  Guess I’m just getting old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does. | A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame Gary Larson didn’t live to see this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’ve heard if you spin it backwards you can hear satanic messages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Laughed at the humor in a game? High on life had some really good stuff in the opening hour.

  Laughed at the situation in a game? My recent play through of the ever chaotic madness that is Far Cry 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not in the sense you mean, it’s a 5 door hatch back. The gold standard was always “Can it fit a sheet of plywood?”, and no not a chance.

  With the roof rack it can carry whatever ,including the giant tree that fell on it five years ago that makes me not care if I carry anything on it.

  If you have the money, buy the all wheel drive Volvo wagon, it’s what I’m looking at next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  2014 Subaru Impreza sport wagon and I couldn’t be happier.

  Had to basically replace the entire tans at 80k miles this year, but otherwise bullet proof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, got back 4 more and you are pre OBD2 and modern emissions sure, but now you’re dealing with a technically ‘classic’ car and the rust, wear and tear, and parts availability issues that come w it.

  2014 - 2018 will get you a modern car without a touch screen or Internet connection, which is what I’m really after.

  Physical controls I can use with my eyes on the road, and not a subscription to worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After many such threads I’ve come to the conclusion that peak car is between 2014 and 2018.

  I’m old enough to believe I’ll never have to drive something with a touch screen.

  I design touch screen UI as part of my job and I can see no argument for one in a vehicle other than GPS, and for that I have my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to relax and most importantly stop thinking about the things i could be doing?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found the best way to achieve both the mental break, and the relaxation, are hobbies that that are physically and mentally taxing.

  In the summer, its skateboarding and motorcycles, in the winter its snowboarding.

  Wears you out enough to get proper sleep, and they require all your mental focus not to get hurt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going to have to go with the three that had the biggest impact on me.

  1: Doom / Doom 2. In addition to being two of the most influential and important FPS games of all time, they got me into modding, programming, the internet, 3D graphics, shaping my entire future career path.

  2: Kerbal space program. No moment in all of gaming had me leap out of my chair and whoop the way landing in the Mun for the first time did. Now that I understand orbital mechanics, I get annoyed at almost all depictions of space flight in movies.

  3: Factorio. Got to this one late, on Switch about 6 months ago. I can’t think of any game which has rewired my brain as much. As a programmer, I come away from each play through with entire new methods of solving problems at work. May be the single most in depth and addictive game I’ve ever played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way