Weirdfish
@Weirdfish@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 hour ago:
I’m sure it was because the windshield was littered with too much HUD.
- Comment on 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 3 weeks 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. 1 month 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? 2 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. 4 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. 4 months ago:
Shame Gary Larson didn’t live to see this.
- Comment on Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol 4 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? 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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? 9 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] 10 months ago:
This is the way
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 10 months ago:
Oh I know it has happened, and those type incidents are why the UCMJ now explicitly has the don’t do illegal shit clause.
I was talking here to the 2k or so that deployed recently in LA.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 10 months ago:
No Marine obeyed an illegal order, and that’s the whole point of this thread.
They were used in a very narrow scope as defined by law, protecting specific government buildings.
It was Trump being a bully and grandstanding, but other than the optics we’re talking about, it was really a lame event.
The vast majority of the 2k Marines did what Marines always do when they don’t have specific orders on a shit deployment, the sat around or caught up on rack time.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 10 months ago:
Not wringing my hands, in fact I never stated whether I was actually against Trump bombing cities, I just answered what was stopping him.
That was the question, and the answer is still the same.
As far as my lifting a finger? Well, short of the usual civic duties like voting and such, I’m not getting involved.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 10 months ago:
The chances of me personally firebombing anything is functionally 0.
I certianly expect someone else to handle this for me, the men and women of the US military who aren’t going to a US city into fucking Dresden.
My suggestion was to rely on the mechanism which has handled this type of issue without fail since day one.
Yours is to encite random acts of partisan violence.
I’m going stick with my plan thanks.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 10 months ago:
Well, let’s see.
It won’t be his moral fiber.
It won’t be China or Russia the only two military powers that have a chance to have any influence on CONUS affairs.
Maybe his desperate desire for public approval as I suspect major ordinance dropped on a US population center isn’t going to poll well, but I’d hate to count on that.
Me? Stop the president from doing literally anything? You vastly over estimate my powers.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 10 months ago:
If your point is that this mechanism won’t work, then I’m assuming your point is that nothing can stop Trump.
Doesn’t mean my answer was wrong or clueless, only that the means to stop him has failed.
If you think something else is stopping him, I’d be very curious what that might be.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 10 months ago:
Remind me again how many Marines opened fire on civilians.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 10 months ago:
The chain of command goes from the secretary of defense all the way down to the most junior enlisted personnel.
You seem to assume I meant the joint chiefs or some small hand full of senior commanders.
Generals don’t pull the trigger, and as someone else pointed out, the logistics involved with bombing a city includes hundreds of service members.
Not sure where you get off calling me clueless as my initial response exactly answers the original question.
If not for honorable service members respecting their oaths and the UCMJ, there is literally nothing stopping Trump from bombing Chicago or LA.