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- Comment on What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros? 2 days ago:
Best (that haven’t already been mentioned by others):
(The rest are so iconic I’m not even gonna bother linking them.)
- The Twilight Zone
- Gilligan’s Island
- Golden Girls
- The Wonder Years
- The X-Files
- Cheers
Worst: I dunno, because my criteria for “worst” is being forgettable.
Polarizing/YMMV:
- M*A*S*H
- Cops
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 3 days ago:
I think that fish may just have been screenshotted mid-catch. In the game, when you catch a fish you fling it through the air in an arc and then it lands in your hands:
That catch animation doesn’t show it, (maybe it’s from an earlier version of the game?), but I’m pretty sure the current version scales the sprite bigger and then smaller as it travels through its arc as sort of a 3D special effect.
- Comment on The lost Family Guy pilot (1998) has been found 3 days ago:
This makes me appreciate their voice actor casting choices for the real show.
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 3 days ago:
Another thing is pixel scales being completely different. Sometimes a character or an icon has larger pixels than those on a map.
Stardew Valley for the most part does pixel art right, but it’s always jarring to see the player character’s weird skinny fishing line. It’s worst when it’s juxtaposed with other characters whose lines are drawn correctly:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
You’ll be fine as long as you don’t come to the US.
The above statement has nothing to do with whether you have game ROMs or not.
- Comment on Acetone: A Thread 4 days ago:
I mean, PVC pipes are even more vulnerable to acetone than ABS ones, so I would’ve made a different correction (broadening the statement rather than narrowing it).
- Comment on Acetone: A Thread 4 days ago:
In my experience, household drain pipes are usually made out of PVC.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 5 days ago:
I don’t mean to criticize what you’ve done with the place, but I do think it might’ve been interesting to have something that purported to be a sincere community for conservatives but that wasn’t moderated as a ‘safe space’ for them.
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 1 week ago:
On the other hand, maybe he got a job and thus no longer has time to comment here.
- Comment on Colm Meaney wanted to play O'Brien as American. “Rick Berman sat me down and said, ‘The whole notion of this show is that it’s multiracial’… I reluctantly started to play him Irish" 1 week ago:
Makes me wonder what he thought about Data’s offhand mention of Irish Reunification, or even if he had a hand in it (talking politics with a writer or something).
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
If yoy have a fairly recent gpu, windows games run fine on linux.
I’ve been using my nearly 8-year-old GPU (an AMD Vega 56) in Linux just fine for nearly 8 years (i.e., since the day I bought it). Even in the first few years, before Proton existed, I had been playing Windows games on it using plain old WINE via PlayOnLinux.
The even older GPU I used to use before that (an AMD Radeon R7 260X) is still installed in my Linux home server, and I would expect to be able to play Windows games on it just fine too (at least in terms of compatibility, if not raw performance of decade-plus-old hardware).
All that is to say, I’m confused about what you mean by “fairly recent.”
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
Why do they sound vaguely Irish?
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 week ago:
I read the first sentence in that big paragraph and thought “wow, going straight to the biggest problem right out of the gate instead of building up to it, huh?” Then I kept reading and realized the entire paragraph was about that same thing. Holy shit, that’s a lot of sexism!
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 1 week ago:
So you returned it and re-bought it from jcpenney.com, right?
- Comment on Poor quality jpeg I know. Pixels are being rationed where I'm from. 2 weeks ago:
Joke’s on you; I’m into that shit (both the song and the comic).
I recommend this relatively new Rick Astley song, by the way. Most of his music isn’t actually in the same upbeat pop style as Never Gonna Give You Up or Together Forever, but that one is.
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 2 weeks ago:
Not much love for comedies so far, huh?
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Blazing Saddles
- Airplane!
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Spaceballs or Galaxy Quest (flip a coin)
Also, the Back to the Future trilogy.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 2 weeks ago:
Because that’s what true “citizenship-by-blood/heritage laws more or less straight out of the 19th century” would imply.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 2 weeks ago:
I wish. My ancestors moved to the US from Germany in the 19th or early 20th century, but I’m pretty sure I’m not eligible for German citizenship.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
If the property tax scales with inflation and social security is also adjusted for inflation, but your property tax is getting more expensive relative to your social security income, something’s not right.
- Comment on Call Them. Replace Them. 2 weeks ago:
Call all the Republicans, too.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 weeks ago:
Hence,
actual first place goes to riding my bicycle
- Comment on wrong again 2 weeks ago:
Transgenic, not transgender.
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 2 weeks ago:
In that case, the real question is: do you remember XKCD 1053?
- Comment on What exactly are they teaching in our schools? 2 weeks ago:
Getting into Yale is easy! It’s yust getting out that’s hard.
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- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 weeks ago:
I live in a city famous for it’s bad traffic, but prefer driving a manual anyway (when driving a car, at least – actual first place goes to riding my bicycle).
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 weeks ago:
Hi, !fuckcars mod here. I absolutely love my manual transmissions and unironically fully endorse this meme.
Cars ought to be like horses: they should be available for enthusiasts to play with, but it should be wholly unnecessary and kinda ridiculous to use them as routine transportation, especially in cities. Frankly, I would prefer it if all transmissions were manual, as it would help encourage people who see driving as a chore to use other transportation modes instead.
- Comment on Controversial question 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, part of it is definitely lack of “third places” (i.e. issues of car dependency/bad zoning) and declining social institutions.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
They’d still rather stay silent than break with Trump and ally with leftists. To be really fair, they deserve no fucking credit whatsoever.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
You’re speaking in the wrong verb tense there, buddy.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
