captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Can't get better than this 5 hours ago:
“Men honestly don’t need much in the way of material goods to be happy.”
“And I took that personally.”
- Comment on Can't get better than this 5 hours ago:
Flat pack furniture is manufactured trash.
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 5 hours ago:
I’m not putting up with that, I’m going to convert them all to pung files asap.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 1 day ago:
Man invented shoes first, because he was walking through the hot sand and the sharp rocks and the pointy briars, so he invented shoes to protect his feet from the ground. Then he invented pants, because he felt silly standing around naked in his shoes.
I think that was a Gallagher bit?
- Comment on My glasses 2 days ago:
So given Dr. Glaucomflecken is an opthalmologist, I’m at least 37.3% sure he meant her eyeglass prescription in diopters. Isn’t that right, Johnathan?
- Comment on Retvrn To Tradition 2 days ago:
Oh shit, I didn’t think of that. You think there are any F-14s left?
- Comment on Its Over 😔 2 days ago:
I’m all but two of those.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 6 days ago:
What did the natives call the region in their language?
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
The specialized rendering processors of the NES and SNES and Sega Genesis could push pixels without all the distractions a CPU has, in away they were the first GPUs (although modern GPUs do a much more generalized job).
…What?
The NES had a 6502, the SNES had what amounts to a 16-bit version of the 6502, the Genesis had two CPUs, a Zilog Z80 and a Motorola 68000. I will grant you, their video chips were a bit more specialized for playing games, with sprite generators and such, lacking text or bitmap modes. Consoles mostly dominated arcade action, PC games were often slower paced but in many ways technically superior. True 3D graphics happened on PC earlier, hardware 3D acceleration happened on PC earlier, it wasn’t until the Xbox One/PS4 era that game consoles pretty much became entry level worsened gaming PCs.
Consoles were cheaper, specialized computers made specifically for games, PCs were far more expensive but significantly more powerful. No console in 1995 would run Descent or Mechwarrior 2.
That stopped being the case some time around the Xbox 360 era; By then, it was fairly common to see console ports of PC games or vice versa; console versions might lack multiplayer or have reduced graphics or something, the PC has pretty much always been the home of nerdier shit like flight simulators, but by the PS3 and PS4 era consoles basically became entry level gaming PCs. Console prices increased to the point that, for the cost of a PS5 Pro, you could put together a reasonable gaming PC…then ChatGPT ate all the world’s semiconductors and the child rapist in chief bombed Iran apparently on a whim and that brings us to the present moment.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
Oh man I miss old flash-based escape the room games. Remember the Crimson Room?
- Comment on Honk 1 week ago:
I was actually aiming for “auk” but it was late and my linux brain took over.
- Comment on Honk 1 week ago:
awk
- Comment on U WOT M8?? 1 week ago:
must be chewsday, eh bruv?
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 2 weeks ago:
The “not male, but outwardly pro male” angle tells me it’s fake.
- Comment on war with Iran has been delayed 2 weeks ago:
The poop deck wasn’t used to poop from. That was done at the head. Because on a sailing ship, most if not all of the time the front of the ship is downwind.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 2 weeks ago:
When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 2 weeks ago:
But no one does.
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 2 weeks ago:
Nothing I’m conscious of, though a lot of the names of races or peoples end in an oh or ah sound. Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Shiekah,
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 2 weeks ago:
So, there’s a fun fact about that related to the Zelda series. You know how the Hylian language kind of sneaks out in enemy names? Like, Stal- is a prefix meaning skeletal, -fos is a suffix meaning warrior, so a stalfos is a skeletal warrior? And a lizalfos is a lizard warrior? A stalchild is a skeletal child. -orm or -arm means worm creature, like Moldorm.
Well, in the games prior to the N64, geld- meant desert or sand. The geldarm is a sand worm creature, the geldman is a sand man like enemy from Link to the Past. Then in Ocarina of Time there’s a race of women from the desert called Gerudo. Hmm.
- Comment on Thilk 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the warning.
- Comment on CONTACT LEFT! 2 weeks ago:
especially when spelled with quotes.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 2 weeks ago:
It’s absolutely real; there’s a joke about it in The Naked Gun.
It’s not that there used to be a red variety of pistashio, they were sold coated in this oily red gunk that would stain your fingers pink. That stopped at some point in the late 90’s early 2000s.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 2 weeks ago:
No, pistachio flavored ice cream and puddings and such have always been green.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 2 weeks ago:
I got real into Zero Punctuation about a decade ago, so I’d watch a load of 5 minute youtube videos back to back.
It would serve me the same goddamn ad for a Mission Impossible movie between every one. The ad had this hateful nasally music that went “ready or not, here I come.”
I have not paid for a movie ticket, a streaming service, or a new DVD or Blu-Ray since then. Brain surgery with a backhoe, cut your pineal gland off at the waist. Fuck your entire sector of industry, Tom Cruise.
- Comment on Must be nice 3 weeks ago:
hamsters do be packing.
- Comment on Get on my level 3 weeks ago:
I use metric all the time in the US. My 3D printer runs in millimeters and Celsius, I buy Pepsi by the liter, I dose every medicine by the gram, I meter electricity by the kilowatt and my lights are rated in lumens.
What I don’t do is this weird sense of superiority found in cultivated ignorance the Europeans seem so fond of on the subject.
- Comment on it isn't 3 weeks ago:
No, dumping ice cream on the cat isn’t worth it. It’s funny for a few minutes but then you have to clean it up and cats hold grudges.
- Comment on Get on my level 3 weeks ago:
I’ve gone on this tirade plenty of times, but inches aren’t stupid. 12 inches to a foot makes a lot of sense for problems we’ve had to solve for millennia, because it’s 3 times a power of two. For things like woodoworking it actually makes more sense than the metric system.
“But 10 deciliters in a liter” Using a tape measure, mark out 1/3rd of the thickness of a standard 19mm sheet of plywood. I’ll be over here doing the same with 3/4" plywood by marking at 1/4".
Maybe we shouldn’t be selling Europe any weapons that work.
- Comment on Get on my level 3 weeks ago:
*sk8r boi